Tuesday, November 30

Playlist

Regurgitator: If This Is The Blues Why Do I Feel So Green? (Mish Mash LP)
Faker: Quarter To Three (Addicted Romantic forthcoming LP)
Gelbison: Keep It Clean (See The World LP)
Old Man River: Your Side (Sunshine single)
Denvar: What You Want (Work Sleep Die EP)
Alex Jarvis: Seconds (Luxury & Denial EP)
Ill Bravados: Hall Of Annexed Records (Singles Club: Low Transit Industries Split 7" Collective)
Presets: The Girl & The Sea (The Girl & The Sea EP)
Presets: Kitty In The Middle (The Girl & The Sea EP)
Ben Lee: Desire (Gamble Everything For Love single)
Mid State Orange: Casualties Of Casualties (Singles Club: Low Transit Industries Split 7" Collective)
Architecture In Helsinki: Do The Whirlwind (single)
The Casinos: Street On The Beat (City Lights EP)
The New Black: Away
The Avenues: Gold & Grey
Gyroscope: Confidence In Confidentiality (Sound Shattering Sound LP)
Black Level Embassy: Noradrenaline (Fear Like Young LP)
Jape Squad: The Lighthouse Lies (single)
The Spazzys: Zatopeks (Aloha Go Bananas! LP)
The Casanovas: One More Time (The Casanovas LP)
The Tremors: Dry Cleaner (Cash Up Front No Kissing LP)
Royalchord: What's Been Going On Around Here (Through The Trees LP)
Laura Jean: The Hunter's Ode (The Hunter's Ode EP)

Thanks to Julian of the Presets who are playing several shows in Melbourne this weekend and their single The Girl & The Sea is out now through Modular.

GIG GUIDE

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30
Ash Naylor @ Rainbow
Faun Fables + Guy Blackman + Laura Jean @ Wesley Ann
Faker + Mid State Orange + Daughter Boy Jao @ Tote
Matt Handley @ Green Room

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1
Pitch Black + Cornerstone Roots + Red Eyes @ POW
Two Thousand Mavericks + 1QA + Valley Of Nine @ Kashmir (Southbank)

THURSDAY DECEMBER 2
Presets + Midnight Juggernauts + Barrage @ Ding Dong
D4 + Tremors + Cannon @ Tote
The Hovercrafts @ The Evelyn

FRIDAY DECEMBER 3
The Tremors + Cyclones + The Presets @ Espy
D4 + Specimens + The Blacklist @ Ding Dong
Legends Of Motorsport + Black Level Embassy + Cockfight Shootout + Kamikaze Trio @ Evelyn
Gyroscope + Nation Blue + The Bleeders (NZ) @ Corner
Smallgoods + Casinos + Mid State Orange @ Rubys Belgrave

SATURDAY DECEMBER 4
Specimens + Blacklist @ The Espy
Royalchord video launch @ Wesley Ann in Northcote

SUNDAY DECEMBER 5
Clare Bowditch @ St Jeromes
Groovesmiths @ Old Bar

Tuesday, November 23

Presets will be calling in this week and rolling in to town for a couple of shows - at Cut It Out down at Ding Dong on Thursday with the Midnight Juggernauts and Barrage, and another at the Espy on Friday night with the Tremors and the Cyclones.

Preparations are under way for PBS' incredible Live Music Week which starts this Thursday. So many highlights, so much live music, so much fun. Don't miss out...

Meredith will soon be upon us too. The week following - Tuesday December 14 - features a couple of BLOCKBUSTER interviews with Regurgitator and Ben Lee.
Join me, and recover with the radio.

Playlist

Her Majesty's Finest: Debt Collector (single)
The Fauves: Weak Chin (The Fauves LP)
The Spazzys: Surfen Bird (Aloha Go Bananas LP)
Intercooler: If I Try
Tonjip: Selection Criteria (Nice Guys EP)
No Through Road: The Chelsea Theatre (The Chelsea Theatre EP)
Wolf & Cub: Spirals (Wolf & Cub EP)
My Disco: In Figures Of Speech (Language Of Numbers EP)
The Grey Daturas: Golden Gate Blues (Dead In The Woods LP)
selected by Robbie of the Grey Daturas:
The Gordons: Spik & Span (The Gordons LP)
The Golden Lifestyle Band: There Is No Me

The Grey Daturas: Your Kingdom Falls (Dead In The Woods LP)
Alex Jarvis: Luxury (Luxury EP)
Architecture In Helsinki: Do The Whirlwind (Haimi remix) (single)
Gelbison: I Don't Wanna Die Here With You (All The Rage LP)
Fourth Floor Collapse: Godspeed (single)
Regurgitator: My Friend Robot (Mish Mash LP)
The Fragments: Obvious (single)
The Fragments: You Saw Me Fall (single)
The Presets: Mia's Mouse (The Girl And The Sea EP)
Coda: Giraffe Girl (For All Our Animal Friends EP)

Much thanks to Robbie of the Grey Daturas and Piers of the Fragments for their time as well.

GIG GUIDE

GIG GUIDE
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23
Matt Handley (Pollyanna) @ Green Room

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24
The Fragments @ Duke Of Windsor
Tiger By The Tail @ Town Hall

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25
The Fragments @ The Empress
Gelbison + End Of Fashion @ Gershwin

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26
Wicked Beat Sound System + Maya Jupiter @ The Corner
Blacklist + Jed Whitey + Devil Rock Four @ Tote
Grey Daturas + Limited Epress (Has Gone?) instore @ Missing Link
British India + Exploders @ Ding Dong
The Fauves @ The Evelyn
Blueline Medic + Behind Crimson Eyes + Fire Underground @ The Espy
Queenscliff Music Festival (till November 28)

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27
Black Cab + Sand Pebbles + Rectifiers @ Revolver
The Fauves @ The Evelyn

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 28
Grey Daturas + Limited Epress (Has Gone?) + Young Professionals + Bug Girl @ Builders Arms
Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males @ St Jeromes

Friday, November 19

The Fragments and Grey Daturas...

...are special guests on the show this week.

From Sydney, Damian and Piers have been kicking round in various bands but have now settled into their roles as the Fragments. They have just stepped out of the recording studio with a new single - Obvious - and they'll be on the phone to tell me all about it tomorrow.

The Grey Daturas are a local instrumental trio that have been around for a few years and have just released a shredding instrumental album called Dead In The Woods, which, being that time of year and all, has just sneaked it in to make my top Australian releases of the year - if indeed I was to attempt a list. It's an awesome album on Crashing Jets, the label that brought you that incredible My Disco EP recently.

From their website:
This November, the Grey Daturas give birth to their 2nd album ‘Dead In The Woods’ on the CRASHINGJETS label (My Disco, Agents of Abhorrence); chock full of spaced-out jams, freak-outs and the usual noise you'd expect from the improvisational trio.

Since their earliest shows in 2001 the Grey Daturas have been celebrated as being one of the loudest and most uncompromising live acts gigging within Melbourne’s underground scene. The band’s main objective from their onset was to improvise live soundtracks to 16 mm films, however since losing a permanent projectionist the three core members of the Grey Daturas, Robert Macmanus, Robert Mayson and Bonnie Mercer, have had to adapt to performing without regular visual accompaniments. While there are no actual ‘songs’ in the Grey Daturas repertoire, all improvisations reveal common traits distinct to the band… from electronic drones, impromptu rock riffing, industrious drumming , and most importantly, noise. Their sound has already gained them support slots with the likes of Magic Dirt, Neil Hamburger, Kim Salmon, Bar McKinnon (Mr Bungle), and Clann Zu. In 2002 The Grey Daturas headlined a night at the Next Wave Festival. They have double-headlined two tours to Adelaide (once with Sir and again with Birdblobs) and also headlined two tours to Hobart.

From the 11th to the 12th of the September 2004, the Grey Daturas knuckled down with Melbourne sound engineer Neil Thomason (Ricaine), to record a series of improvisations for their latest album ‘Dead in the Woods’. The 16 tracks selected for ‘Dead in the Woods’ traverses electronic drone-scapes, one minute freak-outs, blissfully-heavy psych jams and in-determinant music games. While crammed full of the sounds the daturas have shaped into their own they are not shy to draw upon influences as varied as The Stooges, German 70’s electronic outfit Cluster, American doom-drone band Earth, and 20th century composer John Cage.
The band have a couple of shows scheduled with Japanese act Limited Express (Has Gone?). Friday November 26 both bands will be at Missing Link (in the basement at 405 Bourke Street) from 5.30pm and again on Sunday November 28 they'll both be playing with the Young Professionals & Bug Girl at the Builders Arms in Fitzroy.

Tuesday, November 16

Live Music Week

Check out the remarkable line up PBS has got coming up for Live Music Week this December. Truckloads of awesome artists...

Thu Dec 2, 7-10pm Transglobal Underground (UK) (opening night: Studio 5 Live/Planetary Chaos)
Thu Dec 2, 10pm-midnight Naomi (Syd) (Radio de Janeiro)

Fri Dec 3, 8-9am Music Vs Physics (The Morning After)
Fri Dec 3, 9-11am Dave Graney solo/acoustic
Fri Dec 3, 1-3pm Jeff Lang (Now Dig This)
Fri Dec 3, 3-5pm The D4 (NZ) (Shock Treatment)
Fri Dec 3, 8.30-10pm Francisco Foo (Under the Radar)

Sat Dec 4, 12-2am Field Trip (Hippopotamus Rex)
Sat Dec 4, 2-6am Casionova (Irvine Jump)
Sat Dec 4, 11am-1pm Logic? (Bitches Brew)
Sat Dec 4, 1-3pm Selfish Lovers (Soul Time)
Sat Dec 4, 3-5pm Higher Heights + special guest Traffik (Chant Down Babylon)
Sat Dec 4, 5-7pm Cold Sweat (Soulgroove '66)
Sat Dec 4, 10pm-midnight Mr Scruff (UK) (Breakfluid)

Sun Dec 5, 9-11am Alex Burns (The Gospel Show)
Sun Dec 5, 11am-1pm Louis King & the Liars Klub (Blue Juice)
Sun Dec 5, 1-3pm Los Cabrones (Dizzy Atmosphere)
Sun Dec 5, 3-5pm Moshtag Ensemble (Global Village)
Sun Dec 5, 5-7pm Hugo Race + True Spirit plus The Altamonts (Mystery Train)
Sun Dec 5, 7-8.30pm Sin City (No Frills)
Sun Dec 5, 8.30-10pm Sunwrae (Hybrid)

Mon Dec 6, 8-9am Mick Turner (The Morning After)
Mon Dec 6, 11am-1pm Blow It Out Ya Brass Band (Serious Fun)
Mon Dec 6, 3-5pm The Stabs (Makeshift Swahili)
Mon Dec 6, 10pm-12am Tom Fryer (Something Else)

Tue Dec 7, 12-2am Grey Daturas (The In Sound From Way Out)
Tue Dec 7, 9-11am The Church plus Ai Yamamoto (Coolin' By Sound)
Tue Dec 7, 11am-1pm Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males plus Midnight Juggernautz (Tyranny of Distance)
Tue Dec 7, 1-3pm The Railing Crossways (Southern Style)
Tue Dec 7, 3-5pm The Drones (Muscle Souls)
Tue Dec 7, 5-7pm Full Size Dwarf (The Bright White Land Of Comfort)
Tue Dec 7, 8-10pm Rene & Etienne (Africa # 1)
Tue Dec 7, 10pm-12am Crimsonfire (Screaming Symphony)

Wed Dec 8, 9-11am Fret Jockeys (Roots of Rhythm)
Wed Dec 8, 1-3pm Zydeco Jump (Jumpin' The Blues)
Wed Dec 8, 3-5pm Sand Pebbles (Bone Machine)
Wed Dec 8, 5-7pm The Cants (Sunglasses After Dark)
Wed Dec 8, 7-8pm Alex Jarvis (host Adrian Ockerby)
Wed Dec 8, 8-10pm The Diddley Daddies (It's A Gas)
Wed Dec 8, 10pm-12am The Blacklist (Burning Bitumen)
Thu Dec 9, 12-2am The Tea Party (Canada) acoustic (Low Grooves)

Thu Dec 9, 8am Konqistidor (The Morning After)
Thu Dec 9, 1-3pm T-Bones (Acid Country)
Thu Dec 9, 3-5pm Irrelevant (Syd) (Headwealth)
Thu Dec 9, 5-7pm Tex Perkins Dark Horses trio plus M Ward (US) (Totally Wired)
Thu Dec 9, 7-8pm The Unicorns (Canada) (Studio 5 Live)
Thu Dec 9, 8-10pm Secret Masters (Planetary Chaos)
Thu Dec 9, 10pm-12am Quantic w/- Alice Russell (UK) (Radio De Janeiro)

Fri Dec 10, 9-11am Saddleback (Syd)
Fri Dec 10, 1-3pm Jimi Hocking (Now Dig This)
Fri Dec 10, 3-5pm Young Heart Attack (US) (Shock Treatment)
Fri Dec 10, 5-7pm The Dirty Three (Beat Orgy)

PLAYLIST

The Cops: Dirty Little Rebel (Stomp On Tripwires LP)
Muscles: Fish Fingers (single)
The Zebras: Look Confident (The Zebras LP)
Paper Tiger: Late Night Washing (While You Are Gone EP)
Paper Tiger: One Drop Short (While You Are Gone EP)
Joni Lightning: Calling In My (Joni Lightning LP)
Joni Lightning: Love You Too Hard (live)
Joni Lightning: Makin' Mistakes (live)
Small Knives: Loss Leader (Paper Wings single)
Wolf & Cub: Targets (Wolf & Cub EP)
The RedSunBand: Dark Days (Peapod LP)
Dirty Three: Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Bacon (PBS 25 Years To Life: An Exploration Of Music & Crime 2CD - pick one up when you subscribe now)
Alex Jarvis: Seconds (Luxury And Denial EP)
The Fragments: Obvious (single)
The Smallgoods: Spending The Morning (This Is The Show EP)
Warde Elliott & Thin Man: All Good (Tall Stories LP)
Youth Group: Piece Of Wood (Skeleton Jar LP)

Big props to Dave and Paddy of Joni Lightning, Matt High of Meredith Music Festival and Alicia of Paper Tiger for making the show this week.
Toby of Youth Group will be on PBS some time later this week. Details to come.

Thanks all.



GIG GUIDE

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16
Ash Naylor @ Rainbow Hotel

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17
Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon @ Duke Of Windsor
Matt Walker & Ashley Davies @ The Vic

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18
Crayon Fields + The Zebras + Blessington @ Ding Dong
78 Saab + Intercooler + The Kits @ Espy
Fourth Floor Collapse + The Hampdens @ Duke Of Windsor
Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon @ The Empress

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19
The Cops + Red Riders + Todd Sparrow @ Ding Dong
The Hovercrafts + The Zebras + Paper Tiger + Sound Platform @ Pony with 1QA at 2am
Youth Group + Ross McLennan + Mid State Orange @ The Evelyn
Black Level Embassy + Grand Fatal (double CD launch) + Colditz Glider + True Radical Miracle @ Arthouse
Fourth Floor Collapse + Fur Patrol + Goldenhorse + Charles Foster Kane @ The Espy
Joni Lightning (CD launch) + CW Stoneking + Ben Birchall @ Gershwin Room
Warde Elliott & Thin Man + Sophie Koh @ Cornish Arms
The Suits (CD launch) @ Tote

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20
78 Saab + Ben Birchall & The Corrections @ Ding Dong
Wagons + Marcel Borrack + The Vandas + Happy Lonesome @ Espy
Deloris @ Tote
Casanovas + 67 Special + Osterberg @ Corner
Blueline Medic @ The Arthouse
Guild League + Tugboat + Paper Tiger @ The Vic
Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon @ Kingfisher Festival, Ceres Community Gardens
Sin City + Mach Pelican + Nunchukka Supafly + Gels + El Bruto @ Green Room
Charles Foster Kane + Special Patrol @ The Empress
Charles Foster Kane @ Pony 2am

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 21
Architecture In Helsinki @ St Jeromes

Friday, November 12

From the sublime to the ridiculous...

After a solid ONE WEEK's break from interviewing, this week sees the motherload of special guests. Jesus, can't a girl get some rest!!!

This week, not only is Joni Lightning set to serenade us live in the studio, but Paper Tiger call in from Adelaide, Youth Group jump on the telling bone from Sydney and Matt High - he of Meredith Music Festival which is creeping up oh so quickly - is coming in for a yarn as well.

PBS is where the action is.


And here's a whisper....

Live music week is happening at PBS in December - stay tuned for more details - but Midnight Juggernauts AND Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males are all raring for a live set on Tyranny Of Distance. I'll keep you posted.

Wednesday, November 10

Lightning, Tiger. Grrrrr...

I'm having a break from idle (idol) chit chat and even constructive chit chat this week with all new releases. Just the music. If you heard the show last week you'll agree that it's a relief.
Maybe one week too late.
He he. Oh well. My head has stopped hurting now and my beer breath is gone. Just.

New stuff just in includes Osterberg, Mexico City, Black Level Embassy, Genshen, the Grey Daturas and a couple of great local compilations. But there's more more more, loads more - I have some definite catching up to do - listen in and hear it all.

Next week will feature Joni Lightning - aka Dave Ong from Motor Ace - in acoustic mode live in the studio, with Adelaide darlings Paper Tiger calling on the phone too.

Inanely, Paper Tiger always get me thinking about Little Black Sambo. I think it shares the same thought path as the Love Of Diagrams song Tiger Pancakes. Hmmm fascinating.

What more do you want? Talk soon.

Thursday, November 4

The Morning After playlist...

I filled in for Todd James this morning on The Morning After. 'Twas nice for a change to be playing stuff not of this nation. Here's what I played.

Infusion: Daylight Hours (Six Feet Above Yesterday LP)
School Of Emotional Engineering: Redline (School Of Emotional Engineering LP)
Broken Social Scene: Ambulance For The Ambience (Bee Hives LP)
Faun Fables: Poem 2 (Family Album LP)
Tom Waits: Rose (Real Gone LP)
The Delgados: Keeping On Breathing (Universal Audio LP)
Ken Stringfellow: Death Of A City (Soft Commands LP)
Elliott Smith: A Fond Farewell (A From A Basement On The Hill LP)
The Clientele: House On Fire (The Violet Hour LP)
Holly Golightly: In Your Head (Slowly But Surely LP)
Harry Belafonte: Did You Hear About Jerry? (Original Seeds Volume 2 compilation)
Nancy Sinatra: Don't Let Him Waste Your Time (Nancy Sinatra LP)
Giant Sand: Cracklin' Water (Is All Over The Map LP)
Frausdots: Contact (Couture, Couture, Couture LP)
Karate: Tow Truck (Pockets LP)
Xiu Xiu: Clowne Towne (Fabulous Muscles LP)
Cut Chemist: (The Litmus Test LP)
Fila Brazilia: Kiss My Whippet (Dicks LP)
The Rapture: I Need Love (Playgroup remix) (Reproduction LP)
The Faint: Birth (Wet From Birth LP)
The Phoenix Foundation: Let Me Die A Woman (Horse Power LP)
The Hidden Cameras: Music Is My Boyfriend (Mississauga Goddam LP)
The Concretes: You Can't Hurry Love (The Concretes LP)
Fiery Furnaces: Birdie Brain (Blueberry Boat LP)
The Unicorns: Child Star (Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? LP)
Mouse On Mars: Mine Is In Yours (Radical Connector LP)
Beans: (Shock City Maverick LP)
RL Burnside featuring Lyrics Born: Goin' Down south (A Bothered Mind LP)
The Church: The Illusion Mysteries (Beside Myself LP)
Interpol: Length Of Love (Antics LP)
Silkworm: Something Hyper (It'll Be Cool LP)
Remake Remodel: Jellybean Remodel (Ransom mix) (12345 Accelerate EP)
Action Action: Drug Like (Don't Cut Your Fabric To This Year's Fashion LP)
The Cops: Wallet/Puffer/Smokes/Keys (Stomp On Tripwires LP)
Dynamo: Don't Stop Dancing (Buckets Of Fun LP)
Thee Shams: You Want It (Please Yourself LP)
Les Savy Fav: Meet Me In The Dollar Bin (Inches LP)
Hot Water Music: All Heads Down (The New What Next LP)
The Radio Dept: Where Damage Isn't Already Done (single)