Virtual Unreality

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

We kicked off the show with the second part of our long chat with Dave Faulkner about putting the Victims back together for one last hurrah. Then, journalist Valerie Vande Panne joined us from New York to serve us some Thanksgiving myth busting to go with the turkey. After that, Trash Springfield and Travis Masters joined us in the studio to talk about Trash’s new album. She even played for us live.

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Playlist!

• What’s your situation? – Simon Hodges
• Way too deep – 2 inch tape
• TV Freak – The Victims
• Dave Faulkner – VU interview
• Be my guru – Hoodoo Gurus
• Turkey Chase – Bob Dylan
• Valerie Vande Panne – VU Interview no 2
• Black Friday – Steely Dan
• Rip off – Trash Springfield
• Everything’s alright – Trash Springfield
• Like people from another world – Jim Lauderdale
• My own worst enemy – Imogen Clark
• Pool (live) – Trash Springfield
• Easy way out – Glenn Hopper
• Running disaster – katie Brianna
• Her eyes are a blue million miles – Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
• Paul (live) – Trash Springfield

First up, we had Dave Faulkner talking about putting the Victims back together for one last time at the Crowbar next month. Then in-studio guests were Pete and Phil from Northern Beaches band Sonic Garage.

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Playlist!

• Lydia – 2 inch tape
• All caught up – Dave Favours and the Roadside Ashes
• Television addict – The Victims
• Dave Faulkner – VU interview
• Horror Smash – The Victims
• Violet Jones – Sonic Garage
• Is this all? – Al Creed
• Save – Sonic Garage
• Johhny – Celibate Rifles
• Fake – Circus Chaplains
• Thrill – Sunnyboys
• Mississippi Queen – Mountain
• Gimme Danger – Celibate Rifles
• Final Fall – Sonic Garage
• Rip off – Trash Springfield

Melbourne-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Penny Ikinger was in studio talking all sorts of shit and playing records. She’s in town for a gig on Saturday 28 October at the Mosh Pit in Erskineville and at Smith’s Alternative in Canberra on the 29th.

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• Psycho Killer – Duran Duran
• Voodoo Girl – Penny Ikinger
• No expectations – The Dirtbombs
• Maid of Orleans – Penny Ikinger
• Fragile – Penny Ikinger
• No way on earth – The New Christs
• Melt – Kawaguchi Masumi’s New Rock Syndicate
• Horses – Patti Smith
• You’re gonna die – Destroy All Monsters
• Oh Bondage Up Yours – X-Ray Specs
• Skin and Bone – MD Horne’s Last Call
• Gold Rush – Penny Ikinger
• Dead Dog Boogie – Tex, Don & Charlie
• Agitation – Rocket Science

We had Jeremy Edwards in the studio earlier in the year with Jen Mize. He’s the lead guitarist and co-songwriter in the Rough ‘n’ Tumble.

This time he’s here to talk about his new solo album and play some tunes from it.

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Coming soon

First up, we had Alex Lykos, director of Disconnect Me, a new movie in which he tries to go for a whole month without his phone.

Then, our studio guest was Lou Harbidge, bass player in Sydney band Downgirl. They have a new EP.

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Playlist!

• Take this job and shove it – Johnny Paycheck
• Hangin’ on the telephone – Jack Lee
• VU interview – Alex Lykos – Disconnect Me (movie)
• She’s stuck on facebook all the time – Ross Wilson
• Body – Downgirl
• La la love you – The Pixies
• Boys – Downgirl
• Choose Your FIghter! – Glitoris
• Fragile – Penny Ikinger
• Gina – Rupert – Last Quokka
• Sousa – Meanies
• Balene Bonanza – Bagful of Beez
• Mailbu Stacy – Downgirl
• Dilemma us from evil – Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
• Horror me – Magic Dirt
• Bedroom – Tommyhawks
• Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town – Talking Heads
• Democracy Manifest – Downgirl

We had James McCann on the blower talking about his new album with his band – The  JJcCann Transmission – Hit With Love – and we played some new releases. True!

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Playlist!

• Lady – Lady Lyon
• Lookin’ at the world through a windshield
  – Commander Cody and his lost planet airmen
• She loves anything that swings – Redd Volkaert
• Amphibious skin – JJ McCann Transmission
• JJ McCann – VU interview
• Piss on demand – JJ McCann Transmission
• Clementine – Spencer P Jones
• Dark Country – Sonic Garage
• Spaceship – Ashley Naylor
• Waxes and wanes – The Ronson Hangup
• Can’t kiss you over coffee – Angus Gill and Seasons of Change
• Lorraine – Tania Nichamin
• When my morning comes around – Nikki Lane
• Ride on, cowboy – Penny Ikinger
• High on drugs – Full time men
• I don’t believe in love – Uni boys
• Heartbreaker – Billy King & The Bad Bad Bad
• Life beyond – The Lovecraft Sextet
• Bowls – Badge Epoque Ensemble
• Love is a temporary madness – Vanessa Perica orchestra