Playlist - 25 April 2020

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits, this week with an Anzac Day special of music from Australia and New Zealand, mostly from the classic period of the early to mid '70's, including Bakery, Levi  Smith's Clefs, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully from Australia - and Dragon, Split Enz and Ticket from New Zealand.

8pm
Kahvas Jute    Steps of time (1971) (Wide Open)
Spectrum    Mumbles I wonder why (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    Milesago (1972) (Milesago)
Tully    Loving is hard (1972) (Loving Is Hard)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/t, bonus track on CD reissue of Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Empty monkey (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (single only, Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Bakery    Living with a memory (1971) (Momento)
9pm
Ticket    Awake (1972) (Awake)
Dragon    Going slow (1974) (Universal Radio)
Shona Laing    1905 (1972) (single only / Nature's Best - New Zealand’s Top 100 Songs Of All Time Vol.2)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Home sweet home (1979) (Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    I hope I never (1980) (True Colours)
Healing Force    Golden miles (1971/1994) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Flake    Dream if you can (1970) (How's Your Mother!)
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest    Housesteads - Hadrian’s wall (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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From the forgotten years of Oz rock, The Shud, playing live on GTK (ABC TV) in 1971:

and Doug Parkinson In Focus, the same year, on Hit Scene (ABC TV)...

Playlist - 18 April 2020

Featuring an extended serving of Enz, Split Enz, as yesterday was the birthday of the redoubtable Noel Crombie, set designer, band stylist, percussionist and formidable player of the spoons....

8pm
Kettlespider    The climber + Anubis (2017) (Kettlespider)
Vita Voom    Infinity curtains (2020) (digital single)
Split Enz    Ninnie knees up (1984) (See Ya Round)
Split Enz    Dirty creature (1982) (Time And Tide)
Split Enz    Strait old line (live) (1993) (Greatest Hits Live!)
Tiger Moth Tales    The ballad of Longshanks John (2020) (A Visit to Zoetermeer)
Platypus    Rock balls / Destination unknown (1998) (When Pus Comes To Shove)
9pm
Hawkwind    City of lagoons (1976) (Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music)
Cybotron    Vulcan (live) (1976/2020) (Sunday Night At The Total Theatre)
The Merlin Bird    Rhyme to reason + Reason to rhyme (2003) (Rhyme To Reason)
Spock’s Beard    The bottom line (2003) (Feel Euphoria)
Gandalf’s Fist    Solar huntress (2019) (The Clockwork Prologue)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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Noel and the spoons and The Enz, in concert, 1977:

The amazing Peter Jones, aka Tiger Moth Tales:

Melboune band Kettlespider with one of the best songs they've done:

Playlist - 11 April 2020

Tonight, for Easter Saturday, the first hour features a feast of Aussie music, followed in the second hour by a complete live performance by Camel of their classic instrumental concept album "The Snow Goose".

8pm
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (1975) (The Four Moments)
Unitopia    Journey’s friend (2008) (The Garden)
Lacrymae    Handel’s Apocalypse (2009) (The Hallowed Design)
Rush    Totem (1996) (Test For Echo)
9pm
Camel (with London SO)    The Snow Goose (complete) (live, 1975) (A Live Record)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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Here is the sight and sound of Perth band Lacrymae peforming "Handel's apocalypse" live, on what seems like a slightly congested stage:

A little more from Adelaide-based band Unitopia:

Camel live in 2014, with selections from The Snow Goose:

New from Marillion, a new recording of Easter:

 

Playlist - 4 April 2020

Starting tonight with a selection of songs from the legacy of the late Bill Withers; then continuing with a feast of music from artists mostly from Adelaide and interstate, all of whom make their music available on Bandcamp if you wish to hear more.

8pm
Bill Withers    Who is he? (1972) (Still Bill)
Bill Withers    Ain’t no sunshine (1971) (Just As I Am)
O’Yaba    Lean on me (1994) (One Foundation)
Anubis    The deepest wound + Technicolour Afterlife (2018) (Different Stories)
Canidae    Iron sky (2014) (Nowhere Else But Here, EP)
Hemina    With what I see (2019) (As We Know It)
Awaken Solace    The passing (2012) (In Nightfall’s Embrace)
Squeaker    The things that remain (2019) (Revel In Ashes)
9pm
Aragon    Rocking Horse (Act 2) (2018) (single only)
Porcupine Tree    Anesthetize (live) (2020) (Ilosaarirock)
Big Big Train    Pantheon (2019) (Grand Tour)
A Lonely Crowd    Blur (2014) (Transients)
Andy Salvanos    Free range eggs (2007) (Closer)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)
 

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Another cover of a Bill Withers song, by the terrific Renee Geyer:

 A little more from Adelaide's own Squeaker, recorded live last year: