Virtual Unreality

We talk to ADSL* Brian Cadd about his new album and generally chewed the fat about his life in music.

And we talked to regular guest Valerie Vande Panne about her new book A Weed Grows in Boston.

Plus we manage to slip in a few new releases.

* ADSL – Absolute Dead Set Legend – the highest honour that can be bestowed on an Australian.

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Playlist!

• Friday on my mind – The Easybeats
• Running Scared – Sideshow Annie
• Built – oWo
• Valerie Vande Panne – VU interview number 1
• Roll Me Up – Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Jamey Johnson & Kris Kristofferson
• All hard feelings – Imogen Clark
• Ballin’ on a Wednesday – Steve Poltz
• Dream Train – Brian Cadd
• Brian Cadd part 1 – VU interview number 2a
• A little ray of sunshine – Axiom
• Brian Cadd part 2 – VU interview number 2b
• Woman You’re Breaking Me – The Groop
• Brian Cadd part 3 – VU interview number 2c
• Arkansas Grass – Axion
• Tell me about freedom again – Brian Cadd
• You know what to say – Brian Cadd
• Hanging around – The Stranglers
• Taken by force – Civic
• Bewitched Reruns – Kristin Hersh

We had Suzy Goodwin in the studio. She has a new single and some shows coming up. She brought along Steve Smith from Fallon Cush to play guitar.

Plus we had part two of our chat with Kim Salmon about the upcoming 40th anniversary shows for the Beasts of Bourbon.

And Valerie talks about having covid in the US without insurance.

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Playlist

• California Hotel – Badinage
• Trickle Down Blues – Don Morrison
• Psycho – The Beasts of Bourbon
• Kim Salmon – The VU interview
• Pig – The Beasts of Bourbon
• Leavin’ here – Suzy and the Snakepit
• Ain’t no next time – Suzy Goodwin
• Clean – Taylor Swift
• Doreen – Frank Zappa
• Peter Says – John Kennedy
• In your eyes (live) – Suzy Goodwin with Steve Smith
• Dust – Jude McGee and the Soft Touch
• Son of apreacher man – Eating Planes
• Valerie Vande Panne – The VU interview
• Barracuda – Heart
• Tracks of my tears (live) – Suzy Goodwin and Steve Smith
• In your backyard – Fallon Cush
• Sunny Day Sun – The New Christs

Studio guest is Mitchell Jones of Scattered Order talking about the new album All things must persist.

Also we talk to Kim Salmon about the upcoming Beasts of Bourbon 40th anniversary shows.

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Playlist!

• Neil Young and Crazy Horse – F-!#in’ Up
• The Soft Boys – Old Pervert
• The Beasts Of Bourbon – Ride On
• The VU interview – Kim Salmon
• The Beasts Of Bourbon – I don’t care about nothing anymore
• Scattered Order – Need to increase speed
• Mark Stewart – Passivecation Program
• Scattered Order – The silent dark
• Astral flight – Germanium
• Whisker Floater – Timeless Retro
• Can – Paperhouse
• Scattered Order – It was a Saturday
• Scattered Order – Dust Bisquits

We talk to Penny Ikinger about her gig with her band Panny Ikinger’s Marbles.

We also talk to Valerie who has interesting insights to the heinous crime that is Valentine’s Day.

Plus new released

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Playlist!

• Heaven and hell – the Who
• The Flash – Coloured Balls
• Pissed on vals – Grindhouse
• Voodoo girl – Penny Ikinger
• Ride on, cowboy – Penny Ikinger’s Marbles
• Piss on demand – JJ McAnn
• Chase the dragon – The Beasts of Bourbon
• Aloha Steve and Dano – Radio Birdman
• Dare to be different – Steve Lucas and the Rising Tide
• Valerie Vande Panne – The VU interview
• Love song – Shonen Knife
• Afternoon tea – Shonen Knife
• Peaches – The Stranglers
• Monster – Hugh Cornwell
• I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem – The Dandy Warhols
• Starwater – Sean Lennon
• Swallow the world – Screaming Females
• Hump the beach – Kalbells
• Mercury in retrogade – Baula
• Hellfire – The Black Dakotas

We speak to JJ McCann about his gig with his band at the Mosh Pit in Erko next Friday night. That’s the 16th.

Valerie has survived covid and will be talking about a late country performer we hadn’t heard of.

We play tribute to the late Wayne Kramer.

We finish off our obit series by replaying an interview we did with the late Patrick Emery.

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Playlist!

• Kick out the jams – MC5
• Hit with love – JJ McAnn Transmission
• James McAnn – The VU interview
• Amphibious skin – JJ McAnn Transmission
• Shakin’ Street – MC5
• Don’t let old man in – Toby Keith
• Valerie vande Panne – The VU interview
• Ain’t as good as I once was – Toby Keith
• Red solo cup – Toby Keith
• Crack in the universe – Wayne Kramer
• Think about tomorrow today – The Master’s Apprentices
• Turn up your radio – The Master’s Apprentices
• Rio de Camero – The Master’s Apprentices
• When I write my book – Spencer P Jones
• Patrick Emery – The VU interview
• The Rain Came – Spencer P Jones and the Escape Committe
• Opia – Fluxa
• …zwischen – Miharu Ogura
• Rate my aura – Frances Chang
• The harder they come – Dodge Main

We talked to Dave Reid, guitarist of Melbourne three-piece Badinage. They have a new single – it was premiered tonight on the show. True!

Plus, we continue the obituary theme and we have a guest production assistant.

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Playlist!

• Ride – Walter Trout
• Mustang – Badinage
• Dave Reid (Badinage) – The VU interview
• Imagination – Badinage
• Lighthouse girl – Blue Ruin
• I can see it – The Olympic Sideburns
• Clementine – Spencer P. Jones
• $10 cowboy – Charlie Crockett
• BSR – Chatham County Line
• The edge – 2 inch tape
• The girl from Ipanema – Stan Getz and João Gilberto
• Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) – Stan Getz and João Gilberto
• I believe in you – Sinead O’Connor
• Hearts on fire – Randy Meisner
• Deep inside my heart – Randy Meisner
• C’mon – Wet Taxis
• No way on earth – The New Christs
• Sugar man – Rodriguez
• I wonder – Rodriguez
• Climb Up on My Music – Rodriguez
• Sandrevan Lullaby – Lifestyles – Rodriguez

First show for year.

We talk to Catherine Traicos ahead of her east coast gigs. We talk to Valerie Vande Panne about calendars, holidays and new year’s resolutions. We start our annual obituary show where we honour those we lost in 2023.

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Playlist!

• Kingdom come – David Bowie
• Love the one you’re with – Stephen Stills
• Suspicious minds – Elvis Presely
• Butterfly – Catherine Traicos
• Catherine Traicos – The VU interview
• The Rain – Catherine Traicos
• Valerie Vande Panne – The VU interview
• People get ready – Jeff Beck
• Rolling and tumbling – Jeff Beck
• Rollin’ down the highway – Bachman Turner Overdrive
• It’s a Man’s Man’s World – Renee Geyer
• I’m evil tonight – Renee Geyer
• Almost cut my hair – Crosby, Still, Nash & Young
• Everyone’s been burned – The Byrds
• Little Johnny Jewel – Television
• (They long to be) close to you – Carpenters
• I’ll never fall in love again – Burt Bacharach
• Beck’s Bolero – Jeff Beck

Tonight on Virtual Unreality we talk to CC Hall of Canberra band the Sun Bears who has taken over from John Kennedy in Sons of Sun. There’s a bunch of shows coming up.

Plus we have a heap of new releases

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Playlist!

• Christmas Commercial – BBC Radiophonic Workshop
• Takin’ Care of Business – Bachman Turner Overdrive
• My boss is an idiot – Don Morrison
• Make it count – Barb Waters and Kim Salmon
• Some Velvet Morning – Lydia Lunch & Rowland S Howard
• I will – The Sun Bears
• CC Hall – Sons of Sun – VU interview
• Loaded Gun – The Sun Bears
• Elvis Made Me – Soul Movers
• Jackson – John Kennedy
• Rollercoaster – Checkboard Lounge
• Uncivil Compliance – Checkboard Lounge
• Rise up singing – 8-Ball Aitken
• Oor Wullie – Caledonian Castaways
• Hard town – On the stoop
• Bad Mood – Big Bill, Chucky Blk
• Big city – GHLOW
• Blame – Shybits
• Mareld – Les Big Biyrd
• Sally go round the roses – The Third Mind
• Join our death cult – Chemtrails
• Have you ever suffered? – Breeze
• Apartment for two – Hard ons

Tonight, we conclude our long chat with Dave Faulkner ahead of the final Victims gig tomorrow night. Raymond Ahn, you are mentioned in despatches.

Valerie talks about the importance of food culture.

Plus we have a bunch of new releases.

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Playlist!

• Who will save rock and roll – The Dictators
• This is a man’s world – Mountain
• Back in the USSR – Lemmy Kilmister, Eric Singer & John 5
• T.V. Freak – The Victims
• Dave Faulkner part 1 – VU interview
• Perth is a culture shock – The Victims
• Dave Faulkner part 2 – VU interview
• Girls don’t go for punks – The Victims
• Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones
• Hey bulldog – Alice Cooper, Steve Vai, Duff McKagan & Mikkey Dee
• Pilots – Donna Amini
• She said – Donna Amini
• Without end – Amy Vee
• Break – Mathilde Anne
• Lioness – Ten Cent Tiger
• Too much of nothing – Bob Dyland & The Band
• Valerie Vande Panne – VU interview
• I’ll be a dag for you baby – Fabulous Nudes
• They built the ute – Autodrifters
• Travelled – Imber
• Trucker’s Heaven – David Garnham & the Reasons to live
• Goin’ down – Lovesick
• Little Mountain – The Vampires

Part three of the our long chat with Dave Faulkner.

Valerie busts more myths.

Plus new releases.

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Playlist!

• Going back to Hoonsville – Datura4 with Dave Hole
• Television Addict – The Victims
• Dave Faulkner – VU interview
• Leilani – Le Hoodoo Gurus
• Valerie Vande Panne – VU interview
• Dirty Guy – Shitkid
• It’s about time – The Pandoras
• Let me go – The Colliflowers
• Groovin’ is easy – The Third Mind
• Spaceship – Ashley Naylor
• Mulinto Rock – Shonen Knife
• House of the Rising Sun – The Animals
• Curious Moon – T Wilds
• One day at a time – The Marvellous Hearts
• Taken by force – Civic
• Forces at work – JJ McCann Transmission
• Alive & Well (Still Standing) – Kim Volkman and the Whiskey Priests
• Asphalt rain – Halfway
• The eye is the first cirle – Vanessa Perica Orchestra