Playlist - 18 April 2020

Featuring an extended serving of Enz, Split Enz, as yesterday was the birthday of the redoubtable Noel Crombie, set designer, band stylist, percussionist and formidable player of the spoons....

8pm
Kettlespider    The climber + Anubis (2017) (Kettlespider)
Vita Voom    Infinity curtains (2020) (digital single)
Split Enz    Ninnie knees up (1984) (See Ya Round)
Split Enz    Dirty creature (1982) (Time And Tide)
Split Enz    Strait old line (live) (1993) (Greatest Hits Live!)
Tiger Moth Tales    The ballad of Longshanks John (2020) (A Visit to Zoetermeer)
Platypus    Rock balls / Destination unknown (1998) (When Pus Comes To Shove)
9pm
Hawkwind    City of lagoons (1976) (Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music)
Cybotron    Vulcan (live) (1976/2020) (Sunday Night At The Total Theatre)
The Merlin Bird    Rhyme to reason + Reason to rhyme (2003) (Rhyme To Reason)
Spock’s Beard    The bottom line (2003) (Feel Euphoria)
Gandalf’s Fist    Solar huntress (2019) (The Clockwork Prologue)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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Noel and the spoons and The Enz, in concert, 1977:

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Playlist - 11 March 2017

Tonight, another expedition into the musical world of progressive rock from around the world and from here in Australia, with recent releases from Andy Salvanos, Montresor, The Merlin Bird and Southern Empire. And the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book has birthdays this weekend for bass player Les Holroyd (BJH), guitarist Tom Scholz (Boston) and the late author Douglas Adams, whose enthusiasm for Pink Floyd was manifested in many and varied ways ('Do you realise that robot can hum like Pink Floyd?').

8pm
Barclay James Harvest    Song for you (1975) (Time Honoured Ghosts)
Barclay James Harvest    Jonathon (1978) (Live Tapes)
Alan Simon & Les Holroyd    Call (2007) (Excalibur II: The Celtic Ring)
Southern Empire    Forest fire (2016) (Southern Empire)
Andy Salvanos    To be like stars (2016) (Transform)
Boston    You gave up on love (2.0) (2013) (Life, Love & Hope)
Boston    More than a feeling (197?) (Boston)
Sympathy Orchestra    May the middle (2014) (Sword Machine)
9pm
Pink Floyd    Shine on you crazy diamond Pt.1 to 7 (1975) (Wish You Were Here)
Montresor    Medusa (2011) (Daybreak)
The Merlin Bird    Rhyme to reason + Reason to rhyme (2003) (Rhyme To Reason)
Moon Safari    Mega moon (live) (2014) (Live In Mexico)
Moon Safari    Constant bloom (2007) (blomljud)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Playlist - 7 March 2015

This week, for the first program for Autumn, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, featuring a selection from the recently reissued 1976 debut album by the Australian electronic group Cybotron, plus Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest (Adelaide), The Merlin Bird (Melbourne) and Andy Salvanos (Adelaide), plus classic music from Fraternity (Adelaide) and Tamam Shud (Sydney). And it's happy birthday this weekend for Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum), Robert Calvert (Hawkwind) and Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd).

8pm
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974)
Jade Warrior    Sun Ra + Sun child + Moontears + Heaven stone + Way of the sun (1978) (Way Of The Sun)
Ozric Tentacles    Dharma reggae (1984) (Erpsongs)
Ozric Tentacles    White rhino tea (live, 2007) (Sunrise Festival)
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest    Stonehenge (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Andy Salvanos    Radiant (2011) (Dream Recall)
The Merlin Bird    Rhyme to reason (2003) (Rhyme To Reason)
9pm
Cybotron    Parameters of consciousness (1976) (Cybotron)
Cybotron    Sonic Override: Gliding / The riddle / Answer (1976) (Cybotron)
Lonely Robot    Construct/Obstruct (Feb 2015) (Please Come Home)
It Bites    The tall ships (2008) (The Tall Ships)
Aisles    Hero (2013) (4:45AM)
Procol Harum    A whiter shade of pale (1967) (single only)
10pm
David Gilmour    Smile (2006) (On an Island)
Pink Floyd    Wish you were here (1975) (Wish You Were Here)
Dave Gilmour    Comfortably numb (live, 2006) (Live In Gdansk)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (live, 2007) (Noosa Rain)
Tamam Shud    GTK Theme/America (1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
The Reasoning    Hyperdrive (2012) (Adventures In Neverland)
Mike Oldfield    Tubular bells (single version) (1973) (Tubular Bells)
Hawkwind    Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977) (Quark, Strangeness and Charm)
Cybotron    Eureka (Guitar version) (1980)  (Implosion, bonus track on CD reissue)

Playlist - 25 January 2014

It's Australia Day this Sunday - so it's likely there'll be great Australian music all over your radio this weekend, from one end of the dial to the other, and that's as it should be.

But there's probably only one place you'll hear classic progressive rock from legendary bands such as Spectrum and Tamam Shud, plus great music from more recent releases by Ben Craven, Voyager, The Lammas Tide and Adelaide's own Unitopia, plus some cracking live recordings from the archives: that's Seasons Of Change - all-Australian, this Saturday night, from 8pm until 11pm.

8pm
Sebastian Hardie    Art of life (2012) (Blueprint)
Ben Craven    The conjurer (2011) (Great & Terrible Potions)
Unitopia    More than a dream (2005) (More Than A Dream)
Voyager    Falling (2007) (Univers)
Kettlespider    The kettle spider (2010) (demo)
The Lammas Tide    The Devil’s stone (2011) (High Tide)
The Merlin Bird    Rhyme to reason (2003) (Rhyme To Reason)
Sympathy Orchestra    Sword machine (2014) (Sword Machine)
Andy Salvanos    Happy song (2011) (Dream Recall)

9pm
Lobby Loyde & Southern Electric    Dreamtide (1976)  (Obsecration)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth, soundtrack)
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Spectrum    Milesago (1971) (Milesago)
Kahvas Jute    Odyssey (1970)  (Wide Open)
Goanna    Common ground (1984)  (Oceania)

10pm
Madder Lake    Bumper bar song + When is a mouse (live, 1973) (Still Point, bonus track on re-issue)
Ayers Rock    Morning magic (live, 1974) (Sunbury)
Spectrum    I’ll be gone + Some good advice (live at Sunbury, 1972) (Milesago, bonus track on re-issue)
Tamam Shud    Bali waters (live, 1971) (Goolutionites (and the real people), bonus track on re-issue)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)

Playlist - 14 September 2013

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas. New music from the Australian band Hibernal and some new but slightly retro sounding electronica from Adelaide's Urtekk, as well as classic music from Tamam Shud, Flake and Fraternity from the early 1970's. And it's happy birthday to singer Maggie Reilly (Mike Oldfield) and the late bass player Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond).

8pm
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974)
Procol Harum    Cerdes (outside the gates of) (1967) (Procol Harum)
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Tamam Shud    First things first (1972) (Morning Of The Earth, soundtrack)
Haken    The mind’s eye + Portals + Shapeshifter (2011) (Visions)
Mike Oldfield    To France (1984) (Discovery)
Mike Oldfield    Moonlight shadow (1983) (Crises)
XII Alfonso (feat. Maggie Reilly)    Earliest recollection (2012) (Charles Darwin)
9pm
Hibernal    This high + Downward + An open door + Home + Losing touch (2013) (The Machine)
Ozric Tentacles    Dots thots (1984) (Erpsongs)
Hawkwind    Motorway city (1980)  (Levitation)
Captain Beyond    Dancing madly backwards (on a sea of air) (1972) (Captain Beyond)
Captain Beyond    Starglow energy (1973) (Sufficiently Breathless)
10pm
Iron Butterfly    In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda (1968) (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda)
Steeleye Span    Montrose (live, 1978) (Live At Last)
The Merlin Bird    Rhyme to reason + Reason to rhyme (2003) (Rhyme To Reason)
Urtekk    Euphonics (2013) (Urtekk EP)