It’s the David & Sue “Songs about Body Parts” Request Hour + Sue was asking you to name the song from the line from the lyrics so listen to find out the outcome!  So think of all those songs about lips, legs, hips, feet, mouths, hair, ears and you may just hear on during the podcast! #ListenNow for all the fun and music… The request hour is on between 6 and 7 pm each Friday so send in your music (or other – use your imagination!) requests when we’re on-air or via our Facebook page before...

David & Sue talk to Lisa Sontag (Mrs Wilkinson) and Justin Smith (Billy’s Dad) from Billy Elliot the Musical which is now playing at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne. You can get tickets at the show website. Remember it’s finishing on 19 April so get your tickets now so you don’t miss out. Billy Elliot The Musical, featuring music by the legendary Elton John, Billy Elliot the Musical is an extraordinary theatrical experience that has captivated audiences around the world. Seen by over...

So this week, we have Sue who has taken the wrong tablets (can you tell the difference?!) and David who fills us in on his tap-dancing and theatre career (oh yes?!). It’s the Friday eve of Mardi Gras and Alex phones in from Sydney where he is wearing glitter (anything else?!) in preparation for being in the JOY 94.9 parade contingent. Request hour should have been two hours. Who knew there are so many songs about telephones?! Two of the stars of Billy Elliot arrive in the studio in the...

It’s a short hour in this week’s crazy mad talking hour with David and Sue – there was a glitch in the studio and we’re missing the middle hour. Imagine the laughs… or despair! 🙂 But there’s more than enough here to entertain you. How can David have a cat, what with his apartment overstuffed with snow globes and dwarves? And should Sue be getting her marriage celebrant outfit out of the wardrobe? Listen for the first(?) in a series: David and Sue’s Dating Success Stories. We also have news...

David & Sue talk to Zoe Paulsen, Festival Director  the Can’t Do Tomorrow Festival which is on at The Facility in Kensington until 29th February 2020. They also talk to Kaff-eine who is one of the street artists at the festival. You can get tickets from the festival website. About the Can’t Do Tomorrow Festival: Between 20 and 29 of February 2020, we’ll be transforming the Facility, Kensington, into an outlandish Eden populated by a crowd more hedonistic than a 90s warehouse rave. More...

It’s the Lisa and Sue “It’s OK to be Single Songs” Request Hour + Pick that Song with Alex. Well it was Valentines day but, of course, Lisa &and Sue rebelled and decided to celebrate Singles Awareness day instead and so did you judging by the number of requests that they received! Make sure you listen closely for Lisa and Sue singing along with Melissa Etheridge and there’s also the Pick That song segment with Alex.  #ListenNow for all the fun and music… The request hour is on between 6...

Because David is preparing for a very special birthday, the OWLS, Lisa and Sue, those Older Wiser Lesbians, have taken over the airwaves. Who would be more likely than this crazy duo to celebrate Valentine’s Day with an anti-Valentine’s Day show? No one!! Carrying the theme further, request hour included “single, no need to mingle” and break-up songs. Romantic. Not!!

It’s the David & Sue “Remakes of Famous Songs” Request Hour. And we all love a good remake of a song don’t we cause there were so many requests we couldn’t play them all – maybe a remake of the remake request hour is in the remaking!!!!  #ListenNow for all the fun and music… The request hour is on between 6 and 7 pm each Friday so send in your music (or other – use your imagination!) requests when we’re on-air or via our Facebook page before the show and then listen to the frivolity and...

David & Sue talk to Maree Coote from Melbourne Style about her brand new children’s book “Azaria – A True History” which examines the places where wild animals and people meet, where tragedy can strike, because just like the big bad wolf, the dingo is not afraid of you and me. It’s a beautifully illustrated non-fiction picture book that sensitively explores the collision of wilderness and civilisation, explains a famous miscarriage of justice, and examines the role of the media in...

Hans the German is in the final of America’s Got Talent The Champions and David and Sue talk to him about his performance and what a performance it was. You can watch it on the @accordionhans  Youtube channel. He also talks about his anew and upcoming Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show “Haus of Hans: Disco Spektakulär” which is at The Famous Spiegeltent at Arts Centre Melbourne from 26 march to 5 April 2020. So make sure you watch him in America’s Got Talent – The Champions final...

It’s the David & Sue “Songs about Truth or Lies” Request Hour. But, of course, Sue always tells the truth so it must be David who’s on the lying side of the ledger or is it the other way around!!  #ListenNow for all the fun and music… The request hour is on between 6 and 7 pm each Friday so send in your music (or other – use your imagination!) requests when we’re on-air or via our Facebook page before the show and then listen to the frivolity and your songs on Friday nights. So, get...

After listening to this podcast, you will feel reassured that you are perfectly normal. Under what circumstances might Sue find herself chopped up in the freezer at JOY? This week she spends some time telling us of her life in a parallel universe inhabited by serial killers in public loos. David is in that other sane world with the rest of us! In the studio is Maree Coote from MelbourneStyle to talk about her latest book Azaria: A True History telling the story of the disappearance of a baby...

This programme was broadcast on the 42 deg Friday before Melbourne’s 2020 Pride March. It’s hot in the city so expect a reference or two, David and Sue style, to some possible health issues, both in and out of the pool. Lots of eeeewww. A big welcome to Trevor Ashley who is in the studio for an extended conversation covering his upcoming show, his costume collection, and his own float at Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade. Lots of laughs. Request Hour celebrates Pride. Lots of Pride.

David & Sue talk to Tim Stitz from Arts Centre Melbourne about their Midsumma Program in 2020 which includes the Midsumma Extravaganza and four other shows Boobs, Flat Earthers – The Musical,  Daddy and Escape Velocity – We Are Who We Are so get down to the Arts Centre Melbourne website to book tickets #ListenNOW The Midsumma Extravaganza is on 1 Feb at Hamer Hall and you can get tickets from the Arts Centre Melbourne Website. Don’t miss out as it was a sellout in 2019!    

David & Sue talk to Phillip Adams from BALLETLAB about their Midsumma 2020 program which runs from 1-8 Feb at The Temperance Hall in South Melbourne. They are also joined by two of the performers, Luigi Vescio who is performing in NOW this Body WHAT and The Venusian Slip and Harrison who is also performing in The Venusion Slip. There is also another performance called GIRLKING and a video installation called The Naked Ambassadors at the same venue for Midsumma. You can get tickets from...

Crazy stuff 1: Sue contemplates getting a tattoo. Will it be as successful as the time she dyed her hair? Crazy stuff 2: It’s enough to say we really don’t want to know the colour of David’s jocks. Eeeeewww! And talking sense …. Phillip Adams from BalletLab, and Tim from Arts Centre Melbourne about their contributions to Midsumma.

David & Alex talk to Jude Munro from The Victorian Pride Centre about progress building the centre and JOY will be moving to the centre once it’s completed in late 2020.  In case you haven’t heard the Victorian Pride Centre is a unique initiative that celebrates, bolsters and protects equality, diversity and inclusion. It is set to forge a new chapter in the narrative of Australian Pride by bringing the LGBTIQ community together in a single and powerful space. It will be home to practical...

David & Sue talk to Nefertiti La Negra who is performing at Gaytimes 2020 which is on from 14-16 Feb in Gembrook in Victoria. You can buy tickets to Gaytimes at the festival website but get them soon for your frolic in the forest. You can also find out more about the activities of Nefertiti on her Facebook Page.#ListenNOW And here’s what you need to know about the festival: For our fifth anniversary year, Gaytimes – Australia’s queer music and arts festival – returns February 14-16...

David and Sue talk to Jason Marriner who is CEO of Marriner Group about the recent $20 million refurbishment of the Regent Theatre in Melbourne which included the individual cleaning and polishing of 3,700 crystals from the chandeliers, installation of 6,400 sqm of carpet and 10.3 tonnes of plaster casting. It's now open for business again and is currently showing the National Theatre of Great Britain production of Warhorse.

After Christmas … another year. David and Sue are back together again for 2020. Hooray!! David has a New Year resolution of some importance. Why would Sue want to tag along? Hmmm?? In the first part of 2020 you’ll be hearing more and more about David and Sue’s 10th anniversary together presenting Friday Drive. Tune in each week to find out more as the momentum builds to a celebration! Also in this show, interviews with Malcolm Campbell about the International Gay & Lesbian Aquatic...

Welcome back to David and Sue’s crazy, mad talking hour!  Starting 2020 with our 2019 Crazy Mad Christmas Spectacular – as you do. Sue is a self-proclaimed entertainment machine. David tries to rein in her spoon playing. Oh no! Oh yes!! 2020 can only get better. Or madder. Or crazier. Let’s drive you home on Fridays  🙂

It’s the David & Alex “Songs that Start with the Letter B” request Hour and there are lots of them! Think, Barbie Girl, Boom, Boom, Boom, Babushka, Baby I’m Burning, The Best, Born This Way…  […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_driving/p/joy.org.au/fridaydrive/wp-content/uploads/sites/194/2020/01/191213-DavidSue-Songs-that-start-withB.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:17 — 46.1MB)Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

David and Alex talk to Matthew Casamento & Adeline Hunter from the Young Australian Broadway Chorus who are performing in their production of the musical “Cats” at the National Theatre in St Kilda from 17 […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_driving/p/joy.org.au/fridaydrive/wp-content/uploads/sites/194/2019/12/191213-DavidSue-Cats.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:52 — 8.2MB)Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

David and Sue were LIVE from the first NGV Friday night of the season and amid all the fun interviewed a couple of the DJ’s that will be performing over the coming months at the […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_driving/p/joy.org.au/fridaydrive/wp-content/uploads/sites/194/2019/12/191206-DavidSue-LIVEatNGV-pt1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:37 — 44.6MB)Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

David and Sue were LIVE from the first NGV Friday night of the season and amid all the fun interviewed a couple of the DJ’s that will be performing over the coming months at the […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_driving/p/joy.org.au/fridaydrive/wp-content/uploads/sites/194/2019/12/191206-DavidSue-LIVEatNGV-Pt2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:56 — 34.8MB)Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS