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Saturday December 11th, 2021 with Steve Kirkland
every blip/clip/flip/ a new trip?

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Intrusive
The PRIMEVALS - New Trip - 2021, Triple Wide New
The Illusion
DREAM MACHINE - The Illusion - Buried Alive 2017, CastleFace
Sudden Death
The ORGAN - Grab That Gun - 2004, Mint Canadian
Rabbits
BLACK VEILS - (no album) - 2021, self-released New
Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Bauhaus cover)
The 69 CATS - Transylvanian Tapes - 2014, Cleopatra
Sometimes I Go Down
HOT GARBAGE - RIDE - 2021, Mothland Canadian New
Hippie Death Cult
TIJUANA BIBLE - Gringo - 1993, Big Beat
Crapolino
FAUST - 1971-1974 (box set): "Punkt" LP - 2021, Bureau B, recorded in 1972 New
Spend The Rent
WAYNE KRAMER - Death Tongue - 1991, Progressive International
Never Coming Down
BAT FANGS - Queen of My World - 2021, Don Giovanni New
Mother Tongue
VISIBLY CHOKED - Visibly Choked ep - 2021, Mothland Canadian New
Chameau Hongrois (Musical Bed)
MAXIME DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD - Automates Ki ‎ - 1997, Plastique Recording Co. Canadian
The Letters We Sent
JULIE DOIRON - I Thought of You - 2021, You’ve Changed Canadian New
Paint and Sugar
DAVE KUSWORTH & THE BOUNTY HUNTERS - Wives Weddings & Roses - 1988, Kaleidoscope Sound
I’d Have to Think About It
LEITH ROSS - I'd Have To Think About It - 2021, self-released Canadian New
Yesterday Once More (The Carpenters cover)
CINERAMA - John Peel Sessions: Season 2 - 2003, Scopitones, recorded in 2000
Right Here (Go-Betweens cover)
The BATS - V.A.: Love Goes On - A Tribute to Grant McClennan - 2007, Rare Victory
Scramblehead (instrumental)
BLACK DICE - Mod Prog Sic - 2021, FourFour Records New
Penelope Tree (Felt cover)
The PAINTED WORD - Not Yet Saved - 2009, Vollwert Records Berlin
Southern State Tapestry
FELT - Ignite The Seven Cannons And Set Sail For The Sun - 1985, Cherry Red
The Kindness of Strangers (Nick Cave)
NELL & the FLAMING LIPS - Where The Viaduct Looms - 2021, Bella Union Canadian New
The Old Main Drag
The POGUES - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash - 1986, Stiff
Get a Job
BLACK EG - Black EG - 1991, Creation
Chameau Hongrois (Musical Bed)
MAXIME DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD - Automates Ki ‎ - 1997, Plastique Recording Co. Canadian
The Medusa Malfunction
POLITE SOCIETY - Polite Society - 2021, Spiral Void Canadian New
I Can’t Find It
LOVE - Love Lost (never-released full album) - 2009, Sundazed, recorded in 1971
Turning Away
The KUNDALINI GENIE - Half-in Half-out - 2021, Space Ranch Records New
Evil Ways (Santana cover)
FREAK OUT - Life - 2002, Garden of Delights, recorded in 1971
Kaleidoscope
BLAKE - Kaleidoscope - 2021, Subjangle New
Freedom of Speech
SWANSEA SOUND - Live At The Rum Puncheon - 2021, self-released New
Red Rubber Ball (The Cyrkle cover)
The DIODES - The Diodes - 1977, Columbia Canadian
Black Hole
MARISSA PATERNOSTER - Peace Meter - 2021, Don Giovanni New
Life is an Experiment
NEW AGE DOOM, LEE SCRATCH PERRY - Lee Scratch Perry's Guide To The Universe - 2021, We Are Busybodies New
Baltimore (extended mix)
The TAMLINS - V.A.: Sly And Robbie's Taxi Sound - Marking 30 Years Of Taxi Records - 1995, Auralux Recordings
Interactive CKCU
Steve Kirkland (host)
My voice is hereby virtually (and remotely) activated...

6:03 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
... and you are waiting for?

6:07 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steffi in Lowertown
Always a pleasure to spend a part of my Saturday night listening to great music!

6:14 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Hi Steff, always glad to have you pop up (in) interactively again!

6:15 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steffi in Lowertown
I'm going to be soaking my feet in epsom salts, but the water is still too hot.

6:15 PM, December 11th, 2021
Wally
Always fun to join in & enjoy the music 👌

6:16 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Always fun having you aboard (and enjoying the music) Wally.

6:17 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Steffi, I find winter puts a damper on soaking in hot water... counterintuitively dries the skin and, well, I prefer my itches to be more emotional than visceral... let it get to room temp

6:20 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steffi in Lowertown
I put it as hot as I can, so that I can soak them for 45 minutes, then scrape off the dead skin, and then soak again to wash them off.

6:22 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
... that's my token input as aesthetician for tonight

6:22 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steffi in Lowertown
I try to mimic what the Viet ladies do.

6:23 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
OK, I lied... Steffi, that's too much work, if not too much information 😉

6:25 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steffi in Lowertown
I also like the thought of the magnesium in the epsom salts helping to purge the impurities from my system. Lord knows we all have a lot of impurities running wild.

6:26 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
i'm providing radio to cleanse the impurities of listeners' musical sensibility, so to speak... hope it's effective accompaniment for soaking... feet or otherwise

6:29 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steffi in Lowertown
For sure your show is effective accompaniment ... I tend to soak only during your show.

6:31 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
The station ID at the end of the first set ("good to the last drop") was produced by friend and CKCU alumnus Terry Martin. Thanks, Terry!

6:37 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steffi in Lowertown
I like Julie Doiron a lot.

6:41 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Julie's a hidden jem that deserves to be much less hidden

6:42 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
gem

6:48 PM, December 11th, 2021
Wally
Thanks for including a Dave Kusworth song in the mix and as you know I'm a big fan & think more people should get to hear his music

6:55 PM, December 11th, 2021
Wally
Also a big fan of The Bats and a wonderful Go-Betweens cover by them 👏 👌

6:56 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Cheers Wally!

7:04 PM, December 11th, 2021
Louisa
Nick Cave cover was fab - I'm playing catch up on my Spotify - creating a Stop me in my Tracks- Tracks playlist

7:10 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Hey Louisa, been a while... always lots of tracks to stop in here

7:14 PM, December 11th, 2021
Louisa
Came in late will have to go back and check out Scottish band Primevals - lived there for a while and discovered The Twilight Sad and Out Lines

7:14 PM, December 11th, 2021
Louisa
I did not know the Cinerama - Wedding Present connection - listened and heard a lot of The Wedding Present on BBC Radio 6. Nice

7:17 PM, December 11th, 2021
Dave JC
Hey Steve, missed you last week. Got me from half an hour ago and onwards. I'm sure the feet thing is pretty good, but a veg biriani and a pint is def cleansing my sole! Not to mention tuning in to you too.

7:18 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Louisa, I'll have to check out the Out Lines... new to me

7:25 PM, December 11th, 2021
Wally
The Primevals were great & several of the band members were in The Beat Poets who releases a few records on Stephen Pastel's 53rd & 3rd label 👌

7:26 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Mr. JC, I cooked Indian tonight as well, two chicken curries with lots of veg... downstairs waiting for me to have with lots of beer

7:26 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Always appreciate the added details, Wally

7:27 PM, December 11th, 2021
Dave JC.
You'll be in seventh heaven Steve.

7:28 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Indeed Dave... good way to close out a wonky day, weather- and footy-wise

7:30 PM, December 11th, 2021
Dave JC
🤡

7:32 PM, December 11th, 2021
Dave JC.
Of course, footy being the Beautiful Game. 🖖🏽

7:34 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Some of it was beautiful today... not much of what I was watching of it, mind you

7:35 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Maria Paternoster sings in Screaming Females, another new-to-me band I have to check out further...

7:44 PM, December 11th, 2021
IanJ
There's a great cover of Because the Night by Screaming Females/ Garbage collaboration. Anybody around here dig covers, hmm? Great show, DJ SK!

7:50 PM, December 11th, 2021
Dave JC
Glad you got a bit of Robbie in there. It was sad, sad news indeed, hearing Mr Robbie Shakespeare passing. I believe he was part of the best bass and drums duo, particularly in the reggae world. Sly and Robbie, besides being behind many of my favourite reggae outfits, Black Uhuru in particular, worked with many well know artist outside the reggae world, as well as producing. Only 68.

7:53 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Thanks Ian! I saw that Garbage/SFs 10-inch earlier this week... hmmm

7:55 PM, December 11th, 2021
Louisa
Another random connection an all girl indie pop group Peaness from Chester that I saw at Sneaky Pete's in the Cowgate - playing in support with The Wedding Present this summer in UK - digging through the vaults of music memories

7:57 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Only 68 indeed Dave. Damn. What a legacy though. A case could easily be made Robbie is the best known bassist in the world. That instrument has an entirely different and deserved reverence in the reggae context.

8:00 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Peaness. Love it. Thanks Louisa.

8:01 PM, December 11th, 2021
Steve Kirkland (host)
Thank-you all for listening/participating interactively. Cheers

8:01 PM, December 11th, 2021
Terry M.
Hey Steve, I caught that ID, thanks for playing it. The track right before it was interesting and caught my ear as well.

2:46 AM, December 12th, 2021
Julian P.
Thanks for playing Kaleidoscope by Blake, Steve. 👍

4:47 PM, December 12th, 2021