Living in the 70s

Happy birthday Venetia! Yes, it’s Venetia’s birthday and to celebrate the occasion, Marty has put together a playlist of some of her favourite Seventies tracks. Hopefully some of them are your favourites too.

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It’s international women’s day! It’s only fitting, then, that this week all our tracks are from women musicians from the Seventies. Sisters were doing it for themselves, and often being quite ground breaking as they did it. Maybe because they had to be so much better to even get a foot in the door.  As we know, it takes pressure to create diamonds. And this week’s playlist truly sparkles. Enjoy.

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Show broadcast March 01 2026

It’s been pride season in Australia, with Midsumma in Melbourne and Mardi Gras in Sydney. So, in celebration of all things LGBTIQA+, on this week’s show we are featuring queer artists from the Seventies. All of our tracks are performed by at least one person from the community and there were probably many more queer folk who produced, engineered, managed, roadied and carried out many of the other roles that kept artists working and produced all those fantastic records we love so much. These are just some of the people we know about.

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Show broadcast Feb 22 2026

Something special was happening in Philadelphia in the 1970s. Thom Bell, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, Sigma Sound Studios, the musicians of MFSB (mother father sister brother), Bunny Sigler – all of these folks came together, with a bunch of incredibly talented singers, to create Philly Soul.  Beautifully produced, lush with strings and horns, catchy with crisp high hats and four on the floor bass drum, Philly Soul folded funk into R&B and paved the way for the rise of disco, while encompasing so much more. On this week’s show, we throw the spotlight on those fabulous grooves.

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Show broadcast Feb 15 2026

On this show we celebrate music that was released about half a century ago. Inevitably that means that every year some of the folks who made that music pass away. In this week’s show we celebrate some of those artists. What a legacy of incredible music they have left us. Vale

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