Just Ace: A podcast about the 90s Australian alternative music scene

A podcast about the 90s Australian alternative music scene - whatever the hell that means.Discover or relive the stories of how this scene came to be - through the bands, the labels, the technology, the magazines, the TV shows and more. It's part history, part documentary and part memoir of a music fan who was there and spent too much money at the time.

Ep 36: Can we be crazy? – The Whitlams
Jan 17, 2025 – 50:16
Ep 35: Now I feel like a winner – ARIA Charts and Awards
Jan 10, 2025 – 52:07
Ep 34: We have the technology – music fansites
Jan 3, 2025 – 44:19
Ep 33: 1996 – Spiderbait, Snout, Even
Dec 27, 2024 – 56:28
Ep 32: Just another beautiful story – Regurgitator
Dec 20, 2024 – 45:05
Ep 31: Try whistling this – Legends go alternative
Dec 13, 2024 – 52:46
Ep 30: We don’t need no one like you – Shock and AIR
Dec 6, 2024 – 52:27
Ep 29: Good Mornin’ – Recovery
Nov 29, 2024 – 41:29
Ep 28: 1995 – Custard, Skunkhour, Big Heavy Stuff, Drop City
Nov 22, 2024 – 52:38
Ep 27: Whatareya? – TISM
Nov 15, 2024 – 49:04
Ep 26: Addicted to bass – Dance and drugs
Nov 8, 2024 – 46:19
Ep 25: Buy now, pay later – Music festivals go to war
Nov 1, 2024 – 36:10
Season 3 announcement
Oct 18, 2024 – 4:10
Just Ace – the book – is out now
Oct 10, 2024 – 2:52
Ep 24: Was it everything you imagined? – You Am I and me
Jan 12, 2024 – 45:13
Ep 23: 1994 – Magic Dirt, The Meanies, Max Sharam, Rebecca’s Empire
Jan 5, 2024 – 48:37
Ep 22: How much is enough? – You Am I
Dec 29, 2023 – 55:20
Ep 21: The chapter of your life entitled Candle Records
Dec 22, 2023 – 51:36
Ep 20: We are the youth – silverchair and Murmur
Dec 15, 2023 – 1:16:21
Ep 19: 1993 – Dave Graney, The Welcome Mat, Things Of Stone And Wood, Even As We Speak
Dec 8, 2023 – 51:16
Ep 18: Rise Above It All – Tex Perkins
Dec 1, 2023 – 44:18
Ep 17: How about this heat? – The Hottest 100 explodes
Nov 24, 2023 – 38:05
Ep 16: Word Gets Around – Juice Magazine
Nov 17, 2023 – 39:27
Ep 15: 1992 – Tumbleweed, Underground Lovers, Def FX, Weddings Parties Anything
Nov 10, 2023 – 57:17
Ep 14: Labor Of Love – Frente
Nov 3, 2023 – 46:42
Ep 13: The Honeymoon Is Over – Indies vs Majors
Oct 27, 2023 – 43:05
Season 2 announcement
Oct 14, 2023 – 3:28
Ep 12: Come As You Are – The Big Day Out Begins
Dec 9, 2022 – 36:29
Ep 11: Goodbye Vinyl – The CD Era
Dec 2, 2022 – 41:26
Ep 10: 1991 – Clouds, Died Pretty, Club Hoy
Nov 25, 2022 – 51:53
Ep 09: That Ain’t Bad – Ratcat
Nov 18, 2022 – 35:03
Ep 08: Been Watching So Much TV – Rage and Music Videos
Nov 11, 2022 – 32:45
Ep 07: The Street Press Years – Street Press In the 90s
Nov 4, 2022 – 31:46
Ep 06: The Glebe Sound – Half A Cow Records
Oct 28, 2022 – 40:33
Ep 05: 1990 – Falling Joys, Tall Tales & True, Cosmic Psychos, Hard-Ons
Oct 21, 2022 – 38:06
Ep 04: I Am Defiant – The Hummingbirds
Oct 14, 2022 – 31:15
Ep 03: Some Kind Of Sensation – rooArt Records
Oct 7, 2022 – 34:04
Ep 02: Got Sold On Heaven – Independent Record Stores
Sep 30, 2022 – 30:06
Ep 01: A Rumble In The Old Machine – The Rise of Triple J
Sep 24, 2022 – 35:18
Ep 00: An introduction
Sep 21, 2022 – 6:38

Recent Reviews

Sats Moon

Honestly 10/10

Danny this is a work of art. Congrats to you.
ffeerrtt

As I walk down memory lane

Love this podcast. Really well researched, well presented and plays the music he talks about, (something never guaranteed in podcast land). Also appreciate the confidence it’s presented with. Doesn’t try to be funny and totally avoids that self depreciation that Australians can sometimes try to hide behind. Feels like a well paced walk back through my teen years, peppered by long forgotten names and songs.