BROADCAST #10
AIR DATE: 03-06-07

Fanatics, below, you will see an endless list of information about bands from Australia and New Zealand. I was asked by the people who are putting the shows on to post the info. No problem. If you scroll past all this, you will get to all the music information. I hope you enjoyed the show tonight. I put it together on airplanes, hotels and the office. I have been all over the place with work so this one took a long time to put together but I think it’s a good one. I hope you liked that Grinderman track, I am liking that album a lot. I will bring in the new fall album next week. I have only had time to play it once. I’ll get into it on the weekend and get it on the air. I got the new Stooges album tonight. I had a CDR of it for weeks now but didn’t want to play anything until the actual release, we’ll get into some of that next week as well. I hope you get a chance to see the Beasts this weekend, it’s going to be a great one. Thanks for listening and STAY FANATIC!!! --Henry

Australia invades America at the below places and times:

LOS ANGELES EVENT
Sun March 11 – 7.30 pm - The Troubadour, LA
Tickets $10 presale from www.troubadour.com
BEASTS OF BOURBON
DALLAS CRANE
CHILDREN COLLIDE
THE PANDA BAND
MINK

AUSTIN EVENTS
Wed March 14 -- 6:30pm - 9pm –
'The Hoe Down Under' SXSW Opening Night Kick-Off Party
Co-presented with The Music Network Magazine, Wine Australia and Australian Music Office
Free Aussie Beer & Wine
The Fire House Lounge
605 Brazos (across from the Driskill Hotel)
Austin, TX

Australian Music Collective presents:
Fri March 16 – 12noon to 7pm –
The SxSW Aussie BBQ @ Brush Square Park, TX (across from Hilton)
Industry showcase & BBQ www.sxsw.com
ANDREW WINTON
I HEART HIROSHIMA
THE PANDA BAND
DALLAS CRANE
CHILDREN COLLIDE
EXPATRIATE
HOODOO GURUS
YOU AM I
AIRBOURNE
WOLF AND CUB
SPOD
BEASTS OF BOURBON

MINKAMO, Wine Australia & Whole Foods Market presents:
March 15, 16, 17 -- noon - 2pm –
Aussie 'Tastes and Tunes' at Whole Foods Market
Australian food and music at Downtown Whole Foods Market (6th & Lamar), Austin TX
Free and open to the public
Mar. 15 Noon George Byrne
1pm Future Native
Mar. 16
Noon Groovy Lips and the Yang
1pm Via Tania
Mar. 17
Noon Andrew Winton
1pm Josh Pyke

NEW YORK EVENTS
Australian Music Collective presents:
Tue March 20 – 7.30pm - Fontanas, NYC
Tickets $10 on door www.fontanasnyc.com
DAPPLED CITIES FLY
THE PANDA BAND
CHILDREN COLLIDE
SPOD

Australian Music Collective presents:
Wed March 21 – 7.30pm - Crash Mansion, NYC
Tickets $10 on door www.crashmansion.com
WOMAN
BEASTS OF BOURBON
DALLAS CRANE
MINK

DEJA VOODOO (NZ) Australian Music Collective presents:
Thu March 22 – 6pm to 9pm - AMC Cocktail Party @ Ottos Shrunken Head, NYC
Free admission - www.ottosshrunkenhead.com
SPOD
SUNWRAE

ANDREW WINTON Australian Music Collective presents:
Fri March 23 - 8pm – Union Pool, Brooklyn, NYC
Tickets $10 on door - www.myspace.com/unionpool
BAD WIZARD (USA)
BEASTS OF BOURBON
DALLAS CRANE
DIE DIE DIE (NZ)
LONDON EVENT

UK EVENTS
Australian Music Collective presents:
Wed March 27 - 7pm - Camden Barfly, London UK
Details at www.barflyclub.com
DALLAS CRANE
SPOD
DEJA VOODOO (NZ)
CUT OFF YOUR HANDS (NZ)

For you Europeans, Australians and New Zealand Fanatics, there is a re-broadcast time of Friday mornings, 0200 – 0400 hrs. West coast time so you all can check out the show and not have to set your alarms to too rude an hour.

Slayer - Black Serenade: From the new Slayer album, Christ Illusion. I don’t know what more I can say about Slayer that I have not said before. It was an all time high point to have them play on the show last year and I hope I get to see them play again this year.

The Beastie Boys - The Sounds Of Science: From the Paul's Boutique album. I have all the Beastie Boys albums. I never miss one, I think they are quite brilliant but it will always be this album, their 2nd, that will always be my favorite. Not to take anything away from what the band has achieved since but this is the one for me. I remember reading some critics slam this album and I couldn’t understand what their problem was. Mind you, this was back in the days when I read reviews and considered music writers more than the hacks which for the most part, they are. When the band released their 3rd album, Check Your Head and started packing the biggest places, all the critics kind of fell into line. This album has complexity and subtlety that shows the band for the very intelligent and funny people they are. All their albums do but this one is a stand out. Of all the albums we listen to on this show, this is one of the albums I think everyone should hear at least once or if you are a fan and don’t have this one, you are missing out.

Isaac Hayes - Walk From Regio's: From the Shaft soundtrack album. Playing this track for two reasons. It’s really great and it’s also where the Beasties grabbed part of the music for the track of theirs we just heard. I have been listening to the Shaft album since I was a 5th grader in 1856. It’s a record that everyone has heard a little bit of. Most of you Fanatics are familiar with the Shaft theme but have you heard the rest of the album? I think it’s fantastic. This album, along with Hayes’ Hot Buttered Soul album, were his best works. The way the single guitar meets up with the horn section on this album is a knock out. One thing about the Shaft album is annoying to me and that’s the new version of it, the one in the digipack has truncated a good part of the song Do Your Thing to put a video on the CD. The original is 19:38 and the edited version is a mere 4:40. It’s one entire side of the 2LP version. Worth finding the old CD version just for the extra jam. I hope you enjoyed this brief instrumental interlude.

John Cale - The Endless Plain Of Fortune (alt. version): From the new version of Paris 1919, originally released in 1973. This remastered and expanded version has several alternate versions and outtakes at the end of the CD and for me, these tracks are a welcome addition. Of all the extra stuff, this track is my favorite. It’s great to get a small view into Cale’s creative process. Cale’s output since he split from The Velvet Underground dwarfs all the other Velvets combined. I have heard a lot of it but not all. There’s some soundtracks that I am missing but I’m slowly discovering and catching up. I don’t play Cale’s albums all that often. I like them but they are for me at least, a sit down and listen experience. Not that the records are boring or burdensome, they are intense and concentrated and demand attention. When I can give it, I do.

Johnny Clarke - Dread A Dread: From the Dreader Than Dread CD on the mighty fine Blood & Fire label. I think we have played JC before. I don’t know much about the guy past I trust the label and like the songs. He does a lot of spiritual stuff, which usually puts me off somewhat but he’s such a great singer I can get past the stuff he sings about.

The Birthday Party - Mutiny In Heaven (alt. version): I believe I got this from Chris Haskett, who got it from Rowland S Howard. I have never seen it on a trade list anywhere but I’m sure it’s out there somewhere. It sounds like the same basic take of the song with a different vocal, lyric and melodic model. The vocal found on the more familiar version on the properly released EP is a thing of magnificence, illustrating how Mr. Cave can really let it rip. One of the benefits of this alt. version besides it being rare and perfect for our show, is that it lacks all the words Engineer X would have to dump if we were to play it, great as it is. I am a Cave Fanatic of the highest order and as much as I like all his work, I think the lyrics to Mutiny In Heaven are one of his finest moments as a writer. It has been a great time following all of his work over the years. At the end of next month, it will be 24 years since I saw the Birthday Party play in Los Angeles.

Alèmayèhu - Eshèté & Hirut Bèqèlè Tèmèlès: From Éthiopiques Vol. 3. More jams from Ethiopia. I don’t know anything about the artist but I sure like the pocket of this song. Engineer X gave me these CDs a long time ago and I am slowly going through them and so far, they are really great.

Kas Product - Pussy X: from the Try Out CD released in 1981. I think this is such a cool song. I have been listening to this band a bit over the last few months. I had never heard of them before Engineer X lent me the So Young But So Cold compilation that features this band. I found more of their music here and there, not the easiest CDs to find I might add, and started listening. It’s pretty minimalist vocal and keyboards stuff. Singer Mona Soyoc is an interesting singer and the music is good. So far, I liked the Try Out and By Pass (1983) albums but the later one, Ego Eye seems like the 80’s got to the band a little. The CD version of Try Out CD has some tracks from their first two EPs that are really cool and very edgy. I just located the actual vinyl on those so we’ll get to them later in the year.

Louis Jordan - Penthouse In The Basement: From the many CD Decca Recordings box on Bear Family. I got this a few centuries and I forget if I have gotten through all of it. I dip into it now and then. I got turned onto Jordan via Chris Haskett and the guys who were working at my office many years ago and I have been a fan ever since.

Grinderman – Grinderman: As I write this, I am sitting in a plane, 51 minutes into a journey from Sydney Australia to Los Angeles and I am trying to get all these notes written up in time for this broadcast two days from now. I was in Red Eye records hours ago, and heard on the store’s system what I guessed was the new Nick Cave fronted band, Grinderman. I inquired and was correct. The album came out a couple of days before so I was in luck that they had some. Many hours later: Back in LA and have only checked out a couple of songs from the album due to other work I had to do and exhaustion. I picked the title cut because I liked the way it sounded about 27 hours ago when I was in Sydney. Grinderman is Nick Cave, Warren Ellis who is also a Bad Seed and Dirty Three member, Martyn Casey was a Triffid and is also a Bad Seed as well and Jim Sclavunos who has been in so many bands, when I saw him in the Bad Seeds awhile ago, somehow I wasn’t surprised. He has turned up in many musical projects of all kinds from work with Lydia Lunch to The Cramps. At the time of this writing, I don’t know what Nick intends to do with the band, how many shows, albums, etc. I can’t see him ditching the Bad Seeds for this thing, seeing how great the last album was. Perhaps it’s a resting phase or a way to blow off some minimalist steam. As always, we will pay Fanatical attention to this band.

The Beasts Of Bourbon – Driver Man: From the Sour Mash album. In honor of these very awful people coming to America, the Beasts are getting an encore spin this week and this time, not from the Low Road album! I was in Australia last week as you know and I was contacted by the people who are bringing the band to America and they asked if I would mention their dates on the show. Not a problem. I will be at the show coming up this Sunday. I don’t remember when I was in the Troub on a Sunday. I don’t know any of the other bands on the bill but I saw the Beasts play a lot last year and they are really great right now so if you liked what you heard tonight, then please show up.

Alice In Chains - I Stay Away: Is it too “normal” to play AIC on our show? I always liked that the lyrics were so fucked and many times, just the thing I wanted to hear. I guess for some people, their stuff is a drag but I think it’s great and I always thought this release, Jar of Flies, was really great. I have all the AIC stuff, all the bootlegs I have been able to find as well but of all of them, it’s the Dirt album that is my favorite one. I think the late Layne Stayley had one of the coldest and most intense voices I have ever heard. I never got to see them play. Whenever they were touring, so was I.

The Gun Club – Lucky Jim: From the Lucky Jim album. Of all the Gun Club albums, this one and the Pastoral Hide And Seek albums are the ones I listen to the most, although I like them all. There’s one thing that’s frustrating about their catalog, it has been re-released with all kinds of extra tracks, some stuff has been re-mixed, there’s 9 separate releases and they are all but impossible to get them in America. I picked up the Divinity re-release the other day in Sydney but can’t seem to find them anywhere on the internet. I can find one here and there but not all of them. The Gun Club is one of those bands I have to take in small doses because the albums are always intense and since Jeffrey Lee Pierce passed away years ago, the albums have become hard to get though. I get frustrated that he died so young with all that talent. What an amazing songwriter.

Captain Beefheart - Beatle Bones N' Smokin' Stones: From Beefheart’s Mirror Man Sessions album. The early Beefheart material took a few twists, turns and long pauses to get to the bins of record stores. Tracks from the Mirror Man sessions were released in part, eventually but for the most part, from what I can understand, sat unheard for quite a long time until they were released in the UK on a CD called I May Be Hungry But I Sure Ain’t Weird and as well in America on the MMS and Safe As Milk CD re-issues. From what I understand, the band recorded in 1967 at TTG Studios in LA and again in 1968 at Sunset Sound, also in LA, parts of the latter sessions being embellished upon by producer Bob Krasnow while the band was on tour. What the Captain really thought of the result is up for debate. From what I’ve read, he liked it until the critics panned the songs when they were released on the Strictly Personal album and then fell in line with them. That is of little matter at this point. If I have read everything right, there are two versions of this song, the ’67 version and the ’68 version. They sound different to me. Which one do you like better? The ’68 sessions were apparently done when the band was under practiced and since Krasnow mixed the tapes without the band there, who knows what the results would have sounded like it he had been present? I like the original version found on the Mirror Man Sessions CD because I think the vocal has more passion and spontaneity and the 1968 version sounds like he’s trying to recapture something, good though it is. Hell, hear it all, I say.

The Fall - Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones: From the Complete Peel Sessions 6CD box set. Damn. This might be one of the most gotta have box sets I have. This track was taken from a session done for the John Peel show 06-30-96. As you know, we have a habit of playing a song a week from the massive Fall catalog. At the present rate, radio will be extinct before we get to all their songs but we can have a good time working on it. I have not heard the new Fall album at the time of this writing. I ordered a copy from a store online. They say I have not paid, I sent them the receipt three times. I write them but they will not reply. I feel angry about that so I am not running too quickly to the store to buy the record for a second time. I will get it one of these days.

Funkadelic - You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks: We’ve played tracks from Maggot Brain before I think. It’s not such a bad record, I guess it will do. It’s a great tune and all but the real genius of the song, to me at least is the lyric. You can look it up online. It’s where it’s at right now as far as I’m concerned: The rich got a big piece of this and that. / The poor got a big piece of roaches and rats. There’s nothing new about poverty of course but the way George Clinton and his bandmates were telling the story makes them righteous messengers from the underside of the American dream. Funkadelic’s importance in American music and music in general is not up for debate, the music is only there to be discovered and passed on. I think most or all of the Funkadelic catalog is in print and it’s all worth checking out. I have my favorites but it’s all pretty great.

Les Tambours De Brazza – Mabenguele: Another track from the Ahaando CD. Melvin Gibbs turned me onto this band last year. This is some serious music. Drum line jams from Congo. Their records are very hard to find for some reason. I have gone to all the usual places and ended up unable to find one of their albums called Tandala. It was hard enough finding the Ahaando album. I wish this stuff was easier to find because I bet some of Fanatics heard the jams and liked them. I don’t know why their CDs are hard to locate.

The Nation Of Ulysses - You're My Miss Washington DC: From the 13 Point Plan To Destroy America album. I don’t know if a band would call one of their records something like that nowadays with things being the way they are. It has been my great joy over the last couple of visits to DC to run into Mr. Ian Svenonius, mouthpiece for The Nation as well as The Make-Up Scene Creamers, etc. I don’t know when it’s going to air but Ian has a television show called Soft Focus. He has interviewed a few people for it, I was one of them. One of the producers e-mailed me today and apparently, they are looking to do something with the footage soon. I don’t know what the final deal with the show is, I went on because Ian asked me to. Ian MacKaye and I were his first two victims. It was an interesting night. I have said this before, Ian Svenonius is one of the most intellectually intense people I have ever met. A few weeks ago when I was in DC, I went into a restaurant with Ian MacKaye, Eddie Janney and Guy Picciotto. We walked in to see Ian S. eating dinner with his parents. I listened to him talking to his father about Sartre and tried to imagine my father and having the same conversation. Nope. Ian just released a book called The Psychic Soviet, which I have not read yet but will dive into in the next few days. If it reads anything like the liner notes of Nation albums, I don’t know how I will get through it. The Nation defines hectic. I wish I could have been in town to see those shows.

Edward Hazelton - Throw A Poor Dog A Bone: From the One String Blues CD. Hazleton shares the CD with Eddie “One String” Jones. Recorded on LA’s wonderful Skid Row in 1960, Hazleton is raw and really great. He’s not the star of the show though. It’s basically One String’s album with some extra tracks given to Hazelton. On the original LP release from 1964, there’s less tracks but still, it’s all about One String. I like both artists but something about Edward Hazelton put the hook in me. We’ll get more into this record later. You can find the CD online here and there. It’s on Takoma on import out of the UK.

Saint Vitus - White Magic / Black Magic: From the self-titled debut album on SST. Many years ago, we used to get flyers for Saint Vitus shows sent to us at SST. At one point, we all went to see them and were blown away at these long hairs with punk rock stickers on their gear. They played incredibly heavy music and live, it was awesome. I guess they made a deal with Greg Ginn of Black Flag / SST and they were signed to the label. We went to see them all the time and eventually, they went on tour with Black Flag all over America and Canada. I will never forget seeing them one night and watching vocalist Scotty coming to the end of one of the songs and he kept repeating the last word of the song as he lowered his voice. After the show, I asked him what the hell that was about and he told me that he didn’t have an echo box so he just did it himself. I like that! What a cool band they were. Interesting history in that they lost Scotty at one point and Scott “Wino” Weinrich of The Obsessed joined as singer. That was one hell of a line-up as well and the records they made were great but whenever I think of Vitus, I think of the line-up with Scotty Reagers in the vocal slot. I will never forget the Black Flag audience trying to deal with these guys night after night. Sometimes it went well, sometimes not as well, which we always chalked up to it being a growing experience for them. There was a lot of that in those days.

Zounds - More Trouble: From the Curse Of The Zounds CD. I have never heard all the CRASS bands. I have never gotten close. I didn’t know many people who had all those records or who knew anything about them. I never heard Zounds back when they made this album so over the years, I have had to play catch up. Zounds seems to be a more pop oriented thing compared to the more grinding efforts of the other CRASS-related bands. The Poison Girls had some tracks that were more pop as well. Here’s a pretty handy link for info on the band: http://www.zoundsonline.co.uk/hahn.html

The Clash - City Of The Dead: More Clash! I have been listening to this song in my head for days and so now, in an effort to get it out of my system, we listen to it tonight.

Gangbé Brass Band – Noubioto: I know nothing about this band past I heard them online and I really liked them. They are from Benin, formerly Dahomey. The album is called Whendo and I will write more about them when I have time. I am sorry Fanatics, I am overworked and behind on things so if these notes are not what they should be, I apologize.