Hello listeners. This weeks tune is scratchy voiced because a few days ago I saw, highly appreciated and screamed appreciation for the bands, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Le Shebbab and Shit Narnia, (a lot of screaming, it was that good). If you have the time and inclination look them up and have a listen. Anyways, this tune is a sad little uke one about I'm not sure what, it's abstract for sure, hope it's a nice listen anyways, and thanks for your time.
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Episode 115-Green Benches
Hello listeners. This week's tune's just a simple bit of reminiscing mixed with an abstract thing about being single, kind of, I think. Also I think about maybe how we think about what other people are thinking too much, as a general societal thing.
Hope it's a good listen anyways, and thanks for your time.
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Episode 114-Too Many Strangers
Hello Listeners. This weeks tune is a love song I guess, possibly.Sometimes you gotta write a love song even if there's nobody to sing it to. Generally it's a hopeful thing I guess. Anyways, hope it's a nice listen. Thanks for your time.
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
Episode 113-Salary Men
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a looped electronic thing played on a midi device mixed with some distorted electric guitar and some fairly straight forward lyrics about todays news in Japan and a couple other places, including the tragic accidental, (or possibly not so accidental), deaths of way too many drunk salary men who it seems wake up disoriented and stumble onto train tracks, or in some cases run onto them according to CCTV footage. Not a cheery song this, it's also about indifference to the news I guess and how governments make superficial changes to look like they're doing something about things but really the problems they're scratching the surface of require a lot more than that.
Hope you enjoy anyways, and thanks for listening.
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Episode 112-Gently Now
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is my reaction to learning from the radio and then the internet that Rise Up Australia, (a less crazy on the outside, but no less miss guided than good old Pauline Hanson and her crazies I think, political party), is organising a "Reclaim Australia" rally on the weekend, which made me immediately think of the Cronulla riots and how bloody shameful and racist and dense that whole kerfuffle was and how this could certainly lead to the same kinda thing. Definitely some anti Muslim sentiment going on in Australia at this point which irks me no end because its basically a lumping together of a whole lot of individuals into one over the top image of some extremist garbage which is "extremist", meaning not something that everybody buys into. Sure over in the Middle East atrocities are happening that should be stopped at the hands of I'd dare say far too many extremists, but not here, Australia doesn't need to be reclaimed from anyone, and as a work friend of mine said today, how can anybody reclaim it if it never belonged to them in the first place, you don't see people rallying to ship all us white folks out and give Australia back to it's original inhabitants.
I'm not a political person, more emotional than political, because I know that any political issue is a massive can of worms, but here's my two cents on this anyways. Hope you like it anyways, it's just a song.
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Episode 111-Meet Me at the Meat Market
Hello listeners, this weeks song is a tune about a couple of fictional gay men who are getting on a bit, one is a failed predatory type, tries to reel in young folks with no success, the other is the only person who cares about his friend really, at the end of the day, and drags him back home drunk after he's failed yet again, but isn't entirely ecstatic about this life. I kinda stole a bit of Paul McCartneys "No More Lonely Nights" for the choruses, kind of a cynical twist on that I guess.
Thanks for your time and your ears. Hope you enjoy it.
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Episode 110-Marius & Eponine
Hello. This weeks tune is based on a quote from Le Miserable:
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it."
I extrapolated it into a kind of depressing old Englishy lullaby kind of a thing that I can imagine being sung by a grandmother to her grandchild. I'm aware that somebody already turned this entire story into a to a pile of super amazing tunes, but I read this and had a go at my own anyways, I think it works out of context even though I named it after the characters in the book, (they have great names). Thanks for your time, as always.
I extrapolated it into a kind of depressing old Englishy lullaby kind of a thing that I can imagine being sung by a grandmother to her grandchild. I'm aware that somebody already turned this entire story into a to a pile of super amazing tunes, but I read this and had a go at my own anyways, I think it works out of context even though I named it after the characters in the book, (they have great names). Thanks for your time, as always.
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