Playlist - 1 April 2023

Starting tonight with a tribute to the late lyricist Keith Reid, best known for providing the lyrics for almost every song by Procol Harum (and numerous other songs including "You're the voice" by John Farnham); then continuing for the rest of the evening with a banquet of music from Adelaide-based artists, past and present.

8pm
Procol Harum    An old English Dream (2003) (The Well’s On Fire)
Procol Harum    Typewriter torment (1975) (Procol’s Ninth)
The Noteworthys    A whiter shade of pale (full) [The Lost Verses} (2018) (digital single)
Levi Smith's Clefs    You can’t do that (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Fraternity    Seasons of change (1971, single version) (Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Fraternity    Question (1971) (B-side of single “Why did it have to be me?” / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Fraternity    You have a god (1971) (Livestock / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Sound    Lemon patch (2020) (Listen)
9pm
Unitopia    Slow down (2006/2017) (More Than A Dream - The Dream Complete)
Southern Empire    Hold (2016) (Southern Empire)
Solar Soma    Two headed dog (2013) (So Much For Style)
Projected Twin    Circle of two (2010) (Earth To World)
The Slow Light    Cinema of the mind (live) (2020) (Live At Ghostnote Studios)
Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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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 - 18 June 2022

Tonight celebrating a couple of birthdays - Mike Rudd, the NZ-born veteran of the Australian music scene (with Spectrum, Ariel and numerous other projects since then) who celebrated his 77th birthday last Wednesday; and Paul McCartney, who turns 80 today.

8pm
Genesis    The Cinema Show/Aisle of plenty (1973) (Selling England By The Pound)
Locanda delle Fate    A vette un istante di quiete (1977) (Forse le lucciole non si amano piu)
Steve Hackett    Dancing with the moonlit knight (live) (2013) (Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith)
The Beatles    Penny Lane (1967) (single only)
Paul McCartney & Wings    Silly love songs (1976) (Wings At The Speed Of Sound)
Paul McCartney & Wings    Band on the run (1973) (Band On The Run)
Paul McCartney & Wings    Mull of Kintyre (1977) (single)
9pm
Spectrum    Trust me (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Men in Grey Raincoats (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Ariel    And if it wasn’t for you (1973) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Ariel    Rock ‘n roll scars (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus track)
Ariel    I can’t say what I mean (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus track)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (live, 2003) (Forever Music presents: Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Fraternity    You have a god (1971) (Livestock / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Fraternity    Seasons of change (1971, single version) (Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)

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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 - 26 September 2020

Starting with Uriah Heep circa 1972 with their long-time drummer Lee Kerslake, who passed away this week; plus classic music from Levi Smith's Clefs (Adelaide) and more recent recordings from Unitopia (Adelaide) and Sebastian Hardie (Sydney); as well as newly released songs from expat singer Emily Barker (now based in the UK). From the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book, Wendy Saddington (Melbourne).

8pm
Uriah Heep    Poet’s justice (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Uriah Heep    Blind eye + The magician’s birthday (1972) (The Magician’s Birthday)
Levi Smith's Clefs    You can’t do that (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine    Five people said I was crazy (live, 1971) (Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
Emily Barker    Where have the sparrows gone? (2020) (A Dark Murmuration of Words)
9pm
Sebastian Hardie    Four Moments suite (live) (1997) (Live in LA)
Unitopia    More than a dream (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
Camel    Wait (live) (1984) (Pressure Points – Live In Concert)
Camel    Fingertips (1984) (Stationary Traveller)
Emily Barker    The woman who planted trees (2020) (A Dark Murmuration of Words)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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The Levi Smith's Clefs, fronted by Barrie McAskill, flailing dramatically at their instruments to accompany one of their more concise songs, "Road runner", for the ABC TV show Hit Scene:

From Emily Barker (originally from Bridgetown, WA):

Playlist - 25 April 2020

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits, this week with an Anzac Day special of music from Australia and New Zealand, mostly from the classic period of the early to mid '70's, including Bakery, Levi  Smith's Clefs, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully from Australia - and Dragon, Split Enz and Ticket from New Zealand.

8pm
Kahvas Jute    Steps of time (1971) (Wide Open)
Spectrum    Mumbles I wonder why (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    Milesago (1972) (Milesago)
Tully    Loving is hard (1972) (Loving Is Hard)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/t, bonus track on CD reissue of Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Empty monkey (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (single only, Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Bakery    Living with a memory (1971) (Momento)
9pm
Ticket    Awake (1972) (Awake)
Dragon    Going slow (1974) (Universal Radio)
Shona Laing    1905 (1972) (single only / Nature's Best - New Zealand’s Top 100 Songs Of All Time Vol.2)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Home sweet home (1979) (Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    I hope I never (1980) (True Colours)
Healing Force    Golden miles (1971/1994) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Flake    Dream if you can (1970) (How's Your Mother!)
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest    Housesteads - Hadrian’s wall (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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From the forgotten years of Oz rock, The Shud, playing live on GTK (ABC TV) in 1971:

and Doug Parkinson In Focus, the same year, on Hit Scene (ABC TV)...

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 - 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 - 28 April 2018

Tonight, recent releases from Aquanaut (Melbourne), Drawn From Bees (Brisbane) and Pirate (Sydney) as well as the classic sound of Levi Smith's Clefs (Adelaide). And the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book has birthdays for fantasy writer Terry Pratchett and talented keyboardist Eddie Jobson (Curved Air, Frank Zappa, Roxy Music, UK and many more).

8pm
Steeleye Span    Overture + The Dark Morris Song + The good witch (2013) (Wintersmith, collab. with Terry Pratchett)
Dave Greenslade    A-Tuin the Turtle (1994) (Tales from the Discworld: Terry Pratchett)
Transatlantic    All of the above (2000) (Transatlantic)
Levi Smith’s Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (1970) (Empty Monkey)
9pm
Curved Air    Metamorphosis (1973) (Air Cut)
UK    In the dead of night (1978) (UK)
Drawn From Bees    Gravity (2017) (single only)
Drawn From Bees    Coldest night (2017) (single only)
Drawn From Bees    Picture show (2008) (The Boy And The Ocean)
Pirate    In the balance (2011) (Left Of Mind)
Aquanaut    Centre nil (2008) (Tastemaker Suite)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Playlist - 2 September 2017

8pm
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (1970) (Empty Monkey)
The James Taylor Move    Magic eyes (1967)  (single only)
Threshold    Lost in translation (2017) (Legend Of The Shires)
Threshold    Ashes (radio edit) (2012) (March Of Progress)
Ghostwriters    The wolves close in (2007) (Political Animal)
The Break    Five rocks (2009) (Church Of The Open Sky)
Midnight Oil    Outbreak of love (1993) (Earth And Sun And Moon)
9pm
Moon Safari    Other side of the sky (live, 2011) (The Gettysburg Address)
Van der Graaf Generator    Darkness 11/11 (1970) (The least we can do is wave to each other)
Sky   Carillon (1979) (Sky)
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 - 23 April 2016

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits, this week with an Anzac Day special of music from Australia and New Zealand, mostly from the classic period of the early to mid '70's, including The Masters, Sebastian Hardie, Tamam Shud and Tully from Australia - and Airlord, Dragon, Split Enz and Ticket from New Zealand. Meanwhile, the Australian classical guitarist John Williams is in the Seasons Of Change birthday book.

8pm
Southern Empire    How long (2016) (Southern Empire)
Anubis    Collapse (live) (2012) (A King With No Crown, single)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Second Thoughts)
Ticket    Dream chant + Awake (1972) (Awake)
The Masters Apprentices    Melodies of St. Kilda/Southern Cross + Thyme to rhyme (1972) (A Toast To Panama Red)
9pm
Dragon    Darkness (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind)
Dragon    Universal radio (1974) (Universal Radio)
Airlord    Pictures in a puddle + Out of the woods (1977) (Clockwork Revenge)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Tamam Shud    Bali waters (1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/track / bonus track on re-issue of Goolutionites And The Real People)
10pm
John Williams    Sarabande (1971) (Changes)
Sky    Where Opposites Meet (1979) (Sky)
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (1975) (The Four Moments)
Cybotron    Parameters of consciousness (1976) (Cybotron)

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 - 25 April 2015

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits, this week with an Anzac Day special of music from Australia and New Zealand, mostly from the classic period of the early to mid '70's, including Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully from Australia - and Dragon, Split Enz and Ticket from New Zealand.

8pm
Spectrum    I'll be gone (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    Mumbles I wonder why (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    Milesago (1972) (Milesago)
Tully    Loving is hard (1972) (Loving Is Hard)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Tamam Shud    Bali waters (live, 1971) (Goolutionites And The Real People, bonus track on CD reissue)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Bakery    Living with a memory (1971) (Momento)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Empty monkey (1970) (Empty Monkey)
9pm
Ticket    Awake (1972) (Awake)
Dragon    Universal Radio (1974) (Universal Radio)
Dragon    Going slow (1974) (Universal Radio)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975)
Split Enz    Home sweet home (1979) (Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    Shark attack (live) (1999) (Other Enz: Split Enz And Beyond Volume 1)
Healing Force    Golden miles (1971/1994) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Healing Force    Erection (live) (1973/2002) (Highlights Of Sunbury 1973 and 1974)
Flake    Dream if you can (1970) (How's Your Mother!)
10pm
Rainbow Theatre    Dancer (1976) (Fantasy Of Horses)
Sebastian Hardie    Rosanna (1975) (Four Moments)
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest    The Famine Suite (1997) (In The Home Of My Ancestors)
Ben Craven    Great and Terrible Potions (2011) (Great And Terrible Potions)
Cybotron    Eureka (Guitar version) (1980)  (Implosion, bonus track from CD reissue)

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Playlist - 22 November 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Adelaide's Sympathy Orchestra and Unitopia,  and the new CD from The Lammas Tide (Perth); plus some classic early '70's music from Barrie McAskill and the Levi Smith's Clefs. And it's happy birthday this weekend to Steve Swindells (songwriter and keyboardist with Hawkwind, who contributed a mildly successful single during his brief tenure with the band).

8pm
Starting with a little birthday music, then continuing with:
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway + You can’t do that (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Freedom To Glide    Rain (Part 1) + Anywhere Else But Here + Path Of Reason+ Riders on a wave (2013) (Rain)
Tin Spirits    Old hands (2014) (Scorch)
Steeleye Span    Overture + The Dark Morris Song + The good witch (2013) (Wintersmith)
Jethro Tull    Broadsword (1982) (Broadsword And The Beast)
9pm
Unitopia    Take good care (2005) (More Than A Dream)
Unitopia    Even in the quietest moments (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1 Smooth As Silk)
Moon Safari    Too young to say goodbye (2013) (Himlabecken Vol.1)
The Flower Kings    Dark fascist skies (2013) (Desolation Rose)
10pm
The Lammas Tide    Barefoot electric (2014) (Barefoot Electric)
The Lammas Tide    The Devil’s stone (2011) (High Tide)
Sympathy Orchestra    May the middle (2014) (Sword Machine)
Hawkwind    High Rise (live) (1978/1992) (The Hawklords Live)
Hawkwind    Shot down in the night (live) (1979) (Live ‘79)
Andy Jackson    The boy in the forest (2014) (Signal To Noise)
Pink Floyd    Side 2: Sum + Skins + Unsung + Anisina (2014) (The Endless River)