Sunday 24 November 2013

HangNine FM Playlist November 23rd 2013


Here is the playlist for the HangNine FM show on North Sea Surf Radio, first transmitted on November 23rd 2013
 
What A Way to Run a Railroad
Huevos Rancheros
Get Outta Dodge

Forgot to Put the Chain on Baxter
The Thurston Lava Tube
The Pink Elephant with Nipples for Tusks 

004
The Good the Bad
From 001 to 017 

Fiesta del Cossacapulco
The Space Cossacks
Tsar Wars 

Tierra del Fuego
Langhorns
Langhorns 

Depth Charge
Jon and the Nightriders
Surf Beat '80 

Life's too Short to Waste it Away
The Razorblades
Twang Machine 

Casbah
Los Straitjackets
Damas y Caballeros 

Minnie's Theme
The Space Agency
Galactic Guitars 

Vostok 1
Surfin' Lungs
Hang Loose with the Surfin' Lungs 

Invasion of the Dragonmen
Man or Astroman
Intravenous Television Continuum 

Into the Blue Sparkle
Slacktone
Into the Blue Sparkle 

Bubble Bath
The Bambi Molesters
Sonic Bullets 

Malabar
The Phantom Four
Madhur 

Jinetes Radioactivos
Los Coronas
El Baile Final 

Unto the Resplendent
The Mermen
The Amazing California Health and Hapiness Road Show 

Ewa on the Beach
Frankie and the Poolboys
Frankie and the Poolboys 

As the Dark Wave Swells
The Bambi Molesters
As the Dark Wave Swells

Monday 18 November 2013

HangNine FM Playlist November 16th 2013


Here is the playlist for the HangNine FM show on North Sea Surf Radio, first transmitted on November 9th 2013
 
Stringer
Bobby Fuller
Surf age Nuggets 

Man of Mystery
The Shadows
The Original Chart Hits 

Moment of Truth
Dave Myers
Moment of Truth 

Surf Rider
The Lively Ones
Cowabunga! The Surf Box 

Walk Don't Run
The Ventures
The Original... 

Baja
The Astronauts
Cowabunga! The Surf Box 

Pintor
The Pharos
Cowabunga! The Surf Box 

Telstar
The Tornados
Telstar 

Thunderin' Guitar
Jeujene and the Jaybops
Ultimate 60's Surf Classics 

Sleepwalk
Santo and Johnny
Santo and Johnny 

Blue's Theme
Davie Allan and the Arrows
Bullseye A sixties Retrospective

Night of the Vampire
The Moontrekkers
Intergalactic Instro's

Jezabel
The Illusions
Cowabunga! The Surf Box 

Ali Baba
Dave and the Customs
Surf Age Nuggets 

Siboney
Johnny Fortune
Siboney Single 

Latin'ia
The Sentinals
Sunset Beach 

Run Chicken Run
Link Wray
Rumble The Best of... 

War of the Worlds
The Atlantics
The Explosive Sounds of... 

Margaya
The Fender IV
Roots of the Cramps 

Malaguena
The Trashmen
Tube City 

The Wedge
Dick Dale and his Del-Tones
King of the surf Guitar 

Far Away Places
Eddie and the Showmen
Squad Car

Wednesday 13 November 2013

HangNine FM Playlist November 9th 2013

Here is the playlist for the HangNine FM show on North Sea Surf Radio, first transmitted on November 9th 2013

Taco Wagon
Dick Dale and his Del-Tones
The Best of... 

Switchblade
Langhorns
Club Gabardino 

Brunhilde
The Treble Spankers
Araban (1994) 

Le Temp de l'Amour
The DC3
Unreleased 

If I Were a Rich Man
Vibrasonic
Instrumental Vibrations

The Wedge
Los Coronas
Surfin' Tenochtitlan 

Atlantis
The Shadows
The Original chart Hits 

Pre-Ritual/The Ritual
The Madeira
Tribal Fires 

Dark Eyes
The Bitch Boys
Ride the First Wave 

Border Town
Eddie and the Showmen
Squad Car 

Walk Don't Run
The West Samoa Surfer League
Unreleased (Live at HangNine Towers) 

Latkes
Meshuga Beach Party
Hot Rod Hanukkah 

Boogie Board
Jon and the Nightriders
Fiberglass Rocket

Instrumental
The Only Ones
Even Serpents Shine 

Tailspin
Los Straitjackets
Los Straitjackets 

The Kiss Off
The Bambi Molesters
As the Dark Wave Swells 

Paniolo
Frankie and the Poolboys
Cap'n Coconuts 

Los Fantasticos
A Hard Day for the Magnificent 7
The Devil Went Down to George Street


 

Monday 4 November 2013

Lou Reed


Lou Reed, to the best of my knowledge, had nothing to do with surf music; except this. On Sunday October 27thI and made the fairly short journey along the south coast from Brighton to Hastings to see The Razorblades play the final show of their recent English tour. Around half way through their set at the splendid Royal Standard pub on the storm-swept seafront, I noticed the guitarist from support band The Sine Waves, checking something on his mobile phone. He then went up and spoke to Razorblades frontman, Martin, who announced to the packed pub that Lou Reed had died.

It’s very hard for me to write objectively about The Velvet Underground; they have meant so much to me for so many years. In the immediate aftershock of Punk’s year zero approach to everything we knew, or thought we knew, we began to discover a different musical heritage from the one we had been peddled by an industry in thrall to dinosaurs and hippies. And for me, the first port of call on that journey into a better back catalogue was The Velvet Underground. 

It’s almost impossible now to imagine how strange, how different this band must have sounded in 1967, when The Velvet Underground and Nico was released to almost universal indifference. Now, of course, it is a sound deeply woven into the fabric of all alternative-minded “rock” music, since, as Brian Eno famously said, that first album only sold 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to form a band.
 



THAT sound; droning viola, courtesy of John Cale, intertwining guitars, from Reed and Sterling Morrison (always the coolest looking Velvet, for my money), the contrasting voices of Reed and Nico and, underpinning it all, the glorious heartbeat of Mo Tucker’s drumming (“There are two types of drummer,” deadpanned Cale, “Maureen Tucker and everyone else.”) has lain deep within my soul for over 35 years now. White Light White Heat is an even more astonishing aural assault, of course, while the third album, actually titled The Velvet Underground, but always referred to by my group of friends in the early 1980’s as the Grey Album, is almost as shocking in its, at times,  gentle sweetness. Some have great affection for the fourth album, Loaded, but in comparison to the others, it seems weak to me, containing, as it does, only four great songs in Sweet Jane, Rock’n’Roll, Who Loves The Sun? and Oh! Sweet Nuthin’. Most mere mortals would be happy with four great songs on one album, but from the Velvets I expect better!

In later years I managed to see Nico performing in the flesh and, on another occasion, Mo Tucker (although she played guitar, not drums) and then, in 1992, almost miraculously, the original line-up of The Velvet Underground (minus Nico, who had died in 1998 and never was a real member anyway) were miraculously playing in London. Now, Wembley Arena is a pretty poor substitute for Warhol’s Factory and I’m fairly sure that the show was nothing like being at an Exploding Plastic Inevitable event, but I saw The Velvet Underground, the ACTUAL Velvet Underground, with Lou Reed and John Cale and Sterling Morrison and Mo Tucker, all together, on one stage. I was there.

Sterling Morrison died in 1995 and now Lou Reed has gone too. But the world changed because of them; the musical world at least and my world too and for that, I shall always be grateful.

HangNine FM Playlist November 2nd 2013

Here is the playlist for the HangNine FM show on North Sea Surf Radio, first transmitted on November 2nd 2013

Cap'n Coconuts TV Theme
Cap;n Coconuts
Frankie and the Poolboys


Le Rail de Jugement Dernier
The Sunmakers
Viens Twister Ce Soir


Moment of Truth
West Samoa Surfer League
Moments of Truth


Cruel Sea
Surf Creatures
X50


Sondido Amazonico
The Phantom Four
Morgana


Vampire Fucker
The Squadron Leaders
In Which We Surf


Guantanamo-A-Go-Go
The Waterboarders
Surfbeats n Deadbeats


Festival of Lights
Meshugga Beach Party
Hot Rod Hanukkah


Orbit Round the Moon
The Blue Men
Joe Meek Portrait of a Genius


The Sweeping Wind (Ewa Ti Feng)
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
Roadrunner Roadrunner


Defcon 1
Man or Astroman?
Defcon 5 4 3 2 1


Miss Alamo
Los Coronas
Adios Sancho


Body Surf
Aki Aleong &the Nobles
Cowabunga the Surf Box


Open Channel D
Surfin' Lungs
Surf, Drags & Rock'n'Roll


Get Carter
The McDeath Trio
Unreleased


The Bells of St Kahuna
Slacktone
Slacktone


Bombay Potatoes
The Space Agency
Bombay Potatoes 7"


Brunello di Montalcino
Dead Man's Curve
We Will Prevail


Tribal Fury
The Madeira
Tribal Fires


Infra Green
Insect Surfers
Infra Green

Hang666 Halloween Special Playlist October 31st 2013


Here is the playlist for the Hang666 Halloween Special show on North Sea Surf Radio, first transmitted on October 31st 2013

Introduction - tuning the radio with: 

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Das Rheingold - Prelude
Wagner: Das Rheingold 
 
The Baby Boys
Scared
Undreleased 
 
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Oh Fortuna
Karl Orff: Carmina Burana 
Halloween Special:
 
Tubular Bells Part 1
Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells 
 
Strollin' After Dark
Shades
Roots of the Cramps
 
Stoned
Dead Man's Curve
Unreleased 
 
The Shadow Knows
Mudlow
Unreleased 
 
Switchblade
Link Wray
Rumble! The Best of... 
 
The Devil Went Down to George Street
Los Fantasticos
The Devil Went Down to George Street 
 
Munsters Theme
Surfin' Lungs
Splashback 
The House on Haunted Hill
Kenny and the Fiends
Surf-Age Nuggets
 
Dracula's Theme
The Ghouls
Mostly Ghostly
 
Night of the Vampire
Dead Man's Curve
World Catastrophe Generator 
 
Return of the Vampire
Moontrekkers
Intergalactic Instro's 
 
Experiment in Terror
Laika and the Cosmonauts
Experiment in Terror 
 
Do the Zombie
The Squadron Leaders
Greatest Hits 1939-1945 
 
The Cave Part 1
Gary "Spider" Webb
Mostly Ghostly 
Graveyard
The Bitch Boys
Ride the First Wave 
 
The Black Widow
Los Twang Marvels
Guitars in Orbit 
 
The High Fidelics
New Killer Ray
The High Fidelics 
 
A Taste of Poision
Frankie Stein and his Ghouls
Halloween Ghoul Classics 
 
Headless Hipster
The Space Agency
Galactic Guitars 
The Spook Walks
Spooks
Intergalactic Instro's 
 
Raining Blood
Hell-o-Tiki
Attack of Lady Octopussy 
In Heaven Everything is Fine
Django Deadman
Unreleased 
 
The show also featured an extract from the Apocalypse Now Soundtrack