Virtual Unreality

Tonight on Virtual Unreality we have the wonderful Selin and Hadrian from Sydney band Napoleonic as our copilots and playing live in the studio.

Listen!

Tracks

• The Cruel Sea – Better get a lawyer
• Napoleonic – Go away
• Dimi Dero Inc – I washed your windows clean
• Julien Dore – Kiss me forever
• Napoleonic – Ghosts
• Napoleonic – All I need is you (live)
• Napoleonic – It’s over baby
• Luke – La Sentinelle
• 69 BC – Lawyer up
• Jesus Volt – Do the cornbread
• Napoleonic – The world is a better place
• Doris Day – Perhaps, perhaps
• Napoleonic – Somebody to love

Beth Hart was on the the line from LA to tell us about her album, Fire on the Floor. She’ll be here for Bluesfest next year. No sideshows as yet, but fingers crossed.

And we’re all over the new LP from Deniz Tek, so expect a few tracks from that, plus lots of other stuff, some new, some not so new.

Listen!

Tracks

• Janis Joplin – Try
• Beth Hart – Jazz Man
• Beth Hart – Love is a lie
• Beth Hart – No place like home
• Ivor S.K. – Help Poor Me
• Young Docteurs – Birdland
• Six Ft Hick – Sweating out the sin
• Jen Mize – Warnings & Wisdom
• Glad & Dave’s Dirt Band – The Road
• On the Stoop – Penguins
• Tin Pan Orange – Love is a Dog
• D Henry Fenton and the Elizabethans – Promised Land
• Dusty Ravens – Patience
• Deniz Tek – Prison Mouse
• Deniz Tek – Corner Conversation
• Fingermae – GG
• Lazy Colts – 22
• Napoleanic – Ghosts
• Ned Alphabet – On that train and gone
• Rowland S. Howard – Ocean

Claude Hay was in the studio playing tracks of his new album and having a chat.

Some new releases followed and the we caught up Boston-based journo Valerie Van De Panne on the latest in the US presidential race.

Listen!

Tracks

1 Talk to the hand by Claude Hay
2 Black Night by Deep Purple
3 Never say good bye by Claude Hay
4 Lazaretto by Jack White
5 Forget about me by Claude Hay
6 Love no more by Claude Hay
7 Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival
8 I put a spell on you (Screaming Jay Hawkins) by Claude Hay
9 I work for the bad guys by Fingermae
10 Promised Land by D Henry Fenton and the Elizabethans
11 Novelty by She’s the Driver
12 Deep water by Jen Mize
13 Defy the Black Night by On the Stoop
14 Tom Violence by Sonic Youth
15 Too many memories by The Fleshtones
16 Nocturne by Robyn Hitchcock
17 Sometimes I wish was a pretty girl by Robyn Hitchcock
18 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat by Bob Dylan
19 Blue Rickenbacker by The Minus Five

Three members of Sydney bluegrass outfit Willing Ponies plus Jac and Nick from Melbourne band Amarillo performed live in the studio.

Listen!

Tracks!

1 You’ll go your way and I’ll go mine by Bob Dylan
2 Pocket the black by Lazy Eye
3 I don’t write no sad songs by Texas Tea
4 Magnolia by Willing Ponies
5 Sin City (Flying Burritos cover) by Willing Ponies
6 unknown by Willing Ponies
7 Any way by Amarillo
8 All I can see by Amarillo
9 Life is song by Amarillo
10 unknown by The Drones
11 unknown by Amarillo

No studio guests tonight, so we just played some tracks. Valerie van de Panne joined us from Boston with the latest in the US presidential election race.

Listen!

Tracks

• Spencer P Jones – When I write my book
• Jeremy and the Harlequins – Drinkin’ by myself
• Jeremy and the Harlequins – Critical condition
• Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift – Motion Pictures
• Throwing Muses – Smoky Hands
• Throwing Muses – Morning birds
• Kristin Hersch – Clay feet
• Look Park – Stars of New York
• The Minus 5 – Michael Nesmith
• The Minus 5 – Song for Peter Tork
• Amarillo – All I can see
• The Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane
• Jackie Mittoo – Stormy Night
• Im and David – Soul Walk
• Felice Brothers – Diamond Bell
• Rory Gallagher – Laundromat
• The Carmets – Jambalaya
• The Carpenters – Jambalaya
• Bob Dylan – Leopard Skin Pill Box hat