On today’s show we have

• Van Walker on the line from Melbourne talking about his new album “Ghosting”.
• Elise Lange talking about her new EP “Talk to Me”
• Valerie joins us from Florida

Tracklist

• Bike Club – Heart Beating
• Godcaster – Even Your Blood is Electric
• Initiates – Voidless
• Deerhoof – Milk Man
• Johnny Winter – Parchment Farm (Alternative Mix)
• Johnny Winter – Avocado Green
• Van Walker – Nobody Knows
• Van Walker – The World Goes On Without Us
• Van Walker – Crystal Ball
• Kim Richey – Come Around
• Steep Canyon Rangers – Sunny Days
• Grant-Lee Phillips – Aint Done Yet
• Chuck Prophet – Best Shirt On
• Elsie Lange – Talk to Me
• Elsie Lange – Tulips
• Knot – Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground

On today’s show we have:

• a long chat with Johnny Casino about his new album and other stuff
• an interview with Brisbane songstress Melody Moko
• US correspondent Valerie van de Panne talks about unschooling

You can read Valerie’s article on unschooling here.

Tracklist

• Partner – Hello and Welcome
• Leslie West – Here for the party
• Van Walker – Closing time
• Johnny Winter – Gangster of love
• Waxworks – Mission Bells
• Johnny Casino – I scare myself
• Johnny Casino – Wichita Lineman
• Johnny Casino – Hit the ground running
• Johnny Casino – Sundown
• Melody Moko – Last Cigarette
• Melody Moko – Benjamin
• Elsie Lange – Tulips
• Kush – Macarthur park

The Virtual Unreality crew sat in for Big Daddy K’s Sydney Sounds show.

Tracklist

• Hoodoo Gurus – Hung out to dry
• Howlin’ Threads – Body Moving
• James Williamson & Deniz Tek – Stable
• Tshitaki – Work it out
• Bunt – Six and seven
• John Kennedy – Brisbane – Electrical Storm
• Peter Black – History Jack
• Sunnyboys – Show me some discpline
• X – Suck suck
• Johnny Casino – Cerca Pero Tan Lejos (a song for Sue)
• Johnny Casino – Dropping like flies
• Carrie Phillis And The Downtown 3 – Let’s go
• The Boobytraps – Be My Caveman
• Suburban Bukowskis – Living In Sin In Petersham
• The Smartfolk – One two three step four
• Lachy Doley Group – The Strut
• Imogen Clark – My own worst enemy
• Em George – Flight
• The New Christs – The Seeker
• The Lime Spiders – Sparks
• The On and Ons – Don’t want to talk
• Loose Pills – Not The Driver
• The Aints – Red Aces
• The Aints – Know your product
• Johnny Casino – Ghostships
• Johnny Casino – Wichita Lineman
• The Mismade – Man in the middle
• Glitoris – Trump Card

Lots on today’s show! Including:

• Damian McDonald, the curator of the Maton guitars exhibition on now at the Power House Museum.
• Valerie van de Panne gives us the low down on veeps and Kamala Harris.
• New tracks from Nick Love & Los Straitjackets, Chuck Prophet, Johnny Casino, Imogen Clark, Elsie Lange and Melody Moko.

Listen!

Tracklist

• Crosby Stills Nash & Young – Almost cut my hair
• Hoodoo Gurus – Hung out to dry
• Howlin’ Threads – Body Moving
• Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Corporate Public Control Department (C.P.C.D.)
• The Kinks – You really got me
• Phil Manning – I Wish There Was a Way
• The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
• James Williamson & Deniz Tek – Stable
• Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets – Lay it on Me
• Los Straitjackets – Venus
• Imogen Clark – My Own Worst Enemy
• Jaguar Jonze – You Got Left Behind
• Melody Moko – Benjamin
• Elsie Lange – Talk to me
• Chuck Prophet – Get off the stage
• Johnny Casino – Cerca Pero Tan Lejos (a song for Sue)
• Johnny Casino – Sundown
• Chuck Prophet – High as Johnny Thunders
• Van Walker – Closing Time

On today’s show, we have Dave Faulkner of the Hoodoo Gurus talking about their new single “Hung out to dry”. Hint – they’re angry.

Valerie joins us from Florida.

Tracklist

• Shotgun Mistress – Glorious Machine
• Fingerless – Truth
• Josh Orange – Little Miss America
• Angus Gill and the Seasons of Change – Three minute movie
• Em George – Flight
• Hoodoo Gurus – Hung out to dry
• Hoodoo Gurus – What’s my scene?
• Hoodoo Gurus – Answered Prayers
• Le Hoodoo Gurus – Leilani
• The Victims – Television Addict
• The Fleshtones – Face of the Screaming Werewolf
• The Fey – Tear it off
• Shitkid – Dying to
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – Ramble Tamble

On today’s show

• We have a long chat with Pete Marley from Marveline about the new album Savoury Toothed Tiger. Hint – expect the unexpected.
• We also chat to Sydney songstress Em George about hew new EP, this time with a band. Hint – luscious.
• Valerie van de Panne joins us from Florida after her road trip to Boston and back.
• Plus we have lots of new music.

PS – Dave Faulkner on the show next week. Also true.

Tracklist

• Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman
• The Third Mind – Reverberation
• The No ones – No One Falls Alone
• The On and Ons – Don’t want to talk about it
• Marveline – Gonna get myself a demon
• Marveline – Magic Umbrellar
• Marveline – Made of stars
• Marveline – (Theme For An Imaginary) Cop Show
• Em George – In flight
• Em George – Light comes in
• Emmylou harris – Wayfairing Stranger
• The Baseball Project – Here lies Carl Mays
• Anna Karina – Roller Girl
• Billy Childish & Holly Golightly – Demolition Girl
• Mezcaltones – Six Days on the Road

We’re back!

After 18 months we’re back in the big chair.

On today’s show:

• Stuart Coupe talks about his new book on Paul Kelly
• Matt from Howlin’ Threads talks about their new EP and being in a band in COVID times.
• Valerie Van de Panne joins us from Florida
• New music from Em George. Sean Nicholas McMahon, Mike Elrington, Lucie Tiger and Melody Moko

Track list

• Alive and well – Kim Volman and the Whisky Priests
• Looking for clues – Robert palmer
• Body moving – Howlin’ Threads
• Matt Houston (Howlin’ Threads) – Interview
• River and The Sea – Howlin’ Threads
• Brisbane Electrical Storm – John Kennedy
• Stuart Coupe – Interview
• Clean this House – Paul Kelly and the Dots
• Hard Love – Vika and Linda
• Don’t Give Me A Dime – Mike Elrington
• Lost Alone & Lonesome – David Schaak
• America – Em George
• Valerie Van De Panne – Interview
• Hungry Planet – Sean McMahon
• Gasoline – Lucie Tiger
• Last Cigarette – Melody Moko
• Corporate Girl – Strawberry Teardrop

The station needed someone to fill in for a cancelled show, so we had an extra hour! We were on from 17:00.

Hour 1 – Penny Ikinger

We talked to Melbourne songstress Penny Ikinger about her new single which is a collaboration with Deniz Tek.

Listen!

Tracks

• Can – Outside my door
• Penny Ikinger – Ride on cowboy
• Penny Ikinger – Gin no suzu
• Penny Ikinger – Fragile
• Jen Cloher – Regional echo
• John Kennedy – Making America hate again (Pete Veliks remix)
• Swhat – Cookie cutter suburbia
• Glitoris – Trump card
• Neil Young + Promise of the real – After the goldrush

Hour 2 – Dr. Bombay and Mihka Chee

First up, we spoke to the singer Gary Slater from Brissie band Dr. Bombay. They have a new record and it’s a ripper.

Then we were joined in the studio by Sydney singer-guitarist Mihka Chee ahead of her show at Staves Brewery in Glebe on Saturday September 16.

Listen

Tracks

• Dr. Bombay – Spit You Out Like Revenue
• Dr. Bombay – Follow the leader
• Plastic Jack – Why do I worry?
• Glass Animals – Youth
• Mihka Chee – Both
• Soma Sutton – Bloom
• Mura Masa – What if I go
• Mihka Chee – Coat tails (live)

Hour 3 – Mihka Chee (continues)

Listen!

Tracks

• Methyl Ethyl – UBU
• Mihka Chee – I was better
• The Exponents – Like she Said
• WCB – Control
• Mihka Chee – Centrefold dream (live)
• Funky Punch – Nothing
• Field of Wolves – Patricia
• WCB – Control
• Mihka Chee – Be mine
• All Our Exes Live in Texas – Sailboat

Tonight on Virtual Unreality we had another monster show.

We talked to Addie from Perth girl band Tommyhawks who are plying their trade up the east coast as we e-speak.

Then Tim from Sydney band Gallucci dropped in to the spin tunes and tell us about his band.

Listen!

Tracks

• JFK and the Midlife Crisis – From St Peters to Kings Cross
• Tommyhawks – Summertime
• Tommyhawks – Bedroom
• Gallucci – Hatsy
• Devo – Mongoloid
• Gallucci – Freeze
• Los Piranas – La Diversión Que Hacía Falta En Mi País
• Sir Shina Adewale – Awa Ni Superstars Medley
• Hot snakes – Kreative Kontrol
• Minutemen – Straightjacket
• Minutemen – Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
• Fugazi – Arpeggiator
• Guai Li – The Models
• Los Belkings – Sabor Dulce
• Ayreon – Aquatic race
• Dungen – Fredag
• Gallucci – Float it out

Tonight on Virtual Unreality, we enlisted the services prog expert Lou Steer because we were talking to Dutch prog rock legend Ayreon about his new album “The Source”.

We also had a look at modern prog rock, so if youse haven’t listened to anything since ELP, check us out.

We did start with some Iggy, because it was his birthday.

Plus Valerie phoned in from Boston with news from the land of Trump

Listen!

Tracks

• The Stooges – 1969
• Iggy Pop – Break into your heart
• Ayreon – The theory of everything
• Ayreon – River of time
• After forever – Energise me
• Karnivool – Set fire to the hive
• Porcupine tree – Deadwing
• Steven Wilson – The raven that refused to sing
• Toehider – Toe hider
• Kamelot – The haunting (somewhere in time)
• Dream Theatre – Panic attack