Virtual Unreality

We have two interviews this week. First up we have a free-ranging chat with Chris Masuak. The former Radio Birdman guitarist is in Australia for a run of shows.

Second up, we catch up with Mick Medew and Ursula. They have a new track and video and they’re supporting Chris Masuak on the Queensland shws.

Plus we have some interesting new releases, including one from Richard Thompson!

• Chris Masuak dates and tix
• Mick Medew and The Ursula 4’s Crankin’ It Up video

Listen!

Playlist!

• Kayoko Ishu – Bazazz No. 1
• Richard Thompson – Sorcerers Apprentice
• The High Spirits – Bright Lights, Big City
• Gina Malcolm – Lovin’ Company
• Chris Masuak’s Dog Soldier – The Shiny Side
• The VU interview – Chris Masuak part 1
• Chris Masuak and The Juke Savages – Single White Male
• The VU interview – Chris Masuak part 2
• Los Revelators – Spectacular
• Caroline Strickland – Pool In Texas
• The Silversound – Good Luck Mountain
• Mick Medew and The Ursula – Punk Rick Grandma
• The VU interview – Mick Medew and The Ursula
• Mick Medew and The Ursula 4 – Crankin’ It Up
• Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks – Coming From The Sun
• Lisa Richards – Sail the Big Wide World
• The Muttonbirds – She’s Been Talking
• Ariel – I’ll Be Gone

We conclude our long chat with John Kennedy about the new album The Berlin Trilogy (And Other Collaborations).

Next week, we hope to be talking to Chris Masuak. He’s touring Australia in October as well as Mick Medew and Ursula about their latest single – Crankin’ It Up.

Links!

• John Kennedy plays the Marrickville Bowlo on November 20.
• Chris Mauak tour info.
• Mick Medew and The Ursula 4’s Crankin’ It Up video

Listen!

Playlist!

• Kayoko Ishu – Bazazz No. 1
• John Kennedy – Sweet Thing
• The VU interview – John Kennedy part 3
• John Kennedy – (I Won’t Be) The First To Leave
• The VU interview – John Kennedy part 4
• John Kennedy – Red Dust Rider

We have a long chat (that we’re going to run over two weeks) with former Sydney resident John Kennedy. He’s now based in Spain and he has a new album out and it’s quite a departure from his usual stuff.

Plus Chard pulled out some bloody good new releases!

John Kennedy plays the Marrickville Bowlo on November 20. Tickets here.

In news to hand since we recorded the show Mick Medew and The Ursula 4 have a new single – Crankin’ It Up. Check out the video! We’ll be talking to them in a couple of weeks.

Listen!

Playlist!

• Kayoko Ishu – Bazazz No. 1
• Gran Fenwick – Suicide Sugar
• Spacehorse – Lightning Stroke
• D Henry Fenton – Up To My Neck
• Ray Charles – You Dont Know Me
• Waylon Jennings – Same Old Blues (feat. Jessi Colter)
• John Kennedy – Gone But Still Here
• The VU interview – John Kennedy part 1
• John Kennedy – Long Time John
• The VU interview – John Kennedy part 2
• John Kennedy – Come Into The Light
• Freak Slug – One Trick Pony
• Babehoven – Wave Has a Place
• Gash – godded
• Boats – Sugarcane Floodplain
• Ally Row – Adeline
• Liminal – Glue Gun
• Duncan Sheik – Alibi
• John Kennedy – Leaving Kansas

We have a studio guest! Mitch Jones from experimental band Scattered Order will be telling us about the new record “Still Your Mind”. He’s bringing in a bag of tracks and they’re always great.

Shane Flew will be joining us on the blower. The record he did with Matt Ross “Once Upon a Long Time Ago” is going great guns and they have some gigs coming up.

Plus we have a little tribute to the amazing Jason Walker who left us a few days ago.

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Gigs and links

• Scattered Order
  • Facebook
  • Bandcamp
• Shane Flew and Matt Ross
  • Label site
  • Brass Monkey gig with the Foreday Riders and Ray Beadle
  • Ashfield Bowlo

Playlist!

• Kayoko Ishu – Bazazz No. 1
• Jason Walker And The Last Drinks – You’re On Your Own
• Jason Walker – Poison
• Shane Flew & Matt Ross – Sister Music
• Shane Flew & Matt Ross – Juliet You Need A Romeo
• Scattered Order – A Rehr Retch
• The Systematics – International Voltage
• Voigt 465 – A Secret West
• Scattered Order – Still your mind – Looking back at me
• Severed Heads – Lamborghini
• Scattered Order – Swiss Like Knives And Forks
• Brrr Cold – Mothers At War
• Scattered Order – The need to complete
• Troth – In Essence
• Fabels – Ophera
• Scattered Order – In my life
• Jason Walker – You Will Be Ashes

Our feature interview is with Melbourne legend Kim Volkman about what he’s been up to over the last couple of years and to find out if there’s new music on the way.

We a little Dolly tribute. How could we not?

And we have the usual grab bag of new releases.

Next week we have a studio guest. Mitch Jones from Scattered Order will be in the house talking about the new album “Still Your Mind”.

Listen!

Playlist!

• Dolly Parton – Puppy Love
• Dolly Parton – Coat of Many Colors
• Jen Mize & The Rough and Tumble – Holy Moly
• Kim Volkman And The Whiskey Priests – Best believe it
• VU interview – Kim Volkman part 1
• Kim Volkman And The Whiskey Priests – Whiskey Jar
• VU interview – Kim Volkman part 2
• Kim Volkman And The Whiskey Priests – Jimmy’s Lament
• Everlast – Broken Heart for Hire
• Kyle Jenkins – Better Way To Lose
• THAO feat. Neko Case – Catch as Catch Can
• The Brazilians – Out of my hands
• The Orphaned Bee & Kuiper – Beyond Orbit
• Ungus Ungus Ungus – Funlerable
• The Baseball Project – Take me out to the ball game
• Tex Perkins & Matt Walker – A little more time
• Tex Perkins – More than you
• Norwood – Lonesome
• Vixens of Fall – Last train
• Russian Circles – Empath
• The Sick Man Of Europe – Chromophobia
• Scattered Order – Still your mind
• The White Stripes – Jolene

First up, we talk to Jen Mize about the new album from her band Jen Mize & The Rough N’ Tumble called TILT.

And we have a grab bag of new and old stuff.

Next week we talk to Kim Volkman about what he’s been up to.

Links!

Where to buy TILT

Listen!

Playlist!

• Katsuko Kanai – Mini Mini Girl
• Kim Volkman and the Whiskey Priests – The Devil Won’t Take Charity – 1
• Datura4 – Under a rock
• Jen Mize & The Rough N’ Tumble – Shake Somethin’ Loose
• The VU interview – Jen Mize Part 1
• Jen Mize & The Rough and Tumble – Greater Good
• The VU interview – Jen Mize Part 2
• Jen Mize & The Rough and Tumble – The Great Escape
• The Womack Sisters – All Around
• Emma Donovan – 01 Take Me to the River
• Mad Season – Long Gone Day
• My Morning Jacket – Rocketman
• Feist – It’s Cool to Love Your Family
• Belle & Sebastian – Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying
• Mountain – Mississippi Queen
• The Coloured Balls – Flash
• Margot Price – Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down

First up, we talk to Andrew Coates of Melbourne band Black Cab. They have new music plus they’re doing a Sydney show at the end of month.

Then we continue our chat with Peter Tillman and Mark Taylor, both formerly of the Lipstick Killers about the AI-produced rock opera “The Shining Stone”.

Along the way we have new music from the Womack Sisters, Jen Mize and the Rough and Tumble, Piper Butcher and much more!

Links!

• Black Cab at the Factory Floor
• The Shining Stone

Listen!

Pllaylist!

• Katsuko Kanai – Mini Mini Girl
• The Womack Sisters – Chauffeur
• Barry Adamson – The Last Words of Sam Cooke
• The Womack Sisters – My Sisters And Me
• LUNG – Isolated Gun
• French Film – Crude Charm
• Team Dresch – Growing Underground
• Black Cab – New Speedway Boogie
• The first VU interview – Andrew Coates of Black Cab part 1
• Black Cab – One Night
• The first VU interview – Andrew Coates of Black Cab part 2
• Black Cab – Strange Attraction
• Jen Mize & The Rough N’ Tumble – Double Talk
• Zoë Fox – Skipty Doo
• Piper Butcher – Porcelain Pillars
• Sunny Cowgirls – Weather Dad
• Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman – Fly In The Face Of Fools
• The VU second interview – Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman part 3
• Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman – Third Eye Dreaming
• The VU second interview – Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman part 4
• Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman – In The Basement
• Billy Peril – Tornado
• Cure For Youth – Scars
• Megasound – Dog Leash
• Killing Flaw – Shame

We have the first of a two part interview with Peter Tillman and Mark Taylor, both formerly of the Lipstick Killers about a monster rock opera they produced.

We have our first studio guest since we’ve been a podcast. Rob Chapple of Blue Mountains blues band Killing Flaw will be talking about their new album Better Late Than Ever and playing live.

Plus we have new music from Richard Thompson and Jeannie Lewis as well as Jen Mize and her band The Rough ‘n’ Tumble.

Links!

• The Shining Stone
• Killing Flaw on Facebook
• Mid Mountains Blues Festival

Listen!

Playlist!

• Richard Thompson – Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking
• Jeannie Lewis – Martha
• Jen Mize & The Rough N’ Tumble – Shake Somethin’ Loose
• Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman – Overture (The Third Eye)
• The VU interview – Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman part 1
• Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman – Wild Suspicion
• The VU interview – Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman part 2
• Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman – Hindu Gods (Of Love)
• Studio guest – Rob Chapple of Killing Flaw
• Killing Flaw – Message to Love
• Killing Flaw – I am
• Kypo – Topic
• Steve Edmonds – Lenny and the Iceman
• Killing Flaw – Shame
• Simple Stone – T.O.A
• Killing Flaw – Friends
• Mustang Jerx – C that my grave is kept clean
• Gyasi – Man From The Mountain

Following on from last week, we have the second part of our interview with Crow front man Peter Fenton.

Chard talks to Alex Veslliev, the man behind the inaugural Mid Mountains Blues Festival coming up at the end of August.

And we have the usual grab bag of new releases that tickled our fancy during the last couple of weeks.

Links!

• Crow Hold Sway Bandcamp page
• Mid Mountains Blues Festival

Listen!

Playlist!

• Mark Taylor and Peter Tillman – Hindu Gods (Of Love)
• Charlie Musselwhite and GA-20 – Crazy Love
• The first VU interview – Alex Veslliev on the Mid Mountains Blues Festival
• Killing Flaw – Magic Sam
• Blend Eleven – Bourbon Dance
• Crow – Run For Cover
• The second VU interview – Peter Fenton of Crow part 3
• Crow – Time
• The second VU interview – Peter Fenton of Crow part 4
• Crow – I can’t lose you
• Munroe – My Time
• Damien J. Johnson and The Damien J. Johnson Band – I Don’t Listen to The Radio
• Broham – Relax
• No PROMISES – Siren
• The Third Voice – Dry as the River
• Day Dreamers – Earshot
• Lenny Kaye – Pennsylvania Girls

The ninth podcast of VU features the first of a two part interview with Peter Fenton, front man of legendary Sydney band Crow, talking about the new album Hold Sway and the recent death of co-founder Peter Archer.

And we have some great new music from Lenny Kaye, The Fleshtones, The Womak Sisters, The Datsuns and more!

Links!

Crow Hold Sway Bandcamp page.

Listen!

Playlist!

• The Womack Sisters – If I Let You
• Lenny Kaye – Goin Local
• Killing Flaw – Magic Sam
• Charlie Musselwhite with GA-20 – I’ll Change My Style
• Crow – Give Them What They Want
• The VU interview – Peter Fenton of Crow part 1
• Crow – Cathcart Johnny
• The VU interview – Peter Fenton of Crow part 2
• Crow – Skyline
• Olana – Price Of The House
• Kypo – Greed, Fear and Evangelists
• The Fleshtones – Float Your Showboat
• The Datsuns – Moonstruck Man
• Interpol – See Out Loud
• The Golden Gaytimes – I’m Not Going Anywhere
• The Vernons – Don’t Give a Damn If You Don’t Believe Me
• Ups and Downs – Out Of Thin Air
• The Dresden Dolls – My Alcoholic Friends
• Cindy Blackman Santana – Illumination
• Lenny Kaye – World Book Night