Playlist: Kinky Afro, 3RRR August 26

Wrapped up my last of three Kinky Afro shows tonight... the list of songs I played is below. Woody (ex-Wig Wam Bam) fills on the program from next week. Tune in for real. Big thanks to everyone who called and subscribed during radiothon last week. It went smashingly well! You can still subscribe to Triple R until September 22 to be in the running for the prizes on offer. How good is that!

Kinky Afro, 4-7pm August 26 2010

Oh Mercy - keith st
Yellow Fever - psychedelic
Black Mountain - rollercoaster
Scout Niblett - the calcination of scout niblett
Evan Voytas - i took a trip on a plane
Mice Parade - tokyo late night
Secret Cities - pink city
Maps and Altlases - israeli caves
Miniature Tigers - gold skull
Best Coast - the end
Menomena - TAOS
Wavves - when will you come
Wild Nothing - o lilac
Panda Bear - tomboy
Here We Go Magic - bottom feeder
Gerling - g for sadness
Low - everybody's song
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - come undone
The Budos Band - golden dunes
Twin Sister - lady daydream
Long Long Long - cuba gooding jr
The New Pornographers - hey snow white
Wilco - outta mind (outta site)
Land of Talk - cloak and cipher
Owl Eyes - 1+1
Peter Wolf Crier - down down down
Woods - blood dries darker
Freelance Whales - starring
Avi Buffalo - jessica
Tunng - october
Sun Kil Moon - you are my sun
Klaxons - future memories
Deerhunter - revival
The Black Keys - howlin' for you
The Dirtbombs - kung fu
Archers - a1 brussels truffles
Kes Trio - thieves beat

Pavement on Kinky Afro

I presented the Kinky Afro program on Triple R again tonight. And my special guests were Bob Nastanovich and Mark Ibold from the newly reformed PAVEMENT. As is not immediately evident from the photo above I was FRICKING NERVOUS and excited to be interviewing them. I even got all indie-fanboy and not only got a photo but had them sign by Dancing With The Elders and Father To A Sister of Thought 7" singles. I will try to attach the interview soon, but for now here is the tracklist from the program:

Pocahaunted - save yourself (its nice)
Otouto - twelve ten
Modest Mouse - novocaine stain
Harlem - gay human bones
Guided By Voices - underwater explosions
Pavement - in the mouth a desert
** Pavement Interview with Bob Nastanovich and Mark Ibold **
Pavement - at&t
Pavement - date with ikea
Pavement - silent kit
Here We Go Magic - collector
MGMT - flash delirium
Holly Miranda - no one just is
Calexico with Iron and Wine - history of lovers
Smith Westerns - girl in love
Besnard Lakes - and this is what we call progress
Dum Dum Girls - heart of stone
Spoon - trouble come running
Neon Indian - sleep paralysist
Freelance Whales - generator 2nd floor
Bell Weather Department - hole in the sky
Joanna Newsom - soft as chalk
The Morning Benders - promises
Ruby Suns - cranberry
Sparklehorse - saturday
Sparklehorse - someday i will treat you good
Sparklehorse - hundreds of sparrows
Sparklehorse - gold day
Sparklehorse - sick of goodbyes
Sparklehorse + Danger Mouse - just war (with Gruff Rhys)
Sparklehorse - its a sad and beautiful world
Real Estate - Fake Blues
Surfer Blood - swim
Predrag Delibasich - serpent bites the young lion
Caribou - odessa
Tame Impala - 41 mosquitos (Canyons remix)

You'll notice that I played a bunch of tracks from SPARKLEHORSE. In case you were not aware Mark Linkous, the 47 year old singer-songwriter behind the name, died on March 6th. He committed suicide, and had been battling depression for many years. It's incredibly sad news. Robin Hilton pays tribute here on the All Songs Considered blog.

Here's just one of his beautiful songs:

Pavement Radio Special - Tonight

UPDATE: the audio, now in the RRR archive, can be streamed here. Tracklist below:

Silent Kit (live version)
Box Elder
Summer Babe
Two States
Here (alternate mix)
Shoot The Singer
Range Life (demo version, with Gary Young)
Cut Your Hair
Dancing with The Elders / We Dance (alternate version)
Grounded (alternate version)
Serpentine Pad
Stereo
Date w/ Ikea (BBC Peel Session version)
Starlings in Slipstream
Major Leagues
Spit on a Stranger (live from their final gig in 1999)

Tune into Triple R tonight, Thursday 4th March, from 7pm AEDT for a special one hour program celebrating the music of American indie pioneers PAVEMENT. The best band ever invented. Hugely influential, mythically slack, sadly defunct until right this very second.

This special Max Headroom will feature key tunes from their early EPs like Slay Tracks and Perfect Sound Forever... the breakthrough albums Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain Crooked Rain... dipping into the fan favourite Wowee Zowee... and finally their critically acclaimed Brighten the Corners and the swan-song Terror Twilight. Plus a smattering of rarities, live cuts and essential non-album tracks from their 10 years together, 1989-1999. Somehow we'll fit it all into an hour radio show!

Rediscover the brilliance of Pavement on the night of their first Australian show in Sydney, and the beginning of their world tour. Pavement also play Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and best of all Golden Plains this coming weekend.

Max Headroom - PAVEMENT SPECIAL - hosted by Ryan Egan (that's me!)

Thursday 4th March 2010. 7pm Melbourne time (8am UT) on Triple R 102.7

STREAM IT LIVE - http://www.rrr.org.au/programs/streaming/

The new, and first ever Pavement "best of" - Quarantine the Past - is released this week as well, full details and tracklisting here: http://www.matadorrecords.com/store/index.php?catalog_id=468

Tour details: http://billions.com/pavement and check out Spiral Stair's blog about the current reunion tour: http://spiralstairsmusic.blogspot.com/

RRR Kinky Afro playlist - Feb 4th 2010

I presented Karen Leng's KINKY AFRO program on Triple R in Melbourne this week.

Here's what beamed out from beneath my fingers...

Kinky Afro - Thursday February 4th 2010

Pavement - killing Moon
The Ancients - the rambler
Wild Beasts - the devil's crayon
Emma and Alec - civilization

Magnetic Fields - you must be out of your mind
The Album Leaf - stand still
Ruby Suns - cranberry
The Magic Kids - hey boy

My Disco - young
Guineafowl - botanist
Yo La Tengo - shadows
Pajo - where eagles dare

ECSR - i can be a jerk
Scout Niblett - the calcination of scout niblett
Surfer Blood - take it easy
Bullion - crazy for you
Crumbs - dribble

Fourtet - sing (album of the week)

Man/Miracle - pushing and shoving
Ned Collette and Wirewalker - come clean
Telekenisis - coast of carolina
Adam Green - give them a token

Midlake - bring down
Love Connection - i know you're real
Frida Hyvonen - djuna!

Smith Westerns - girl in love
Beach House - silver soul
Daniel Johnston - some things last a long time
Joanna Newsom - good intentions paving company

Spoon - who makes you money
Caribou - odessa

Black Lips - drugs
** Black Lips interview **
Black Lips - again and again

Besnard Lakes - albatross
Calexico - not even stevie nicks
Local Natives - world news

The Mothers of Invention - trouble everyday

Summer Breakfasters this week

image from flickr by Luis exs

I'm presenting Summer Breakfasters on Triple R this week with Jacinta Parsons. You can stream it from 6am-9am Melbourne time (7pm to 10pm London/GMT time) or tune in locally on 102.7FM

Below are the songs we played on the first two days:

Monday 14 December 2009

The Flaming Lips - worm mountain
The Avalanches - flight tonight
M. Craft - young and in love
Telepathe - so fine
John Spencer Blues Explosion - afro
The Ancients - the rambler
Kelly Stoltz - baby i've got news for you
Sparklehorse (feat Julian Casablancas) - little girl
Grand Salvo - father
Blak Roc - on the vista
Julien Pyne - layer
Papa M - sorrow reigns
Calexico - not even stevie nicks
Kid Sam - we're mostly made of water
St Vincent - save me from what i want
Pixies - here comes your man
Memory Tapes - green knight
No Through Road - party to survive
Royalchord - all your caribbean
Animal Collective - my girls
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - 40 day dream
Wilco - one wing
Jonathon Boulet - one who fires one who dies
Devendra Banhart - going back
Super Wild Horses - what started the noise
Songs - out with a curse (ALBUM OF THE WEEK)
Faux Pas - silver line


Tuesday 15 December 2009

The Drones - sitting on the edge of the bed crying
Dick Diver - tender years
Fanfarlo - the walls are coming down
Music Vs Physics - all the pretty little horses
Spoon - i summon you
Bat For Lashes - sleep alone
Neon Indian - mind, drips
Volcano Choir - island, IS
Jarvis Cocker - angela
Darren Silvester - never stand still
Aleks and the ramps - antique limb
The Slew - it's all over
Yo La Tengo - avalon or something similar
Best Coast - this is real
Wolfgramm Sisters - cry me a river
Crayon Fields - all the pleasure in the world
Eddie Current Suppression Ring - wrapped up in you
Karl Blau - waiting for the wind
Smog - Eid Maw Clak Shaw
JJ - from africs to malaga
Brightback Morning Light - everybody daylight
The Gossip - bones
Harlem - friendly ghost
Tame Impala - half full glass of wine
Sally Seltmann - harmony to my heartbeat
Pavement - spit on a stranger

Incoming

I'll be presenting the Incoming program on Melbourne radio Triple R this afternoon from 4pm AEDT. Tune in on 102.7 FM or stream online and hear interviews from Fearless Vampire Killers, The Little Stevies and also an interview with The Herd about the Elefant Traks' 10th birthday celebrations.

Breakfasters wraps up

My stint on the Triple R Summer Breakfasters has wrapped up after two enjoyable, but tiring, weeks. Jess McGuire continues on next week with Tony Biggs.

All of our music playlists are online now:

http://www.rrr.org.au/program/summer-breakfasters/

The Yuletide Wind-down

Sleep deprived and run-ragged seems the default option for many at this time of year, myself included. If doing breakfast radio shifts, waking at 4:45am, isn't enough, I'm still dragging myself into work for a normal 8 hour shift, with little time left to prepare for the next days broadcast, let alone buy presents, food, decorations and booze for Xmas. Hmm.

Plus I'm on cooking detail for Jesus' birthday too. Which, actually I'm really looking forward to. Cooking and listening to music are the great pleasures in life, and guess what? You can do them at the same time. Perfect. So fish is on the menu this year, less as a homage to the newly birthed Lord, more as a way to try something new, instead of the underwhelming old faithfuls - ham and turkey. I've got some choice baked fish recipes too, cooking the whole thing Thai style with lots of coriander, chili, thai basil and garlic. Yum! So i'll be off to the fishmongers tomorrow, after the stint at Triple R, and then to the fresh fruit and vegie market for the rest of the shopping. I have the day off work (joy!) and can begin a small Yuletide wind down of my own.

Speaking of Triple R, and if you are keen for some decent Xmas listening, there is a team of special presenters on board for the 25th, with 'sweet' tunes for your listening pleasure. A full list of who's on air is online now. And you can check out the music we've been playing on the Summer Breakfasters page of the Triple R site.

Oh, and peace and love to you and yours over the silly season. And as someone said to me today: "drive safe".

Triple R - Summer Breakfasters

I am presenting Breakfasters on TRIPLE R for two weeks with the irrepressible Jess McGuire, Defamer blogger and presenter of I'd Rather Jack.

We start tomorrow, Monday morning, 15th of December. We'll also be on-air for Xmas day! Open your presents to our dulcet tones. It will be your pleasure.

We have the usual Breakfasters stuff like whats-in-the-papers, news on the half hour and regular special guests. We're talking film with Cerise Howard, books with Lou Swinn, sport with Jesse Fyfe and 'superlingo' with Georgia Webster.

Plus we'll be covering coolsie events, happenings and gossip in Melbourne leading up to Xmas and an absolute tonne of kickarse music. You can listen in Melbourne from 6-9am on 102.7FM or tap the glorious MP3 stream at http://www.rrr.org.au/programs/streaming/

If you are in London, we are on between 7 and 10pm, Sunday to Thursday. Breakfast for dinner, yum!

Incoming

I'll be presenting the Incoming program this Wednesday October 1st, filling in for Richard Moffat. Tune into Triple R on 102.7FM in Melbourne or online from 4pm AEST for the latest Australian music, and maybe even an interview or two!

Triple R Radiothon

Roll up, roll up. Triple R, regarded by many as the finest non-profit community radio station in the world, has kicked off its annual radiothon where it encourages listeners to dig deep and subscribe to keep it on air for another year. There's a tonne of prizes to be won, so get thee to a phone and call +61 3 9388 1027 or have a gander online to find out more about subscribing.

If you are in Melbourne and tune into 102.7FM tonight (Monday) from 9pm (AEST) I'll be on air with Jacinta and Local and/or General - the Australian music program I used to present.