In this episode we interview Cathy McQuade & Ken Campbell from the Australian New Wave band Deckchairs Overboard. We discuss the early days in Melbourne, Cointreau, Paul Hester, supporting Midnight Oil and Hunters & Collectors, making videos with dice & chains and what they've been doing recently.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Deckchairs Overboard, here is the much celebrated 4 x track ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRfNBYNnHg

Catherine McQuades Music: https://catherinemcquade.com/music

Ken Campbell's band Valvewire: https://muzeek.com/valvewire

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Were Graham Parker & The Rumour part of the Punk Rock scene in Australia?

I guess it depends on where you view it from and from behind which pair of shades.

Lindy Morrison & Amanda Brown from The Go Betweens chat about the music, the memories and the madness of being musicians in the 80's. Pass the cookies and settle in for a podcast with an unusual time signature and a head full of steam.

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This is a personal one. A quick look at the history of one of my favourite music venues in my home town of Brisbane in Queensland. 

Can you clap in time to the I Don't Like Mondays intro? Clearly Patrick can't.

In our latest Flexidisc we try to dismantle the classic Boomtown Rats song and try to work out what makes it tick.

And the reason? Well, there are no reasons.

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In our latest 'Interview' episode we talk to Craig Hooper, former member of The Reels, The Mullanes (Crowded House) and The Church. We discuss his early days in regional New South Wales, the difficulties in naming bands, being stranded in New Zealand, using electronic instruments to create a unique sound and recording songs that would make your mother proud.

Youtube video version of interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7rkBZm7I9s&t=9s

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In 1980, The Pretenders were everywhere.
With the first number one single of the eighties, an album that was chock full of great songs and an image that could not be ignored.
In today’s episode we’ll discuss the first three albums and follow Chrissy’s journey from Akron Ohio to the streets of London.

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This is a compilation of a few of our favourite moments from the first 7 years of the Known Pleasures Podcast.

‘Play high, Hooky! Play high!’ Ian Curtis had been Joy Division’s conductor and lightning rod, giving his crucial nod of approval to Peter Hook’s upper-register bass sound and pulling the strings elsewhere. In May 1980, though, after Ian’s death, the renamed New Order faced an uphill battle. How they not only survived, but thrived spectacularly, is one of the great redemptive stories of rock and roll.

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On the eve of his upcoming tour we interview the former lead singer and songwriter from the seminal UK punk band The Stranglers, Hugh Cornwell.  We ask him about the new album, his days with The Stranglers and everything in between. So get a grip on yourself and listen in to a few moments of madness from the mind of Hugh Cornwell.

In our latest flexidisc we will exhume the body of Eileen, run a musical autopsy, and discuss the song that moved a million hearts in stereo in 1982.
Was Eileen a metaphor for casting off the social mores of sexual repression and escaping Thatcherite Britain’s humdrum existence?
Was Kevin Rowland plundering Celtic rhythms and instrumentation a way of coming to terms with his Irish heritage?
Or was it just a cracking good song?
Either way, we at Known Pleasures will hum this tune forever, and who’d blame us?
So, get your banjos out, tune those violins and dance a Celtic jig to the wonderful Dexys Midnight Runners classic: Come On Eileen.