Playlist - 28 March 2020

In these days of tour cancellations and hotel lockdowns due to the wide-ranging Coronavirus pandemic, gigs for musicians are few and far between, which effectively wipes out the income of many local and independent musicians and bands. One potential way of supporting musicans, if you are so inclined, is to stream and consider purchasing their music - a little investigation will generally reveal the many and varied mediums on which independent Aussie artists make their releases available (e.g. including, but not limited to, a page on Bandcamp).

It will also be Earth Hour tonight from 8:30pm to 9:30pm, so appropriate music for an hour of the evening with minimal electricity usage is featured from King Crimson and The Church.

8pm
The Ben Cameron Project    A cycle never ending (2016) (A Cycle Never Ending)
The Church    Under the milky way (1988) (Starfish)
King Crimson    Starless (live, recorded 1974; LP 1975) (USA)
Andy Salvanos    Lightwaves (2019) (Lightwaves, digital 3 song EP)
9pm
Drawn From Bees    Calling you out (2014) (Web Of Thieves, EP)
Drawn From Bees    Long tooth setting sun (2009) (And The Blind Shall lead The Way, mini-LP)
Drawn From Bees    Gravity (2017) (single only)
Aura Form     Galactic current + Alps sunrise + Walking through fallout (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
Ben Craven & The Section    Golden band (2014) (Dissected)
Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes    The Lost Doctrine Of Dr. Phyviater Raveningsley (2008) (Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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Sydney band Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes, from their own Youtube channel, recorded live, with the most menacing (and trippy) "Grapes" you will ever encounter...

Playlist - 21 March 2020

Starting tonight with a selection of music from the remarkable legacy of the late Australian jazz legend Don Burrows, who passed away at the end of last week.

8pm
Don Burrows Quintet with the Adelaide Connection    Basin street blues + Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (1985) (Making Whoopee)
Don Burrows Quintet with the Adelaide Connection    Please don't talk about me when I'm gone (1992) (Nice 'n' Easy)
Don Burrows Quintet with Orchestra    Whenever (1990) (Whenever)
Anubis    Reflective + Entitled + White Ashes (2020) (Homeless)
Aronora    Too late + The end (2009) (Aronora)
9pm
United Progressive Fraternity    Loss Anthem + What happens now? + Cruel time (2019) (Planetary Overload)
Tirill    Said the sun to the moon (2019) (Said The Sun To The Moon)
White Willow    In dim days (2017) (Future Hopes)
King Crimson    Thela Hun Ginjeet (Alternate mix – Steven Wilson) (1981 / 2011) (On And Off the Road (1981-1984): CD#1 Discipline)
King Crimson    Heartbeat (1982 / 2011) (On And Off the Road (1981-1984): CD#3 Beat)
Steven Wilson    Transience (single version) (2015) (Hand Cannot Erase)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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A mere snippet of Don Burrows, at El Rocco, Sydney, 1987:

 The Crimson troubadours, circa mid-1980's, recorded live in Japan:

Cometh the hour, cometh the band: The Packets, with a video filmed at some iconic South Australian locations including HQ, Hindley Street and the picturesque wine hub of McLaren Vale, and with a song that speaks to most of us at this time:

Playlist - 14 March 2020

Tonight, the live prog rock time machine ventures into the extremities of the late 1970's.

8pm
Dixie Dregs    Take it off the top (live) (1979/1997) (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
Hawkwind    Motorway city (live) (1979) (Live 79)
Supertramp    Take the long way home (live) (1979/2010) (Breakfast In America reissue)
Jethro Tull    Minstrel in the gallery + Cross-eyed Mary (live) (1978) (Live: Bursting Out)
Eloy    Inside (live) (1978) (Live)
Steeleye Span    Montrose (live) (1978) (Live At Last)
9pm
Ariel    Illicit love + Hollywood (live) (1977/2013) (Ariel Aloha / Ariel Live In Concert)
Spectrum    Second coming (live) (2001) (Queenscliff Music Festival - Alive)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (live) (2003) (Forever Music presents: Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Kansas    Mysteries and mayhem + Excerpt from Lamplight Symphony + The wall (live) (1978/2008) (Two For The Show, 30th Anniversary Reissue)
Genesis    Dance on a volcano + Los Endos (live) (1977) (Seconds Out)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

 

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Amongst some unlikely "live" artefacts from 40+ years ago:

Eloy (West Germany), 1977...

Kansas (USA), which combines a classic performance from 1978 of their Genesis/King Crimson/Yes-meets-arena-rock style with film which is so distorted that it is one Taurus pedal away from being a random light show...

The Dixie Dregs (also USA), at Montreux, 1978, as always featuring talented guitarist Steve Morse, nowadays with Deep Purple...

Always worth another look, the rare sight from 1977 of Australian band Cybotron in their natural habitat, the tech-heavy surroundings of an ABC TV show called Rocturnal...

And fellow Aussie band Sebastian Hardie, probably from 1975...

Playlist - 7 March 2020

Tonight, the live prog rock time machine continues backward at a rate of knots to the 1980's.

8pm
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (single edit) (2009) (The Incident)
Marillion    Assassing + Emerald lies (live,1984) (1985) (Real To Reel)
Rush    Mystic rhythms + Witch hunt (Part III of Fear) (live, 1986) (1989) (A Show Of Hands)
Hawkwind    Time we left + Heads (live, 1989) (1991) (Palace Springs)
GTR    You can still get through (live, 1986) (1997) (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
9pm
Genesis    Abacab + Behind the lines + Princess (live) (1982) (Three Sides Live)
Lobby Loyde & Sudden Electric    Sympathy in D + Gypsy in my soul (live) (1980/2006) (Live With Dubs)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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Mike Rudd & Ariel Live At The Station Hotel in 1975:

From the epicentre of both the decade and the UK Prog scene, Marillion (with Fish) at the Marquee, 1985: