If you’re not all that into podcasts, here’s a couple of minutes just for you ….
David and Sue say THANK YOU to all involved in the last 10 years of Friday Drive Driving You Mad Driving You Crazy. This love is most of all for you, their listeners!
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Here it is, the very last Driving You Mad Driving You Crazy Friday Drive with David and Sue. As promised, it’s a love fest. David and Sue love their listeners, listeners love David and Sue.
Request hour includes songs suited to the occasion plus a couple, in full in this podcast, which got a lot of mentions over the years but very little, if any, airtime because they are so ….. (fill in the blank!)
And to save them for posterity, here are some of the one-liner gems used as programme IDs, introduced with a straight face (or voice) by the wonderful Luke Gallagher. How did he manage to do that?!
Treasure this very special podcast.

Rude gas, tattoos, greeting cards, chim chiminey chim chiminey chimneysweeps, tattoos, art at Manyung Gallery amongst the fun and dangerous pleasures of Flinders in Victoria, cold soup – yes or no, oh! Sue’s tattoo – again.
To top off proceedings … Request Hour is the daggiest of daggy songs.
Ooh yes! Driving you mad, driving you crazy! It’s what David and Sue do.

Sue is much improved but still away so it’s the David and Alex show, part 2, in this Queen’s Birthday long weekend broadcast.
Listeners share great stories of times when they could get out to concerts, gigs and more. There is a point at which Alex has to be told what a panel van is. 😮
Request Hour is E for Elizabeth, i.e. the 2nd, i.e. the Queen. But one song reminds us of the weekend’s other events, marches and other initiatives to show that Black Lives Matter.

Sue is sick so it’s the David and Alex show.
Plus heaps of laughs in the interview with Hans all the way from Germany … via Adelaide!
There’s also those iso issues …. not knowing what day it is, changed sleep patterns, entertainment – have you caught up with JOY TV?
And Request Hour is songs starting with S for Sue.

Phoning the JOY 94.9 studio all the way from a foreign country (Adelaide!), it’s the self-proclaimed Mother Teresa of Cabaret …. the one and only ….. Hans!!
Talking almost non-stop, Hans tells David and Alex all about his streaming show Hans’ Haus Arrest.
Catch it on facebook live on Sunday, 7.30 pm AEST.
Until live venues open again, this isn’t the best show in town …. but it is the best show in your lounge room!
 

You Asked for It! It’s the JOY Radiothon 2020 Request Hour inc your LGBTIQA+ anthems, memberships and donations + all the fun  #ListenNow for all the fun and music… And, thank you, thank you to all of you who became members, renewed as members, subscribed or donated on the night. If you forgot to support JOY during radiothon you can, of course still support us by using the links below.
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 yours ready for this week and why limit your requests to music – David & Sue have lots of talents so why not request that they use them!

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Hannah Fox joins David and Sue to talk about Melbourne’s newest festival which sadly did not début in 2020, as planned, but is looking forward to 2021 with even bigger ideas for both artists and audiences. 
Taking the place of the Melbourne International Arts Festival and White Night Melbourne, RISING is a major cultural event for the Asia Pacific Region created by a diverse team of local, national and international artists and curators. There is a call-out for even more ideas and participants, with grants available. Seize the opportunity!! Roll on 26 May – 6 June 2021.
 

What else is there to do in Virus Lock-down but binge?
Listeners share their favourite TV and streaming shows, a bit of food and drink and, for Request Hour, favourite LGBTIQA+ songs.
But lock-down won’t last forever.
Hannah Fox phones in to tell all about Rising, a new festival in Melbourne that was supposed to start this year but is now looking ahead to May 26 to June 6, 2021. We will be there!

David loves the weather, apart from the cold, and waxes lyrical about autumn. That’s probably the high point of the show.
This week’s Request Hour, all about food, brought a deluge of requests which gave rise to too much singing from David and Sue – to be fair, any singing from them is too much!
It also sets Sue off complaining about, amongst other things, citrus peel in hot cross buns and marmalade. Fussy or wot? Of course, it’s perfectly sensible of David to dislike mock duck.
There’s also an interview with Ivan Sun from Low Rez talking about what’s happening at the moment with the choir.
We’re ditching the corona tag. This week lockdown restrictions have been eased. But keep taking care people – we don’t want that tag back again!

It’s MIFF 68½, the strange number pointing to strange times and a very different film festival in 2020. Artistic Director Al Cossar talks about the planning going on to deliver the festival into film fans’ homes from 6 to 23 August since going to the cinema isn’t going to happen this year.
In this podcast, find out where the plans are at and what more you can look forward to.

It’s the David & Sue “Songs that Start with the Letter P” (well, we are in a Pandemic) Request Half Hour. And, not only that but it’s Alex’s “Pick That Song” segment and, guess what, the song starts with P – can you pick what it is?  #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 yours ready for this week and why limit your requests to music – David & Sue have lots of talents so why not request that they use them!

Restrictions have eased, but not that much. On Thursday 14 May, 7-9 pm, GLOBE is Networking via Video Conference. GLOBE secretary Andrew Shepherd chats with David and Sue about some of the fun on offer.
NB You need to go to the website and register. There’s more info there too.

Dog Poo, Popcorn, tongue-twisters and words starting with the letter P and, for request hour, songs starting with P, of course.
It’s all surprisingly Prudish!
Plus interviews about Virus Era ingenuity with …
MIFF Artistic Director Al Cossar about this year’s digital MIFF 68½, streamable across 6–23 August. Stay tuned for more info as the festival approaches.
and
Andrew Shepherd, secretary of GLOBE, about GLOBE’s Networking via Video Conferencing event coming up on 14 May. Tip: You need to register so get onto it PDQ!

What a great Radiothon! THANK YOU to all you wonderful people who donated, subscribed, joined, renewed your membership. David and Sue love you all. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
The amazing result will keep the independent voices of JOY 94.9 on air for the coming year. And it’s going to be a Very Big Year with our move to The Pride Centre.
If you missed radiothon in 2020, you don’t have to wait until radiothon 2021. You can support JOY at any time of year, day or night, by going to www.joy.org.au and clicking the SUPPORT JOY tab. Please. ♥♥♥

Can you spare a cup of coffee for JOY?
David and Sue are back in the building, but in different studios, for JOY 2020 Radiothon.
David organised the interviews with Member No.1, John Oliver, and Emily from gardenhouse.studios the day before she painted an amazing mural at the Pride Centre construction site.
Sue puts on make-up for money and Alex does push-ups. Con also begs you to give. Because the short message is ….
JOY 94.9 needs $$$$$ to stay on air. Please give – JOY represents you because JOY IS YOU. Donate, subscribe, join, renew at www.joy.org.au
Look at this simple fact ….
It costs $2 to keep JOY broadcasting on-air for one minute.. that’s $120 an hour and $2880 a day.
JOY has 589,000 listeners per month. Only 0.4% of our listeners support us financially.
If each listener who can afford to donated $5 (that’s the price of a cup of coffee) we would be able to broadcast for two years!
Could you do that please?

Friday Drive is acing it, keeping it real – mad and crazy – in this episode. Con and Geoffrey make appearances amidst the mayhem. But there is a bonus – some great film suggestions to while away your isolation hours.
David and Sue say it’s the technology. But after the show, any fly on the wall will see them cleaning melted chocolate crumbs out of their equipment.
Read the memo, David and Sue! Do not eat at your desk includes Easter eggs from last week!!
Request hour is songs about directions because the world is going in so many of them right now – except for David! He’s stuck going west. Always!

Lockdown continues.
David misses people but, being contrary, he has too much of the backpackers next door.
At home Sue is turning into a gardener and baker but on air she goes slightly insane with her Secret Sounds.
What are you doing to keep sane? Will you do anything new or different when you break free again?
But for now, it’s all about concentrating on Easter Eggs.

Welcome to the 10th … is it birthday or anniversary? … edition of Driving You Mad, Driving You Crazy: Friday Drive with David and Sue.
Showing that you can teach old dogs new tricks, instead of the “cancelled due to The Virus” party after the show, David and Sue have used up most of their energy learning a whole new techie set-up to bring you the show from David’s beloved St Kilda, Sue’s tofu territory in the northern suburbs, and Con with world news from cosmopolitan Richmond.
There are interviews with three people very special to us all:
Dan de Rochefort, former President of Globe
Jude Monro, board Chair of the Victorian Pride Centre
Ro Allen, Victoria’s  Gender and Equality Commissioner

David is in the studio, Soft-Touch-Sue (listen for her cat story) is back – in the office corner of her living room …. and they’re as crazy as every.
Crap drawers, the merits of rubber bands, songs to cook by and dance in the kitchen. Situation normal, you might say.
But please people, during these from-a-distance in Virus times, look out for each other and find things that make you happy.
And Friday Drive for total distraction!