RETROGASMIC Retro & Vintage Podcast!

Welcome to the Retrogasmic Podcast!
Your very own space-time portal to all things Vintage, Retro and Kits!ch Brought to you by New Zealand Retronauts D.D. Deluxe (and sometimes the lovely Hettie LaBombe), the Retrogasmic podcast promises to take you to a world inhabited by retro style, classic cars, B-movies, pin-up girls, vintage fashion, groovy music and a selection of very, very cool guests. Enlightenment will be available via retro event news, gig info and D.D.’s soon-to-be-legendary vintage trivia quiz, and hopefully we’ll all have a few laughs along the way! A free podcast! A retro podcast! Grab a cocktail, settle down and join us for a trip back in time… #Retro #Vintage #Podcast #New Zealand

Latest Episodes:

ONE MAN BANDS! Blues, Grooves & Lil' Chuck the One Man Skiffle Machine! Ep.13 Mar 05, 2019

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We interview the fascinating Lil' Chuck who gives us the exclusive on a couple of tracks off his new album, and we feature songs by one man band legends Jesse Fuller, Vince Mondi and Don Partridge.

WOMEN OF ROCKABILLY - Wanda, Lorrie, Janice, Imelda and friends Ep12. Mar 01, 2019

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Dedicated to some of the ladies that made Rockabilly great, we play the music from the early days of Wanda and Bunny right through Imelda's rise to fame and to the present day! Give it a share ladies!

MUSIC from the MOVIES! Hitchcock, Spaghetti Westerns, Mancini, Shaft! Ep.11 Feb 14, 2019

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Eight classic pieces of music from some of the worlds greatest movies, introduced by D.D. Deluxe with his usual trivia laced banter!

SWING! Dancing, Big Bands, Joggling and the Flamingo Trot! Ep.10 Feb 01, 2019

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SWING OUT SISTER! We talk to Rob Bloom, the man responsible for the Swing dancing / Lindy Hop revival in Australasia in the mid 90's, Glenn Miller, The Andrews Sisters, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald! Vintage Trivia and Winki does the Flamingo Trot!

Recliner Rockers, Dreadlocks, Rockabilly and Instruments for Giants! Ep9. Jan 15, 2019

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We chat with New Zealand live legends RECLINER ROCKERS about their original music, Jools Holland, Nile Rodgers, Great music of the 1950's, living in Hollywood and the importance of great hair! Amazing retro Podcast! Free podcast! We also feature the rare blues track "Mindreader Blues" and a hettie gives us a special vintage trivia!

STEAMPUNK! Jules Verne, Battle Croquet, Kat Douglas and Giant Motorized Teapots! Ep.8 Jan 08, 2019

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We talk to the Queen of New Zealand Steampunk Kat Douglas about Jules Verne, Battle Croquet, Hats, Airships, Giant Motorized Teapots and how much fun it is being an eccentric! Also Vintage trivia, and a very rare blues track from 1929 "Diddie-Wah_Diddie" by Blind Blake.

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BEACH HOP, BLUES & BLACK BETTY Ep7. Dec 18, 2018

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This week we talk to Noddy Watts, organiser of BEACH HOP, the largest Classic Car/Hot Rod/Rockabilly/Vintage festival in the southern Hemisphere. We feature an incredible rare blues track from 1933 that went on to become a worldwide smash hit, we regale you with vintage (car) trivia and of course our regular chat with our inimitable roving reporter Winki!

We indulge in DURTY MURDUR! Lo-fi Garage Skiffle Robots! Ep6. Dec 04, 2018

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What is Lo-Fi Garage Skiffle? Imagine two likeable, talented lunatics with impossible to understand accents, playing down and dirty rock n' roll and blues, on a stage set that looks like a 1950's recycling centre, and you get a taste of the dynamic duo that is DURTY MURDUR!

We get the EXCLUSIVE on three new tracks. Hettie reviews the Vincent Price classic "Last Man on Earth", more Vintage Trivia, and of course another random conversation with our roving reporter in "Where's Winki?" where the phrase "I'm gonna ride that ostrich like it's a flamingo" is uttered.

EARTHQUAKES! The Vintage Community fights back! Ep5. Nov 26, 2018

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After the Life-changing earthquakes of 2010, 2011 and 2016 New Zealand's vintage community had two choices: Give up or fight back!

We interview three well known faces in the NZ vintage scene, survivors of these terrible events, and find out how they found the will to start rebuilding their communities and the long-term affects of these catastrophic environmental disasters. We also have our regular B movie review ("Wild Guitar" 1962), Vintage trivia and lots of other groovy stuff.

SEX PISTOL AND PUNK LEGEND GLEN MATLOCK REVEALS ALL! Ep.4 Nov 14, 2018

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Former Sex Pistol, punk legend and all-round nice guy Glen Matlock talks candidly to us about his new solo album "Good to Go", David Bowie, The Stray Cats, the early days of Punk and the birth of Sex Pistols, earning air points and Queens Park Rangers Football club!

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