Saturday, 3 October 2015

PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #136

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 136 - Single and Looking

   
Singles that should have been smashes but instead flopped or just limped into the charts. 
 
Featured Album:  The Kinks: Picture Book
 
Tracks 
1  The Only Ones: Another Girl Another Planet
2  Wreckless Eric: Reconnez Cherie
3  The Stranglers: Always the Sun
4  TV Smith's Explorers: Tomahawk Cruise
5  Culture: Two Sevens Clash
6  The Kinks: Better Things
7  The Kinks: Father Christmas
8  Richard Strange & the Engine Room:   Damascus
9  Danielle Dax: White Knuckle Ride
10  Arthur Brown: We Gotta Get Out of this Place
11  The Flys: Love and a Molotov Cocktail
12  Brinsley Schwarz: What's so Funny about   Peace Love and Understanding
13  The Buzzcocks: I Don't Mind
14  The Buzzcocks: Love You More
15  Killing Joke: Empire Song
16  Echo & the Bunnymen: Do it Clean
17  Joy Division: She's Lost Control
18  The Saints: This Perfect Day
19  Television Personalities: A Sense of Belonging
20  Theatre of Hate: (Do You Believe in the)   Westworld
21  John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett: Beware of   the Flowers ('Cos I'm Sure They're Going to   Get You Yeah)
22  John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett: Geneve
23  The Kinks: Victoria
24  The Kinks: Living on a Thin Line
25  Cockney Rebel: Sebastian
26  The Dickies: Paranoid
27  That Petrol Emotion: Big Decision
28  The Undertones: Teenage Kicks
29  Pere Ubu: 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
30  Pere Ubu: Final Solution
31  Robert Wyatt: Shipbuilding
32  Elton Motello: Jet Boy Jet Girl
33  The Skids: The Saints are Coming


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