PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #128

Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample. The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks). The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight. Every other week the show is now presented by Jeremy Smith and as the two promotional pictures that he sent consisted as one of him covered in mud and the other of him covered in guinea pigs he is obviously mad as a bagful of cheese, which means he will fit in here just fine!

He writes: I’ve been a huge music fan ever since my parents bought me a transistor radio and I would listen to the sixties pirate music stations at nights under the covers. This love of live music has stayed with me to this day and I still love standing in a small club like the Borderline in London with some mates and watching a band with a pint in my hand. With the Strange Fruit radio show, I want to continue the trend of doing themed shows and playing the music I love..

Strange Fruit 128 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

 

The best Guitar Radio Show ever played on a local radio station on a summer’s Sunday evening.  And if that isn’t faint praise, I don’t know what is!!!

 

Featured Album:  The Stooges: Funhouse

 

Tracks 

1  Television: Venus

2  Jefferson Airplane: Embryonic Journey

3  Daevid Allen: Stoned Innocent Frankenstein

4  The Beatles: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

5  The Kinks: All day and All of the Night

6  The Stooges: TV Eye

7  The Stooges: 1970

8  The Rolling Stones: Dead Flowers

9  The Only Ones: The Beast

10  Luna: Ihop

11  Al Stewart: Apple Cider Re-Constitution

12  The Byrds: Eight Miles High

13  The Buzzcocks: ESP

14  The Clash: I'm so Bored with the USA

15  Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers

16  Alice Cooper: Under my Wheels

17  Richard Thompson: 1952 Vincent Black   Lightning

18  Magazine: Shot by Both Sides

19  The Stooges: Funhouse

20  The Durutti Column: Beginning

21  The Allman Brothers Band: In Memory of   Elizabeth Reed

22  The Grateful Dead: Box of Rain

23  Wishbone Ash: Warrior

24  Lou Reed: Intro / Sweet Jane