Sunday Afternoon Fever 11.7.1993 – Live from a toilet in Ultimo

30 years to the month after the original broadcast, here’s Sunday Afternoon Fever, Maynard’s Triple J show live in front of a studio audience from a public toilet in Ultimo for no apparent reason with The Andy 500, Rob Clarkson, Melissa Tkautz, even Simon Day sticks his head in.

Live music in front of a live studio audience. We even get into some True Crime (at 35 minutes) with a heartfell plea from Simon of Redfern for his stolen trombone. A very emotional moment for all.

“Really big toilet you’ve got here Maynard.”

Simon Day, 11th July 1993

The Andy 500 at The Metro in Sydney.

The Andy 500 dressed up smart and wowed the live audience with their smooth sounds (at around 1 hour 7 mins) they played four songs including To Close For Comfort, I Love Your Brain and Touch Me.

Lance of The Hollywood Kids (40 minutes in) goes to the opening of new LA club Babylon. With spotting of Cher, Shannon Doherty, Tori Spelling and James Woods. And you’ll never guess who his dinner date was…..

“Things are getting, really, really WEIRD here Maynard.”

Lance of The Hollywood Kids 11.7.1993 (about 2.49pm)

Melissa Tkautz was about to have a guest stint on Paradise Beach as the resident bitch character. She joins us for a chat (about 1 hour 57 minutes in) and you can imagine how the live audience was wary of a soap star coming on a Triple J show. But a really interesting phenomenon happened as I noted many times in my career. As soon as Melissa entered the studio and talked off air to the audience and was as highly professional as she always is, the crowd fell silent. No smarty bum comments, no looking down their noses at a pop star. It’s as if they realised she was actually talented as well as an actual person. She and Simon Day had a great old chin wag in the green room. She introduces her new single, Is It?

There’s Crappy new Releases (1hour 50 minutes in), Maynard’s Mastermind Quiz (in which you can win a bow and arrow set to injure the child of your choice) and group Love Boat karaoke. It was a mint afternoon all round.

Join us in this show, the day when Pray by Take that was number one in the UK, in Australia, it was UB 40 with Can’t Help Falling in Love. Neither which are played on this show. But the Triple J feature album is from Paul Westerburg.

You WILL hear music from Matthew Sweet, Def FX, XTC, Straitjacket Fits, Phunk Junkeez and even Jimeoin.

Rob Clarkson with one of his songs he performed live on the show, The Human Equivalent of Penicillin.

Also the regular (very) odd couple segment of Richard Kingsmill dropping in live ( about 1 hour 35 minutes in) to give a hot take on a very early Burt Bacharach tune from his personal collection.

This tape doesn’t cover about all the show. Digital audio tapes were expensive in 1993, but I recorded this myself because Triple J wasn’t (and probably still isn’t) in the business of archiving most of their content.

So, get down in your underpants and pray to the Church of the Funky Chicken. It’s time for Sunday Afternoon Fever, July 11th, 1993.

Thanks to all our studio guests and especially the live studio audience for singing along with the Loveboat Theme.

Special thanks to the very professional Triple J Producer Anne-Maree Sargeant, Justine Lynch, Scott Whyte, all the studio 227 engineering crew and all at Triple J in 1993.

Sunday Afternoon Fever featuring Sultans of Ping FC

Sunday Afternoon Fever featuring Kate Ceberano

Melissa Tkautz with her 1993 single she talked about during the show, Is It?

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