The Bridge, Sydney Album Show, on FBI 94.5FM, Sydney. Special guest Carla Werner. 1. Dappled Cities Fly – Peach 2. Diatonics – Camel Cafe 3. Carla Werner interview including full album, Departure, and live acoustic version of Like Mercury 4. Anything But Roy – Sangkut
(February 2004; 79 mins; 38MB)
Category: Music
mix | FBI Weekend Overhang January 4 2004 Part 1
On FBI 94.5FM, Sydney. 1. Roni Size r’mix Takemura – Brown Paper Bag 2. Jaylib – Raw Shit 3. Jay Chou – Ninja (Ren Zhi) 4. Soma Rasa – I Like It 5. Tim Rogers – Damn Songs 6. Teenage FAnclub – I Need Direction 7. Screamfeeder – Same Mistakes Again 8. Dappled Cities Fly – Corpus Kinaesthesia 9. Woodbine – Neskwik 10. Frente – Horrible 11. Elbow – Fallen Angel 12. Hoodoo Gurus – Big Deal 13. Kid 606 – If I Had a Happy Place This Would Be It 14. Kahimi Karie – Pygmalism 15. Stereolab – Come and Play in the Milky Night 16. Ed Kuepper – Honey Steals Gold 17. Women of Troy – Reach the Stars 18. Glide – Why You Asking? 19. Nuyorican Soul r’mix 4 Hero – I Am the Black Gold of the Sun (January 2004; 79 mins; 38MB)
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broadcast | Garbage’s Butch Vig, October 7 1998
What can I say about Butch Vig that hasn’t already been well documented – producer for Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, one of the dream-team of producers of Garbage, and their drummer. Here Vig gets down with recording techniques, equipment and the sound of Version 2.0 (October 7 1998; 19 mins)
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broadcast | Effigy’s Pete Hardman, July 1998
Effigy somehow explode then return often for new recordings and gigs over the years. Here Pete Hardman, Melbourne-based after his Perth-upbringing, speaks of the (usual?) rash of problems of their 1998 album Century Collapsing (July 1998; 14 mins)
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broadcast | Morphine’s Billy Conway, 1996
Boston’s very un-Boston-sounding Morphine took the combination of drums, bass and baritone sax and made insanely great swamp music. One of the three, Billy Conway, speaks to Adam about how their music slides right in anywhere. RIP frontman Mark Sandman who died onstage in 1999 (April 1998; 12 mins)
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broadcast | Magic Dirt’s Adelita, April 1998
Adelita’s vox are among the most caustic in rock, she croons and screams with unrelenting fire as the frontperson of Magic Dirt. On the release of Young And Full Of The Devil, Adelita speaks to, and tries to hit-on, your quaking interviewer (April 1998; 12 mins)
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broadcast | Primus’ Les Claypool, April 7 1998
The best bassplayer I’ve ever seen and a psycho-being and lyricist of the first order, Mr Les Claypool, here divulges his timewarped 70s home, his many projects – Primus, Holy Mackerel, Prawnsong Design – and, egad, his fear of the Chapman Stick (April 7 1998; 13 mins)
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Beasts of Bourbon
Interview with Brian Hooper
There is a song called Fake on the new Beasts of Bourbon album, titled Gone, which has Tex Perkins screaming ‘don’t know myself, don’t own myself, I’m a fake’. The power, venom and dirge of the Beasts’ traditional blue-collar sound permeates Perkin’s personal attack on himself, Fake being a song which could well be his retaliation to anyone critical of this, the seventeenth year of the Beasts of Bourbon’s collective mindset.
Dinosaur Jr, Sunday September 28, 1997
Metropolis Perth
For the many kids who saw the end of the pop and pulp Countdown generation mutate into the all-embracing Rage regeneration, Dinosaur Jr has alway signified low-brow indie rawk and roll. In its early years, ABC TV’s Rage would screen the video of Dinosaur Jr’s Freak Scene every weekend as the epitome of US college radio’s adoration of long haired, lo-fi guitar discordance, a saturation which most loud Australian bands in the past decade can trace direct descendency from.
Alice Cooper, Friday September 5, 1997
Perth Entertainment Centre
The tendency for withering rockers to beef up their shows with awesome explosions, technological diversions and improbably large inflatable farm animals is the norm in this age. The fact that we see none of it on this tour simply reiterates that this was Alice Cooper’s nightmarish gag twenty four years ago and he would now rather let the Marilyn Mansons of the world set the pace in cheesy theatrics.
