Thursday, August 20, 2015

Meeting of 9 July 2015

Theme: Independence (Chosen by Glenn)

Glenn
Jon & Vangelis - State of Independence
Bruce Springsteen - Independence Day
Elliot Smith - Independence Day
The Who - I'm Free
The Rolling Stones - I'm Free

Michael
Morrisey - Interesting Drug
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Akron Family - Set Them Free
David Bowie - Suffragette City
Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom

John
The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle
Booby Womak - Across 110th Street
KC & the Sunshine Band

Craig
Steve Lucas - Myself
Husker Du - Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely
The Church - Feel
The Smithereens - Drown in my Own Tears
Blur - On Your Own

Pete
The Animals - It's My Life
Paul Revere & the Raiders - Song Seller
The Waitresses - No Guilt
Joe Jackson - One to One
Ella Fitzgerald - The Lady is a Tramp

Jim
Fleetwood Mac - You Can Go Your Own Way
Bob Dylan - Dirge
John Wesley Ryles III - Kay
Chris Rea - Look for the Summer
Robert Palmer - Can We Still Be Friends

Playout track: Jimi Hendrix - Stone Free

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Meeting of 4 June 2015

Theme: Band T-Shirts I Own(ed) (chosen by Andreas)

Andreas
Smog - Let Me See the Colts
Neu - Fur Immer
Kraftwork - Europe Endless
Sparklehorse - Hammer in the Cramps
Blur - She's So High

Jim
Sly & the Family Stone - It's A Family Affair
Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
Hall & Oates - Have I Been Away for too Long
Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
Steely Dan - Pearl of the Quarter

John

The Beatles - I've Got A Feeling
Perry Keyes - The Day John Sattler Broke His Jaw
The Good Ship - I Can Make Her Laugh
Barbara Feldman - Max
Billy "The Kid" Emmerson - Red Hot

Glenn
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Swans - Oxygen
The Chills - Night of Chill Blue (BBC version)
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Yo La Tengo - From a Motel 6

Playout track: John Kennedy - It's A Big Country

Sunday, August 09, 2015

Meeting of 9 April 2015

Theme: NZ v Australia (chosen by Craig)

Craig
The Verlaines - Pyromaniac (NZ)
The 3Ds - Outa Space (NZ)
Robert Scott - Lights are Low (NZ)
Mi-Sex - But you Don't Care (NZ)
The Chills - Pink Frost (NZ)

Glenn
The Jean Paul Satre Experience - Elemental (NZ)
The Sneaky Feelings - Throwing Stones (NZ)
The Tall Dwarfs - Crush (NZ)
The Gordons - Coalminer's Song (NZ)
The Clean - Getting Older (NZ)

Andreas
The Laurels - Turn On Your Mind (A)
78 Saab - Sunshine (A)
The Moffs - Another Day on the Sun (A)
The Warumpi Band - My Island Home (A)
Buffalo - I'm a Skirt Lifter, Not a Shirt Raiser (A)

John
Crowded House - Don' Dream It's Over (ANZ)
Ray Columbus & the Invaders - She's a Mod (NZ)
Dragon - This Time (NZ)
Max Merrit & the Meteors - Western Union Man (NZ)
Split Enz - Late Last Night (NZ)

Jim
The La Di Da's - On Top of the World (NZ)
Richard Clapton - I Want to be a Survivor (A)
Matt Finish - Layman's Day (A)
Shannon Neal - Maxine (NZ)
The Waifs - There Down (NZ)

Ant (special guest)
Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts - Sail Away These Ocean Shores (NZ)
INXS - New Sensation (A)

Playout track: The Swingers - Counting the Beat

Saturday, August 08, 2015

Meeting of 5 March 2015

Theme: I Swear I was There (at the Sex Pistols Manchester Free Trade Hall gig) (chosen by Michael)

Michael

Public Image Limited - No Birds
Blue Orchids - Flood
Nick Cave - The Folk Singer
Morrisey - Suedehead
Midnight Oil - I Don't Want to be the One

Glenn
The Fall - Totally Wired
The Wedding Present - Take Me
Pavement - Debris Slide
Barry Adamson - The Man With The Golden Arm
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Pete
A Certain Ratio - Waterline
The Durutti Column - For A Western
New Order - Slow Jam
Siouxie & the Banshees - Night Sift
Jeff Beck - There Way Jam

Jim
Magazine - Song From Under the Floorboards
Simply Red - Holding Back the Years
Oasis - Rock & Roll Star
Ultravox - Just For A Moment
Visage - Fade to Grey
Jim Fox - The Garden

Andreas
The Buzzcocks - Oh Shit
Section 25 - Looking from a Hilltop
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
I Ludicrous - Preposterous Tales of Ken McKenzie
Kevin Coyne - Eastbourne - Ladies

Playout track: The Fall - Cruisers Creek

Meeting of 29 January 2015

Theme{ Wales v Ireland (John's pick)

John
Reg Meuros with The Flamingos - Yesterday's Bar (I)
John Cale - A Child's Christmas in Wales (W)
Van Morrison & the Chieftains - She Moves Through the Fair (I)
The Undertones - It's Going to Happen (I)
John Lennon - The Luck of the Irish (I)

Andreas
Yello & Shirley Bassey - The Rhythm Devine (W)
Young Marble Giants - Searching for Mr Right (W)
Badfinger - We're for the Dark

Jim
Led Zeppelin - Bron Y Aur Stomp (W)
Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the Moonlight (I)
Planxty - Follow Me up to Carlow (I)
The Corrs - Breathless (I)
Van Morrison - Slim, Slow, Slide

Craig
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger (W)
The Cranberries - Linger
My Bloody Valentine - Only Tomorrow - (I)
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (I)
U2 - Fly (I)

Glenn
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (I)
Sinaed O'Connor - Troy (I)
The Wheels - Bad Little Women (I)
Julian Cope - Double Vegetation (W)
Mellow Candle - The Poet & The Witch

Pete
Tom Jones - Sixteen Tons (W)
The Frames - Lay Me Down (I)
Freur - Doot Doot (W)
The Joy Formidable - The Magnifying Gloss (W)
Amen Corner - Good Time (W)


Playout track: Dave Edmunds - I Knew the Bride

Thursday, August 06, 2015

Meeting of 18 December 2014

Theme: Happiness & Laughter (chosen by Andreas)

Andreas

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel -  Make Me Smile (Come Up and Se Me)
Misex - It Only Hurts When I'm Laughing
Josef K - Sorry For Laughing
The Beau Brummels - Laugh, Laugh
Tim Roze - You'd Laugh
David Crosby - Laughing

Jim
Robert Palmer - Woke Up Laughing
The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park & the Other Thing
The Call - When the Walls Came Down
The Who - The Blue, Red & Grey
Hall & Oates - Sarah Smile
Depeche Mode - Blaspemous Rumours

Pete
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Happy House
The Small Faces - Happiness Stan
Robert Plant & the Band of Joy - Silver Rider
The Partridge Family - Come On Get Happy
The Gun - Race with the Devil
Ariel - The Laughing Man

John
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
The Rolling Stones - Happy
Gay Dad - Joy
Jerry & the Joy Band - Ongo Bongo
Col Joye & the Joy Boys - Oh Yeah, Uh Huh
Wings - Hi. Hi. Hi

Glenn
Edwin Hawkins - OhHappy Day
Billy Ecstine - Felicidade
Caetano Veloso - Alegria, Alegria
The Wrens - Happy
Dies Pretty - Laughing Boy
The Laughing Clowns - Laughing Clowns

Playout track: The Sunnyboys - Happy Man




Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Meeting of 21 November 2014


Theme - Conflict (chosen by Craig)

Craig
Morrissey - The Teachers are Afraid of the Pupils
The Exploding Budgies - Kenneth Anger
Snapper - Buddy
Blur - Country House
Jack White - Three Women

Pete
Traffic - Shootout at the Fantasy Factory
The Art of Fighting - Where Trouble Lives
Genesis - The Battle of Epping Forrest
Leon Russell - Shootout at the Plantation
Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown

Jim
Marty Robbins - El Paso
The Pretenders - It's A Thin Line Between Love & Hate
The Beatles - She's Leaving Home
The Lovin' Spoonful - Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind
Chris Rea - The Joy of Christmas

Glenn
The Who - Wont Get Fooled Again
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
Marvin Gaye - What's Going' On?
Grant Hart - The Argument

Andreas
Pussy Riot - Deliver Pavement
The Au Pairs - Armagh
The Dills - Class War
Heiner Goebbels - Berlin Q Damn 12.4.81
The Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb

Playout: Nine Inch Nails - The Warning

Meeting of 14 October 2014

Theme: Morning (chosen by Glenn)

Glenn
Hunters & Collectors - This Morning
Chris Potter - Morning Bell
Duane & Greg Allman - Morning dew
Gillian Welsch - One Morning
The Akron Family  - One Spring Morning
The Byrds - Draft Morning
Popel Vuh - Morgengruass II

John
G Wayne Thomas - Morning of the Earth
Jonathon Richman - Summer Morning
Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Morning Coming Down
Pavlov's Dog - She Breaks Like  A Morning Sky
Free - Come Together in the Morning
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
Nick Cave - New Morning

Pete
Simon & Garfunkel - 3am Wednesday Morning
CSN - You Don't Have to Cry
Lee Halewood - Some Velvet Morning
Ossibissa - Dawn
Steeleye Span - Only Misty Moisty Morning
The Partridge Family - I Woke up This Morning
Lulu - Morning Dew

Jim
Chris Rea - Tennis
James Taylor  - Fire & Rain
Hall & Oates - She's Gone
The Faces - Stay With Me
The Pretenders - Thin Line Between Love & Hate
Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky
Mama's & Pappa's - Monday Monday

Playout: Mick Turner - Morning of the Earth