200px Get This promotional shot showing Tony Martin, Ed Kavalee, and the guest co-host |
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Genre | Comedy |
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Running time | 2006 - 60 minutes; 2007 - 120 minutes (except Adelaide, first hour only) |
Country | Australia |
Languages | English |
Home station | Triple M Melbourne |
Syndicates | Triple M Sydney Triple M Brisbane Triple M Adelaide KOFM Newcastle (2006 only) |
Starring | Tony Martin Ed Kavalee Richard Marsland |
Creators | Tony Martin |
Producers | Nikki Hamilton |
Air dates | 3 April 2006 to 23 November 2007 |
No. of episodes | 358 |
Opening theme | Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives Hate to Say I Told You So cover by Richard Cheese for the 2nd hour intro |
Get This was an Australian radio comedy show which aired on Triple M and was hosted by Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee, with contributions from panel operator, the late Richard Marsland.[1] A different guest co-host was featured nearly every day on the show and included music played throughout.
On the 15 October 2007 episode, the Get This team announced that Triple M/Austereo would not be renewing the show for 2008. The final broadcast was on 23 November 2007. During its lifetime Get This developed a strong cult following.
Contents |
Role | Name |
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Host | Tony Martin |
Co-Host | Ed Kavalee |
Panel Operator | Richard Marsland |
Producer | Nikki Hamilton |
Sketch Production | Matt Dower |
Phones | Cecelia Ramsdale/Katie Dimond |
Get This featured a different guest co-host (both local and international) nearly every day, with Australian comedians, musicians, writers, actors, and old Triple M/EON FM DJs making regular appearances. Regular co-hosts include Ross Noble, Greg Fleet, Fifi Box, Glenn Robbins, Cal Wilson, Scott Edgar, Peter Rowsthorn, Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, Angus Sampson, Andrea Powell, Lachy Hulme, and Josh Lawson.
Frequently discussed topics on Get This include movies, current affairs, in-jokes, popular culture, Martin's and Kavalee's own lives, Marsland's media and writing exploits, amusing news articles from around the world, and gossip from "celebrity insiders, onlookers, pals and lunchers" from tabloid magazines.
Martin and the others create various comedy sketches that include the edited recordings of politicians such as then Australian Prime Minister John Howard, musical parodies, advertisements and other sketches. Soundbites also feature regularly, with humorous comments, sounds, or sayings from politicians or the popular media included in various jokes, interviews, and songs.
Talkback Mountain was a segment in the show where a number of listeners called in to briefly discuss a chosen topic with the hosts, or share a related anecdote with the listeners. In this segment there were also 'dovetails', where Kavalee will ask callers a follow-up question that runs counter to the main phone-in topic.
The segment was originally introduced by a sample from the Cliff Hangers subgame of gameshow The Price is Right. An alternative theme tune which is used is a sample of the song Tainted Love, and a range of sound effects including a goat bleating and yodeling. In the latter half of 2007, the show's sketch producer, Matt Dower, began creating new Talkback Mountain themes on a more regular basis, including one based on the Sonny & Cher song I Got You Babe and one based on the Jive Bunny version of the Hawaii Five-O theme.
Get This first aired on 3 April 2006, running for one-hour from 9am - 10am, with the final episode for the 2006 season airing on 1 December 2006.
The show returned in 2007 on Monday, 29 January in a new two-hour format. The timeslot consisted of 11am - 12pm AEST being hosted by Martin and Kavalee, whilst from 12pm - 1pm a different co-host joined in nearly every day.[2] On Triple M Adelaide only the first hour of the program was played from 12pm - 1pm.
On 17 September 2007, after a two week break, Get This moved timeslots to 2pm - 4pm weekdays, however it retained the same two-hour format.[3] On Triple M Adelaide only the first hour of the program was played from 3pm - 4pm. The constantly changing timeslots became a running gag on the show, particularly when referencing Adelaide listeners.
On the Get This website, there were a variety of items to download, including ringtones which are made from soundbites used on the program. Some of these include "John Howard falling off a cliff" and Rex Hunt's "I got my rocks off" ringtones.
Also available on the site was an archive of selected sketches under the banners of Recent Offences and Prior Offences. These included Kim Beazley's rants on cheese and dog's breakfasts, and Tony Soprano calling Channel Nine to complain about his timeslot.
Highlights of the show were made available as free bi-weekly podcasts (not a link to the actual podcasts) downloadable from the Triple M website and the iTunes Store. Due to copyright and licensing reasons, podcasts could not include most of the music that was used on the radio show. Because of this, some of Martin's comedy sketches could not be heard on the podcast. Earlier sketches containing copyright music were included on the ends of later Podcasts, from #144 (29 October 2007) onwards.
Aside from weekly wrap-up podcasts, special podcasts were often also released - for example those featuring a notable guest or a milestone episode.
The show's podcasts were removed as of 1 January 2008 from the Triple M website, and were also removed from iTunes. From 4 August 2009 all of the 163 Get This podcasts were reinstated to the iTunes Store under the name of "Get This - Richard Marsland Lives Podcast". Currently not working for some reason.
Martin announced on the Friday 8 September 2006 show that an audio CD based on the show was in the planning and production phase, with only 1000 copies to be pressed. On the Friday 3 November 2006 show, the finished CD Illegal Download, was unveiled on-air as the new prize for callers to the Talkback Mountain segment. The CD features various guest co-host interviews as well as Martin reading a chapter of his book Lolly Scramble.
The track listing of Illegal Download is as follows:
After all copies of the album were given away as prizes, tracks became available for free download at the Triple M website.[4]
On 15 October 2007, it was announced on-air that Get This would be finishing up at the end of 2007, with the final show being aired on 23 November. The reason cited was that Triple M would be concentrating on their breakfast shows.,[8] such as The Shebang in Sydney and a new, multi-million dollar Melbourne-based show presented by Peter Helliar and Myf Warhurst. An article in the Herald Sun Guide 2 January 2008 perpetuated the rumour that Get This was "Axed to make way for Helliar's alleged $1 million plus salary".[citation needed]
Separate to that, in broadcasts aired on 16 and 17 October 2007, Martin made mention of a petition that various listeners of Get This had mounted in an attempt to save the program.[9]
Several media outlets have published stories regarding the cancellation of the program. The non-renewal of the program was also a surprise considering the ratings that the show was generating. Shortly before the cancellation of the show, local papers described Get This as 'so popular that the Austereo network doesn't know what to do with them'. In Melbourne, Get This was second in its slot, while the station is fifth overall. In Sydney Get This was fifth, Triple M ninth; in Brisbane Get This was second, Triple M fourth; and while in Adelaide the program was in third place, while the station lags in sixth place.[10]
Another article in The Age noted that "In a pattern repeated across the country, figures jumped from about 5 per cent audience share to about 11 per cent during the two-hour program, when it aired from 11am. They fell back to near 6 per cent when the station returned to music."[11]
The final show was broadcast on 23 November 2007. The final sketch depicted Tony, Ed and Richard getting in a bus, replete with Vengaboys' song "We Like to Party" playing, before fading the broadcast out. Excluding this sketch, and the musical montage that preceded it, the final live sentence said on the show was, "and here endeth the sizzle" by Tony Martin. The final words heard were by John Howard: "Oh no, that's not funny at all".
Tony and Ed reunited to release a final Get This podcast (not broadcast on radio) on 24 December 2008 as a tribute to Richard Marsland after his death, with some of Marsland's best moments.[12] In true Get This tradition, it ran over time.
Heaven's Basement is a British hard rock band formed in 2008 and signed with Red Bull Records. The current members are Sid Glover (guitar, vocals), Rob Ellershaw (bass, backing vocals), and Chris Rivers (drums).
Their debut album, Filthy Empire, was released on 4 February 2013 in the UK and 5 February 2013 in the U.S. They released their first single, "Fire, Fire", in September 2012 leading up to their album release. The single peaked at #11 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
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The album spans several genres, but is generally noted for its extensive percussion and overall heavy sound. It was well received by fans and critics alike and was responsible for bringing Slipknot a large increase in popularity. The album peaked at number 51 on the Billboard 200, and has gone on to become certified double platinum in the United States, making it the band's best selling album. It was voted the best debut album of the last 25 years by readers of Metal Hammer magazine.
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After a degree in commercial studies, Albers played in the Dutch national baseball team and was triple Dutch wrestling champion. Then, he started his career as DJ, and was a radio host on music and sport programs in his country for eleven years (one of them was elected "best Dutch dance show" three times). He organized the annual Dutch Mixing Championship five times.
In 1992, under the pseudonym JayDee he released the hit, "Plastic Dreams", which reached number-one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The song, an instrumental, featured a prominent Hammond organ style synthesizer melody, played in a jazzy, improvised manner. "Plastic Dreams" continues to be remixed and re-released today, mostly on unsolicited white labels. The track has made the UK Singles Chart on two occasions; firstly in September 1997 when it reached number 18, and again in January 2004 when it reached number 35. With this big hit, Albers decided to create his own record label, First Impression.
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