THE TROPICAL UKELADIES

I don't know why I'm even plugging this gig. Everybody loves the Ukeladies already and it's a small joint and will get sold out so I might as well keep mum about it. But I can't help myself! I must preach the gospel of The Ukeladies. If you're unconvinced, listen to this here bit of magic recoded on the show a couple months ago, click on the flyer and see all the magic that is promised, and don't sleep. Cause you'll die...

THE UKELADIES -BEYOND THE REEF (LIVE ON SL 2011)

On The Radio, In The World (3hour shows now!) 04/05/11

ON THE RADIO

I srat doing three hjour shows this friday
Going crazy for this thai 60's group called "The Son Of PM". Crazy thai gogo surf raveup shiz with lots of mad percussion and people going "aiiiieeeeee". Also some whacked out honduran ricknroll from Los Robins, local goodness from the ukeladies, boomgates, super wild horses and other stuff too...

Brides O' Christ playing our last show for a few months this thurs at Old Bar as our drummer is gonna drive an ill-gotten campervan around europe. When he gets back, out 7" launch is at the tote, july 29th! Save the date!

DJ'ing a rad show friday night too, Boomgates/Superwildhorses split 7" launch @ The John Curtin...

GIG GUIDE

Thurs 5th

Debutantes (NZ) @ The Old Bar w/ Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ + Chook Race

Soul in The Basement @ Cherry w/ Vince Peach + Richie1250 (Fillin in for Pierre from 12:30)
Fri 6th
Wagons instore @ Basement Discs (1230)
Oscar Perry "Where Eagles Dare" exhibition @ 224 smith st
Jonny Telafone @ yahyahs w/DJ fantapants on the late night DJ'ing
Boomgates / Super Wild Horses split 7" launch @ John Curtin Hotel w/ Bitch Prefect + DJ Richie1250
Graveyard Train @ HiFiBar w/ Harmony
Sat 7th
Debutantes (NZ) @ Yahyahs w/ Pageants
Black Swan screening @ The Astor
The Dancehall Racketeers @ The Bendigo

Cisco Caesar (SL PATRONS) @ The retreat (2 sets)
Sun 8th
Debutantes (NZ) @ Bar Open w/ The Fish, Mesacosa and Dodickaheadron
The Graduate + Lenny Screening @ The Astor

Baptism of UZi @ NSC (Arvo Show w/ lowtide)

Next Thurs 12th
The Ukeladies Orchestra tropical album launch party @ Rice Queen Oriental Diner & Bar ft special guest appearances by Dan Kelly, Miles Brown, The Body Electric Dancers, Sweet Jelly Roll DJ's, DJ Richie1250, Ridiculous Cocktails more more more...
Fri 13th
Pikelet @ EBC w/ Angel Eyes, Dick Diver + Montero
Ricky Horror Picture Show screening @ The Astor
Next Sat 14th
GOGO Postal freakbeat record party @ The Penny Black ft Mass Cult + DJ's Fuzzbass and Sye Saxon
Constant Mongel @ Tote Front Bar (arvo residency)
Judge Pino & The Ruling Motions @ The Bendigo (3 sets) w/ DJ Richie1250
MoreFire number 123! @ deep11

git on out there

lurve
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LEARN TO DO THE PEPPERMINT TWIST

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 29 April 2011

Artist | Track/Song Name | Album Title | Label/Distibutor | Comments

JOEY DEE - LEARN TO DO THE PEPPERMINT TWIST
BOBBY STEVENS - PEPPERMINT TWIST
RONNIE KAYE - SWINGIN DRUMS
PUTA MADRE BROS - MALAGUENA
LOS ROBBINS - COPAN GALEL
JOE BOOTS AND HIS BAND - ROCK N ROLL JUNGLE GIRL
SCREAMIN JAY HAWKINS - I PUT A SPELL ON YOU (UNISSUED GRAND VERSION)
TARHEEL SLIM & LITTLE ANN - TWO TIME LOSER
JOE LUTCHER - OJAI
TERRY TIMMONS - AIN'T GOT NOBODY TO LOVE
FREDDIE MITCHELL - FREDDIES - NEW CALYPSO
THE CHARMS - MAMBO SCHMAMBO
NINA SIMONE - AFRICAN MAILMAN
HORACE SILVER TRIO - SAFARI
SOULSATIONS - SONG FOR MY FATHER
SOULSATIONS - LOADING ZONE
SOULSATIONS - SOUL SKATE
SMALL PAUL - DO THE EVERYTHING
WILLIE MITCHELL - PRAYER MEETING
SUGARMAN & CO - DOWN TO IT
D'ANGELO - GREATDAYINDAMORNING
THE COUP - BABYLETSHAVEABABYBEFOREBUSHDOSOMETHINGCRAZY
THE ROOTS - ATONEMENT
THE ROOTS - HERE I COME
PERCEE P - LEGENDARY LYRICIST
EDAN - RAPPERFECTION
REDMAN W/ ERICK SERMON - WATCH YOU NUGGETS
DIAMOND D - CONFUSED
SHOWBIZ & AG - SOUL CLAP
BIG L - RETUNext Sat 14thRN OF THE DEVILS SON
BIG L - SCHOOL DAYS
MF DOOM - HOE CAKES
GANGSTARR - THE MILITIA (INST)

ROY GAINES - BLACK GAL (196?)

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I am totally mesmerized by the deep spacious organy vibe of this odd record. Most of Roy Gaines stuff I have heard is rocking r'n'b, but this is almost a beatnik jazz thing, with some nice country blues campfire harmonica floating around now and then. The equally odd "cu-be-ar" record label I have never seen either and cannot find reference to any other releases, despite this being number 9340-59! Roy gets production credit (and, amusingly enough, writing credit too), so maybe he just cooked up the label for this release. These odd label names often tend be amalgams of the names of the people putting up the money or the artists kids or something, so i'll just imagine Roy's wife was home taking care of Curtis, Bertha and Archer while he got lifted and went all beatific on this ancient song in the studio...

On The Radio, In The World 28/04/11

ON THE RADIO

A very shagged richie1250 fresh from doing 7-12 at the penny black and then 12-? filling in for pierre at cherry. Then after the show I go to the noise bar to see uv race and then to yahyah to dj 12-5. Then some sleep and then go play a brides show at The GB in richmond saturday night. NO RETREAT NO SURRENDER!

Playing last Brides gig for a couple months next thursday at the old bar also, with chook race and a rad NZ band called Debutantes, check them out here..

http://debutantes.bandcamp.com/

GIG GUIDE

Thurs 28th
Richie1250's evening stroll @ The penny Black Beer garden (7-midnight) (LAST ONE)
Soul In The Basement @ Cherry w/ vince & RICHIE1250 (fillin in for pierre from 12:30)

chook race @ yahyahs
Fri 29th
Judge Pino & The Ruling Motions @ Open Studio (starts 8:30, two sets)

Tom Lyngcoln (solo) @ yahyahs w/ bowcaster + Richie1250 late night DJ'ing 12-5am

UV Race LP launch @ The Noise Bar (brunswick)
Sat 30th
Chook Race @ The tote (arvo) w/ thee mighty childish

Last Ever Show at The Arthouse (SOLD OUT) broadcast live on 106.7PBSFM
The Dead South w/ machine @ The Victoria Hotel
Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ @ The Great Britain w/ Wiggle Pigeon

Ready Steady Go! @ grace darling basement ft guest DJ Barrence Whitfield!

Midnight Woolf @ YahYahs w/ Anto Mantooth late night DJ'ing 12-5

Sun May 1st

Last Drinks at The Arthouse! Go suck one down...

Next Thurs 5th

Debutantes (NZ) @ The Old Bar w/ Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ + Chook Race

Soul in The Basement @ Cherry w/ Vince Peach + Richie1250 (Fillin in for Pierre from 12:30)

git on out there

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SOME HARPS IN THERE

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 22 April 2011

Artist | Track/Song Name | Album Title | Label/Distibutor | Comments

SYL JOHNSON - SOUL STROKES
SYL JOHNSON - HALF A LOVE
SYL JOHNSON - THIS HEART OF MINE
OTIS CLAY - A LASTING LOVE
THE FIVE DUTONES - MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO
THE ROBINS - LOOP DE LOOP MAMBO
ROSEMARY CLOONEY - MAMBO ITALIANO
VAUGHAN MONROE - THEY WERE DOING DOING THE MAMBO
SONNY & CHER - YOU BETTER SIT DOWN KIDS
ADAM GREEN - DRUGS
MELANIE - I WISH I WAS A FARMER
JOANNA NEWSOM - SADIE
ALICE COLTRANE - VRINDAVANA SANCHARA
YOUR ANIMAL - THE WEEPING SONG
THOSE DARLINS - MYSTIC MIND
THE UV RACE - ACID TRIP
BLOODLOSS - GHOST RIDER
PUTA MADRE BROS - TOES FROM A DEAD MAN
NEW YORK DOLLS - CHATTERBOX
HUNX AND HIS PUNX - THAT'S THE CURSE OF BEING YOUNG
ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI - BRIGHT LIT BLUE SKIES
JACKY WINTER - AUSTRALIAN DREAMS
IGGY POP - NIGHTCLUBBING
IRON CURTAIN - TERROR STORY
FATTI FRANCES - I'M ON MY WAY
BJORK - PAGAN POETRY
BJORK - FROSTI
CANNIBAL OX - LIFE'S ILL (INST)
BLACK THOUGHT - HARDWARE

BONUS GO FOR BROKE FILLIN

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HECTOR & THE EASTMEN - SWITCH ME
NATHANIEL MAYER - I FOUND OUT
MINK DEVILLE - CADILLAC WALK
GOLDEN EARING - RADAR LOVE
IGGY POP - SIXTEEN
ELTON MOTELLO - PIPELINE
THE MASTERS APPRENTICES - BURIED AND DEAD
THEE MIDNIGHTERS - I FOUND A PEANUT
THE SHEEP - HIDE & SEEK
THE GROUPIES - PRIMITIVE
PUTA MADRE BROS - PUTANANNY TWIST
GUITAR FRANK - WILD TRACK
JIMMY WAGES - WILD MAN
MAD MIKE & THE MANIACS - THE HUNCH
JOE MAPHIS & LARRY COLLINS - HURRICANE
JOHNNY BOND - TEN LITTLE BOTTLES
RED SOVINE - I DIDN'T JUMP THE FENCE
JOHNNY PAYCHECK - COLORADO KOOL AID
ROGER MILLER - KANSAS CITY STAR
RONNIE SELF - BOPALENA
DUANE EDDIE - STALKIN
JOHNNY HORTON - LOVERS ROCK
GENE VINCENT - GONNA CATCH ME A RAT
DONNIE ELBERT - WILD CHILD
JOE TEX - PNEUMONIA (ALT)
YOUNG JESSIE - HIT GIT & SPLIT
LOUIS JORDAN - CHOO CHOO CH-BOOGIE ('56)
FREDDIE MITCHELL - 3 STRIKES YOU'RE OUT
LITTLE WILLIE LITTLEFIELD - NAKITE STOMP
LITTLE WILLIE LITTLEFIELD - LUMP IN MY THROAT
SCREAMIN JAY HAWKINS - I PUT A SPELL ON YOU (UNISSUED VERSION)
ROY GAINES - BLACK GAL
KING KHANH & BBQ SHOW - WHY DON'T YOU LIE
X - DON'T CRY NO TEARS
THE UV RACE - SPEED FREAK
THE THINGS - PSYCHO LOVER
TED NUGENT - STRANGLEHOLD

SICK EARLY WU TANG VIDS

Maaaaaaaaaaad shout out Matlok for putting me onto this pre-wutang footage of "the genius" and his cousins plugging his cold chillin' album on a dodgy public access tv show. They don't quite have the swagger yet, but when old dirty starts beatboxing and gza kicks a rap toward the end, you can see they got the goods...

http://www.egotripland.com/j-zone-gza-rza-1991-video-interview/


Here's another one from a few years later when they got that wu-tang swagger in FULL effect...



I love RZA with his black eye being all serious and mean muggin, and at the end when they in a video store or summin and dirty's all wild, sluggin from the brown paper bag and singin Jim Croce and going into some mental screaming freestyle about salamanders that don't even rhyme. The brothers behind trying to look tough and supportive but seem a little worried about where this freestyle is going...

On The Radio, In The World 21/04/11

ON THE RADIO

Some of that great mid sixties rare and unreleased chicago syl from the boss box set, new 45's from the uv race and autumn splendor, those darlins, iron curtain, fatti frances, jacky winter, bunch of local stuff I reckon! plus other stuff too...

GIG GUIDE

Thurs 21st
King Gizzard @ the Tote w/ Northwest Party House
Depression + Straightjacket nation @ The Arthouse
Richie1250's evening stroll @ The penny Black Beer garden (7-midnight) (2nd last one!)
Soul In The Basement @ Cherry w/ vince & pierre ft/ Michael Gt Blair & The Funkadelicside
Fri 22nd
Barrence Whitfield & The Savages @ Ding Dong w/ The Fireballs
Richie1250 DJin @ Mr Hyde (geetroit), 10-1am
Fujiyama Mama: Japanese Eathquake Benefit @ The Bendigo ft heaps o rockabilly bands + PBS DJ's Mr Doo Wop & hep cat!
Sat 23rd
Fatti Frances @ Hells Kitchen w/ Angel Eyes
Mikey young late night DJ'in @ yahyahs
Jacky Winter (Residency) @ The Marquis Of Lorne w/ Link Mclennan (arvo)

Midnight Woolf @ Cherry
Sun 24th
Eugene Holcombe @ The Marquis Of Lorne w/ Rosanna Prim + Kin&Co (5:30 in the arvo)
AAAAARGGGHHT records showcase @ The Workers Club
Mon 25th (Anzac Day)
Baptism Of Uzi @ The Tote w/ River of Snakes, valentiine, damn terran
Parliament / Funkadelic @ The Palace
Wed 27th
Chapter Records showcase @ The Workers Club ft/ The twerps, geoff O'connor and mo'

Next Thurs 28th
Richie1250's evening stroll @ The penny Black Beer garden (7-midnight) (LAST ONE)
Soul In The Basement @ Cherry w/ vince & RICHIE1250 (fillin in for pierre from 12:30)
Next fri 29th
Judge Pino & The Ruling Motions @ Open Studio (starts 8:30, two sets)
Next Sat 30th
Last Ever Show at The Arthouse (SOLD OUT) broadcast live on 106.7PBSFM
The Dead South w/ machine @ The Victoria Hotel
Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ @ The Great Britain w/ Wiggle Pigeon

Ready Steady Go! @ grace darling basement ft guest DJ Barrence Whitfield!

git on out there

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ARCHER LIVE, BARBARION GUEST DJ

Stone Love : Playlist for Monday 18 April 2011

Artist | Track/Song Name | Album Title | Label/Distibutor | Comments

FENTION & THE CASTLE ROCKERS - THE FREEZE
SAM & DAVE - I GOT A THING GOIN ON
JIMMY NOLEN - THE WAY YOU DO
THE ROBINS - SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE
JIMMY NOLEN - JIMMY'S JIVE
BOBBY BLUE BLAND - BACK IN THE SAME OLD BAG AGAIN
OSCAR BROWN JR - HUMDRUM BLUES
ROY GAINES - BLACK GAL
BRO LONNY DEBERRY & THE GOSPEL PERSUADERS - JESUS IS THE SWEETEST NAME I KNOW
EVELYN FREEMAN - DIDN'T IT RAIN
DOROTHY LOVE COATES & THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES - 99 & A HALF WON'T DO
ODETTA - LOOKY LOOKY YONDER
BIG AMOS PATTON - GOING TO VIETNAM
SYL JOHNSON - SHE'S ALRIGHT
ROOSEVELT SYKES - SWEET OLD CHICAGO

ARCHER LIVE IN STUDIO

IRMA THOMAS - I'M GONNA CRY TILL MY TEARS RUN DRY
SHEILA JACK - I'VE JUST GOT TO HAVE YOU
BABY HUEY & THE BABYSITTERS - A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
NEIL YOUNG - ON THE BEACH

HALL & OATES - BENNY G &THE ROSE TATTOO

BARBARION GUEST DJ SPOT

THE COLD SIX THOUSAND (James Ellroy, 2011)

Stayed up till 5am finishing this sucker! Damn! It's some bleak shit too. I had to watch about five episodes of The Simpson afterward just to lighten my mind and get me to sleep.
It's a testament to how good Ellroy is that all the main character can be engaged in the most morally reprehensible, repugnant activities, and you still care about them and want them come through alright....

It's as hardcore as Ellroys other books, but now the hardcoreness is on a grander scale. We're talking The Kennedy Assasination, Howard Hughes and The Mafia in Vegas, CIA heroin in Vietnam, Scheming to oust Castro in Cuba, Martin Luther King, The Klan, J Edgar Hoover and so forth...

Hoover is one of the best characters actually! We only get him through transcribed telephone conversations but he is gold. Some quotes from him:

"LBJ will deplete his prestige on the home front and recoup it in Vietnam. History will judge him as a tall man with big ears who needed wretched people to love him..."
"Cuba appeals to hotheads and the morally impaired. It's the cuisine and the sex. Plantains and women who have intercourse with donkeys."

The book starts just after the JFK assassination, and we basically follow several of the key participants as they tie up loose ends on the hit and engage in all kinds of other high level skulduggery, while trying to deal with all their own personal demons (and you know in an Ellroy book they got some eeeeeeeeeeeeevil demons)...

And Ellroy just keeps getting more minimal with his sentences!

Compare this from The Black Dahlia (1987):

"I fought what was next by concentrating on my landladys cat stalking a bluejay across the garage roof. When he pounced, i admitted to myself how much i wanted johnny vogel's rumour to be true."

To this from The cold Six Thousand (2001)

"John F. Kennedy-dead.

His wife's crush. His stepmom's fixation. JFK got Janice wet. Janice told Wayne Senior. Janice paid. Janice limped. Janice showed off the welts on her thighs. Dead was dead.

He couldn't grab it. He fumbled the rebounds.

Moore chewed Red Man. Moore shot juice out his window. Gunshots overlapped. Joyous shit in the boonies.

Moore said, "Some people ain't so sad." "

And these are loooong sentences. Much of it is like:

"Junior was a hider. Junior was a watcher. Junior lit flames. Junior torched. Junior lived in his head."


At first the minimalism was too much for me and i put it down, but six months later I picked it up again and instantly got deeeeeeep into it.

I just found out when i got to the end that it's actually the sequel to "American Tabloid", which follows some of the same characters in the five years leading up to the JFK hit. So maybe read that first...

Oh yeah, and thanks to Wayne Jobson for giving it to me for my birthday! You a good man, wayne...