Aural Fixation
Aural Fixation is a queer music podcast that explores LGBTQI+ themes in music and pop culture. Released fortnightly on Thursdays, each instalment follows besties Drew and Andy as they discuss an album that is loved by queer people, made by queer artists, or speaks to queer experiences. British expats living and recording in Sydney, Drew and Andy bring a uniquely cross-genre and cross-hemispheric viewpoint to being gay and loving music, shared perhaps only by the Minogue sisters. Aural Fixation is recorded and produced by @with.all.drew.respect and @andrewdoyouthinkyouare. Follow us on Facebook at Aural Fixation Podcast, on Instagram at @auralfixationpodcast, email us at auralfixationpodcast@gmail.com or head to www.auralfixationpodcast.com to learn more. Oh, and if you like us please give us a rating and review.
Episodes
85 episodes
Tracks of Our Queers: Bonzai Bonner, nightlife promoter
Andy here – as I'm putting the finishing touches on Tracks of Our Queers' second season, I thought I'd share some previews from my favourite episodes so far.Here's the first 10 minutes of my conversa...
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Tracks of Our Queers: Jonny Seymour, producer and activist
Andy here – as I'm putting the finishing touches on Tracks of Our Queers' second season, I thought I'd share some previews from my favourite episodes so far.Here's the first 15 minutes of my conversa...
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Tracks of Our Queers: Abdi Nazemian, author and producer
Andy here – as I'm putting the finishing touches on Tracks of Our Queers' second season, I thought I'd share some previews from my favourite episodes so far.Here's the first 15 minutes of my debut ep...
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Tracks of Our Queers is available now
A note from Andy...Hello! Tracks of Our Queers is my new podcast, in which I interview a fascinating person on the music that has soundtracked their queer journey through one song...
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Eyes Pride Open: Aural Fixation's Mardi Gras Special 2022
The boys are back from their UK adventures and ready for Mardi Gras weekend in Sydney, shooting the shit on Shrove Tuesday, corporate queers and biodegradable glitter. We also aboard a round-the-world Pride tour from Cardiff and Manches...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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1:02:56
'Two in the P!nk', or the Missundaztanding of Alecia Moore
We're coming up so you better get this party started! Aural Fixation's eighth cycle wraps up with a good old fashioned Drew and Andy romp, and this time, it's Missundaztood by the one and only P!nk. Some of the queer topi...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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1:04:30
Insincere to the point of nausea: Dead or Alive’s 'Nukleopatra' with Adem Eve
It's New Queer's Eve and we're wrapping up an oddity of a year by delving into the magic and mayhem of Pete Burns, frontman of Dead or Alive and bonafide pio-queer. No one knows Pete better than our old friend and host of various incred...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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1:21:57
Queer thinking; straight talking – Geri Halliwell's Schizophonic with Malcolm MacLean
On May 31 1998, Geri Halliwell shook the globe by announcing that she was leaving the Spice Girls, effective immediately. Caught in the tumult of one of the biggest scandals in pop history, Geri she did what any gay icon would – she packed a ba...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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1:16:11
Who took the ram from the rama-lama-ding-dong? Le Tigre's queer feminist debut
How are you? What's your take on Cassavettes? Who took the bomp from the bomp-a-lomp-a-lomp? And who the HELL took the ram from the rama-lama-ding-dong? All these questions and more are answered in this ep dedicated to dancepunk trio Le Tigre.<...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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49:02
Bells dinged; heartstrings zinged – Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall with Alexander Andrews
Judy Garland's concert appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall is often described as the greatest night in show business history. After ongoing battles with a variety of substances for most of the 1950s, many had come to judge Judy. Her 1961 ret...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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1:12:58
Talkin' about Tracy Chapman
What do the forces of Nicki Minaj, Ronan Keating, and those who imprint queerness on successful figures in pop culture all have in common? They all want a piece of Tracy Chapman, ladies, and count us in. One of the best-selling alb...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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54:01
We could drink a case of Joni Mitchell with Matthew Arthur Williams
The boys are joined by artist, photographer, DJ, and Andy's mate from uni, Matthew Arthur Williams, to discuss the legendary Joni Mitchell and her 1975 album, The Hissing of Summer Lawns. An unrivalled figure in pop culture, Jo...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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1:16:27
On Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped’, an avalanche of empowerment that is beautiful in every single way
Christina Aguilera's masterpiece Stripped has been cited as inspiration by countless pop sensations including Rihanna, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande. From self love, to feminism, to sex positivity, the music gave gals, gay...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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1:07:02
Drag Race Double Dip Pt. 2: We're all born naked and the rest is Drag Race with Entertainment Weekly's Joey Nolfi
After over seventy episodes and several many bottles of chilled Semillon (send me home), we've reached our Cycle 7 finale! As is tradition (of which there are many!) this ep sees us tackling a subject that's a little... left of the usual format...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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1:13:41
Drag Race Double Dip Pt. 1: Maxi Shield took a shot from Madonna's diamanté banana
We're in for a treat this fortnight with our first of two very special Drag Race episodes. First up, superstar of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under, Maxi Shield, regales us with her long and very personal history with... Madonna.<...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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1:20:05
STFU! and listen to this episode about Rina Sawayama
April 2020 was a rough time to release new music, but that didn't stop Rina Sawayama from having one of the strongest pop albums of last year. The eponymous Sawayama was an eclectic mash-up of Y2K nostalgia, paying homage to early 2000...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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1:03:18
Sinéad O'Connor wearing a rainbow hijab on Good Morning Britain is queer
A mere 18 years old and mother of a three week old baby when her debut album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released, Sinéad O’Connor shot to stratospheric success off of her haunting vocals, powerful songwriting and give-no-fucks visual...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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1:03:57
It all comes back to Céline Dion – 'Falling Into You' with Gwynne
When it comes to sweeping romance, earnest lyrics and – let's face it, songs that last six minutes MINIMUM – there really is no topping Ms. Céline Marie Claudette Dion.From humble beginnings in Charlemagne, Quebec (which is queer) to be...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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1:25:37
All of us wants all of Sufjan Stevens – 'Carrie & Lowell' with Jared Richards
This fortnight, we're joined by Jared Richards, a cultural critic living on Gadigal land, and writer for NME, The Guardian, The Big Issue, Sissy Screens and more. Last year, Jared wrote a beauti...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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59:14
Drake-ing the binary with Kris Chesson from Bad Queers
It's a Bad Queers double dip as we welcome on Kris Chesson, the podcasting partner of Shana Sumers from
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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1:15:52
Sex, Liza and Videotape – 'Live from Radio City Music Hall' with Trevor Ashley
Start spreading the news because this is one for the ages, Mein Herr. In an ep that might as well be titled "Legends on Legends" we welcome Australian stage actor and drag superstar Trevor Ashley t...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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1:07:10
Breathing new life into Florence and the Machine's 'Lungs' with Peach Fuzz
No matter what hemisphere you’re in, a solstice is upon us. And what better way to ring it in than with a heart-to-rabbit heart on British pop music’s sacred moon child, Florence Welch (and, of course, her Machine).In Cycle 7’s premiere...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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1:01:34
Howard Ashman's queer Disney legacy with Daniel Lammin
Icons are a dime a dozen here at Aural Fixation (that's what we do... it's what we live for) but heroes are a different kettle of sea-witch – and they don't get more queer-oic than Howard Ashman. For better and for worse, the a...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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1:24:44
Taking apart 'Take Me Apart' by Kelela
Over the past six cycles of Aural Fixation, we have discussed many artists who have either eluded to their queerness without directly acknowledging it, or generated a vast queer fanbase without actually being qard qarrrying queers themselves. H...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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1:00:37
Never kissed a Tori (Amos) – 'Boys for Pele' with Tyson Koh
There's a lot to cover off when it comes to Tori Amos when it's just Tori Amos – but when your guest star is a former TV producer, current radio DJ and the singular driving force behind the bid to save Sydney's nightlife scene, we somehow...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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