Interesting feeling for a show to land on the last day of August. Even though we’re still technically amongst summer, it can be seen negatively as the time of the end of holidays, the beginning of a colder autumn and the start of school and more work. On tonight’s show I was speaking of it more positively, helped by remembering the last few years when we’ve had glorious Indian summers, with warm weather into October.
But also that change is always good anyway and autumn is one of the more powerful in that regard. A great opportunity for reflection as we go inwards, even physically indoors, and integrate what we’ve learned and experienced during the expansive out and about adventures over the past warmer months.
Playing House at the Reading Festival
What has helped in this regard has been more festival adventures, with the pleasure of catching up with Playing House once again as they had the pleasure of progressing and playing at the Reading and Leeds festival over the bank holiday weekend. I was able to take them to both and tonight I celebrated by playing another wonderful song from their Jocelyn EP of this year and also the other artists I enjoyed meeting there such as Beth and Lily from IDER who’s song King Ruby I played during the show.
I’ve spoken before on the show about how much I enjoy tight harmonies and particularly female vocals and IDER are a wonderful example of that. After their song, I couldn’t resist playing a song by other favourites and regulars to the show, The Lonesome Sisters.
Before that segment was the recently usual heavy launch into the show and tonight I started with a song by Trippy Wicked And The Cosmic Children Of The Knight who are sadly now on hiatus, but were an early landmark band for me on the road to enjoying more of the recent contemporary heavy/stoner genre, especially from the UK. It was also a great excuse to play songs by 1968 and once again by local favourites Herida who have also been experiencing a hiatus of sorts, but are looking to record new music soon.
You can listen to the show again here:
Here is the playlist for 31st August 2017
1. Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight – Going Home (Going Home)
2. 1968 – Green Sails (1968 EP – 2016)
3. Alcest – Autre Temps (Autre Temps – 2011)
4. Anathema – Deep (Judgement – 1999)
5. Herida – Otra Vida (Ghost Of The Sun – 2012)
6. Kyuss – Whitewater (Welcome To Sky Valley)
7. Stone Temple Pilots – Piece Of Pie (Core – 1992)
8. Yuri Gagarin – The Big Rip (Yuri Gagarin 2014 Remix)
9. Distant Dream – Cold Clouds (feat. Mike Salow) (It All Starts From Pieces – 2017)
10. The Last Sighs Of The Wind – Bird’s Song (We Are Trees – 2017)
11. The Inklings – Lady Luck (Rhizomes – 2006)
12. Desperate Journalist – Your Genius (Grow Up – 2017)
13. The Czars – Paint The Moon (Goodbye – 2004)
14. Belly – Silverfish (King – 1995)
15. Playing House – Penmere (Jocelyn – 2017)
16. Eurythmics – Miracle Of Love (Revenge – 1986)
17. IDER – King Ruby
18. The Lonesome Sisters – Oh Sleeper (Going Home Shoes – 2004)
19. Joni Mitchell – A Case Of You (Blue – 1971)
20. Rodriguez – I Think Of You (Coming From Reality – 1971)
21. Allen Morgan – Love will find you (Light Tide – 2013)
22. The Whites – Keep On The Sunny Side (O Brother, Where Art Thou? – 2000)
