Thursday, 6 February 2025

The Music Show: Lay All Your Love On Me



Abba: emotionally truthful and profoundly silly. Photograph: Channel 5

Presented by Andrew Ford

Metal, marimbas, vampires and EDM: ABBA’s Lay All Your Love On Me as you’ve never heard it before, with producer Paul Mac and composer Alice Chance.

This is the first episode of Cover Story, a new series from The Music Show in which Andy and his guests take songs of the popular music canon and examine their cover versions, for better, worse, and weirder. 

Music details:

Lay All Your Love On Me
Composed by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
Originally recorded by ABBA for the album Super Trouper (1980) on Atlantic Records

Covers by:

Erasure
Brian David Gilbert
Bentley Robles
Amberian Dawn
Pale Honey
Siv Jakobsen
Caroline Shaw & So Percussion

Paul Mac’s Tekno Train: The Album is out now. 

German vocal ensemble Sjaella perform works by Alice Chance in July:

Hobart Festival of Voices 1/7/25, 2/7/25
Ballina 6/7/25
Brisbane - QPAC 10/7/25
Sydney - Utzon Room 13/7/25
Adelaide - Ukaria 19/7/25, 20/7/25
Canberra 23/7/25
Melbourne Recital Centre 25/7/25

The Music Show is made on Gadigal and Gundungurra Country. Technical Production by John Jacobs and Bethany Stewart

First published at ABC Listen, February 6, 2025



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