One Year Ago... I Was There...

Show #17 'Going Home Time... Story On The Radio'

Leavin' K-dub -By Kalurah (2007)

Finally, the last show of the Spring Semester.

Lots of requests, unusually as I'm such a stickler for a planned playlist.

Jason - Sigur Rós
Maija - Pinback & She Wants Revenge
Brenda - My Morning Jacket, Arcade Fire & Fiery Furnaces
Ryan - who overwhelmed with a such a vast knowledge of music could not seem to decide on a request so he left it in my hands. ( I think the Ride especially sufficed though)

So a big thanks to them for bringing some spontaneity to my last show.

But wait, dry your eyes...

I should be back in a few weeks sometime in June for KWCW's Summer Programming.

See... I could never leave you!

Stay tuned.

**download/listen** GOING HOME TIME... STORY ON THE RADIO Air date 20th of May '09

* request d dedication

WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY 'Let Go'

SIGUR RÓS 'Olsen Olsen' *

SECRET MACHINES 'The Road Leads Where It's Led'

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE 'Summertime Clothes'

MY MORNING JACKET 'Librarian' *

MORRISSEY 'The Girl Least Likely To'

THE SUNDAYS 'Here's Where The Story Ends'

GALAXIE 500 'Leave The Planet' d

RIDE 'Like A Daydream (John Peel Session '90)' d

CATHERINE WHEEL 'Pain' d

DEATH IN JUNE 'The Guilty Have No Pride' d

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE 'Tschuss' d

BAT FOR LASHES 'Two Planets' d

BJÖRK 'Desired Constellation' d

NICO 'Evening Of Light' d

DEPECHE MODE 'The Bottom Line' d

THE CURE 'Seventeen Seconds' d

SIGUR RÓS 'Hoppípolla' *

PINBACK 'Non-Photo Blue' *

ARCADE FIRE feat. DAVID BOWIE 'Wake Up' *

FIERY FURNACES 'Single Again' *

SHE WANTS REVENGE 'Out Of Control' *

JOY DIVISION 'Transmission (Cast Version -'Control')'

29 Years Ago Today...

Ian Curtis

1956-1980

Show #16 'Let's Exchange The Experience'

All Cover songs!

'The Whole Story' Carl Williamson

To make up for last week's fiasco,

A great all covers show!

"And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God and I'd get him to swap our places..."

**download/listen** LET'S EXCHANGE THE EXPERIENCE  Air date 13th of May '09

JAPAN 'All Tomorrow's Parties (12"Version)'

SMASHING PUMPKINS 'Dreaming'

WE HAVE BAND 'West End Girls'

DEFTONES 'The Chauffeur'

FOO FIGHTERS 'I'm In Love With A German Film Star'

RED HOUSE PAINTERS 'I Am A Rock'

J MASCIS 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side'

THE CURE 'Foxy Lady'

DEPECHE MODE 'Dirt'

THE BOYS NEXT DOOR 'I Put a Spell On You'

COCTEAU TWINS 'Strangefruit'

PAVEMENT 'The Killing Moon'

MORRISSEY 'A Song From Under The Floorboards'

NEW ORDER 'Turn The Heater On'

XIU XIU 'Ceremony'

AMIINA 'Souvenir'

MARTIN L. GORE 'Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth'

GALAXIE 500 'Submission'

PLACEBO 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'

MOGWAI 'Gouge Away'

FAITH AND THE MUSE 'Running Up That Hill'

THE PIG PINK 'Lovesong'

THEE MORE SHALLOWS 'I Can't Get Next To You'

HUMAN DRAMA 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'

Show # 15 'Disintegration 20th Anniversary'

All Cure Show!

Here it is.

Quite possibly the most important album in my collection.

The Cure's 'Disintegration', now 20 years old.

Rather belated but for good reason.

Mere Dissatisfaction.

A thousand apologies for the severely poor quality of the reception.

I can only give you the consolation that it's just the bits with me talking, the rest I have re-recorded because well, it's the music that's important here.

I should feel quite ashamed for even leaving those bits in the show, I thought about just leaving them out altogether.

A decision I may later regret.

We shall see.

Although you listeners may just be far too kind to say, I mean you are good people.

But in advance, I will just let you know...

Yes! The reception is terrible, inaudible really at times.

So, you have been warned.

Let's face it though...

The Cure can make up for anything.

I have to make mention of one more thing.

During the show, a listener actually called the station and said they didn't really like the Cure before, but after hearing these songs they were won over!

But that was inevitable really.

And that is what it is all about.

The whole goal of my show.

To win people over and bring them to the good side...

...Left of the dial.

"...Stains on the memory.

Songs about happiness murmured in dreams,

when both of us knew how the end always is."

**download/listen** DISINTEGRATION 2oTH ANNIVERSARY Air date 6th of May '09

* Request

'Plainsong'

'Pictures Of You'

'Closedown'

'Lovesong'

'Last Dance'

'Lullaby'

'Fascination Street'

'Prayers For Rain'

'The Same Deep Water As You'

'Disintegration'

'Homesick'

'Untitled'

'Babble'

'Out Of Mind'

'2 Late'

'Fear Of Ghosts'

'Pirate Ships'

PJ Harvey 'The Dancer' *

Show #14 'Vinylholicism

All Vinyl Show!

This week I decided it was finally the time to play some WAY old LP's and one of my Dad's old 45's.

Music that you won't normally hear on my show.  

They are a few songs that I really love and hold quite dear to my heart.  See if you can guess which ones they are.

See, I'm not a music snob after all.

Next time 'round... 

Journey...  

Right, I simply cannot let that one hang there too long.  

I'm afraid that I'm only kidding!

::You're just an antenna, you're just a wire (257MB) ::

VINYLHOLICISM Air-date 29th of April '09

THE CLASH 'Armagideon Time (live Concert for Kampuchea)'

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 'Going Up'

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS 'Beyond Belief'

JOE JACKSON 'Steppin' Out'

JOHN COLTRANE 'Blue Train'

THE CURE 'Speak My Language'

SOFT CELL 'Where Did Our Love Go?'

SPARKS 'Angst In My Pants'

PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED 'This Is Not A Love Song'

TALKING HEADS 'Thank You For Sending Me An Angel'

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES 'Burn Up'

MORRISSEY 'The Loop'

DEPECHE MODE 'In Your Memory'

NEW ORDER 'Sunrise'

JOY DIVISION 'The Only Mistake'

THE CHAMELEONS 'Don't Fall'

BRITISH SEA POWER 'Apologies To Insect Life'

COCTEAU TWINS 'Persephone'

THE CHURCH 'Antenna'

DAVID BOWIE 'The Bewlay Brothers'

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER 'From The Beginning'

AL STEWART 'The Year Of The Cat'

ROBERT PLANT 'Big Log'

GANG OF FOUR 'Paralysed'

Show #13 'Sounds Of The Universe -Listening Party'

All Depeche Mode!

And so here is what will most likely prove to be one of the best albums released in 2009.

With added Dave for flavour!

"We are here

We can love

We share something..."

**download/listen** SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE -LISTENING PARTY Air date 22nd of April '09

'In Chains'

'Hole To Feed'

'Wrong'

'Fragile Tension'

'Little Soul'

'In Sympathy'

'Peace'

'Come Back'

Spacewalker'

'Perfect'

'Miles Away/The Truth Is'

'Jezebel'

Corrupt'

'Light'

'Oh Well'

'Ghost'

'The Sun And Moon And The Stars'

'Esque'

The 50 Year Old 'Kid'...

Robert James Smith 

Born on this day in 1959

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' *