Playlist - 28 August 2021

8pm
The Rolling Stones    Respectable (1978) (Some Girls)
The Rolling Stones    19th nervous breakdown (1966) (single)
The Rolling Stones    You’ve got me rocking (1994) (Voodoo Lounge)
Kahvas Jute    What have I done to deserve this (2006) (The Quickening)
United Progressive Fraternity    Seeds of life (2019) (Planetary Overload, Part 1)
Pineapple Thief    Our mire (2021) (Nothing But The Truth)
Dyssidia    Arrival (2020) (Costly Signals)
9pm
Rush    Freewill (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Rush    Cygnus X-1 (live) (1978/1998) (Different Stages - Live)
Gentle Giant    Black cat (1971) (Acquiring The Taste)
Gentle Giant    Pantagruel’s Nativity (1971) (Acquiring The Taste)
Ozric Tentacles    Pixel dream (live) (2001/2018) (Pyramidion)
Ben Craven    Great divide (2016) (The Singles Edits)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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The promo video for the new PT - Pineapple Thief, that is:

 Kahvas Jute live in 2005:

Ed and Brandi from 2015 plus some concert footage and background scenes from The Ozrics on tour:

Playlist - 21 August 2021

8pm
The Omnific   Antecedent (2021) (Escapades, pre-release)
Dream Theater    The alien (2021) (A View From The Top)
Ariel    Jellabad Mutant Suite: Neo-Existentialist Greens/Medicine Man/The Letter Song/Use Your Imagination (live) (1975 / 2016) (Live At The Station Hotel)
Beautiful Bedlam    Open world (+Apparitions) (2021) (Beautiful Bedlam)
Beautiful Bedlam    I adore (2021) (Beautiful Bedlam)
A Lonely Crowd    Fire away (2016) (Devil In The Detail)
The Masters Apprentices    Answer lies beyond (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
9pm
Hawkwind    Silver machine (1972) (single only / bonus track on reissue of In Search Of Space)
Hawkwind    Mirror of illusion (1970) (Hawkwind)
Hawkwind    Synchronised blue (2016) (The Machine Stops)
Hawkwind    Magnu (Steven Wilson remix) (1975) (Warrior On The Edge Of Time)
Hawkwind    The psychedelic warlords (disappear in smoke) (live, 1974) (2006) (Live ‘74)
Curved Air    Phantasmagoria (1972) (Phantasmagoria)
Max Webster (& Rush)    Battle scar (1980 / 2017) (Universal Juveniles / The Party)
Rush    Spirit of radio (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From 1971, The Masters and a song from the Nickolodeon live album, recorded in the familiar ABC TV studios for the program GTK:

Something completely different from 2021 - The Omnific (Melbourne) and their most recent promo video for their upcoming new album:

Also new from the US band Dream Theater and their upcoming album:

Dave Brock (captain of space-rock group Hawkwind) celebrated his 80th birthday yesterday - from 2002, when DB was a more youthful 59, here is a fine interview which covers all the usual bases (busking, Lemmy, the underground scene and more):

Playlist - 14 August 2021

8pm
Subaudible Hum    Science maketh the scientist (2006) (In Time For Spring, On Came The Snow)
Hawkwind    Assault and battery / The golden void (Steven Wilson remix) (1975/2013) (Warrior On The Edge Of Time)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident)
Sebastian Hardie    Peaceful (1976) (The Windchase)
Sebastian Hardie    I remember (2012) (Blueprint)
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (live, Nov 1994 ProgFest) (1997) (Live in LA)
Sebastian Hardie    Mario’s bizarre Bizet (live, Nov 1994 ProgFest) (1997) (Live in LA)
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (conclusion) (live, Nov 1994 ProgFest) (1997) (Live in LA)
9pm
Yes    The ice bridge (2021) (The Quest)
Yes    Endless dream: Silent spring/Talk/Endless dream (1994) (Talk)
Transatlantic    Black as the sky (2014) (Kaleidoscope)
Dream Theater    Constant motion (2007) (Systematic Chaos)
Evership    Allthetime (2021) (The Uncrowned King Act 1 )
Francis Monkman    Energism: The Dawn Of An Era (1978) (Energism)

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Here are Sebastian Hardie, with a cover of "Tubular bells" (which is not on any of their albums):

The promo video for the new Yes song which (unsurprisingly) has now publicly garnered both some extra publicity and an extra composing credit for the widely travelled keyboardist Francis Monkman:

 After (apparently) not bothering to produce promo videos for several years, due in no small part to lack of interest from the music TV industry, the US progressive metal band Dream Theater decided to do another one in 2007, for "Constant motion":

Oh, by the way - "Why don't ants get sick ? Because they have little anty bodies!"

Playlist - 7 August 2021

After 9pm tonight, a belated tribute to the late Robby Steinhardt, violinist, occasional lead singer and formative member of the US band Kansas, who passed away on 17 July.

8pm
Southern Empire    Cries for the lonely (2018) (Civilisation)
Symphony X    The odyssey (2002) (The Odyssey)
Toehider    Bats aren’t birds (2020) (I Like it!)
Ayreon (feat. Michael Mills)    The theory of everything Part 1 (2013) (The Theory Of Everything)
Ayreon    Patterns (2013) (The Theory Of Everything)
9pm
Kansas    Down the road (1975) (Song For America)
Kansas    Apercu (1974) (Kansas)
Kansas    Cheyenne anthem (1976) (Leftoverture)
Kansas    Point of know return (1977) (Point Of Know Return)
Kansas    No-one together (1980) (Audio Visions)
Kansas    Icarus – Borne on wings of steel (live, 1978) (1978/2008) (Two For The Show, 30th Anniversary Reissue)
Kansas, with the LSO    Dust in the wind (1998) (Always Never The Same)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Just a brief ditty from stalwart singer, guitarist and songwriter Chris Rea, circa 1989...