Thursday July 29th
The Tinderbox was aflame again last night with stimulating conversation, great music and even an impromtu reading of some of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale The Tinderbox!
We had an interview with Luke Winterton from fabulous Melbourne band The Bastard Children, and were joined in the studio for Strange News by Lisa Kovacevic- writer, director, producer, actor extraordinaire.
PLAYLIST:
I Wanna Take You Higher: Sly & the Family Stone
Bastard Children: The Bastard Children
Bachelorette: Bjork
Convince Me: The Bastard Children
Zoology: The Bastard Children
Funeral Pyre: Speed Orange
Money on My Mind: Incredible Dead Goons
Blank Page Day: Savannah Jo Lack
Night Time: The XX
The Crane Wife 3: Marianne Faithful
I Cannot Sit Sadly By Your Side: Cowboy Junkies
Some weather action with Shaggy, lyrical lover!
Lots of exciting creative stuff is going on at the moment- the Film Festival, Writers Festivals coming up in Melbourne and Ballarat, and don’t foget to tune in to Dave Knowles Accessing Arts Wednesday’s 6-8.30 for more arts news, interviews and reviews!
Catch you next week for Karaoke favourites Part 2
Oh and as discussed last night- A Tinderbox was a ye olde box that contained flint and fire lighting materials. Metaphorically it refers to a situation or person with the potential to set alight! For our show we take the image of sparking and igniting ideas and creativity. Just in case you were wondering! x
Karaoke Time Part One
China Girl: David Bowie
The Wonder of You: Elvis (for John)
Start Me Up: Rolling Stones
Little Red Corvette: Prince (for Nathan)
Walk On the Wild Side: Lou Reed
Girl Just Wanna Have Fun: Cindi Lauper (for all the ladies!)
Say My Name: Destinys Child
Total Eclipse of the Heart: Bonnie Tyler (fort Leanne)
Move On Up: Curtis Mayfield
You Make me Feel Like a Natural Woman: Aretha Franklin (for Ursula)
Oblidi Oblida: The Beatles
Dirty Funk: Steve Appleton (for Yuto)
House of Fun: Madness (for Tom)
Friday I’m in Love : The Cure
Tears in Heaven: Eric Clapton (for Jason)
Easy: Faith No More
No Rain: Blind Melon (for Lauren in absentia)
Tiny Dancer: Foo Fighters (for Hannah)
Paradise City: Guns & Roses (for Julio)
Vogue: Madonna (Amy’s pick, whatchyou lookin at?!)
Push It: Salt & Pepper
Gangstas Paradise: Coolio (for Mick)
Livin’ On a Prayer: Bon Jovi
Lets Stay Together: Al Green
Hope you enjoyed!
Next week’s Strange News from a Distant Star will feature an interview with Melbourne band The Bastard Children and we’ll have writer/producer Lisa Kovacevic in the studio exciting, igniting and delighting! And the following week will be part 2 of Karaoke faves, it’s not too late to get in your requests! Catch you then x
Also check out the Melbourne Writers Festival and don’t forget to book for the Going Down Swinging 30th birthday launch
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Strange News with Nathan Curnow
It was a barrel of laughs inside the Tinderbox last week, with Sir Curnow setting the scene of us on chesterfields, stoking the fire and partaking in fine liquor and cigars. We also had the pleasure of hearing him read his award winning poem Endtime, plus some impromtu kebab and romance material. We had so much fun that we’ll be inviting him back again very soon! We also played some great music, including some live tracks we didn’t get to fit in on the live show:
Not Again (Live)- Liquid Liquid
Boom Boom (Live)- Muddy Waters
Four Sticks- Led Zepelin (awesome)
STRANGE NEWS FROM A DISTANT STAR WITH NATHAN CURNOW (then he hung around for the whole show, joy!) Thunder Road- Bruce Springsteen
Perfect Day- Lou Reed
Le Brun Et Le Blond (Live)- Martha Wainwright
(You’ve Got to Get) A Good Heart- Cowboy Junkies (new album, highly recommended)
About A Girl (Live)- Nirvana
Cavern- Liquid Liquid
Prepare Your Coffin- Tortoise
In Heaven (Live)- Pixies
Lauren does the weather with I’m Too Sexy. oh yeah
Foxy Lady- Jimi Hendrix (for Kez, Nathan’s wonderful wife!)
Without a Heart: Sharon Jones & the Dapkings
Drifter: Wild Nothing Dream Attack: New Order Superstition:
Stevie Wonder (for Priscilla) Put a Ring on It: Beyonce Last
Thoughts on Woody Guthrie- Bob Dylan (for Nathan)
I Shall be Released: Jeff Buckley
Thanks for listening and don’t forget to tune in for theme time next week- favourite kareoke songs- get your requests in (rest assured, Living on a Prayer is already on the list!)
Liveness and Longevity
We hope everyone enjoyed last night’s LIVE show (not the band, so no Lightning Crashes sorry Mick! hawhaw). We had a ball and look forward to having more guests into the show to share their fabulous creative talents.
Elissa Roger graced the Voice Fm airwaves with her beautiful voice and ukelele skills, followed up by the lovely Hannah Connel and a bit of Ja!
It is good Ja? 
Thankyou so much to everyone who conquered the nerves and sung their wee hearts out, and we wish them all the best in their creative endeavours that we’re sure will go far. We also had the pleasure of being joined by our Japanese friend Yuto who is staying with me and Julio whilst doing an english course at Ballarat Uni. He said that being on the Tinderbox was the best experience of his life, and it’s only the 2nd day of his stay!! Good times, good times. So, here’s the playlist of hand-picked live recordings, with some other stuff thrown in.
Psycho Killer: Talking Heads (The Name of This Band is Talking Heads, released 1982)
Bjork Live at the Royal Opera House London- an amazing performance you can check out here
Coming Up…
This week’s theme is LIVE, wooo. With songs from Elissa Roger, Abbie Matthews, Ja & more. Plus some great live recordings from Tori Amos, Talking Heads, Louis Armstrong and the crew.
July 15th: Strange News from a Distant Star with award winning local poet Nathan Curnow.
July 22nd: Theme show is Fave Kareoke songs- get in your requests now!
Food Marvelous Food
The Tinderbox was alight with tasty treats last Thursday! We had:
Cream: Prince
Watermelon Man: Herbie Hancock
Cornflake Girl: Tori Amos
Custard Pie: Led Zep
STRANGE NEWS RECIPE TIME! with Helen on the Zucchini Loaf, and Tiffany Eckhardt’s Zucchini Cake & Jack Johnson’s Banana Pancakes
Into a bit of Bert & Ernie with the Icecream Song and C is for Cookie, yum!
And some Leonard Cohen Jukebox ‘the songs behind the man’ (not authorised by Leonard Cohen!)
The Twist: Hank Ballard
Unchained Melody: The Righteous Brothers
Raspberry Swirl: Tori Amos (she has so many great food titled songs!)
Sour Times: Portishead
Mother Popcorn: James Brown
Lauren and Swayze do the weather with Hungry Eyes
Get it While You Can: Janis Joplin
Le Banquet: Yann Tiersen
Honey Honey: Feist
Voodoo Lady: Ween (from their Chocolate and Cheese album)
Honey Pie: The Beatles
Honey Bear: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
For the Rest of Your Life: Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
Mina and the fabulous recipe for Scottish Fruit Loaf and tenuously linked but great track Bavarian Fruit Bread also from Hope Sandoval from their album of the same name (double yum)
Sam and Julian with Chocolate Mug Cake (and the real deal bought to us in the studio, so good)
Chocolate Cake: Crowded House
Hungry Heart: Bruce Springsteen
All the Big Trees: Jonsi and Alex (from their album Rice Boy Sleeps)
Tune in next week for Live Music Special featuring some great live recordings as well as local musicians in the studio. And don’t forget to drop us a line if you want to get in on the Tinderbox goodness- tinderboxradio@gmail.com.
PS- New website and internet streaming coming any day now!!