Playlist - 25 July 2020

8pm
Caligula’s Horse    The Ascent (2020) (Rise Radiant)
Arcane    Secret (2009) (Chronicles Of The Waking Dream)
Unitopia    Tesla (2010) (Artificial)
Iva Davies    Walk alone (1999) (The Ghost Of Time)
The Lammas Tide    Hudson Line (2011) (High Tide)
Fraternity    Seasons of change (1971) (single only)
9pm
Deeexpus (feat. Nik Kershaw)    Memo (2011) (King Of Number 33)
The Mute Gods    One day (2019) (Atheists & Believers)
Porcupine Tree    This is no rehearsal (1999) (Stupid Dream)
Roine Stolt    The flower king (1994) (The Flower King)
Anekdoten    Shooting star (2015) (Until All The Ghosts Have Gone)
Andy Salvanos    Transform (2016) (Transform)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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A little more from Andy Salvanos and a "2020" version of a pensive track from 2012:

Lammas Day (or Loaf Mass Day) is still 7 days away in the Northern hemisphere (1 August) and of course 6 months away in Australia (1 February) but to while away the hours, here is Perth band The Lammas Tide from 8 years ago and an official video clip for their then single:

And Mr Nik Kershaw, from his own freshly minted EP, "These Little Things":

Playlist - 18 July 2020

8pm
Dream Theater    The Count of Tuscany (instrumental) (2009) (Black Clouds & Silver Linings)
Hemina    Nostalgia + In technicolour (2019) (Night Echoes)
Unitopia    Man of colours (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1 Smooth As Silk)
Southern Empire    Forest fire (2016) (Southern Empire)
Drawn From Bees    On the beach (2018) (B-Sides & Rarities)
9pm
Haken    Souls (2008) (Enter The 5th Dimension)
Gentle Giant    Proclamation (1974) (The Power And The Glory)
All India Radio    Mexicola (remaster) (2006/2019) (Echo Other)
Three Wise Monkeys    Waxer (live) (2010) (3WM EP No.1 and No.2, bonus track)
I Am The Manic Whale    Valenta scream (2020) (Things Unseen)
Dyssidia    The gutted stag (2020) (Costly Signals)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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All India Radio, live in Northcote (Vic), earlier this year (pre-Coronavirus):

The prospect of the classic UK band Gentle Giant reforming has seemed miniscule for a very long time, so the recent temporary involvement of all surviving GG members in the support of a re-recorded version of their classic song "Proclamation" has been welcome. You can find it here:

Playlist - 11 July 2020

8pm
Madder Lake    Helper (live) + I get high (live) + It’s all in your head (live) (Sydney, 1978) (The Live Adventures Of Madder Lake 1973-2008)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
The Valentines    Peculiar hole in the sky (1968) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
AC/DC    Dirty deeds done dirt cheap (1976) (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap)
Blackfeather    Mango’s theme (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
All India Radio    Immortality (2019) (Eternal)
9pm
Steven Wilson    Luminol (live, Mexico, 2012) (2017) (Get All You Deserve)
Steven Wilson    Sound of muzak (live, 2018) (2018) (Home Invasion in concert at the Royal Albert Hall)
Magenta    Legend (live) (2018) (We Are Seven – Live 2018)
Look To Windward    Control (2010) (Fortunes Haze)
The Omnific    Pharaoh 2.0 (2020) (digital single)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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The Omnific (Melbourne), being rather busy for 6 minutes, 20 seconds:

Kiwi band Look To Windward, with a more recent release:

Playlist - 4 July 2020

Tonight, a show of two halves - in the first hour, music from the latest album by Adelaide's Dyssidia (with some cookie monster added to the mix) and other local goodness, followed by an hour of music from the US which may not appear on many other playlists for their Independence Day.

8pm
Dyssidia    Hope’s remorseful retreat + Good grief (2020) (Costly Signals)
Aura Form    Secrets of the sun + Floating South (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
Southern Empire    Hold (2016) (Southern Empire)
Unitopia    More than a dream (2005) (More Than A Dream)
9pm
Tiles    Modification (1999) (Presents Of Mind)
Spock’s Beard    Thoughts (1996) (Beware Of Darkness)
Kansas    Cheyenne anthem (1976) (Leftoverture)
District 97    Snow country (2015) (In Vaults)
Glass Hammer    Rapturo (2016) (Valkyrie)
OSI    ShutDOWN (2003) (Office Of Strategic Influence)
Frank Zappa   Cosmik debris (1974) (Apostrophe)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From Dyssidia, the making of their new album, although Cookie Monster who is audible on much of the album is sadly absent from this footage...

Zappa Plays Zappa:

Playlist - 27 June 2020

Starting tonight with a selection from the long awaited, newly released, live Madder Lake album.

8pm
Madder Lake    Down the river (live) + One star and the moon (live) + Listen to the morning sunshine (live, 1974) (2020) (The live adventures of MADDER LAKE 1973-2008)
Madder Lake    Calling (2013) (World)
Domino    Karislama (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Split Enz    Spellbound (1974) (The Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    I hope I never (1980) (True Colours)
ENZSO    Dirty creature (1996) (ENZSO)
Tim Finn   Funny way (1993) (Before & After)
9pm
Marillion    The Leavers: I. Wake up in music, II. The remainers, III. Vapour trails in the sky, IV. The jumble of days, V. One tonight (2016) (F.E.A.R.)
Marillion    Sugar mice (1987) (Clutching At Straws)
Barclay James Harvest    Kiev (1987) (Face To Face)
Deckchair Poets    Elephants, not ivory (2013) (Who Needs Pyjamas?)
Deckchair Poets    Iced buns (2019) (Always Piste At Christmas)
The Cortex Shift    Leaky scone (2017) (Songs In The Key Of Lunch)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Madder Lake live with a song from their latest album:

Fish and co. from 2016 and a promo for the F.E.A.R. album:

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 - 13 June 2020

It's not every year that you celebrate your 75th birthday; so as that milestone approaches this Monday for the talented Aussie legend (and kiwi) Mike Rudd, it's fitting to dedicate the first half of tonight's edition of Seasons Of Change to a selection of music from Spectrum and Ariel.

8pm
Spectrum    I’ll be gone (1971) (single, alternate stereo version / bonus track on reissue of Part One)
Spectrum    Drifting (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    What the world needs (is a new pair of socks) (1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Garden of the frenzied Cortinas (1974) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Spectrum    Star crazy (2008) (Breathing Space)
9pm
Uriah Heep    Paradise/The spell (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Yes    Roundabout (single version) (1972) (Fragile)
Captain Beyond    Dancing madly backwards (on a sea of air) (1972) (Captain Beyond)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
The Nice    America (1968) (single)
Queen    The prophet’s song (1975) (A Night At The Opera)
Golden Earring    Radar love (1973) (Moontan)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)


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Should you have the time, you can immerse yourself in a 37 minute interview with Mike Rudd here:

...but you only have 32 minutes? Behold a fine (and well-recorded) set by Mike at the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, Melbourne, December 2016:

...or witness a recent cameo with Madder Lake:

...and revisit the brief detour into electro-pop with W.H.Y. in 1983:

This isn't Queen, but this cover version by Dutch acapella group Rock4 is pretty amazing nonetheless, assisted by a little handy looping:

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 - 30 May 2020

8pm
The Omnific    Objets de Vertu (2017) (Kismet)
Arcane    The malice (2009) (Chronicles Of The Waking Dream)
Caligula’s Horse    Water’s edge (2013) (The Tide, The Thief & River's End)
Drawn From Bees    Web of thieves (2014) (Web of thieves)
Drawn From Bees    All this time (2008) (The Boy And The Ocean)
Glasshouse    It burns (2005) (Nothing Comes Of Thinking)
The Slow Light    Dream sequence (2020) (Cinema Of The Mind)
Porcupine Tree    Gravity eyelids (live at XM Satellite Radio) (2002/2020) (XM)
9pm
Split Enz    Years go by (1984) (See Ya Round)
Neil Finn    The climber (2001) (One Nil)
Split Enz    Message to my girl (live, NZ, 1993) (Greatest Hits: Live)
Crowded House    Four seasons in one day (1992) (Woodface)
Transatlantic     My new world (live) (live, 2014) (KALIVEOSCOPE)
Freedom to Glide    Not a broken man (2013) (Rain)
Damanek    Skyboat (2018) (In Flight)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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A fair bit more from The Slow Light (Adelaide), c/- their own YT channel; their entire "Cinema Of The Mind" EP:

The Omnific (Melbourne):

From the UK, Freedom To Glide, and a newly released recording, "lockdown style":

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 - 16 May 2020

Starting at 8pm with a recent release from The Slow Light (Adelaide) and then moving through a set of music featuring a throng of talented artists who all have their birthdays around this weekend, including Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Andy Latimer (Camel), the late Australian guitar legend Lobby Loyde, Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson, UK, Earthworks, etc), Brian Eno and Mike Oldfield.

8pm
The Slow Light    Clocks relapse + Cinema of the mind (2020) (Cinema Of The Mind)
Discipline    Canto IV (Limbo) (1997) (Unfolded Like Staircase)
King Crimson    In the court of the crimson king (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
David Bowie    Heroes (1977) (Heroes)
Camel    Ice (live) (1998) (Coming Of Age, Live)
9pm
The Wild Cherries    G.O.D (Guitar Overdose) (live on GTK, Jul 1970) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Lobby Loyde & Southern Electric    Fist of Is: a) At the Colosseum; b) The Fist Falls (1976)  (Obsecration)
Lobby Loyde & The Colored Balls    Metal feathers (1972) (Ball Power And More)
Bill Bruford’s Earthworks    Making a song and dance (1987) (Earthworks)
Yes    Five percent for nothing (1972) (Fragile)
Eno    Sombre reptiles + Little fishes + Golden hours (1975) (Another Green World)
801    Miss Shapiro (live) (1976) (801 Live)
Mike Oldfield    Incantations: Part 4 (excerpt) (1978) (Incantations)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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Care of The Slow Light and their own Youtube channel, another fine piece from their recent debut EP:

In glorious black and white, Lobby Loyde and the Wild Cherries at ABC TV in 1970 for their GTK program, with a piece that at gigs was surely stretched out to the limits of human endurance for wah wah guitar effects and drum fills:

The merest flicker of a smile can almost be seen to cross the lips of Robert Fripp, as his band in Berlin performs a cover of the song that Fripp had recorded there with David Bowie, 40 years earlier:

Playlist - 9 May 2020

Starting tonight with selections from the musical legacy of Dave Greenfield (The Stranglers) and Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk), plus perhaps appropriately music from the recently reissued 1980 album by Adelaide electronic band Peak.

8pm
The Stranglers    Peaches (1977) (Rattus Norvegicus)
The Stranglers    Skin deep (1984) (Aural Sculpture)
Kraftwerk    Robots (1978) (Man Machine)
Peak    Nightmist + Ocean of dreams (1980) (EBONDÀZZAR)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)
Sebastian Hardie    Rosanna (1975) (Four Moments)
Freedom To Glide    Broken road (2019) (Seed)
9pm
Sky    Where Opposites Meet (1979) (Sky)
Focus    Birth (1974) (Hamburger Concerto)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    Tintagel + Silbury Hill (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Indelible Murtceps    In the bog (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
The Stranglers    Golden brown (1981) (La Folie)

 

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The sound of Adelaide band Peak recorded live in concert 1984, with an instrumental that appears on neither of their albums but could fit on both:

The very rare sight of an Australian band filmed in colour in the early 1970's: Mike, Bill and Murtceps at the TFM Ballroom: 

Playlist - 2 May 2020

Tonight featuring music from Australian guitarist Plini recording as "Halcyon" (Plini's name to be correctly pronounced to rhyme with "mini" or "skinny", according to the man himself), plus Misfits Of Sythia (Adelaide), A Lonely Crowd, Elysian Sea and Aragon (Melbourne)  and Karnivool (Perth).

8pm
Moon Safari    Constant bloom + Yasgur’s farm (2008) (Blomljud)
King Crimson    Sleepless (1984) (Three Of A Perfect Pair)
A Lonely Crowd    Adjustify (2011) (User Hostile)
Halcyon    Noodle (2011) (Pasture)
Elysian Sea    Sunrise + Joy of life + One world one spirit (2017) (The Four Elements)
Aragon    In a lifetime (2014) (single only)
Misfits Of Sythia    The tungsten hook (2014) (Automatonophilia)
9pm
Liquid Tension Experiment    Acid rain (1998) (Liquid Tension Experiment)
Rush    The camera eye (1981) (Moving Pictures)
Karnivool    The Caudal Lure (2009) (Sound Awake)
Karnivool    Nachash (2013) (Asymmetry)
Genesis    In the cage + Afterglow (live) (2007) (Live Over Europe 2007)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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Karnivool, live, 2008:

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 - 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:

The amazing Peter Jones, aka Tiger Moth Tales:

Melboune band Kettlespider with one of the best songs they've done:

Playlist - 11 April 2020

Tonight, for Easter Saturday, the first hour features a feast of Aussie music, followed in the second hour by a complete live performance by Camel of their classic instrumental concept album "The Snow Goose".

8pm
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (1975) (The Four Moments)
Unitopia    Journey’s friend (2008) (The Garden)
Lacrymae    Handel’s Apocalypse (2009) (The Hallowed Design)
Rush    Totem (1996) (Test For Echo)
9pm
Camel (with London SO)    The Snow Goose (complete) (live, 1975) (A Live Record)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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Here is the sight and sound of Perth band Lacrymae peforming "Handel's apocalypse" live, on what seems like a slightly congested stage:

A little more from Adelaide-based band Unitopia:

Camel live in 2014, with selections from The Snow Goose:

New from Marillion, a new recording of Easter:

 

Playlist - 4 April 2020

Starting tonight with a selection of songs from the legacy of the late Bill Withers; then continuing with a feast of music from artists mostly from Adelaide and interstate, all of whom make their music available on Bandcamp if you wish to hear more.

8pm
Bill Withers    Who is he? (1972) (Still Bill)
Bill Withers    Ain’t no sunshine (1971) (Just As I Am)
O’Yaba    Lean on me (1994) (One Foundation)
Anubis    The deepest wound + Technicolour Afterlife (2018) (Different Stories)
Canidae    Iron sky (2014) (Nowhere Else But Here, EP)
Hemina    With what I see (2019) (As We Know It)
Awaken Solace    The passing (2012) (In Nightfall’s Embrace)
Squeaker    The things that remain (2019) (Revel In Ashes)
9pm
Aragon    Rocking Horse (Act 2) (2018) (single only)
Porcupine Tree    Anesthetize (live) (2020) (Ilosaarirock)
Big Big Train    Pantheon (2019) (Grand Tour)
A Lonely Crowd    Blur (2014) (Transients)
Andy Salvanos    Free range eggs (2007) (Closer)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)
 

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Another cover of a Bill Withers song, by the terrific Renee Geyer:

 A little more from Adelaide's own Squeaker, recorded live last year:

Playlist - 28 March 2020

In these days of tour cancellations and hotel lockdowns due to the wide-ranging Coronavirus pandemic, gigs for musicians are few and far between, which effectively wipes out the income of many local and independent musicians and bands. One potential way of supporting musicans, if you are so inclined, is to stream and consider purchasing their music - a little investigation will generally reveal the many and varied mediums on which independent Aussie artists make their releases available (e.g. including, but not limited to, a page on Bandcamp).

It will also be Earth Hour tonight from 8:30pm to 9:30pm, so appropriate music for an hour of the evening with minimal electricity usage is featured from King Crimson and The Church.

8pm
The Ben Cameron Project    A cycle never ending (2016) (A Cycle Never Ending)
The Church    Under the milky way (1988) (Starfish)
King Crimson    Starless (live, recorded 1974; LP 1975) (USA)
Andy Salvanos    Lightwaves (2019) (Lightwaves, digital 3 song EP)
9pm
Drawn From Bees    Calling you out (2014) (Web Of Thieves, EP)
Drawn From Bees    Long tooth setting sun (2009) (And The Blind Shall lead The Way, mini-LP)
Drawn From Bees    Gravity (2017) (single only)
Aura Form     Galactic current + Alps sunrise + Walking through fallout (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
Ben Craven & The Section    Golden band (2014) (Dissected)
Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes    The Lost Doctrine Of Dr. Phyviater Raveningsley (2008) (Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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Sydney band Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes, from their own Youtube channel, recorded live, with the most menacing (and trippy) "Grapes" you will ever encounter...

Playlist - 21 March 2020

Starting tonight with a selection of music from the remarkable legacy of the late Australian jazz legend Don Burrows, who passed away at the end of last week.

8pm
Don Burrows Quintet with the Adelaide Connection    Basin street blues + Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (1985) (Making Whoopee)
Don Burrows Quintet with the Adelaide Connection    Please don't talk about me when I'm gone (1992) (Nice 'n' Easy)
Don Burrows Quintet with Orchestra    Whenever (1990) (Whenever)
Anubis    Reflective + Entitled + White Ashes (2020) (Homeless)
Aronora    Too late + The end (2009) (Aronora)
9pm
United Progressive Fraternity    Loss Anthem + What happens now? + Cruel time (2019) (Planetary Overload)
Tirill    Said the sun to the moon (2019) (Said The Sun To The Moon)
White Willow    In dim days (2017) (Future Hopes)
King Crimson    Thela Hun Ginjeet (Alternate mix – Steven Wilson) (1981 / 2011) (On And Off the Road (1981-1984): CD#1 Discipline)
King Crimson    Heartbeat (1982 / 2011) (On And Off the Road (1981-1984): CD#3 Beat)
Steven Wilson    Transience (single version) (2015) (Hand Cannot Erase)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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A mere snippet of Don Burrows, at El Rocco, Sydney, 1987:

 The Crimson troubadours, circa mid-1980's, recorded live in Japan:

Cometh the hour, cometh the band: The Packets, with a video filmed at some iconic South Australian locations including HQ, Hindley Street and the picturesque wine hub of McLaren Vale, and with a song that speaks to most of us at this time:

Playlist - 14 March 2020

Tonight, the live prog rock time machine ventures into the extremities of the late 1970's.

8pm
Dixie Dregs    Take it off the top (live) (1979/1997) (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
Hawkwind    Motorway city (live) (1979) (Live 79)
Supertramp    Take the long way home (live) (1979/2010) (Breakfast In America reissue)
Jethro Tull    Minstrel in the gallery + Cross-eyed Mary (live) (1978) (Live: Bursting Out)
Eloy    Inside (live) (1978) (Live)
Steeleye Span    Montrose (live) (1978) (Live At Last)
9pm
Ariel    Illicit love + Hollywood (live) (1977/2013) (Ariel Aloha / Ariel Live In Concert)
Spectrum    Second coming (live) (2001) (Queenscliff Music Festival - Alive)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (live) (2003) (Forever Music presents: Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Kansas    Mysteries and mayhem + Excerpt from Lamplight Symphony + The wall (live) (1978/2008) (Two For The Show, 30th Anniversary Reissue)
Genesis    Dance on a volcano + Los Endos (live) (1977) (Seconds Out)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

 

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Amongst some unlikely "live" artefacts from 40+ years ago:

Eloy (West Germany), 1977...

Kansas (USA), which combines a classic performance from 1978 of their Genesis/King Crimson/Yes-meets-arena-rock style with film which is so distorted that it is one Taurus pedal away from being a random light show...

The Dixie Dregs (also USA), at Montreux, 1978, as always featuring talented guitarist Steve Morse, nowadays with Deep Purple...

Always worth another look, the rare sight from 1977 of Australian band Cybotron in their natural habitat, the tech-heavy surroundings of an ABC TV show called Rocturnal...

And fellow Aussie band Sebastian Hardie, probably from 1975...