Podcasts by Ushers to Ashes: Alternative 80s
This podcast is about often overlooked or under appreciated aspects of popular culture in the 1980s with a focus on popular music, art, film and television. Early episodes concentrate on The Australian alternative music scene in the 1980s.
Further podcasts by GDC and PJ
Podcast on the topic Musikrezensionen
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So This is Permanence : Joy Division's Closer from 2020-12-30T13:03:06
We look back on an album that turned 40 in July 2020: Joy Division's second album Closer is a wonder of durability, continuing to influence, continuing to inspire. It has even survived the evang...
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Brain Space: Alt Comedy in OZ from 2020-12-19T04:32:34
Having reminisced about the impact and legacy of the Young Ones in the last episode, we turn our attention to Australian comedy in the 1980s. Sketch comedy dominated Australian television during...
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Post-Punk Comedy: The Young Ones from 2020-12-14T05:20:59
Comedians like Rik Mayal, Alexie Sayle, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders were an integral part of alternative culture in the 1980s. And In many ways, these figures were as innovative and iconoc...
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Music for Evenings: Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth from 2020-10-25T03:44:39
Glenn and Peter talk about one of the most influential albums of the 1980s, released at the very start of its first year. The unassuming trio from Cardiff formed from the local scene and played ...
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Bright Lights, Big City: 80s Melbourne from 2020-09-14T07:46:07
This episode pays tribute to Melbourne's eclectic alternative music scene in the 80s. COVID 19 has put a temporary halt to the city's normally vibrant artistic pursuits, so we thought we'd devot...
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80s Arthouse Cinema: Repo Man from 2020-01-10T04:59:06
1984. Newspaper columnists were playing Spot the Orwellian Overtone. Hawke in Australia but Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in America. A young filmmaker fresh from the U.K. punk scene found a ne...
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80s Arthouse Cinema: Liquid Sky (1982) from 2019-12-17T06:38:28
If you stood in the margins of culture in the early 80s you marvelled at the sound of the ragged punk larvae metamorphose into an atmosphere of new creatures or electronica, mangled rock and ind...
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Insecurity City: 80s Brisbane from 2019-10-23T00:02:11
Peter talks about his experiences coming to a monocultural Brisbane ruled by a repressive government and politicised police force where the dissent was not just fashion but a necessity. The dres...
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The Sound Alternative: 80s Perth from 2019-10-04T05:12:21
Presented by Glenn D'Cruz and Peter Jetnikoff, this episode focuses on Perth's alternative music scene in the 1980s. In a city dominated by cover bands, Glenn believes that the most enduring mus...
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