Playlist - 28 January 2023

Recent music from around Australia, including The Slow Light, Peak, Unitopia, Southern Empire and Projected Twin (here in Adelaide), Em Burrows, formerly of The Lammas Tide (Perth), All India Radio and Kilbey Kennedy (Hobart), Quandary (Brisbane), plus Toehider and King Gizzard (Melbourne). And last Wednesday (the day before Australia Day) was also the anniversary of the birth of the bard, Robert Burns.

8pm
The Slow Light    Twin Earth – Part IV (2023) (Sessions)
The Slow Light    Liminal (2022) (Limiinal)
Em Burrows    Timeline (2016) (Solitary Sounds, EP)
Web Rumors (Em Burrows)    Cruel sister (2022) (single)
Eddi Reader    Love is like a red, red rose (2008) (The Songs Of Robert Burns)
Peak    Where's Floyd? (2018) (Slizdexics Untie)
Urtekk    Euphonics (2013) (Urtekk)
9pm
Unitopia    Lives go round (Sean’s re-work) (2017) (More Than A Dream: The Dream Complete)
Southern Empire    Forest fire (2016) (Southern Empire)
Projected Twin    Earth to world (live in studio) (2021) (Earth To World : Live From Lauda Studios)
All India Radio    Wolves of Orion (2022) (The Generator Of All Infinity)
Kilbey Kennedy    Halfway (2021) (Jupiter 13)
Quandary    Waiting for change (2010) (Ready To Fail)
Toehider    The hoarder (single version) (2022) (I Have Little to No Memory Of These Memories)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Exploding suns (2022) (Changes)

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From Brisbane band Quandary, FB post circa 2010. "Prog is certainly a serious business" and drummer Geoff Irish was it seems guilty as charged...

Playlist - 24 December 2022

Featuring the traditional Christmas concert by Jethro Tull from St Brides Church in London plus a diverse selection of other festive tunes including songs by Australian performers Unitopia, Toehider and Emma Horwood.

8pm
Toehider    Ding dong merrily on high (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
Toehider    Under the mistletoe (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
Loreena McKennitt    Seeds of love (1995) (A Winter Garden)
Mike Oldfield    In dulce jubilo (1975) (single)
Unitopia    The garden (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
I Am The Manic Whale    Run with the fox (2020) (Christmas Selection Box)
Toehider    Carol of the bells – Choral (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
Toehider    Carol of the bells – Rock (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
9pm
Jethro Tull    Weathercock + Introduction/What cheer + A Christmas song + Living In These Hard Times + Marmion + Jack in the green + Another Christmas song + God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Thick As A Brick (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
Emma Horwood    Noel nouvelet (2010) (Angel Song: A Christmas Blessing)
Reel Big Fish    Little drummer boy (2014) (Happy Skaliday)

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Please enjoy this performance of "The 12 days of Christmas" by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (aka Fleabag), along with some terrific animation - (brief) language warning, by the way:

Playlist - 8 October 2022

Tonight a feast of Aussie music from around the country, starting with the recent release by Adelaide band The Slow Light...and later the new release from Melbourne's Toehider, which is one 47 minute-long song (broken into 2 parts on tonight's show by simple darn necessity...).

8pm
The Slow Light    For absence (2022) (Liminal)
The Slow Light    Three years later (2022) (Liminal)
Southern Empire    Goliath’s moon (2018) (Civilisation)
Canidae    Iron sky (2014) (Nowhere Else But Here)
Toehider    I have little to no memory of these memories Pt.1 (2022) (I Have Little To No Memory Of These Memories)
9pm
Toehider    I have little to no memory of these memories Pt.2 (2022) (I Have Little To No Memory Of These Memories)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Magma (2022) (Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava)
Aquanaut    Tastemaker suite (2008) (Tastemaker Suite)
Arcane    Fulcrum (2007) (Ashes)

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Music with pictures...

The "official" promo video for the  new Toehider song, in a very condensed running time:

Playlist - 27 August 2022

8pm
Quandary    Waiting for change (2010) (Ready To Fail)
The Slow Light    It all lost sense (2022) (Liminal)
The Slow Light    Cinema of the mind (2020) (Cinema Of The Mind)
All India Radio    Beginning Part 1 (2022) (The Generator Of All Infinity)
All India Radio    Jupiter 26 (2022) (The Generator Of All Infinity)
Toehider    The hoarder (single version) (2022) (I Have Little to No Memory Of These Memories)
Quandary    Cloud shapes (2010) (Ready To Fail)
Caligula’s Horse    The city has no empathy (2011) (Moments From Ephemeral City)
9pm
Rush    Kid gloves (1984) (Grace Under Pressure)
Rush    Cygnus X-1 (live) (1978/1998) (Different Stages - Live)
Rush    Headlong flight (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Robert Reed    Ommadawn Part 1 (2022) (Live Tubular Tribute with Robert Reed - Ommadawn 45th Concert)
Moon Safari    Beyond the door (2005) (A Doorway To Summer)

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Herewith to supplement the above fine selections from the Australian music scene, "music with pictures". The music for most of these Aussie bands is available for perusal of course on their respective Bandcamp pages: 

From Brisbane band Quandary, another fine (instrumental)  tune. Sadly, Quandary have since disbanded but guitarist Sam Vallen can still be heard with Caligula's Horse - as was drummer Geoff Irish too (until 2015 that is):

 From Adelaide band The Slow Light, formerly instrumental, now stepping ahead to a future with vocals (a fine band either way) - a track from their upcoming new album Liminal:

From Hobart, All India Radio, also with a new album imminent:

Toehider, aka Michael Mills (of Melbourne), and yet another upcoming album...

Turning the clock back to the year 2011 for Brisbane band Caligula's Horse, a year after Sam Vallen and Geoff Irish recorded the one and only album with the band Quandary:

For posterity, the 45th Anniversary show for Ommadawn by Robert Reed and Tubular Tribute:

Playlist - 28 May 2022

Tonight featuring selections from the musical legacy of the late Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, aka Vangelis, the Greek God of Keyboards. The wall-of-sound musical style is continued with some remarkable sounds from Toehider, aka Michael Mills of Melbourne.

8pm
Vangelis    End Titles from Bladerunner (1999) (Themes)
Vangelis    Antarctic echoes (1983) (Antarctica)
Vangelis (with Jon Anderson)    So long ago so clear (1975) (Heaven And Hell))
Toehider    Jesuitmont (2009) (Toe Hider EP)
Toehider    How do ghosts work? (2017) (Good)
Toehider    Done and dusted (2010) (Done And Dusted, single track EP)
9pm
Vangelis    Origins (2016) (Rosetta)
Vangelis    Mission accomplice (Rosetta’s Waltz) (2016) (Rosetta)
Vangelis    Perihelion (2016) (Rosetta)
Jon & Vangelis    The friends of Mr Cairo (1981) (The Friends Of Mr Cairo)
Jon & Vangelis    He is sailing (1983) (Private Collection)
Jon & Vangelis    Birdsong (1980) (Short Stories)
Aphrodite’s Child    Aegian sea (1972) (666)
Aphrodite’s Child    Seven bowls (1972) (666)
Aphrodite’s Child    The four horsemen (1972) (666)
Vangelis    Chariots of fire (1981) (Chariots Of Fire)

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Playlist - 25 December 2021

Featuring the traditional Christmas concert by Jethro Tull from St Brides Church in London plus a selection of other festive tunes including songs by Australian performers Unitopia, Toehider and Emma Horwood.

8pm
Toehider    Under the mistletoe (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
Steeleye Span    The holly and the ivy (1972) (single)
Loreena McKennitt    Seeds of love (1995) (A Winter Garden)
Mike Oldfield    In dulce jubilo (1975) (single)
Unitopia    The garden (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
I Am The Manic Whale    Run with the fox (2020) (Christmas Selection Box)
Toehider    Carol of the bells – Choral + Carol of the bells – Rock (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
9pm
Jethro Tull    Weathercock + Introduction/What cheer + A Christmas song + Living In These Hard Times + Marmion + Jack in the green + Another Christmas song + A winter snowscape + God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Thick As A Brick (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
Toehider    Dear Santa (2009) (Under The Mistletoe / The Last Six)
Emerson Lake & Palmer    I believe in Father Christmas (1977) (Works Volume 2)
Emma Horwood    Noel nouvelet (2010) (Angel Song: A Christmas Blessing)

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Playlist - 4 December 2021

Your ears will not be deceiving you tonight - starting with musical numbers from the pen of the late Stephen Sondheim, before continuing with a broad selection of prog rock goodness ...

8pm
Original stage cast    You Gotta Have A Gimmick (fr. Gypsy) (1959) (original Broadway cast)
Original film cast    Overture + Comedy tonight  + Search for Mare’s Sweat + Lovely (fr. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum) (1962) (original film soundtrack)
Acolyte    Clarity (2021) (Entropy)
Projected Twin    How she makes me (feat. Chris Lyon) (2020) (digital single)
Chris Cameron    Tiberiu Olah - Sonata for Solo Clarinet (2021) (digital single)
Chris Cameron    Trust (feat. Blondmoss) (2021) (digital single)
Toehider    Concerning Lix and Fairs (2020) (I Like It!)
The Cortex Shift    Opposites subtract (2017) (Songs In The Key Of Lunch)
9pm
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets    Lucifer Sam (live) (2019) (Live At The Roundhouse)
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets    If (live) (2019) (Live At The Roundhouse)
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets    Atom heart mother (live) (2019) (Live At The Roundhouse)
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets    If (Reprise) (live) (2019) (Live At The Roundhouse)
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets    The Nile song (live) (2019) (Live At The Roundhouse)
Pink Floyd    Sorrow (live) (2021) (Live At Knebworth 1990)
Pink Floyd    Run like hell (live) (2021) (Live At Knebworth 1990)
Kypo    Satoshi (2020) (Bluethoven EP)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Melbourne-based drummer Chris Cameron with his arrangement of music by Tiberiu Ola:

A promo video for the nearly 11 minute song "Clarity" by heavy band Acolyte (which also features Chris Cameron):

Jazzy Adelaide instrumental band The Cortex Shift in 2018:

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...

Playlist - 10 April 2021

8pm
Big Big Train    The Second Brightest Star (2017) (The Second Brightest Star)
Freedom To Glide    The right within the wrong (2019) (Seed)
Hawkwind    Farenheit 451 (1982) (Choose Your Masques)
Projected Twin    Post secret (live in studio) (2021) (Earth To World : Live From Lauda Studio)
Urtekk    Euphonics (2013) (Urtekk EP)
Toehider    How much for that dragon tooth? (2020) (I Like It!)
Vangelis    Starstuff (2016) (Rosetta)
Andy Salvanos    Transform (2016) (Transform)
9pm
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)
Yes    Starship Trooper (1971) (The Yes Album)
GTR    When the heart rules the mind (1986) (Live King Biscuit Flower Hour)
The Phil Collins Big Band    Los Endos Suite (1998/2019) (A Hot Night In Paris)

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 0% prog rock, but 100% fun - volksmusic from Bavaria, Germany, to Adelaide via Youtube - DeSchoWieda "feat. Fred and Richard" - I'm Too Sexy (Auf da Bierbank): 

The band's YouTube channel features some original gems too such as this one (German lyrics):

Playlist - 26 December 2020

Tonight, a diverse feast of music as released in the course of the last twelve months.

8pm
The Slow Light    Cinema of the mind (2020) (Cinema Of The Mind)
Dyssidia    Hope’s remorseful retreat (2020) (Costly Signals)
Tiger Moth Tales    Still alive (2020) (Still Alive / A Visit To Rockfield)
Ben Craven & Tim Bennets    Your move & Wurm (live) (2020) (Prog Australis)
Three Wise Monkeys    Svengali (2020) (Isolation EP)
Moonshot    Worlds of yesterday (2020) (Worlds Of Yesterday, A Retrospective 1971-1992)
Caligula's Horse    Salt (2020) (Rise Radiant)
Emily Barker    Machine (solo a capella) (2020) (digital single)
9pm
Wobbler    Five rooms (2020) (Dwellers Of The Deep)
Peak    Nightmist (1980/2020) (EBONDÀZZAR)
Anubis    Home from Home (live, 2020) (2020) (digital single)
Red Sea    Shadow of a man (2020) (Sanguine)
Toehider    Concerning Lix and Fairs (2020) (I Like It!)
Ken Hensley’s Live Fire    Circle of hands (live) (2013) (Live!)
Rush    Afterimage (1984) (Grace Under Pressure)

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From Adelaide's Dyssidia and a promotional video for their 2020 album (featuring some cookie monster moments):

and Emily Barker:

 And from the musical legacy of Ken Hensley (Heep) and Neil Peart (Rush):

Playlist - 19 December 2020

Featuring the traditional Christmas concert by Jethro Tull from St Brides Church in London plus a selection of other festive tunes including songs by Australian performers Unitopia, Toehider and Emma Horwood.

8pm
Toehider    Under the mistletoe (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
Loreena McKennitt    Seeds of love (1995) (A Winter Garden)
Martin Barre    Thick as a brick (2014) (Order Of Play)
Unitopia    The garden (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
I Am The Manic Whale    Run with the fox (2020) (Christmas Selection Box)
Toehider    Carol of the bells – Choral + Carol of the bells – Rock (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
9pm
Jethro Tull    Weathercock + Introduction/What cheer + A Christmas song + Living In These Hard Times + Marmion + Jack in the green + Another Christmas song + A winter snowscape + God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Thick As A Brick (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
Emma Horwood    Noel nouvelet (2010) (Angel Song: A Christmas Blessing)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Playlist - 19 September 2020

8pm
Porcupine Tree    Radioactive toy (1992) (On the Sunday Of Life)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the minute (1999) (Stupid Dream)
Porcupine Tree    Four chords that made a million (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
Porcupine Tree    Lazarus (2005) (Deadwing)
Porcupine Tree    Way out of here (2007)  (Fear Of A Blank Planet)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident)
Steven Wilson    The raven that refused to sing (2013) (The Raven That Refused To Sing)
Steven Wilson    Permanating (2017) (To The Bone)
9pm
Procession    Listen (1968) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star?)
Bulldog    Inner spring (1970) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    I’ll be gone (1974) (The Good Earth)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    Joybringer (1973) (single only)
Toehider    Moon and moron + Bats aren’t birds (2020) (I Like it!)
Kansas    Lamplight symphony (1974) (Song For America)
Kansas    Carry on wayward son (live) (1978/2008) (Two For The Show)
Captain Kickarse & The Awesomes    Pogonophobe (2015) (Grim Repercussions)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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A little more chaos from the latest Toehider, the appropriately titled "Go full bore":

SW, Exhibit A - The raven that refused to sing, "It’s a very simple song, again about loss and mortality":

SW, Exhibit B - Permanating, "I'm very proud of the video for Permanating. As soon as I wrote this song I had it in mind that Bollywood dancing would be the perfect accompaniment, such a joyous form of dance for what is probably the most joyous pop song I have ever come up with. I hope it will put a smile on your face as it does for me.":

Kerry Livgren (to right of stage) with Proto-Kaw, the re-formation of an early line-up of Kansas:

The curio of the week - from 48 years ago, Mick Rogers with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, playing Sydney, with the keyboard wizard initially on percussion, and covering the classic Chain song Black and blue (it was also included on their album Messin', 1972):

Playlist - 20 June 2020

8pm
Toehider    Meet the sloth (2014) (What Kind Of Creature Am I?)
Spectrum    Fiddling fool (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    Silicon Valley (2009) (Breathing Space Too)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo, lyrics by Bill Putt)
Spectrum    Trust me (single edit) (1971) (Milesago)
Lemonjuice    Colour combination (2016) (Lemonjuice E.P.)
Lemonjuice    Life in a day (2018) (The Sound Of Strawberry)
9pm
Camel    Mystic queen (1973) (Camel)
Camel    Highways to the sun (1977) (Rain Dances)
Camel    Ligging at Louis’ (live, 1974) (1978) (A Live Record)
Lonely Robot    Construct/Obstruct (2015) (Please Come Home)
It Bites    The last escape (2012) (Map Of The Past)
Jethro Tull    Fire at midnight + Ring out solstice bells (1977) (Songs From The Wood)
The Beatles    A day in the life (1967) (Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Band)
The Beatles    Hard day’s night (1964) (A Hard Day’s Night)

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A mind-boggling 38 minutes with Mike and Salty of Toehider (Melbourne) - "Meet The Sloths":

 

A little more of UK band It Bites, live:

Playlist - 6 June 2020

8pm
Sweet    Love is like oxygen (1978) (Level Headed)
Sweet    Blockbuster (1973) (The Sweet)
Sweet    Ballroom blitz (1973) (single
Caligula’s Horse    Salt (2020) (Rise Radiant)
Kettlespider    Life (2017) (KETTLESPIDER)
Caligula’s Horse    Message to my girl (2020) (Rise Radiant, bonus track)
Toehider    Concerning Lix and Fairs (2020) (I Like It!)
Riverside    Under the pillow (2015) (Love, Fear And The Time Machine)
9pm
Tony Levin    Waters of Eden (2000) (Waters of Eden)
The Stick Men (The Crimson Projeckt)    Vroom vroom (live) (2014) (Live In Tokyo)
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe    Birthright (1989) (Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe)
Caravan    In the land of grey and pink (1971) (In The Land Of Grey And Pink)
Hatfield and the North    It didn’t matter anyway (1975) (The Rotters Club)
Camel    Breathless (1978) (Breathless)
Rush    Anagram (1989) (Presto)
Rush    Dreamline (1991) (Roll The Bones)
Anthony Phillips    Lucy will (1979) (Sides)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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An "animatic" video from Toehider:

Camel much more recently - in concerrt at the Royal Albert Hall:

Playlist - 23 May 2020

8pm
Toehider    Smash it out (2014) (What Kind Of Creature Am I?)
Southern Empire    Crossroads (2018) (Civilisation)
Anubis    Sirens + In shadows + Gone (2020) (Homeless)
Mushroom Giant    The Drake Equation (2015) (Painted Mantra)
9pm
Steve Hackett    Supper’s ready (2013) (Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith)
Threshold    Pilot in the sky of dreams (2007) (Dead Reckoning)
Threshold    Watchtower On The Moon (2014) (For The Journey)
Toehider    Good (2017) (Good)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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Toehider (Michael Mills and co.) with "Smash it out", live on stage in Europe. probably the busiest 2 minutes you'll see and hear for a quite a while:

Steve Hackett and band in 2019, performing a song from the Genesis album they were due to highlight this week on stage here in Adelaide:

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, 46 years earlier:

Playlist - 21 December 2019

Featuring the traditional Christmas concert by Jethro Tull from St Brides Church in London plus a selection of other festive tunes including songs by Australian performers Unitopia, Toehider and Emma Horwood.

8pm
Toehider    Under the mistletoe (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
Jethro Tull    Holly herald (2003) (The Christmas Album)
Steeleye Span    The holly and the ivy (1972) (single only, B-side to Gaudete)
Mike Oldfield    In dulce jubilo (1975) (single only)
Loreena McKennitt    Seeds of love (1995) (A Winter Garden)
Unitopia    The garden (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
Emerson Lake & Palmer    I believe in Father Christmas (1977) (Works Volume 2)
Toehider    Carol of the bells – Choral + Carol of the bells – Rock (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
9pm
Jethro Tull    Weathercock + Introduction/What cheer + A Christmas song + Living In These Hard Times + Marmion + Jack in the green + Another Christmas song + A winter snowscape + God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Thick As A Brick (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
Emma Horwood    Noel nouvelet + Angels we have heard on high (2010) (Angel Song: A Christmas Blessing)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Please enjoy this performance of "The 12 days of Christmas" by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (aka Fleabag), along with some terrific animation - (brief) language warning, by the way:

Playlist - 11 May 2019

8pm
Toehider    Toe hider + Jesuitmont (2009/2011) (Toe Hider EP / Toehider The First Six)
Madder Lake    Heavy weather + Calling (2013) (World)
Roine Stolt’s The Flower King    Rio Grande (2019) (Manifesto Of An Alchemist)
Porcupine Tree    Piano Lessons (1998) (Stupid Dream)
Quiet Child    HSwMS (2019) (Clara)
Dave Gilmour    Comfortably numb (live) (2006) (Live In Gdansk)
9pm
Haken    Veil (2018) (Vector)
Southern Empire    Innocence & Fortune (2018) (Civilisation)
Traffic    Paper sun (1967) (single only)
Traffic    Freedom rider (1970) (John Barleycorn Must Die)
Steve Winwood    Higher love (1986) (Back In The High Life)
Doug Woods & Colin Powell    Asgard (the realm of the Aesir) (2019) (Vikings)
Toehider    I just listen to whatever’s on the radio (2009/2011) (In All Honesty EP / Toehider The Last Six)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)


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Here's more from the re-booted Madder Lake circa 2013, a promo video for a song from their World album, with cameo from Mike Rudd (Spectrum) from the 2:50 mark (blink and, yes, you'll miss it):

Playlist - 22 December 2018

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, with the emphasis on music for the festive season, including a selection of Jethro Tull recorded live at St Bride's Church (London) in 2008.

8pm
Toehider     Under the mistletoe (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
Jethro Tull     Holly herald (2003) (The Christmas Album)
Steeleye Span     The holly and the ivy (1972) (single only, B-side to Gaudete)
Mike Oldfield     In dulce jubilo (1975) (single only)
Loreena McKennitt     Seeds of love (1995) (A Winter Garden)
Unitopia     The garden (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
Freedom to Glide     Stolen souls (Dec 2014) (digital single)
Toehider     Carol of the bells (Choral) + Carol of the bells (Rock) (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
9pm
Jethro Tull Christmas concert at St Brides:

• Jethro Tull    Weathercock (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Reading: Rev George Pitcher / Choir    Introduction/What cheer (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Jethro Tull    A Christmas song + Living In These Hard Times (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Reading: Ian Anderson    Marmion (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Jethro Tull    Jack in the green + A winter snowscape (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Jethro Tull / choir / Jethro Tull    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Thick As A Brick (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)

Sky   Troika (1983) (Cadmium)
Emma Horwood       Noel Nouvelet + Angels we have heard on high (2010) (Angel Song: A Christmas Blessing)

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It's only Christmas once a year, but every day is Ugly Jumper Day for bass player Herbie Flowers when he's playing with instrumental classical-rock band Sky, which featured two Australian guitarists - John Williams (classical guitar) and Kevin Peek (electric guitar):

And now something a little more subdued from the talented Adelaide harpist and singer Emma Horwood:

Playlist - 27 October 2018

Tonight, recent music from Arcane (Brisbane) and Toehider (Michel Mills, Melbourne); and, from the Birthday Book, the French jazz pianist Jacques Loussier (whose jazzed-up arrangements of J.S. Bach pre-dated Keith Emerson's classical adventures and who's recording studios in Provence have been the venue for recordings by Pink Floyd and Jon Anderson).

8pm
Rush    Witch hunt (1981) (Moving Pictures)
Rush    Totem (2010) (Test For Echo)
Rush    Ghost of a chance (1991) (Roll The Bones)
Arcane    Learned (2015) (Known/Learned)
Karmakanic    Turn it up (2011) (In A Perfect World)
Paatos    Into the flames (2012) (V)
9pm
Jade Warrior    Clouds + Mountain of fruit and flowers + Waterfall + Red lotus + Clouds (1974) (Floating World)
Ozric Tentacles.    Pyramidion (live, 2002) (2016) (Live At The Pongmaster’s Ball)
Jacques Loussier    Prelude No.1 (1959) (Play Bach No.1)
Toehider    Giants who walk with man (2011) (Toehider)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Toehider (Michael Mills and co) performing GWWWM live:

Playlist - 8 September 2018

8pm
Magnum Sacred hour (1982) (Chase The Dragon)
Moon Safari Constant bloom (2008) (Blomjud)
Moon Safari Mega moon (2012) (Himlabacken Volume 1)
Simon & Garfunkel The sound of silence (1964) (Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M)
Yes I’ve seen all good people (1970) (The Yes Album)
Caligula’s Horse A gift to afterthought (2013) (The Tide, The Thief & River's End)
Arcane Keeping Stone: sound on fire (2015) (Known/Learned)
Super Florence Jam That’s the end of it (2011) (We Always Knew It Would Come To This)
9pm
Unitopia Take good care (2005) (More Than A Dream)
Toehider I must say yes (2009) (Toehider Too / The First Six)
Gentle Giant On reflection (live @ BBC, 1975) (Out Of The Woods: The BBC Sessions)
Haken Endless knot (2016) (Affinity)
Kansas Song for America (1975) (Song For America)
Queen The Prophet’s song (1975) (A Night At The Opera)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From the Birds Robe stable, SFJ:

 

Magnum and an official promo video from 1990 and the Good Night L.A. album: