28 March, 2015

Playlist - 28 March 2015

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, including some music for Earth Hour from 8:30pm; plus a selection from the recently reissued 1977 album Rock & Roll Scars by Ariel (Melbourne). There's some music from Uriah Heep (here in Adelaide last Wednesday night) and it's happy birthday to two very different artists - the Greek keyboard wizard Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (otherwise known as Vangelis) and Australian rock legend Billy Thorpe.

8pm
Uriah Heep    Easy livin’ (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Uriah Heep    What kind of God (2008) (Wake The Sleeper)
Uriah Heep    Circle of hands (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    Joybringer (1973) (single only)
Rush    Fly by night (1975) (Fly By Night)
King Crimson    Starless (1974) (Red)
Mostly Autumn    Mother nature (2001) (The Last Bright Light)
9pm
Billy Thorpe    Children of the sun + We’re leaving + We welcome you + Solar anthem (1979) (Children Of The Sun)
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs    Most people I know (1972) (single only, The Complete Havoc Singles)
Kansas    Lamplight symphony (1974) (Song For America)
Camel    Tell me (1977) (Raindances)
Brand X    Macrocosm (1977) (Morrocan Roll)
The Church    Under the milky way (1988) (Starfish)
10pm
Vangelis    The motion of the stars (1988) (Direct)
Jon & Vangelis     State of Independence (1981) (The Friends Of Mr Cairo)
Aphrodite’s Child    The four horsemen (1972) (666)
Ariel    Mutant Medley (live, 1976) (Rock & Roll Scars, bonus track on reissue CD from their Jellabad Mutant epic/rock opera)
Ariel    Men in grey raincoats (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Uriah Heep    Paradise/The Spell (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Cybotron    Eureka (Guitar version) (1980)  (Implosion, bonus track on reissue CD)

21 March, 2015

Playlist - 21 March 2015

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, featuring Like Leaves (Adelaide) and Andy Salvanos (Adelaide) plus a trip back to 1971 for classic Australian music from Spectrum and Flake. And it's happy birthday this week to Phil Judd (Split Enz, The Swingers, Schnell Fenster), Carl Palmer (Atomic Rooster, ELP and Asia), Tony McPhee (Groundhogs) and Roger Hodgson (Supertramp).

8pm
Planet X    2116 (2000) (Universe)
Rush    2112 (1976) (2112)
Haken    Atlas stone (2013) (The Mountain)
Mastodon    Ghost of Karelia (2009) (Crack The Skye)
Like Leaves    Monument (2011) (Like Leaves)
Andy Salvanos    Running water (2007) (Closer)
9pm
Emerson, Lake & Palmer     Tank (1970) (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Asia    Heat of the moment (1982) (Asia)
Emerson Lake & Palmer    Two part invention in D minor (1977) (Works Volume I)
The Groundhogs    Cherry red (1971) (Split)
Camel    Supertwister (1974) (Mirage)
Slapp Happy    Dawn (1974) (Casablanca Moon)
Egg    Wring out the ground (loosely now) (1974) (The Civil Service)
Spectrum    Fiddling fool (1971) (Part One)
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
10pm
Split Enz    Time for a change (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Malmsbury villa (1979) (Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    Sweet dreams (1976) (Second Thoughts)
Schnell Fenster    Heroes let you down (1991) (Heroes Let You Down, single)
Roger Hodgson    Take the long way home + The logical song (live, 2010) (Classics Live)
Roger Hodgson    Only because of you (1984) (In The Eye Of The Storm)
Ozric Tentacles    Yoy mandala (2000) (Swirly Termination)
Cybotron    Eureka (Guitar version) (1980)  (Implosion, bonus track from re-issue CD)

14 March, 2015

Playlist - 14 March 2015

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, featuring music from Perth bands Lacrymae, Over Unity and The Lammas Tide, the now disbanded Adelaide band Unitopia and that band's nominal successor, the ponderously named United Progressive Fraternity. And between 8pm and 9pm, more than a little inspiration from - and with - the late author Terry Pratchett; and after 10pm, the late Daevid Allen (Gong)

8pm
Dave Greenslade    A-Tuin the Turtle (1994) (Tales from the Discworld: Terry Pratchett)
Steeleye Span & Terry Pratchett    Overture + The Dark Morris Song + Wintersmith + You + The good witch (2013) (Wintersmith)
Steeleye Span & Terry Pratchett    Band of teachers + The Summer Lady + Ancient eyes + We shall wear midnight (2013) (Wintersmith)
Procol Harum    Repent Walpurgis (1967) (Procol Harum)
Cream    Tales of brave Ulysses (1967) (Disraeli Gears)
Dave Greenslade    Small gods (1994) (Tales from the Discworld: Terry Pratchett)
9pm
Over Unity    Near (2011) (Collide the Space)
Lacrymae    Handel’s Apocalypse (2009) (The Hallowed Design)
United Progressive Fraternity    Intersection (2014) (Fall In Love With The World)
Unitopia    More than a dream (live, 2011) (One Night In Europe)
Moon Safari    Too young to say goodbye (2013) (Himlabecken Vol.1)
10pm
Gong    Radio gnome invisible + Zero the hero and the witches spell (1973) (The Flying Teapot)
Mother Gong and Daevid Allen   The owly song (1989) (The Owl And  The Tree)
Nektar    Desolation valley (live, Nearfest, 2002) (A History Of Progressive Rock)Nektar    Cast your fate (1973) (Sounds Like This)
The Lammas Tide    In tangerine + Bethnal green + When all is said and done (2014) (Barefoot Electric)
Cybotron    Eureka (Guitar version) (1980)  (Implosion, bonus track on reissue CD)

The fine print:
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
- Terry Pratchett

It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done
- Terry Pratchett

07 March, 2015

Playlist - 7 March 2015

This week, for the first program for Autumn, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, featuring a selection from the recently reissued 1976 debut album by the Australian electronic group Cybotron, plus Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest (Adelaide), The Merlin Bird (Melbourne) and Andy Salvanos (Adelaide), plus classic music from Fraternity (Adelaide) and Tamam Shud (Sydney). And it's happy birthday this weekend for Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum), Robert Calvert (Hawkwind) and Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd).

8pm
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974)
Jade Warrior    Sun Ra + Sun child + Moontears + Heaven stone + Way of the sun (1978) (Way Of The Sun)
Ozric Tentacles    Dharma reggae (1984) (Erpsongs)
Ozric Tentacles    White rhino tea (live, 2007) (Sunrise Festival)
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest    Stonehenge (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Andy Salvanos    Radiant (2011) (Dream Recall)
The Merlin Bird    Rhyme to reason (2003) (Rhyme To Reason)
9pm
Cybotron    Parameters of consciousness (1976) (Cybotron)
Cybotron    Sonic Override: Gliding / The riddle / Answer (1976) (Cybotron)
Lonely Robot    Construct/Obstruct (Feb 2015) (Please Come Home)
It Bites    The tall ships (2008) (The Tall Ships)
Aisles    Hero (2013) (4:45AM)
Procol Harum    A whiter shade of pale (1967) (single only)
10pm
David Gilmour    Smile (2006) (On an Island)
Pink Floyd    Wish you were here (1975) (Wish You Were Here)
Dave Gilmour    Comfortably numb (live, 2006) (Live In Gdansk)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (live, 2007) (Noosa Rain)
Tamam Shud    GTK Theme/America (1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
The Reasoning    Hyperdrive (2012) (Adventures In Neverland)
Mike Oldfield    Tubular bells (single version) (1973) (Tubular Bells)
Hawkwind    Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977) (Quark, Strangeness and Charm)
Cybotron    Eureka (Guitar version) (1980)  (Implosion, bonus track on CD reissue)