Playlist - 18 January 2020

For tonight's Summer edition of "Seasons Of Change", to paraphrase the title of a very early Pink Floyd song, we...

SET THE CONTROLS FOR: 1978

 ...encountering the usual diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, or at least as much as can fit into 2 hours. By 1978 most of the Aussie bands and performers from the "head music" scene of the early 70's had either split or were dormant (Tamam Shud, Tully, Madder Lake, CoCaine, Lobby Loyde, Fraternity, Bakery, etc) and newer bands like the Enz and Sebastian Hardie were between albums but Mike Rudd and Ariel released a 2nd LP of music from their farewell concert in Melbourne in 1977. There's also classic music from Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Rush, UK and Yes, plus a surprise hit single for Genesis and that concept album which was all over Adelaide radio in 1978, Jeff Wayne's "War Of The Worlds", complete with narration by Richard Burton (and dodgy 70's style film clip - recreation here)....

8pm
Kate Bush Moving (Feb 1978) (The Kick Inside)
Renaissance A song for all seasons (Mar 1978) (A Song For All Seasons)
Genesis Follow you follow me (Mar 1978) (And Then There Were Three)
UK In the dead of night (Mar 1978) (UK)
The Alan Parsons Project What goes up (May 1978) (Pyramid)
Steve Hillage The Glorious Om Riff (Apr 1978) (Green)
Jeff Wayne Forever Autumn (Jun 1978) (War Of The Worlds)
9pm
Ariel Island Fantasia (live) + We are indelible (live) (Aug 1978) (More From Before / Ariel Live In Concert, re-issue)
Yes On the silent wings of freedom (Sept 1978) (Tormato)
Camel Rainbow's end (Sept 1978) (Breathless)
Rush Circumstances (Oct 1978) (Hemispheres)
Emerson Lake & Palmer   Canario (Nov 1978) (Love Beach)
Mike Oldfield Incantations: Part 4 (excerpt) (Nov 1978) (Incantations / Elements: The Best Of)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum
Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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There's no publicly available footage from the farewell concert at the Dallas Brooks Hall in 1977 but here is Ariel live on GTK, ABC TV, in 1973:

This film clip with an excerpt from Mike Oldfield's Incantations was also familiar to ABC TV viewers during the 1980s, filling the recurring inconvenient 3 minute gaps before the hour or half hour:

Maple leaf rag:

Noone would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century...