Lost Immortals and Radio Hieroglyphics with Roy Stannard and Matt Staples

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 169 19.6.22 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listenlive

I never asked to be your mountain and other stories..

Asylums - Scatterbrain (Signs of Life, 2022 not yet released)

Little Franky & the Town Beats – The Party (Cuban Arts Aid 2005)

Gavin Fox – If I Could Survive This (Awakened 2022)

Eddie Vedder - Brother the Cloud (Earthling. 2022)

Beth Orton & The Chemical Brothers - I Never Asked to be Your Mountain (Single 2018)

Otyken - Storm (Single, 2022)

Surfer Blood – Floating Vibes (Astro Coast 2010)

Garrison Starr – Gasoline (Airstreams & Satellites 2004)

Anders Osborne – Pleasin’ You (Which Way to Here 1995)

Bobbie Gentry - I Saw an Angel Die (The Girl from Chickasaw County, 2018. Orig: Ode to Billie Joe, 1967)

Superstar – Superstar (Palm Tree 1998)

Kevin Morby – Harlem River (Harlem River 2012)

Royel Otis - Bull Breed (Bull Breed 2022)

Fonteyn – Savannah (Trip the Light Fantastic 2022)

Kathryn Williams - In a Broken Dream (Relations 2004)

The Marcus King Band - Rita Is Gone (The Marcus King Band, 2016)

Black – Wonderful Life ( Live and unplugged in the Oldie 95-Studio 2012; originally Wonderful Life 1986)

Ozomati – Love & Hope (Cuban Arts Aid 2005)

Matt Andersen - Coal Mining Blues (Live on Radio Heartland at The Current, 2022)

Slipknot - Snuff (All Hope is Gone, 2008)

The Roches - Everyone Is Good (Speak 1989)

Foxes and Fossils - Peace Train (Cat Stevens Cover 2022)

Angel Olsen -All the Good Times (Big Time 2022)

The Bees - I Love You (Free The Bees, 2004)

The Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Episode 73

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday June 19th 2022 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listenlive

French Pressings

France has a great reputation for many things (revolutions, stifling bureaucracy, snails) but pop music is not on the list. Despite being the country that produced the genius of Daft Punk, the breathtaking soundscapes of Air, and eccentric sixties Whitney Houston fan Serge Gainsbourg, little French music is heard outside Francophone countries.

So where does this negativity come from? A lot of it comes from French people themselves, who are not overly keen on the musical output of their own country. And the fact that French radios are legally obliged to play 40% French music. Which is a bit like having to do your homework before you get to go on the playstation..

So this week we’re playing some of the best and in some cases very familiar French songs, many of which got translated into English and then went on to be huge..

Hour One

Yves Montand Les Feuilles Mortes Les Feuilles Mortes 1946

Jacqueline François Que Sera Sera Que Sera Sera 1956

Edith Piaf  Milord The Very Best of Edith Piaf 1959

Jacques Brel  Ne me quitte pas Jacques Brel 4 1959

Jacques Dutronc  Sur Une Nappe De Restaurant Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi 1966

Gilbert Becaud  Je t'appartiens Encore plus de Becaud Disque 1968

Françoise Hardy  Comment te dire adieu (Remaster 2016) Comment te dire adieu 1968

Mauriat, Beck, Longine Love is Blue (mix) Love is Blue (mix) Roy Stannard Productions 2020

Nicoletta  Je ne pense qu'à t'aimer Il est Mort le Soleil 1968

Kevin Ayers And The Whole World Puis Je (Bonus Track) Shooting at the Moon 1970

Serge Gainsbourg; Dominique Blanc-Francard; Philippe Lerichomme Requiem Pour Un Con (Remix 91 Version Longue) La Pacha OST 1971

Veronique Sanson  Amoreuse Amoreuse 1972

Julie Pietri Et c'est comme si (I Go To Sleep)  Et c’est comme si 1982

Hour Two

Johnny Hallyday J'ai Oublié de Vivre C’est La Vie 1977

Anne Pigalle Souvenir D'un Paris Everything Could Be So Perfect 1985

Mylene Farmer Et Seal Les Mots French Hits 2002

Big Soul La belle et la bête Funky Beats Vol 1 2001

Benjamin Biolay Joggers Sur la Plage Rose Kennedy 2002

Mylene Farmer C'est Une Belle Journée French hits 2002

Alain Souchon  Et si en plus ya personne La Vie Theodore 2005

Kery James Lettre à la République 92-2012 2012

Camp Claude  All This Space Swimming Lessons 2016

Juliette Armanet A La Folie Petite Amis 2019

Jorja Smith ft. Dosseh  Blue Lights [French Remix] Lost and Found 2019

Grand Corps Malade & Camille Lellouche Mais Je T'aime Mesdames 2020

Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples host THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS 

Ep 168 on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 12th 3-5pm 

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listenlive 

It's funny band name week: The Snuts; Los Campesinos!; Cats on Trees plus an appreciation of three Ravishing Beauties - Virginia, Nicky and Kate. 

Playlist 

The Snuts – Seasons (Seasons Single 2018) 

Fireside - Slack (Hello Kids 1998) 

Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing! (Hold On Now, Youngster 2008) 

Cats On Trees - Please Please Please (Alie 2022) 

Far - Love, American Style (Tin Cans With Strings to You, 1996) 

Bachman feat. Jeff Healey - Confessin’ to the Devil (Heavy Blues, 2015) 

War - Don’t Let No One Get You Down (Why Can’t We Be Friends? 1992 remaster, orig 1975) 

Ellie Greenwich – Maybe I Know (demo) (I Can Hear Music – The Songs of Greenwich & Barry 1964) 

The Ghost – War Kids (War Kids Andrew Garfield - 30/90 (OST 2018) 

Butch Hancock - Boxcars (Eats Away the Night, 1994) 

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man? (Leaving Eden, 2012) 

King Crimson - Elephant Talk (Discipline, 1981. Live recording) 

Giant Sand – Forever and a Day (Tucson 2012) 

Michael & Michelle - Misfire (The Watching Silence EP 2022) 

Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Unhalfbricking 1968) 

Mustafa – What About Heaven (When Smoke Rises 2021) 

Kate St John – A Flicker of Gold (Second Sight 1997) 

The Ravishing Beauties - Futility (taken from the Peel Session recorded on 14 April 1982) 

Tears for Fears – Sea Song (B Side of I Believe – Songs from the Big Chair 1985) Ft Nicky Holland on piano 

Virginia Astley – A Summer Long Since Passed (Hope in a Darkened Heart 1986) 

The Dream Academy – Sunrising (The Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective 2014) 

Josh Ritter - Drive Away (Golden Age of Radio 1993)

The Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Episode 72

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday June 12th 2022 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listenlive

Too Good for Words. This week we are playing instrumentals that are simply  wonderful beyond words. The melodies speak for themselves..

120 minutes of tracks from bands who couldn't afford a lead singer..

Hour One

The Wedding Present - Dan Dare (Seamonsters 1991)

The Cleaners from Venus - This Rainy Decade (Midnight Cleaners 1982)

New Order – Elegia (Low Life 1985)

The Cure - Another Journey by Train (Seventeen Seconds 1980)

Pale Saints – Porpoise (Flesh Balloon EP 1991)

Jeff Beck - Beck's Bolero (Truth 1967 – B side of Hi Hi Silver Lining)

James Brown - Ain't It Funky Now (1969 Live at the Olympia, Paris 1971)

Beastie Boys - Electric Worm (The Mix Up 2007)

Eels – Going to Your Funeral Pt II (Electro-shock Blues 1998)

Broken Social Scene – Pacific Theme (You Forgot It In People 2003)

Professor Green – Little Secrets (Growing Up in Public 2014)

Penguin Café Orchestra – Perpetuum Motion (Signs of Life 1987)

Hybrid – Finished Symphony (Wide Angle 2000)

Hour Two

John Murphy ft Underword – Sunshine (Sunshine 2007)

Depeche Mode - Nothing to Fear (A Broken Frame 1982)

Simple Minds - Theme for Great Cities (Sister Feelings Call 1981)

Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine (2003)

Joe Satriani - If I Could Fly (Is There Love in Space? 2004)

Coldplay – Viva La Vida 4.03 (Viva La Vida 2008)

Focus – Sylvia (Focus III 1972)

John Barry – Theme from Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Mr Bloe – Groovin’ with Mr Bloe (1970)

Mason Williams – Classical Gas (The Mason Williams Phonograph Record 1968)

Ludovico Enaudi – DNA (Una Mattina 2004)

Kate Bush – Prelude (A Sky of Honey 2005)

Aphex Twin – Avril 14th (Drukgs 2001)

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONSSun 5.6.22 Ep 167 with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM. Two hours of globally cutting edge music presented by one man (usually two - Matt's away) and a studio. 

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 167 5.6.22 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussex.co.uk/listenlive

Welcome back to the market square of music.

Lost  Immortal curators from across the globe bring their musical wares to  our meeting place. Night Facilities and Confidence Man from Down Under;  MC Solaar from France; Jessie buckley from Ireland; Charlotte Adigery  & Bolis Pupul from Ghent, Belgium; Lindi Ortega and Jesse Mae  Cormack from Canada.

The world is our stage and music is our language. Grab your passport and go.

Hour One Snow Patrol – Headlights on Dark Roads (Eyes Open 2006) 

Ritchie Sambora – Learning to Fly with a Broken Wing (Aftermath of the Lowdown 2012) 

Maximo Park – Books From Boxes (Our Earthly Pleasures 2008) 

Caamp - Lavender Girl (Lavender Girl 2022) 

America – Everyone I Meet is from California (B Side of ‘A Horse With No Name 1971) 

Leatherface - Message in a Bottle (Mush, 1991) 

China Drum - One Thing (Self Made Maniac, 1997) 

Flight Facilities ft Aloe Blac – Better Than Ever (Single 2019) 

Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dance (Topical Dance 2022) 

Daniel Johnston - Life In Vain (Fun, 1994 and later again on the Frankenstein Love LP, 1998) 

Sugar - Armenia City in the Sky (Live) (Copper Blue, 1992) Jess Jocoy - Living in a Dying Town (Let There Be No Despair, 2022) MC Solaar – Nouveau Western (Prose Combat 1994) Hour Two Lindi Ortega – You Ain’t Foolin’ Me (Liberty 2018) David Garza – Crown of thorns (Overdub 2001) Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler – The Eagle and the Dove (For all our days that tear the heart 2022) Confidence Man – Holiday (Tilt 2022) Chris Smither – Hundred Dollar Valentine (Hundred Dollar Valentine 2014) Jesse Mac Cormack – All At Once (Solo 2022) The Weepies – Little Bird (Hideaway 2008) Shivers – You Will Never Leave Nevada (Grey Romantic 2017) The Sutherland Brothers – The Pie (The Sutherland Brothers 1972) Valerie June – Fade into You (The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers 2021) Rickie Lee Jones - Walk Away Renee (Girl at Her Volcano 1983) Stephen Fretwell – Oval (Busy Guy 2022)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 71 5.6.22 with Roy Stannard​ on Mid Sussex Radio​ 103.8FM. 

Never Out of Dates 

On the weekend that we celebrate Our Majesty’s the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee I thought it would be interesting to play some songs with dates in the title and explore why these dates are important. The thing about dates is we don’t know when they might come around again. Music ensures that some dates live forever.

So we played songs with dates in the title and explored the stories behind the lyrics covering events from WW1 to Tiannamen Square, the assassination of JFK to Prince anticipating 1999 and Bowie writing a song for a 1984 musical that never happened.

Hour One

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 1995)

New Order – 1963 (Substance 1987)

Passion Pit - Lifted Up (1985) (Kindred 2015)

Television - 1880 Or So (Television 1992)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 (In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 1998)

Amy MacDonald - 4th of July (Life In A Beautiful Light 2012)

Aimee Mann - 4th of July (Whatever 1993)

Bruce Springsteen – 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle 1973)

Prince – 1999 (1999 1983)

David Bowie – 1984 (Diamond Dogs 1974)

The Sisters of Mercy – 1959 (Floodland 1987)

Beth Orton – 1973 (Kidsticks 2016)

The Decemberists - 12/17/12 (What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World 2015)

Hour Two

Jamala – 1944 (1944 2016)

Kelis - 4th of July (Fireworks) (Flesh Tone 2010)

Estelle – 1980 (The 18th Day 2004)

Ash - True Love 1980 (Single Release Only 2009)

Fleet Foxes - Third of May / Odaigahara (Crack-Up 2017)

Sufjan Stevens – Fourth of July (Carrie & Lowell 2015)

Mary Gauthier - March 11, 1962 (The Foundling 2010)

Motörhead – 1916 (1916 1991)

The Zombies - Butcher's Tale Western Front 1914 (Odessey & Oracle 1968)

Mary Chapin Carpenter - 4 June 1989 (The Age Of Miracles 2010)

Ron Sexsmith - Man at the Gate (1913) (The Last Rider 2017)

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The Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Episode 70

With Roy Stannard

On Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

Sunday May 29th 2022 3-5pm

www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive

Not Skin Deep.

Creating a false reality in photoshopped images creates low self-worth. We’ve become immune to what media portrays, and have accepted the media-defined lie about what is considered beautiful. How many girls – and boys - aspire to unachievable images of what beauty should be like? How long does it take in front of a mirror to become beautiful? Who decides? Who benefits? What if real beauty flowed from the inside out? What if your skin was a signpost rather than a destination?

Hour One

Lana del Rey – Young & Beautiful (The Great Gatsby OST 2013)

Depeche Mode – Precious (Playing the Angel 2005)

The Kooks – Shine On (Konk 2008)

Amber Pacific – Shine (Virtues 2010)

The Temptations – Beauty is Skin Deep (Away We a Go-Go 1966)

Everlife - What's Beautiful (What's Beautiful 2010)

Zoe Wees - Girls Like Us (Golden Wings 2021)

On The Outside - How Beautiful (Single 2021)

Switchfoot – Restless (Vice Verses 2011)

Ella Henderson – Ugly (Everything I Didn't Say 2022)

Redbone – Come and Get Your Love (Wovoka 1973)

Bruce Springsteen – Spare Parts (live) (Tunnel of Love 1987)

Pink – Perfect (Greatest Hits… So Far!!! 2010)

Hour Two

Kellie Pickler - Don't You Know You're Beautiful (Kellie Pickler 2008)

Jason Mraz – Beauty in the Ugly (We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. 2008)

TLC – Unpretty (Fanmail 1999)

Alicia Keys – Girl Can’t Be Herself (Here 2016)

Alessia Cara – Scars to your Beautiful (Know-It-All 2015)

Beyoncé - Pretty Hurts (Beyoncé 2013)

Jewel – Plain Jane (Picking up the Pieces 2025)

Corinne Bailey Rae - I Would Like To Call It Beauty (The Sea 2010)

Danny Kaye – The Ugly Duckling (Hans Christian Andersen 1952)

Janis Ian - At Seventeen (Between the Lines 1975)

Billie Eilish - Not My Responsibility (Happier Than Ever 2021)

Billie Eilish - Overheated (Happier Than Ever 2021)

Christina Aguilera – Beautiful (Stripped 2002)

Joe Cocker – You are so Beautiful (I Can Stand a Little Rain 1974)

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 165 22.5.22 with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

A siren calls. A girl turns. She sees a glint of silver winking at her  from a corner of the rock pool. Sea urchins and baby crabs scuttle in  all directions as she reaches into the shallows to locate the  half-hidden object. As she pulls the bakelite and chrome box out of the  water, a rusty aerial slowly extends from its casing. The mottled dial  lights up and static coalesces into sound. As the waves dribble back  into yesterday and currents fade into tomorrow, the girl, older now,  upturns a barnacled record chest. Underneath, dessicated tunas turn  their gills in the direction of the ocean and take a deep breath..

Press down on the frail chests of the lost immortals and quietly speak their names. Siren songs. Should have beens.

To find your destination, first look at where you've been.

So how do you get from 'Cherry Red' to two former X Factor contestants via Seasick Steve on 4 string lead? This is where you find out.. 

Hour One

The Groundhogs - Cherry Red (2003 Remastered Version. Orig. Split, 1971)

Chuck Prophet - Freckle Song (Soap And Water, 2007)

Randy California – Downer (Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds 1972)

Seasick Steve – Barracuda ‘68 (Sonic Soul Surfer 2015)

Deer Tick – The Bump (Divine Providence 2011)

Sunday Driver - Sun God (lead single, Sun God, 2022)

The Surfing Magazines Ten Days of Shiver (Badgers of the Wymeswold 2021)

Mercury Rev - Young Man’s Stride (See You On The Other Side, 1995)

Janet Devlin – Better Now (Confessional 2020)

Grace Davies – Wolves (My Kingdom EP 2015)

NoSo - Suburbia (Stay Proud of Me, 2022)

Rita Morar - Meri Awaaz Suno (Hear My Voice) (Dub No Frontiers, 2022)

Ingrid Lucia & The Flying Neutrinos ft Doc Cheetham - Delta Bound (I’d Rather Be In New Orleans 1999)

Hour Two

Joanna Cooke – More Than I Am (Wound Up Ep 2016)

Michel Polnareff - Love Me Please Love Me (Single, 1966)

Elly Duhe - Middle of the Night (Single, 2022)

Mary Gauthier & Gretchen Peters – How You Learn to Live Alone (Trouble and Love 2014)

Gabriels – Love and Hate in a Different Time (Love and Hate in a Different Time 2020)

Salif Keita - Nyanafin (Amen, 1991)

Frazey Ford - U Kin B The Sun (U Kin B The Sun, 2020)

Lily Henley - Duermite Mi Alma (The Old Spruce Sessions, 2020. Since released Oras Dezaoradas, 2022)

Silina Musango - Kalimba (Samite 2014)

Melanie – The Good Book (The Good Book 1971)

Samana – Begin Again (All One breath 2021)

Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan - The Parting Glass (Still as Your Sleeping 2021)

Extended

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Like a Hurricane (live) (Cow Palace Live 1986)

C Duncan – Bell Toll (Alluvium 2022)

The Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Episode 69 with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM Sunday May 22nd 2022 3-5pm

www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive

I know what I like (in your wardrobe)

If fashion and pop aren’t brother and sister, then they’re first cousins.

Style  and sound collaborations have resulted in some of the  most dynamic  fashion trends in popular culture. Some came into being as  productions  for the stage and music video; others become long-lasting  fashion  trends.  Three types of collaboration exist. One is when fashion  designers and  showbiz celebrities come together on one-off projects –  such as Madonna  and Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Whirlpool corset dress for her  90’s Blond  Ambition tour. Another occurs when youth subcultures  express themselves  through fashion like the New Romantics in the 80s.  The third is when the  fashion industry riffs on a cultural trend such  as punk..  Style needs music and music needs style. Both are always in  vogue.

Hour One

Genesis – I Know What I Like (in your wardrobe) (Selling England by the Pound 1973)

Lana del Rey – Blue Jeans (Born to Die 2012) / Kris Menace Remix 2012 / Penguin Prison Remix 2012

Black Eyed Peas – Fashion Beats (The Beginning 2011)

Mull Historical Society – The Lights (City Awakenings 1998)

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (Raw Like Sushi 1989)

The Cribs - Leather Jacket Love Song (Payola 2013)

The Cure - Wrong Number (Galore 1997)

Jill Sobule – Supermodel (Clueless OST / Jill Sobule1995)

Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes (All The Young Dudes 1972)

Rod Stewart – Handbags and Gladrags (An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down 1972)

Dashboard Confessional - Shirts and Gloves (Swiss Army Romance 2000)

Madonna – Vogue (I’m Breathless 1995)

Hour two

The Neighborhood – Sweater Weather (I Love You 2013)

Two People – This is the Shirt (Never ever recorded an album 1987)

Paolo Nutini – New Shoes

Sara Bareilles – Black Dress (The Blessed Unrest 2013)

Cake – Short Skirt/Long Jacket (Comfort Eagle 2001)

Mali Music – Walking Shoes (Mali Is.. 2014)

Lights – My Boots (Single 2010)

Pet Shop Boys – Paninaro (Alternative 1995)

Jessie Ware – Spotlight (What’s Your Pleasure 2020)

Tony Momrelle – Spotlight (Keep Pushing 2013)

The Gaslight Anthem - Blue Jeans and White T-shirts - (Live at Park Ave 2009)

The Passengers – Miss Sarajevo (Single 1995)

The Irrepressibles – In My Shirt (Mirror, Mirror 2010)