Volume, Contrast, Brilliance
Saturday July 11th, 2020 with Steve Kirkland
Tonal beat(s) for squalid heat

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Squalor (instrumental)
STEVE PALMER - Useful Histories - 2020, Sunrise Ocean Bender

Nine Lives to Rigel Five
GAME THEORY - Dead Centre - 1984, Lolita

Sunday Night at the Humdrum Palladium
The NEW FOOLS - Lockdown Session - 2020, self-released

Flower
JEHNNY BETH - To Love Is To Live - 2020, 20L07

I Wish It Would Rain (Temptations cover)
JOEY STEC - Joey Stec - 1976, Playboy

Vienna Breakdown (instrumental)
BACK DOOR - Back Door - 1973, Warner Bros

Big Surprise
13 ENGINES - Brave New Wave Sessions - 2017, CBC/Artoffact, recorded/broadcast Summer 1989

The Way That You Live
SONIC BOOM - All Things Being Equal - 2020, Carpark

Set Me Free (Reprise)
SPACEMEN 3 - Recurring - 1991, Space Age Recordings

IPhone
SPARKS - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip - 2020, BMG International

Birth of Merlin (musical bed)
DAVID PRITCHARD - Nocturnal Earthworm Stew - 1977, Island

Don’t Go to Sleep Without Me
The CREATURES - Anima Animus - 1988, Sioux

Diamond Glue
JACKIE LYNN - Jacqueline - 2020, Drag City

Moon Curse (instrumental)
NASH the SLASH - Dreams and Nightmares - 1979, Cut-Throat

Two Sisters (Kinks cover)
The LIMINANAS - 7-inch B-side - 2018, Because Music

I Broke the Circle
SLOW - 7-inch A-side - 1985, Zulu

Energy
TOY - Happy in the Hollow - 2018, Tough Love

Underwater Experiences
WIRE - 10:20 - 2020, self-released

Wild Party
A CERTAIN RATIO - 12-inch A-side - 1985, Factory

Swallow It (Regurgitated)
FAD GADGET - The Best of Fad Gadget (compilation with new remixes) - 2001, Mute

Paralysis
ROBERT RENTAL - 7-inch A-side - 1978, Regular

Selections from A Fistful of Dollars (comp: Ennio Morricone)
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 182 - 7-inch B-side - 1995, Amarillo

Birth of Merlin (musical bed)
DAVID PRITCHARD - Nocturnal Earthworm Stew - 1977, Island

Modern Day Problems
BANANAGUN - The True Story of Bananagun - 2020, Full Time Hobby

Timing is Everything
EXPLODING FLOWERS - Stumbling Blocks - 2020, the beautiful music

Terminal Rock (alternate version)
The DIODES - Rarities - 2017, Artoffact

Bubble Bus
SUNFLOWERS - Split 7” flexi disc (with St. James Infirmary) - 1989, Woosh

We’re All Fucking Morons
COMET GAIN - Fireraisers, Forever! - 2019, Tapete

I Mean It
HIM & the OTHERS - 7-inch A-side - 1966, Parlophone

No Good
The PACK A.D. - It Was Fun While It Lasted - 2020, self-released

Phonefreak Honey
SWEET JESUS - 12” A-side - 1992, Rough Trade

Don’t Blame it On Your Mother
SPYGENIUS - Man on the Sea - 2020, Big Stir

Timebomb
LISA MYCHOLS & SUPER 8 - Lisa Mychols & Super 8 - 2020, the beautiful music

Nobody
The MEKONS - Exquisite - 2020, self-released

Eden Lost and Found
MARK LANEGAN - Straight Songs of Sorrow - 2020, Heavenly

Birth of Merlin (musical bed)
DAVID PRITCHARD - Nocturnal Earthworm Stew - 1977, Island

Slighty Lighter/No Friends But The Mountains (instrumentals)
HEDVIG MOLLESTAD - Ekhidna - 2020, Rune Gramoffon

Interactive CKCU

Steve Kirkland (host)
Cyberinteractivity beckons you... chime in!

6:02 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steffi from Lowertown.
I was going to ask about the FM signal, but then I noticed the title of last week's show. I take it that it's an on-going issue. Glad to still be able to listen online.

6:10 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
Hi Steffi... yes, theissue is ongoing... I'm hoping we'll be back on FM soon, eager to broadcasting beyond the Net... current events have forced CKCU broadcasts increasingly into the digital maelstrom... without old-school "on air" listeners listening in on radios, hi-fis (love dropping that in there) or car steros miss out...

6:15 PM, July 11th, 2020

Wally
I tried to tune in on the radio in the car as we went to pick up some ice cream but nothing but dead air, still glad to be able to listen on my phone.

6:22 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
Wally! Listen as/with what you need, happy to have you and anyone else listening tuned in.

6:27 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
Wally, ice cream IS for this weather... part of my family agenda of late, weekly runs out to Carp

6:38 PM, July 11th, 2020

Wally
Where in Carp is the best ice cream? We just went to the Merry Dairy, they make great coconut ice cream when it's available

7:03 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
Across from the west entrance to the Carp Fairgrounds

7:07 PM, July 11th, 2020

Jeb
Hearing the tunes, but can't get them as loud on my bluetooth speaker.

7:09 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
Hi Jeb. I'm maxed out on my headphones and similarly insufficiently served by the volume

7:12 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
Shout out to Maestro Morricone!

7:13 PM, July 11th, 2020

Wally
Thanks for yhe ice cream tip, always on the lookout for a good ice cream place.

7:23 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
Summer: Ice Cream

7:26 PM, July 11th, 2020

Jeb
Not a shot at the audio on your show, but lamenting my own crappy bluetooth speakers vs my stereo.

7:26 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
Jeb, I was speaking of my "in-house" technology

7:28 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steffi in Lowertown
@Jeb ... you should re-pair your bluetooth speaker. That should fix your volume issue.

7:28 PM, July 11th, 2020

Jeb
@the host: both of us. @steffi, not broken, just not even close to the sound of my Celestions.

7:33 PM, July 11th, 2020

Wally
@Jeb hello, hope you are doing well

7:35 PM, July 11th, 2020

Jeb
Hi Wally! Doing alright thanks, as I hope you are too.

7:46 PM, July 11th, 2020

Wally
Thanks Jeb, we are all doing well. I will have to get you copies of our new releases if you are interested.

7:55 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
No background music... hmmm... glitch city

7:57 PM, July 11th, 2020

Dave JC
Just got back...trying to pick up a portable AC, now that I'm home full-time, but all out everywhere. Anyway, got a wee bit in the car through the online app. Really only a wee bit. I'll have to listen back.

7:58 PM, July 11th, 2020

Dave JC.
PS: from my 12fl vantage point, looking west, I see a huge storm approaching.

7:59 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
I didn't announce it, but the music to close out is a mash of the opening two tracks on the new album from Norwegian guitarist Hedwig Mollestad.

8:00 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
Hi Dave

8:00 PM, July 11th, 2020

Steve Kirkland (host)
... the two tracks on the Hedwig Mollestad are not the first two

8:03 PM, July 11th, 2020

Wally
Thanks for the tunes tonight Steve 👌👍😊

8:08 PM, July 11th, 2020

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