The Music Show

ANOHNI & the Johnsons return with My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, and Robbie visits the ACO studios to chat with Will Gregory and his Moog Ensemble.

Pop music is an art, it’s a science, it’s an industrial complex. Ring in the new year with some of your favourite pop hits, and a favourite conversation from 2023.

New albums from some of the most iconic voices of 2023: Hozier chats about Unreal Unearth, and Benjamin Appl on Forbidden Fruit. 

Two friends of The Music Show drop by the live music studio with performances from their 2023 releases.

The Music Show on RN Summer revisits conversations with Don Walker and Rob Hao.

Andy Irvine is the quintessential Irish traditional musician and songwriter, but he was born in 1940s London. Since then he’s been a huge part of the wave that popularised Irish music and folk music more broadly, and he joins us in The Music Show studio to play and reflect on a life on stage.

The Sound of White was Missy Higgins' debut album and includes tracks written in her teenage bedroom, on her post-high school backpacking trip, and in LA studios sponsored by her new record label. She rocketed to stardom back in 2004 and as that breakthrough record is about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, Missy talks to The Music Show producer Ce Benedict about how it came together and how she looks back on it now.Judith Hill is one of the subjects of the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, having been a backing vocalist for many years. Now she’s about to head to Sydney Festival and her parents – who met when they joined the same 70s funk band – are on tour with her.  These days, she is very much a frontwoman, and she tells Andrew about her life as a hardworking musician and finding her own sound whilst working with stars like Michael Jackson and Prince.And composer, dramaturg, director, writer, collaborator, and friend of the Music Show Felix Cross talks about a project that has been simmering away over the last few years that is coming to fruition early next year in India. Working with the Akshar Trust, Felix is creating new musical opportunities for children with hearing impairment, and devising a stage adaptation of the short film Vishwamitri Villas with his collaborator in life and theatre, Kristine Landon-Smith.

Richard Mills finishes up thirteen years at the helm of Victorian Opera at the end of this year, and his opera Galileo gets its concert premiere as a kind of farewell. He’s got plenty to look back on and to look forward to as well as opera in Australia and worldwide goes through a kind of sea change.And we look back at some of The Music Show’s favourite live sessions from the year with jazz piano, classical chamber music, monk punk and a vacuum cleaner plugged into a clarinet. Not to mention the banjos – multiple banjos. Music from Throat Pleats, Party Dozen, Buddhadatta and Shogo Yoshii, Mike Nock, members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck.