Tim Finn and Andy White are Sean Sennett’s specials guests today as they talk about Tim and Andy’s new album, AT. This is a follow up, of sorts, to Tim and Andy’s earlier collaboration with Hothouse Flowers’ Liam Ó Maonlaí called, ALT. This time around the album was recorded with Andy in Melbourne and Tim in New Zealand. The work was mixed by John Leckie (Radiohead/George Harrison).
This week Sean Sennett talks to Nick Mason’s Pink Floyd about his new band Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets ahead of their Australian tour in September 2023. Nick is Pink Floyd’s only constant member since the band formed in 1965. Here Nick talks Floyd, the early days touring, the Beatles and a whole lot more. Nick originally assembled this supergroup – named after Pink Floyd’s second album, 1968’s ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’ – in 2018, with a plan to revive Pink Floyd’s pre- The Dark Side Of The ...
Lin-Manuel Miranda dropped into Brisbane (Australia) to talk Hamilton. While he was in town Sean headed along to a press gathering to ask Miranda one question about his approach to songwriting. Lin-Manuel’s answer was so fascinating we thought it deserved its own podcast. If you didn’t already know, Miranda is an American songwriter, actor, singer, filmmaker, rapper, and playwright. He is known for creating the Broadway musicals Hamilton (2015) and In the Heights (2005), and the soundtracks for ...
Robert Forster - of Go-Betweens’ fame - is Sean Sennett’s guest on this week’s episode of Time To Talk. Robert has just released a new album, The Candle and the Flame. Featuring nine new songs - the album is a strong contender for the finest record of Robert’s solo career. Here, Robert talks about his wife Karin’s battle with ovarian cancer and how that affected the recording of the album, his earliest influences, his songwriting process and much more.
This week Sean Sennett chats to the Angels founding guitarist and songwriter, John Brewster. A new documentary, The Angels: Kicking Down The Door has just opened around Australia. The film tells the story of one of Australia’s finest bands. Directed by Madeleine Perry, the film charts the Angels progress from an Adelaide jug band to selling out venues here and overseas, delving into the Brewster Brothers often tempestuous relationship and their relationship with mercurial frontman Doc Neeson....
Thomas Keneally is one of Australia’s literary giants. Tom - as it says on the inside flap of A Bloody Good Rant - has been 'observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for well over 50 years’. He’s published a number of histories on Australia. His novels include The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Schindler’s Ark and he has won the Miles Franklin Award, The Booker Prize … we hardly need to go on. We recorded this chat when A Bloody Good Rant was first released … as h...
Pakistan cricket great Wasim Akram is Sean Sennett's guest this week. Wasim has just released a memoir 'Sultan' which was written in collaboration with the journalist Gideon Haigh. Wasim took 414 test wickets at 22 runs a piece between 1984 and 2003 and another 502 in one day internationals … but it’s how he took them. He scored 100’s too, so he’s a genuine allrounder ... here Wasim talks about why he wrote the book, his heroes, his early life … he gets riled up about match fixing and tells a gr...
Singer/songwriter Meg Mac is Sean Sennett’s guest on this week’s episode of Time To Talk. Meg has just released a terrific new album, Matter of Time. Already hitting #1 on the ARIA Charts, the album follows her earlier work Low Blows and Hope. The story behind the recording is fascinating. Meg talks of working with new collaborators, recording between continents and how she came up with a body of work that represented where she was at.
This week Sean Sennett talks with the founder of Oz Harvest, Ronni Kahn. Recorded as part of a fundraiser for Oz Harvest at QPAC, the conversation was taped before an audience. Ronni talks about her life and her life’s work and her memoir A Repurposed Life: where she discusses everything from her early life in apartheid South Africa to what set her on a course to run an organisation that has provided 170 million plus meals to those in need of them.
Join your host Sean Sennett as he chats this week to the great Colin Hay. You may Colin know from Men At Work - alongside his many fine solo albums. Colin has just released a new record Now & The Evermore. Here Colin talks about the new album, his previous record (I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself), Men At Work and touring with Ringo Starr.
Sean Sennett talks to pop superstar Darren Hayes. To coincide with the release of Darren's new album Homosexual, the pair go on a legit 'deep dive'. Sean is based in Darren's old hometown and the duo go right back to discuss Darren’s childhood, the record shop he worked in as a kid, the 'ad' he saw in Sean's magazine Time Off, the formation of Savage Garden ... right through to the new music Darren is creating now.
Rita Wilson is Sean Sennett’s special guest on this week’s Time To Talk. Rita has been making fine albums for the last decade and she’s back with a brand new record of duets called Now & Forever. The album features a ‘Who’s Who’ of contemporary music giants including Smokey Robinson, Keith Urban, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson and Jackson Browne. Rita talks about her journey recording the album, goes way back to her first musical influences and shares some great advice Bruce Springsteen gave ...
Our special guest this week Brett Morgen the director behind the amazing new David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream. An astonishing piece of cinema, the film is a real immersive experience. This chat was part of a press junket that Brett was on to Australia. You might know his previous films Montage of Heck … or the great Robert Evans doco, The Kid Stays in the Picture.
Host Sean Sennett interviews one of the great Australian songwriters, Dave Faulkner from the Hoodoo Gurus. The Hoodoo Gurus have just released a fine new album Chariot of the Gods - and they're embarking on a national tour with the Dandy Warhols. On the podcast Dave talks about everything from some of his favourite artists to recording Stoneage Romeos through to songwriting in the present day, giving us a real insight into his creative process.
This week Sean Sennett chats to songwriter/activist and Goanna frontman Shane Howard. Goanna are currently touring Australia to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their groundbreaking debut album Spirit of Place. Here Shane chats about his early life as a musician, his songwriting process, the politics that Goanna grew out of and we also took some time to talk about the writing of Solid Rock in particular alongside other Goanna classics.
This week on Time To Talk Sean Sennett chats to acclaimed Australian actor Helen Thomson. Helen is currently winning fans all over the world for her part in the new Baz Luhrmann film, Elvis. Helen features alongside Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, as she plays Elvis’ mother, Gladys Presley. Helen talks about her early life as an actor and takes us behind the scenes and offers glimpses on how Elvis was made and how she approached playing such a pivotal character in the film.
Nicholas Hammond made his silver screen debut in the Lord of The Flies in 1963. He played Friedrich von Trapp in The Sound Of Music. He starred as Peter Parker in the first Spider-Man films and featured in a number of classic television series including Gunsmoke, Magnum P.I, The Love Boat and more. He was the 'bad boy’ in the Brady Bunch episode where Marcia broke her nose. More recently he played Sam Wanamaker in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Nicholas is currently appearing...
This week’s special guest on Time To Talk is Rugby League immortal, Johnathan Thurston. Chatting to Sean Sennett, JT discusses his life in and out of football. Going way back, Thurston takes us from his early days right through to the end of his playing career. He discusses what it takes to play State of Origin football, his cultural obligations as a First Nation’s man in 2021 and his work with the JT Academy. And … the way he describes kicking a football is pure poetry.
Alice Cooper is our very special guest on Time To Talk this week. To coincide with the release of his new album Detroit Stories, Alice talks to Sean Sennett about recording the album. He discusses covering the Velvet Underground and the MC5 as well as the originals that make up the record. Alice chats about teaming up with his old buddy, producer Bob Ezrin. Along the way you’ll hear anecdotes about everyone from Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley to Eddie Van Halen and Glen Campbell.
Singer/songwriter John Schumann takes us on a journey into the writing of ‘I Was Only 19’ on this special episode of Time To Talk. John explains what motivated him to write this first person account of an Australian soldier’s experience in the Vietnam War. He also explains where Redgum, as a band, were at, at the time of recording, as well as his troubled relationship with pop music tastemakers Countdown. Join us as Schumann recounts writing one of the most significant and impactful songs in Aus...
Our guest this week is one of Australia’s first women of song, Kate Ceberano. Ceberano talks to Sean Sennett about recording her new album Sweet Inspiration in lock down. Kate takes us back to her early days in I’m Talking and she tells us what life was like as a fledgling solo artist - before bringing us up to date with her new album which is a unique mix of covers and original material.
The Foo Fighters Taylor Hawkins is our very special guest on Time To Talk this week. From his home in Los Angeles, Taylor talks to Sean Sennett about the making of the Foo Fighters’ new album, Medicine at Midnight. Along the way they talk about the Foo Fighters' current writing and recording process and Taylor’s own influences and musical heroes.
Actor Eric Bana is our special guest on Time To Talk this week. Currently starring in the film adaptation of the Jane Harper novel, The Dry, Eric talks to Sean Sennett about that experience, his early days as a character comedian, his process as an actor and the legendary XB Falcon he calls “The Beast”.
Country music star Adam Harvey is our guest on this week’s edition of Sony Music Presents Time To Talk. Chatting to Sean Sennett, Adam discusses the writing and recording of his new album, Songs From Highway One - with a few good anecdotes about his life and times thrown in for good measure.
Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst is our guest this week on Time To Talk. Chatting with Sean Sennett, Rob discusses in depth Midnight Oil’s first studio work in almost twenty years, The Makarrata Project. The themed mini album is a collaboration between the band and a number of First Nation performers including Jessica Mauboy, Troy Cassar-Daley, Dan Sultan, Bunna Lawrie and more. Recorded October 2020.
This week’s guest on Time To Talk is multi-award winning author, Trent Dalton. Trent’s first novel Boy Swallows Universe has earned acclaim both in Australia and around the globe. Today Trent joins us to talk about - among other things - his latest novel All Our Shimmering Skies, his love of Pearl Jam, Quentin Tarantino’s films, why Back To The Future matters so much and a whole lot more in this revealing deep dive.
Australian cricket great Steve Waugh joins Sean Sennett on Time To Talk. Steve scored over 10000 runs for Australia, took 92 wickets and had a top score of 200 which he scored against the West Indies … in the West Indies. He led Australia to a record 16 consecutive wins as res captain and had an astounding ratio of almost 72% wins in the 57 games he captained. He was also a revolutionary one day player and a philanthropist. Through his work with the Steve Waugh Foundation he’s helped thousands o...
Elvis Costello is Sean Sennett’s special guest on this week’s edition of Time To Talk. Elvis talks about his songwriting process, how his new album ‘The Boy Named If’ was written and recorded in isolation. Elvis also chats about new music he’s listening to, his long time collaborator Burt Bacharach and much more.
BRAD COX Sean Sennett chats to Brad Cox. Brad has just released his second album My Mind’s Projection. You might know Brad from the singles ‘Short Lived Love’, ‘Give Me Tonight’ ‘Remedy’ or ‘Lake House’ or ‘Drinking season’. He won the Star Maker Title in 2018 - people put him under the country banner … but he’s much more than that.
Josh Pyke Multi- ARIA award winning artist Josh Pyke is back with a stunning new album, Rome. Here he talks to Sean Sennett about recording the album, his hiatus from solo records, his forays into writing children’s books, his song writing process and his charitable work with the JP Partnership and the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
