On The Radio, In The World … 26/11/10

ON THE RADIO

I am home! Never felt so good. Warm, but not sweaty. Records and dog to touch. Simpsons at my fingertips. Happy... Plus I came home to a package containing a copy of one of my all time favourite crappy records, "He Makes Me So Mad" by The Hollywood Jills, on the very budget sounding Tune-Kel Records. It's so crappy, I can't believe it got distributed nationally on Capitol Records. And that Northern Soul geeks pay hundreds of dollars for it. It's awesome though. makes me smile a great deal. So i'll play that. And some other stuff too...

Oh yeah, Mohair and Emma Peel have a new mod record hop in the dungeon below the Grace Darling starting this Saturday (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173798575965429). Goes till 1am, then I'm on round the corner at yah yahs till 5am! Then the YahYahs record fair the next arvo at midday. Oh dear...

GIG GUIDE

Fri 26th

Jimmy Tait @ DingDong w/ The Gin Club

Richie1250 DJ'in @ Mr Hyde (Geelong) 10-1am

Rampage Old School Hip Hop Jam @ First Floor ft Zach, J red, DJ Krisy! and more...

Sat 27th

Ready Steady Go! New mod night down in the dungeon below The Grace Darling w/ Mohair Slim, Emma Peel and Buddy Love

Richie1250 DJ'in @ YahYahs 12-5am

Cash Savage and The Last Drinks LP launch @ The Tote

Sun 28th

YahYahs Crate Digger Record Fair, Noon till 6pm

Sophie Brous @ Grace Darling (5pm) w/ lost animal

Next Fri 3rd

MY DISCO live on Stone Love, 6pm

git on out there

lurve

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LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

I was in Vietnam last week. Ask Garry...

SONGS THE SIMPSONS TAUGHT US

Since arriving home from five weeks travelling yeasterday, i have had to have a serious ingestion of The Simpsons to restore my brain to it's proper equilibrium. I couple of songs popped up that I realized I love from their Simpsons cameo but have no idea what they are...





Excuse my ignorance, but are Journey always this awesome?



Always gets me a little teary as Homer searches for his soulmate via montage...


I think I first heard this on The Simpsons too...



Here's Rhonda's special mention from Futurama, Connie Francis' "I Will Wait For You"...



Any other favourite songs you first heard on The Simpsons?

SOY CUBA (I AM CUBA)

Man, I GOTTA see this movie. Just saw the below clip over at The Hound Blog. Makes me gooey...



The Trailer


Supposedly the whole movie is a bit of a heavy handed soviet propoganda piece, but fuck, gotta be worth it just for the visuals... Anybody seen it?

On The Radio, in The World 07/10/10

ON THE RADIO

Some fine jamaican bacon from the sixties, seventies AND eighties! A good bunch from Jackie Opel I reckon, what a crooner he is. Some big nosed french r'n'b from Eddy Mitchell and his "De Londres A Memphis" album, plus louis jordan, bobby bland, the nightcrawlers, gospel artistics, method man and redman, and possibly some other stuff too...

GIG GUIDE
Fri Oct 8th
Archer @ Pure Pop Records (6pm)
Richie1250 DJ'in @ The Retreat from 11-3am
SAT OCT 9th
Steph Brett @ The Builders Arms (4pm)
Chant Down Sound 10th Anniversary @ Deep 11
Mulatu Astatke and The Black Jesus Experience @ The Order Of Melbourne (sold out)
Richie1250 late night DJ'in @ YahYahs, 12-5am
Michael GT Blair & The Funkadelic Side @ The Vineyard
SUN OCT 10th
Mulatu Astatke and The Black Jesus Experience @ The Order Of Melbourne (still tix i think)
Cambodian Kids Foundation Benefit Gig @ NSC ft Nick barker, Downhills home and more

NEXT Fri 15th
The Exotics @ The Retreat
NEXT SAT 16TH
Your Animal (last show for looooooong time) @ Grace Darling Basement w. sophie brous, clairy brown and quincy mclean

git on out there
lurve
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LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

OUT POPS A BOTTLE OF HADICOL 1/10/10

Stone Love : Playlist for Friday 1 October 2010

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

THE VALENTINOS - SWEETER THAN THE DAY BEFORE
RAY LEWIS - SORRY YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG NUMBER
CLAUDE 'BABY' HUEY - DRIFTING
WILLIE MITCHELL - THAT DRIVING BEAT
SUGAR PIE DESANTO - SOULFUL DRESS
O.V. WRIGHT - I DON'T WANT TO SIT DOWN
ROY HEAD AND THE TRAITS - TREAT HER RIGHT
BIG MAYBELLE - THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD LOVE
ANN COLE - GOT MY MOJO WORKING
ETTA JAMES - GOOD ROCKIN DADDY
WYNONIE HARRIS - LOVIN MACHINE
TINY BRADSHAW - BUSHES
EARL BOSTIC - APPLE CAKE
ROLAND KIRK - FLY BY NIGHT
PRESTON LOVE - CHILLI MAC
BILL WITHERS - RAILROAD MAN
Q TIP - BARELY IN LOVE
Q TIP - MAN WOMAN BOOGIE
Q TIP - MOVE
THE COUP - HARD CONCRETE
DR DRE - 187
BIG PUN FT FAT OE - TWINZ (DEEP COVER 98)
SLICK RICK - CHILDRENS STORY
BIG DADDY KANE - LONG LIVE THE KANE
SHOWBIZ AND AG - BOUNCE TO THIS
BILLY OCEAN - CARIBBEAN QUEEN
YOKO ONO - WALKING ON THIN ICE
WYNONIE HARRIS - LOVIN MACHINE
TINY BRADSHAW - BUSHES
EARL BOSTIC - APPLE CAKE
ROLAND KIRK - FLY BY NIGHT
PRESTON LOVE - CHILLI MAC
BILL WITHERS - RAILROAD MAN
Q TIP - BARELY IN LOVE
Q TIP - MAN WOMAN BOOGIE
Q TIP - MOVE
THE COUP - HARD CONCRETE
DR DRE - 187
BIG PUN FT FAT OE - TWINZ (DEEP COVER 98)
SLICK RICK - CHILDRENS STORY
BIG DADDY KANE - LONG LIVE THE KANE
SHOWBIZ AND AG - BOUNCE TO THIS
BILLY OCEAN - CARIBBEAN QUEEN
YOKO ONO - WALKING ON THIN ICE

YOUR ANIMAL

The exquisite but now sadly defunct Your Animal are regrouping (with Liam from My Disco subbing for Jarrad on the bass) to do one last show before Monty knocks out a kid (or dies or moves to yugoslavia or something like that, i forget which). They did a weird kind of dark Twin Peaksy doom laden vocal group sound that really got to me, and theres a little hole in my heart now that they're gone. I always knew they probably wouldn't last that long so i savoured each performance and recorded a few from out in the crowd. Heres some videos from an early gig at the old bar:





And here's some audio from their last gig at The Old Bar.

"Joey the Pouch Rider"

"You Never Hurt The One you Love"

"Baby It's You"


The final gig (for some time anyway) is in the wonderful cellar of the Grace Darling Hotel on smith st, next Sat the 16th of October, with Sophie Brous, Clairy Brown and Amy Wild Horses on the DJ'ing. I'll see you down there...

OnThe Radio, in The World 30/9/10

ON THE RADIO

Will be playing some sweet soul music from the Valentinos cause we got soul a go go this saturday, some rockin r'n'b from Wynonie Harris and such cause our CD O THE WEEK we givin away is 'Keb darge and Lil Ediths Rockin r'n'b', some frantic jazz from the very square lookin earl bostic cause I am feelin him, some fresh to def 80's Hip Hop cause I'll have a heap of it in my box to play at Mr Hyde later on, and some other stuff too!

GIG GUIDE

FRI oct 1st
Archer @ Pure Pop Records
Stroke It radio DJ's @ Mr Hyde in geelong from 6-10, then Richie1250 from 10-1
The Rebelles @ Anytime Place

The Once Overs @ Cherry
SAT OCT 2nd
SOUL A GO GO @ The Johnson
Steph Brett 2 the Builders Arms (4pm)
Bushdance fundraiser for the Darebin Community Legal Centre @ Preston Shire Hall ft Sal Kimber and The Thornbury Drovers
Michael GT Blair & The Funkadelic Side @ The Vineyard
Benfit Gig for Sean Jeffrey, Kiwi who busted his leg in the pub footy competition and has a family to support @ The Marquis Of Lorne ft. Clinkerfiled, Dan Brodie and other stuff
SUN OCT 3rd
Fatti Frances @ YahYah w/ The French, Friend and Dud Pills

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ANYTIME RADIO! Live radio plays with live sound effects and everything @ Anytime Place from Fri Oct 1st till Thurs Oct 7th, with special guest bands playing each night, including Fri: The Rebelles, Sat: Plague Doctor, Sun: The Once Overs

COMING UP:
BRANCHES MUSIC FESTIVAL in a forest near healsville. Benefit to provide solar lighting to the entire East Timorese village of Besilau. 27 & 28th of November. Google it for linup and details...

git on out there
lurve
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LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

DOWWWWN BOOUUUUUUND TRAIN 24/9/10

Stone Love : Playlist for Wednesday 29 September 2010
Artist | Track/Song Name |

RAY LEWIS - I STILL LOVE YOU
LEE MOSES - I'M SAD ABOUT IT
JANET AND THE JAYS - WITHOUT A REASON
BOBBY BLUE BLAND - HOW DOES A CHEATING WOMAN FEEL
CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS - STORMY MONDAY BLUES PT 1 & 2
CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS - REELIN AND A ROCKIN
THE PRETTY THINGS - COME SEE ME
MOTORHEAD - WHITE LINE FEVER
POLKA DOT SLIM - A THING YOU GOTTA FACE
CHUCK BERRY - DOWN BOUND TRAIN
HAROLD JACKSON AND THE JACKSON BROTHERS - THE FREEDOM RIDERS
HAROLD JACKSON AND THE JACKSON BROTHERS - TRAVELLIN
ROLAND KIRK - A HANDFUL OF FIVES
OUTKAST - SHE'S ALIVE
BJORK - AURORA
KELIS - TRICK ME
OLD DIRTY BASTARD FT KELIS - GOT YOUR MONEY
RODNEY P - RIDDIM KILLA
MICHIGAN AND SMILEY - DISEASES
FITZ AND THE COOZERS - COVER ME
ITALS - DAWN PATROL
TV SLIM - LOVE BOUNCE
THE COASTERS - LET'S GO GET STONED
JOHNNY PAYCHECK - COLORADO KOOL AID
ROGER MILLER - KANSAS CITY STAR
GEORGE JONES - RAGGED BUT RIGHT
THE SUPREMES - THIS BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING
GENEVIEVE WAITE - BITING MY NAILS
THE SHANGRI-LA'S - GIVE HIM A GREAT BIG KISS

CHARLIE RICH ON HI RECORDS

I love Charlie Rich. He's a Charmer.

His time at Hi Records in the mid sixties was brief and not particularly significant for either party, but i've always found the records they made rather charming.

Charlie probably cut his goldiest bricks at Sun in the late 50's but his best stuff always had more of a roly poly barrelhouse piano storytelling vibe than the standard psychotic knife-weilding energy of his label mates. He'd finally hit on some big silver haired Nashville country mega stardom recording for Epic in the seventies, but for the most part that stuff sounds pretty staid.

Hi was still searching for an identity, presently halfway between the hokey instrumentals they'd started with and the soupy smooth memphis soul they'd hit with in the early 70's, desperately searching for a star vocalist. Charlie wasn't it, the records didn't do shit, and within a year he had his walking papers, but I kinda wish they'd stuck with it a few more years. The records aren't really classics, but there was some real potential in the sound they were getting. Charlie always wanted be a jazz pianist (and spent the late forties working supper clubs in Mel torme mode), he had a great country crooners voice, and he always had a natural feel for for r'n'b, and I guess that all comes together nicely on the Hi Stuff. He did a whole album of Hank Williams songs which is a bit patchy, but I love his dreamy rendition of Wedding Bells. Pass On By is classic memphis country soul coming from the country side, and Can't Get Right has that nice mid period Hi strutting organ funk I could listen to all day.

All Charlies Hi stuff was collected on a CD in 2000 that's still pretty easy to find, so if you dig these, git out there and cop you some silver haired country soul...

Wedding Bells
Pass On By
Can't Get Right