playlist for show 16/05-09

part two of the hope robertson radio one triple threat. got through drive with sumo-suited playstation-playing tim couch ok last night. here's the playlist for the newfangled show:

Cool Rainbows (nz) - Southern Summer Sun

Tortoise - High Class Slim Came Floatin In

Future Of the Left - Drink Nike

Black Dice - Chicken Shit

F In Math (nz) - Dinosaur Faith Test

Cosmic Rays of Death (nz) - S.O.S.

The Skull Defekts - Rhythm Is The Key

Bemsha Swing (nz) - Spitting Spite

Goldenaxe (nz) - Hot N Cold

William Ricketts (nz) - Shoe Gazer

Coco Solid (nz) - Turtle Pizza Cadillacs

Patrick Wolf - Vultures

Kittyhawk (nz) - 1985

Bloc Party - Biko (Mogwai Remix)

Mint Chicks (nz) - Hot On Your Heels

Tim Exile - Pay Tomorrow

Ohk - Ohk

Super Furry Animals  - Inaugural Trams

Mr Maps - This Mess Is A Place

Dear Time's Waste (nz) - Polarity

Good Laika (nz) - Twelve O'Something

Prince Diana (nz) - Marie Antoinette

The XX - Crystallised

The Long Lost - The Art Of Kissing

PJ Harvey - Victory

blablabla

YO. 

didn't do the show in the weekend. was in bannockburn at an awesome 21st. it ruled. Booofy covered the show, thanks Booofy. you should check out his show, Fooooood. It's from 9 til 11 on a Monday night. 

As well as it already being NZ music month all over your face, next week it's NZ Music Week at the one. Which means completely 100% NZ music. And a series of lunchtime entertainments in the form of people playing on our tiny balcony. AND people playing live to airs at 7 every week night. Bad Sav are playing on Friday. yes yes oh yay.

in the meantime, check this shit out - http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/

also - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108661663792&ref=share

Oren Ambarchi. Sunn 0)).  Fuck YES.

general bloggery

an update on the warhammer situation: i just played the week-long trial and decided that was enough. twas a close call. 

am getting a little sick of those guys and tee pain showing off their fancy boat. i don't think they quite understand what being on a boat is really all about. if i were to be on a boat it would involve one of the following situations:

1. Going out on the Dunedin harbour on a day which Dad claims is 'breezy' on his tiny orange sailboat, which holds three people at a push. There's always sea spray, numbing wind chill factor, rope pulling, careful manoeuvring out of the bay because the tiny motor at the back doesn't work, ducking under the boom, getting hit in the head by the boom, and best of all, my little brother hiding in the cabin and constantly asking if it's time to stop so we can have some thermos-coffee and then him deciding for all of us that it's time to go back to land once we've drunk the coffee. Good times.

2. Being dragged behind a boat that's going way too fast on an inflatable tube thing by an irresponsible uncle who always turns a corner far too sharply, sending one flying metres into the air and rendering one an invalid for the next day or two. 

3. I drink a bottle of $6.99 'Obikwa' merlot bought from countdown on a whim, end up somewhere near the waterfront for reasons (forever) unknown, and attempt to steal a yacht. Possibly get arrested in a far less classy situation than Rory Gilmore's boat debacle.

ok, number three hasn't happened. yet...

Playlist for show 25/04/09

had the flu last week. wasn't the most fun. a week of fever and the odd hallucination and just general brain not being so attatched to rest of body. but am back, still a  little wheezy but that's what the blue inhaler's for. 

PlaY Lii++ii++ii++sssss```T

BMX Rapists (Wanganui, not 'Whanganui) - Shit Table 101

The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea

Metronomy - Radio Ladio

Brans (Dunedin) - Tired Of The Bar Scene

The Mint Chix (Auckland/Portland) - 2010

Royksopp - The Girl And The Robot

Pitch Black (NZ) - Bird Soul (Keretta Remix)

The Biff Merchants (Dunedin) - The Battle For Jubilee Park

Micachu - Curly Teeth (congrats to Nikki who won a copy of Micachu's 'Jewellery' - someone else ring up! )

Lily Allen - Not Fair (check out the hilarious video here - it has chickens!)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dragon Queen

TV On The Radio - Red Dress (Glitch Mob Remix)

Mr Scruff - Listen Up

TIGA - Shoes

Peaches - Serpentine

Optimus Gryme (NZ) - Annihilation Of The Ego (VIP Remix)

Julien Dyne (NZ) - Steel Legs

DOOM - Absolutely

Wild Bill Ricketts (NZ) - New J

+++==+++INTERVIEW WITH TIM FROM HOT LITTLE HANDS+++==+++

Hot Little Hands - Scene Of The Crime

Grand Prix (NZ) - No Particular Place To Go

Motocade (NZ) - She Got Deaf

Dictaphone Blues (NZ) - Pale Shade Of Blue

NOT THAT NEW, REALLY: Radiohead - 15 Steps (i totally haven't been listening to In Rainbows a lot since hearing that song at the end of Twilight...)

That was a mission of a show, right there, really. Next week I'm talking to someone from Auckland band Selon Recliner (formerly known as just Recliner) as well as giving away a copy of their new album 'The Orchard Door'.

woop woo!

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NEWFANGLED PLAYLIST - 14/03/09

Undertow - Mirage (dn)
Buraka Som Sistema - IC19
Mount Kimbie - Taps
Kode 9 - Black Sun
Jose James - Velvet (Emanative Remix)
Camp Lo - Regulate
Pacific Division - F.A.T. Boys
Dr Dre - Topless ft. Nas
Powell - Private Cassie
The Scientists of Modern Music - Technology Illiterate
Dirty Projectors/David Byrne - Knotty Pine
Quintron - Dirt Bag Fever
Arcade Fire - Lenin
Morissey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull
Pete Doherty - Last Of The English Roses
Dan Auerbach - Heartbroken, In Disrepair
Bat For Lashes - Glass
Cassette - Close To Me (nz)
The Blueness - Gblurry (nz)
The Wicks - Moon In A Jar (nz)
Savath Y Savalas - La Llama
Mel Parsons - It's Been Good (nz)
NOT NEW - The Black Keys - Meet Me In The City

congratulations to Nikki who won Cassette's new album, The Jingle King. Keep listening for more free shit in the next few weeks. call up and win, or i'll hulk out and smash your face off like that crazy monkey from the news.

Neko Case: Middle Cyclone

Neko Case is my perfect woman, honest to god. She started out drumming in punk bands in Vancouver in the early nineties and by 1997, had realised she can write and sing okay, and recorded “The Virginian” with a backing band known as “Her Boyfriends”. Skip ahead to 2009, and you'll find Case has come a long way, with six full-length albums, one EP, one live disc and vocal contributions on four albums by Canadian band the New Pornographers under her large-buckled and stylish belt.

Not to mention the fact that she once got banned from the Grand Ole Opry for taking her shirt off, or that she appears on the front cover of her latest offering, “Middle Cyclone” crouched on the bonnet of a 1968 Ford Mercury Cougar, barefoot, brandishing a large sword and looking like a totally righteous babe.

Lyrically, this album is the most refreshing thing I've heard in ages. Lines like “can't scrape together quite enough/to ride the bus to the ouskirts of the fact that I need love”, on the title track provide a glimmer of hope in a world where Kelly Clarkson can release a hit single with a title like “My Life Would Suck Without You”.

Interesting fact: Neko Case featured on an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force last year and is expected to participate in a new series with ATHF co-creator Dave Willis entitled “Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge”. Awesome.

On a just as fantabulous, but not quite as sugar-encrusted note, someone once referred to her as “the ghost of Patsy Cline”, and on “Prison Girls” things get noir and desolate much like, but unfortunately not quite as much as most of her 2002 release, “Blacklisted”. Once again though, she gets the words just right with “I love your long shadows/And your gunpowder eyes”. Cue swooning.

My personal favourite though, would have to be the opener, “This Tornado Loves You”, where the band gets down with a slightly faster pace, a little bit of delay on the guitars and Case delivers this piece of genius – “I have waited with a glacier's patience/Smashed every transformer with every trailer/'Til nothing was standing”. Now that's what I call a passionate natural disaster.

Like on her last album, “Fox Confessor Brings The Flood”, Case's well worn-in touring band lay down the bones of the songs. Unlike last time though, Middle Cyclone features guests like M. Ward, members of the New Pornographers, Los Lobos, Calexico, Giant Sand, and includes two covers: Sparks' "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth" and Harry Nilsson's “Don't Forget Me”. The recording of M.C. happened in Brooklyn, Vermont, Toronto and Case's own barn in Tuscon, which led to some tracks featuring guests such as Frogs, Robins and Wind Gusts.

Neko Case has also recently featured on a New Pornographers song, “Hey, Snow White”, which can be found on a compilation put out by 4AD and AIDS organisation 'Red Hot', called “Dark Was The Night”. I highly recommend you check that out if this is your cup of tea.

She's been touring Middle Cyclone in Europe before returning to the US, but sadly, Case shows no signs of intending to drop in on New Zealand. Buy this album, then report to me to sign the petition.

a few things...

gidday.

the vivian girls got to make a playlist for the red bull music academy radio station...lucky dogs. you can check it out hhheeerrreee

also, i chortled to myself at sam grover's blog entry about that time he was on the way to jen's with the d and bumped into those damn slags...check that out HURR

what else....i'm playing Warhammer Online with seth. it's fucking awesome and i must get back to it. high elves rule.

Hopo

p.s. bad sav fuckin rocked the cook the other night. you should have been there. ep on way i reckon.

Newfangled Show 07/03/2009

Feist/Ben Gibbard - Train Song

Arcade Fire - Lenin

Iron & Wine - Die

The New Pornographers - Hey, Snow White

Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You

Blonde Redhead & The Devastations - When The Road Runs Out

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries

Morissey - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

Bat For Lashes - Daniel

Nat King Cole - Nature Boy ft. TV On The Radio

The Rakes - 1989

Does It Offend You Yeah - Being Bad Feels Really Good

The Aesthetics - Friday

Rockshop - Lizards Walking

Wilberforces - Tidalwaves

Black Dice - Glazin

DOOM - That's It

Untold - Yukon (Fantastic Mr Fox Remix)

Sufjan Stevens - You Are The Blood

Boss Christ - Off The Chaingang Now

Get Well Soon - Busy Hope

Quintron - Waterfall

Brigitte Bardot - Contact

Newfangled Playlist 21/02/2009

Hullo

Simian Mobile Disco - 10000 Horses Can't Be Wrong
N.A.S.A. - Whatchadoin? (ft. Santogold, M.I.A., Spankrock & Nick Zinner)
Moron Says What?!? - Nathalie, Touch Me There Again (NZ)
Hannah Curwood - Blind Love (ft. Haunted Love) (NZ)
Raggamuffin Children - Better Than Some (NZ)
Beirut - The Shrew
Realpeople Holland - My Night With The Prostitute From Marseilles
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
Dan Auerbach - Real Desire
Buraka Som Sistema - Sound Of Kuduro (Drop The Line Remix)
Cosmo Vitelli - Converted
MSTRKRFT - Fist Of God
Flairs - Trucker's Delight
Jose Gonzales - How Low (Pecheinga Nord-Norska Remix)
Samwell - What What (In The Butt)
A.R. Rahman/M.I.A. - O Saya
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat
Red Snapper - Brickred
The Wicks - Tertius (NZ)
Tenniscoats - Balibaba Bimba
Soulseller - Talking In Tongues (Dn)

Bad Sav

hello.

i have started a blog for bad sav because we are TOTAL 2.0 DOMINATOrSSS.

you can find it ==++((here))--++==

xHopo

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Telepathe - Lights Go Down

Lukid - Slow Hand Slap

Dear Time's Waste (NZ) - Room For Rent

Bullion - Funnybones

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)

Squarepusher  - Illegal Dustbin

Ratatat - Mirando (Animal Collective Remix)

Klaxons - Golden Skans (SebastiAn Remix)

Marisa Nadler - River Of Dirt

Little Girls - Youth Tunes

Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream

The Whitest Boy Alive - Island 

Love Grenades - Young Lovers (Sam Sparro Edit)

Peter Bjorn & John - Lay It Down (Golden Filter Remix)

Little Joy - Brand New Start

Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart

Ancient Crux - In Teen Dreams

Xylos - This House We Built

Ham1 - Mel Bay

Wireman - Perspex

Machines Don't Care - Beat Bang (Mujava's Remix)

Toddla T - Inna Di Dancehall

K.I.G. - Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

NEWFANGLED SHOW #1 OF 2009 17-01

WAVVE - WAVVE
Peter, Bjorn and John - Nothing To Worry About
Animal Collective - My Girls
Metronomy - A Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix)
The Long Lost - Amiss (Tuung Remix)
Twin Lion - Safest In Bearhugs
Ero Johannes - Lipton Service Boy
Jeremy Jay - Love Everlasting
Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve - Electric Bananas
The Biff merchants (Dn) - Omarama
Lykke Li - Little Bit (Aether Remix)
Kelpe - Yippee Space Ghost (Sid Version)
Harlem - South Of France
Weird Tapes - TV Romance
Built By Snow - Implode Alright
Mr Oizo - Cut Dick
Miike Snow - Animal (Crookers Remix)
Buraka Som Sistema - Sound Of Kuduro
The Cool Kids - Delivery Man (9th Wonder Remix)
Kanye West - Love Lockdown (Flying Lotus Remix)
N.A.S.A. - Gifted ft. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li
Afta-1 - The Time Inbetween
Ghostface Killa - Kilo (Remix ft. Malice & Raekwon)
Santogold - Brooklyn (Go Hard) ft. Jay-Z
Fulgeance - Rubiscube
Air France - June Evenings
Peverelist - Clunk Click Every Trip
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - The Maid Needs A Maid

so, 2009 already. wow. it's been a rough start to the year here at radio one, to say the least. our much much much loved top notch volunteer and host of the identity sports spectrum, Chris O'Neill, very sadly passed away last week at the tender age of 23. too soon, buddy, just too soon.
Chris was a fuckin magical guy, always here lending a helping hand and cheeky advice. and once he threw a book at Aaron. that was a good day.
we're really gonna miss you, dude. you were a genius. you and uncle andy take care now. and there is to be NO SMOKING in the bathrooms, i repeat, NO SMOKING in the bathrooms.

oh, and here's a link to that mash-up of katy perry and bloc party that chris played once. i didn't think it was very amusing at the time, but now it's great. a lesson to all to not take shit too seriously. cos if you do, you're fucked.

but you're fucked anyway.

LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK!
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peace, hopo.