S01E01 Def Leppard
1. Opening Titles: Def Leppard 2. Footloose Mixed dancing was banned at my religious Jewish school, ala the movie Footloose starring Kevin Bacon. So ten years after graduation I stormed back onto the school grounds...
John Safran's Music Jamboree
S01E07: Pink Floyd
1. Opening Titles: Pink Floyd 2. Jew'town John presents how successful Christian music is, and then tries to capitalise on the Jewish music market by signing his band Jew'town to the big American Christian label Floodgate Records. 3. Riders John tells the tale of the rise and fall of his short-term hip-hop band Raspberry Cordial. He also hands out Rockstar Rider Ring of Reward prizes, consisting of what big-name bands get as special requests for doing performances. 4. Music Mole: Video Clips The Mole reveals that Australian music video directors are lucky to get paid for doing a video, but once the band becomes successful the Australian directors are rejected. 5. Van Dyke Parks Ala Van Dyke Parks' megaflop Song Cycles, John gives his fans the chance to exchange their worn-out copy of his Raspberry Cordial cassette along with 1c, and he'll give you 2 new copies for you and an unenlightened friend, plus an essay written by John about why his music was so misunderstood and ahead of its time, entitled Everyone Else is Stupid. 6. World of Instruments This week it's Ross Wilson playing Eagle Rock with the instruments of the Republic of Guinea.
Overview
John Safran's Music Jamboree was a light-hearted Australian music documentary television series, hosted by John Safran for SBS television. The program was produced by Selin Yaman and directed by Craig Melville, Clayton Jacobson and a number of other directors under the production company Ghost of Your Ex-Boyfriend Productions in association with SBS Independent. It screened in 2002, and consisted of sketches and outlandish public stunts, typical of Safran's work. The series won two Australian Film Institute Awards; "Best Comedy Series" and "Most Innovative Program Concept". SBS followed the series up with the similarly styled John Safran vs. God in 2004.
An infamous stunt of the series was sneaking nine friends into an exclusive Melbourne nightclub by dressing them up as the masked American metal band, Slipknot. The producers arranged entry for the impostors by pretending to be an American management company over the phone.
Other stunts included disguising himself as well known entertainers such as Ozzy Osbourne and Prince to harass the public, sketch versions of music videos such as Eminem, the creation of Jew Town, a Jewish boy band to compete with Christian pop, and returning to Yeshivah College to pay homage to Kevin Bacon in Footloose. He also details his time in the hip-hop group Raspberry Cordial, and the related incident in which he met the Beastie Boys and the band's former DJ attempted to steal his girlfriend at the time.
Episodes
S01E02 New Kids On The Block
1. Opening Titles: NKOTB 2. Musicians and Guns, and Eminem does community service at a preschool Eminem pistol whipped some guy in a parking lot for kissing his girl. What a romantic! The judge told...
S01E03 Ozzy Osbourne
1. Ozzy Osbourne Do Ozzy Osbourne records contain hidden suicidal messages when played backwards? John memorized Osbourne's, "Suicidal Solution" backwards and approached punters on the streets for his scientifically watertight research. 2. Opening Titles -...
S01E04 Rage Against The Machine
1. Opening Titles: Rage Against the Machine 2. Prince Rumour has it Prince recently became a Jehovah's Witness. So what if Prince tried to spread the faith door-to-door? 3. Music Mole: Songwriting Royalties The Mole...
S01E05 A Tribe Called Quest
1. Opening Titles: A Tribe Called Quest 2. The Rules John reminisces about when he was young and in the nightclub scene, back in the mid to late 90's. 3. Disney A lot of bands...
S01E06 The Smiths
1. Opening Titles: The Smiths 2. Scrabble In the new millennium, John proposes a new form of hip-hop battle: hip-hop scrabble. 3. Music Mole: Human Nature Rumour has it that one album by Human Nature...
S01E07 Pink Floyd
1. Opening Titles: Pink Floyd 2. Jew'town John presents how successful Christian music is, and then tries to capitalise on the Jewish music market by signing his band Jew'town to the big American Christian label...
S01E08 Billy Bragg
1. Opening Titles: Billy Bragg 2. Get Your Hands Off My Girlfriend 3. Music Mole: Rock Magazines 4. Sony 5. George Harrison 6. World of Instruments: Scandal'us "Me, Myself and I"
S01E09 Sex Pistols
1. Opening Titles: Sex Pistols 2. Evil Clowns 3. Heavy Metal 4. Music Mole: U2 5. P. Diddy 6. World Of Instruments: 1200 Techniques "Karma"
S01E10 Geto Boys
1. Opening Titles: Geto Boys 2. Foo Fighters 3. Rock Eisteddfod 4. Music Mole: World Music 5. The Making of Music Jamboree
Cast
John Safran
Himself
