Willi Gutwein joins me in The Engine Room this week to discuss his musical journey which began in Adelaide and eventually led to him living and working as both a musician and a sound engineer for over 20 years in Sydney. Willi is a founding member of and the drummer for the original Adelaide Hard Rock band 'Loaded Billy', as well as the owner and specialist audio engineer at 'Loudtoys Studio'. Willi is a highly respected live audio engineer with over 30 years’ experience working with many of the...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 75
KYM WARNER; After spending 21 years living and performing in the U.S – Kym Warner (four-time Australian Mandolin Champion, multi-instrumentalist and 3 x Grammy nominee) has returned home to South Australia, and is this weeks BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series guest musician. Kym is an Australian musician, record producer, and a founding member of the American bluegrass band The Greencards. Kym Warner was raised in South Australia and was an aspiring bluegrass musician (unusual in Australia at the ti...
Apr 01, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 74
This week I am replaying the 20 Questions in 2 Minutes segment of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series from Episodes 38 Laurie Kennedy, 39 James Judd, 40 Rick Kent, 41 Rob Boundy, and 42 John Appleby. I realise that due to the length of some of the interviews that not everyone listens to this segment, so by compiling 5 guests interviews at a time, it makes it a short, fun episode for you to enjoy. I put a post on my BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Facebook and Instagram pages last week to let every...
Mar 25, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 73
This week I am replaying the 20 Questions in 2 Minutes segment of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series from Episodes 32 Andrew (Andy) Griffiths , 33 Mick Rajan , 34 Ben Riley , 35 Moni Lashes , and 37 S teve Todd . I realise that due to the length of some of the interviews that not everyone listens to this segment, so by compiling 5 guests interviews at a time, it makes it a short, fun episode for you to enjoy. One of my guests makes it through all 20 questions within the 2 minutes, and another on...
Mar 18, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 72
BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Guest Greg Clark is a radio, TV, and advertising legend in South Australia. He’ll be remembered by many as one of the hot jocks of the 80s, spinning discs and taking requests on radio, as well as venturing into various TV shows that married current radio stars with music and chatter. Since then, he forged a career voicing and producing commercials for his own business Greg Clark Productions. Greg joined his first band while in High School, they were originally call...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 71
Julian Perrotta joins me in The Engine Room this week to discuss his musical journey for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. Julian was born in South Australia and was first inspired to play the guitar as his father played. He soon discovered that he preferred drums and he received his first set of drums when he was around the age of 11. His first drum teacher was Jamie Adams who was someone that his dad knew through his local church. When Julian was in year 10 he began to have lessons again and...
Mar 04, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 70
Joshua (Josh) Baldwin; Drummer/Artist joins me in The Engine Room this week to discuss his musical journey. Josh was born in to an artistic family and he spent much of his childhood drawing and reading art books. He began to learn the drums while attending Magill primary school which had a really strong music program run by Ruth Bone. His parents encouraged him to play and sent him to have lessons with Dennis Johnson. A couple of years later he received his first set of drums at the age of 10. A...
Feb 25, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 69
Michael Marino joins me in The Engine Room this week to discuss his musical journey. Michael is the son of the most popular guest that I have interviewed so far this season Mario Marino (S2 E4). Michael was born to be a drummer, his dad Mario Marino even mentioned this during his interview earlier this season. Michael was drawn to drums from a very young age and spent his time bashing away on pots, pans, ice cream containers, and Lego until he finally received his own junior kit. Although Michae...
Feb 18, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 68
This weeks BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series guest drummer is 11 year old Thomas Crescitelli. Although Thomas is still quite young, he has already achieved a lot. Thomas is the 2021 Drum Off Australia Junior Champion and Global Finalist, and is also a Red Cymbals Australia Ambassador ! Thomas started out playing on an electric kit when he was 4, switching to an acoustic kit when he began to have lessons with Peter Gore from the Adelaide Drum Academy when he was 7. In 2021 he did the AMEB GRADE 3 RO...
Feb 11, 2022•23 min•Season 2Ep. 67
S2 E66 Bob Reid ; Born and raised in Dunedin, NZ , Bob's band scored a minor 'hit' on local Dunedin radio in 1978. They released a further two singles on their own label with one song reaching the national NZ top 5 for several weeks. The band Toured NZ extensively, including with 'Split Enz' in 1979 for their "Wiata" album promotion, which was sold in Australia as "Corroboree" They also played at the 'Sweetwaters Festival' on opening night to an estimated 80,000 audience. The band moved to Sydne...
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 66
John McDermott moved to South Australia from Mackay, Qld in 1991 along with his fellow progressive rock band members 'Labyrinth', after hearing that Adelaide had a healthy Prog Rock scene. The band disbanded and the members moved back to Mackay without John who had decided to stay in SA and eventually studied Jazz Drumming at the Elder Conservatorium of Music - University of Adelaide. John has played with a variety of bands here in Adelaide and is a regular performer at the Adelaide Fringe and C...
Jan 28, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Danny Leo joins me in 'The Engine Room' to discuss his musical journey. Youngest of 3 musical boys (others are guitarists) raised in Croydon, South Australia, Danny always found himself drawn to drums and listening to his favorite band at the time 'KISS'. He received his first pair of sticks when he was 6 from one of his brothers friends who was a drummer and this sparked his desire to play. Danny was given his first kit at age 9 from the drummer at the church that the family attended, and his p...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 64
Di Spillane the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Host/Creator is thrilled to announce that Hit That Hit Musical Bingo will be returning to the Benjamin On Franklin Hotel Beer Garden on Thursday the 3rd of February ! Hit That Hit Musical Bingo is Free to Play , and Winners receive Hotel Vouchers for coming First, Second, and Third! Register to play at 6:30PM Round 1 Starts at 7:00PM The Hit That Hit Musical Bingo Themes for February are: Hit That Love Hit (as it's nearly Valentines Day) and Aussie ...
Jan 20, 2022•50 sec
Background: The City of Adelaide has a diverse and rich music heritage which was internationally recognised in December 2015 when Adelaide was designated a City of Music by the UNESCO Creative Cities Network . Adelaide is the first, and only, designated UNESCO City of Music in Australia , an acknowledgment of the breadth, depth and vibrancy of the city's music culture, its international reach, its history and its aspirations. This recognition highlights Adelaide as a city of excellence for music...
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 63
S2 E62 20 Questions in 2 Minutes from Episodes 21, 25, 26, 29, and 30. Welcome to another repurposed episode of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. While I am taking a break for a few weeks, this is your opportunity to catch up on the many episodes that are available. I am releasing mini episodes, repurposing the 20 Questions in 2 Minutes segment from earlier interviews. I realise that due to the length of some of the interviews that not everyone listens to this segment, so by compiling 5 guests...
Jan 07, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 62
S2 E61 20 Questions in 2 Minutes from Episodes 16 to 20. Happy New Year and welcome to another repurposed episode of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. While I am taking a break for a few weeks, this is your opportunity to catch up on the many episodes that are available. I am releasing mini episodes, repurposing the 20 Questions in 2 Minutes segment from earlier interviews. I realise that due to the length of some of the interviews that not everyone listens to this segment, so by compiling 5 g...
Dec 31, 2021•17 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Merry Christmas to all of my BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series listener's and guests. Having released an episode every week for over a year, and being busy working throughout the past month as Mrs Claus, I have decided to take a few weeks off from interviewing. I am using this break as an opportunity to allow new listeners to catch up on the many episodes that are available, and will be releasing mini episodes by repurposing the 20 Questions in 2 minutes segment from my earlier interviews. I realis...
Dec 24, 2021•17 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Adelaide Drummer/Percussionist PAUL BUTLER joins me in The Engine Room this week to discuss his musical journey which began at an early age due to being born into a musical family. Paul's parents had been performing for many years and through their involvement in the industry, it was a given that he too would follow this path. As a child, Paul was fascinated with drums, and he first began to play them when Steve Staben offered to teach him. He was 10 years old when he first began playing at chur...
Dec 17, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Adelaide Metalcore Drummer Dylan Di Palo joins me in The Engine Room this week to discuss his musical journey. Dylan initially wanted to learn guitar, but as his older brother Tyler had already begun to have guitar lessons, he decided to choose another instrument to enable the brothers to jam together. Dylan initially started out on a practice pad when he was 7, and once he had established that he definitely wanted to continue with the drums, his parents then purchased his first set if drums for...
Dec 10, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 58
Liam Weedall has been playing live and recording with bands since the age of 14 after picking up the sticks at age 11. He has played many different genres such as pop, rock, jazz, funk, punk, Latin, and big band, which have all had a profound influence on the way that he plays his main genre of choice: progressive metal/fusion. Liam's first band was 'The Peaves' (girl band), with his sister Gemma (on vocals) in 2005. During his mid-late teens, the most notable bands he was involved with were Son...
Dec 03, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Joel Prime joins me from London to discuss his musical journey which began after he received his first set of drums for Christmas when he was three years old. He initially taught himself the basics, then began lessons with John Zac when he was 6, and by age 11, Joel was playing regular gigs. Joel's drumming prowess was immediately evident, and by being taught by many of Adelaide's elite drum educators, attending Marryatville High School, which offers a fabulous SIMC program, combined with a soli...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 56
John Mason's musical journey began when he started playing drums at age 23, after buying his first drum kit from John Reynolds, he taught himself to play. John joined his first Adelaide band 'Jam Company' with his brother and brother in law in 1984, then in 1986 he joined 'Tall Hairy Cats' (THC), he filled in with the Barflys whenever they needed him, and was lucky enough to be part of a live VHS recording, done at the Front Page, which was run by Dino Jag at the time. He went on to play with 'F...
Nov 19, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 55
Sam Gutwein started playing drums at the impressionable age of 10 when he could finally reach the pedals properly on his father’s kit. Initially starting out on piano, his passion for playing the drums has been a constant throughout his life and it is undoubtedly the power of the instrument and the ability to command crowd and band mate attention that keeps the passion burning. Having played in primary and high school bands, Sam takes inspiration from a wide variety of styles. Throughout high sc...
Nov 12, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 54
TAHLIA BORG from the Adelaide, South Australian band 'Teenage Joans' joins me this week in The Engine Room to discuss her musical journey which began when she was 8 years old. Tahlia played in various school bands prior to 'Teenage Joans' which is her first working band. 'Teenage Joans' formed in 2018, and are an indie rock, pop, punk rock, rock duo, self-describing their sound as "juice-box punk-pop", comprising of vocalist and drummer Tahlia Borg and vocalist and guitarist Cahli Blakers. The d...
Nov 05, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Edward Pollard (Eddie) joins me in 'The Engine Room' to discuss his musical journey which begun when he was in primary school. Ed fell in love with the drums after watching a school friend play. He jammed with various friends over the years and joined his first band 'Oblong' in the early 90s. Ed met Paul Macleod (who I interviewed in season 1) while they were both working in the APY lands, they put on various shows for the community during their time there. Paul contacted Ed when he was putting ...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Michael Giuffreda joins me in The Engine Room this week to discuss his musical journey. His first band was 'The Gods of Traffic Lights', and his first professional/touring band was 'Patriarchal Death Machine'. Michael is a professional musician, drummer & educator from Adelaide, South Australia, who enjoys playing Progressive Metal, Hard Rock, and Hard-Punk music. I met Mick late 2017 not long after I had launched my Band It About Facebook Page, which at the time, I had been going around to ...
Oct 22, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 51
John Swan OAM, better known as Swanee , was born John Archibald Dixon Swan in Glasgow, Scotland in 1952, and migrated to Australia with his family in 1961. John is an Australian rock singer who started his musical career as a Drummer when he was 11 when he joined the Elizabeth Caledonian Pipe Band. When his mother remarried in the mid-1960s, he was the only child to keep the surname of his biological father. John left school aged 13 and joined his first professional band Happiness , as a drummer...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 50
On Monday the 11th of October, Adelaide guitarist Bob Balsamo and BAND IT ABOUT host Di Spillane were interviewed by Zofia Dendunnen on her weekly PBAFM community radio program 'Manic Monday', to discuss the 'Greg's Wish' Event which is being held at 'The Gov' on Sunday the 17th of October. Many thanks to Zofia for giving us this opportunity to share our event with her audience, and for allowing me to use the audio for this bonus podcast episode. About the event: ' Greg's Wish ' A TVC Musical Ex...
Oct 12, 2021•18 min
Kyle Sambell has been obsessed with drumming since the age of 2 when he began tapping out beats on pillows, furniture, pots and pans, and any other surface he could find. His parent's wisely purchased their son his first drum set when he was 3 and Kyle began to teach himself how to play by watching his favorite bands and listening to their CDs. He had some lessons when he was 5 to teach him rudiments and a bit later had some more lessons to teach him how to read charts. When he was 8, his mother...
Oct 08, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 49
It may have taken me 6 months to finally be able to get Gary Burrows (and Pongo lol) to sit down long enough to record this interview, but it was definitely worth the wait! Gary is a legend here in South Australia, and a well respected musician Australia wide. Born and raised in Adelaide, Gary first began to play drums in the 60s. His first working band 'The Evergreens' released a single that he wrote called "Country Lane", Gary has written over 200 songs. Gary had a 2 year absence from bands wh...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Season 2Ep. 48
