Thursday 19th of August saw Gareth and I take on Musical Chairs, a segment on PBSfm Breakfast Spread. We had to ask five questions
Question 1: What song changed your life?
'Being Boiled' The Human League
Gareth and I both picked a Human League song, Gareth picked 'Being Boiled', this song summed up what was happening in music in the early 80's.
Question 2: What's your perfect Saturday night song?
'Circus of Horrors' Quiet Village from the Album Silent Movie.
I picked this track and it starts off with this deep base line that's gets you pumped. Silent Movie is a stand out album, with many great tracks.
Question 3: And Sunday morning?
'Bones' A Mountain of One from Album Institute of Joy
I picked this track from a great Psychedelic Rock album. Mountain of One reminds me of 70's band, even a touch of Fleetwood Mac, and is perfect to relax and kick back to.
Question 4: Your ultimate desert island tune.
'Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free' Zombie Zombie
I also picked this one, if I was on a Island I'd probably go crazy and would need some suitable soundtrack, plus Zombie Zombie tracks are long. Check out the video on Youtube, a homage to John Carpenters 'The Thing' done with GI Joe toys.
Question 5: The song you wish would start playing when you enter the room.
'Love's a Real Thing' by Super Eagles
Last track Gareth picked, Love's a Real Thing by Gambian band Super Eagles, something that we played at the Northcote High Vibes festival 2009. Gareth would be happy to walk into a room with these cool African beats being played.
PBS radio festival is underway, check out pbsfm.org.au/ for more details to support a local Melbourne radio station. Barrel of Monkeys Radio Festival special will be our greatest hits, tune in on Tuesday 25th from 2-6am to hear our top tunes.
The relatively new PBS FM breakfast team, had an article in the Green Guide, Melbourne Ages Tech, Radio, TV guide on Thursday 11th of February 2010. They are the next show after Barrel of Monkeys and many other shows that do graveyard on PBS.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Wow what a great album 'I'm New Here', highly recommend this one. It's through electronic label XL, with a huge mix of tracks, from electronic style to more blues tracks. Check it out.
At the moment I'm going through my pile of CD's that have built up over the last few months, will probably use them for the next Barrel of Monkeys on PBSfm this Tuesday 2-6am.
Here is a list of acts that I went to at CMJ, images to come. This list was compiled by Mara with more details, but I just wanted to list the band without comments. Although it was a great note she posted on facebook. I may further update this with my own notes that I made on my phone at some later stage.
UPDATE: There are a couple of wrong links in this post, I'm going through them again. Let me know if you spot anything wrong.
Tuesday 20/10/2009
Missed Surf City (myspace) in the NZ showcase - Were originaly Kill Surf City, but had to change there name due to a UK group with the same name. The four piece was one of the much hyped bands of CMJ 2009.
Venue Crash Mansion Downstairs
Demander (myspace) from New York
Fag and Hag (Margaret Cho) 2 piece with backing tape, very funny. Sydney Wayser (myspace) singer songwriter from Brooklyn, New York. Family of the Year (myspace) 6 piece from Silverlake, California.
(from this website) The son of Ecuadorean immigrants, Roberto Carlos Lange was born in South Florida in 1980. His childhood was suffused with tropical heat, humidity, hurricanes, all refracted with the rich sounds and colors of the various Latin American cultures of southern Florida.
Venue Delancey's
New Villager (myspace) two piece from Ben Bromley & Ross Simonini are from GlenPark, CA + BedStuy, New York (well according to there myspace page)
Saturday 24th October
Venue Mercury Lounge (Sub Pop / Hardly Art)
Dum Dum Girls (myspace)
Moondoggies (myspace)
Golden Triangle (myspace)
Dutchess and the Duke (myspace) four piece from Seattle, Washington
Pissed Jeans (myspace)
Obits (subpop)
Venue Cake Shop
Miracles of Modern Science www.myspace.com/miraclesofmodernscience
http://www.miraclesofmodernscience.com/
http://miraclesofmodernscience.bandcamp.com/track/bossa-supernova MP3
Other Cool Bars in New York City
Detroit Motor City
Beauty Bar
Mara, Greg and Gareth attempt to do some djing at High Vibes 2009
I was very nervous in front of all these people but it was well worth it and fun. More pictures and some video to come. This was at the PBS stage, we were in between Downhills Home (3- 3.40pm) and The Red Tree (4-4.40pm)
Thanks to Anna at PBS for passing this picture along.
Here is the Playlist, I don't think it's in order though, but fairly close
1 "THE BIRTH OF THE ODYSSEY～MONKEY MAGIC" Godiego from MAGIC MONKEY (西遊記) 2 "Bush Skank" Exotic Pets from Dis-Jointed 3 "The Wizard" Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath 4 "The Unhooked Generation" Freda Payne from The Best Series 5 "DeceptiShot" (Pat Benatar vs. Le Tigre) DJ lobsterdust remix 6 "Cherry Bomb The Runaways The Definitive Story Of CBGB 7 "Mean Son Of A Gun" Kitty Daisy & Lewis from Kitty Daisy & Lewis 8 "Jungle Rock" Tav Falco's Panther Burns from Sci-Fi-Lo-Fi, Vol. 1 9 "Love's A Real Thing" Super Eagles from World Psychedelic Classics 3 - Love's A Real Thing 10 "Reasons" Minnie Riperton from LateNightTales: Matt Helders 11 "Know How" Young MC from Rapper's Delight: Back In The Day [Disc 1]
This was taken late one night at PBSfm while doing a radio show you may listen to called Barrel of Monkeys (probably on the 18th August). We've nickname the Box at the front entrance of PBSfm as 'The Magic Box' as you never know what musical magic you can find, a gold coin donation and it's yours.
' done with GI Joe toys.
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