Playlist - 30 July 2022

Starting off tonight with a song from Emily Barker, perhaps appropriate as a tribute to the late "scientist, environmentalist and futurist" James Lovelock who this week died on his 103rd birthday - amongst other achievements he was probably best known for the Gaia hypothesis.

8pm
Emily Barker    Where have the sparrows gone? (2020) (A Dark Murmuration Of Words)
Rush    Red tide (1989) (Presto)
Rush    Nobody’s hero (1993) (Counterparts)
United Progressive Fraternity    Loss Anthem (2019) (Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss)
United Progressive Fraternity    What happens now (2019) (Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss)
United Progressive Fraternity    Cruel times (2019) (Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss)
United Progressive Fraternity    What are we doing to ourselves (2019) (Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss)
United Progressive Fraternity    Stop time (2019) (Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss)
Deckchair Poets    Human pie (2013) (Who Needs Pyjamas?)
Andy Salvanos & Thomas Allan    The invisible man (2021) (The Journey)
9pm
Nektar    Recycled Part One: Recycle / Cybernetic consumption / Recycle countdown / Automation Horrorscope / Flight to reality / Unendless imaginations (1975) (Recycled)
Unitopia    Justify (2005/2017) (More Than A Dream: The Dream Complete)
Porcupine Tree    Of the new day (2022) (Closure / Continuation)
Emily Barker    Sleep, Australia, sleep (2022) (Room 822)

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Playlist - 23 July 2022

Tonight turning the musical clock back again to early in the year 1972, plus two diversions into the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book for Richard Davies (Supertramp) and Al Di Meola.

8pm
Daddy Cool    Teenage blues (Jan 1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock n Roll: Teenage Heaven)
Daddy Cool    Make your stash (Jan 1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock n Roll: Teenage Heaven)
Masters Apprentices    Answer lies beyond (Jan 1972) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Masters Apprentices    Beneath the sun (Jan 1972) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick (radio edit) (LP: Mar 1972; single: Apr 1972) (Thick As A Brick)
Groundhogs    Earth is not room enough (Mar 1972) (Who Will Save The World? The Mighty Groundhogs!)
Supertramp    Brother where you bound (1985) (Brother Where You Bound)
9pm
Return To Forever    Majestic dance (1976) (Romantic Warrior)
Al Di Meola    Elegant Gypsy Suite (1982) (Tour De Force – “Live”)
Fraternity    Hemming’s farm (Apr 1972) (Flaming Galah / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
McPhee    Indian rope man (“early 1972”) (McPhee)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (single only, May 1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (May 1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/track / bonus track on re-issue of Goolutionites…)
Ticket    Broken wings (May 1972) (Awake)

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An artefact from 1985 - a long-form video produced to accompany the title track of the new Supertramp album:

Playlist - 16 July 2022

Starting tonight with a reminder of the Manchester scene, circa 1987, as a trbute to the late Paul Ryder, founding member and bass player for The Happy Mondays - "I liked writing, I liked rehearsing, I liked being in the studio and I liked all the traveling – doing all the shows all around the world. It’s the perfect job for me – or should I say a well-paid hobby, not actually work."

8pm
The Happy Mondays    24 hour party people (1987) (single / Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out))
Rush    Bastille day (1975) (Caress Of Steel)
Rush    Xanadu (1977) (A Farewell To Kings)
Ben Craven    Amnis flows Aeternum (2022) (Monsters From The Id)
The Omnific    Posterity (2021) (Escapades)
Magma    Ima suri dondai (1973) (Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh)
Magma    Kobaia Iss Deh Hundlin (1973) (Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh)
9pm
Caravan    The Dabsong conshirtoe (1975) (Cunning Stunts)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    LLanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (The Welsh Railway Sign song)… (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    St Michael’s Mount (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Yes    Astral traveller (1970) (Time And A Word)
Yes    For everyone (1969/1970) (The Millennium Collection)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)

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Playlist - 9 July 2022

8pm
Porcupine Tree    Dignity (2022) (Closure / Continuation)
Porcupine Tree    Harridan (2022) (Closure / Continuation)
Kite Parade    Letting go (2022) (The Way Home)
Cyan    The Sorceror (2021) (For King And Country)
Wolfscote    Nonesuch – The bitter withy (2015) (Turn The Glass)
theAdelaidean    Dreams of Utopia (2022) (Solarpunk)
Andy Salvanos    In setting sunlight (2018) (Solar Cycles)
9pm
Aragon    The calm before the storm (Rocking Horse Act 3) (2022) (digital single)
Aragon    For your eyes (1988) (Don’t Bring The Rain)
Marillion    Slainte mhath (1987) (Clutching At Straws)
Marillion    Sugar mice (1987) (Clutching At Straws)
Circadian Pulse    Suspended (2018) (Elements Of Existence)
Em Burrows    Solitary sounds (2016) (Solitary Sounds)
Acolyte    Recovery (unplugged) (2022) (Recovery (Unplugged))

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Playlist - 2 July 2022

8pm
Indelible Murtceps    The indelible shuffle (1973 / 2022) (Indelible Murtceps & Spectrum: Testimonial)
Indelible Murtceps    Singing the blues (1973 / 2022) (Indelible Murtceps & Spectrum: Testimonial)
Spectrum    I think I even missed the station (1973 / 2022) (Indelible Murtceps & Spectrum: Testimonial)
Spectrum    Who is bugging you (1973 / 2022) (Indelible Murtceps & Spectrum: Testimonial)
The Masters Apprentices    The lesson so listen (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Love is (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Melodies of St Kilda (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Southern cross (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Thyme to rhyme (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Porcupine Tree    A Slave called shiver (live) (2003 / 2020) (Los Angeles 30th July 2003)
O.R.K.    I’m afraid of Americans (2017) (I'm afraid of Americans + stems for remix)
9pm
Steve Hackett    Supper’s ready (live) (2013) (Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith)
Deep Purple    Perfect strangers (1984) (Perfect Strangers)
Rush    Animate (1991) (Counterparts)
Dyssidia    Arrival (2020) (Costly Signals)
Andy Salvanos    Best of times (2012) (Reunion)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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The official video for the O.R.K. song  (O.R.K. featuring Colin Edwin, Melbourne-born bass player formerly with Porcupine Tree):

And, just for comparison, the original song by David Bowie: