Dap Walk: Ernie and the Top Notes

Just Kissed My Baby: The Meters

Chicken Pox:  Brother Popcorn (for Tegan and Audrey) These guys will be playing live for our balcony broadcast next Thurs, woohoo! Come on down

Wuthering Heights: Kate Bush

Baby I Love You: Aretha Franklin (for Julio)

Oh Swim in the Ocean: x’s and o’s

Far Too Long: Birahny Lawrence

Sexual Healing: The Hot 8 Brass Band (get along to the New Orleans in Melbourne event next Tues)

Spoonful: Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley

I Been Hoodood: Dr John (for Mick)

Way Down in the Hole: The Redans

Forever Hunted: Dan Rolls

Disorder: Joy Division (for Kristen)

Eyes as Empty: Hap and Freya

Try a Little Tenderness: Otis Redding

Jade Standing reading of “Block”

Bloom: Radiohead

They Blind the Stars and the Wild Team (tittle track): Decoder Ring

Pretty Little Baby: Josephine Baker (for Phil and Ange’s new babe Esther!)

Spoken Word from Going Down Swinging- ezb and Chloe  Jackson Willmot

Valentine (poem for Matt Lee)

Rambling Man: Laura Marling

Exhibitions, Performance and gigs:

Red Brick Gallery

Punctum Next on Now (Bendigo)

Cafe Muzyka

Odyssey

Thieves Theatre (Natimuk)

Chants des Catacombes (Adelaide)

Redans at Cornish Arms and Karova

Dan Rolls February residency at Babushka

Artist Opportunities:

Ex Parenthesis Journal

Going Down Swinging

Ballarat Inaugral Cabaret Festival: NOW OPEN Experienced Cabaret performers with an established show or a strong outline for a new Cabaret are invited to express interest in participating in Australia’s newest and only regional Cabaret Festival.

Taking place in Ballarat, Victoria from Friday October 12, 2012 until Saturday 20 October, 2012 Ballarat Cabaret will bring together the best in Cabaret and include the smash hit Caravan Burlesque from the internationally renowned Finucane & Smith.

Interested performers are requested to complete the Expression of Interest Form by clicking on ‘APPLY NOW’ with a detailed outline of the show to be considered including names of all performers, song list, writing and directing credits etc..

Please ensure you include links to any and all supporting material (youtube video, images, web pages etc) where possible. Applicants are advised that Ballarat Cabaret (Festival) is a strictly curated event and a submission will not automatically result in inclusion in the Festival.

For more information please contact our Co-Artistic Director by clicking the‘CONTACT’ button

Deadline for submissions 29th February 2012.

Catch you next week for the Live Balcony Broadcast Party from 6! : )

Soul Power: The JB’s

Feel the Vibe: Candice Monique and the Optics

Gimme: Jill Scott

Tell The Truth: Ray Charles

Soul Twist/Introduction: Sam Cooke

I Thank You: Sam and Dave

A Fool in Love: Ike and Tina Turner

My Baby Shot me Down: Clairy Browne and the Bangin Rackettes

Get a Move on (alternative mix): The Quantic Soul Orchestra

Clap Your Hands (Part 1): The Wheels

Light My Fire: Erma Franklin (for Phil and Ange)

Mirror Mirror on the Wolf ‘Tell the Story Right’: Alice Russell

100 days 100 nights: Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (for Brendan)

Not Gonna Let You: Randa and the Soul Kingdom

Ooh Yeah: Betty Davis (for Lauren)

visit from Miss Daisy Amazing (aka Tegan Lang) about getting your groove on

These Boots Were Made for Walking, french style

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart: Al Green

Way Down in the Hole: The Redans (awesome new Ballarat band!)

Chick Habit: April March (for Kristen)

Run Right Back: The Black Keys

Caught a Long Wind: Feist (great gig Wednesday night at the Palais! Who wants to join my rockin girl choir?)

Hope you dug the tunes. Thanks to Phil for awesome Off the Tracks including Charles Bradley who I didn’t get a chance to play! He’s playing the Corner Hotel on March 18th (supported by Melbourne’s Cactus Channel!)

Also hitting oz soon is neo soulster Erykah Badu

Don’t forget to get along to Miss Daisy Amazing’s go go dancing classes, starting next Wednesday. More details here. So excited!!

& catch Paige Duggan doing her soulful thang this Sunday at Cafe Muzyka. Catch you next week! : )

Here’s the interview with Tiffany Kommedal from last week. I’ll try to get some other audio up soon from guest visits over the last year. Enjoy and get along to St Kilda Festival next weekend! : )

Gracemakers Interview

Kutcha Edwards on Rock Wiz (for Margot)

Millay Millay (Butterfly) Hood/Lewis (from Myngarnbi Walking Wth Spirits) for Kristen and co

Gam-ba Lingmarra (Spirit of Men)  Hood/Lewis

From the Bush: Warumpi Band (these guys rule! and apparently played at a 3bbb broadcast in the 80′s!)

Babu: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Pick You Up: Tiddas (Powderfinger cover)

Chat with Tiffany from the Gracemakers. You can catch them at the upcoming St Kilda Festival

Blanket: Gracemakers

Beautiful Child: Archie Roach

From Little Things Big Things Grow: Paul Kelly (just a nice song)

Hold On (I’m Coming) Dan Kelly

Throw Your Arms Around Me: Hunters and Collectors (had to play this oldie)

live performance from Natasha Woods!

Let me Sing Freedom: Rene Sephton and Etienne Dinanga (an example of a beautiful cultural collaboration, and we’ll feature more of these in the lead up to Harmony Fest)

Brown Bird: Cooperblack (cover of Nabarlek’s (Arnhem Land) song, of the album My Art Is bleeding)

World Turning Right :Yothu Yindi

My Island Home: Warumpi Band (for Lisa)

Shellie Morris: Love and Courage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjbTRnhbxrc

also check out The Black Arm Band

Atomic Electric: Rebecca’s Empire (Happy Birthday Effie!)

& as we said on the show we won’t be doing the weekly mini-gig guide formally anymore but will keep letting you know about exciting creative events around town! Here’s a few:

Jade’s new Ballarat Literary Journal called Ex-Parenthesis (more details soon)

The final Summer Sundays is on this weekend in the Botanical Gardens with the twilight screening of Citizen Kane at dusk. Come along early to secure a bean bag! See you there.

The next Art Sparks will be next Tuesday 31st at South St Art Studio so let us know if your’e coming (amy.voicefm@gmail.com) for vegetarian feast, music, storytelling and visuals, yay! Hosted by Tinderbox Radio and supported by the City of Ballarat.

Red Brick Gallery are currently calling for photographers to enter the Click@Red Brick exhibition. It’s a group photography exhibition and anyone can apply to exhibit. People just need to follow this link for more info and to get an application form

http://redbrickgallery.com.au/exhibit-red-brick

A Toda Cuba Le Gusta: Afro Cuban Allstars

All Aboard the Funky Soul Train: The JB’s

Trains: Kyu

Pilots: Goldfrapp

Have Love Will Travel: The Black Keys

The Mozdok’s Train: Anouar Brahem

Hear My Train a Comin’: Jimi Hendrix

text from Michel de Certeau

Mystery Train: Little Junior Parker

Road to Nowhere: Nouvelle Vague

Postcard Blues: Cowboy Junkies

Travelling Woman: Bat for Lashes

Road to Somewhere: Goldfrapp

We Came Along this Road: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Stolen Car: Beth Orton

Wayfaring Stranger: Johnny Cash

A Wandering Song: Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentleman

Day Tripper: Otis Redding

Don’t Take me For a Ride: Founders 15

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry: Bob Dylan

The Hollow Boat: McKisko

Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats of Fire are Falling from the Sky: A Silver Mount Zion

Holiday: Joan as Policewoman

Fly: Lamb

Get Up: Hot 8 Brass Band

We Float: PJ Harvey (going to see her on Sat, so excited!!)

I was lucky enough to be invited down to SYN Fm last night, a busy little hive of media related action, to join a discussion about the possibilities of multi-platform use in today’s broadcasting world. It was great to meet Ballarat-born luminary Bryce Ives, the fabulous Community Media Trainer  Nicola Joseph and catch up with other presenters, friends new and old. More discussion and projects are in the pipeline so stay tuned! I’m particularly keen to get some more collaboration going between metro and regional stations so will keep you posted.

Anywho, looking forward to getting back into the studio on Australia Day- who needs the hottest 100 when you’ve got the Tinderbox?! Yes? yes?…

We’re off to Hobart tomorrow for Mona Foma Art Festival so will have lots to tell you about on our return.

But there’s lots happening in Ballarat too- the Organ Fest, Beer Fest (featuring Claire Bowditch, Stonefield, and Jordie Lane) and Saturday night at Karova is Paddy’s Night, a host of local talent celebrating a great champion of the scene who sadly passed away last year. Oh and don’t miss the amazing Elsworth St Ramblers there on Friday night!

Here’s the lovely Freya Hollick performing live on the ABC

Catch you soon! x

Don’t miss the Summer Sunday events coming up at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens over the next 3 Sundays with some great music like the Ballarat Ska Orchestra and Elsworth St Ramblers plus sweet desserts, oh yeah.

You can also check out some pics from the Artist Talk I did at  Red Brick exhibition on Tuesday here, thanks to Aldona for taking them : ) Taking a couple of weeks off to finish thesis and pop over to Mona Foma in Tassie to see PJ Harvey, so excited (oh and Ballarat’s fabulous Tegan Lang shaking her groove thing at the festival club!).  Take it easy and catch you soon.

Big love and thanks to everyone that has been involved with the show this year: guests, listeners, hosts, supporters- we really appreciate it. And looking back over the year we’ve been part of some pretty cool things:

Voice Fm Live Balcony Broadcast

Ballarat Acoustic Music Festival

ABC Open’s Wxsw Film Clip project

and the inaugral Ballarat Songwriters Night. Woohoo!

Last night’s Playlist, Some faves from the year:

Baby Caught the Bus: Clairy Browne and the Bangin Rackettes

(love Chris in the background of this selling a record, nice one!)

Jungle: Emma Louise

Black Widow: Osh10

Quite Capable: Ainslie Wills

A Song for You: Paige Duggan

Straight Onto Morning: Tessa & the Typecast

Hot Pants Breakdown: Brother Popcorn

Oldest Grass in Town: Speed Orange (live at Voice Fm)

Hey Ya: Adam Simmons

I Want You (Acoustic, live at Voice): Indian Skies

Action: Mikelangelo and the Tin Star

Shake it Out: Florence and the Machine

Cast that Devil Out: Abbe May (for Lauren)

Brave in Other Ways: Underminers

Banya: Majid Bekkas  (for Mick)

The Last Living Rose: PJ Harvey (Happy Birthday Jade!)

(That’s how you Sing) Amazing Grace: Low (from a Late Night Tales comp, check them out here)

Next week we’ll play a repeat of film soundtrack songs Lauren and I put together. Enjoy and we’ll see you next year!!

Ps- Don’t forget to check out Effie’s artwork up at Muzyka and my exhibition with Steph Wallace and Louisa West at Red Brick and if you want any more info on the after hours Artist Talk thing I’ll be doing on Jan 3rd just get in touch- amy.voicefm@gmail.com : )

and we heard:

Radio: The Avalanches (Waddya know, they’re from Maryborough)

Loser: Beck

Give it Away (In Progress): Red Hot Chili Peppers

Spider: Dave Myers

Born Under Punches (the Heat Goes on): Talking Heads

I was a Boy From School: Hot Chip

Lullaby: Osh 10 (Soup Remix)- launching the remix album next Tuesday night with visuals too, fun!

Upside: Lisa Miller

Visit from local artist/writer/chef/adventurer Fiona Morgan

Check her out at the Ballarat Independent , on Flikr and in the Art Gallery of Ballarat front window! This is a space reserved for local artists- check it out here.

Technology is currently disabling me from posting pictures so you’ll have to go look yourselves! ; )

And the show she was talking about Hearts of Space

Utopia: Michael Yezerski (from the Lost Thing)

End Credits: Bruno Coulais (from Coraline. I went out and got the vid, can’t wait to watch it!)

The Party: Bruno Coulais

Gold Guns Girls: Metric (road trip song)

Daylight Homocide: Grand Perceptor (for Dan)

Echoes of Spain: Django Reinhardt (for Julio- happy birthday!)

Balkan Beach Party: Mikelangelo and the Tin Star

mini gig guide

Ultima Esperanza: Dresden Dolls (playing at Mona Foma next Jan. We’ll be there, come join us!)

Soul to Squeeze: Chili Peppers (for everyone in the room. Peace)

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