House Burning... Firemen Sleeping

Mix Show #4

Cover art: Paul Klee, 'Fire In The Evening' (1929)

Now didn't I say I'd be more on the ball this week?

And so, the very next day no less, I give you show #10!

Now if I can just keep it this way, oh, I'm sure I will.

I failed to mention in the show what actually inspired this mix.

One day years ago, whilst driving out in the countryside through a small outskirt community something caught my attention.

A house barely intact that had obviously burned down to the ground, and right next door was a Fire Station.

Now while I pondered this for a moment I thought, well evidently this was a very old house and was most likely used by the station for training or something. Nonetheless, I thought it’d make a humourous photograph. Unfortunately though it was impossible to get the two things to fit side by side in the photo.

So the idea of a concept mix came to me instead, and this, many months later, is what has resulted.

I ended up making it for a friend whom I thought might appreciate the title being the huge Morrissey fan that he is.

I really didn’t want to do this whole ‘fire’ theme throughout the mix as I thought that might be a bit too pretentious. Besides that really wasn’t the true gist of it anyhow.

So there are various subtleties in the songs, although after a while the title wasn’t as pertinent and what I thought the intended listener would really like was considered more instead. But I think it still turned out nice anyway

"The car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel."

**download/listen** HOUSE BURNING... FIREMEN SLEEPING

Air date 1st of April '09 * request

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR 'Dead Flag Blues'

RIDE 'Dreams Burn Down'

KILLING JOKE 'Medicine Wheel'

IKON 'Reality Is Lost'

MORRISSEY 'Jack The Ripper (Original Version)'

ARCADE FIRE 'Rebellion (Lies)'

FRAUSDOTS 'Dead Wrong'
FRENCH KICKS 'Oh Fine'

DEARS 'We Can Have It'

CLEARLAKE 'Treat Yourself With Kindness'

HOPE OF THE STATES 'A Heart Can Stop A Bullet'

NADA SURF 'Killan's Red'

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS 'Sterre'

RYAN ADAMS 'Wonderwall'

THE WALKMEN 'Everyone Who Pretended To Lke Me Is Gone'

MORRISSEY 'Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning'

MENOMENA 'Ghost Ship' *

CURE 'Lost'

BAT FOR LASHES 'Sleep Alone'

AND YOU WIL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD 'Inland Sea'

CURE 'Burn'

background music~ FELT 'Red Indians' and GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR selections from 'F#A#∞'