Playlist - 4 February 2023

Tonight, with Waitangi Day coming up this Monday 6th February, a feast of music past and present from New Zealand, followed by an hour of mostly Aussie music from the early 1970's with just a brief interlude into the music of US progressive metal band Queensryche ahead of the gig this week in Adelaide of their ex-lead singer Geoff Tate.

8pm
Pencarrow    New light (2020) (Growth In The Absence Of Light)
Pencarrow    Portrait of my inner frailty (2020) (Growth In The Absence Of Light)
Pencarrow    Twins paradox (live) (2022) (Live At San Fran)
Look To Windward    Aqua Marina (2019) (In Fantasy)
Ragnarok    The Volsung (1976) (Nooks)
Dragon    Scented gardens for the blind (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind)
Split Enz    History never repeats (live, NZ, 1993) (Greatest Hits: Live)
9pm
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Dave Miller Set    Mr Guy Fawkes (1969) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Dave Miller Set    No need to cry (1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974)
Queensryche    Resistance (1990) (Empire)
Queensryche    Silent lucidity (1990) (Empire)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Lisa (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Any orange night (1970) (Joint Effort)
The James Taylor Move    Still I can go on (1967) (single only, Peculiar Hole In The Sky)

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Playlist - 26 November 2022

Tonight, diving into music from "6 of the best" - classic Aussie progressive rock albums from the 1970's, starting with classics from the "head music" scene of the early 1970's (Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Madder Lake). Plus, originally from Adelaide, The Masters Apprentices, and Mike Rudd's later project Ariel; and concluding with the marvellous Jeff St John and the trippy "Joint Effort" from his band Copperwine which combined funk, soul, psychedelia and progressive rock into one heady brew.

8pm
Spectrum    That’s alright (1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Love’s my bag (1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Your friend and mine (1971) (Milesago)
Tamam Shud    The Goolutionites and the real people (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    They’ll take you down on the lot (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    I love you all (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    Heaven is closed (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Madder Lake    Salmon Song (1973) (Still Point)
Madder Lake    On my way to heaven (1973) (Still Point)
9pm
The Masters Apprentices    Answer lies beyond (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Beneath the sun (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Games we play 1 (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Games we play 2 (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Ariel    Garden of the frenzied Cortinas (1973) (Strange Fantastic Dream)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Any orange night (1970) (Joint Effort)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort)

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Music with pictures, sometimes grainy, mostly from the early 1970's ABC TV program GTK...

Spectrum:

Tamam Shud:

Madder Lake:

The Masters:

Ariel, wtih guitarist Tim Gaze:

Jeff St John & Copperwine:

Playlist - 24 April 2021

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits, this week with an Anzac Day weekend special of music from Australia and New Zealand, mostly from the classic period of the early to mid '70's, including Jeff St John, Kahvas Jute, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully from Australia - and Dragon, Split Enz and Ticket from New Zealand. Plus music featuring the Australian classical guitarist John Williams (Sky), who will be celebrating his 80th birthday today.

8pm
Kahvas Jute    Steps of time (1971) (Wide Open)
McPhee    The wrong time (1971) (McPhee)
Spectrum    Mumbles I wonder why (1971) (Part One)
Tully    Loving is hard (1972) (Loving Is Hard)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/t, bonus on CD reissue of Goolutionites And The Real People)
The Break    Majestic kelp (2013) (Space Farm)
Tully    Sea of joy part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Jeff St John’s Copperwine    Fanciful flights of mind (1970) (Joint Effort)
9pm
John Williams    Sarabande (1971) (Changes)
Sky    Where Opposites Meet (1979) (Sky)
Ticket    Awake (1972) (Awake)
Dragon    Going slow (1974) (Universal Radio)
Split Enz    Home sweet home (1979) (Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Mental Notes)

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Playlist - 30 January 2021

Tonight, another all-Australian selection of music from the very early 1970's, featuring some of the eclectic bands which apeared exactly 50 years ago at the Myponga Music Festival over the Australia Day weekend (Saturday 30 Jan 1971 to Monday 1st Feb 1971): Daddy Cool, Spectrum, Fanny Adams, Company Caine, Sons Of The Vegetal Mother (an alter ego of Daddy Cool), Jeff St John, Wendy Saddington and Healing Force.

8pm
Daddy Cool    Teenage blues (1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock n Roll: Teenage Heaven)
Daddy Cool    Make your stash (1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock n Roll: Teenage Heaven)
Daddy Cool    Come back again (1971) (Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!)
Spectrum    Launching place Part 1 (1970) (Part One, bonus track on CD re-issue)
Spectrum    Superbody (1970) (Part One)
Fanny Adams    Ain’t no lovin’ left (1970) (Fanny Adams)
Company Caine    The day Superman got busted (1971) (A Product of a Broken Reality)
Sons Of The Vegetal Mother    Love is the law (1970) (Garden Party EP)
Sons Of The Vegetal Mother    Make it begin (1970) (Garden Party EP)
9pm
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort)
Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine    Tomorrow never knows (live) (1971) (Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
Buffalo    Intro: Pound of flesh (1973) (Volcanic Rock)
Buffalo    Shylock (1973) (Volcanic Rock)
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Flake    Breadalbane (1974) (B-side of single / Psych Bites: Australian Acid Freakrock 1969-1974)
Healing Force    Erection (1973) (Live At Sunbury)

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Here is the briefest of brief glimpses at the Myponga "progressive pop music" festival, c/- Youtube (Channel 7 and the Grape Organisation):

By 1974, the band Flake bore little resemblance to most earlier line-ups, with none of the members of the 1969 group remaining and only Billy Russell remained from the lineup which had played at Myponga. Guitarists Billy Russell and John Taylor were joined by three new members all previously with the group Blackfeather: singer Neale Johns as well as Jim Penson (drums), Warren Ward (bass). There aren't many photos around of that line-up except for this one:

From exactly 50 years ago, c/- Wikipedia, the acts and times for the 1971 Myponga Music Festival; the list of bands is remarkable for the fact that the Sunbury festival was also being held over the same weekend.   

Playlist - 31 October 2020

According to Roger Miller, possibly one of the most versatile singers and songwriters of our time:
- "It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."
According to Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for Canadian band Rush:
- "The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect…So hard to earn, so easily burned".
Of course, they were both right.

8pm
Roger Miller    King of the road (rec. Nov 1964, released 1965) (single)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the Minute (acoustic) (2012/2020) (Pure Narcotic - Acoustic Session 2012)
Ben Craven & Tim Bennets    No specific harm (2020) (ProgAustralis Live)
The Ben Cameron Project    Tipping point Pt.1 (2014) (Tipping Point)
Martin Barre    Hammer (live) (2019) (Live In NY)
Projected Twin    Shark water (2010) (Earth To World)
9pm
Camel    Lunar sea / Skylines (live) (1978) (A Live Record)
The Nice    Brandenburger (1968) (single, Ars Longa Vita Brevis)
King Crimson    21st century schizoid man (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Jeff St John’s Copperwine    Fanciful flights of mind (1970) (Joint Effort)
Procol Harum    In the wee small hours of sixpence (1968) (single only, b-side, bonus track on Shine On Brightly)
Rush    The garden (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Mike Rudd    Lottery  (2015) (demo)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Cheering a world in the grip of COVID (or at least their followers and fans) - Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox sharing their most recent Sunday Lunch:

Shaun Holton, aka Projected Twin, with a solo performance in the USA:

Roger Miller performing a medley of his self-described "depressive jazz" for a studio audience who appear to be simultaneously appreciative and bemused. Roger introduces his band by having them introduced to each other, possibly the most trippy '60's artefact you'll see for a while:

Playlist - 3 October 2020

Tonight, turning the clock back 50 years to 1970, including a healthy selection of music from the so-called "head music" scene here in the various capital cities around Australia.

 8pm
Jethro Tull     The witches promise (January 1970) (single only  / 20 Years Of Jethro Tull)
Renaissance    Islands (single, January 1970) (Renaissance)
Van der Graaf Generator    Refugees (January 1970) (The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (March 1970) (Empty Monkey)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet    Crimson ships (April 1970) (single only/ So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star Vol..2)
King Crimson    Cat food (May 1970) (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Quatermass    Black sheep of the family (May 1970) (Quatermass)
Yes    Time and a word (June 1970) (Time And A Word)
9pm
Zoot    Flying (July 1970) (Just Zoot)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Affinity    Three sisters (1970) (Affinity)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (September 1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Beggar’s Opera    Poet and peasant (November 1970) (Act One)
Caravan    Hello Hello (October 1970) (If I Could Do It Again I’d Do It All Over You)
Tamam Shud     Take a walk on a foggy morn + Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (October 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Emerson Lake and Palmer    Knife edge (November 1970) (Emerson Lake and Palmer)

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Playlist - 1 February 2020

Another all-Australian feast of music, this time from the early 1970's and centred around the "head music" scene in the various cities around Australia - featuring Fraternity, The James Taylor Move, Levi Smith's Clefs and The Masters Apprentices (Adelaide), Blackfeather, The Dave Miller Set, Jeff St John with Copperwine, Kahvas Jute, McPhee, Tamam Shud and Tully (Sydney), plus Company Caine, Healing Force and Spectrum (Melbourne).

8pm
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Dave Miller Set    Mr Guy Fawkes (1969) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Dave Miller Set    No need to cry (1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Acid Freakrock 1967-1974)
Blackfeather    Seasons of change + Mango’s theme (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
Company Caine   Now I'm together (1972) (b-side of single / bonus track on A Product Of  A Broken Reality)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Any orange night (1970) (Joint Effort)
Spectrum    Superbody (1970) (Part One)
9pm
Kahvas Jute    Odyssey (1970) (Wide Open)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Lisa (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
The James Taylor Move    Still I can go on (1967) (single only, Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
McPhee    Indian rope man (1972) (McPhee)
The Masters Apprentices    Because I love you (1971) (Choice Cuts)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Tamam Shud    Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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In an Australian TV studio, probably sometime in 1971, Healing Force with the late great Charlie Tumahai:

48 years ago almost to the day (29 to 31 January 1972). the Meadows Technicolour Fair was held at Meadows (SA), featuring a long list of local and interstate acts, particularly notable since it also coincided with the 1972 Sunbury Festival on the same weekend. Bands included Blackfeather, Fraternity, Spectrum and Tamam Shud:

Playlist - 12 October 2019

After an initial selection from the musical legacy of the late and talented, but mercurial, Ginger Baker, the rest of tonight's edition of Seasons Of Change stays pretty much around the late 1960's and some of the trippy music which both pre-dated and co-existed with the progressive rock scene normally heard on Seasons Of Change...

8pm
Cream Sweet wine (Live, 1966) (BBC Sessions)
Cream Tales of brave Ulysses (1967) (Disraeli Gears)
Cream White room (1968) (Wheels Of Fire)
Hawkwind Levitation (1980) (Levitation)
Procol Harum In the wee small hours of sixpence (1968) (single only, bonus track on Shine On Brightly)
Fleetwood Mac World in harmony (live, Boston, 1970) (The Blues Collection)
Jefferson Airplane White rabbit (1967) (Surrealistic Pillow)
Gandalf Can you travel in the dark alone (1968) (Gandalf)
Ginger Baker Mektoub (1990) (Middle Passage)
Egg Fugue in D minor (1970) (Egg)
9pm
Tully Sea of joy (Part 1) (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Levi Smith's Clefs Lisa (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Tamam Shud Bali waters (1972) (Morning Of The Earth film s/track)
Kahvas Jute Ascend (1970) (Wide Open)
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & The Trinity Season of the witch (1967) (Open)
Jeff St John & Copperwine Can’t find my way home (1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet Crimson ships (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star Vol..2)
The Zombies Hung on a dream (1968) (Odyssey & Oracle)
The Byrds Chimes of freedom (1965) (Mr. Tambourine Man)
Fraternity Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)

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There's not a lot of footage of Ginger Baker's brief tenure during 1980/1981 with veteran UK space-rock band Hawkwind, but here is nearly six minutes of a rather grainy promo for Hawkwind with Ginger and the title track from the "Levitation" album:

Plus just a brief glimpse of Barrie Mcaskill with Levi Smiths Clefs (by then Sydney-based, ex-Adelaide) hamming it up in an ABC TV studio, probably in 1969:

Playlist - 14 September 2019

8pm
Eddie Rayner & ENZO: Stranger than Fiction    Titus + Spellbound + 129 + Edible flowers (live) (2014) (ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction - Live)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Any orange night + You don’t have to listen (1970) (Joint Effort)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident / Prognosis 3)
A Lonely Crowd    Tyranny of dissonance (2011) (User Hostile)
Aura Form     Walking through Fallout (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
9pm
Symphony X    The Divine Wings of Tragedy (1997) (The Divine Wings of Tragedy)
Captain Beyond    Dancing madly backwards (on a sea of air) (1972) (Captain Beyond)
Captain Beyond    Everything’s a circle (1973) (Sufficiently Breathless)
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick Part 2 (1972) (Thick As A Brick)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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And if you want to see some of the ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction concert, selected footage from the concerts are available on Eddie Rayner's Youtube channel, including Spellbound:

Playlist - 2 February 2019

The first in an occasional series of programs focused on and around the "head music" scene in the capital cities around Australia, tonight moving from late 1969 to mid 1971 and featuring Fraternity, Levi Smiths Clefs (Adelaide), Healing Force, Sons Of The Vegetal Mother, Spectrum (Melbourne), Dave Miller Set, Kahvas Jute, Samael Lilith, Tamam Shud, Tully (Sydney) and Jeff St John (Perth/Sydney).

8pm
Tamam Shud    Mr Strange + It’s a beautiful day (Nov 1969) (Evolution)
Tamam Shud    I love you all + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (Oct 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    See the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth film s/track / bonus track on re-issue of Goolutionites And The Real People)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (Feb 1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Lisa (March 1970) (Empty Monkey)
Tully    The sun is shining (July 1970) (Tully)
Tully    Sea of joy (Part 1) (June 1971) (Sea Of Joy)
9pm
Sons Of The Vegetal Mother    Love is the law + Make it begin (Oct 1970) (Garden Party EP)
Kahvas Jute    Vikings + Free (Jan 1971) (Wide Open)
Dave Miller Set    Mr Guy Fawkes (July 1969) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Dave Miller Set    No need to cry (March 1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974)
Spectrum    Drifting (March 1971) (Part One)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (March 1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (July 1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From 1970, Spectrum, in trippy mode, on the ABC TV show GTK :

Playlist - 15 December 2018

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, spending some time with some of the more interesting releases from 2018, including homegrown Adelaide talent Southern Empire, Peak and Andy Salvanos plus Aragon and Circadian Pulse from interstate. There's also selections from the musical legacy of talented singer Jeff St John, Mike Harrison (Spooky Tooth), Ray Thomas (The Moody Blues) and Hugh McDowell (long-serving cello-player with ELO).

8pm
Southern Empire    Crossroads (2018) (Civilisation)
Peak    Gorilla gas (2018) (Slizdexics Untie)
Aragon    Changes (1993/2018) (Rocking Horse And Other Short Stories From The Past)
Circadian Pulse    Suspended (2018) (Elements Of Existence)
Andy Salvanos    Nightcliff (2018) (Solar Cycles)
9pm
Damanek    Ragusa (2018) (In Flight)
Big Big Train    The transit of Venus across the sun (live) (2018) (Merchants Of Light)
Sons Of Apollo    Lost in oblivion (2018) (Psychotic Symphony)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort / So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star Vol..2)
Spooky Tooth     Better by you, better than me (1969) (Spooky 2)
The Moody Blues    Legend of a mind (1968) (In Search Of The Lost Chord)
Electric Light Orchestra     Poker (1975) (Face The Music)
Pink Floyd    Keep talking (1987) (The Division Bell)

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This playlist is also on the AMRAP radiopages.info site: http://5pba.radiopages.info/seasons-of-change.

If you would like more from Melbourne band Circadian Pulse, here they are (via their own Youtube channel) performing live in 2012 with their song "Hourglass":

Plus more from...

Jeff St John and the ID (still stuck in what looks like a storeroom at Channel 7)

Mike Harrison with Spooky Tooth, from 2007 and still sounding good...

Ray Thomas with The Moodies

Playlist - 26 May 2018

8pm
Roine Stolt    Humanizzimo (1994) (The Flower King)
Lifesigns    Cardington (2017) (Cardington)
Jeff St John’s Copperwine    Fanciful flights of mind (1970) (Joint Effort / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Jeff St John & Yama    Nothing comes easy (1966) (single only, bonus track on reissue of Big Time Operators)
Jeff St John & The ID    Stupidity (live) (1967?) (bonus track on reissue of Big Time Operators)
Jeff St John & The ID    Big time operator (1967) (Big Time Operators)
Jeff St John & The ID    Eastern dream (1967) (single only, bonus track on reissue of Big Time Operators)
9pm
Southern Empire    The bridge that binds (2016) (Southern Empire)
Kansas    Can I tell you (1974 US, 1975 UK) (Kansas)
Kansas    Dust in the wind (1977) (Point Of Know Return)
Marillion    Seasons end (1989) (Seasons End)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Playlist - 11 February 2017

8pm
The James Taylor Move Still I can go on (1967)  (single only, Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
The James Taylor Move Magic eyes (1967)  (single only, Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Jeff St John’s Copperwine Fanciful flights of mind (1970) (Joint Effort)
Levi Smith's Clefs Relief from a lighted doorway (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Spectrum Superbody (1970) (Part One)
Kahvas Jute Odyssey (1970)  (Wide Open)
Bakery The gift (1971) (Momento)
Flake Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother / Psych Bites)
Tully Thank you + Sea Of Joy Part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
9pm
Genesis Entangled (1976) (A Trick Of The Tail)
Steve Hackett Icarus ascending (1978) (Please Don’t Touch)
GTR When the heart rules the mind (live, 1986) (1997) (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
Steve Hackett Dance on a volcano (live, 2013) (Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith)
Cybotron Black devil’s triangle (1980) (Implosion)
King Crimson Easy money (Mar 1973/2012) (Larks Tongues In Aspic / 40th Anniversary Edition)
Aragon In a lifetime (2014) (single only)

Playlist - 2 July 2016

Tonight, another selection of progressive rock from around the world and from here in Australia, including classic music from Kahvas Jute (Sydney) and Levi Smiths Clefs (Adelaide/Melbourne) and more recent releases from Like Leaves (Adelaide) Sympathy Orchestra (Adelaide)  and Ben Craven (Brisbane). And it's happy birthday this weekend to Colin Edwin (born in Melbourne, now the long-time bass player for UK band Porcupine Tree).

8pm
Karmakanic    Turn it up (2011) (In A Perfect World)
The Flower Kings    The wonder wheel (1995) (Return To The World Of Adventures)
Opeth    Marrow of the earth (2011) (Heritage)
Porcupine Tree    Way out of here (2007)  (Fear Of A Blank Planet)
Porcupine Tree    Hatesong (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
Iona    An atmosphere of miracles Pt.3 (2011) (Another Realm)
Like Leaves    Swordfight (2011) (Like Leaves)
Kahvas Jute    Politician (live) (2005)  (Wide Open, bonus track on re-issue)
9pm
Pink Floyd    Shine on you crazy diamond Pt.1 to 7 (1975) (Wish You Were Here)
Vanishing Point    Walls of silence + Beyond redemption (Intro) + King of empty promises (2014) (Distant Is The Sun)
Panic Room    Nocturnal (2012) (Skin)
Manning   DAVID LOGAN (1967 - 2022): The southern waves (2011) (Margaret’s Children)
Sympathy Orchestra    Upstart (2014) (Sword Machine)
10pm
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick (radio edit) (1972) (Thick As A Brick)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet    Crimson ships (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star Vol..2)
Rush    Red Sector A + Closer to the heart (live) (1989) (A Show Of Hands)
Rush    The big money (1985) (Power Windows)
Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier    Third time down (2013) (Stories Of Ghosts)
Ben Craven    Revenge of Dr Komodo + Last chance to hear Part 2 (2016) (Last Chance To Hear)

Playlist - 9 January 2016

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 Doug Parkinson In Focus, Flake, Jeff St John, Levi Smith's Clefs, Tamam Shud, Tully and Zoot.

8pm
Renaissance    Islands (single, January 1970) (Renaissance)
Van der Graaf Generator    Refugees (January 1970) (The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other)
Egg    Fugue in D minor (March 1970) (Egg)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (March 1970) (Empty Monkey)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet    Crimson ships (April 1970) (single only)
King Crimson    Cat food (May 1970) (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Quatermass    Black sheep of the family (May 1970) (Quatermass)
Yes    Time and a word (June 1970) (Time And A Word)
9pm
Uriah Heep    Come away, Melinda (June 1970) (Very 'Eavy... Very 'Umble)
Quintessence    Sea of immortality (1970)  (Quintessence)
Atomic Rooster    Tomorrow night (single, July 1970) (Death Walks Behind You)
Tully    You realise you realise (July 1970) (Tully)
Zoot    Flying (July 1970) (Just Zoot / Zoot Locker)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (rec. 1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Flake    Wheel’s on fire (1970) (single, bonus track on reissue of How’s Your Mother)
Hawkwind    Hurry on sundown (August 1970) (Hawkwind)
The Moody Blues    Question (August 1970) (A Question Of Balance)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (September 1970) (single only, Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Beggar’s Opera    Poet and peasant (1970) (Act One)
10pm
Pink Floyd    If (October 1970)  (Atom Heart Mother)
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)
Genesis    The knife (October 1970) (Trespass)
Pete Brown & Piblokto!    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 - 10 October 2015

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, featuring classic music from Jeff St John and Spectrum and more recent releases from Andy Salvanos (Adelaide), The Lammas Tide (Perth) and Transience (Melbourne), plus Caligula's Horse (Brisbane) ahead of their gig here in Adelaide next Saturday (with UK heavy band TesseracT and Adelaide's Dyssidia). And it's happy birthday this weekend to a talented songwriter born in Liverpool 75 years ago.

8pm
Spectrum    Love’s my bag (1971) (Milesago)
Jeff St John’s Copperwine    Fanciful flights of mind (1970) (Joint Effort / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Colosseum    Valentyne suite (1970) (Valentyne Suite)
Yes    Perpetual change (1971)  (The Yes Album)
Nektar    A tab in the ocean (1972) (A Tab In The Ocean)
9pm
The Beatles    Strawberry fields forever (1967) (single only)
The Beatles    I want you (She’s so heavy) (1969) (Abbey Road)
John Lennon    Imagine (1971) (Imagine)
Porcupine Tree    Arriving somewhere but not here (2005) (Deadwing)
No-Man    True north (2008) (Schoolyard Ghosts)
Christina (Booth)    The light (2015) (The Light)
Leprous    The price (2015) (The Congregation)
Maestoso (Woolly Wolstenholme)    Birds (2005) (Grim)
10pm
Caligula’s Horse    Old cracks in new earth + Thief + All is quiet by the wall (2013) (The Tide, The Thief & River's End)
The Lammas Tide    Dragonfly + When all is said and done (2014) (Barefoot Electric)
Transience    Anglophobia + Nails (2015) (Temple)
Andy Salvanos    Happy song (2011) (Dream Recall)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)

Playlist - 4 July 2015

This week, a marathon of music from the band Yes as a tribute to the late Chris Squire, plus classic and more recent music from the Australian bands Company Caine, Cybotron and Unitopia from 2013 with their own tribute to Yes.

8pm
Yes    Roundabout (1972) (Fragile)
Yes    Looking around (1969) (Yes)
Yes    Sweet dreams (1970) (Time And A Word)
Yes    Yours is no disgrace (1971) (The Yes Album)
Yes    Long distance runaround – The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus) (1972) (Fragile)
Yes    And you and I (1972) (Close To The Edge)
Yes    Heart of the sunrise (live, 1973) (Yessongs)
9pm
Chris Squire    Silently falling (1975) (Fish Out Of Water)
Yes    Soundchaser (1974) (Relayer)
Yes    Going for the one (1977) (Going For The One)
Yes    On the silent wings of freedom (1978) (Tormato)
Yes    Tempus fugit (1980) (Drama)
Yes    Owner of a lonely heart (1983) (90125)
10pm
Yes    Can you imagine (2001) (Magnification)
Yes    Fly from here Pt.1 (2011) (Fly From Here)
Yes    In a world of our own (2014) (Heaven & Earth)
Yes    Looking around (live) (1969/1997/1999) (BBC Sessions 1969-1970 Something's Coming / The Millenium Collection)
Unitopia    Yes medley (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1)
Cybotron    Black devil’s triangle (1980) (Implosion)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort)

Playlist - 10 January 2015

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 Doug Parkinson, Flake, Jeff St John, Samael Lilith, Tamam Shud, Tully and Zoot.

8am
Jethro Tull    The witches promise (January 1970) (single only  / M.U. The Best Of)
The Golden Earring    Eight miles high (January 1970) (Eight Miles High)
Egg    Fugue in D minor (March 1970) (Egg)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet    Crimson ships (April 1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
King Crimson    Cat food (May 1970) (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Yes    Sweet dreams (June, 1970) (Time And A Word)
9pm
Zoot    Flying (July 1970) (Just Zoot)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (rec. 1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Flake    Wheel’s on fire (1970) (How’s Your Mother)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Traffic     John Barleycorn (July 1970)  (John Barleycorn Must Die)
Affinity    Three sisters (1970) (Affinity)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (September 1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Beggar’s Opera    Raymond’s road (1971) (Act One)
Pink Floyd    Fat old sun (October 1970)  (Atom Heart Mother)
Syd Barrett    Octopus (January 1970) (The Madcap Laughs)
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)
Tully    You realise you realise (July 1970) (Tully)
Genesis    Stagnation (October 1970) (Trespass)
Curved Air    It happened today (November 1970) (Air Conditioning)
The  Nice    Intermezzo from the Karelia suite (June 1970)  (Five Bridges Suite)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer    The barbarian (November 1970) (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Zoot    Eleanor Rigby (December 1970) (single only / Zoot Locker)

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 - 28 September 2013

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, starting with an hour of classic music from Australia and NZ circa the 1970's. After 9pm, a generous side serving of cheese with the epic suite "2112" from Rush. The musical archaeology this week reveals the Adelaide band The Bucket, with a slice of psychedlia from 1968. And it's happy birthday this weekend to the fine drummer Andy Ward (Camel).

8pm
Airlord    Pictures in a puddle + Out of the woods (1977) (Clockwork Revenge)
Split Enz    Titus (1975) (Second Thoughts)
Kahvas Jute    Free + Ascend (1970)  (Wide Open)
Ariel    Worm turning blues (1973) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Wendy Saddington    Looking through a window (1971) (single only, bonus track on reissue of Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1971) (Joint Effort)
The James Taylor Move    Magic eyes (1967) (single only, Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Kevin Peek    Drifting (1982) (Life And Other Games)
9pm
Rush    2112 (1976) (2112)
Rush    The wreckers (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Ozric Tentacles    Myriapod (1994) (Arborescence)
Moon Safari    Mega moon (2013) (Himlabecken Vol.1)
Maschine    Rubidium (2013) (Rubidium)
10pm
Camel    Slow yourself down (1973) (Camel)
Camel    Skylines (1977) (Raindances)
Camel    Ligging at Louis (live) (1978) (A Live Record)
Supertramp    Fool’s overture + Two of us + Crime of the century (live) (1980) (Paris)
Roger Hodgson    Had a dream (1984) (In The Eye Of The Storm)
The Bucket    I can’t help thinking of you (1968) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Urtekk    Euphonics (2013) (Urtekk EP)