I've hit the double-digit mark in scheduled programming, which isn't substantial in an epic sense but it's a nice monument as beginnings go. With it being Saint Patrick's Day, naturally some tribute to Ireland was in order, hence The Muppets' rendition of Danny Boy as the opening. As well, the featurette on Gavin Friday and his old band, The Virgin Prunes made sense. I honestly wish Gavin would release tonnes more music but I can sympathize with the concept of following one's muse, since it's an ideal I'm fairly stuck with.
Naturally, based on the age of most of the material I was dealing with, it was time to dive into the next step in studio comfort as this was my first show that rocked the wax. This meant that this show ran into some novel technical issues as I learned how the mixer and the turntables interacted. This accounted for the miscue with the Captive soundtrack as I discovered the console controlled the turntable remotely. Then there was the late start to the first Gavin Friday song when I spun the record back to the start of Side A, but into a point where it would skip along the introductory grooves, requiring manual intervention. That doesn't fully account for the weird problem in the midst of the Santogold where the iPod elected to skip ahead to the Rautakoura song; on air, I faulted it to a sneeze but realistically, I have no clue what happened since I was far away from it and by the wheels of steel, figuring out which turntable was labelled #1 and #2.
Playlist follows:
The Leprechaun Brothers: Danny Boy (The Muppets)
The Ruby Suns: There Are Birds (Sea Lion, 2008) Sub Pop
The Inbreds: Dope Fiends and Booze Hounds (Rheostatics Tribute - The Secret Sessions, 2007) Zunior
Vancougar: Distance (Obvious 7", 2008) Mint
Barzin: Won't You Come (My Life in Rooms, 2006) Weewerk/Monotreme
Blockhead: A Better Place (Music by Cavelight, 2004) Ninja Tune
Hem: Pacific Street (Eveningland, 2004) Rounder
X-Wife: Ping Pong (Side Effects, 2006) NorteSul
Santogold: L.E.S. Artistes (I Believe in Santogold, 2008) Downtown/Lizard King
Rautakoura: Matkalla Etelään (Rautakoura, 2006) ?
Husky Rescue: Summertime Cowboy (Country Falls, 2004) Catskills
The Edge: Rowena's Theme (Captive OST, 1986) Blue Plate Caroline
The Virgin Prunes: Sandpaper Lullabye (A New Form of Beauty 1, 1981) Mute
The Virgin Prunes: Red Nettle (Over the Rainbow, 1985) Baby
Gavin Friday & the Man Seezer: Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves (Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves, 1989) Polygram
Gavin Friday: Caruso (Shag Tobacco, 1995) Polygram
Gavin Friday & Cillian Murphy: Sand (Breakfast on Pluto OST, 2006) Milan
Gavin Friday & the Seezer Ensemble: Beware...For Wolves Come In Many Disguises (Peter and the Wolf, 2003) Bloomsbury
Gavin Friday: Singin' in the Rain (Lemon #3, 2007) Lemon
Broken Social Scene: Her Disappearing Theme (EP To Be You and Me, 2005) Arts & Crafts
The background music to the concert listings is a track from the Karate Bearfighter soundtrack, which falls into one of those "where on earth did I find this?" categories.
Behind the scenes: prior to airtime, and a bit afterwards, I finally worked on recording the promo to my show, which any other show on CITR could conceivably air once approved. I was planning a loftier version of a promo, but certain constraints – such as the spare recording mixer to the broken one and a sore throat preventing me from one of my planned impersonations – restricted me into one of my contingency plans. It sounds pretty spiffy as is, and considering my usual lofty expectations, the promo does quite well, so let's see how many colours it flies with amongst the staff at the station.
You can download The art in your party, not a twist cap sniffing bore as an MP3 [82.5Mb, 90:06. The file will remain on the server as long as it remains on the server.]
P.S. The blog software on the sauna server was upgraded to 4.1 today. I'm hoping that the template for this site isn't badly ruined, though I worry more for the other blogs which usually require more repairs anytime there's an upgrade, a point of contention for me when it comes to any upgrade.
