Playlist - 27 June 2020

Starting tonight with a selection from the long awaited, newly released, live Madder Lake album.

8pm
Madder Lake    Down the river (live) + One star and the moon (live) + Listen to the morning sunshine (live, 1974) (2020) (The live adventures of MADDER LAKE 1973-2008)
Madder Lake    Calling (2013) (World)
Domino    Karislama (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Split Enz    Spellbound (1974) (The Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    I hope I never (1980) (True Colours)
ENZSO    Dirty creature (1996) (ENZSO)
Tim Finn   Funny way (1993) (Before & After)
9pm
Marillion    The Leavers: I. Wake up in music, II. The remainers, III. Vapour trails in the sky, IV. The jumble of days, V. One tonight (2016) (F.E.A.R.)
Marillion    Sugar mice (1987) (Clutching At Straws)
Barclay James Harvest    Kiev (1987) (Face To Face)
Deckchair Poets    Elephants, not ivory (2013) (Who Needs Pyjamas?)
Deckchair Poets    Iced buns (2019) (Always Piste At Christmas)
The Cortex Shift    Leaky scone (2017) (Songs In The Key Of Lunch)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

Madder Lake live with a song from their latest album:

Fish and co. from 2016 and a promo for the F.E.A.R. album:

Playlist - 20 June 2020

8pm
Toehider    Meet the sloth (2014) (What Kind Of Creature Am I?)
Spectrum    Fiddling fool (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    Silicon Valley (2009) (Breathing Space Too)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo, lyrics by Bill Putt)
Spectrum    Trust me (single edit) (1971) (Milesago)
Lemonjuice    Colour combination (2016) (Lemonjuice E.P.)
Lemonjuice    Life in a day (2018) (The Sound Of Strawberry)
9pm
Camel    Mystic queen (1973) (Camel)
Camel    Highways to the sun (1977) (Rain Dances)
Camel    Ligging at Louis’ (live, 1974) (1978) (A Live Record)
Lonely Robot    Construct/Obstruct (2015) (Please Come Home)
It Bites    The last escape (2012) (Map Of The Past)
Jethro Tull    Fire at midnight + Ring out solstice bells (1977) (Songs From The Wood)
The Beatles    A day in the life (1967) (Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Band)
The Beatles    Hard day’s night (1964) (A Hard Day’s Night)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

A mind-boggling 38 minutes with Mike and Salty of Toehider (Melbourne) - "Meet The Sloths":

 

A little more of UK band It Bites, live:

Playlist - 13 June 2020

It's not every year that you celebrate your 75th birthday; so as that milestone approaches this Monday for the talented Aussie legend (and kiwi) Mike Rudd, it's fitting to dedicate the first half of tonight's edition of Seasons Of Change to a selection of music from Spectrum and Ariel.

8pm
Spectrum    I’ll be gone (1971) (single, alternate stereo version / bonus track on reissue of Part One)
Spectrum    Drifting (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    What the world needs (is a new pair of socks) (1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Garden of the frenzied Cortinas (1974) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Spectrum    Star crazy (2008) (Breathing Space)
9pm
Uriah Heep    Paradise/The spell (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Yes    Roundabout (single version) (1972) (Fragile)
Captain Beyond    Dancing madly backwards (on a sea of air) (1972) (Captain Beyond)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
The Nice    America (1968) (single)
Queen    The prophet’s song (1975) (A Night At The Opera)
Golden Earring    Radar love (1973) (Moontan)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)


Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

Should you have the time, you can immerse yourself in a 37 minute interview with Mike Rudd here:

...but you only have 32 minutes? Behold a fine (and well-recorded) set by Mike at the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, Melbourne, December 2016:

...or witness a recent cameo with Madder Lake:

...and revisit the brief detour into electro-pop with W.H.Y. in 1983:

This isn't Queen, but this cover version by Dutch acapella group Rock4 is pretty amazing nonetheless, assisted by a little handy looping:

Playlist - 6 June 2020

8pm
Sweet    Love is like oxygen (1978) (Level Headed)
Sweet    Blockbuster (1973) (The Sweet)
Sweet    Ballroom blitz (1973) (single
Caligula’s Horse    Salt (2020) (Rise Radiant)
Kettlespider    Life (2017) (KETTLESPIDER)
Caligula’s Horse    Message to my girl (2020) (Rise Radiant, bonus track)
Toehider    Concerning Lix and Fairs (2020) (I Like It!)
Riverside    Under the pillow (2015) (Love, Fear And The Time Machine)
9pm
Tony Levin    Waters of Eden (2000) (Waters of Eden)
The Stick Men (The Crimson Projeckt)    Vroom vroom (live) (2014) (Live In Tokyo)
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe    Birthright (1989) (Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe)
Caravan    In the land of grey and pink (1971) (In The Land Of Grey And Pink)
Hatfield and the North    It didn’t matter anyway (1975) (The Rotters Club)
Camel    Breathless (1978) (Breathless)
Rush    Anagram (1989) (Presto)
Rush    Dreamline (1991) (Roll The Bones)
Anthony Phillips    Lucy will (1979) (Sides)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

An "animatic" video from Toehider:

Camel much more recently - in concerrt at the Royal Albert Hall: