Unbalanced Pieces Radio Show

23/12/2024

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam, Bad Radio, Temple of the Dog, Hovercraft, guest appearances, collaborations) (60)

22/12/2024

"I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people."

Joe Strummer
21/8/1952 - 22/12/2002

22 years gone. Remembering the legendary Joe Strummer of The Clash

21/12/2024

84 years of Frank Vincent Zappa ⚡️

CREEM Magazine, December 1974.

Photo by: Howard Kloc

21/12/2024

1.The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
2.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God
3.Barry Adamson - Cut To Black
4.Παύλος Παυλίδης - ΜΠΡΑΝΚΑΛΕΟΝΕ
5.Shellac - To All Trains
6.The Smile - Wall Of Eyes
7.ΛΕΞ - ΓΤΚ
8.Primal Scream - Come Ahead
9.Paul Weller - 66
10.Amyl & the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness

Merry Christmas everybody!!!

20/12/2024

Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Ed Kuepper was born in Bremen, West Germany on this day in 1955 (December 20)

He was co-founder of the band who put out one of Australia’s most significant and groundbreaking albums, The Saints, then later the Laughing Clowns, and more recently The Aints!

Edmund Kuepper’s family migrated to Australia in the 1960s and settled in Brisbane, where he attended Oxley State High School and Corinda State High School with Chris Bailey and Ivor Hay.

The three later formed The Saints initially as a garage band, Kid Galahad and the Eternals, but had difficulty finding performance venues, so converted Bailey and Hay's share-house into a music venue, Club 76.

In 1976, the emerging band wanted to record their material but found zero interest from the Brisbane music industry.

So in September of that year they set up their own marketing company, Eternal Promotions and their own label, Fatal Records, and pressed 500 copies of their debut single, "(I'm) Stranded" co-written by Kuepper and Bailey.

The rest is rock history…

Whilst not wanting to align himself with the UK punk scene, Kuepper and The Saints were trailblazers in the rock world, and he has been one of the most important and influential musicians in the Australian alternative music scene since the mid-70s.

Speaking to The Guardian, Kuepper said:
“I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to sound like.
And Chris was just a natural as a singer. We were working on something that was, in my mind, completely unique.”

The Guardian suggested: “….this is quite clearly high-energy punk rock, before the fact.”

Over the decades, Kuepper has also recorded over a dozen albums as a solo artist using a variety of backing bands.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1993 he won Best Independent Release for “Black Ticket Day” and won the same category in 1994 for “Serene Machine”.

In 2024, Ed Kuepper has been on fire performing with the reformed Saints ‘73-‘78…

Click on the link below to watch The Saints “(I’m) Stranded” with an interesting intro:

https://youtu.be/OWeX65b5dOk

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20/12/2024

Unbalanced Pieces Radio Show now on air

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhivN4GJQCQ

Taken from the new album Wall Of Eyes - available now: https://thesmile.ffm.to/wall-of-eyes-albumLimited edition blue vinyl: https://store-uk.thesmiletheband...

20/12/2024

Tonight 19:00 - 20:00 on Strummer Radio with the ten favourite albums of 2024

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Taken from the forthcoming album 'Cut To Black' released on 17 May 2024.Signed albums and exclusive merchandise available now from my official store - https:...

19/12/2024

Remembering Australian musician Tracy Pew, bassist of The Birthday Party, on his birthday.

18/12/2024

17/12/2024

Happy Birthday to Mike Mills of R.E.M.!

17/12/2024

ON THIS DATE (14 YEARS AGO)
December 17, 2010 - Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, dies in a hospital in Arcata, California, at the age of 69, from complications associated with multiple sclerosis.

15/12/2024

Happy 69th Birthday PAUL SIMONON born on this day in 1955 www.punkpinbadges.com

14/12/2024

45 years ago today, The Clash released their third studio album, “London Calling.”

09/12/2024

Happy 55th Birthday Jakob Dylan
-> https://www.musicthisday.com/

Jakob Luke Dylan (born December 9, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter. He rose to fame as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of the rock band the Wallflowers, which he formed in 1989.
Born in New York City to musician Bob Dylan and model Sara Lownds, Dylan began his musical career in various indie bands before creating the Wallflowers. As its frontman and lead vocalist, he wrote and performed the band's hit songs including "One Headlight", "6th Avenue Heartache", "The Difference" and "Three Marlenas"—the former of which was included on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs", and won two Grammy Awards. With the Wallflowers, Dylan has released seven studio albums.

08/12/2024

Today we remember Jim on his birthday.

With his magnetic charisma, poetic soul, and boundary-pushing performances as The Doors’ frontman, his legacy lives on.

Photo courtesy of Getty Images.

08/12/2024

John Lennon left us, on this day in 1980. He was 40 years old. His music will live on forever.

07/12/2024

A homage to a legend by some legends...

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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE’s JOSH HOMME and DEPECHE MODE’s DAVE GAHAN teamed up for a cover of MARK LANEGAN’s “One Hundred Days” on Thursday (Dec. 5) in London at the tribute concert “Mark Lanegan 60 - A Celebration” in honor of the late Screaming Trees frontman and QOTSA collaborator who passed away in 2022.

Photo by Marilyn Kingswill

07/12/2024

Happy birthday, Tom Waits - 75 today! 🖤

📸: Anton Corbijn