Saturday Is But One Day

So the BOBcasts keep on coming and here is the list of songs that were played Monday 14/08/06.
Songs with the word Saturday in their title and the Albums they came from:-

Bon Jovi - Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - Crossroads (Japan Release) 1999
Oceansize - Saturday Morning Breakfast Show - Effloresce 2003
Marc Broussard - Saturday - Carenco 2004
De La Soul - Roller Skating Jam Saturday
Ozomatli - Saturday Night - Street Signs 2004
Cold Chisel - Saturday Night - Twentieth Century 1984
John Fogerty - Almost Saturday Night - Premonition 1998
Charlie Daniels Band - Louisiana Saturday Night - Greatest Hits 1987
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special - The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd 1998
Jason Forrest - Skyrocket Saturday - Shamelessly Exciting 2005
Milo - Saturday People - Darkside Of The Rumours 2003
Joey Negro - Saturday - Mint unknown year of release
Kylie Minogue Vs Whigfield - Saturday Night Remix - Just another horrible Mix & Mash
Nickleback & Kid Rock - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Charlies Angels Full Throttle
Soundtrack 2003
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Saturday Night - So I Married An Axe Murderer Soundtrack 1993
Suburban Reptiles - Saturday Night Stay At Homes - 12 inch release Kiwi Band
Eels - Saturday Morning - Music From The OC Mix2 2004
Groove Collective - Saturday Afternoon - Self Titled Album 1993
Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night - Pure Groove The Classics 2003
Cherrelle with Alexander O'Neal - Saturday Love - Greatest Hits 2005
Vertical Horizon - Sunrays And Saturdays - Running On Ice 1995
Holly Cole - The Heart Of Saturday Night - Temptation 1999
Cat Stevens - Another Saturday Night - Very Best Of 2000
Fall Out Boy - Saturday - Take This To Your Grave 2003
The Rocket Summer - Saturday - Calendar Days 2003

......and there you have it!

No Bo Derek Here

The Bobcast Special last Monday 07/08/06 was the last of the numerical sequence that I started at number 1 and finished on 10. However don't despair of these specials disappearing off the radar, as I have three more lined up already with ideas pouring in from fellow staffers and esoterical ethers.

Herewith the TEN Special:-

Fauna Flash - Ten (Kyoto Jazz Massive Remix)
Missy Higgins - Ten Day
Buddy Guy - Ten Years Ago
Aerosmith - Big Ten Inch Record
Motley Crue - Ten Seconds Of Love
The Cure - Ten Fifteen Saturday Night
The Bats - Ten To One
The Hives - 10AM Automatic
Underoath - I Got Ten Friends And A Crowbar
Five For Fighting - Ten Miles From Nowhere
Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone
INXS - Gods Top Ten
Kill Hannah - 10 More Minutes With You
Prince Buster - Ten Commandments Of Man
UB 40 - One In Ten
Halifax - Ten Fingers Isn't Enough
The Get Up Kids - Ten Minutes
George Canyon - Working On Ten
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Bury Your Dead - Ten Minute Romance
Tracy Byrd - Ten rounds With Jose Cuevero
The Wailin Jennys - Ten Mile Stilts
George Carlin - The Ten Commandments (comedy)
Vinnie Colaiuta & Robben Ford - Ten Goku
Travis Tritt - Ten Feet Tall & Bulletproof

There ya go folks, stay tuned to the beach on 99.4fm & 107fm on Waiheke Island and hopefully
streaming on the web again in the near future as major tele comms are being devised.

Special BOBcasts coming up featuring the words Saturday Sunday & Weekend!!!!

DJ Simon - The Mix & Mash Radio show 12th August 2006

I was off air last week so it was good to get back behind the desk. Loadsa new stuff this week.

Tune of the week: Goose - Black gloves (Extended mix)

Peter Bjorn And John 'Young Folks' almost got there this week but this gorgeous, throbbing, funky dance tune pipped it at the post. Goose are a four-piece band from Belgian and have thrust their synth-based, rocking sound on the world, and it's catchy as hell. It's really clear that a lot of influences have gone into this release. Pumping, jerky, thick beats proliferate, allowing the track penetrates your consciousness, making it way more accessible than something you'd hear at a rave. However, it still retains that unique sound that makes Goose so special.

The combination of vocals, record scratching, synth and funky backing tune make 'Black Gloves' one of the stand-out dance releases of the year.

This is a track that could become truly mainstream in Britain, and has already demonstrated this potential by being featured on a recent ad for Coca Cola across Europe. 'Black Gloves' is due to be let out to pasture on a very limited release, and will only be available on vinyl, so you'd do well to get out there and purchase it while you can.

Hour 1 Part 2 - 19:14

Lily Allen - Smile (Digital Soundboy remix)
Britney Spears v Linus loves - Britney loves linus (Essexboy bootleg)
Destiny's Child v Thin Lizzy - Waiting for a destiny (GHP Bootleg) - Priceless!
Peter Bjorn And John - Young Folks

Hour 1 Part 3 - 18:39

GO HOME PRODUCTIONS-THE BLUE ROOM MIX (2006) As aired on Radio1's Blue Room Show 15/07/2006

01. GHP “Marvin’s Not In Love (Part1)” Marvin Gaye ‘Lets Get In On’ // 10CC ‘I’m Not In Love’
02. Mark Vidler “Strawfields To Skyplain”
03. GHP “Cold Missy School Cut” Coldcut ‘The Music Maker’ // Coldcut ‘True Skool’ // Missy Elliot ‘One Minute Man’
04. GHP “Don’t Hold Back (Sweet Jane)” Chemical Brothers ‘Galvanize’ // The Velvet Underground ‘Sweet Jane’..... U2 ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ // MARRS ‘Pump Up The Volume’ // Blur ‘To The End’
05. Mark Vidler vs Andre Popp “Ophelian Dub” Andre Popp ‘Ophelia’
06. GHP “Velvet Sugar” The Archies ‘Sugar Sugar’ // The Velvet Underground ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’..... Bassment Jaxx ‘Where’s Your Head At?’
07. GHP “Riders Of Love” ABC ‘The Look Of Love (Part 4) // The Doors ’Riders On The Storm’
08. GHP “I Can’t Freak Her” XTC ‘I Can’t Own Her’ // Adina Howard ‘Freak Like Me'
09. GHP “Paul Wilson” The Beach Boys ‘I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times’ // Wings ‘Let ’Em In’
10. GHP “All My Birds” The Beatles “All My Loving” // The Beatles ‘For No One’ // Annie Lennox “Little Bird’

This entire mix (above) was ripped from a gohomeproductions set put together for the Blue Room and broadcast on BBC Radio 1 last month is available to download @ http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/mp3.html

Hour 2 Part 1 - 19:22

Jim Noir - Eanie meany (fat boy slim radio edit)
Madonna - Lycra Virgin (Mock & Toof remix)
Justin Timberlake - Sexy back
Gorillaz - Kids with guns - Hot chip remix
Lazy Boy - Underwear Goes Inside the Pants

Hour 2 Part 3 - 24:52

Goldfrapp - Ride a white horse (fk ek vocal version)
Donna Summer v Gnarls Barclay - I Feel Crazy (PartyBen mashup)
Scissor sisters - I dont feel like dancing (Paper faces mix)
Goose - Black gloves (Extended mix)

Beach Radio's live streaming is down at the moment while we switch ISP but check back to www.beachradio.net soon to listen live 12-2 here in NZ, 1am BST and 2am CET.

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Sorry to break the illusion that we're broadcasting from a secret tricked out high tech bunker somewhere beneath Stony Batter ... but this is pretty much what Beach Radio looks like most of the time. If you look hard enough you might just make out the duct tape that holds the desk together.

Thought I'd chuck my playlist up in case anyone was interested. Of note tonight I thought was a kind of experimental piece (way out of line from my usual faire), by a guy called Mazen Kerbaj who recorded this piece "Starry Night" from the balcony of his flat in Beirut with himself on trumpet and the Israeli airforce providing the bombs! Eerie and quite disturbing; you can grab a copy from the link in the playlist.

Ten Little Kids - the Jayhawks
Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine - the White Stripes
Portland, Oregon - Loretta Lynn
Arthritis Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliot (w/ David Hidalgo)
Elvis Presley Blues - Gillian Welch
Blue Moon of Kentucky - the King
Cathy Ann - Freakwater
That Teenage Feeling - Neko Case
Neverending Math Equation - Sun Kil Moon
All the Time in Airports - the Handsome Family
Graviy/Falling Down Again - Alejandro Escovedo
Starry Night - Mazen Kerbaj/Trumpet, Israeli Airforce/Percussion
Time of the Preacher - Johnny Cash
Three Days - L7
Made in Japan - Buck Owens
The Lost and Found - the Derailers
Don't Worry Baby - Los Lobos
Aftermath USA - Drive-by Truckers
Blinding Sun - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
My Mind is Ramblin - The Black Keys
Woody's Last Ride - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Everything Beautiful is Far Away - Grandaddy
The Madonna Trilogy - The Meat Purveyors
My Grey and Fading Dream - Jim and Jenny and the Pinetops
He Lays the Reins - Iron and Wine | Calexico
Lived in Bars - Cat Power
Stubborn Beast - Jolie Holland

BOBcasts updated

I have been really slack the past couple of weeks by not posting the track listing so herewith are the last few weeks.

The SIX Special
DJ Shadow - 6 Days (Soulwax Mix)
Soul Drive - 6th Avenue
Split Enz - 6 Months In A Leaky Boat
B52's - 6 Oh 6 Oh 842
Creed - 6 Feet From The Edge
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - 6 Barrel Shotgun
Rise Against - Six Ways Til Sunday
Common - Sixth Sense
DJ Hype & Zinc - 6 Million Ways To Die
Project 86 - Six Sirens
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
New Order - Sixty Miles An Hour
Yellowcard - One Year Six Months
Son Volt - 6 String Belief
Dire Straits - Six Blade Knife
Steve Earle - Six Days On The Road
Big & Rich - Six Foot Town
Sawyer Brown - 6 Days On The Road
Grace Gale - 6 Of Hearts
Fred Eaglesmith - My Last Six Dollars
Tool - Forty Six & Two
Son Volt - Afterglow 61
Dave Alvin - Highway 61 Revisited
Hot Lizard - 165 Drop
Triple Six Mafia - Triple Six Anthem


The SEVEN Special,

Armin Van Burren - Seven Cities
Jamiroquai - 7 Days In June
Toni Braxton - Seven Whole Days
Prince - Seven
Echo & The Bunnymen - Seven Seas
Teddy Geiger - Seven days Without You
Bob Dylan - Seven Curses
Freezepop - Seven Boom medley
The Sounds - Seven Days A Week
White Stripes - Seven nation Army
TNT - Seven Seas
Wah - Seven Minutes To midnight
Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven
Brand New - 70 Times 7
Feeder - Seven Days In The Sun
Controller.Controller - Silent Seven
10 Years - Seven
Fleetwood Mac - Seven Wonders
Craig David - Seven days
Mary J Blige - Seven Days
Corrosion Of Conformity - Seven Days
Bleeding Through - #7 With A Bullet
Ricky Scaggs/ K T Oslin - Seven Hillsides
Willie Nelson & Ray Charles - 7 Spanish Angels
Nenah Cherry & Youssou N'Dor - 7 Seconds Away

The EIGHT Special

Underworld - 8 Ball
Love Tattoo - 88
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
Alanis Morissette - Eight Easy Steps
Reckless Kelly - Eight More Miles
The Andrew Sisters - Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar
The Beatles - Eight Days A Week
Pitchshifter - Eight Days
Nada Surf - 80 Windows
O.V.Wright - Eight Men Four Women
David Bowie - Eight Line Poem
Styx - Pieces Of Eight
I Am Kloot - 86 Tv's
Pitch Black - The 48 Sharks - Kiwi Dub Group
Dot. Hack Infection - Eight Phases
Senses Fail - One Eight Seven
Tokyo Rose - The Hard Eight
Ambry - Eight Letter Homicide
Taking Back Sunday - One Eight By Summer
Tom Robinson Band - 2 4 6 8 Motorway
Glassjaw - When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros
Stereoblis - Eight Half Letters
Chris LeDoux - Hooked On An Eight Second Ride
Aceyalone - Eighty Five
Killing Joke - Eighties

The NINE Special

Nautilus - Nine Miles
Katie Melua - Nine Million Bicycles
Bryan Adams - Cloud #9
Bare Naked Ladies - This Is Me In Grade Nine
Hit The Lights - 309
Third Eye Blind/Blink 182 - Nine Days
Brand New - My Nine Rides Shotgun
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Boozoo Bajou - 9 Below Zero
Nicole Wray - Cloud Nine
Anthony B - Nine Yard
Unknown Artist - Nine Inch Banana
Elephant Man - Lift Up Your Nine
The Cat Empire - Nine Lives
Herb albert & The Tijuana Brass - Love Potion No 9
Styles Of Beyond - Nine Thou (Superstars Remix)
Spice 1 - Peace To My Nine
Red Rat - Nine Night Riddum
Bill monroe - Nine Pound Hammer
Dolly Parton - Working Nine To Five
Weird Al Yankowic - Nine Coronas
Dave Alvin - Nine Volt Heart
The ataris - Eight Of Nine
The Moldy Peaches - Lucky No 9
Tech 9 - Here Comes Techa Nine
Project Pat - Nine To Yo Dome
Catch 22 - 9mm & A Three Piece Suit

Yeah I know there's a couple of shonky titles in that lot but they just squeeze in as far as I'm concerned, and as I have stated before if you need to check out any of these bands then wikipaedia or allmusic.com are good places to start. Keep your ears on!

Lost for Words

This week I'm launching a new weekly feature on Counting the Beat. Lost for Words will be a regular showcase for great kiwi instrumentals. Each week I will play one or two songs san vocals.

The series was inspired by a new album I picked up by a band called Salon Kingsadore. Once I had struck on this idea the immediate question I had to ask myself was how to define an instrumental. On the surface it seems quite simple, a piece of music that doesn't feature voice. But the whole electronic / dance music thang muddies the water. Sure it might not feature vocals but is the music made by Pitch Black or Concord Dawn what you think of as an instrumental. (Come to think of it some of that music doesn't even feature instruments, unless you're going to count a laptop.)

If we look back a bit it gets easier. Many early kiwi rock acts in the 1960s aped their overseas counterparts such as the Stone etc and some also picked up on huge instrumental acts like The Shadows or the American surf guitar sound of Dick Dale, Link Wray and so on. In New Zealand the biggest instrumental act was Peter Posa, his most famous tune - White Rabbit. He drew on the surf guitar sound but wasn't quite so drenched in reverb and was a mighty fine picker. It is with Peter that I will start the Lost for Words series because he was the master. He is still around playing gospel and in fact he put out an album a couple of years back.

The instrumental tradition is still going strong in New Zealand and much of the best is still in a surf guitar vein (The Counting the Beat podcast that you can link to on the right is a kiwi surf guitar special). Check out tracks by The Hollow Grinders.

Anyway, Lost For Words will feature the best in kiwi instrumentals over the next few weeks. I would love to hear any suggestions you have, click on comments below.

The Mix and Mash Radio show - DJ Simon July 15th

Yeah some good tunes out at the moment as listed below. The Lily Allen's a surefire winner as is (strangely) the new Christina Aguilara single (out this week) and the Peaches track promises much for the forthcoming album. My tune of the week though has to be 'Jim Noir - Eanie Meany (Fat boy slim remix)'. The original was fine as it was to be honest but the Fatboy's added some more umph to the drums and some extra bleeps where necessary and it's converted into a modern uplifting classsic. Kinda what Norman does best really - and it's all about football too! You may well have heard the song recently. You recall that Adidas ad that was playing during the world cup where 2 young lads are picking there team for a game of soccer (sic) and chose from such luminary stars as David Beckham, Franz Becckenbauer, Zidane etc? Well it's the tune used in that ad.

Hour 1 Part 1 - 18:27

Pepe deluxe - Before you leave
Christina Aguilara - Ain't No Other Man
Gorillaz - Dirty Harry - Paul Mac Remix.
Peaches - Downtown
Lily Allen - Smile

Hour 1 Part 3 - 19:35

Jim Noir - Eanie Meany (Fat boy slim radio edit)
Lazyboy - Police dogs bonfire (linus loves mix)
Tiga - (Far From) Home The Speed Of Sexor Reprise
Daft Punk - The prime time of your life


Hour 2 Part 1 - 19:52

Muse - Supermassive black hole
Snow Patrol - Alpine Stars
Fatboy slim - Praise you (mike d and adrock remix)
Gorillaz - El manana (Metronomy remix)
Freelance Hellraiser - You Can Cry All You Want

Hour 2 Part 3 - 22:08

Goldfrapp - Ride a white horse (fk ek vocal version)
Madonna - Get Together (Tiefschwarz remix)
Gabrielle - Forget About The World (Daft Punk Remix)

Madonna - Get together

Oh you can always tell when someone is flavour of the month because Madonna's people get them in for a remix. Tiefschwarz drop this floor-friendly electrohouse remix.

Peaches - Downtown

As a prelude to her forthcoming album "Impeach My Bush", Peaches returns with new tracks to whet our appetites. Unique with her minimal pumping beats and loved by true innovators as diverse as Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop, Bjork, Josh Homme, Lil Kim, Marilyn Manson, Kelis, 2 Many DJs, MIA and LCD Soundsystem.

Melancholy: Bleak is the New Black

Some of the best NZ music ever has been melancholic, dark, depressive and even downright gothic (think of the meaning of the word of here, not Bauhaus and The Cure). Bands like The Chills, The Gordons, The 3Ds were all top standard, as good as anything else in the world, but none of them wrote songs your likely to hear at a kids birthday party. And when NZ bands have gone for the happy sound the results have been dire - remember "Melting Pot" by When the Cats Away - or "For Today" by The Netherworld Dancing Toys? Awful!

This month there have been a slew of great releases by kiwi acts that wallow in the melancholy. Bleak is the new black.

First up - Cassette. This band released a stone cold classic EP called EMO in 2000. The EP drew on everything great about laid back country era Neil Young but managed to sound fresh with engaging songs and great hooks. EMO has been on high rotate at home and on my show for five years. Cassette first started talking about an album release around 2001. Five years later Cut For Summer is here. (True to form they're still running late, releasing an album of that title in the midst of winter.)

So, has it been worth the wait? Absolutely. There are a handful of tracks on here, Pieces, Not Home and What a Relief, that could easily have sat on EMO. These songs are vey laid back, so slow they're almost not moving forward. There are a couple of rockers, one of which, Pick Me Up, has a great muted guitar refrain that just gets under your skin. Towards the end a couple of the songs are less engaging, but that seems to be the case with just about every albums these days.

The other thing about this album is that it's a grower. First time through I was thinking "okay", now I'm finding it hard to listen to anything else. You can stream tracks from both Cassette releases here.


A couple of other releases warrant mention too. The Haints of Dean Hall have put out a self released album on Arch Hill Records. Not to everyone's taste, this album is sparse and quiet, many tracks featuring only acoustic guitar and vocal, although a couple of tracks are reminiscent of the great NZ gothic country outfit The Renderers.

A haint is a southern term for a ghostly steam rising off the road, often mistaken to be a ghost, and the songs on this album are ghost like, definitely present but hard to get hold of. I'm still getting my head around this, but if you like acts like Bonnie "Prince" Billy, the great Steve Abel, or quieter moments of the Renderers give it a try. You can stream and download tracks here.


Finally, well worth checking out is the new album from Don McGlashan, Warm Hand. This has had plenty of media, so I won't say too much. However, the standout feature of this album is his melancholic lyrics. My favourite track, Toy Factory Fire, is narrated through the eyes of a New York executive whose company was ran a third world sweatshop factory that burnt to the ground killing 151 workers (a true story). There aren't many people who could turn that into a song without being heavy handed and overly polemic, but Don McGlashan is one.


For these and other depressing songs make sure you tune into Counting The Beat, Sundays at 6pm.