Show #12 'The Aftermath...'

Mix Show #5

Paul Klee 'New Instrument For Music' (1914)

:: Sail on silver wings

   Through this storm

   What fortune love may bring

   Back to my arms again

   The love of a former golden age (104MB) ::

THE AFTERMATH... Air-date 15th of April '09

* Request

PLAID 'Eyen'

INTERPOL 'Untitled'

THE TEAR GARDEN 'In Search Of My Rose'

COCTEAU TWINS 'Pearly Dewdrops' Drops'

DEAD CAN DANCE 'In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated'
SIGUR RÓS 'Bíum Bíum Bambaló'

COCTEAU TWINS 'Alice'
AND ALSO THE TREES 'Slow Pulse Boy'

LOW 'Words'

SIGUR RÓS 'Dánarfregnir Og Jarðarfarir (Death Announcements And Funerals)'

CLINIC 'Distortions'

LEGENDARY PINK DOTS 'Inside'

MOGWAI 'Small Children In The Background'

COWBOY JUNKIES 'Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)' *

PLASTICSTATIC 'Insight Tangled Up'

I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS 'Thoughts On The Floor'

INTERPOL 'Narc (Paul Banks Remix)'

NEW ORDER 'The Him'

DEATH IN JUNE 'Frost Flowers'

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES 'Staring Back'

ROBERT SMITH 'Ariel (Home Demo)'

Show #11 'It's Going To Be A Fine Night, Tonight'

There's no real special theme for this show.

I got sort of fed up with always having a 'theme' at this particular moment and just wanted to play what I felt like.

Although it all has a kind of Spring-y tinge to it, well as far as I'm concerned.

Also, it would seem that I started to get my 'shoe-gaze' on for a moment.

But mostly this is music that reminds me of green, breezy days and cool nights.

Spring is the most 'hopeful' of months... so here are some songs that seem to have a dab of hope in them.

"I should have been more careful, waxing hope in cruelest April... I thought that we were there."

::download/stream:: IT'S GOING TO BE A FINE NIGHT, TONIGHT Air date 8th of April '09

MISS JANE 'It's A Fine Day'

THE CHURCH 'An Interlude'

BRITISH SEA POWER 'A Lovely Day Tomorrow'

THE FEELIES 'Let's Go'

THE GO-BETWEENS 'Cattle And Cane'

THE OCEAN BLUE 'Drifting, Falling'

MORRISSEY 'Sister, I'm A Poet'

LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS 'Rattlesnakes'

THE SUNDAYS 'My Finest Hour'

INNOCENCE MISSION 'Speak Our Minds'

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN 'April Skies'

CHAPTERHOUSE 'April'

MY BLOODY VALENTINE '(Please) Lose Yourself In Me'

RED HOUSE PAINTERS 'Mistress'

THE WEDDING PRESENT 'Heather'

THE ORGAN 'No One Has Ever Looked So Dead'

WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY 'Spring Like '60'

THE SMITHS 'Stretch Out And Wait'

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL 'Easy As Sin'

HOOD 'Her Innocent Stock Of Words'

GALAXIE 500 'Strange'

DEAD CAN DANCE 'American Dreaming'

RIDE 'Nowhere'

THE CURE 'Jupiter Crash'

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#∞'

Show # 9 'The British Disease'

All U.K. Bands!

Wow, I suppose it would seem I am back from sort of a 'Spring Break'.

Fortunately, I have been mad busy as of late, although unfortunately it means I have neglected my blog, sorry.

Do you really actually care.... hmmm?

Well anyway enough of that nonsense.

I promise it will be different now as I am back to not having a life... sigh.

The lovely Maija joins me on this show for a last minute tribute to our beloved United Kingdom and the many bands therein whom we hold dear.

Our mission...

Visit this blessed land one day...

Or at least by the month of October of this year.

We shall see.

I am not going to talk about how unhenged I became on this particular show although I will mention that the end was cut off rather abruptly, so I apologize in advance.

note: you can actually WATCH a video of the end of this show here!

I knew that I should have come on and said my goodbyes BEFORE I played 'London Calling'. Oh well. I added in a few random British goodies to suffice.

"England is mine, and it owes me a living."

Tootle Pipski.

**download/listen** THE BRITISH DISEASE Air date 25th of March '09

* request

GENE 'The British Disease'

MORRISSEY 'Hairdresser On Fire'

THE WEDDING PRESENT 'What Have I Said Now?'

CLEARLAKE 'Don't Let The Cold In'

GODLEY & CREME 'Cry' *

FELT 'Something Sends Me To Sleep'

BONZO DOG BAND 'Readymades'

BAUHAUS 'All We Ever Wanted Was Everything'

SMITHS 'Still Ill'

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL 'Never Could Have Been Worse'

CATHERINE WHEEL 'Strangefruit'

BRITISH SEA POWER 'Victorian Ice'

MORRISSEY 'Now My Heart Is Full'

PETER SHELLEY 'Homosapien'

JOY DIVISION 'These Days'

DEPECHE MODE 'Stories Of Old'

GANG OF FOUR 'Damaged Goods'

THE DAMNED 'New Rose'

CURE 'So What'

THE FALL 'Wings'

NEW ORDER 'Run'

OMD 'La Femme Accident'

GENE 'London Can You Wait?'

JOY DIVISION 'Warsaw (live)' *

CLASH 'London Calling'

Show # 8 'Electronic Renaissance 2'

With much unavoidable belatedness...

I have been away since Friday morning on a much needed break from everything (including this blog it would seem).

But I got back here before the weekend was over anyway!

I am FAR too tired to go into even the slightest drawn out commentary here, but I will mention a big thank you to the kind people who took the time to make requests for this particular show.

Microstoria BC.

Maija Bridgewater.

Jason Hernandez.

Eric Norrbohm.

Helen (Mom).

Thanks, guys!

ENJOY...

**download/listen** ELECTRONIC RENAISSANCE 2 Air date 18th of March '09

* request

LADYTRON 'Startup Chime'

KRAFTWERK 'Antenna'

BLACK GHOSTS 'I Want Nothing'

PLAID 'Extork' *

THE KNIFE 'Neverland'

BLONDE REDHEAD 'Publisher'

ELECTRONIC 'Some Distant Memory' *

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES in the DARK 'Talking Loud and Clear'

DAN DEACON 'The Crystal Cat' *

INTERPOL 'Public Pervert (Carlos D Remix)'

DIVISION DAY 'Ghosts'

PET SHOP BOYS 'Love Etc.' *

NEW ORDER 'Here To Stay'

THE GLOVE 'Mouth To Mouth (Robert Smith Vocal Demo)'

ORGANIC AUDIO 'Nurega' *

BEBORN BETON 'Another World' *

VNV NATION 'Further'

DEPECHE MODE 'Fragile Tension' / 'Come Back' / 'Wrong'

Show # 7 'Autosuggestion'

Mix Show # 3 (2005)

Autosuggestion...

is defined in the dictionary as an influencing of one's own attitudes, behavior, or physical condition by mental processes other than conscious thought :

SELF-HYPNOSIS.

Sometimes you will just feel a certain connection with some band or music and that is just it.

It becomes unconditional.

Perhaps as time and life circumstances change you, your love for it will pale or cool off considerably, but there are always fragments left and you never forget how it made you feel.

That's the important bit I think.

Music can build you,

make the person you are.

Add elements to you.

Change your thoughts, ideas and opinions or rather just mirror these and make them stronger.

While I find lyrics and music important what proves most poignant to me is the aura it gives off.

Bands like Interpol and The Walkmen have achieved this most successfully, which naturally is why I had included them in this mix I suppose...

I really had no choice.

I think that this just might very well be one of the fastest show posts since I started this blog.

We'll just see whether or not that becomes a trend.

"A point of view creates more waves,
So take a chance and step outside."

**download/listen** AUTOSUGGESTION Air date 11th of March '09

* request

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 'Disease'

THE MOVIES 'A Better Life'

THE FEELIES 'Slow Down'

JOSEF K 'It's Kinda Funny'

I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS 'We're Still The Weaker Sex'

THE CURE 'Secrets'

ELEFANT 'Misfit'

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 'Angels And Devils'

THE WEDDING PRESENT 'Kennedy'

SMOKING POPES 'Need You Around'

THE WALKMEN 'Rue the Day'

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 'Over The Wall'

JOY DIVISION 'New Dawn Fades'

THE FALL 'Smile'

CURE 'Cold (live)'

INTERPOL 'Song Seven (Original Demo Version)'

CLEARLAKE 'It's All Too Much'

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 'No Hands (Peel Session)'

JOY DIVISION 'Autosuggestion'

THE WALKMEN 'Dónde Está la Playa'

LAMBCHOP 'Flub' *

Show # 6 'Why Can't I Be You?'

All Cure cover songs!

(1996)

Guess who I wanted to be way back when...

Apparently, I wasn't alone in my endeavours with just a few of many Cure tribute albums as proof.

I selected a handful of my particular favourites from three that came out recently:

'Perfect As Cats' on Manimal Vinyl

'Just Like Heaven' on American Laundromat

And finally NME's February 25th CD companion 'Pictures Of You: A Tribute To Godlike Geniuses The Cure' in light of The Cure's recent 'NME Godlike Genius Award'.

I won't say much more and simply let the music speak for itself...

Besides, Robert Smith gives a far superior introduction than I ever could.

Would you expect anything less from a genius?

"I'm smitten, I'm bitten, I'm hooked, I'm cooked, I'm stuck like glue..."

**download/listen** WHY CAN'T I BE YOU? Airdate 4th of March '09

We Are The World 'Why Can't I Be You'

Robert Smith 'Introduction'

British Sea Power 'A Forest'

The Futureheads 'The Lovecats'

Mystery Jets & Esser 'Inbetween Days'

Dinosaur Jr. 'Just Like Heaven'

The Big Pink 'Lovesong'

Hecuba 'Killing An Arab'

Aquaserge '10.15 Saturday Night'

Gangi 'Fire In Cairo'

Voyager One 'M'

Devastations 'All Cats Are Grey'

Jesu 'The Funeral Party'

Geneva Jacuzzi 'The Walk'

Veil Veil Vanish 'The Upstairs Room'

Astrid Quay 'The Caterpillar'

Rainbow Arabia 'Six Different Ways'

Joker's Daughter 'Kyoto Song'

Lemon Sun 'The Exploding Boy'

The Wedding Present 'High'

Dean & Britta 'Friday I'm In Love'

Ten Years Later ...

Dusty Springfield
1939 - 1999

Show # 5 'I Hung Around In Your Soundtrack'

Mix Show # 2

Cover art: 'DJ Carlos De' (2003) By: KleeGirl   Lettering: Ian Curtis' handwriting

Introducing... 

The mix that started it all...

And some brand spanking new Morrissey as an accompaniment!

Well, aren't you the lucky one?

**download / listen** I HUNG AROUND IN YOUR SOUNDTRACK Airdate 25th of February '09

THE STILLS 'Killer Bees'

RADIOHEAD 'Meeting In The Aisle'

LIGHTNING SEEDS 'Perfect'

CURE 'Waiting'

INTERPOL 'Song Seven'

GANG OF FOUR 'Shrinkwrapped'

SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE 'Pillars'

CLEARLAKE 'Almost The Same'

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES in the DARK 'The Romance Of The Telescpope'

THE 6THS feat. LLOYD COLE 'Human'

MAGNETIC FIELDS 'I Shatter'

CAT POWER 'I Found A Reason'

GRANDADDY 'Underneath The Weeping Willow'

BEN LEE 'No Room To Bleed'

COCTEAU TWINS 'Blue Bell Knoll'

HOOVERPHONIC 'Renaissance Affair'

FISCHERSPOONER 'The 15th'

LADYTRON 'Blue Jeans (Interpol Remix)'

THE STILLS 'Still In Love Song (12" Extended Remix)'

THE POSTAL SERVICE 'Natural Anthem'

MORRISSEY 'Black Cloud' / 'That's How People Grow Up' / 'It's Not Your Birthday Anymore' / 'All You Need Is Me'

Show # 4 'Nordic Tracks'

All Scandinavian bands!

music video still: 'When I Found The Knife'

Manchester.

Liverpool.

Sheffield.

Sweden?

Yes, as much as I have a great love for many bands from various parts of the U.K., the Nordic regions are quite important to me as well.

I suppose it all must have started when I was a kid.

Sitting in the back seat of my parents Chevrolet Citation with my sister hearing Abba's 'Take A Chance On Me' blarring through the car speakers.

Then just a few years later, thinking that A-ha just might be my favourite band.

It really doesn't matter.

Because now we have the fabulous Knife and Mew, who seem to incapsulate every bit of what I appreciated as a child and pre-teen... and that's a pretty awesome thing to do.

And oh dear, I know that I've forgotten the brilliant José González in this show, so very sorry.

But don't worry, I'll try to make up for it at a later date.

Jurgen Haarbermaaster Approved.

**download / listen** NORDIC TRACKS Air date 18th of February '09

Cure 'Do The Hansa'

Bettie Serveert 'Unsound'

Cats On Fire 'I Am The White-Mantled King'

Kings Of Convenience 'I'd Rather Dance With You'

Jens Lekman 'Maple Leaves (EP Version)'

Northern Portrait 'Crazy' / 'Sporting A Scar'

Royksopp 'What Else Is There? (feat. Karin Dreijer Andersson)'

Mew 'Apocalypso'

Jay-Jay Johanson 'Anywhere Anytime'

The Knife 'Kino' / 'I Just Had To Die' / 'I Take Time' / 'Parade' / 'N.Y. Hotel' / 'Heartbeats' / 'You Take My Breath Away' / 'You Make Me Like Charity' / 'High School Poem' / 'This Is Now' / 'Silent Shout' / 'Marble House'  

Fever Ray 'Now's  The Only Time I Know' / 'When I Grow Up'

Mew 'Am I Wry? No'

Show # 3 'The Electronic Renaissance Edition'

film still: 'Electric Dreams' (1984)

If I consider all of the shows that I have done,
25 if I do not include Summer '07,
this would actually be the '3rd' Electronic Renaissance show.

The other two, I did in the Summer of '08.
Part 1 and Part 2.

I never seem to tire of electronic music and always seem to gravitate back toward it.

Depeche Mode, OMD and New Order will be the constant most important, for myself.

But there are new acts that are leaving a great impression as well.
The Presets, Hot Chip and most especially, The Knife, whom bring to mind my idea for an all Scandinavian show which may very likely happen in the near future!

Thank you to Amy and Eric who suggested The Presets.
At the end of the set,
a dedication from me.

"I just want your music tonight."

**download** THE ELECTRONIC RENAISSANCE EDITION

Airdate 11th of February '09

Kraftwerk 'Endless Endless'

Delia Derbyshire 'John Peel's Voice'
OMD '2nd Thought'
Royksopp 'Poor Leno'
The Knife 'Forest Families'
Portishead 'We Carry On'
Cure 'A Forest (3rd John Peel Session '80)'
Eyeless In Gaza 'Kodak Ghosts Run Amok'
Depeche Mode 'Ice Machine'
Human League 'The Dignity Of Labour Pt. 1'
New Order 'Ecstasy'
Hot Chip 'Don't Dance'
Plaid 'Lat'
The Presets 'Eucalyptus'
Gary Numan 'Metal'
Cabaret Voltaire 'Jesus Saves'
Gus Gus 'Cold Breath '79'
Joy Division 'Isolation'
Icehouse 'Icehouse'
Pet Shop Boys 'I'm Not Scared'
Trisomie 21 'Another Move'
The Presets 'Talk Like That'

Show # 2 'Plastic Passion'

*(Nearly) All vinyl show

All right, so this particular 'plastic passion' is not of Archie's Dilton persuasion.

It's of the 'vinyl record' variety, although not completely.

Much to my chagrin, when I arrived at the K-dub studio the second turntable apparently had a damaged needle. Which put a considerable kink in my plans for an 'all vinyl' show.

So in all honesty about half of the show is vinyl, although I did try to keep an old, crispy theme throughout.

You will probably be able to guess which is vinyl and which is not.
At least it's all fantastic music and that's what really matters, right?

:: Plastic passion is the nadir of night (252MB) :: 

PLASTIC PASSION Air date 4th of February '09

Smiths 'This Charming Man'
Chameleons 'Thursday's Child'
Cure 'Plastic Passion'
Echo And The Bunnymen 'Villier's Terrace'
Replacements 'I. O. U.'
Happy Mondays 'Wrote For Luck (Dance Mix)
Sugarcubes 'Traitor'
Josef K 'Forever Drone'
Depeche Mode 'In Your Memory'
Bauhaus 'A Spy In The Cab (live '82 'Press The Eject And Give Me The Tape')'
Japan 'Ghosts'
Gang Of Four 'I Found That Esssence Rare'
Joy Division 'Interzone'
Cure 'Primary (Peel Session '81)'
Public Image Limited 'Public Image'
Elvis Costello and the Attractions 'This Year's Girl'
Morrissey 'Last Night Maudlin Street'
Psychedelic Furs 'Highwire Days'
New Order 'Turn The Heater On (Peel Session '82)'
Wire 'Heartbeat'
Cure 'A Japanese Dream'
And Also The Trees 'Talk Without Words'
Felt 'Primitive Painters'
Smashing Pumpkins 'There It Goes ('88 demo)'
Smiths 'I Don't Owe You Anything'

Show # 1 'We Are Our Memories'

*Mix Show # 1
For M...



Ahh, the very first new show of the year!
New beginnings.
New day.
New time.
And hopefully...
New listeners?
Hmm, well who is to say...
Of what I am certain I have had at least one avid listener throughout my shows.
My cousin Maija.
I decided a long while ago this first show would have to be for her, especially since she will be away from home for a whole month.
This is the first mix show of the year, although the mix is condensed a bit to make room for some new songs.
If you listen, you will notice that I failed to make any mention of the last two songs.
The simple explanation...
I have a cold.
You know...
"starve a cold, feed a fever".
Well, I haven't been eating much, but drinking MANY liquids!
So as you can imagine, by the last 15 minutes (or longer if I am completely honest) my mind was... elsewhere engaged (suddenly, I can't help but think of those little 'Enablex' balloons dancing around and here I am with no restroom near enough to the studio).
Anyway, once you find yourself in that particular predicament... well,
you can guess how eager I was to finish up the show and go... literally.

**download** WE ARE OUR MEMORIES Air date 28th of January '09

^ dedication

Polaris 'Hey Sandy'
Clearlake 'It's Getting Light Outside'
Jens Lekman 'Maple Leaves'
My Morning Jacket 'It Beats 4 U'
South 'Colours In Waves'
Mew 'Why Are You Looking Grave?'
Morrissey 'You Have Killed Me'
Camera Obscura 'Razzle Dazzle Rose'
Galaxie 500 'Listen, The Snow Is Falling'
Windsor For The Derby 'The Melody Of A Fallen Tree'
The Ocean Blue 'Ballerina Out Of Control'
Mew 'Special'
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness 'According To Plan'
Chameleons 'Less Than Human'
Youth Group 'Forever Young'
Walkmen 'In The New Year' ^
Beach House 'Home Again'
Glasvegas 'Please Come Back Home'
Reeves Gabrels feat. Robert Smith 'Yesterday's Gone'
Killers 'Goodnight, Travel Well'

I Hung Around In Your Soundtrack ... Spring '09 ...

Super great news, everyone!

My Spring radio show application for KWCW has been accepted.

So tune in every Wednesday night now,

from 7 pm to 9 pm.

Those of you who who were not able to listen in during day no longer have an excuse!

Hope you have a listen ... please do not forget!