Playlist - 25 March 2023

Starting with prog metal sounds from Australia and from overseas, followed by a much more subdued Hour 2.

8pm
Anim8    Jethro (2010) (Anim8)
Dream Theater    This is the life (2011) (A Dramatic Turn Of Events)
Anim8    The freeway (2010) (Anim8)
Haken    Invasion (2020) (Virus)
Andy Salvanos    To be like stars (2016) (Transform)
Domino    My opiate (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Red Sea    Caravan (2016) (Battlescar)
Focus    Anonymus (1970) (In And Out Of Focus)
9pm
Windchase    Forward we ride / Horsemen to infinity (1978) (Symphinity)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2012) (Blueprint)
Caravan    The love in your eye (2002) (Live At Fairfield Halls - 1974)
Camel    Ice (live) (1998) (Coming Of Age - Live)
Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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The Gurus...definitely not prog rock and they are also recorded live at another radio station (which shall remain nameless), but good music is good music... especially when it includes the first live performance of the "Dodge" tune...

Playlist - 18 March 2023

Tonight starting with some tracks featuring the late Robin Lumley (member of British jazz rock group Brand X and many other collaborations; and also, incidentally, the second cousin of actress Joanna Lumley). The second hour starts with music from a couple of the country's most trippy bands.

8pm
Brand X    Nuclear burn (1976) (Unorthodox Behaviour)
Brand X    Disco suicide (1977) (Moroccan Roll)
Brand X    Touch wood (1976) (Unorthodox Behaviour)
Dave Gilmour    Echoes (live( (2006) (Live In Gdansk)
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets    Astronomy domine (live) (2019) (Live At The Roundhouse)
9pm
Pond    Don’t look at the sun (or you’ll go blind) (live) (2019) (Sessions)
Pond    Man it feels like space again (live) (2019) (Sessions)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Ontology (2020) (K.G.)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Intrasport (2020) (K.G.)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Oddlife (2020) (K.G.)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Honey (2020) (K.G.)
Sean Timms    Planet Earth Suite (2008) (The Gargoyle and Other Stories)
Southern Empire    Dreams and machines (2016) (Southern Empire)
Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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Music with pictures:

This is really nicely done... But it's such a pity that Nick Mason's SOS aren't playing "Echoes" (or anything else) here in Adelaide during their time in Australia, September this year...

From 1979, British jazz rock fusion group Brand X featuring the late Robin Lumley behind a bank of keyboards. And Phil Collins too, of course, behind the drumset and with a remarkable head of hair at the time:

Playlist - 11 March 2023

Tonight, starting with a selection from the legacy of Wayne Shorter (sax player with Miles Davis and of course Weather Report). Also, something to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of that "prism" album back in March 1973.

Plus a couple of tracks from the recent re-issue of the one album by the short-lived early 1970's Aussie supergroup Fanny Adams - renowned singer Doug Parkinson fronting a band chock-full of talent.  From Milesago: "On paper, it looked like a dream team, with four of Australasia's best musicians combining in a 'supergroup' and intent on conquering the world. Given the talent involved, this should have been a great group who did grand things, but, as so often happened in OzRock, the reality proved to be drastically different..."

8pm
Weather Report    Birdland (1977) (Heavy Weather)
Miles Davis    E.S.P. (1965) (E.S.P.)
Weather Report    Elegant people (1976) (Black Market)
Unitopia    Tears from the garden (2020) (The Garden, remaster)
Unitopia    Journey’s friend (2008) (The Garden)
Fanny Adams    Yesterday was today (1970 / 2023 re-issue) (Fanny Adams)
Fanny Adams    You don’t bother me (1970 / 2023 re-issue) (Fanny Adams)
9pm
Pink Floyd    Money (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd    Us and them (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd    Any colour you like (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd    Brain damage (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd    Eclipse (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
The Nest Itself    From peaks to pittance (2011) (2011 EP)
Montresor    Supersonic (2015) (Entelechy)
Billy Bragg    Waiting for the great leap forward (2014) (Live At The Union Chapel)

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Music with pictures: 

A tune from Adelaide band Unitopia, recently released on their Bandcamp page ahead of further releases:

Plus a live performance from 49 years ago:

and Billy, who speaks at least as well as he writes and sings...

Playlist - 4 March 2023

Tonight, another program of two parts: from Zappa to the (perhaps) Zappa-esque from the 1970's, a time by which his influence had already blossomed on other musicians around the world.

8pm
The Mothers Of Invention    Wowie zowie (1966) (Freak Out!)
The Mothers Of Invention    Call any vegetable (1967) (Absolutely Free)
The Mothers Of Invention    Who needs the peace corps (1968) (We’re Only In It For The Money)
The Mothers Of Invention    Dog breath, In the year of the plague (1969) (Uncle Meat)
Frank Zappa    Willie The Pimp (1969) (Hot Rats)
The Mothers Of Invention    Holiday in Berlin, Full-blown (1970) (Burnt Weeny Sandwich)
Frank Zappa    Eat that question (1972) (The Grand Wazoo)
Frank Zappa    Cosmik debris (1974) (Apostrophe)
9pm
Spectrum    Superbody (1971) (Part One)
Ariel    Neo-Existentialist Greens / Medicine Man / Letter song (1974) (Rock & Roll Scars / The Jellabad Mutant)
Daddy Cool    Make your stash (1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock n Roll: Teenage Heaven)
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band    Wangarratta Wahine (1974) (Wangaratta Wahine)
Company Caine    Go see the gypsy (1971) (A Product of a Broken Reality)
Rainbow Theatre    Caption for the city night life (1976) (Fantasy Of Horses)
The Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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Music with pictures...

A later line-up of Spectrum with an (at the time) again-bearded Mike Rudd recorded in an ABC TV studio:

and Spectrum from the early 70's with a version of the Ross Wilson song which they included on their first album:

The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, in 1971, filmed in colour and "at" speed (not "on" speed):

Company Caine and an intriguing "promo clip" from 1971: