Latest Coldghost Podcast Episodes
Emmeline Anthony 'When This Becomes Enough'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - May 05, 2022 02:43 - 8 minutesEmmeline Anthony is a student at Somerset College and performed this story as part of Storyfest 2020. Her story 'When This Becomes Enough' tackles an issue I know I felt when I was in my teens. Why go outside when I am totally comfortable inside my room? My perfectly safe space. I asked Emm...
Ayla Chirathivat-Geralds 'The Girl Who Loved the World'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - April 29, 2022 03:50 - 10 minutesAyla Chirathivat-Geralds loves the world and when the pandemic hit in 2020, she knew that she would not be going on an aeroplane for quite some time. But luckily for her she discovered that the place she calls home is a pretty wonderful place. This Stories in the Key of GC performance was pres...
Marni Little '20/20 is Hindsight'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - February 10, 2022 05:09 - 17 minutesScript writer and comedian Marni Little shares her powerful story '20/20 is Hindsight'. It explores 12 months filled with the promise of a new life in a new city, a career trajectory on the up and a cancer diagnosis that could have taken her down. With humour and a sense of wonder, Marni naviga...
Desh 'Smells Like GC'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - January 26, 2022 05:45 - 21 minutesTake a trip with comedian Desh as he tells his hilarious and poignant story of his coming of age in a tale - 'Smells Like GC' Told via three seperate car trips to the Gold Coast, you will smell the beer soaked Arts Center in the early 2000's and you will definitly smell the sweat of the frenzied...
Nick Earls 'Still Gold'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - November 12, 2021 06:01 - 32 minutesAward winning Brisbane author, Nick Earls takes you back to the 1980's golden age of jingle writing in his hilarious story 'Still Gold'. From a legendary lost gold mine, to the rise and fall of Christopher Skase, complete with song and dance routine. There's a most unexpected encounter with ol...
Sally Breen 'The Sea', 'The Community' and 'The Rose and Crown'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - June 19, 2021 06:22 - 14 minutesGold Coast author Sally Breen (The Casuals, Atomic City) delivers a tryptic of stories from the heart of Surfers Paradise. There is the ever present sea, a divide within the Surfers community and everyone's favourite things written on beer coasters at The Rose and Crown. Cameron Wilson from Go...
Cameron Wilson 'Crossroads on The Broadwater'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - May 28, 2021 04:08 - 20 minutesFrontman and guitarist Cameron Wilson from longtime Gold Coast band The Daisycutters, shares an almost mythical story of how he was gifted his first guitar...Was it fate that led him to find the guitar floating in The Broadwater?...or was it a gift from the Gods?.....Did he really have to sell h...
Lucas Proudfoot 'Nan's Place'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - April 30, 2021 04:28 - 6 minutesMusician, author and children's entertainer Lucas Proudfoot shares a story of a weekend at his Nan's place on the Tweed Coast and his first time going out on the early morning fishing boats to learn his saltwater culture. And when Lucas sees the jullum (mullet) while surfing up here on the Gold ...
Hedley Thomas 'Snakes and Ladders'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - March 12, 2021 00:27 - 33 minutesWalkley award winning journalist and podcast creator Hedley Thomas (The Teachers Pet, The Night Driver), shares his story of a youthful wild night on the Gold Coast and the hairs breadth away from potential disaster we all were as kids. There is a lucky streak at the races, a moving tribute to...
Samantha Morris 'The Mother of all Mountains'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - February 04, 2021 06:20 - 19 minutesGold Coasters know and love Sam Morris as the co/founder of the local street press BlankGC, The Gold Coast Music Awards and her passionate conservation work. In this episode we are treated to a personal story that spans three generations. It is a story about the strength of love through the ch...
Vivi Baker 'Open Letter to the City that Grew as I Did'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - December 13, 2020 06:15 - 12 minutesPoet, Vivi Baker delivers a goodbye letter to the Gold Coast as she prepares to leave for the city of Melbourne. Though, this is not a eulogy. It took a few attempts to come up with the right music for this story, But I think we found the right vibe to explore and contemplate the GC from a se...
Ann Wason Moore 'Love on the Beach'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - August 19, 2020 03:39 - 27 minutesThe theme for this special night at HOTA was 'Love on the Beach'. GC Bulletin journalist, Ann Wason Moore performs her story of the same name. It is her love of Texas, USA and her love of the Gold Coast. Circumstance may have taken her from one to the other. But one day she would have to choose....
Matt Eaton 'When Love was a Flash in the Pan'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - July 22, 2020 03:29 - 19 minutesMatt Eaton takes us back to his teenage years at Keebra State High School in the early 80's. You know...those awkward years negotiating puberty, love and the opposite sex. The story ends on New Years Eve 1981 in the heart of Surfer's Paradise. I'll let you discover what happens. I supply a sli...
Sean Flanagan 'Cyclones and Sickness'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - March 05, 2020 00:36 - 29 minutesSean Flanagan, aka Flan, delivered this story only a few hours after the death of his Father. For a guy best known for making people laugh, this story explores the power of love and family in facing sickness and death. The music is largely improvised over a number of pre prepared themes. Sean an...
Amy McDonald 'The Volunteer'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - February 24, 2020 02:10 - 28 minutesAmy McDonald recounts her hilarious experience at a volunteers training day for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. There are a classic cast of characters, from the Canadian training staff to 'Itchy Guy' and one very special character steers the story into an almost calamitous sequenc...
Lystra Bisschop 'Death Cures'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - January 31, 2020 04:24 - 18 minutesLystra Bisschop delivers a personal story about facing death and finding the cure. It is a testament to making brave life choices and gives truth to surfing as a healing practise. I play the bass and concert flutes and use a loop station to create a breathy, ethereal sound design to support L...
Tim Baker 'A Surfer's Paradise'
Stories in the key of GC's podcast - January 28, 2020 01:09 - 11 minutesTim Baker performs his slam-poem story 'A Surfer's Paradise'. It explores his move to the Gold Coast as young surf writer, the initial disconnect and the growing love for the GC over the decades. The music is inspired by Gansta rap, surf rock and the jangly, muted guitar stylings of Ernest Rangl...
Related Coldghost Topics