Playlist - 25 January 2014

It's Australia Day this Sunday - so it's likely there'll be great Australian music all over your radio this weekend, from one end of the dial to the other, and that's as it should be.

But there's probably only one place you'll hear classic progressive rock from legendary bands such as Spectrum and Tamam Shud, plus great music from more recent releases by Ben Craven, Voyager, The Lammas Tide and Adelaide's own Unitopia, plus some cracking live recordings from the archives: that's Seasons Of Change - all-Australian, this Saturday night, from 8pm until 11pm.

8pm
Sebastian Hardie    Art of life (2012) (Blueprint)
Ben Craven    The conjurer (2011) (Great & Terrible Potions)
Unitopia    More than a dream (2005) (More Than A Dream)
Voyager    Falling (2007) (Univers)
Kettlespider    The kettle spider (2010) (demo)
The Lammas Tide    The Devil’s stone (2011) (High Tide)
The Merlin Bird    Rhyme to reason (2003) (Rhyme To Reason)
Sympathy Orchestra    Sword machine (2014) (Sword Machine)
Andy Salvanos    Happy song (2011) (Dream Recall)

9pm
Lobby Loyde & Southern Electric    Dreamtide (1976)  (Obsecration)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth, soundtrack)
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Spectrum    Milesago (1971) (Milesago)
Kahvas Jute    Odyssey (1970)  (Wide Open)
Goanna    Common ground (1984)  (Oceania)

10pm
Madder Lake    Bumper bar song + When is a mouse (live, 1973) (Still Point, bonus track on re-issue)
Ayers Rock    Morning magic (live, 1974) (Sunbury)
Spectrum    I’ll be gone + Some good advice (live at Sunbury, 1972) (Milesago, bonus track on re-issue)
Tamam Shud    Bali waters (live, 1971) (Goolutionites (and the real people), bonus track on re-issue)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)

Playlist - 18 January 2014

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: 1976

 ...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 3 hours. Amidst some classics and oddities, this includes classic Australian music from the band Sebastian Hardie and guitar wizard Lobby Loyde - both with musical epics stretching to near 20 minutes, as well as classic Kiwi music from Split Enz.

8pm
Sebastian Hardie    Windchase (February 1976) (The Windchase / Four Moments Of The Windchase)
Camel    Another night (single edit) (March 1976) (Moonmadness)
Rush    A passage to Bangkok (April 1976) ("2112")
Led Zeppelin    Achilles last stand (April 1976) (Presence)
Premiata Forneria Marconi    From under (1976) (Chocolate Kings)
9pm
The Alan Parsons Project    Raven (May 1976) (Tales Of Mystery And Imagination)
Lobby Loyde & Southern Electric    Obsecration Parts A to D (May 1976)  (Obsecration)
Steely Dan    Sign in stranger (May 1976) (The Royal Scam)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (July 1976) (Second Thoughts)
Blue Oyster Cult    Don’t fear the reaper (July 1976) (Agents of Fortune)
Steve Hillage    Hurdy gurdy man (September 1976) (“L”)
10pm
Renaissance    Carpet of the sun (live) (September  1976) (Live At The Carnegie Hall)
Kansas    Carry on wayward son + The wall (October 1976) (Leftoverture)
Steeleye Span    Fighting for strangers (October 1976) (Rocket Cottage)
Mike Oldfield    Portsmouth (October 1976) (single only / Elements: The Best Of)
Tangerine Dream    Stratosfear (November 1976) (Stratosfear)
Jon Lord    Bouree (November 1976) (Sarabande)
Queen    Somebody to love (December 1976) (A Day At The Races)
Jethro Tull    March the mad scientist (December 1976) (Solstice EP)

Playlist - 11 January 2014

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: 1970

 ...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 3 hours. Amidst some classics and oddities, this includes classic Australian music from Flake, Jeff St John & Copperwine, Tamam Shud, Tully and Zoot (late in their career and trying hard to ditch the "think pink" image).

8pm
Renaissance    Islands (January 1970) (Renaissance)
Syd Barrett    Octopus (January 1970) (The Madcap Laughs)
Van Der Graaf Generator    Out of my book (February 1970) (The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other)
Egg    Fugue in D minor (March 1970) (Egg)
Jethro Tull    Inside (April 1970) (Benefit)
King Crimson    Cadence and cascade (May 1970) (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Steeleye Span    All things are quite silent (June 1970) (Hark! The Village Wait)
Yes    Time And A Word (December 1970) (Time And A Word)
Procol Harum    About to die (June 1970) (Home)
Barclay James Harvest    The sun will never shine (June 1970) (Barclay James Harvest)
9pm
Tully    Ice (1972)  (Loving Is Hard)
Traffic    Glad (July 1970)  (John Barleycorn Must Die)
Zoot    Flying (July 1970) (Just Zoot / Zoot Locker)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Flake    Wheel’s on fire + You've got me thinking (1970) (How’s Your Mother - reissue)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
The Moody Blues    Question (August 1970) (A Question Of Balance)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (September 1970)  (single only / In and out of focus 1966-75 / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Pink Floyd    If (October 1970)  (Atom Heart Mother)
10pm
Tamam Shud    Stand in the sunlight + Take a walk on a foggy morn + Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (October 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Affinity    I am and so are you (1970) (Affinity)
Genesis    The knife (October 1970) (Trespass)
Pete Brown & Piblokoto    Aeroplane head woman (November 1970) (Thousands On A Raft)
Emerson Lake and Palmer     The barbarian (November 1970) (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Curved Air    It happened today (November 1970) (Air Conditioning)
Zoot    Eleanor Rigby (December 1970) (single only / Zoot Locker)

Playlist - 4 January 2014

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: 1974

 ...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 3 hours. This includes classic Australian music from Ayers Rock, Buffalo (recorded live in 1974), Madder Lake and Mandu (the former singer for guitar wizard Lobby Loyde). The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band also make a well-deserved appearance as well as Dragon from NZ (in their 1974 guise as a "prog rock" band).

8pm
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band    Your feet’s too big (Feb 1974) (Wangaratta Wahine / Boogie! Australian Blues R&B And Heavy Rock From The ‘70’s)
King Crimson    The night watch (Feb 1974) (Starless And Bible Black)
Steeleye Span    Thomas the Rhymer (Feb 1974) (Now We Are Six)
Madder Lake    Mother ship + Butterfly farm (Mar 1974)  (Butterfly Farm)
Camel    Nimrodel/The procession/The white rider (Mar 1974) (Mirage)
Genesis    I know what I like (in your wardrobe) (single, Mar 1974) (Selling England By The Pound)
Procol Harum    Nothing but the truth (Apr 1974) (Exotic Birds And Fruit)
Robin Trower    Too rolling stoned (Apr 1974) (Bridge Of Sighs)
9pm
Focus    Birth (May 1974) (Hamburger Concerto)
Premiata Forneria Marconi    The world became the world (1974) (The World Became The World)
Dragon    Universal Radio + Patina (Jun 1974) (Universal Radio)
Kansas    Journey from Mariabronn (Jun 1974, USA) (Kansas)
Barclay James Harvest    Child of the Universe (Jun 1974) (Everybody is Everybody Else)
10pm
Mandu    Darlin’ + We Ran Across the Sky (Sept 1974) (To The Shores Of His Heaven)
Traffic    Walking on the wind (Sept 1974) (Where The Eagle Flies)
Buffalo    Shylock (live 1974) (Volcanic Rock, bonus track on CD re-issue)
Jethro Tull    Bungle in the jungle (Oct 1974) (War Child)
Renaissance    Running hard (May 1974) (Turn of The Cards)
Ayers Rock    Big red rock (Dec 1974)  (Big Red Rock)