Download or listen to our August 29 Adam Lambert special!

Thanks to Japanese Adam fan @mmyy9 for recording the show and making it available so quickly to download. Check out @TheSpindleshay's blog here for audio and a download link.

Another Lambert special

We told you we loved Adam Lambert, and to prove it we'll be doing another two-hour special on the Glittery Alien from Planet Fierce this Sunday 29 August from 9pm to 11pm! A slot opened up on the grid and it was offered to us, and we said, 'Can we do another show on Adam Lambert?' The answer was yes, so it's ON.

Last time we did this we had people listening all over the world at joy.org.au/listenlive. Our Twitter feed went crazy, and we even received a tweet from Adam himself! We look forward to seeing how it goes this time around.

Click here for the equivalent world times for 9pm in Melbourne. We hope you can tune in!

Celebrity Theme Party - 26 August

Tonight on our monthly Celebrity Theme Party, our guest is Chris Stevenson, trainer and technical dude from San Francisco-based global IT company Thoughtworks. He's bringing five of his favourite party songs, and Katie, Nat and Daniel will be adding their own favourites to the mix.

PROMISES songs - 19 August

Here is the playlist for last week's show, which was the third of our trio of election-themed shows. Seeing as how Australia has ended up with a hung parliament after last Saturday's federal election, the BLAME, SHAME and PROMISES are still flying thick and fast!

The Promise - Girls Aloud
Too Young for Promises - Koo De Tah
Promises - Kylie Minogue
Promised You a Miracle - Simple Minds
Promises, Promises - Dionne Warwick
Promises - Lyle Lovett
Promises - The Cranberries
Promises - Take That
The Promise - Olivia Newton-John
You Promised Me (Tu es foutu) - In-Grid
The Promise - Hayley Clare

Costumes? Dress code for the party was Promise Rings, and everyone had to stand around not touching each other. At a given signal, our guests were told they could remove their promise rings and let their crazy roam free. You can imagine what happened after that. ;)

Adam Lambert special now downloadable

You can now download our Adam Lambert special from TheSpindleshay's blog. (Thanks, babe - you rock!) Don't forget to leave a comment here on our blog if you have any feedback.

We love Adam Lambert

If you've only been listening to Theme Party for a short time, you might have missed the two-hour special we did back in March on the then-little-known-in-Australia Adam Lambert. Since then, Australia has gone crazy for Adam, with both Whataya Want from Me and If I Had You going platinum. Australian fans are eagerly anticipating the GlamNation tour dates here in October.

You can listen to the show here on TheSpindleshay's blog, All That Glitters, and then, if you're interested, have a look back at our April posts to see how our special WENT OFF all over the world.

We hope to do another Adam Lambert Theme Party in October in honour of Adam's Australian tour. Watch this space!

BLAME and SHAME songs - 5 and 12 August

Here are the song lists for our BLAME and SHAME shows - the first two of three "election-themed" shows.

Blame It on the Boogie - The Jacksons
Blame It on the Girls - Mika
Blame It on the Rain - Milli Vanilli
Blame Canada - "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" Soundtrack
Blame It on the Music - Dannii Minogue
Blame It on the Summer Night - Julia Migenes (from Original Cast Album of "Rags")
No One Is to Blame - Howard Jones
She Put the Blame on You - Colin Hay
Blame It - Jamie Foxx
Blame It on the Weatherman - B*Witched

Shame - Evelyn 'Champagne' King
Cry in Shame - Johnny Diesel & The Injectors
Crying Shame - Jack Johnson
Shame - Eurythmics
It's a Shame - Mahalia Barnes
Shame on You - Indigo Girls
Shame - The Motels
Shame Shame Shame - Harry Manx
Shameless - Ani DiFranco

Tonight's show

In the lead-up to the Australian federal election, we're doing three appropriately themed shows: BLAME, SHAME and PROMISES. Tonight it's BLAME, featuring tracks from The Jacksons, Howard Jones, Milli Vanilli and more.

Our first "celebrity" Theme Party - 29 July

As per our last blog post, it was our pleasure to welcome Siro Battaglin to the JOY studio for our first "Celebrity Theme Party". We'll be having a Celebrity Theme Party on the last Thursday of every month, in which our guest brings some of his or her favourite party tracks and we fill up the playlist with party songs of our own.

Here's the playlist, with the name of the person who chose it in parentheses (Nat was absent as she had to go to work):
All the Lovers - Kylie Minogue (Siro, Katie, Daniel)
Gloria - Mando Diao (Siro)
Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime - Nena with Kim Wilde (Daniel)
Telephone - Lady Gaga and Beyonce (Katie, Siro)
In My Head - Remady (Siro)
Pretty Vegas - INXS (Katie)
Glow - Madcon (Siro)
Satellite - Lena Meyer-Landruth (Daniel)
Comic Strip - Fiona Thorn (Katie, Daniel)
Down the Rabbit Hole - Adam Lambert (Katie)

Costumes: Siro wore his school tie as a G-string (and nothing else!), Daniel wore a business suit, and Katie wore a nude body stocking covered in glitter.

There was no Conversation Pit, but Nat did phone in from work, where she had the radio tuned to JOY for the entertainment of her co-workers. And there was a fair amount of discussion of Eurovision 2010, because Daniel and Siro are both huge fans and were both in Germany during this year's competition. Apparently it was crazy-fun!