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Whatever's Cool With Me
Thursday August 28th, 2025 with Steve Kirkland
whatever's cool with, er, me...

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Punishment
Mac DeMarco - Guitar - 2025, Mac's Record Label Canadian New
Life's What You Make It (Talk Talk cover)
Joan as Police Woman - Cover Two - 2020, self-released
Last Tango in Paris (comp: Gato Barbieri)
Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango - 2000, ¡Ya Basta!
Shamrocks and Shenanigans (Buds and Brew mix)
House of Pain - 7-inch B-side - 1992, Sub Pop
Boomerang
Revival Season - Golden Age of Self-Snitching - 2024, Heavenly Recordings
Wang Dang Doodle (comp: Willie Dixon)
The Pointer Sisters - The Pointer Sisters - 1973, Blue Thumb
Cities in Dust (Siouxsie & the Banshees cover)
Garbage - Copy/Paste - 2024, Stun Volume/BMG
Promised (Musical Bed)
The Gateless Gate - Birch and Jay - 2025, self-released Canadian New
Fade Away (Junior Byles cover)
The New Age Steppers - The New Age Steppers - 1981, On U Sound
Don't Fight Your Friends
Gina Birch - Trouble - 2025, Third Man Records New
Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass) (Remix) (Blondie cover)
Elisapie - Digital SIngle - 2025, self-released Canadian New
Rock Steady
Aretha Franklin - 7-inch A-side - 1971, Atlantic
Strange Little Girl (The Stranglers cover)
Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls - 2001, Atlantic
Addicted
Taylor Holden - Cherry Bomb - 2025, self-released Canadian New
Lord Have Mercy
Sparks - Mad! - 2025, Transgressive New
Promised (Musical Bed)
The Gateless Gate - Birch and Jay - 2025, self-released Canadian New
Get Me (Dinosaur Jr.)
Ben Lee - Quarter Century Classix - 2019, New West Records
Passenger Seat
Wolf Alice - The Clearing - 2025, Columbia, RCA, Sony Music New
Don't Dance Me Down
The Fiery Furnaces - Stuck in My Head (Live) - 2024, self-released, recorded in 2021
Water Music / Here Comes the Flood (comp: Peter Gabriel)
Robert Fripp (w Eno and Peter Gabriel)/Eno?Peter Gabriel - Network - 1985, EG Records, recorded in 1979
Save the Lobsters
No Joy - Bugland - 2025, self-released Canadian New
Schall Und Schwer (Erst Aus Dem Ufo Seh Ich Dich) Sound and Heavy (I only see you from the UFO)
Conny Frischauf - Kenne Keine Tone - 2024, Bureau B
Greetings from the Gutter
The Government - Electric Eye - 1979, Voicespondence Canadian
Disintegration (The Cure cover)
Big Blood - Double Days I - 2015, Don't Trust The Ruin
Under the Rolling Moon
Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction - 2021, Carpark Records Canadian
Days (Television cover)
Real Estate - The Wee Small Hours: B - Sides And Other Detritus 2011 - 2025 (Digital only) - 2025, Domino New
Let it FLow
Spiritualized - Pure Phase - 1995, Dedicated
Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath cover)
Mercury Rev - The Peel Sessions - 2009, Universal, recorded in 2001
Promised (Musical Bed)
The Gateless Gate - Birch and Jay - 2025, self-released Canadian New
20th Century Man
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies - 1971, RCA
Two Sisters (Kinks cover)
The Liminanas - 7-inch B-side - 2018, Because Music
Sincerely
Oranje - In Irons - 2025, self-released Canadian New
Midnight Dream
Little Axe - Hard Grind - 2002, Nocturne
Dead Ringers (instrumental)
OH NO & ROY AYERS - Oh No Deconstructs The Music of Roy Ayers - Good Vibes/Bad Vibes - 2023, Nature Signs
Interactive CKCU
Steve Kirkland (host)
Good Morning... drop me a line...

9:39 AM, August 28th, 2025
Benoît
Well, this is a fine to-do!

9:43 AM, August 28th, 2025
Satellite Birdhouse
Good morning! Gotan Project in the house, love it!

9:44 AM, August 28th, 2025
B
So: real live radio, un-preplanned! Seat of the pants...

9:44 AM, August 28th, 2025
Neil DGD
So nice to have you back Steve ! Hope it was a good trip. This is my favourite track I have heard all summer, man !!!!!!!!!!~

9:45 AM, August 28th, 2025
B
There seems to be a funny web-kerfuffle about Mac DeMarco these days. Heard him played last week or so, looked him u; amateur "plumber"? and criticised for it?; back to music?

9:47 AM, August 28th, 2025
Neil DGD
Yup Gotan Project. Thought it had a very familiar groove. Just LOVE THAT!! Morning SB and B

9:48 AM, August 28th, 2025
Neil DGD
Be listening in the car. Gotta pick up picture frames. Will be plugged in.....real loud !!

9:50 AM, August 28th, 2025
Dave JC
Hi Steve.

9:51 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Hey Benoît... I aim to do fine!

9:54 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Satellite Birdhouse, glad you're loving...

9:55 AM, August 28th, 2025
Benoît
Steve: a very "mixy" mix up to now! Like it!

9:58 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Thanks Neil DGD, we are alwas happy to have us take you with us when (wherever) you go!

10:06 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Good Morning Mr. JC!

10:07 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
mixy mixy... at times trixy...

10:09 AM, August 28th, 2025
Satellite Birdhouse
This is exactly why we choose CKCU over commercial radio every single day :)

10:12 AM, August 28th, 2025
B
SB: you said it right there!

10:14 AM, August 28th, 2025
B
Elisapie's doing a great job!

10:15 AM, August 28th, 2025
Dave JC
Adrian Sherwood behind the desk. Always loved that version of Fade Away. Sent off new album and matching socks! I like this last track....Sounded like it could have been mixed by the same man...a search tells me it's Gina Birch. Didn't know she had a new album out. Loved it. Thanks Steve.

10:16 AM, August 28th, 2025
Dave JC
BTW: YES! it is still morning, but I'm up and here for the prog!

10:19 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Good ear, Dave.. you got the wrong morning for the prog! That's tomorrow: Studio J Jukebox! Sean's hosting, so prog is def on the menu...

10:22 AM, August 28th, 2025
Benoît
I'm waiting for someone to come up with 'retro-prog". Then we truly won't know whether we're coming or going. (deep and useless thought)

10:27 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Benoît, deep is always admirable... as such, never useless.

10:29 AM, August 28th, 2025
Andi
Please play Landslide by Run With Us. We're Ottawans! :D

10:36 AM, August 28th, 2025
Gary
Still one of the best radio host on any air wave on this planet, great show ! Thanks

10:38 AM, August 28th, 2025
Dave JC
Sorry, program....being lazy in my writing. Though a bit of prog is also OK by me (or where you just joking and I missed it )

10:40 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Hi Andi, as you're reaching out to (arguably... maybe) this station's least tech-savvy (and by choice old school) DJ, I can't pull RWU out of the proverbial hat... I'll check your band out online if you give me a useful link. Cheers

10:48 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Cheers Gary!

10:48 AM, August 28th, 2025
Satellite Birdhouse
Oh wow wow wow. What was that wild beautiful track?!

10:50 AM, August 28th, 2025
Satellite Birdhouse
The Fiery Furnaces! That was so cool.

10:51 AM, August 28th, 2025
Andi
I'm even less tech savvy! I get it! LOL

10:52 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Dave, your mistake, my mistake... but here's some Fripp/Eno/PG to fill that void...

10:54 AM, August 28th, 2025
Andi
I sent you a link on FB messenger. Have an awesome day, love the show.

10:55 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Satellite Birdhouse... loved The Fiery Furnaces, their body of work's behind them (they do the odd live show apparently), but well worth checking out... quirky and timeless

10:57 AM, August 28th, 2025
Wally
Good morning Steve, tuning in a bit late but enjoying the sounds 👌

10:59 AM, August 28th, 2025
Satellite Birdhouse
It was so bold! Breaking rules in the best way. Excited to dig into the rest of their stuff.

11:00 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Thanks Andi. You as well.

11:00 AM, August 28th, 2025
Dave JC.
Yeah, enjoyed the Fripp/Eno/PG and this one....Greetings From the Gutter.

11:07 AM, August 28th, 2025
Wally
I thought that sounded like The Government who played at the Rotters Club many many years ago

11:13 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
HI Wally! Glad you've joined in.

11:14 AM, August 28th, 2025
DonnaD
Really enjoying the “filling in for Ryan” music mix today. Thanks, Steve.

11:17 AM, August 28th, 2025
Wally
Ducks Ltd. Do some great covers as well of songs by The Cure, Camera Obscura and JAMC

11:21 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Hi DonnaD, I'm definitely enjoying filling in for Ryan.

11:21 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
I'll have a look for those Ducks Ltd. covers Wally.

11:30 AM, August 28th, 2025
Ryan Bresee (host)
Thanks for filling in, Steve! Fantastic show. I have been listening while ripping up carpet.

11:45 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
My pleasure Ryan, Thanks. Glad you've been listening in... not so happy for you that you have to rip up carpet.

11:52 AM, August 28th, 2025
hb
got to sit in with little axe on a C & F harp fun✊️

11:57 AM, August 28th, 2025
Dave JC.
Thanks Steve, nice program and thanks for the heads up!

11:58 AM, August 28th, 2025
Steve Kirkland (host)
Cheers All!

12:00 PM, August 28th, 2025