Virtual Unreality

We talk to Melbourne-based soul singer Hannah Acfield and we have new music from the Felice Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers and truckloads more!

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Playlist

• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Almost cut my hair
• Ducks Ltd – How lonely are you
• Tania Wilds – Curious Moon
• Felice Brothers – To do list
• Steep Canyon Rangers – Nothing Matters (When Youre Mine)
• Hannah Acfield – Too far away
• VU interview – Hannah Acfield part 1
• Hannah Acfield – Portugal
• VU interview – Hannah Acfield part 2
• Hannah Acfield – Winter
• Aretha Franklin – Mary Don’t You Weep
• Vanessa Perica Orchestra – Love is a Temporary Madness
• David Sanford Big Band – popit (feat. Hugh Ragin)
• Los Chavos – Carlos Calvo
• John Doe – Never enough
• Jill Sobule & John Doe – I kissed a girl
• Tracey Barnett – Freedom
• The Money War – Miles away
• Fruit Bats – As I rise
• Renee Geyer – It’s a man’s man’s world
• Emma Donovan & the Putbacks – Crossover
• Gareth Skinner – Here UR where RU

Tonight on Virtual Unreality on 2RRR 88.5 FM we have lots!

We have part two of our chat with Ron Peno.

We talk WFH with a labour and workplace historian Dr Sarah Gregson..

We have new music from The Hard Ons, Billy Bragg and others!

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Playlist

• Hard-Ons – Hold Tight
• Motrik – Silver Twin
• Baba Ali – Nuclear Family
• Ron Peno & The Superstitions – Everything Has Changed
• VU – Ron Peno interview
• Ron Peno & The Superstitions – Darkness Heart
• Joeys Coop – Streets of Newtown
• The On and Ons – Menancing Smile
• 2 Inch Tape – Any Better
• Hannah Acfield – Like Lovers Do
• Toria Richings – Where It All Began
• Huntingtons – I Want You Around
• Ramones – Surfin’ Bird
• Shonen Knife – Ramones for ever
• Hard Nips – Workaholic
• VU – Sarah Gregson interview on WFH
• The Butterfield Blues Band – Work song
• New Age Doom & Lee Scratch Perry – Life Is An Experiment
• Tsanga Dieudonne – Les Souffrances
• Billy Bragg – Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained
• BRNDA – Beverage of Choice
• Old Unconscious – Anonymous Face

Tonight on Virtual Unreality from 19:00 on 2RRR 88.5 FM we have lots!

We talk to Peter Black about the newest Hard On.

We have the first of a two-parter with Ron Peno about “Do the Understanding” the new album by Ron S Peno and the Superstitions.

We have the second part of our chat with the wonderful Catherine Britt.

And we’ll have some new stuff and whatever else we can find to make it happen.

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Playlist

• Joni Mitchell – Big yellow taxi
• James Thomson – Car park blues
• El Perro – Black Days
• Handsome Jack – Servin’ somebody
• Hard ons – Harder and harder
• VU interview – Peter Black
• You am I – We all we went deaf overnight
• Ron S Peno and the Superstitions – When worlds collide
• VU interview – Ron Peno part 1
• Ron S Peno and the Superstitions – The Strangest Feeling
• VU interview – Ron Peno part 2
• Ron S Peno and the Superstitions – I think it’s gonna rain
• Kim Volkman and the Whiskey Priests – Alive and well
• Catherine Britt – I’m a country song
• VU interview – Catherine Britt
• Catherine Britt – Mother
• Catherine Britt with Tim Rogers – Troubled man
• Los Lobos – Love special delivery
• Billie Holliday – Strange fruit

Tonight, Virtual Unreality on 2RRR 88.5 FM we have a long chat with Catherine Britt.

We also have the second part of our chat Darren Stedman of Kiwi band The Verlaines.

And we slip in a few early ZZ Top tracks.

All this and more on Virtual Unreality from 19:00 tonight on 2RRR 88.5 FM or streaming from 2rrr.org.au.

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Playlist!

• ZZ Top – Waiting for the bus
• ZZ Top – Jesus just left Chicago
• Ron S Peno and the Superstitions – The Strangest Feeling
• The Datsuns – Suspicion
• Four Lions – Black and White
• Catherine Britt – Home Truths
• VU – Catherine Britt interview part 1
• Catherine Britt – Gonna be mumma
• VU – Catherine Britt interview part 2
• Catherine Britt – Hard to love
• Melody Moko – Last cigarette
• Charlie Silky-Oak and The Maple Roses – Two girls
• Steve Earle – Loretta
• Slim Dusty – The biggest disappointment
• The Verlaines – None of these chords
• VU – Darren Stedman (Verlaines) interview part 1
• The Verlaines – Church and state
• VU – Darren Stedman (Verlaines) interview part 2
• The Verlaines – Dunedin Spleen
• ZZ Top – Backdoor love affair
• ZZ Top – Asleep in the desert

Tonight on Virtual Unreality we have more than lots! True!

We talk to Darren Stedman, drummer in Kiwi band The Verlaines about their latest album Dunedin Spleen. We also talk to new Sydney artist Trash Springfield about her EP.

And… we have lots of new music, including The Datsuns, Jim Lauderdale, Nick Lowe, The Heartless Bastards and Piper Butcher and whatever else we can shoehorn in.

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Playlist

• The Doors – The Changeling
• Bo Diddley – I’m sorry
• The I Don’t Cares – Sorry for tomorrow night
• The Datsuns – Suspicion
• Pozi – Detainer man
• The Verlaines – Snappy Dressers
• Interview part 1 – Darren Stedman (Verlaines)
• The Verlaines – Petroleum Woman
• Interview part 2 – Darren Stedman (Verlaines)
• The Verlaines – A.W.C.W.D
• Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – Crossover
• Tre Burt – By The Jasmine
• Hanna Enlöf – Follow You Down
• Heartless Bastards – Photograph
• Piper Butcher – Before The Thunder
• Trash Springfield – Control
• Interview part 1 – Trash Springfield
• Confused by early signs – Trash Springfield
• Interview part 2 – Trash Springfield
• Do it good – Trash Springfield
• Jim Lauderdale – The Opportunity to Help Somebody Through It
• Nick Lowe – Different kind of blue

We have a chat New York band Hard Nips about their new album Master Cat.

We also talk to Sydney author Clinton Walker about his forthcoming book Suburban Songbook.

We have new music from Jen Cloher and Hachiku, Natalie D-Napoleon, Hannah Acfield, Lucie Tiger and Jim Lauderdale.

All this and more (HTF could there possibly be more?)!

Playlist

• Jen Cloher Hachiku – Fairytale in the Supermarket
• Natalie D-Napolean – Mother Of Exiles
• Hanna Acfield – Like Lovers Do
• Lucie Tiger – Midnight Goodbye
• Jim Lauderdale – Mushrooms Are Growing After the Rain
• Nick Lowe – A quiet place
• Hard Nips – Master Cat
• Interview part 1 – Hard Nips
• Hard Nips – Workaholic
• Interview part 2 – Hard Nips
• Hard Nips – Blender X
• Interview part 3 – Hard Nips
• Hard Nips – Cupid Devil
• The 5678’s – Charumera Sobaya
• Shonen Knife – Sweet Candy Power
• Mustang Jerx – Choo choo train of tears
• Axiom – A little ray of sunshine
• Interview part 1 – Clinton Walker
• The Loved Ones – Ever lovin’ man
• Interview part 2 – Clinton Walker
• PP Arnold – The Turning Tide
• Russell Morris – The Real Thing

and mostly rock!

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Playlist

• Eddie Noack – Psycho
• Datura4 – Get out
• Rinehearts – One Thing One Time
• Piper Butcher – Haunting Your Thoughts
• Interview – Piper Butcher
• Marvelline – Fly by instruments
• Moonlight 5 – Listening To Gospel Music On The Radio
• The Wallflowers – I’ll Let You Down (But Will Not Give You Up)
• Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
• Leadfinger – Nobody Knows
• Lovelorn – Hole in Yr Soul
• Snapped Ankles – Shifting Basslines of the Cornucopians
• Masok – Part of the game
• Hard Nips – Blender X
• Shonen Knife – Giant Kitty
• 5678’s – Hanky panky
• Ten Years After – I Can’t Keep From Cryin’ Sometimes
• Sun Seeker – Just me
• Eyelids – Holiday Innn
• Gully Boys – Russian Doll
• Leah Belle Faser – These Boots Are Made for Walkin
• Mae Powell – Scratch n Sniff
• Smile Machine – Pretty Today

Tonight we talk to up and coming Hunter Valley-based singer Piper Butcher.

We celebrate the 50th anniversary of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue”.

We also have new music from Datura4, Moonlight Five, Leadfinger, Verlaines and more!

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Playlist!

• Datura4 – West Coast Highway Cosmic
• Moonlight 5 – Listening To Gospel Music On The Radio
• Leadfinger – Nobody knows
• Piper Butcher – Haunting your thoughts
• VU – Piper Butcher interview
• Melody Moko – Coming up roses
• Imogen Clark – Found me
• The Verlaines – None of these chords
• The Mutton Birds – The Heater
• The Exponents – Like she said
• Masok – New reality
• Throwing Muses – Dark Blue
• Francobollo – Are you content?
• Joni Mitchell – All I want
• Joni Mitchell – Blue
• Joni Mitchell – A case of you
• Jim Lauderdale – Memory
• Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes – Quit While We’re Ahead
• Bonnie Kay and the Bonafides – A good man
• The Western Distributors – Old black dog
• Pink Floyd – Money

We talk to Vashti Hughes about her one-woman show examining the life and times of legendary Sydney character Bee Miles.

We also have new music from Leadfinger, Even, the Meanies, Raising Ravens and more.

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Playlist

• Keith Richards – Talk is Cheap
• Leadfinger – Nobody Knows
• Leadfinger – Champagne & Diamonds
• Thin Lizzy – Dancing In The Moonlight
• The Minus 5 – Blue Rickenbacker
• XL Capris – My City of Sydney
• VU -Vashti Hughes interview
• Perry Keyes – Dale Buggins Dream
• Even – Six Monkeys
• Meanies – Sousa
• Alejandro Escovedo – Algo Azul
• Los Straitjackets – Hombre
• The Vandals – Ooh Poo Pah Doo
• The Vandals – Norwegian Wood
• The Whatever – The Valley of Death
• Helen Townsend – Devil’s Curse
• Martha Wainwright – Falaise de Malaise
• Live Johnny Winter And – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
• Dickey Betts – Jessica (Live)
• Raising Ravens – It’s A Trap

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Playlist

• Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes – Portrait of the artist as a middle-aged man
• Even – Six monkeys
• The Meanies – Sousa
• Leadfinger – Nobody Knows
• You am I – The Waterboy
• Jaguar Jonze – Astronaut
• Michael Waugh – Flying
• Jeb Cardwell – Blood Moon
• Ruby Gilbert – No vacancy
• Siobhan Cotchin – Highway Song
• Imogen Clark – Foprget about London
• Courtney Barnett – Avant Gardener
• Jen Cloher – Shoegazers
• Nocturnal Animals – Articuno Makes Waves
• ShitKid – song bout gold
• Glen & Glenda – Max Dupain
• The Light Brigade – I’m sticking with you
• jupiter 5 – H-bomb