Skip to Main Content

Volume, Contrast, Brilliance
Saturday August 31st, 2024 with Steve Kirkland
words (among other things) fail me

No intro, No outro, No in-between chat. This episode was recorded from home (by necessity, not choice) at the last minute, leaving no time for voicing rundown of tracks and artists...
The Truth About Planet Earth (Sun Ra cover)
WOOG RIOTS - Collectors of Pop - 2024, From L0-Fi to Disco! New
Living Proof
WARES - Survival - 2020, Mint Records Canadian
Crow, Crow
STUART MOXHAM - Fabstract - 2024, Tiny Global Productions New
Bessie Smith (The Band cover)
NORAH JONES - Live in New Orleans - 2003, Blue Note Canadian
Stimming
FUCKED UP - Another Day - 2024, Fucked Up Records Canadian New
Turbulent
GONE COSMIC - Sideways in Time - 2019, Kozmik Artifactz Canadian
I Told My Baby
BEAU GRIS GRIS & The APOCALYPSE - Hot Nostalgia Radio - 2024, Grow Vision New
In My Egg
BUZZARD BUZZARD BUZZARD - Skinwalker - 2024, Communion Records New
That's Her Train
SHORT CROSS - Arising - 1972, Grizly Records
Rise and Fall of jimmy Stokes
LINK WRAY - Link Wray - 1971, Polydor
Death kink
FONTAINES D.C. - Romance - 2024, XL Recordings New
Everyone Says Goodbye
MACHINES DREAM - Revisionist History - 2019, Progressive Gears Canadian
Super Breath
KAREN O & DANGER MOUSE Super Breath - Lux Prima (Bonus track on forthcoming reissue) - 2023, 30th Century Records/BMG New
Preludium (instrumental)
DANIEL O'SULLIVAN - VELD - 2017, O Genesis
Sun Greeted
BEINGS - There is a Garden - 2024, No Quarter New
Egyptian Tomb (Mighty Baby cover)
The FISHHEADS - Lobster Basque Replica Special Edition - 2023, Fruits de Mer Records
The Slip
The SMILE - 12-inch B-side - 2024, XL Recordings New
The Seance
The QUEEN'S NECTARINE MACHINE - The Mystical Powers Of Roving Tarot Gamble - 1969, ABC Records
Cinnamon Horses
NICK CAVE and the BAD SEEDS - Wild God - 2024, Bad Seed/Play it Again Sam New
Swampy Space (instrumental)
CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO with TONY LEVIN and PAT MASTELOTTO O - CG3+2 - 2022, Inside Out Music America
Mother of Pearl (Roxy Music cover)
PRETTY & TWISTED - Pretty & Twisted - 1995, Warner Bros. Records
What Were You Expecting
STEVE WYNN - Make It Right - 2024, Fire Records New
Keep Her Away from Me
LUKE DOUCET - Broken (And Other Rogue States) - 2005, Six Shooter Records Canadian
Cyclops
FINOM - Not God - 2024, Joyful Noise Recordings New
Rio Grande (instrumental)
MARTIN REV - The Sum of Our Wounds (Cassette Recordings 1973-85) - 2023, Bureau B, recorded in 197?
Raver (Alan Vega cover)
The SCIENTISTS - Heading For A Trauma - 1985, Au Go Go
All Of Confusion (sic) (Temptations cover)
The BELLRAYS - Heavy Steady Go! - 2024, Sweet Gee Records New
Soldier In The Army Of Love
TOM MORELLO - Digital Single - 2024, self-released New
The Letter
LAURIE ANDERSON - Amelia - 2024, Nonesuch New
The Cloud Song
The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - The United States of America - 1968, CBS
Yellow Submarine (comp: Lennon-McCartney)
ROOTS MANUVA - 12-inch A-side - 2001, Ultimate Dilemma
Aire Guerrero
MOSSA - Some Eat It Raw - 2006, Circus Company
Pop Muzik (M cover)
RICK WHITE - 20 Golden Hits of the 70s - 2024, self-released Canadian
We Did It Again/Murder In The Air (BBC Top Gear Session 9 June 1970)
KEVIN AYERS & The WHOLE WORLD - Shooting at the Moon (Bonus Track on reissue) - 2014, Parlophone Japan, recorded in 1970
Interactive CKCU
Steve Kirkland (host)
Anything to say will have to be said interactively, by you OR me...

5:55 PM, August 31st, 2024
Steve Kirkland (host)
I'm here but I'm not there, if you get my drift...

6:02 PM, August 31st, 2024
Wally
What happened to the station?

6:03 PM, August 31st, 2024
Steve Kirkland (host)
Hey Wally, nothing happened. Not to the station. To me, well, a positive Covid test (Bah!). I decided to salvage a show by flash-recording two hours of music at home... and since I wasn't recording my voice I skipped the show intro to boot.

6:10 PM, August 31st, 2024
Wally
Well I hope you recover quickly Steve as we'll miss all the musical knowledge you impart.

6:13 PM, August 31st, 2024
Steve Kirkland (host)
If I could impart telepathically, I would, Wally. Cheers

6:15 PM, August 31st, 2024
Benoît
Listening. It's the pits, this recurrence of COVID for many. Thankfully though, the symptoms seem generally not that bad any more. Still...

6:19 PM, August 31st, 2024
Steve Kirkland (host)
Hi Benoît. Yes, touch wood on the not-that-bad symptoms front.

6:29 PM, August 31st, 2024
Wally
I don’t know this band but I'm enjoying their Roxy Music cover 👌

7:10 PM, August 31st, 2024
Benoît
"nobody cares about your band" hilarious

7:21 PM, August 31st, 2024
Steve Kirkland (host)
Wally, Pretty & Twisted is a one-off album by a trio fronted by Jeanette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde).

7:23 PM, August 31st, 2024
Dad & The Dancing Labrador
Get well soon, Steve. Woofs from Drake......loosely translated to..."you are tougher than covid"....

7:28 PM, August 31st, 2024
Wally
Thanks Steve 👍

7:32 PM, August 31st, 2024
Neil & DL
Anyone who attempts a Roxy Music cover has huge cahones......this girl just knocked it outta 'da park, man!!! Well done, Steve!!

7:32 PM, August 31st, 2024
Steve Kirkland (host)
Cheers D&TDL!

7:32 PM, August 31st, 2024
Benoît
Reminds me of a really nice clip of Odds doing an interview, interspersed within a music video, and saying something like "at the time, we were at the cutting edge of no-one liking us very much." Makes a bandmate bust a gut, and repeat it.

7:39 PM, August 31st, 2024
Benoît
(referring to mine own comment, a bit above)

7:39 PM, August 31st, 2024
Steve Kirkland (host)
Benoît, I've never been in a band, but I get that, for many, it can be a labour of love, without much love in return.

7:41 PM, August 31st, 2024
Benoît
Steve: oh fuck, yeah. (Neither have I, incidentally.) Add to that that the band's high is on stage, and perhaps a bit after that, but that before, and after, they're more or less nobodies, usually with not a lot of money. Yeah, they (often) work for love. (I don't know if you read Graven on FB, he's about that pretty often. Or about fighting that feeling.)

7:51 PM, August 31st, 2024
Steve Kirkland (host)
Looking forward to broadcasting LIVE radio next time... Thanks for indulging me... Ciao

7:57 PM, August 31st, 2024
Wally
Thanks Steve 👍

7:58 PM, August 31st, 2024
eloise
breakin' mah heart .... oye y'all spooky suspicious slain in the secrets got test sucker'd Geez Loiuise Mother o' Love

7:58 PM, August 31st, 2024
PeterB
Steve, ANYBODY ... in case someone checks in ... Listening after-the-fact OnDement, and MUST get in hand: We Did It Again/Murder In The Air (BBC Top Gear Session 9 June 1970) KEVIN AYERS & The WHOLE WORLD - Shooting at the Moon (Bonus Track on reissue) - 2014, Parlophone Japan, recorded in 1970 PLEASING MAYHEM! BUT. I cannot fond it other than on Spotify. I do not usually use streams, and anyway dearly want to have things in hand (*when*, not if the stream service goes away or decides to fart). So, where to find this in downloadable form? Closest i have found thus far is Apple Musis / iTunes. But it is not the full thing including not that bonus track. HEALP!! ;^)

1:33 PM, September 2nd, 2024
PeterB
Oh, that's peter.blatherwick@gmail.com, if anyone cares...

1:44 PM, September 2nd, 2024