FATTI FRANCIS "CLOWNS" VIDEO

Fatti's music has been getting more and more vocaly minimal and droney of late, so it's cool to see her randomly flip the script on that and come with this straight up dark 80s dream pop number. I love the video too, representing for her Karaoke singing Filipino brothers and sisters. Having the lyrics on screen makes the song somehow more intense and more confusing. Each line seems seems to take the context of the song somewhere different, and by the end you don't know what the hell's going on...

I interviewed her a li'l while ago and this what she had to say about it:

"I feel like both with this tape and with the album, I still haven’t quite find the sound that’s mine. We’re doing a filmclip for one of the songs on the tape called ‘Clowns’, and it doesn’t sound like anything else on the tape or anything else I’ve done. It’s got nothing to do with clowns, but when I was making the instrumental track I thought, “yep, this sounds scary and weird and stupid, let’s call it Clowns.” It’s this classic sort of dreamy 80’s pop song with lots of reverb, lyrics about meeting someone in your dreams, crap like that. It’s just a real cheesy song that I’m actually really proud of. But I don’t feel like I could play that one in the live set.

Do you think like that could be another project?

I think that could be like, if you had a wedding I could come out in a cloud of smoke playing this ‘Clowns’ song about meeting the perfect person in your dreams.  Although it kind of takes a stalkerish turn in the end! It got written so fast I felt like I didn’t have much control of the lyrical content. Some songs just seem to happen by themselves…"

on the radio, in the world... 25/4/13

ON THE RADIO

I got's this killer rough sounding later record by The Clover on Port that I am spazzing over (both sides!), I have this great dark latin type thing by Roland Kave & His Diablos, I am hillbilly boppin along to this T Texas Tyler EP I bought up in Sydney, so probably those and some other nice scratchy records I come across lately. I has also been hunkered down at home enjoying some Peter, Paul & Mary and Janis Ian and other folky stuff, so maybe some of that. And other stuff too...

IN THE WORLD

Next friday the 3rd I'll be DJ'ing at The B.East hamburger Bar in brunswick for their birthday celebrations. The Exotics playing too!

And Sat the 4th is SOUL A GO GO once again at The Workers Club. Sure has come around fast, feels like the last one was only last week...

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

Fri 26th
Beware! Black Holes @ Richmond Tiki Lounge (2 sets)
Minibikes @ Spotted Mallard
Horse Macgyver tape launch @ Gaso Upstairs w/ Angel Eyes, Johnny Telafone + Calico Cat 
Living Eyes LP launch @ Grace Darling Dungeon w/ The Clits + The Galaxy Folk + The Bonniwells
Sat 27th
Stanley Kubrick DOUBLE FEATURE, Paths Of Glory + Dr Strangelove @ the Astor
Sun 28th
Stanley Kubrick DOUBLE FEATURE, The Killing + Lolita @ the Astor

May 17
Lighting tape Wolf (NZ) @ grace Darling
May 17 till 19
CAMP ELSEWHERE: From the 'Anytime Place' people, a 2 day sleepover party in an old communist youth league camp! featuring...

Delaney Davidson(NZ), Al Duvall (NYC), Mojo Juju, Puta Madre Brothers,

Tape Wolf (NZ), Merry Creek Pickers, Mighty Duke & the Lords, Cherrywood,

Jess Ribiero & the Bone Collectors, Judge Pino & the Ruling Motions,

Richie 1250 & the Brides of Christ, Coral Lee & the Silver Scream,

The TEN in ONE, BJ Morrizonkle, Captain Apples, Gasoline Stew & the Dump,

Sugar Fed Leopards, Skyscraper Stan & the Commission Flats, Gator Queen,

The Black Diamonds, Eaten By Dogs, Tijuana Peanut, Mightiest of Guns,

Wikimen, Big Small, Bebop n Lula, HP Reid, One Trick Pony

Dj Emma Peel (PBS), Dj Frankie Alibi and Dj Shitshake

git on out there
lurve

richie1250 

To get off this list, reply saying:  in Tabasco, Mexico, the last two speakers of the language Ayapaneco were refusing to talk to one another. “They don’t have a lot in common,” said an anthropologist

LAST WEEKS SHOW

download here

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 19 April 2013

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR | COMMENTS

WILLIE MITCHELL - GRAZING IN THE GRASS
ROB - MAKE IT FAST, MAKE IT SLOW
LEE PERRY - JUNGLE LION
HOPETOUN LEWIS - MUSIC GOT SOUL
ALTON ELLIS - LALA MEANS I LOVE YOU
CYNTY AND THE MONKEYS - LADY LADY
CECILE AND SLIM SMITH - GIRL YOU HOLD ME

CECILE INTERVIEW

CECILE - SWEETNESS FT CHRISTOPHER MARTIN

FATTI FRANCES - WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES
FATTI FRANCES - MY MAN
TEETH & TONGUE - COME FROM NOWHERE
STELLA ANGELICO - NO MAN
CL & THE PICTURES - I'M ASKING FORGIVENESS
RUBEN FORT - SO GOOD
IKE TURNERS KINGS OF RHYTHM (TOMMY HODGE VOCAL) - I KNOW (YOU DON'T LOVE NO MORE)
THE DOMINOES - SIXTY MINUTE MAN
BIG BILL BROONZY - MY WOMAN MISTREATS ME
EMMET MILLER - THE BLUES SINGER FROM ALABAMA
BOB WILLIS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS - BUBBLES IN MY BEER
HANK SNOW - I DON'T HURT ANYMORE
HANK THOMPSON - LOST JOHN
T TEXAS TYLER - IDA RED
CHUCK BERRY - THE DOWNBOUND TRAIN
AMOS MILBURN - GREYHOUND
HAROLD JACKSON & THE JACKSON BROTHERS - THE FREEDOM RIDERS
THE NITEHAWKS - MUDDY
LITTLE MACK - DON'T LEAVE ME NOW
OTHEA GEORGE - WHAT A GOOD THING YOU HAD IN ME
AL PERKINS - YES, MY GOODNESS YES

THE SIMPSONS WRITERS REUNION

Conan O'Brien gets together some of the old gang from his early days as a Simpsons writer. No appearance from John Swartzwelder, but essential viewing for Simpsons obsessos none the less...

SLOW GRIND FEVER #3 - UPSTAIRS AT THE TOTE THIS SAT APRIL 20TH

Slow Grind Fever, Melbourne's only slow dance party, is once more upon us. The lights is red and dim, the liquor is brown and strong, we play the slowest, spookiest, sleaziest, sweetest old records we can find, and you dance real sloooow like, by yourself or pressed up against somebody else. Either way, its a real good time...

SLOW GRIND FEVER #3

with DJ's Richie1250, Pierre Baroni & Mohair Slim

Sat April 20th - Upstairs at The Tote

9pm till 3am - $5

on the radio, in the world... 18/4/13

ON THE RADIO

Some old, some new, some sydney, some blue. Interview with dancehall singer Cecile at approx 5:20...

IN THE WORLD

Sat the 20th is Record Store Day! I DJ at The Searchers (on smith near corner gertrude) from 2-3, with records from the store.

Later that night doing SLOW GRIND FEVER upstairs at the tote with pierre baroni and mohair slim and YOU. Slooooooooooow dancing...

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

Fri 19th
Fatti frances @ Public Bar w/ Yama Boy + more

Sat 20th
Record Store Day! I DJ at The Searchers (on smith near corner gertrude) from 2-3, with records from the store!
Slow Grind Fever 3@ the Tote Upstairs, w/ dj's richie1250, pierre baroni & mohair slim. Melbourne's only slow dance party!
Them Nights @ Public Bar w/ Meth Leopard and Sooky La La 

Wed 24th
Johnnie & The Johnnie Johnnies @ The Retreat w/ Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ
Quang Dinh @ Neighbourhood Wine


May 17
Lighting tape Wolf (NZ) @ grace Darling
May 17 till 19
CAMP ELSEWHERE: From the 'Anytime Place' people, a 2 day sleepover party in an old communist youth league camp! featuring...

Delaney Davidson(NZ), Al Duvall (NYC), Mojo Juju, Puta Madre Brothers,

Tape Wolf (NZ), Merry Creek Pickers, Mighty Duke & the Lords, Cherrywood,

Jess Ribiero & the Bone Collectors, Judge Pino & the Ruling Motions,

Richie 1250 & the Brides of Christ, Coral Lee & the Silver Scream,

The TEN in ONE, BJ Morrizonkle, Captain Apples, Gasoline Stew & the Dump,

Sugar Fed Leopards, Skyscraper Stan & the Commission Flats, Gator Queen,

The Black Diamonds, Eaten By Dogs, Tijuana Peanut, Mightiest of Guns,

Wikimen, Big Small, Bebop n Lula, HP Reid, One Trick Pony

Dj Emma Peel (PBS), Dj Frankie Alibi and Dj Shitshake

git on out there
lurve

richie1250 

To get off this list, reply saying:  “Television,” said ethics minister Simon Lokodo, a former Catholic priest, “should not broadcast a sexy person.”

LAST WEEKS SHOW

download here

BABY, WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO?

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 12 April 2013

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR | COMMENTS

THE DAZZLERS - OO CLAZY
THE HALOS - BABY WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO
THE GO DEVILS - SUPER STUFF
THE 5678'S - THREE KOOL CHICKS
THE REBELLES - THE CLAPPING SONG
HUNX AND HIS PUNX - TEARDROPS ON MY TELEPHONE
JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN - TREAT HER RIGHT
THE RUMBLERS - BOSS SOUL
EDDY MITCHELL - Si Tu N'étais Pas Mon Frère
CLAUDE NOUGARO - A BOUT DE SOUFFLE
GUESS WHAT - TITOLI DI TESTA
MILES DAVIS SEXTET - TEMPUS FUGIT
DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE - IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD
THE RHODA SCOTT TRIO - SHABAZZ
GARY US BONDS - I WANNA HOLLER
WILD WILLIE WISE AND THE CONGREGATION - BURN BURN BURN
JOHNNY ZORRO - KANGAROO HOP
LINK WRAY AND THE RAY MEN - RUMBLE
THE ROCKBUSTERS - TOUGH CHICK
BIG MAYBELLE - RAIN DOWN RAIN
HELEN GRAYCO - LILY'S LAMENT
DIANE RENAY - SOFT SPOKEN GUY
JOHNNY JAY COLONNA - THE SEA WITCH
MARV MARTIN - WAY DOWN
JOHNNY VAN - YOU'RE MUCH TOO NICE
JAMIE COE - CLEOPATRA
JACK HAMMER - MEAN AND EVIL ME
DR HORSE - JACK, THAT CAT WAS CLEAN
CHUCK HIGGINS AND HIS BAND (VOCAL BY FRANK DUNN) - DON'T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU BABY
NINA SIMONE - BLUE PRELUDE
LORRAINE ELLISON - STAY WITH ME
LARRY BANKS - I'M NOT THE ONE
CHARLES BRADLEY - CRYING IN THE CHAPEL

THE GRIMM BROS - I'M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE (THE PRESIDENTS LOVE SONG) (ft Richard Milhouse Nixon!) (Mod, 1972?)

After Senator Everret Mckinley's smash version of 'Wild Thing', here President Nixon steps up to deliver a vow of love to the whole damn country (looks like Checkers doesn't need any convincing).

Can't find any info on this 45, but I'd guess it came out smack bang in the middle of 1972 Nixon re-election campaign.

Such a perfect song for Nixon. He's a total villain of course, but he's such a sad, lonely, downtrodden character you can't help but feel for the fucker as he triiiiiiiiiiiies to make the electorate love him. And even though he did indeed get re-elected, I suspect he always had the feeling that none of those damn sonsofbitches REALLY loved Richard Milhouse Nixon. Except Checkers...

THE GRIMM BROS - I'M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE (THE PRESIDENTS LOVE SONG)

on the radio, in the world... 11/4/13

ON THE RADIO

I got some french stuff, i got that new charles bradley, i got a new copy of hey hey love me by the halos after the big record loss (boo hoo), i gots chuck berry and nina simone and some other stuff too...

IN THE WORLD

I will be up in Sydney doing some Brides gigs, but Garry 7 and Matt Jungle Fever will be doing the SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY at the gem satdee night

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

Thurs 11th
The Rebelles @ Cherry (Ep launch part 1)

Fri 12th
The Volcaniks @ The Gem
The Dinaglings (new 50's r'n'b group with members of the bombay royale and the putbacks) @ bar OpenSat 13th
SPIN THAT GLOBE @ Grace Darling Dungeon w/ Dj's Serhan Ali, Emma Peel and Mohair Slim spinning vintage sounds from Turkey, India, France, Jamaica, Colombia and elsewhere!
Saturday Night Fish Fry @ The Gem w/ DJ's Garry7 and Matt Jungle Fever
Sun 14th
Cambodian Space Project @ NSC (afternoon show)

Thurs 18th
The Rebelles @ Cherry (Ep launch part 1)
Fri 19th
Fatti frances @ Public Bar w/ Yama Boy + more

COMING UP
April 20th
Slow Grind Fever 3@ the Tote Upstairs, w/ dj's richie1250, pierre baroni & mohair slim. Melbourne's only slow dance party! it's a good way to get down...

May 17
Lighting tape Wolf (NZ) @ grace Darling
May 17 till 19
CAMP ELSEWHERE: From the 'Anytime Place' people, a 2 day sleepover party in an old communist youth league camp! featuring...

Delaney Davidson(NZ), Al Duvall (NYC), Mojo Juju, Puta Madre Brothers,

Tape Wolf (NZ), Merry Creek Pickers, Mighty Duke & the Lords, Cherrywood,

Jess Ribiero & the Bone Collectors, Judge Pino & the Ruling Motions,

Richie 1250 & the Brides of Christ, Coral Lee & the Silver Scream,

The TEN in ONE, BJ Morrizonkle, Captain Apples, Gasoline Stew & the Dump,

Sugar Fed Leopards, Skyscraper Stan & the Commission Flats, Gator Queen,

The Black Diamonds, Eaten By Dogs, Tijuana Peanut, Mightiest of Guns,

Wikimen, Big Small, Bebop n Lula, HP Reid, One Trick Pony

Dj Emma Peel (PBS), Dj Frankie Alibi and Dj Shitshake

git on out there
lurve

richie1250 

To get off this list, reply saying:  "Then he made this dip for the bread, and that was a motherfu**er too" (Miles Davis)

LAST WEEKS SHOW

download here

BUDGET DETROIT SOUL + MESSENGERS + BIG OG 4 PRESIDENT GUEST DJ

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 5 April 2013

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR | COMMENTS

THE GRIMM BROS - I'M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME
THE FLOATERS - FLOAT ON
SMOKEY ROBINSON - BABY THAT'S BACKATCHA
JOANNE MCDUFFIE - YOU ARE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
SIR ISAAC AND THE DOO DADS - BLUE GROOVE
OTHEA GEORGE - NOW THAT YOU'RE GONE
NATHANIEL MAYER - I HAD A DREAM
GINO WASHINGTON - SINGING IN THE RAIN
LESTER TIPTON - THIS WON'T CHANGE

THE MESSENGERS - BABY WON'T YOU COME BACK INTO MY LIFE (LIVE IN STUDIO 5)

MESSENGERS INTERVIEW + SONG FROM NEW EP

THE GO-DEVILS - BOYS
FATTI FRANCES - OOH BABY BABY
FATTI FRANCES - SHE'S WATCHING

BIG OG FOR PRESIDENT GUEST SELECTIONS:
THE COUP - FUNK
DEL THE FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN - ?????
NICE N SMOOTH - HIP HOP JUNkIES
THE BEATNUTS - GET FUNKY

GELO - HAVING IT MY WAY

MORE BIG OG FOR PRESIDENT GUEST SELECTIONS:
LYRICAL COMMISION - PRELUDE
JOLZ FT. SOLOMON KLEPTO - FROM WITHIN
DEDLEE - FRANKSTON FLOW

GRAVEDIGGAZ - WHAT'S GOING ON?

YET MORE BIG OG FOR PRESIDENT GUEST SELECTIONS:
MARIAH CAREY FT OL' DIRTY BASTARD - FANTASY (REMIX)
WU TANG CLAN - 7TH CHAMBER PT 2

BETTY LAVETTE AT THE CORNER TONIGHT

I can't believe there's still tickets to this! Betty is Bad. you don't wanna miss her...

https://corner.ticketscout.com.au/gigs/1032-bettye-lavette

FATTI FRANCES - LIE FOR ME (2013)

Daaaaaaaaaaaayum, I been waiting forever for Fatti Frances to put this album out. Definitely worth the wait though, killer womping bass and g-funk synth all up in there. Play it on a big old boomin' system or some chunky headphones...

And hit the title link so you can go the bandcamp and see the Matlok Griffiths artwork proper style...

on the radio, in the world... 4/4/13

ON THE RADIO

Some nice lo-fi detroit soul records, some japanese fuzz, some 80s LA rap, and some guest selections from DJ Big OG for President around 6:30...

IN THE WORLD

First Soul A Go Go of the the year! Doors at 8, and remember we only go till 1 am at the workers club!

I'm on from 9 till 10 in the back room and from 11 till 12 in the front room...

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

THURSDAY APRIL 4TH
Bettye Lavette @ The Corner

Friday 5th
The Go-Devils @ Luwow
Harmony single launch @ John Curtin
Grouse Party @ bendigo hotel 
plague doctor @ old bar w/ ron peno

Sat 6th
Soul a Go Go @ workers club
dj dr ludwig @ yahyahs
deep heat LP launch @ old bar
chook race@ gasometer upstairs w/ king tears mortuary, full ugly, pencil
the night party @ the cornish arms
the messengers EP launch @ ding dong
kim salmon & spencer p jones @ the drunken poet
hipshaker @ luwow with DJs simon laxton and susie wong + cookin on 3 burners live

Mon 8th
Boomgates + Pearls @ NSC (free)

COMING UP
April 20th
Slow Grind Fever 3@ the Tote Upstairs, w/ dj's richie1250, pierre baroni & mohair slim. Melbourne's only slow dance party! it's a good way to get down...


May 17 till 19
CAMP ELSEWHERE: From the 'Anytime Place' people, a 2 day sleepover party in an old communist youth league camp! featuring...

Delaney Davidson(NZ), Al Duvall (NYC), Mojo Juju, Puta Madre Brothers,

Tape Wolf (NZ), Merry Creek Pickers, Mighty Duke & the Lords, Cherrywood,

Jess Ribiero & the Bone Collectors, Judge Pino & the Ruling Motions,

Richie 1250 & the Brides of Christ, Coral Lee & the Silver Scream,

The TEN in ONE, BJ Morrizonkle, Captain Apples, Gasoline Stew & the Dump,

Sugar Fed Leopards, Skyscraper Stan & the Commission Flats, Gator Queen,

The Black Diamonds, Eaten By Dogs, Tijuana Peanut, Mightiest of Guns,

Wikimen, Big Small, Bebop n Lula, HP Reid, One Trick Pony

Dj Emma Peel (PBS), Dj Frankie Alibi and Dj Shitshake

git on out there
lurve

richie1250 

To get off this list, reply saying:  "In Rome, a penis added at the behest of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to an ancient statue of Mars was reported to have been removed."

LAST WEEKS SHOW

download here

LOTSA TAV AND HARMONY GUEST SELECTIONS

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 29 March 2013

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR | COMMENTS

see pictorial playlist at: www.instagram.com/richie1250

TAV FALCO & PANTHER BURNS - SNAKE DRIVE
TAV FALCO & PANTHER BURNS - BRAZIL
TAV FALCO & PANTHER BURNS - RIVER OF LOVE
TAV FALCO & PANTHER BURNS - BERTHA LOU
TAV FALCO & PANTHER BURNS - LADY FROM SHANGHAI
TAV FALCO & PANTHER BURNS - GOING HOME
TAV FALCO & PANTHER BURNS - THE YOUNG PSYCHOTICS
THE GO DEVILS - HAIRY ONE
THE GO DEVILS - BAD DAY

---------

HARMONY GUEST SELECTIONS

---------

HARMONY - DO ME A FAVOUR
BOOKER T & THE MGS - WINTER SNOW
LEE HAZELWOOD - MY AUTUMNS DONE COME
LARRY O'KEEFE - LOVE'S DREAM
LORRIE COLLINS - ANOTHER MAN DONE GONE
CRASH CRADDOCK - I WANT THAT
WILLIE MITCHELL - PRAYER MEETING
BETTY LAVETT - WITCHCRAFT IN THE AIR
BETTY LAVETTE - FEEL GOOD ALL OVER
UNKNOWN FEMALE - MY DREAMS NEVER COME TRUE
THE UKELADIES - BEYOND THE REEF (LIVE ON SL)
TINO CONTRERAS - ORFEO LOS TAMBORES
THE RHODA SCOTT TRIO - SHABAZZ

ARCHER LIVE IN STUDIO SONGS