Playlist - 12 July 2014

This week, another serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Sydney band Anubis and Adelaide's Sympathy Orchestra, plus classic music from Blackfeather, Spectrum and Samael Lilith. And it's happy birthday to guitarist John Petrucci (Dream Theater).

8pm
Ozric Tentacles    Jurassic shift (live, 2007) (Sunrise Festival)
Pink Floyd    Stay (1972) (Obscured by Clouds)
Mostly Autumn    Dressed in voices (2014) (Dressed In Voices)
The Flower Kings    Desolation road (2013) (Desolation Rose)
Anubis    Collapse (live) (2012) (A King With No Crown, single)
Anubis    Hitchhiking to Byzantium (2014) (Hitchhiking To Byzantium)
9pm
Dream Theater    The enemy inside (2013) (Dream Theater)
Liquid Tension Experiment    Hourglass (1999) (Liquid Tension Experiment 2)
Dream Theater    Under a glass moon (1992) (Images And Words)
Blackfeather    At the mountains of madness + On this day that I die (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
Spectrum    Trust me (1972) (Milesago)
Focus    Birth (1974) (Hamburger Concerto)
Egg    Wring out the ground (loosely now) (1974) (The Civil Service)
10pm
Pink Floyd    Raving and drooling (live, Wembley, 1974) (Wish You Were Were, Experience Edition)
The Alan Parsons Project    Ammonia avenue (1984) (Ammonia Avenue)
Ozric Tentacles    Tidal Convergence (live, 2007) (Sunrise Festival)
Slapp Happy    Dawn (1974) (Casablanca Moon)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Sympathy Orchestra    Upstart (2014) (Sword Machine)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

Playlist - 5 July 2014

This week, as an antidote to the rather heavy musical offerings from last Saturday evening, the Seasons Of Change jukebox makes a temporary return with an evening of old-school prog rock drawn from a very representative "top ten" list of progressive rock albums, starting with (the rather gothic) VDGG at #10 and ending with (the quite predictable) Yes at #1.

8pm
The Crimson Projekct    Dinosaur (2014) (Live In Tokyo)
Van der graaf Generator    Sleepwalkers (1975) (Godbluff)
Pink Floyd    Sheep (1977) (Animals)
King Crimson    Starless (1974) (Red)
Pink Floyd    Time  (1973) (The Dark Side Of The Moon)
9pm
King Crimson    21st century schizoid man + I talk to the wind (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Genesis    Supper’s ready (1972) (Foxtrot)
Pink Floyd    Wish you were here + Shine on you crazy diamond (Part Two) (1975) (Wish You Were Here)
10pm
Genesis    Dancing with the moonlit knight (1973) (Selling England By The Pound)
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick Part 1 (1972) (Thick As A Brick)
Yes    And you and I (1972) (Close To The Edge)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

Playlist - 28 June 2014

This week, another serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Perth band The Lammas Tide and Brisbane band Caligula's Horse, as well as Over Unity and Lacrymae. Some live Crimson Projekct too (in advance of their Adelaide concert this Monday). And it's happy birthday to drummer Ian Paice (Deep Purple).

8pm
The Crimson Projekct   Larks tongues in aspic Part II + Indiscipline (2014) (Live In Tokyo)
The Lammas Tide    Partridge farm + The murky deep (2012) (Partridge Farm EP)
The Lammas Tide    Soldier of the sun (2014) (single only)
Deep Purple    Black night (1970) (single only)
Deep Purple    Lazy (live, 1972) (Made In Japan)
Deep Purple    Bad attitude (1984) (Perfect Strangers)
9pm
Genesis    Watcher of the skies + Time table (1972) (Foxtrot)
Genesis    Follow you follow me  (1978) (…And Then There Were Three)
Caligula’s Horse    A gift to afterthought + Water’s edge (2013) (The Tide, The Thief & River's End)
Animals As Leaders    Air chrysalis (2014) (The Joy Of Motion)
King Crimson    Dinosaur (1995) (Thrak)
Lacrymae    Handel’s Apocalypse (2009) (The Hallowed Design)
10pm
Over Unity    Near (2011) (Collide the Space)
Camel    Lunar sea (1976) (Moonmadness)
The Crimson Projekct   Red + Thela hun ginjeet (2014) (Live In Tokyo)
Subaudible Hum    Science maketh the scientist (2006) (In Time For Spring, On Came The Snow)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

Playlist - 21 June 2014

This week, for the Winter solstice today, a rugged-up serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Australian band Anubis and another selection from the reissue CD of Ariel live in concert. And it's happy birthday to two Todds - Todd Hunter (Dragon) and Todd Rundgren.

8pm
Jethro Tull    Ring out solstice bells (1977) (Songs From The Wood)
Anubis    Room with a view (2014) (Hitchhiking To Byzantium)
Dream Theater    Hell’s kitchen + Lines in the sand (1997) (Falling Into Infinity)
Steeleye Span & Terry Pratchett    Making of a man + Fire & ice (2013) (Wintersmith)
Steeleye Span    Thomas the Rhymer (1974) (Now We Are Six)
9pm
Yes    Close to the edge (1973) (Close To The Edge)
Gentle Giant    On reflection (1975)  (Free Hand)
Wishbone Ash    Sometime world (1972) (Argus)
Babe Ruth    The Mexican (1972) (First Base)
Machiavel    Moments (1977) (Jester)
Todd Rundgren    Can we still be friends (1978) (Hermit Of Mink Hollow)
10pm
Dragon    Patina (1974) (Universal Radio)
Dragon    Darkness (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind /  Golden Miles - Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Ariel    Disco dilemma + I’ll be gone + Rock & roll scars/I'll take you higher/Red hot mama  (live) (1977 / 2013) (Ariel Aloha / More From Before / Ariel Live In Concert)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

Playlist - 14 June 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Australian bands Projected Twin and Sebastian Hardie. It's happy birthday to Mike Rudd (leader of legendary Australian bands Spectrum and Ariel), Rod Argent (The Zombies, Argent) and Steve Walsh (Kansas). And, as a tribute to the late Jim Keays, the program starts with a stack of classic music from The Master's Apprentices.

8pm
The Masters Apprentices    Wars on hands of time (1967) (Masters Apprentices, reissue)
The Masters Apprentices    Living in a child’s dream (1967) (single only; bonus track on Masters Apprentices, reissue)
The Masters Apprentices    I’m your satisfier (1971) (Choice Cuts)
The Masters Apprentices    Melodies of St. Kilda/Southern Cross (1972) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Because I love you (1971) (Choice Cuts)
Mostly Autumn    Dressed in voices (2014) (Dressed In Voices)
Porcupine Tree    Deadwing (2005) (Deadwing)
Projected Twin    Earth to world (2010) (Earth To World)
The Zombies    Time of the season (1968) (Odyssey & Oracle)
Argent    Hold your head up (1971) (All Together Now)
9pm
Focus    Anonymus Two (1972) (Focus III)
IQ    The road of bones (2014) (The Road Of Bones)
The Lammas Tide    The Murky deep (2012)  (Partridge Farm EP)
Kansas    Closet chronicles (1977) (Point Of Know Return)
10pm
Spectrum    I’ll be gone (1971) (single, mono / bonus track on reissue of Part One)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
W.H.Y.    Woman of steel (1983) (single only)
Ariel    Jamaican farewell + Island Fantasia (live) (1977 / 2014) (Ariel Aloha / Ariel Live In Concert)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

Playlist - 6 June 2014

This week, on the first edition of Seasons Of Change for Winter, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Australian instrumental space-rock band Mushroom Giant and classic music from Ariel and Fraternity. And it's happy birthday to two prolific bass players - Richard Sinclair (member for a succession of bands in the Canterbury scene) and Tony Levin (from King Crimson to Pink Floyd, Yes, Liquid Tension Experiment, etc), plus singer Annie Haslam (Renaissance), guitarist John Du Cann (Atomic Rooster) and Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream).

8pm
The Angels    Take a long line (1978) (Face To Face)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Renaissance    The captive heart (1977) (Novella)
Renaissance    Northern lights (live, Japan, 2001) (In The Land Of The Rising Sun)
Spectrum    That’s alright (single version) (1971) (Milesago, bonus track)
Ariel    Illicit love + Hollywood (live) (1977 / 2013) (Ariel Aloha / Ariel Live In Concert)
Mushroom Giant    Aesong (2012) (The Drake Equation EP)
Lobby Loyde & The Colored Balls    Metal feathers (1972)  (The Best Of Ball Power And More, bonus track on CD reissue)
Atomic Rooster    Devil’s answer (1971) (single only)
Atomic Rooster    Death walks behind you (1971) (Death Walks Behind You)
9pm
Tangerine Dream    Invisible limits (1976) (Stratosfear)
Edgar Froese    Aqua (1974) (Aqua)
Caravan    Waterloo lily (1972) (Waterloo Lily)
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    Unevensong (1977) (Raindances)
Camel    Flight of the snow goose + Preparation + Dunkirk (1975) (The Snow Goose)
10pm
Tony Levin    Pillar of fire (2000) (Waters of Eden)
Pink Floyd    Learning to fly (1987) (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason)
Yes    Shock to the system (1991) (Union)
King Crimson    When I say stop, continue (1994) (VROOOM)
Liquid Tension Experiment    914 (1999) (Liquid Tension Experiment 2)
The Angels     No secrets + Love takes care/Be with you (live) (1997) (Liveline)
The Angels     Am I ever gonna see your face again (1977) (The Angels)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

Playlist - 31 May 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Australian bands Anubis and Alithia and classic music from Kahvas Jute. And it's happy birthday to Eric Clapton (Cream, etc), Gilli Smythe ('space whisperer' with eccentric English/French group Gong), John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) and Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel.

8pm
Led Zeppelin    When the levee breaks (1971) ('Runes' album)
Anubis    The final resting place (2011) (Tower Of Silence)
Cream    White room (1968) (Wheels Of Fire)
Eric Clapton    I shot the sheriff (1974) (single / 461 Ocean Boulevard)
Cream    Crossroads (live) (1968) (Wheels Of Fire)
Mostly Autumn    Tennyson mansion (2012) (The Ghost Moon Orchestra)
Kevin Peek    Still waters (2010) (Still Waters: Music For TV and Film)
Alithia    Thirteen (2014) (To The Edge Of Time)
9pm
Emerson Lake and Palmer    The endless enigma Part 1+ Fugue + The endless enigma Part 2 (1972) (Trilogy)
Jade Warrior    Dark river (1972) (Jade Warrior)
Jade Warrior    Clouds + Mountain of fruit and flowers (1974) (Floating World)
Mother Gong    I am a tree (1989) (The Owl And The Tree)
Gong    Oily way + Outer temple + Inner temple (1974) (Angel’s Egg)
Kahvas Jute    Up there (1970)  (Wide Open)
10pm
Tommy Emmanuel    The journey + Who dares wins + Initiation (live, 1995) (Classical Gas)
Tommy Emmanuel    Countrywide (1990) (Dare To Be Different)
Led Zeppelin    Moby dick (live, 1976) (The Song Remains The Same)
Marillion    Seasons end (1989) (Seasons End)
Sympathy Orchestra    Wire (2014) (Sword Machine)

Playlist - 24 May 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring new music from Dyssidia (Adelaide) and Vanishing Point (Melbourne) and classic music from Tamam Shud and Flake. And it's happy birthday to violinist Robby Steinhardt (Kansas), drummer Brian Davison (The Nice, Refugee) and Bob Dylan (73 today).

8pm
Procol Harum    She wandered through the garden fence (1967) (Procol Harum)
Dream Theater    The ministry of lost souls (2007) (Systematic Chaos)
Kansas    Can I tell you (1974) (Kansas)
Kansas    Magnum opus (1976) (Leftoverture)
Kansas    Dust in the wind (1977) (Point Of Know Return)
Dyssidia    Deja senti (2013) (Quiet Waters EP)
Vanishing Point    Beyond redemption/Intro + King of empty promises (2014) (Distant Is The Sun)
9pm
The Nice    Rondo (1967) (The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack)
Refugee    Papillon (1974) (Refugee)
Steeleye Span    Seven hundred elves (1974)  (Now We Are Six)
Steeleye Span    The wife of Usher’s Well (live, 1974)  (Now We Are Six, bonus track)
Jethro Tull    Sealion (1974) (Warchild)
Tamam Shud    Stand in the sunlight + Take a walk on a foggy morn + Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    Bali waters (live, 1971) (Goolutionites And The Real People, bonus track)
10pm
Nick Magnus    Time (2014) (N’Monix)
Steve Hackett    Every day (1979) (Spectral Mornings)
Bob Dylan    Rainy day women (1966) (single, Blonde On Blonde)
Dave Gilmour    Speak to me + Breathe + Time + Breathe (reprise) (live, 2006) (Live In Gdansk)
Pink Floyd    The great gig in the sky (1973) (Dark Side Of The Moon)
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Andy Salvanos    Solace (2011) (Dream Recall)
Sympathy Orchestra    Sword machine (2014) (Sword Machine)

Playlist - 17 May 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring a hefty serving of more recent music from the Australian bands Breaking Orbit and Sebastian Hardie. And there's a brace of birthdays this weekend, including guitarist Andrew Latimer (English band Camel), keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman (Yes), celtic chillout queen Enya, drummer Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson, UK, etc) and oz rock guitar wizard Lobby Loyde (The Wild Cherries, The Colored Balls, Billy Thorpe's Aztecs, etc).

8pm
Camel    Lies (1981) (Nude)
Camel    Hymn to her (1979) (I Can See Your House From Here)
Camel    Sasquatch (1982) (The Single Factor)
The Wild Cherries    I’m the sea (stop killing me) (1971) (Single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
The Wild Cherries    Krome plated yabby (1967) (single only / Down Under Nuggets)
The Wild Cherries    G.O.D (Guitar OverDose) (live, ABC TV, 1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Lobby Loyde & Southern Electric    Fist of Is: a) At the Colosseum; b) The Fist Falls (1976)  (Obsecration)
Breaking Orbit    Time traveller (2012) (The Time Traveller)
9pm
Rick Wakeman    Catherine of Aragon (1973) (The Six Wives Of Henry VIII)
Rick Wakeman    Merlin the magician (1975) (The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table)
Rick Wakeman    Tubular balls (1995) (Cirque Surreal)
Enya    Only time (2000)  (A Day Without Rain)
Enya    Watermark + Orinoco flow (1988)  (Watermark)
Sebastian Hardie    Art of life + Another string (2012) (Blueprint)
Sebastian Hardie    Rosanna (1976) (Four Moments / Four Moments Of The Windchase)
10pm
Bill Bruford’s Earthworks    My heart declares a holiday (1987) (Earthworks)
King Crimson    Red (1974) (Red)
Yes    Five percent for nothing (1972) (Fragile)
Yes    Siberian khatru (1972) (Close To The Edge)
Dave Gilmour    Shine on you crazy diamond + Astronomy domine (live, 2006) (Live In Gdansk)
Dave Gilmour    The blue (2006) (On an Island)
Sympathy Orchestra    Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

Playlist - 10 May 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring a hefty serving from the CD reissue of the second album by eclectic jazz/classical/rock fusion group Rainbow Theatre: this is in good company with the "Atom Heart Mother" suite from Pink Floyd - about the only other music that Rainbow Theatre is comparable to. Plus classic recordings from Spectrum and Tully and more recent music by the terrific Perth group The Lammas Tide and Adelaide's Unitopia.

8pm
Rush     YYZ (1981) (Moving Pictures)
Rush     Red lenses (1984) (Grace Under Pressure)
Rush     The garden (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Peter Gabriel     Here comes the flood (1977) (Peter Gabriel)
Genesis     Ripples + Los Endos (1976) (A Trick Of The Tail)
The Break     Majestic Kelp (2013) (Space Farm)
Midnight Oil     Warakurna (1987) (Diesel And Dust)
9pm
Rainbow Theatre     Caption for the city night life + Fantasy of horses: suite (1976) (Fantasy Of Horses)
Pink Floyd     Atom heart mother (1970) (Atom Heart Mother)
10pm
The Lammas Tide     Fothersby (2011) (High Tide)
Unitopia     More than a dream (2005) (More Than A Dream)
Voyager     Sober (2007) (Univers)
Jethro Tull     Cross eyed Mary + Cheap day return + Mother goose (live, 2005) (Aqualung Live)
Jethro Tull     Living in the past (1977) (Living In The Past)
Tully     Ice (1972) (Loving Is Hard)
Spectrum     Love's my bag (1971) (Milesago)
Sympathy Orchestra     Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

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Playlist - 3 May 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, including some slightly folky prog rock from Adelaide's own Gavin O'Loghlen (Cotters Bequest), Zen Stella and Circadian Pulse. And it's happy birthday to Colin Bass (amongst other things, the long-time bass player with English band Camel) and Australian guitarist Mario Millo (Sebastian Hardie, Windchase).

8pm
Karmakanic      Turn it up (20011 (In A Perfect World)
Circadian Pulse      Hourglass (2012) (In The Blink Of An Eye)
Zen Stella      Deviate (2013) (Zen Stella, EP))
Ozric Tentacles      Stretchy (1993) (Jurassic Shift)
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum      Psthsis (2004) (Of Natural History)
King Crimson      Epitaph (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Mario Millo      Rebecca (single only, The Australian Guitar Album / All Fired Up: The Lost Treasures Of Australian Music 1970-1990)
9pm
Camel      Ice (1979) (I Can See Your House From Here)
Camel      West Berlin (live)  (1984) (Pressure Points)
Camel      Sahara (1999) (Rajaz)
Gryphon      Midnight Mushrumps (1974) (Midnight Mushrumps)
Affinity      Three sisters (1970) (Affinity)
Rush      Limelight (1981) (Moving Pictures)
10pm     
Gavin O'Loghlen      The treadmill Pt.1 + Open road revisited + The poet... + ...And the priest + The treadmill Pt.1 + The key + Like Daedalus ascending + The new dawn + Walking shadows + Bird of life (2007) (The Poet And The Priest)
801      Diamond head + Miss Shapiro + You really got me + Third uncle (live) (1976) (801 Live)
Eno      Elmo's fire (1975) (Another Green World)
Sympathy Orchestra      Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

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Playlist - 26 April 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, starting with an hour of music from Australia and New Zealand, including the enigmatic NZ band Airlord. And it's happy birthday to Derek Dick, better known as "Fish" (lead singer of the '80's UK prog rock revivalists Marillion).

8pm
Spectrum    What the world needs is a new pair of socks (1971) (Milesago)
Tommy Emmanuel    Up from down under (1987) (Up From Down Under)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Second Thoughts)
Airlord    Pictures in a puddle + Out of the woods (1977) (Clockwork Revenge)
Sebastian Hardie    I wish (2012) (Blueprint)
Windchase    Forward we ride / Horsemen to infinity (1978) (Symphinity)
9pm
Yes    The gates of delirium (1974) (Relayer)
Karnataka    The serpent and the sea (edit) (2010) (The Gathering Light)
Marillion    Script for a jester’s tear (1983) (Script For A Jester’s Tear)
Marillion    For the record (1987) (Clutching At Straws)
Marillion    Market square heroes (live, 1984) (Real To Reel)
10pm
Motorpsycho    Cloudwalker (a darker blue) (2014) (Behind The Sun)
Edison’s Children    The seventh sign (2014) (The Final Breath Before November)
Rush    Xanadu (live, 1978) (Different Stages - Live)
Rush    Presto (1989) (Presto)
La De Das    See my baby tonight (1971) (single only / Boogie! Australian Blues R&B And Heavy Rock From The ‘70’s)
Daddy Cool    Daddy rocks off (1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock'nRoll: Teenage Heaven)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Sympathy Orchestra    Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

Playlist - 19 April 2014 (Easter Saturday)

For Easter Saturday, a special show featuring Camel recorded live in concert with a performance of their instrumental concept album "The Snow Goose".  And it's happy birthday this weekend to Steve Gray (keyboardist with classical-rock fusion group Sky), Rod Morgenstein (drummer with The Dregs/The Dixie Dregs/Platypus) and Mike Portnoy (drummer with Dream Theater and a score of disparate side projects including Transatlantic and OSI).

8pm
Yes    I’ve seen all good people (1970) (The Yes Album)
Unitopia    Easter (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1)
Andy Salvanos    Lost days (2011) (Dream Recall)
Renaissance    She is love + Northern lights (1978) (A Song For All Seasons)
Sky    Hello (1982) (Sky 4)
Sky    Caldando (1985) (The Great Balloon Race)
Yes    And you and I (1972) (Close To The Edge)
9pm
Lobby Loyde & Southern Electric (feat. Mandu)    Dreamtide (1976)  (Obsecration)
Mandu    Captain voyager + Darlin’ + We ran across the sky (1974) (To The Shores Of His Heaven)
The Dregs    Kat food (1981) (Unsung Heroes)
Platypus    Chimes (1998) (When Pus Comes To Shove)
Liquid Trio Experiment    Hawaiian funk (2007) (Liquid Trio Experiment)
Dream Theater    Disappear (2002) (Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence)
10pm
G. Wayne Thomas    The morning of the earth (1972) (The Morning Of The Earth)
Camel    The Snow Goose (live, 1975) (A Live Record)
Sympathy Orchestra    Wire (2014) (Sword Machine)

Playlist - 12 April 2014

53 years ago, on the 12th of April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to complete an orbit of the Earth.  The United Nations has proclaimed the 12th day of April to be the International Day Of Human Space Flight, and so, in tonight's edition of Seasons Of Change, there's a healthy serving of space-rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, including classic Australian recordings from Cybotron, Lobby Loyde and Spectrum. There's also a little more this week from the reissued classical rock album by Rainbow Theatre. And it's happy birthday this week to the terrific Sonja Kristina (singer with the band Curved Air). You may wish to check out some of the great pictures, news and information on the NASA website while you're listening.

8pm
David Bowie    Space oddity (1969) (David Bowie)
Pink Floyd    Astronomy Domine (1967) (Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)
Spectrum    Drifting (1970) (Part One)
Rush    Countdown (1982) (Signals)
Porcupine Tree    Moonloop (1997) (The Sky Moves Sideways)
Lobby Loyde    Hymenoptera’s revenge (1976) (Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths Of Klimster)
9pm
Nektar    Journey to the centre of the eye - Side 1 (1971) (Journey To The Centre Of The Eye)
Ibliss    High life (1972) (Supernova)
Sonya Kristina    Colder than a rose (1980) (Sonja Kristina)
Curved Air    Screw (1971) (Air Conditioning)
Amplifier    Interstellar (2010) (Octopus)
10pm
Rainbow Theatre    The Armada (suite) (1975) (The Armada)
Hawkwind    Down through the night (live) (1973) (Space Ritual)
Litmus    You are here (2004) (You Are Here)
Cybotron    Black devil’s triangle (1980) (Implosion)
Sympathy Orchestra    Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

Playlist - 5 April 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, including recent music from Adelaide (Hawkai, Sympathy Orchestra) and from interstate (Ben Craven, Myriad and Mushroom Giant), plus classic recordings from 1975 (Sebastian Hardie and the experimental "classical rock" group Rainbow Theatre). And it's happy birthday to David LaFlamme, leader of the classic US band It's A Beautiful Day.

8pm
Myriad    Reminded (2013) (Quietitude)
The Flower Kings    Last minute on earth (2001) (The Rainmaker)
Yes    Perpetual change (1971)  (The Yes Album)
Yes    The man you always wanted me to be (2011) (Fly From Here)
Hawkai    Invisible man (2012) (Prey)
Ben Craven & The Section    Golden band (2014) (Dissected)
Andy Salvanos    Mind your matter (2007) (Closer)
9pm
Rainbow Theatre    Petworth House (1975) (The Armada)
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (1975) (The Four Moments / Four Moments Of The Windchase)
Ozric Tentacles    Neurochasm (1995) (Become The Other)
Kate Bush    Moving + The saxophone song (1978) (The Kick Inside)
The Alan Parsons Project    What goes up + The eagle will ride again (1978) (Pyramid)
It’s A Beautiful Day    White bird (1969)  (It’s A Beautiful Day)
Roger Hodgson    Breakfast in America + The Logical song (live, 2010) (Classics Live)
10pm
Mushroom Giant    Aesong (2012) (The Drake Equation EP)
Porcupine Tree    Russia on ice/The pills I’m taking (live, 2010) (2013) (Octane Twisted)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the minute (1999) (Stupid Dream)
Beardfish    Tightrope (2011) (Mammoth)
Sympathy Orchestra    Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

A little more information about Rainbow Theatre, including an interview with Julian Browning.

Playlist - 29 March 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, including some music for Earth Hour from 8:30pm; plus another selection from the recently released album by Caligula's Horse (Brisbane) and classic music from the Australian group Tully. And it's happy birthday to two very different artists - the Greek keyboard wizard Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (otherwise known as Vangelis) and Australian rock legend Billy Thorpe.

8pm
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 + Brother sun + Down to the sea + Sea of joy Part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Kansas    Lamplight symphony (1974) (Song For America)
The Church    Under the milky way (1988) (Starfish)
King Crimson    Starless (live, recorded 1974; LP 1975) (USA)
Deep Purple    Black night (1970) (single only)
9pm
Locomotive    Time of light and darkness (1970) (We Are Everything You See)
Curved Air    Metamorphosis (1973) (Air Cut)
Camel    Earthrise (1974) (Mirage)
Camel    Supertwister (live, 1974) (bonus track on reissue of Mirage)
Dream Theater    A change of seasons (1995) (A Change Of Seasons)
Rush    Fly by night (1975) (Fly By Night)
10pm
Billy Thorpe    Children of the sun + We’re leaving + We welcome you + Solar anthem (1979) (Children Of The Sun)
Caligula’s Horse    Thief + All is quiet by the wall (2013) (The Tide, The Thief & River's End)
Vangelis    The motion of the stars (1988) (Direct)
Jon & Vangelis    State of independence (1981) (The Friends Of Mr Cairo)
Vangelis    Chariots of fire (1981) (Chariots Of Fire)
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs    Most people I know (1972) (single only, The Complete Havoc Singles 1971 - 1973)

Playlist - 22 March 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, including a selection from the recently released album by Caligula's Horse (Brisbane) and other recent music from Anubis and Ben Craven. And it's happy birthday to guitarist Tony McPhee (The Groundhogs), Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) and Harry Vanda (The Easybeats, Flash And the Pan, and more songwriting/production credits than a stick can reasonably be shaken at).

8pm
Procol Harum    Conquistador (1968) (Procol Harum)
Freedom To Glide    When the whistle blows (2013) (Rain)
Anubis    All that is… (2011) (A Tower Of Silence)
Kate Bush    Wuthering Heights (1978) (The Kick Inside)
Dave Gilmour    On an island (2006) (On an Island)
The Groundhogs    Cherry red (1971) (Split)
Roger Hodgson    Only because of you / Lord is it mine? (live, 2010) (Classics Live)
9pm
Caligula’s Horse   Into the white + Old cracks in new earth (2013) (The Tide, The Thief & River's End)
Ben Craven    Great & terrible potions + Nobody dies forever (single edit) (2011) (Great & Terrible Potions)
Rocket Scientists    Stardust (1995) (Empire Music: The Art Rock Collection)
Lana Lane    The sheltering sorrow (2007) (Red Planet Boulevard)
Ozric Tentacles    Jurassic shift (1993) (Jurassic Shift)
10pm
Synaesthesia    Epiphany (2014) (Synaethesia)
Solstice    Black water (2013) (Prophecy)
Roger Hodgson    Take the long way home + Breakfast in America (live, 2010) (Classics Live)
Roger Hodgson    Give me love, give me life (1984) (In The Eye Of The Storm)
The Valentines    Peculiar hole in the sky (1968) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Flash And The Pan    Down among the dead men (single, 1978 / Flash And The Pan, 1979 / Hits Collection)
Flash And The Pan    Welcome to the universe (1980) (Lights In The Night / Hits Collection)

Playlist - 15 March 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, starting with some old-school prog rock from Genesis with "The return of the giant hogweed". As an added distraction from today's State election, there's also classic Australian music from Spectrum and Blackfeather, and more recent tracks from Kettlespider, Lacrymae and The Lammas Tide.

8pm
Genesis    The Return of the Giant Hogweed (1971) (Nursery Cryme)
The Flower Kings    The garden of dreams Pt.1 (1999) (Flower Power)
Caravan    Hello Hello (1970) (If I Could Do It Again I’d Do It All Over You)
Focus    Focus 10 (2012) (X)
Steeleye Span    False knight on the road (live, 1978) (Live At Last)
Spectrum    Trust me (1971) (Milesago)
9pm
Blackfeather    The Rat (Suite): Main Title / The Trap / Spanish Blues / Blazwaorden (Land Of Dreams) / Finale (The Rat) (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
The Flower Kings    The garden of dreams Pt.2 (1999) (Flower Power)
The Flower Kings    The garden of dreams Pt.3 (1999) (Flower Power)
10pm
The Lammas Tide    Lady Godiva (2011) (High Tide)
Kettlespider    Avadante (2012) (Avadante)
Yes    Siberian khatru + Heart of the sunrise (live, 1973) (Yessongs)
Lacrymae    The hallowed design (2009) (The Hallowed Design)
Sympathy Orchestra    Wire (2014) (Sword Machine)

Playlist - 8 March 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, starting with some classic Tully from the early 1970's. Plus a selection from the new album by Adelaide band Quiet Child. And it's happy birthday to Robert Calvert (Hawkwind), Matthew Fisher and Robin Trower (Procol Harum).

8pm
Tully    Loving is hard + Ice (1970) (Loving Is Hard)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Airbag    Redemption (2013) (The Greatest Show On Earth)
Airbag    All rights removed (2011) (All Rights Removed)
Pink Floyd    Learning to fly (1987) (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason)
Schicke Fuhrs Frohling    Explorer (1977) (Sunburst)
Morglbl    Le Surfer D'Argentine (2012) (Brutal Romance)
9pm
Procol Harum    A whiter shade of pale (1967) (single only / bonus track on reissue of Procol Harum)
Procol Harum    Memorial drive (1971) (Broken Barricades).
Robin Trower    Bridge of sighs (1974) (Bridge Of Sighs)
Quiet Child    Redshift + A hail of stones (2014) (Chapter & Verse)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)
10pm
Hawkwind    25 years + High Rise + Spirit of the age (live, 1978) (1992) (The Hawklords Live)
Hawkwind    Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977) (Quark, Strangeness And Charm)
Robert Calvert & Amon Duul    Big wheel (1989) (Die Lösung)
Mastodon    The Czar (2009) (Crack The Skye)
Kevin Peek    Walk in the sun (2010) (Music For TV And Film: Still Waters)
Sympathy Orchestra    Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

Playlist - 1 March 2014

This week, for the first Saturday of Autumn, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, starting with Fraternity and "Seasons of change" from 1971, the song that gives this show it's name. There's music from the Adelaide prog rock band Unitopia (recently disbanded); and it's happy birthday to Roger Daltrey (The Who).

8pm
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Unitopia    Justify (2005) (More Than A Dream)
Unitopia    Journey’s friend (2008) (The Garden)
Unitopia    Tesla (2010) (Artificial)
9pm
Hawkwind    Motorway city (1980)  (Levitation)
Gong    A sprinkling of clouds (1974) (You)
Golden Earring    Radar love (1973) (Moontan)
The Who    Getting in tune (1971) (Who’s Next)
The Who    You better you bet (1981)  (Face Dances)
Ozric Tentacles    Eternal wheel (1990) (Erpland)
Rush    Red barchetta (1981) (Moving Pictures)
10pm
Unitopia    Signs of life/Prelude +  Calling occupants of interplanetary craft (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1)
Transatlantic    Black as the sky (2013) (Kaleidoscope)
Rick Wakeman    Six Wives of Henry 8th: Three Wives (live) (1985) (Live At The Hammersmith)
Nosound    Someone starts to fade away (2008) (Lightdark)
Vangelis    Pulstar (1976)  (Albedo 0.39)