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28/08/2024

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The Finn Brothers’ album “Everyone Is Here” was released 20 years ago on August 23rd 2004.

Tim Finn:
‘So many great musical memories - hearing Geoff Maddock’s brilliant string arrangement for Edible Flowers being played by some of London’s best musicians, including our very own Miles Golding on violin… leaving Jon Brion alone overnight to work on Luckiest Man Alive and coming back in the morning to hear his beautiful arrangement… singing blood-pumping harmonies with Neil on Anything Can Happen and, in a gentler vein, Disembodied Voices.
A particularly gratifying comment came from Tony Wadsworth, then head of Parlophone, backstage at a gig in London where he told me that what he loved about the album, and what made it unique for him, was that it contained love songs “not between a man and a woman.”’

Neil Finn:
‘“So good they made it twice.“ A brilliant cast of characters involved from Tony Visconti, Adam Kasper, Mitchell Froom, Jon Brion, Bob Clearmountain, with good old school A&R support Chris Briggs on hand... sounded effortless in the end... that’s the art!”

Lyrics, links and more info at https://www.neilfinn.com/everyone-is-here

23/08/2024

Crap from the Past had an issue this week and will return next week.

21/08/2024

We've got George Benson and Robert Cray, can they be classed as jazz.

Why is jazz not part of the pop scene anymore?

Herbie Hancock: “Because it's not the music that matters anymore. People don't care about the music itself anymore, but about who makes the music. The public is more interested in celebrities and how a certain artist is more famous than music. It changed the way the audience relates to music. He no longer has a transcendental connection to music and its quality. Just wants the glamour. Jazz doesn't want to be part of it. Do you know why? It's not about humility, or arrogance, a posture ′′we don't want to be famous, we're underground". None of that. Jazz is about the human soul, not about the appearance. Jazz has values, teaches to live the moment, work together, and especially to respect the next. When musicians gather to play together, you have to respect and understand what the other does. Jazz in particular is an international language that represents freedom, because of its roots in slavery. Jazz makes people feel good about themselves.”

This is why we have a list of 'stuff' we won't ever play!

20/08/2024

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17/08/2024

The Great Fritz of '24 has mostly been sorted. 3 years of admin has magically disappeared and is in a vortex in another dimension, never to return.
The music library is intact and has been replaced, although the scheduling is a little off.
But, and it's not a bad thing, all the promo's left are ancient. If you'd like to record a spot announcement for spud, message us and we'll get you a script. All you need is a good phone to record your voice and we'll edit it in.

17/08/2024

Pam & Dr J are on in 10 minutes at 7pm with episode 132.

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14/08/2024

The final current programme line up

Monday
1pm The Shadow*
2pm The Goon Show*
8pm Radio Play/Drama*

Tuesday
12 mid The Pam & Dr J Show (R)
9am Crap from the Past*
8pm Dragnet*
8.30pm WIA News (R)

Wednesday
1am Radio Play/Drama (R)
1pm The Pam & Dr J Show (R)

Thursday
1am WIA News (R)
7pm Documentaries*
8pm The Shadow (R)

Friday
12mid Dragnet (R)
3pm Crap from the Past (R)
7pm Radio Play/Drama (R)

Saturday
6am Radio Play/Drama (R)
4.30pm Dragnet (R)
7pm The Pam & Dr J Show

Sunday
12mid The Shadow (R)
10am WIA News*
5pm Documentaries (R)
7pm The Goon Show (R)
8pm Crap from the Past (R)

* - New Episode
(R) – Repeat

Monday to Friday
5.30pm Fire Fighters
9pm The Ongoing History of New Music
(New episode each day)

13/08/2024

We've had our own internet fritz - read here it died dead. Thankfully some operationality was restored with a back up but scheduling and programming (as well as ALL of the admin files) disappeared into a vortex of bewilderment.
Actual programmes are there but times are everywhere.
It's going to be fixed, possibly by tomorrow.

19/07/2024

The spud FM stream on our web site is alive, the 88fm signal is up. Survival in the internet fritz of 24.

13/07/2024

Coming up in an hour will be the WIA News - for all the current happenings in amateur radio in Australia and the world. The Goon Show is on at 1pm and don't forget Crap From The Past on at 8pm, fresh from KFAI in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

13/07/2024

Episode 128 of the Pam & Dr J Show starts at 7pm tonight.

12/07/2024

From a 1978 recording and 1981 release, (and we know it's one of Pam & Dr J's favourites) Radio Birdman's Living Eyes - off the original 1981 vinyl.
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Deniz Tek and Rob Younger formed Radio Birdman in mid-1974 in Sydney, having recently left their bands TV Jones and the Rats, respectively. The pair sought to begin a band that would challenge the commercial mainstream and be completely uncompromising. They recruited classical keyboard player Philip "Pip" Hoyle, drummer Ron Keeley and bassist Carl Rorke. The band took their name from a misheard lyric from the Stooges' song "1970" (the actual lyric is "radio burning").

After being rejected many times from various venues and having resorted to putting on its own concerts in rented garages and tiny community halls, by mid-1975 Radio Birdman found an upstairs room at the Oxford Tavern in Taylor Square, Sydney. They eventually took over its management, renaming it The Funhouse. Under their management the Funhouse became a home to other outsider groups. Prior to the opening of this venue, Carl Rorke had left the band and was replaced by long-time friend of Rob Younger, Warwick Gilbert (also a former Rats member). Also, to leave the band would be Philip Hoyle, though his departure was short-lived. Guitarist Chris Masuak was initially hired to replace Hoyle.

Soon a small subculture grew around Radio Birdman. This coincided with the beginnings of the Sydney punk scene.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Birdman]

07/07/2024

On at 8pm, in 15 minutes:

05/07/2024

Slowly adding more vinyl. From tomorrow, China Crisis Flaunt the Imperfection and Working With Fire and Steel. 2 classic 80s LPs.

04/07/2024

Repairs and scheduling sorted.
Starting Monday - For 6 weeks "Who Listens to the Radio" a documentary/podcast from the National Film and Sound Archives about radio in Australia.
Following that in the week beginning August 19, The Goodies Documentary, followed on week starting 26 August The Last Goon Show of All and a Goon Show Documentary on the week of the 2 September.
(Thanks to Spudnik Dan for the pic)

04/07/2024

Starting from Next Monday:
Crap From The Past: Wednesdays from 9am and Sundays from 8pm (additional day Wednesday)
Documentaries: Tuesdays at 9am, Thursdays at 7pm & Saturdays at 10am (New - usual format of an episode a week - clandestine in nature, if we find [or are sent] something good, this is where you'll find it.

03/07/2024

A total scheduling stuff up has been found.

Last week's Pam & Dr J show has been a bit of a mess with only one broadcast.

Saturday night will be episode 127, which has not been fully heard previously.

Many apologies.

28/06/2024

This is Monica Mauk, our beloved friend and tour mom who sold our merch for well over a decade and met many of you out on the road as she followed Old Crow countless miles in her van, living the life she wanted. Monika has been battling cancer for a while now, yet her smile, compassion, and joy for music haven’t left her. WE LOVE YOU sister of the road. And we’re so so sad to lose lose you. As you enter hospice care we trust in God above that the road beyond will be an even more amazing one than this one has been. Rock on, Mon. You’re woven into the fabric of this band forever ❤️

28/06/2024

Episode 127 from the Pam & Dr J show is lined up and ready to go for Saturday night.
Crap from the Past is now a permanent fixture and is broadcast a week after it's first airing on KFAI in Minneapolis USA. A huge thanks to Ron "BoogieMonster" Ge**er who's been producing and presenting this show for over 30 years.
The History of New Music continues at 9pm Monday to Friday.

Again, we have to thank Pam & Dr J for the show, they are truly a part of the Spud family.

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18/06/2024

And.... the streams are back up.

11/06/2024

The time on Spud FM is now about 6 minutes fast, should sort itself at 11am

09/06/2024

08/06/2024

Pam & Dr J's 125th episode tonight, on from 7pm.

And starting tomorrow from 8pm, once a week, Crap From The Past.

01/06/2024

Coming on line in the play list from tomorrow: XTC - Mummer (1983), The Cure - Standing on a Beach - The Singles (1986) & The Head on the Door (1985); Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are (1973); and our first 'traditional' country album Charley Pride - Charley Pride's Greatest (1974).
Also in May almost the full library of Pink Floyd has also been added, the are in the rotation but still need a little processing.