A music special this week, reflecting world events and the fact that Brian was away on a jolly at the Fusion 3.5 Festival. Featuring the following very fine artistes:

VDGG – Every Bloody Emperor

IQ – One Fatal Mistake

Kaipa – Screwed-upness

The Tangent – Follow Your Leaders

Marillion – A Few Words for the Dead

The Flower Kings – Love is the Only Answer

Unitopia – Tesla

Karfagen – Garden of Hope Pts 1/2

Smalltape – Asylum

Tears for Fears – Please Be Happy

Yes – Soon

Sinoptik – Brother/The Call (live at Progspace 2021)

Join Brian and Roger, live from the Red Carpet at East Grinstead Conservative Club, for the premiere of Zulu! the Musical. Featuring the following fine tunes:

Gordon Midgley and The Sandford Hospital Players* – Zulu Overture

Marillion – Murder Machines

Leap Day – Like Icarus

Motorpsycho – Custer’s Last Stand

Offworld – Some Cirkles Are Square

Von Hertzen Brothers – All Of A Sudden, You’re Gone

PFM w/ Ian Anderson – Bouree (live)

GM and the SHP – Hooky’s Theme

Pär Lindh Project – Iconoclast

Rainbow Theatre – Fantasy of Horses

Detieti – Milky Squid

Los Bitchos – Good to Go!

GM and the SHP – Missionary

*By kind permission of Dead Bob Productions

Dead Bob’s Shellac-Attack: Side B of ‘The Last of the Jubblies’ by England

 – Ridge Farm

 – Flying Saucers

 – Sausage Pie

 – Hotel (live) Extract

Ian Carr – Hector’s House

Magnum – The Monster Roars

Tangerine Dream – You’re Always on Time

Dead Bob’s Boxset Bingo: ‘Benefit’ by Jethro Tull 

 – To Cry You A Song

 – Sweet Dream

 – Teacher (US Album Version)

 – The Witch’s Promise (1971 Stereo Compilation remix)

The Flower Kings – A Million Stars

The Prophets of Zarquon – Horizon of the Clouds

Level 42 – Kansas City Milkman

Susanna – Wild Horse Wild Dog

Dec Burke – Emergency

Anna Meredith – Paramour

Quincy Jones – It’s Caper Time

Gary Numan – Are Friends Electric (excerpt)

Yes – Awaken

The Flower Kings – The Truth Will Set You Free (live)

Beardfish – And the Stone Said: If I Could Speak

The Sea Within – The Broken Cord

Comedy of Errors – House of the Mind

Clouds – Sing, Sing, Sing

The Tangent – 5th Movement: Evening TV

Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (excerpt)

For this live, as it ‘appened, episode I’m joined by multi-instrumentalist Peter Lawson who called in from his Manchester studio to talk about his extensive back catalogue, in both solo and ‘Venus Loon’ iterations.

We played tracks from all three Venus Loon albums, as well as one of Peter’s Desert Island Discs by Cardiacs, and the eponymous track from his ‘1978’ album. We also chatted about the upcoming 4th Venus Loon album, a concept piece about the Apollo space missions.

A super time was had by all, and we engaged in a considerable amount of jolly badinage.

Check out Peter’s music here:

https://peterlawson.bandcamp.com

Check out his FB page here:

https://m.facebook.com/VENUSLOONpeterdlawsonmusic/?ref=page_internal

Aki Rissanen – Stream Lines

Venus Loon – Adios Vegas

Klone – Silver Gate

Dead Bob’s Shellac-Attack: Side One of ’Tormato’ by Yes

 – Future Times

 – Rejoice

 – Don’t Kill The Whale

 – Madrigal

 – Release, Release

Curtain Falls – Better Than god

The Korgis – Rovers Return

A-Tota-So – Black Market Broccoli

Dead Bob’s Boxset Bingo: ‘The Charisma Years 1970-78’ by Van Der Graaf Generator

 – Theme One (New Stereo Mix 2021)

 – After The Flood (Remastered 2021)

 – The Undercover Man (Remastered 2021) 

Goad – Slave of the Holy Mountain

Budgie – Hot as a Docker’s Armpit

HipGnosis – If 

Birth Control – Titanic

Octopus Ride – Money Trouble

Muse – Won’t Stand Down

Quincy Jones – It’s Caper Time 

Black Bonzo – Lady of the Light

Jethro Tull – The Zealot Gene

MEER – Picking up the Pieces

The Light Afternoon – Our Time In The Tin North

Codices – Chatbot Dialogue

Bernardo Lanzetti – Time Is King

Dead Bob’s Boxset Bingo: ‘I Lost My Head’ by Gentle Giant

 – Free Hand

 – I Lost My Head

 – Inside Out

Schwertmann – Antelope

Jana Draka – Leaves

Quill w/ Andy Fairweather Low – Black Dog Day

Dead Bob’s Shellac-Attack: Side 1 of ‘Wind & Wuthering’ by Genesis

 – Eleventh Earl of Mar

 – One for the Vine

 – Your Own Special Way

 – Wot Gorilla?

Venus Loon – Adios Vegas (excerpt)

Quincy Jones – It’s Caper Time

We’re joined in The Attic this time by progressive rock legend Billy Ritchie, and his pal Dave Dawson. We talk all things 1-2-3 and Clouds-related, and find time to listen to such seminal tunes as ‘America’, live at The Marquee in 1967; ‘Imagine Me’ live on the TV show Beat Club in 1970; and the album cuts ‘Waiter, There’s Something In My Soup and ‘Watercolour Days’.

It’s a truly fascinating delve into the heady days of British rock music in the 1960s and 1970s with a true musical genius (Not just our view, by the way, but David Bowie’s too). We had a blast recording this Pod, and hope you enjoy it.

Billy’s autobiography ‘The ABC of 1-2-3’ is available wherever books are sold.

Colossus Project – In The Eye of the Eagle

Shaman Elephant – H.M.S Death, Rattle and Roll

Viriditas – Blood on the Airwaves

Viriditas – Green Mars

Phi Yaan Zek – Reality Is My Play Thing 

Neil Campbell – Solar Monarch

Maraton – The Manifest Content

Dead Bob’s Boxset Bingo: ’50 – Recordings 1971-2021’ by Stackridge

 – Overture

 – Syracuse the Elephant

 – The Steam Radio Song

 – Dora the Female Explorer (Single Version)

Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon

A Formal Horse – Turkey 2000s

Azure – Of Brine And Angel’s Beaks

Dead Bob’s Shellac-Attack: Side B of MARILLION.BEST.LIVE.ONE

 – King

 – Hotel Hobbies

 – Warm Wet Circles

 – That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)

Aphrodite’s Child – The Four Horsemen (excerpt)

Dead Bob’s Big Ones

Hasse Fröberg Musical Companion – Other Eyes

ELP – Pirates (live)

Little Tragedies – The Voice of Silence

Tilion – The Ugly

Haikara – The West

Pi2 – The Endless Journey