Tuesday 11th November marked our 50th show and we celebrated with Gretel Killeen, Alex Hallahan playing LIVE and just an amazing show!
We opened the show with a bit of campery, the new Kylie and Danni duet ABBA cover "The Winner Takes it All". It's a song that is polarising our JOY audience, as was evident by some of the messages we received as it was playing......
Tonights first guest, Alex Hallahan, is a recently signed, local melbourne artist, who has just released his debut album, "The Turning Wheel", which is in stores now.
Alex talked about his journey as a musician and we touched on some very personal stories which have influenced at least some of his music. Additionally, for the first time ever on Four Play, Alex performed one of his songs ABSOLUTELY LIVE with just a guitar, his voice and a microphone. It absolutely blew both Jay and Chris away!
The tracks from his new album that we played were:
Track 1: Good Conversation
Track 2: As You Lose Control - Live acoustic in the studio
Track 3: As I Sleep
Track 4: You Make No Sound
If you want to hear what Alex had to say, you can listen to the podcast. 
Thanks to Alex for coming in and allowing us to showcase this up and coming Australian talent!
If you want to know more about Alex, or see where he is playing go to http://www.myspace.com/alexhallahan
Our second guest tonight is a huge talent on Stage and Screen. Former host (the only one that matters!) of Big Brother for SEVEN seasons, accomplished childrens author, Stand-up comedian, single mother and all round really nice lady, Gretel Killeen, came in to share a Four Play set and entertain us with some really great stories.
Gretel is in town to reprise her role as narrator in the Rocky Horror Show, playing at the Comedy Theatre. She will be only on for a limited time, 10 performances only, November 11th through to November 20th. Limited tickets are available at www.ticketek.com.au
Gretel's Four Play set consisted of:
Track 1: I'm Kissing You - Des'ree
Track 2: Hedonism (just because you feel good) - Skunk Anansie
Track 3: It's not easy being green - Kermit the Frog
Track 4: Time Warp - Rocky Horror Show
A podcast of what Gretel had to say is available here
We love you Gretel! Thank You
Next up we took a look at the Aria Charts for the week and Jay managed to segway that into a slag fest on how he feels about Britney Spears recent single "womanizer".......
Our final Four Play for the evening, is another one for fun and frivolity.
We took a look at another four block buster movie soundtrack songs.
Track 1: Love is all around - Wet Wet Wet
Track 2: Kiss from a Rose - Seal
Track 3: We Don't need another Hero - Tina Turner
Track 4: Show me Heaven - Maria McKee
And because Jay really needed to make his point about Britney tonight, we finished with Womanizer - Britney Spears - Count the words!
Have a great week!
Jay and Chris
To celebrate our fiftieth show this week - GRETEL KILLEEN is coming in to play! Gretel is coming in to chat to us about what she is up to and play some favorites. Former Big Brother hostess with the mostest, and now for a limited time only the Narrator in the Melbourne production of the Rocky Horror Show, joins in a very special Four Play event. But that's not all! We also have Alex Hallahan coming in - he's a newly signed artist and he's not only going to showcase some of his music, he's actually going to perform LIVE in the studio for you. Tune in 9pm Tuesday night for all the fun and frivolityCatch you then.Jay and Chris
History: Season 3
Season 3 started on Tuesday 3rd June, 2008, returning to the 9pm timeslot, this time on Tuesday evenings.
We also returned to our more familiar format, which includes playing back-to-back Fourplay sets across the two hours. Most weeks we have special guests come in and present their favorite artist or genre.
And we take a quick look at what's charting in the ARIA Charts each week.
Some of the artists, genres or themes we've showcased in Season 3 include...
Maroon 5, Sneaky Sound System, Whitney Houston, Sugababes, Alcazar, K.D. Lang, Mika, ABBA, Songs of the City, The Village People (both Radiothon special sets), Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical, Scissor Sisters, Queen, M People, Danni Minogue, Roxette, KC & The Sunshine Band, Kate Pierson, Cyndi Lauper - Bring Ya to the Brink, Hot Latino's, Mamma Mia - The Movie Soundtrack, Ricki-Lee, Vanessa Amorosi, Hits of Burt Bacharach, Xanadu, Hit Songs from Big Blockbuster Movies, Stevie Wonder, Anastacia, Eurovision 2006, ABBA Covers, Atomic Kitten, Kylie - X, Australian Idol Winners, Duffy, Girls Aloud, Delta Goodrem, Robyn, Meatloaf and Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill.
History: Season 2
Season 2 started Saturday March 8, 2008.
Four Play adapted and took on the Saturday Morning breakfast role for the JOY Autumn season, while the regular program and presenters took a well earned season break.
Saturday morning Four Play was a little different - taking elements of our regular Four Play format, but breaking it up with a variety of fun and light weight pop music and makiing room for a full news bulletin at the top of every hour as well as some regular information segments, such as a regular Aussie rules football correspondent, "True's", "Shut - Ups!" and "Facebook facts".
Some of the artists, genres or themes we showcased in Season 2 included..
Pink, Australian Idol Various - Season 1 & 2, Donna Summer, E-street - the music, Boney M, Post Spice Girls Hits, Blockbuster Movie Title song Hits of the eighties, Musicals with a little extra G.A.Y, U2, Eurythmics, Tina Cousins, Diana Ross and the Supremes, TV Theme Hits and Chaka Khan.
History: Season 1
Four Play first went to air for the JOY 94.9 Summer Season, on Monday 3rd December, 2007. We ran every week on Monday nights (except New Years Eve) through until the end of February, 2008.
Some of the artists, genres or themes we showcased in Season 1 included..
Kylie Minogue, Jamiroquai, Hairspray - the movie musical, Fleetwood Mac, Eurythmics, Bananarama, Anastacia, Moulin Rouge - Movie Soundtrack, Bee Gees, Phil Collins, Mika, Meatloaf, Spice Girls, Tina Turner, Robbie Williams, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Tina Arena, John Cougar Mellencamp, Female Country Singers, Bee Gees "Hits for other artists", Crowded House, Chicago - the movie musical, Backstreet Boys, Natalie Umbruglia, Pet Shop Boys, Savage Garden, Steps, Young Divas, Paul Mac, Human Nature, Rogue Traders, Grease - the movie musical, ABBA, Five, Euro Vision number 1's, James Bond Movie Title Hits, Frank Sinatra, Freemasons, Katie Underwood, George Michael, Madonna and Goldfrapp.
