LiSTNR’s Luke and Sassy Scott hit the road
Luke and Sassy Scott O’Halloran are ditching the studio to take their Listnr podcast on a nationwide tour, stopping in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.
The live show will be a deep dive into Luke and Scott’s journey from their beginnings to stardom and recently, the pair spoke to Mediaweek about the tour and what topics audiences seem to love.
Q: What does your audience really respond to?
Scott: You know what’s funny? People say, “You guys are the thoughts in my head.” For some reason, Luke and I get away with saying whatever comes out of our mouths, and we say sibling relationship is an international language. Even if people don’t resonate with something that we’re saying, they understand the way we say it to one another, or why we’re saying it.
Luke: We do agree on things, but we rarely do, and I feel like if we are in some sort of agreeance on a topic, it’ll be on the spectrum of how much we agree with each other.
We’ve always kind of taken both sides of a story a lot of the time, where I feel like the audience then resonates with that, and we can hold each other accountable by being brothers and can flesh out more of the answer from the other person rather than just being a co-host.
Q: How did your new tour come about?
Luke: We are so excited for it. We are with Mushroom Group, who is affiliated with Frontier Touring, and they’ve always floated the idea with us. Fast forward to this year, I knew we had to do it.
I did a bit of work to get it off the ground, and I knew Scott was going to love it as soon as the preparation started, and that’s exactly what happened. We are now finalising rehearsals and getting all our stories together. We aren’t trying to make it just a repeat of our podcast, we want it to be bigger and better.
On the podcast, we are taught not to speak over each other, but on a stage, we will be bickering, talking over each other and finishing each other’s sentences, it’s just going to be a lot of chaotic fun.
Shane & Clayton Jacobson announce a Kenny musical is in the works on Nova’s Separate Bathrooms
On the latest episode of Nova Podcast’s Separate Bathrooms, hosts Cam & Ali Daddo were joined by Australian entertainment brothers Shane and Clayton Jacobson.
The brothers were the force behind the 2006 hit film Kenny, and the duo exclusively announced on the podcast that there is now a Kenny musical in the works.
Shane: Me and Clay are working on some stuff we can’t talk about now…there’s lots of things we can’t talk about.
Clayton: Or can we?
Shane: Well if you’re going to share it with anyone I’d want it to be with Cam
Clayton: Let me put it this way…we get asked a lot to do Kenny sequels and the truth is, I’ve never felt comfortable doing them, only because Kenny was a riff on decency and I really felt like I investigated that top to bottom, left to right up and down and everything that I feel about decency! The sort of kinder side of Jacobson is in that film and there was no way of repeating it without it being a bit sort of novel!
Shane: I’ve not put on the overalls in over 18 years!
Clayton: Yeah…but Cam the idea of Kenny singing on stage and bringing some of Shane’s on-stage talents to the world of Kenny. So what I can say is that we are working at this moment, on the musical to Kenny.
Cam: I love that!
Australian Podcast Awards listeners’ choice vote 2024 opens
Last year, more than 70,000 public votes were cast in the bid for Australia’s favourite podcast and the time has come again for listeners to rally behind their favourite podcasts and vote.
Last year, taking out the biggest award of the night, Podcast of The Year, was the True Crime series The Lawyer, the Sniper & the NSW Police. The podcast shares powerful testimonies from two survivors of the NSW Police workforce. It also took the top spot for the Best Interview Podcast.
Podcast of the Year – The Lawyer, the Sniper & the NSW Police
Selected by the APAs, Podcast Champion was awarded to APA multi-year award winners Laura Byrne and Brittany Hockley’s Life Uncut. Listeners’ Choice went to mum and daughter duo Kat and Latisha Clark’s Basically Besties.
Finding Ruby – The Fight of My Life took the title of Best New Podcast while Inside The Tribe took home Best True Crime podcast.
Travis and Jason Kelce sign new podcast deal with Amazon’s Wondery
NFL stars Travis and Jason Kelce have signed a deal with Amazon’s podcast studio Wondery, which is reportedly worth $100 million.
The agreement grants Wondery exclusive advertising and distribution rights for all audio and video episodes of the brothers’ sports commentary show, “New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce.”
“We love this show and the fan base that has grown with us over the last two seasons. Wondery understands the shared vision and will offer a wealth of experience and resources to take us to new heights!” said the Kelce brothers in a statement.
After 13 years in the NFL, Jason Kelce retired from the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this year, while his brother, three-time Super Bowl champion Travis, is well known as the boyfriend of superstar Taylor Swift.