Living in the 70s
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Were you born in the Seventies? Join us for the sounds of the 70s every Saturday morning. Martin and Venetia will take you to the decade of denim flares, burnt orange kitchen bench tops and the birth of disco and glam rock! Each week we’ll have a 70’s theme that we’ll explore, such as songs from disaster movies, movement anthems, one hit wonders, daggy duets, funky numbers, and disco tracks that steamed up the dance floor in many an LGBTI venue, to name just a few. The 70s produced some amazing music and we’re here to make sure tha...
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Move me, baby
Cars, trains and automobiles. This week’s show is all about forms of transport. We’ve got peace trains, midnight trains, pushbikes and other vehicles, all immortalised in Seventies…
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What did you call me?
What’s in a name? Some are remembered, some fade into obscurity, but if you really want your name to last, get a famous band or artists to immortalise it in a song! The post What d…
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It’s all about the money, honey
It’s that time of year again – everybody’s stocktaking, couunting their profits and losses and getting ready to file their tax returns. Well if you’re burning the midnight oil bala…
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Another mix of our picks
It’s another themeless week – just a colleciton of tunes we’re enjoying. We hope you do too The post Another mix of our picks appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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Heavy on the groove
This week we decided not to have a theme, but we have ended up with a bit of a groovy feel anyway, with a dash of heavy rock. It’s a pretty classic Seventies mix! The post Heavy on…
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More singer songwriters
On this weeks show we are exploring more of those brilliant singer songwriters of the Seventies. Folks who compose and sing their own songs, some playing thier own instruments. Som…
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Natural wonder
Where would we be without nature? It nurtures us, it restores us, it even heals us. Life would be pretty sad indeed without the awe and wonder of the natural world, the feelings of…
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It’s the fashion
The fashion scene and the music scene go hand in hand. Musical trends push fashion forward and fashion helps artists create identities and express themselves. In fact fashion helps…
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News worthy
While many songs are about timeless themes such as love, other songs can be very specific to the time and place where they were created. Like other artists, songwriters and musicia…
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How’s the weather where you are?
Aaah the weather – the favourite subject of small talk, the topic of concern of farmers and walkers, and also the metaphor of choice for depicting a mood since time immemorial. It’…
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What we’re listening to
This week there’s no theme, we have just picked a few of the tracks we’ve been listening to this week that we wanted to share with you, our lovely listeners. We hope you enjoy them…
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The final frontier
It’s been a great week for space exploration! The Artemis has circled around the moon and back and sent back some spectacular images. So we thought we would put together a little s…
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Sweets for the sweet
For those wo celebrate it, Hapy Easter! For everyone else, happy long weekend! We hope your egg hunts were plentiful and your hot cross buns were toasty. On this week’s show we are…
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Happy birthday Marty!
It’s Marty’s turn this week to sit back and be pampered for his birthday. Yes, for this week’s play list, Venetia has combed the music of the 1970s to pick tracks she thinks Marty…
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Oh no, it’s the ‘m’ word
This week we’re bringing attention to World Water Day, which happens every year on March 22 to highlight the importance of acess to fresh, life sustaining water. So all our tracks…
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A playlist for Venetia
Happy birthday Venetia! Yes, it’s Venetia’s birthday and to celebrate the occasion, Marty has put together a playlist of some of her favourite Seventies tracks. Hopefully some of t…
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All women, all good
It’s international women’s day! It’s only fitting, then, that this week all our tracks are from women musicians from the Seventies. Sisters were doing it for themselves, and often…
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Happy Mardi Gras!
Show broadcast March 01 2026 It’s been pride season in Australia, with Midsumma in Melbourne and Mardi Gras in Sydney. So, in celebration of all things LGBTIQA+, on this week’s sho…
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The Sound of Philadelphia
Show broadcast Feb 22 2026 Something special was happening in Philadelphia in the 1970s. Thom Bell, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, Sigma Sound Studios, the musicians of MFSB (mother…
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Gone in 2025
Show broadcast Feb 15 2026 On this show we celebrate music that was released about half a century ago. Inevitably that means that every year some of the folks who made that music p…