#NewMusicFriday 12/07/2024

This was my first live show of 2024 (because everyone else was busy setting up for Stradbroke Music Day – more about that later), and I did very much enjoy doing it. The three hours just flew by, and I realised again (as I have for a long time) that doing these live shows is good for my mental health, and the standing for three hours to do them is good for my back, too. I’m not promising to do a live show every week, but I may do it now and again. And it looks like I’ve already been booked in to do another one this coming Friday.

I ended up playing 41 tracks in the 3 hours (and for once my timings were actually spot on), including one request (not listed) from a well-meaning listener whom I’ve probably put off for life by saying I don’t normally do requests in my shows (my role is to educate rather than repeat old stuff). So here’s that long long list of tracks:

Phantom Parts – war of attrition
Lying For Friends – K.T.K.
secret rivals – Sing
Sarah Buckley – Things We Leave Behind
Django Jones & The Mystery Men – Say My Name
Mortimer Nyx – Wailing Night
Bird Cage Theatre – The City Screams Us
Broken By Rock – Popstars
Idle Lane – Raid
Kar Stanton – Bigger
Coco & The Lost – figjam
Filter Zombies – Power Moves
Squat Party – Dream Of You (Lucas Remix)
Awolnation – Sail (Bass Machines Remix) (2012)
Ae Mak – Let’s Do It
Lost FM – Our Love
Beethoven – Violin Concerto in D Major, Op61, 1st Movement (pretty old)
Lemonade shoelace – Violet’s Song
Hallworth – Stateside
Rory Connaghan – Two Tone Summer
Sock Drawer – Paradise
The Youth Play – If We Just Ever Were
Porteous – Fake ID
Pylon Poets – Echoes Of Desire
The Silver Lines – Tame
Alex Hawkins – Ruth Langmore
JW Darwin – Jenny Moves Slow
Ten Hands High – Happiness By Design
Runner Up – I Wanna Be Late
I, Doris feat Dunstan Bruce – Not Done Yet
Yur Mum – Same Igual
Crooked Ties – Not Quite Like Before
The Standing Dead – I Did It For The Money
Muncle – Not Much Closer
Gabriella Hunzinger – Childish Lovers
Echo Machine – Between Two Worlds
RJ Phillips Band – Swing Kid
The Big Grey Man – Shattered Summits
Richard Pierce – Goddess Mother (The Real Name For Everest)
Litterbug – Have and The Have Nots

Every track a good one, because I only play good tracks on my show.

And so to Stradbroke Music Day. It was great to meet all the new RS DJs I’d not met yet, and to see so many old friends again. I do miss the old village, but (and no disrepect) I prefer living in the city. Counter-intuitively, there’s more to distract me from the chaos and pace of my everyday life than there was in the village. It was great, too, to hear so many acts I’d never heard before, and to see massive maturing in those I have heard before. Everyone who performed there should be really proud of themselves, for having the courage to stand up on stage and perform for the crowd. I’ve done it, and it’s nerve-wracking and frightening and glorious. Just a semi-boring side note – when we play music between acts, it’s not only to keep the crowd entertained, but it’s also to provide some kind of coninuity of music for our listeners, so we try to avoid dead air. With sound checks and all sorts going on around us, it’s quite a chaotic experience. And respect to everyone who helped make the festival happen again this year – for them it’s much more of a physical and mental act of jeopardy than it is for me.