Playlist - 30 April 2016

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, featuring a selection from the recently released and eagerly awaited new album from Ben Craven (Brisbane), as well as Quiet Child (Adelaide) and Unitopia (Adelaide). As the legendary Australian band Spectrum is in town this weekend, there is also some music from their trippy 1971 album Milesago. And it's happy birthday this weekend to Eddie Jobson (Curved Air, Roxy Music, UK) and the late writer Terry Pratchett, creator of the Discworld novels and much more besides.

8pm
Ben Craven    Last Chance To Hear + Critical mass part 1 + Critical mass part 2 (2016) (Last Chance To Hear)
Eno    St Elmo’s Fire (1975) (Another Green World)
King Crimson    Larks tongues in Aspic (Part II) (1973) (Larks’ Tongues In Aspic 2012 Remaster)
King Crimson    Sex, sleep, eat, drink, dream (1995) (Thrak)
Ozric Tentacles    Zingbong (2015) (Technicians Of The Sacred)
Andy Salvanos    Closer (2007) (Closer)
Spectrum    What the world needs (is a new pair of socks) (1971) (Milesago)
9pm
Emerson Lake & Palmer    Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade + The Hut of Baba Yaga + The Curse of Baba Yaga + The Hut of Baba Yaga (Part 2) + The great gates of Kiev (1971) (Pictures At An Exhibition)
Unitopia    So far away + Don’t give up love (2008) (The Garden)
Steeleye Span with Terry Pratchett    Overture + The Dark Morris Song + The good witch (2013) (Wintersmith)
Dave Greenslade    A-Tuin the Turtle (1994) (Tales from the Discworld: Terry Pratchett)
Quiet Child    The coming storm (2013) (The Coming Storm)
10pm
Curved Air    Metamorphosis (1973) (Air Cut)
Roxy Music    Both ends burning (1975) (Siren)
Camel    Homage to the god of light (live, 1974) (Camel – bonus track on CD re-issue)
Camel    Never let go (single version) (1973) (Camel – bonus track on CD re-issue)
Caligula’s Horse    Turntail (2015) (Bloom)
The Lammas Tide    Barefoot electric (2014) (Barefoot Electric)

Playlist - 23 April 2016

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits, this week with an Anzac Day special of music from Australia and New Zealand, mostly from the classic period of the early to mid '70's, including The Masters, Sebastian Hardie, Tamam Shud and Tully from Australia - and Airlord, Dragon, Split Enz and Ticket from New Zealand. Meanwhile, the Australian classical guitarist John Williams is in the Seasons Of Change birthday book.

8pm
Southern Empire    How long (2016) (Southern Empire)
Anubis    Collapse (live) (2012) (A King With No Crown, single)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Second Thoughts)
Ticket    Dream chant + Awake (1972) (Awake)
The Masters Apprentices    Melodies of St. Kilda/Southern Cross + Thyme to rhyme (1972) (A Toast To Panama Red)
9pm
Dragon    Darkness (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind)
Dragon    Universal radio (1974) (Universal Radio)
Airlord    Pictures in a puddle + Out of the woods (1977) (Clockwork Revenge)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Tamam Shud    Bali waters (1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/track / bonus track on re-issue of Goolutionites And The Real People)
10pm
John Williams    Sarabande (1971) (Changes)
Sky    Where Opposites Meet (1979) (Sky)
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (1975) (The Four Moments)
Cybotron    Parameters of consciousness (1976) (Cybotron)

Playlist - 16 April 2016

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, featuring recent heavy sounds from Domino (Sydney) as well as a selection from the reissue on CD of the lone 1972 album by the eclectic band McPhee; and it's happy birthday this weekend to Lee Kerslake (Uriah Heep), kiwi Noel Crombie (Split Enz), Woolly Wolstenholme (BJH) and Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil), and happy birthday to the late Spike Milligan too (if there's a few spare minutes here or there).

8pm
Dream Theater    The ministry of lost souls (2007) (Systematic Chaos)
Lana Lane    Into the fire (2007) (Red Planet Boulevard)
Uriah Heep    Blind eye (1972) (The Magicians Birthday)
Uriah Heep    Paradise/The spell (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Domino    Karislama (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
McPhee    Indian rope man (1972) (McPhee)
9pm
Emerson Lake and Palmer    Piano concerto No.1 (1977) (Works Volume I)
Split Enz    Ninnie knees up (1984) (See Ya Round)
Split Enz    Maybe (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Sweet talking spoon song (1979) (The Beginning Of The Enz)
Woolly Wolstenholme    Harp and carp (2005) (Grim)
Barclay James Harvest    Moonwater (live) (1972) (Live Tapes)
10pm
Rush    Distant early warning (1984) (Grace Under Pressure)
Midnight Oil    Arctic world (1987) (Diesel And Dust)
Midnight Oil    Stars of Warburton (live, 1990) (1992) (Scream In Blue)
Midnight Oil    River runs red (1990) (Blue Sky Mining)
Yes    Siberian khatru (1972) (Close To The Edge)
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM)    Mister Nine ‘till Five (live) (1975) (Cook, re-issue)
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM)    The world became the world (1974) (The World Became The World)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)

Playlist - 9 April 2016

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, including recent music from United Progressive Fraternity and Sebastian Hardie. And the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book has birthdays this weekend for Mark Kelly (Marillion), Roger Chapman (the vibrato-laden lead singer with the English band Family during the early 1970's), Steve Howe (Yes) and musical satirist/professional mathematician Tom Lehrer.

8pm
Procol Harum    She wandered through the garden fence (1967) (Procol Harum)
The Flower Kings    Interstellar visitations (2013) (Desolation Rose)
Moon Safari    Red white blues (2013) (Himlabecken Vol.1)
Marillion    The web (1983) (Script For A Jester’s Tear)
Marillion    Garden party + Market square heroes (live, 1984) (Real To Reel)
The Mighty Handful    Albion (2016, pending) (Still Sitting in Danny’s Car 3)
Mushroom Giant    Aesong (2012) (The Drake Equation EP)
9pm
Emerson Lake and Palmer    Tarkus (1971) (Tarkus)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 + Brother sun + Down to the sea + Sea of joy Part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Family    The weavers answer (1969) (Family Entertainment)
Family    In my own time (1971) (single only)
Tom Lehrer    The Elements (1959) (An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer, from box set: "The Remains Of Tom Lehrer")
10pm
Steve Howe    Small acts of human kindness (2002) (Skylines)
Asia    Sole survivor (live, 1990) (Live In Moscow)
Yes    I’ve seen all good people (1971) (The Yes Album)
United Progressive Fraternity    Travelling man (The story of ESHU)  (2014) (Fall In Love With The World)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)

Playlist - 2 April 2016

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, including new music from Mebourne heavy band Teramaze. And the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book has birthdays this weekend for Richard Thompson (formerly of Fairport Convention) and the late Bill Putt (bass player with Mike Rudd in most of his bands, including Spectrum and Ariel).

8pm
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick (live, 1978) (1997) (Thick As A Brick, bonus track)
The Lammas Tide    The Devil’s stone (2011) (High Tide)
The Lammas Tide    When all is said and done (2014) (Barefoot Electric)
Fairport Convention    A sailor’s life (1969) (Unhalfbricking)
Gentle Giant    Wreck (1971) (Acquiring The Taste)
Gentle Giant    Funny ways (live) (1975) (The King Biscuit Flower hour Presents…)
9pm
The Nice    Five Bridges Suite (1970) (Five Bridges)
Spectrum    Fiddling fool (1971) (Part One)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo, lyrics by Bill Putt)
Dream Theater    A new beginning + The road to revolution (2016) (The Astonishing)
10pm
Teramaze    Delusions of grandeur + For the innocent (2015) (Her Halo)
Renaissance    Ashes are burning (live, 1975) (Live At The Carnegie Hall)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)
Andy Salvanos     DeeDee ( 2007) (Fragments)