Crabb and Sales perform live on stage for the first time in 16 months in Sales’ home town of Brisbane. The event starts respectably enough with a brace of Queensland writers but the pair soon falls to bickering over the pronunciation of a terrible 1980s boy band.
Read MoreCrabb has interviewed Cusk. She's sensibly failed to mention the recent Cusk-related anxiety wee-dream which you ALL REMEMBER. Sales is of course massively respectful of Cusk material seeing as it was all HER IDEA. But she also infectiously introduces the unscratchable itch that is Heartsick by Jessie Stephens.
Read MoreCrabb & Sales have been loving a TV show about women in the performing arts, at the same time as organising their own competitive back-to-back live shows.
Read MoreFollowing the death of a prominent former politician, Crabb and Sales remimiscw about the joy of an illegally intercepted phone call.
Read MoreCrabb & Sales have been to see the Australian production of Hamilton, offering yet another opportunity for them to bang on about their latest obsession. Fortunately they move on quickly to Rachel Cusk and Aziz Ansari.
Read MoreWell Hello. It's our big announcement! Be careful what you wish for - Crabb and Sales reveal they’ve finally nagged into a new project.
Read MoreCrabb and Sales have been reading and watching a lot about women in power.
Read MoreLeigh Sales has been hate-watching a terrible TV series. Why do we watch things we know are bad? Both of our narrators have VIEWS on this. On the upside, Crabb has read a terrific book.
Read MoreSales has read only one book ahead of an interview with Bill Gates but luckily Crabb compensates by making a hefty dent in her bedside table reading stack.
Read MoreSales has a new celebrity crush while Crabb’s fandom when it comes to men of note remains firmly rooted in 1980s London.
Read MoreThe pair (freshly de-raddled by a summer break which Sales appears to have spent in a series of ocean pools) attempt to recap their prodigious summer cultural consumption but are swiftly derailed by an in-depth discussion of chess. Plus, which former US President just can't stop DM-ing Crabb, and which magazine recently rated Sales among Australia's Sexiest?
Read MoreTrudging towards the end of 2020, Crabb and Sales come together one last time. Ordinarily this end-of-year reckoning would occur on stage at the ANU amid low-grade insults directed at vice-chancellor and Bundt-auteur Brian Schmidt, but as with many pleasurable events in 2020 it was binned. Screw you, 2020! With their remaining nanoparticles of neural capacity, the pair recap what they can remember of what they read, watched, cooked, and listened to in this plague year.
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