Get With The Programme
Different Noises 50
Canadian and Australian music in abundance this time with a specific focus on Melbourne newbies Velvet Parade and a look back at some of the music the band members have been involved in hitherto. Also plenty of new stuff, some regular favourites and some seminal jazz meets rock from Miles Davis.
SHOW AUDIO
PLAYLIST
Teeth Of The Sea - Get With The Program - Get With The Program
Velvet Parade - She Is The Knife - Ghost
Brando Rising - F Is For Fake - A Crack In The World
Cold Harbour - Dust Storm - Live At The Greyhound
Fraudband - (I've Got An) Eastern Block - First Songs
Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits- For The Term Of My Natural Life - For The Term Of My Natural Life
Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits - The Dancer - Made In The Image Vol. 1
Claire Birchall's Phantom Hitchhikers - Electricity - Running In Slow Motion
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Electricity - The Dust Blows Forward Anthology
Dave Graney Show - I'm Gonna Do You Slowly - The Dave Graney Show
Danny Short- Ride The Wagon - It’s Got My Name On It So Give It Back
The Jesus Lizard - Alexis Feels Sick - Rack
Jackslacks - Forever - Love + Unity
Dubmatix - Babylon Dub - Babylon Dub
Temptress - Death Comes Around - SEE
Sunset Rubdown - Reappearing Rat - Always Happy To Explode
Blake Jones & The Trike Shop- Record Cover Girl - and still....
Moor Mother - God Save The Queen (feat Sovei) - The Great Bailout
Emily Millard - Hazy Blue - Hazy Blue
Roots Roundup - Red Fury - Up Rooted
Lone Ranger and Dubmatix - Ask Me (Dub Mix) - Ask Me
Teeth Of The Sea - Megafragma (Jamie Paton Acid Atmos) - Get With The Program
Colin Fisher - Mundial Imaginalis - Suns of the Heart
Velvet Parade - The Ghost- Ghost
Miles Davis - Spanish Key- The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions
SHOW NOTES
Teeth Of The Sea - Hive, their sixth album saw them gain plaudits aplenty from far afield, not least taking third place in The Quietus’ 2023 Albums Of The Year. Now, to round off this chapter in their history in style, they’re not only travelling to Manchester to embark on a live 6 Music session at the behest of Mark Riley and Gideon Coe but also releasing Get With The Program as a Bandcamp-only limited cassette and digital single backed by remixes from a choice selection of friends . Here Jamie Paton takes the avant-epic "Megafragma" and infuses it gleefully across two disparate versions with cosmic-disco effervescence and acid-fried exuberance. J. Zunz delivers a poignant and motorik-driven take on "Æther" that marries dubbed-out abstraction to post-punk pathos. Goat, meanwhile manoeuvre "Liminal Kin" into an insistent and percussion-driven rite of tension and release.
Velvet Parade - this Melbourne based Noir rock 5-piece, began playing live late last year and have supported a bunch of local and international legends since then as they have honed their style on live stages across the city. Velvet Parade's music moves from deeply dark and deconstructed songs, through haunted ballad to frenzied rock outs. Ghost is the debut release from Velvet Parade. It has been produced, mixed and mastered by Spooky Records' Loki Lockwood. The lead single from this release is dropping mid-August. The physical release will be available in September with a Melbourne launch show at the end of that month and interstate shows in October.
Velvet Parade are:
Ripley Hood (Brando Rising, Mushroom Planet, Funhouse, The Four Stooges) - vocals
Vincent J Kramer (Cold Harbour) - guitars
Don Drum (Fraudband) - drums
Pete Azzopardi (Claire Birchall's Phantom Hitchhikers) - bass, backing vocals
Ashley Jones (Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits) - keyboards
So I’ve taken the opportunity to play music from bands those musicians have been in.
Brando Rising was the brainchild of two Australian indie rock veterans: frontman Ripley Hood & guitarist Kelly Hewson; along with drummer Steve Whan & bassist Peter Le Chapelain. Doing time in seminal rock acts like Mushroom Planet, Funhouse, Green Spiders (ex Lime Spiders), Gun Control, and Glen & The Peanut Butter Men, they delivered a unique, stripped back yet high-energy rock sound
Cold Harbour were a Melbourne band featuring Colin Holst, David Banahan, Evan Richards (6), Michael Teluk, Vincent Kramer
Fraudband is Don’s partnership with RT Kay (Arthur Karanikas) of Melissa's Partisan. The duo have also gone under the name of Volume=Colour.
Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits -Matt Malone is a singer/songwriter from the Victorian goldfields. Malone’s preacher-like baritone and darkly poetic songs have been likened to Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Townes Van Zandt & David Eugene Edwards. I’ve featured a track from his most recent full length from 2023 and a covers EP from this year where does a great version of PJ Harvey’s The Dancer (originally on Polly’s To Bring You My Love Album).
Claire Birchall's Phantom Hitchhikers - Claire Birchall’s continuing evolution as a songwriter / performer plus her commitment to DIY and sincerity over irony make her one of the most compelling and long-standing members of the Melbourne music community. From stunningly raw confessions to big-time rock to pop songs lavished with fuzzed out guitar, Casio and loops, Claire continues to find new ways to present her material to audience. The featured track is from her 2020 and has a title which meant I was contractually obliged to play something by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Staying in Melbourne another track from the Dave Graney Show - Dave references extant Aussie politics on this one - he says “Paul Keating turned to the execrable John Hewson and dropped him with these words one day in parliament. I thought it was worth a song. Adele Pickvance plays a particularly funky line on the bass”.
Danny Short - another track from Danny’s excellent new album which I am featuring in its’ entirety. This one gave me a warm glow.
The Jesus Lizard - who release Rack, their first new album in 26 years, on Friday the 13th of September via Ipecac Recordings, with a preview of what has become one of 2024’s most eagerly-awaited albums. Inspired by Girls Against Boys/Soulside drummer Alexis Fleisig’s guarded opinion of modern life, the four-and-a-half-minute track is delivered with an esoteric David Yow created video.
Jackslacks (aka Chris Giorgio) cut his teeth in quintessential California outfits Forbidden Pigs and Hot Rod Lincoln in the ‘80s & ‘90s, before going solo with the acclaimed, Lee Rocker-produced full-length, Rock ’n’ Roll Dinosaur. His forthcoming alum Love & Unity maintains Jackslacks’ tried ’n’ true “rocka-rocka” formula - that overall rockabilly groove, while reserving an alternative edge - with nine new tunes.
Dubmatix - the first of two tracks on the show from Canada’s premier Dub practitioner is a heavy meditative dub with a wide subby bass line, washes of musical echoes, erratic skanking and non-stop drum groove. The second track is from a new EP featuring Lone Ranger considered to be one of the most lyrically inventive singers on the scene who brings his classic delivery and flow that rides right atop the riddim.
This EP includes multiple mixes for all dance floor flavours: the original, dancehall, hip-hop & jungle mixes plus the must-have Dub version.
Temptress - Three seasoned musicians from Texas, each with their own unique influences and long record of touring. Kelsey Wilson (Guitar, Vocals), Andi Cuba (Drums, Vocals), and Christian Wright (Bass, Vocals) decided to get together in January 2019, for a casual afternoon jam session to simply keep their skills sharp. They didn't plan to be a band, it just worked. In five months, they went from jamming for fun in a practice space to writing and recording some potent heavy songs. They immediately began performing them live with the likes of Heavy Temple, Wo Fat, Ecstatic Vision, Black Tusk, and Royal Thunder.
Sunset Rubdown - After a 15 year hiatus, they announce their new album “Always Happy To Explode” to be released on Spencer Krug’s own label Pronounced Kroog on September 20th, 2024. Twenty years ago, Spencer Krug began Sunset Rubdown as a solo project for his low-fi recordings, distinct from his work with Wolf Parade. By 2005, it evolved into a full band with Michael Doerksen, Jordan Robson-Cramer, and Camilla Wynne. They released their third critically-acclaimed album, Dragon Slayer, in 2008 and played their final show in Tokyo in 2009. After more than a decade apart, Krug had a dream about reuniting the band and emailed the members. They eagerly agreed, leading to a successful reunion tour. With new bassist Nicholas Merz, Sunset Rubdown decided to create a new album, fuelled by the fun they rediscovered on tour. Reappearing Rat, the leading single from Sunset Rubdown’s Always Happy To Explode is an upbeat, acoustic guitar-driven ode to the tiny monster that lives in our heads—the one that makes itself known anytime blessings such as serenity, clarity, or acceptance are on our emotional horizons. The recording features Spencer Krug on acoustic guitar and vocals, Camilla Wynne on keyboard / omnichord and vocals, Nick Merz on bass, and Jordan Robson-Cramer on drums. It was recorded, more or less, live off the floor record at a studio called The Noise Floor, under the guidance of producer/engineer Jordan Koop.
Blake Jones & The Trike Shop - Fresno California's celebrated purveyors of psych-pop and quirky, heartfelt guitar rock, return with the new album “and still…”, out August 16 on Vinyl, CD and streaming worldwide from Big Stir Records (who proudly count the band among their original founding artists)
Moor Mother - Camae Ayewa, better known by her stage name Moor Mother, is an American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is one half of the collective Black Quantum Futurism, along with Rasheedah Phillips, and co-leads the groups Irreversible Entanglements and 700 Bliss.
Emily Millard - returning from a seven-year hiatus, unveils her fourth studio album, a rich tapestry of love ballads that reflect both the softness and melancholy of life's romantic nuances. Formerly known as “Miss Emily Brown,” Millard's journey back to songwriting follows extensive touring across North America and Europe, a period marked by financial instability and the toll it took on her mental and physical well-being. Seeking respite, she paused her nomadic lifestyle, settling in Vancouver to pursue a composition degree and nurture her artistic community.
Roots Roundup - the 6th full-length album from one of Vancouver's long-time music scene veterans. The album was recorded by Stephen Hamm at Simian Studios in Burnaby, BC, with final mixing and mastering by renowned Canadian music producer Chris Wardman. "Up Rooted" features 12 tracks, including six new original songs, a cover of DOA's classic "War in the East," a unique take on the Sarcastic Mannequins' "Red Fury," and four live recordings from a performance on Denman Island, BC, in June 2023.
Colin Fisher - Fisher is a staple of Toronto's experimental music community but has also garnered attention for his many collaborations beyond those circles. He has toured and recorded with Caribou and Junior Boys, and recently teamed up with the latter's Jeremy Greenspan on a site-specific album that can only be heard at the Art Gallery of Hamilton alongside William Kurelek's harrowing 1965 painting This is the Nemesis. Fisher has also collaborated with legendary artists such as Jaime Branch, Sabir Mateen, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Gerry Hemingway, Anthony Braxton, Laraaji, and Fred Frith, releasing records on labels such as Tzadik (as part of Many Arms), Astral Spirits, Cacophonous Revival, Halocline Trance, Chocolate Monk (as a duo with chik white) and Tombed Visions. This latest recording folds various dimensions of Fisher's unique creative demeanour into a single, cohesive sound. Working fluidly with aspects drawn from ambient music, free improvisation, jazz, and even extreme metal and traditional musics, he has crafted his most dynamic and personal statement yet.
Miles Davis - a track from of a four-disc box set compiling recordings between August 19, 1969, and February 6, 1970—including the original 1970 double album Bitches Brew in its entirety—and released on Columbia/Legacy on November 24, 1998. The title of the box set is inaccurate in that outside of the Bitches Brew tracks themselves, none of the other tracks were recorded during the same August 1969 sessions that resulted in the original album. To make things worse additional material recorded for, but not used in Bitches Brew (mainly rehearsal takes and unedited performances of the six album tracks), is not included in the set. The CBS answer on this was that all the songs Miles Davis recorded between August 1969 and early February 1970 used very similar line-ups to those on Bitches Brew, and the main thing they all had in common was the emphasis on keyboards. Every song in the set includes two to three keyboard players, most often Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul and Herbie Hancock. It was not until late February 1970 that Davis refined his concept by dropping the multiple electric pianists for a more guitar-heavy sound. Those following sessions were collected on The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions.
