Drummer Bradley Polain Re-edited S2 episode 14 Guest: Bradley Polain – accomplished drummer, vocalist, composer, and storyteller based in Adelaide, South Australia. Summary: In this compelling interview, Di Spillane chats with beloved South Australian musician Bradley Polain. With natural charm and candid insights, Brad shares how his early jazz gigs at age 12 paved the way for decades of live performance, studio work, and mentorship. From his no-reading teaching philosophy to his love for Zeppe...
Jul 11, 2025•59 min•Season 2Ep. 14
S4 E5 Peter Allan joins BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Host/Creator Di Spillane to discuss his band The Honey Badgers and what they will be doing at this year's Port Noarlunga Blues Festival. If you have been listening to this season’s episodes you would be very aware by now that the Port Noarlunga Blues Festival commences next week on Friday the 24th of November. Peter Allan has been an integral part of the roots and blues music scene for many years here in South Australia, not only as a perfor...
Nov 16, 2023•15 min•Season 4Ep. 5
S4 E4 ZKYE Compson-Harris. Zkye & Damo Port Noarlunga Blues Festival 2023. Listen for the BAND IT ABOUT scoop announcement during this episode! Zkye is a 2x SA Blues Awards Female Vocalist of the year, whose powerhouse vocals have earned rave reviews and a devoted following of fans both here in Australia and overseas. Zkye will be performing at the Port Noarlunga Blues festival in duo mode with her partner and fellow Zkye Blue Band member Damien Steele-Scott, accompanying on acoustic guitar,...
Nov 09, 2023•16 min•Season 4Ep. 4
S4 E3 Chris Finnen joins Di Spillane to discuss this year's Port Noarlunga Blues Festival . About Chris; Chris began to play the guitar when he was 10. Migrating with his parents from the UK to Australia in the late 60’s, it was in the state of Victoria that he started his 'musical apprenticeship' - learning how to play and getting gigs where he could. In 1970 he met long-time collaborator and friend Phil Manning, who he has played with numerous times over the years. He has performed in various ...
Nov 02, 2023•14 min•Season 4Ep. 3
S4 E2 Multi Award Winning Singer/Songwriter/ and Multi-Instrumentalist Steve Eales of Steve Eales and The Open Road is this weeks BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series guest. During this weeks episode Podcast Host/Creator Di Spillane asks Steve what he will be performing during his first appearance at the festival, has an in depth conversation with Steve about songwriting and the songwriters workshop that he will be holding, and Di even manages to ask Steve a couple of questions that nobody has ever as...
Oct 26, 2023•20 min•Season 4Ep. 2
S4 E1 PORT NOARLUNGA BLUES FESTIVAL , Interview with Sue and Danny Filmer from SUEDAN . Danny and Sue Filmer join host/creator Di Spillane for Season Four Episode One of the limited series of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series to discuss their involvement in this year’s Port Noarlunga Blues Festival which runs over 3 days starting on Friday the 24th of November 2023. Dan and Sue are members of the Port Noarlunga Blues Festival committee and they join me to discuss the planning and their experien...
Oct 19, 2023•22 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Season 4 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series starts Friday the 20th of October, 2023. This limited season will include interviews with some of the organisers and performers for this year's Port Noarlunga Blues Festival which starts on Friday the 24th of November running through to Sunday the 26th of November 2023. The Port Noarlunga Blues Festival launched in November 2017 with performances from over 40 bands and artists, and due to the success of that launch, the Business and Tourism Associat...
Oct 18, 2023•46 sec
Roger Smith is a South Australian harmonica player who has been playing with his Blues/Rock band The Bluescasters for the past 16 years. Roger began his musical journey playing the djembe in a world music band called ' Fuego ' with his good friend Glen Reynolds. Roger has always loved the blues and was really interested in learning how to play the harmonica, so he eventually decided to go and have some lessons at WEA with John Hastwell. A few years later he heard about an eclectic jam session th...
Oct 14, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 9
S3 E8 Snooks La Vie (Paul Wimbles) is a South Australian born blues/soul/country vocalist and harmonica player who first began to play the harmonica after finding a brand new Hohner Marine band harmonica that was underneath a former partners bed. He began to teach himself how to play whilst sitting outside in his Monaro. He first started out playing on the local scene with a punk band called The Enemy, and switched to playing the blues after his work mate Rubes suggested that he give this genre ...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Bonus Episode; BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Host/Creator Di Spillane released her debut blues/gospel single “ The Underground Railroad ” on the 22nd of September to raise Narcolepsy awareness on World Narcolepsy Day. In this episode, you will hear Di Spillane being interviewed by Zofia Dendunnen from PBAFM and then by Julie Reynolds whose community radio network program ' Saturday Breakfast with Julie Reynolds' , is aired on over 30 community radio stations across Australia. “ The Underground ...
Sep 30, 2022•25 min
South Australian-born musician DAVID BLIGHT is without a doubt one of Australia’s premier harmonica players . There aren’t too many people in Australia who are not familiar with the harmonica playing of David Blight. Every time you hear that favorite of Australia’s rock anthems, KHE SANH by Cold Chisel you will hear David’s distinctive harp lines weaving in and out behind Jimmy Barnes ’ vocals. He was and still is Cold Chisels harp player of choice and has recorded and toured with the band colle...
Sep 23, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Nathan Dawson was 17 when he first decided to start learning how to play the harmonica. A couple of his friends had begun to jam together and he wanted to join them, so he dug out the harmonica that he had given to his dad and began to teach himself how to play. Since then, Nathan has performed with many South Australian bands during his musical career including; Oz Blues, Vic Bitters Blues Band, Greasy Gravy, Lara and the Shakers, The Customlines, Rubes and the High Rollers, Nate and Rubes, The...
Sep 16, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Will Kallinderis aka Harpin’ Will K joins Di Spillane this week to discuss his musical journey, a journey that has followed him from Ottawa, Edmonton Alberta, Vancouver, and since 2005 South Australia. Will Kallinderis aka 'Harpin’ Will K' is a singer-songwriter who performs a lively mix of original roots, funk, and blues. Emerging in 2016 with his debut solo album Last Of The Singing Peace Chiefs , a collection of acoustic guitar-driven songs, full-throttled harmonica soloing, and backup harmon...
Sep 09, 2022•49 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Karen Pater was born in Sydney, spent her teenage/early-mid adult life in Perth, and in recent years moved to South Australia settling in the Fleurieu Peninsular. Despite taking up playing the harmonica initially whilst living in Perth, initially inspired to play this instrument after seeing Matt Taylor play, and Matt encouraging her to continue playing, Karen eventually became frustrated by the lack of ways to learn how to play. The pre-internet days meant relying on learning to play by ear whi...
Sep 02, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 4
South Australian harmonica/percussionist Bobby Blues joins me this week to share his musical journey for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series . Bobby whose given name is Greg Carmody, received his first harmonica when he was 8 years old, he played with it for a while and then put it away. It wasn't until he was 21 that he rediscovered that harmonica in a cupboard in his room, and this time he decided to teach himself how to play it. He joined his first band 'The Toe Jammers' in 1982, who changed t...
Aug 26, 2022•56 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Multi-instrumentalist Danny Filme r joins me to discuss his musical journey for this week's episode of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series . Danny, born at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), and raised in Blackwood, South Australia, was the youngest of three children. His older sister played the piano and whenever she wasn't at home, Danny would use that opportunity to hop on and play. Unfortunately, in the 70s when his sister decided to move out, she took her piano with her, but luckily for Dan...
Aug 19, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 2
S3 E1 Mark Snoad is a South Australian-born Hohner Harmonica player who despite having played from a young age, didn't actually join his first official band ( AP D'Antonio and the Captain Kidd Band ) until 2019. Mark began carrying his harmonica in his pocket and taking any opportunity to jump up and play at a party, at a jam, or with a band during the late 70s, managing to play often at the Ramsgate Hotel with Dr. Zen and the Interns. Mark has played with many musicians and bands here in Adelai...
Aug 12, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Season 3 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series is coming soon. For the next season, I will be chatting with South Australian harmonica players. If you have or still do play the harmonica in a band from South Australia and would like to be interviewed for season 3 please get in touch with me. You can locate my email address and BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Facebook page to send a message on the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Linktree: https://linktr.ee/banditaboutpodcastseries I look forward to...
Jul 08, 2022•2 min
This is the Final Episode for Season 2 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. This week my guest drummers playing 20 Questions in 2 Minutes are from episodes 79 to 83, they include Madeleine Cossey, Andreanna Massacci, Alex Deegan, John Zak, and Travis Demsey. Make sure that you listen to the end as I will be announcing the details for Season 3 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series! The BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series interviews always end with the guests playing 20 Questions in 2 Minutes. There ...
Jul 01, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 87
This week's guest drummers are E69 Joshua Baldwin, E70 Julian Perrotta, E71 Greg Clark, E75 Willi Gutwein, E77 Sean Kemp, and E78 Steven Smith. The BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series interviews always end with the guests playing 20 Questions in 2 Minutes. There are 2 reasons behind this, the first being that all of the guest's journey's have not finished so this is a fun way to end the interview, the other is that it can be quite a cathartic experience talking about your past experiences, often disc...
Jun 24, 2022•18 min•Season 2Ep. 86
BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Guest Drummers playing 20 QUESTIONS in 2 MINUTES this week are; Paul Butler E59, Danny Leo E64, John McDermott E65, Bob Reid E66, Thomas Crescitelli E67, and Michael Marino E68. Two of my guests get through all 20 questions within the 2 minutes but only one of them wins! Music: "Band It About" theme song was written & recorded for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series by Catherine Lambert & Michael Bryant . All of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series links can b...
Jun 17, 2022•18 min•Season 2Ep. 85
20 Questions in 2 Minutes from episodes 53 Tahlia Borg , 54 Sam Gutwein , 55 John Mason , 56 Joel Prime , 57 Liam Weedall , and 58 Dylan Di Palo . Music "Band It About" theme song written and recorded for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series by Catherine Lambert and Michael Bryant . Tahlia's Links: https://www.facebook.com/teenagejoans/ https://www.twitter.com/teenagejoans/ https://www.instagram.com/teenagejoans/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/@teenagejoans? https://teenagejoans.bandcamp.com/ https:...
Jun 10, 2022•18 min•Season 2Ep. 84
Travis Dempsey grew up in rural Victoria in a dysfunctional family. At 15 he spent his time skateboarding, getting in fights with his mates, and moving from school to school as a result of this behavior. A high school teacher changed his life and set him on his musical path when he sent Travis to a time-out room that contained an old drum kit. Travis began hitting the drums and instantly felt connected to this instrument. Travis's family wasn't in a position to be able to afford to purchase a ki...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 83
When you consider the fact that John Zak has had a career as a professional musician for over 45 years, despite being born with a chronic lung condition that at one time had his parents believe that he would be on an iron lung by the time he was 16, and that by the time he was in high school his first music teacher failed him and said that he would never make it, it is truly remarkable what he has managed to achieve during his musical journey! John was born in South Australia and grew up living ...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 82
Alex Deegan's obsession with drumming began when he was living in Whyalla attending Primary School. His teacher Sister Bernadette invited a drummer to come along to class with his kit to do a talk about drums, Alex put his hand up when the drummer asked if anyone would like to have a go at playing, and despite never having the opportunity to play before he managed to do an impressive roll down the toms to which the drummer responded by saying that he should take some lessons as he had a natural ...
May 20, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 81
Andreanna Massacci first became interested in drumming when she was 5 after having a go on her cousins drum kit, her mother noticed how easily she was able to play and decided to book Andreanna in for drum lessons. Andreanna continued having private lessons while attending school as well as studying music at school. The first band that she joined was called Retriever, who were included on a line-up in 2018 that changed the path of her musical journey, since then she has played with various origi...
May 13, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 80
Madeleine Cossey joins Di Spillane in The Engine Room this week to discuss her musical journey for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. Although South Australian born Madeleine Cossey hasn't been playing in bands for very long she has certainly made a great start to her musical journey, playing in 2 original Adelaide bands, 'The Vains' and 'Slippery People'. Madeleine is a drum teacher and has recently performed in the Tabor Music Department's Adelaide Fringe event 'GLOW Funk in the dark', as wel...
May 06, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 79
Steven Smith joins Di Spillane in The Engine Room this week for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series to discuss his musical journey. Although has been drumming since his teens, he began his playing career during the 80s as a bassist. In the 90s he joined 'The Funky Leftovers' as their drummer, and has since played in a variety of bands in South Australia, Melbourne, and Perth as either a bassist or a drummer, playing in various genres from Top 40, Rock, Thrash Metal, and Country. Steve is currentl...
Apr 29, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 78
S2 E77 Sean Kemp joins Di Spillane in The Engine Room to discuss his musical journey thus far. Sean began drumming when he was 17, playing in various bands with his brother Drew, he also played football in the SANFL league (the Eagles and the Roosters) until he was 20, prior to deciding to concentrate on drumming professionally. He has played Pearl Drums for 26 or 27 years. Started recording drums at age 21 and has since played on over 27 recordings. He is also a songwriter and performs as a sol...
Apr 22, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 77
S2 E76 20 Questions in 2 Minutes from Episodes 43 to 52. Happy EASTER and welcome to a repurposed episode of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. I realise that many of my listeners will have a lot on over the Easter long weekend, hopefully that includes supporting and or playing live music! As I only have 5 interviews left for The Engine Room series I have decided to release another episode from the 20 Questions in 2 Minutes segment from my previous interviews. But, as it is a long weekend, I ha...
Apr 15, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 76
