Virtual Unreality

It was all killer and no filler on Virtual Unreality on 2RRR 88.5 FM tonight!

First up: D Henry Fenton dropped by VU global HQ for an hour during the week to have a yarn and play some tunes.

Second up: We had a yarn with CC and Tone who are better known as San Diego-based duo Little Hurricane. Here’s a thing, they formed a band and then later on got married. True!

Third up: The gorgeous Valerie van de Panne joined us after 21:30 to talk the week in Trump and other stuff.

We’ve got a prog special next week, so we’ll run part 2 of Little Hurricane on the 29th.

Listen!

Tracks

• D Henry Fenton & The Elizabethans – Down your street
• Kim Michalowski – Desiree
• Mississippi John Hurt – Ain’t nobody’s business
• D Henry Fenton – Loneliest boy in the world (live)
• David Lane – Lucky Joe
• Howlin’ Wolf – Wang Dang Doodle
• Magnet – Gently Johnny
• Silverbeet – Circle
• D Henry Fenton & The Elizabethans – Gold’s always harder to find
• D Henry Fenton – Ashes to Ashes (live)
• Russell Morris – Black dog blues
• D Henry Fenton & The Elizabethans – The sea is me the sea is you
• Little Hurricane – Same sun, same moon
• Little Hurricane – Mount Senorita
• Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band – Golden Birdies

No studio guests tonight, but we have lots of new releases.

Lonnie Brooks checked out during the week, so played a couple of his tracks.

Listen!

Tracks

• Lonnie Brooks – Two headed man
• Lonnie Brooks – Boogie Rambler
• Dave Hole – Jenny Lee
• Le Pie – White walls and promises
• The Spookfish – Black ghost
• Chemtrails – Headless pin up girl
• These New South Whales – We don’t need you any more
• Aye Nako – Nightcrawler
• Daddy Issues – I’m not single
• Gothic Tropic – You soul
• Hugh Sunn – Tears
• Nite Jewel – The Answer
• Fujiya Miyagi – Serotonin Rushes
• Fujiya Miyagi – RSI
• Robyn Hitchcock – I Want to Tell You About What I Want
• Robyn Hitchcock – Do policeman sing
• Bob Dylan – Highlands
• John Kennedy – Making America hate again
• John Doe – Mama don’t
• Pollyana – Pale grey eyes
• Sonic Youth – 100%
• Beck – Jackass

Tonight’s show was was packed to gunwales.

First up: Simon Rigoni from Melbourne band 2 Inch Tape dropped by during the week for a chat and played live in the studio.

Second up: We talked to Ben Wells, half of the twin guitar attack of Kentucky hard rock outfit Black Stone Cherry. They’ll be touring here later in the month with Chase the Sun.

Third up: We spoke to Chase the Sun’s drummer Howler. They’ve been on the road and they’ll staying on the road for a bit longer with Black Stone Cherry.

Plus some new releases and other stuff.

Listen!

Tracks

• 2 Inch Tape – Helpless
• 2 Inch Tape – That’s me
• 2 Inch Tape – Flying
• Simon Rigoni – Find a way (live)
• 2 Inch Tape – (Don’t) open it
• Simon Rigoni – Limerance (live)
• 2 Inch Tape – Automaton Girl
• Black Stone Cherry – Long Ride
• Black Stone Cherry – War
• Chase the Sun – Princess
• Chase the Sun – Live on
• Chase the Sun – Live it up
• Shitkid – Tropics
• Left Lane Cruiser – Claw Machine
• Gemma Ray – There must be more than this

Tonight on Virtual Unreality our studio guest was photographer and raconteur Andrew Hogarth. Andrew has spent decades photographing the indigenous people of North America and we will talked about the Dakota Access Pipeline among other stuff.

Darcy Fox, Gippsland-based songstress phoned in. Her new EP dropped yesterday.

Plus we played some new releases from Yianna Nicholas, Sera and The Tommyhawks.

Listen!

Tracks

• Chuck Berry – Little Queenie
• Jimi Hendrix Experience – Johnny B Goode
• Darcy Fox – Hurricane
• Darcy Fox – Options
• Yianna Nicholas – Dozens of Hearts
• D Henry Fenton and the Elizabethans – The sea is me and the sea is you
• The Clouds – House Of The Sun
• Sera – Doctor
• Buffy Sainte Marie – Soldier Blue
• Andrew Hogarth & Chris Fisher – Crazy Horse
• Andrew Hogarth & Chris Fisher – Sitting Bull
• Andrew Hogarth & Chris Fisher – Coyote man
• Andrew Hogarth & Chris Fisher – Buffalo Medicine Horns
• Buffy Sainte Marie – Carry it on

Tonight we had:

• Sean McMahon from Sean McMahon and the Moonmen playing live in the studio.
• 17 year-old guitar hotshot Quinn Sullivan on the line from Bedford MA.
• Regular guest Valerie Van de Panne on the line from Boston helping make sense on the unreality show unfolding in the US.

Listen to hour 1

Tracks:

1. Raised by Eagles – Shape and Line
2. Plastic – Has anyone ever told you you’re alive
3. Quinn Sullivan – Midnight Highway
4. Quinn Sullivan – While my guitar gently weeps
5. Sean McMahon and The Moonmen – House of Mirrors
6. Sean McMahon and The Moonmen – Further still to run

Listen to hour 2

Tracks

1. Sean McMahon and The Moonmen – Four aces (live)
2. Sean McMahon and The Moonmen – Holiday from my dreams (live)
3. Sean McMahon and The Moonmen – Shiner
4. Black Stone Cherry – Cheaper To Drink Alone
5. Wesley Stace – I don’t wanna rock n roll
6. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Effigy

Tonight on Virtual Unreality we had:

• Gareth Jay in the studio singing, playing and chewing the fat.
• Melbourne band My Echo on the line spruiking their new album Brother.
• Valerie on the blower from Boston with more Trumpster weirdness than you can poke a stick at.
• New releases from D Henry Fenton and El Duende.

Listen to hour 1

Tracks:

• D Henry Fenton & the Elizabethans – Babydoll
• El Duende – Tall buildings
• D Henry Fenton & the Elizabethans – This sea is me the sea is you
• My echo – Meet you there
• My echo – Old & Grey
• Gareth Jay – The fox & the rabbit
• Tim Buckley – Get on top
• Gareth Jay – Give me just one chance
• Don Covay – Mercy Mercy
• Gareth Jay – The Fool

Listen to hour 2

Tracks

• Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Wind Cries Mary
• Paul Simon – Kodachrome
• Gareth Jay – (Amos Lee cover)
• Gareth Jay – The river styx
• Captain Rock – Private Parts

Tonight on Virtual Unreality our studio guests were Dom Mariani and Greg Hitchcock of Datura 4 after their ripper show the night before at the Factory Floor

We had a yarn with them Friday arvo before they went off to do sound check.

We also played new tracks from a soon to be released album from Cub Calloway and the Revolutionaires.

Listen to hour 1

Tracks

• Cub Callaway & The Révolutionnaires – Two hundred years
• Cub Callaway & The Révolutionnaires – Midnight over Tashkent
• Datura 4 – Fool’s gold rush
• Datura 4 – Greedy world
• Master’s Apprentices – Future of our nation
• Datura 4 – Hoonsville
• Matt Taylor – Brisbane to Beechworth

Listen to hour 2

Tracks

• Colored Balls – Heavy Metal Kid
• Loose Pills – Not the driver
• RESD – The right thing
• Le Pie – White walls & promises
• Droplet – High
• Halfwait – Fly Away
• Hawkmoon – Silverline
• Sera – Doctor
• Ten Years After – I can’t keep from cryin’ sometimes

More meat than you can poke a stick at.

Blackie and Forest Pooky were live in the studio.

We talked to Nicky Bomba from the Melbourne Ska Orchestra ahead of Ska-BQ at the Factory on March 4.

We talked to Valerie in Boston about the ongoing weirdness stateside.

We had new music from Glitoris, Methyl Ethyl and more.

Listen to part 1 (Nicky Bomba)

Tracks

• Methyl Ethyl – Ubu
• Rag n’ Bone – Pissy Flow
• Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Sly Boots
• Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Funk Chunk

Listen to part 2 (Blackie and Forest Pooky)

Tracks

• Hard​-​Ons – It Might Seem Like A Lonely Ship Passing Thru The Night But There’s Actually A Mad Party Going On Aboard
• Forest Pooky – Let’s not speak about tomorrow
• Peter Black – Glue Vinyl
• Peter Black – (unkown) (live)
• Forest Pooky – Making plans for Nigel (live)
• Glitoris – Trump card
• Peter Black – Ticking in my heart (live)
• Forest Pooky – Our greeatest times won’t disappear
• Forest Pooky – Choosing Lies (live)
• Peter Black – All Is Forgotten

Listen to part 3 (Valerie)

Tracks

• Glitoris – Trump card

We had new music from the Clouds and Waxworks plus some other new releases that have found their into the play list over recent weeks.

And Valerie was on the line from Boston to help us make sense of the (un)reality TV show beaming from the White House.

Listen to hour 1

Tracks played

• Waxworks – Monkey Pot
• The Clouds – Hieronymus
• The Clouds – House of the Sun
• The Clouds – Float On Air
• Waxworks – Prat
• Waxworks – War
• The Baitones – Deep Swamp my Mobile
• The Baitones – So Insane
• Tony Joe White – Alligator Mississippi
• Tony Joe White – Who You Gonna Hoodoo Now
• Chuck Prophet – Coming out in code
• Chuck Prophet – Killing Machine
• Eric Gales – Carry Yourself

Listen to hour 2

Tracks played

• Liam Gerner and the Sunset Pushers – Buddhist girl in a baptist town
• Tim Hulsman – Lap dog
• Datura 4 – Greedy World
• Liz Phair – Fuck and run
• Peter Black – Cherry light
• Forest Pooky – Shining gold
• Celibate Rifles – Salute
• Ian Hunter – Words (Big Mouth)

On a night that it may have been too damn hot, we had the solution. Grab a bevvie, turn on a device and listen to Virtual Unreality.

First up – part 2 of our chat with Dustin Arbuckle of power blues trio Moreland and Arbuckle.

Second up – We talk to Tift Merrit about her new record “Stitch of the World”.

Third up – we talk to Chuck Prophet about his new record “Bobby Fuller Died for You Sins”.

Plus we have some new releases.

List to part 1 

Tracks

• Chad Morgan – Shotgun wedding
• Moreland and Arbuckle – Mean And Evil
• Moreland and Arbuckle – Woman Down In Arkansas
• Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy
• Tum Hulsmen -Be loved!
• Liam Gerner and the Sunset Pushers – This land don’t want us
• Eric Gales – Good time
• Eric Gales – Boogie Man

List to part 2

Tracks

• Tift Merritt – Love Soldiers on
• Tift Merritt – Heartache Is an Uphill Climb
• Tift Merritt – Stitch of the World
• Robby Keating – Shellshocked

List to part 3

Tracks

• Chuck Prophet – Museum of Broken Hearts
• Chuck Prophet – Sonny Liston’s Blues
• Chuck Prophet – Post-War Cinematic Dead Man Blues
• Chuck Prophet – Bad year for rock and roll
• Chuck Prophet – In the mausoleum (for Alan Vega)