Back at PBS fm

Last Saturday, 20/3/11, I did a fill in for Creative Alternative Techno. Which as you can see by my playlist was more Alternative/Indie than Techno.

Also found this website discogs.com/ which you can find some great info on records, such as label details, much better than Allmusic.com, less add than Allmusic too.

Musical Chairs

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.

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

Off The Hip

Last Sunday at Off The Hip Records, was jam packed with PBS people for the radio festival wrap up party.

VOTE 1 FOR MUSIC

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.

Easy Street Mag

This article was in a PBS FM Easy Street Magazine article, I think back in 2009.

PBS FM BREAKFAST

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.

The Team Behind Barrel of Monkeys

Barrel of Monkeys at PBSfm 106.7 (http://www.pbsfm.org.au) Greg, Mara & Gareth.

Barrel of Monkeys is a Radio show on do on Melbourne's Community Radio Station PBSfm every second fortnight, Tuesday 2-6am.

Youtube video of Barrel of Monkeys at PBSfm

Thanks to Queenie for coming along to PBS and keeping me company through the late night.

Last show for 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsL67YhTl_A

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.

Some acts I might play

Barrel of Monkeys Blurb

This is the most recent blurb found in the PBSfm magazine Easystreet, I wonder if Mara wrote this?

It reads 'Feature albums, feature artists, interviews, one hit wonders, loads of great tracks and a healthy dash of trivia.'

High Vibes 2009 Video

The Magic Box # 2

Late again at PBSfm doing my radio show, looking through the magic box for some gold.

The Magic Box # 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.

Arm Wrestling with Scorpions

Today on Barrel of Monkeys Gareth played a couple of Gary Glitter covers

Matt from the Breakfast Spread came in to say hello before his show started and told us about this video featuring Girlschool and Gary Glitter Arm Wrestling with Scorpions, it happens a little after half way through the video.

PBS RADIO FESTIVAL 2009

With a new logo, we have a new look PBS and a new Radio festival.

Barrel of Monkeys had another awesome radio festival show, with a late night 'spooky' theme. Check out the playlist at PBSfm's website.

For our secret spooky shame with had 'Ghostbusters' by Ray Parker Junior.

And also played this Alice Cooper 'Welcome to my nightmare' (although it wasn't this version)

The Muppet's used to give me Nightmares when I was little.

Barrel of Monkeys made it in the local paper!

Mara from Barrel of Monkeys passed this on via facebook


you can read the full interview here at The Mail website.