| This Sporting Life | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Compilation album by | ||||
| Released | 19 August 2016 | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 128:49 [1] | |||
| Label | ABC Music/ UMA | |||
| Producer | Mark Kennedy | |||
| Roy & HG chronology | ||||
| ||||
This Sporting Life is the fifth album by Australian comedy duo Roy & HG. The album was released in August 2016 and peaked at number 6 on the ARIA Charts.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2016 it won Best Comedy Release. [2]
From 1986 to 2008, Roy & HG hosted This Sporting Life on Triple J, a live, improvised satirical radio program on sport in Australia – among other things. It's the longest running show in the station's history. To celebrate 30 years since the show first aired, Roy & HG released a compilation album of some of the show's highlights from throughout the years. [3] [4]
Chris Murray from Stack said "The only problem with this 30th anniversary collection of some of the 'gold' from the dynamic duo's unsurpassed satire and dissection of Australian sport and pop culture, is that you simply don't want the snippets to end. Unaware of them? Two highly intelligent raconteurs wax lyrical with endless ease on complete bullsh-t, based on loose facts around current events that will have you in stitches, while also remembering that very uncanny and uniquely Australian sense of humour which is lacking in today's mass media. From why Rampaging Roy Slaven's favourite horse never played rugby league, to the solution to finding new heavyweight (fat) boxers via travelling the country simply armed with binoculars, or indeed how Cher was once explicitly examined by Roy (at her request) to kill media speculation on cosmetic surgery – you are hooked." Murray concluded saying "Nothing will ever come close to their winning formula of smarts and silliness." [5]
| Chart (2016) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA) [6] | 6 |
| Region | Date | Format | Label | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 19 August 2016 [7] | ABC Music / Universal Music Australia | 4743881 |
Sir Donald George Bradman, AC, nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
John Patrick Doyle AM is an Australian actor, writer, radio presenter and comedian.
Greig Pickhaver AM is an actor, comedian and writer, who forms one half of the Australian satirical sports comedy duo Roy and HG as the excitable sports announcer H.G Nelson. The award-winning duo teamed up in 1986 for the Triple J radio comedy program This Sporting Life, and were broadcast nationwide for 22 years, leading to several successful television spinoffs.
Roy and HG are an Australian comedy duo, comprising Greig Pickhaver in the role of "H.G. Nelson" and John Doyle as "'Rampaging' Roy Slaven". Their act is an affectionate but irreverent parody of Australia's obsession with sport. Their characters are based on stereotypes in sports journalism: Nelson the excitable announcer, Slaven the retired sportsman turned expert commentator. In his 1996 book Petrol, Bait, Ammo & Ice, Pickhaver summarised the duo's comedic style as "making the serious trivial and the trivial serious".
This Sporting Life was a culturally iconic Triple J radio comedy programme, created by award-winning actor-writer-comedians John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver, who performed as their characters Roy and HG. Broadcast from 1986 to 2008, it was one of the longest-running, most popular and most successful radio comedy programmes of the television era in Australia. Undoubtedly the longest-running show in Triple J's programming history, it commanded a large and dedicated nationwide audience throughout its 22-year run.
Odyssey Number Five is the fourth studio album by the Australian rock band Powderfinger, produced by Nick DiDia and released on 4 September 2000 by Universal Music. It won the 2001 ARIA Music Award for Highest Selling Album, Best Group and Best Rock Album. The album was the band's shortest yet, focusing on social, political, and emotional issues that had appeared in prior works, especially Internationalist.
Troy Cassar-Daley is an Australian country music songwriter and entertainer, and author.
Shane Webcke is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, who spent his entire club career playing for the Brisbane Broncos. Webcke represented Queensland in the State of Origin 21 times and also captained the side. He made 26 test appearances for Australia. His position was prop forward and at his peak he was renowned as the best front rower in the world. Alongside Glenn Lazarus and Arthur Beetson, Webcke is considered by many to have been one of the finest post-war front-rowers to play the game.
American entertainer Cher has released 26 studio albums, ten compilation albums, four soundtrack albums, and three live albums. In 1964 Cher signed a recording contract with Imperial Records, a label owned by Liberty Records. After the success of her first major single, Bob Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do" she and her then-husband Sonny Bono worked on her first album All I Really Want to Do released in 1965. The album peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard 200 and at number seven on the UK Albums Chart. After the massive success of "I Got You Babe" the record label encouraged her to record the second album, The Sonny Side of Chér (1966). The record peaked within the top 30 in several countries. Chér (1966) and With Love, Chér (1967) were less successful on the music charts. Backstage and her first official compilation album Cher's Golden Greats (1968) her last efforts with Imperial were critically and commercially unsuccessful. In 1969 Cher signed with Atco Records and released two albums: the critical acclaimed 3614 Jackson Highway and her first soundtrack album Chastity for the film of the same name; both of them were a commercial failure.
"Believe" is a song recorded by American singer Cher for her 22nd album, Believe (1998), released by Warner Bros. Records. It was released as the lead single from the album on October 19, 1998. It was written by Brian Higgins, Stuart McLennen, Paul Barry, Steven Torch, Matthew Gray, Timothy Powell, and was produced by Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling.
Broadcast on the Triple J radio station to simulcast with the annual three-game rugby league State of Origin series, Australian comedians Roy and HG provide a commentary of the match at hand. An extension of the duo's This Sporting Life radio program, also on Triple J, Roy and HG's use of comedy makes their sporting calls unique from that provided by other media sources, and has earned a cult following. With the duo's move to Triple M radio in 2009, and the end of This Sporting Life, the State of Origin commentary is currently on hiatus.
"Sesame's Treet" is a 1992 remix of the Sesame Street theme song "Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?" by English rave group Smart E's. The song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1992 and peaked within the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. In the United States, it reached No. 60 on the Billboard Hot 100. The title is a pun on "Sesame Street".
American entertainer Cher has released eighty one official singles, nineteen promotional singles and appeared in twenty three other songs. On the Billboard Hot 100, she has achieved: 4 number 1 singles, 12 Top 10 singles, 22 Top 40 singles and a total of 33 charted singles as a solo artist, and combined with the entries she had as part of the duo Sonny & Cher: 5 number 1 singles, 17 Top 10 singles, 32 Top 40 hits and a total of 51 singles which charted on the Billboard Hot 100.
Alasdair Murray, better known by his stage name Illy, is an Australian hip hop recording artist from Ormond in Melbourne. Illy first emerged onto the hip hop scene in 2009 and has released five studio albums and has won multiple ARIA Music Awards. Illy has performed at many Australian music festivals including headline spots at Groovin The Moo, Splendour in the Grass, Spilt Milk and Yours and Owls.
Burlesque: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released by Screen Gems, Inc and RCA Records on November 19, 2010. The soundtrack consists of ten songs sung by the film's stars, American singers Christina Aguilera and Cher; Aguilera sung eight of the tracks, while Cher performed the remaining two. The album is inspired by jazz music style, in style with Aguilera's fifth studio album Back to Basics (2006), but contrasting to her then-recent release Bionic (2010), which was recorded concurrently with Burlesque. Burlesque served as Cher's first album since the release of Living Proof nine years earlier.
Falling & Flying is the second studio album by Australian hip hop artist 360. The album was released on 30 September 2011 on Soulmate Records.
Greta Bradman is an Australian operatic soprano.
DMA'S are an Australian three-piece rock band formed in 2012 in Sydney. The band is composed of Tommy O'Dell, Matt Mason, and Johnny Took. They gained popularity for their debut single "Delete" and for their self-titled EP released in 2014.
Compass is the second studio album by Australian tenor, Mark Vincent. The album was released through Sony Music Australia on 15 April 2010 and peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Charts. The album was certified gold.
Ruel Vincent van Dijk, known mononymously as Ruel, is an British-Australian singer and songwriter from Sydney, best known for his singles "Don't Tell Me", "Younger" and "Painkiller". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018 he won the award for Breakthrough Artist for his single "Dazed & Confused".