Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

With the radio station's mascot being a porker, what more contrived a farewell could I come up with than Goodybe Pork Pie Hat...?  After five years in Moranbah we're moving on and so this is my last ever show for 4rfm.  Goodbye listeners... if I had any...  Two hours of playing whatever music I wanted - my only qualification being the fact I walked in off the street and asked to have my own show.  I won't get that opportunity again.  So here is my final ever tracklisting: Mingus Big Band - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / Low - Breaker / Arthur Russell - This Is How We Walk On The Moon (Labyrinth Ear Rework) / Bob Gibson - Yes I See / Justice - Canon (Erol Alkan's Extended Rework) / Chico Buarque - Construcao / Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around / Todd Terje - Inspector Norse / Metronomy - Corinne / Battles - Ice Cream (featuring Matias Aguayo) / Josh White - St James Infirmary / Nicolas Jaar - Too Many Kids Finding Rain In The Dust / Ghostpoet - Survive It / Art Pepper - Summertime / Free Bidou - Amicalment Votre / I:Cube - Transpiration / Mujeres - Frantic / The Dillards - Banjo In The Hollow / Paul Gilbert - BRO / The Rhythm Odyssey - Move Groove (Dr Dunks Remix) / Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Our House / Battles - UW / Nathan Fake - You Are Here (Four Tet Remix) / Cornershop - Topknot / Aloe Blacc and Joel Van Dijk - I Got The Blues / Brian Eno - The Big Ship.

Valentine's Day

In anticipation of Valentine's Day, I decided to play Stupid Cupid on my Thursday night show.  Not just the Connie Francis song, but a matchmaking game involving songs.  Pairing Romeo and Juliet (the Basement Jaxx song with the Thin White Duke remix of Avalon) didn't work quite as well as Shakespeare would have hoped.  However, Mrs Robinson and Mr Grieves fared much better, the former by the Lemonheads and the latter by the Pixies.  Dirty Harry (Gorillaz) and Sexy Sadie (Beatles) made an odd couple with a dubious future, but there was love in the air with Dr Baker (the Beta Band) and Sister Morphine (Ben Harvieu).  More surprising was the passionate union of Soldier Girl and Ramblin' Man (the Polyphonic Spree and Hank Williams, respectively), whereas the happiest date was perhaps reserved for the final couple: the Felice Brothers' Boy From Laurence County and Bob Dylan's Girl From The North Country.  More of a future for them, one would think, than the Black Keys' Psychotic Girl and Dolly Parton's Potential New Boyfriend.  If you can think of any other decent pairings, feel free to post your suggestions. 

Zappa Teaser

The music behind the moustache.  As part of 4rfm's run of 'Trax & Facts,' where an hour's show is dedicated to a single musician, I decided to showcase the man who offended Al Gore's wife, named his children Moon Unit, Ahmet and Dweezil, and left behind a legacy of music, both incredibly good and incredibly bad.  Here's the tracklisting for the show: Leather Goods / WPLJ / Tiger Roach / Hungry Freaks, Daddy / Zolar Czakl / Peaches En Regalia / Joe's  Garage / Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich / San Ber'dino / Dedicated To The One I Love (Ruben & The Jets) / Little Boy Blue (Tim Dawe) / Things I Wonder (The Shaggs) / Opus 1, No.3, 2nd Movement, Presto / Hot Poop / Let's Make The Water Turn Black / We Are Not Alone / Sofa No.2.

Divetime Radio

To celebrate Moranbah pool opening, tonight's show was all about the water.  Here's the tracklisting: Loudon Wainwright III - The Swimming Song / Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty / Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim / Make-Up - Wade In The Water / Feist - The Water / Bob Dylan - High Water / Woody Guthrie - Swimmy Swim / Foals - Like Swimming / Caribou - Odessa (from the album 'Swim') / Foals - Heavy Water / Suzy and the Red Stripes - Seaside Woman / Beach Boys - Cool Cool Water / The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea / Blue King Brown - Water / Kim - Wet n' Wild (Midnight Juggernauts remix) / Frank Zappa - Let's Make The Water Turn Black / Sly & The Family Stone - Swim / Custom Kings - Swimming In The Darkness / White Denim - River To Consider / Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea / Geno Washington - Water / Metronomy - The Bay / John Martyn - Back Down The River / Ani di Franco - Swim / Rennie Foster -  Devil's Water / Sandy Dillon - Float / Little Dragon - Swimming / Ramsey Lewis - Wade In The Water.