Playlist - 30 March 2013 (Easter Saturday)

For Easter Saturday a special show featuring Camel recorded live in concert with their instrumental concept album "The Snow Goose".  It's happy birthday this weekend to keyboardist Thijs van Leer (Focus) and Oz rock legend Billy Thorpe. And R.I.P. the talented Australian guitarist Kevin Peek who passed away a few weeks ago, and who made his name during the early 1980's with the classical-rock group Sky (formed by the Australian classical guitarist John Williams).

8pm
Unitopia    So far away + Don’t give up love (2008) (The Garden)
Marillion    Dreamy street + This train is my life + Essence + Wrapped up in time (2008) (Happiness Is The Road)
Renaissance    A song for all seasons (1978) (A Song For All Seasons)
Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs    Most people I know think that I’m crazy (1972) (The Complete Havoc Singles 1971-1973)
Billy Thorpe    Children of the sun (1979) (Children Of The Sun)
9pm
Sky    Westway (1979) (Sky)
Sky    Chiropedie No.1 (1981) (Sky 3)
Sky    Sahara (live, 1983) (Sky 5 Live)
Kevin Peek    Drifting (1982) (Life And Other Games)
The James Taylor Move    Magic eyes (1967)  (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky: Pop-Psych From Down Under)
Focus    Sylvia (1973) (Focus 3)
Thijs van Leer    Focus 2 (1972) (Introspection)
Ben Craven    Diabolique + Nobody dies forever Pt.1 + Aquamarine (2011) (Great And Terrible Potions)
10pm
G. Wayne Thomas    The morning of the earth (1972) (The Morning Of The Earth)
Camel    The Snow Goose (live, 1975) (A Live Record)

More SKY?  Take a look at their fairly hilarious videoclip from 1980 for their top 10 hit Toccata. (Arranged by Peek)

Playlist - 23 March 2013

Tonight, some music for Earth Hour from 8:30pm - see if you can spot the tracks. And a final tribute to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of Dark Side Of The Moon with the ASO in concert, 2006.

8pm
Spectrum    Milesago (1971) (Milesago)
Renaissance    Ocean gypsy (1975) (Scheherazade)
Kansas    Lamplight symphony (1974) (Song For America)
The Church    Under the milky way (1988) (Starfish)
King Crimson    Starless (live, 1974) (1975) (USA)
Spectrum    Fly without its wings (1972) (Milesago)
9pm
The Enid    Prelude + Mayday galliard (1977) (Aerie Faerie Nonsense)
Roger Hodgson    London (1987) (Hai Hai)
Breaking Orbit    Echoes (2012) (The Time Traveller)
Traffic    Rainmaker (1971) (The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys)
Traffic    Hole in my shoe (1967) (single only)
Flash And The Pan    Hey St Peter (single, 1978) (Flash And The Pan)
The Easybeats    Friday on my mind (1966)
10pm
Heather Findlay (ex-Mostly Autumn)    Half a world (2012) (The Heather Findlay Band: Songs From The Old Kitchen)
Mostly Autumn    Mother nature (2001) (The Last Bright Light)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra    Speak to me + Breathe + On the run + Time + Us and Them + Brain Damage/Eclipse (live, 2006) (ASO Plays Pink Floyd)
Andy Salvanos    Radiant (2011) (Dream Recall)

Playlist - 16 March 2013

8pm
Ozric Tentacles    Cat DNA (1995) (Become The Other)
Dream Theater    A change of seasons (1995) (A Change Of Seasons)
Deborah Conway    Alive and Brilliant + I’m not satisfied + Consider This (1993) (Bitch Epic)
9pm
Anubis    Collapse (2009) (230503)
Supertramp    Give a little bit (1977) (Even In The Quietest Moments)
Supertramp    It's raining again (1982) (Famous Last Words)
Yes    Owner of a lonely heart (1983) (90125)
Lifesigns    Carousel (2013) (Lifesigns)
Mike Oldfield    Tubular bells (single version) (1973) (Tubular Bells)
10pm
Cybotron    Black devil’s triangle (1980) (Implosion)
Lobby Loyde    Adrift in Ether (1976/2006) (Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths of Klimster)
Pink Floyd    Us and them + Any colour you like + Brain damage + Eclipse (live, 1974) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
Tommy Emmanuel    Fear of rain (1993) (The Journey)
Andy Salvanos    Air (2011) (Dream Recall)

Playlist - 9 March 2013

8pm
Tully    Sea of joy, Part 1 + Trinidad + Brother sun + Sea of joy, Part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy – 2012 re-issue)
Tymepiece    Shake off (1971) (Sweet Release / Golden Miles – Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
The Black Diamonds    I want need love you (1966) (single only / Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1963-1967)
The Masters Apprentices    Buried & dead (1967) (The Masters Apprentices - LP / Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1963-1967)
Jethro Tull    To cry you a song (1970) (Benefit)
Steeleye Span    Sheepcrook and the black dog (1972) (Below The Salt)
Fisherman’s Friends    Grey funnel line (2002) (Home From The Sea)
Fisherman’s Friends    No hopers, jokers and rogues (2010) (Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends)
9pm
Riverside    Escalator shrine (2013) (Shrine Of New Generation Slaves)
The Muffins    In the ghost light (edit) (2012) (Mother Tongue)
Procol Harum    Repent Walpurgis (1967) (Procol Harum)
Procol Harum    Memorial drive (1971) (Broken Barricades)
Robin Trower    Bridge of sighs (1974) (Bridge Of Sighs)
Hawkwind     Ejection (1973) (Doremi Fasol Latido, bonus track on re-issue CD)
Hawkwind     Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977) (Quark, Strangeness and Charm)
Hawkwind     Silver machine (1972) (single only)
10pm
Bakery    The gift (1971) (Momento)
Ayers Rock    Lady Montego + Big red rock (1974)  (Big Red Rock)
Roger Waters    Breathe in the air + Time + Money + Brain damage/Eclipse (live) (2006) (In The Flesh)
Roger Waters    What god wants, Part 1 (1992) (Amused To Death)
Andy Salvanos    Air (2011) (Dream Recall)

Feel like more Ayers Rock?  See Ayers Rock, Live, Sunbury 1974 at Col Loughnan's site.

Playlist - 2 March 2013

The first "Seasons Of Change" programme for Autumn. We're getting in early for a salute to the 40th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd's humble LP "The Dark Side Of The Moon", in March 1973... And vale Kevin Ayers (ex-Soft Machine).

8pm
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Sebastian Hardie    I remember (2012) (Blueprint)
Sebastian Hardie    Rosanna (1976) (Four Moments / Four Moments Of The Windchase)
Soft Machine    Love makes sweet music (1967)  (single only, bonus track on re-issue of  The Soft Machine)
Kevin Ayers    The owl (1976) (Yes We Have No Mananas)
Paul Kelly    Before too long (1986) (Gossip)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Mental Notes)
Golden Earring    Radar Love (1973) (Moontan)
The Dixie Dregs    Jessica (1999) (California Screamin’)
9pm
Pink Floyd    The Dark Side Of The Moon (selected tracks, 40th anniversary of the original LP release this month)
The Alan Parsons Project    (The System Of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether + To one in paradise (1976) (Tales Of Mystery And Imagination)
The Alan Parsons Project    Sirius + Eye in the sky (1982) (Eye In The Sky)
10pm
Lucinda Blue    All through me (2012) (Lucinda Blue)
sleepmakeswaves    We like you when you're awkward (Kyson remix) (2013) (…and then they remixed everything)
Tommy Emmanuel    Vila Anita (1993) (The Journey)
The Flower Kings    Humanizzimo (live, 2003) (Meet The Flower Kings)
Andy Salvanos    Air (2011) (Dream Recall)

A little more about Kevin Ayers - Mojo magazine: Farewell, Kevin Ayers.

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason talks to the BBC about the 40th anniversary of DSOTM.