A pas­sion pro­ject years in the mak­ing, Good Time Sal­lies is en­tirely re­searched, writ­ten, presen­ted and pro­duced by Ana Mat­ron­ic in part­ner­ship with Lucy Winter of Sonicus UK. Mat­ron­ic and Winter met in the hal­lowed halls of the BBC where they first worked to­geth­er when Ana sat in for le­gendary presenter Jo Whiley in 2015; it was Winter who pitched Mat­ron­ic the idea for a pod­cast dur­ing lock­down, and Good Time Sal­lies is the res­ult. Fo­cus­ing on the stor­ies of wo­men and people from mar­gin­al­ized and ex­ploited com­munit­ies, each epis­ode pro­files an im­pact­ful per­son who made the cre­ation or pur­suit of a good time their primary fo­cus. It is an ex­pans­ive, con­tex­t-rich his­tory of pleas­ure makers and pleas­ure taker­s, while also in­ter­rog­at­ing the very concept of pleas­ure and the many ways hu­mans ex­press or repress joy, de­sire, and grat­i­fic­a­tion. Each epis­ode has a mu­sic­al com­pan­ion in Good Time Sal­lies Ra­dio on Mix­cloud, where Mat­ron­ic presents a playl­ist of songs ty­ing in­to the artist­s, theme, or era covered in each epis­ode. Much like her sub­ject­s, Mat­ron­ic aims to make the ex­per­i­ence a good time too - presen­ted with her trade­mark en­thu­si­asm and al­lit­er­at­ive style Good Time Sal­lies is not dry his­tory in any way, shape, or form. Good Time Sal­lies pod­cast is avail­able on all plat­forms and its com­pan­ion Good Time Sal­lies Ra­dio can be found on Mix­cloud

Ana Mat­ron­ic has made a pro­fes­sion out of cre­at­ing, ana­lyz­ing, and soundtrack­ing the good times in life. Wheth­er on­stage as a mem­ber of pop phe­nomen­on Scis­sor Sis­ters or on air as Ra­dio 2’s Doy­enne of the Dis­co, Mat­ron­ic has made a name for her­self by not only be­ing able to cur­ate an ec­lect­ic mu­sic­al jour­ney, but by also put­ting words to the ex­per­i­ence, bring­ing the audi­ence in­to the mu­sic and bridging the gap between per­former and listen­er. She brings all that ex­per­i­ence and en­thu­si­asm to her latest storytelling ven­ture, his­tory pod­cast Good Time Sal­lies.

Ana’s mu­sic­al edu­ca­tion began, like most kid­s, in the re­cord col­lec­tions of her fam­ily: with her moth­er she ex­plored the very found­a­tions of rock ’n roll from Delta Blues le­gends like Bo Diddley and Muddy Wa­ter­s, and the get-­down pleas­ure and gut-wrench­ing pathos of soul mu­sic from artists like Areth­a, Ot­is, and Mar­vin. Ana’s grand­moth­er gave her the love of early Jazz and rag­time mu­sic, teach­ing her clas­sic flap­per moves like the Char­le­ston and just how one struts to prop­erly “take the Cake”. From her father, Ana learned to love mu­sic­al theat­er and cinema soundtrack­s, and from her step­father, Ana’s ap­pre­ci­ation of the big bands grew with every story he’d tell of see­ing Benny Good­man or Woody Her­man’s Or­ches­tras on the USO cir­cuit. Even with all this soul, jazz and razzmatazz, Ana was res­ol­utely a child of the 1980s, equally in­to the synth pop styl­ings of the Post Punks and New Ro­mantics as she was the sounds of early Hip Hop and House. Since then Ana’s taste has grown to run far, wide and deep.

Ana grew up on the dance floor, start­ing with un­der­age New Wave and In­dus­tri­al clubs in her ho­met­own of Portland, OR. Hard beats and ag­gress­ive synth sounds led nat­ur­ally to house and techno in­filt­rat­ing her eardrum­s, and in 1996 young Ana spread her wings and flew over the rain­bow to pan­sexu­al cy­ber­punk San Fran­cis­co, where she found her­self deeply im­mersed in the rave and drag cul­tures of the vi­brant city. The Big Apple beckoned, and in 1999 Mat­ron­ic took a bite of her own as the em­cee of Knock Off, a party in the Lower East Side where Ana met Jake and pop his­tory was made. The post-­mil­len­ni­al pre-a­po­ca­lyptic Elec­tro­clash scene was where Scis­sor Sis­ters first cut their teeth be­fore mak­ing a ground­break­ing and award-win­ning splash on the in­ter­na­tion­al pop scene.

Since her met­eor­ic rise, Ana has been whip­ping crowds in­to a frenzy on dance floors all over the world, DJing all sorts of mu­sic at events from massive Hyde Park crowds for Ra­dio 2 to open­ing slots for Kylie Minogue; from steamy un­der­wear parties on Fire Is­land to spin­ning clas­sic jazz 78s on a pair of Victro­las in a field at Gla­ston­bury — Ana’s got a tune to match every dance floor, every mood, every era. Her know­ledge was show­cased on BBC Ra­dio 2 from 2014-2022 where she pro­duced and presen­ted a series on the his­tory of disco and filled in for be­loved reg­u­lars Jo Whiley, Sara Cox, and Claudia Winkel­man. Mat­ron­ic be­came a per­man­ent part of the Ra­dio 2 roster in 2017 with her own show Dance De­vo­tion that ran for five years, chron­ic­ling the his­tory and in­flu­ence of disco and dance mu­sic cul­ture. Since 2023 she has been the res­id­ent DJ and in­-­house his­tor­i­an for the le­gendary nightclub Ice Palace on Fire Is­land, New York.

An avid lov­er of sci-fi and au­thor of the book Ro­bot Takeover: 100 Icon­ic Ro­bots of Myth, Pop­u­lar Cul­ture and Real Life, Ana reg­u­larly lec­tures about Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Transhuman­ism and the fu­ture, and was a fea­tured speak­er for the re­cent TEDx event at Stor­mont in North­ern Ire­land. She wrote the story Rock Block for the 2010 trib­ute com­ic for le­gendary punk club CBGB pub­lished by BOOM! Com­ic­s.

Ana Mat­ron­ic is a visu­al artist and mem­ber of le­gendary col­lect­ive The Joshua Light Show. Mat­ron­ic cre­ates hand­made li­quid light im­agery on a cus­tom­-built over­head pro­ject­or, in­ter­pret­ing sound to vis­ion for such artists as Tele­vi­sion, Sil­ver Apples, Medeski Mar­tin & Wood, and Manuel Gott­sching.

Mat­ron­ic lives in Brook­lyn with her hus­band and col­lab­or­at­or Seth Kirby and their cat Bootsy.