Playlist - 26 September 2020

Starting with Uriah Heep circa 1972 with their long-time drummer Lee Kerslake, who passed away this week; plus classic music from Levi Smith's Clefs (Adelaide) and more recent recordings from Unitopia (Adelaide) and Sebastian Hardie (Sydney); as well as newly released songs from expat singer Emily Barker (now based in the UK). From the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book, Wendy Saddington (Melbourne).

8pm
Uriah Heep    Poet’s justice (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Uriah Heep    Blind eye + The magician’s birthday (1972) (The Magician’s Birthday)
Levi Smith's Clefs    You can’t do that (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine    Five people said I was crazy (live, 1971) (Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
Emily Barker    Where have the sparrows gone? (2020) (A Dark Murmuration of Words)
9pm
Sebastian Hardie    Four Moments suite (live) (1997) (Live in LA)
Unitopia    More than a dream (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
Camel    Wait (live) (1984) (Pressure Points – Live In Concert)
Camel    Fingertips (1984) (Stationary Traveller)
Emily Barker    The woman who planted trees (2020) (A Dark Murmuration of Words)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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The Levi Smith's Clefs, fronted by Barrie McAskill, flailing dramatically at their instruments to accompany one of their more concise songs, "Road runner", for the ABC TV show Hit Scene:

From Emily Barker (originally from Bridgetown, WA):

Playlist - 19 September 2020

8pm
Porcupine Tree    Radioactive toy (1992) (On the Sunday Of Life)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the minute (1999) (Stupid Dream)
Porcupine Tree    Four chords that made a million (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
Porcupine Tree    Lazarus (2005) (Deadwing)
Porcupine Tree    Way out of here (2007)  (Fear Of A Blank Planet)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident)
Steven Wilson    The raven that refused to sing (2013) (The Raven That Refused To Sing)
Steven Wilson    Permanating (2017) (To The Bone)
9pm
Procession    Listen (1968) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star?)
Bulldog    Inner spring (1970) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    I’ll be gone (1974) (The Good Earth)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    Joybringer (1973) (single only)
Toehider    Moon and moron + Bats aren’t birds (2020) (I Like it!)
Kansas    Lamplight symphony (1974) (Song For America)
Kansas    Carry on wayward son (live) (1978/2008) (Two For The Show)
Captain Kickarse & The Awesomes    Pogonophobe (2015) (Grim Repercussions)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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A little more chaos from the latest Toehider, the appropriately titled "Go full bore":

SW, Exhibit A - The raven that refused to sing, "It’s a very simple song, again about loss and mortality":

SW, Exhibit B - Permanating, "I'm very proud of the video for Permanating. As soon as I wrote this song I had it in mind that Bollywood dancing would be the perfect accompaniment, such a joyous form of dance for what is probably the most joyous pop song I have ever come up with. I hope it will put a smile on your face as it does for me.":

Kerry Livgren (to right of stage) with Proto-Kaw, the re-formation of an early line-up of Kansas:

The curio of the week - from 48 years ago, Mick Rogers with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, playing Sydney, with the keyboard wizard initially on percussion, and covering the classic Chain song Black and blue (it was also included on their album Messin', 1972):

Playlist - 12 September 2020

Starting this week with a Rushfest for the first hour, working backward through 32 years of music from 2007 - as today (Saturday) would have been the 68th birthday of the late Neil Peart, who passed away in January this year. 

8pm
Rush    Headlong flight (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Rush    One little victory (2002) (Vapor Trails)
Rush    Double agent (1993) (Counterparts)
Rush    Presto (1989) (Presto)
Rush    Middletown dreams (1985) (Power Windows)
Rush    Witch hunt (Part III of Fear) (1981) (Moving Pictures)
Rush    Circumstances (1978) (Hemispheres)
Rush    A farewell to kings (1977) (A Farewell To Kings)
Rush    Fly by night (1975) (Fly By Night)
9pm
Southern Empire    Cries for the lonely (2018) (Civilisation)
Sean Timms    Excerpts from Bodyjackers (2008) (The Gargoyle And Other Stories: The Orchestral Music of Sean Timms)
Ben Craven    Great divide + No specific harm (2016) (The Singles Edits)
The Omnific    Moonstruck (2019) (The Mind’s Eye)
The Omnific    10am (2016) (Sonorous)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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An array of moving pictures...from tubular bells, taurus pedals and kaftans in 1977...

...a duet with Aimee Mann in 1987, along with state-of-the-art video effects...

..."leaving it alone" in 1997...

...ploughing the grunge furrow on stage in 2007...

...the hours tick away, time is still the infinite jest...

Playlist - 5 September 2020

The first hour features a quartet of Aussie heavy bands (Circadian Pulse and Vanishing Point from Melbourne, Domino and Red Sea from Sydney), after which the second hour is loaded from the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book as Roger Waters, Freddie Mercury and the late, talented Daryl Cotton (Zoot) all have birthdays during this weekend.

8pm
Circadian Pulse    Transcending evolution (2018) (Elements Of Existence)
Vanishing Point    Walls of silence (2014) (Distant Is The Sun)
Transatlantic    Black as the sky (2014) (Kaleidoscope)
Roine Stolt’s The Flower King    Next to a hurricane (2018) (Manifesto Of An Alchemist)
The Flower Kings    Stardust We Are – Part Three (live) (Japan, 1999) (Alive On Planet Earth)
Domino    My opiate (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Red Sea    Caravan (2016) (Battlescar)
9pm
Roger Waters    Dogs (2000) (In The Flesh - Live)
Queen    Somebody to love (1976) (A Day At The Races)
Queen    Killer queen (1974) (Sheer Heart Attack)
Queen    It’s a hard life (1984) (The Works)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (live on GTK, Mar 1971) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Zoot    Flying (1970) (Just Zoot / Zoot Locker)
Zoot    Eleanor Rigby (1970) (single only / Zoot Locker)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Sound and motion from Red Sea (who have new music due for release soon):

...and, from an increasingly distant time, Daryl Cotton with Zoot in an ABC TV studio for GTK, of course well after they had burned the infamous pink suits:

Roine and Transatlantic, with a fine, live version of "Black as the sky":