There is no doubt about it, James Bond is one stylish lounge lothario. From the cars, to the clothes it’s one stylish ride. This week on the Cocktail Nation we talk to the curator of an international James Bond exhibition called “Designing Bond” which has just arrived in Melbourne. We talk about the perils of over collecting and news of a great new tour to...

One of my favourite places in the world is Paris and this week on the show I thought we should honour this great city, this spectacular country which has a rich and swank culture. There’s no better way to celebrate Paris than a playlist of French inspired lounge and French topics!...

One of the biggest and most important releases for the neo lounge scene was the 1994 Esquivel ‘Space Age Bachelor Pad’ album which was produced by Irwin Chusid and was a real game changer for the lounge lotharios. If you love new music we have you covered with some more new tunes from ‘Codename Carter’ plus the latest ‘Mr Ho’s Orchestrotica’ from the new album...

Fresh from flying around in my recent purchase of a 1964 Austin Healey it’s Koop Kooper lounging about the Sydney penthouse with chilled drinks, taking in the city lights with the lounge soundtrack draping the penthouse in a technicolor glow. This week Mr Ho of Mr Ho’s Orchestrotica stops by to talk about a new release called “Where Here Meets There”. Plus I’ve got a...

Koop Kooper back with Cocktail nation after a two week vacation and ready to go with the best lounge and exotica sitting on the Hi Fi. Now tell me, would you consider Frank Sinatra a God? Some people have felt that it would be appropriate to build a church around the “chairman of the board”. We will find out more about that as I speak...