Dead Rabbit, Outer Hebrides 2006

Return to Summerisle for a musical Wicker sequel (one probably making more sense than Wicker Man II – yes it exists, yes it was written by Tony Shaffer, yes it was bonkers. Being molested by tree gods and throwing people off cliffs with eagles attached to them? Anyone?).

This time returning to focus on the contemporary possible inspirations for the Wicker Man soundtrack, and some later music I think has been influenced by either the soundtrack or the related music of that time, music that contains the same love for early music or combines the same mixture of acid/psychedelic/freak folk mixed with a more uneasy dread or pagan longing.

Unlike the last show a lot of high conjecture (it might all have been Carport Convention and Inedible String Band for all I know! ) so I throw in speech and music from the original film as well as some amazing modern day covers.

I forgot to say these sources of information and inspiration:

1. The Music of the Wicker Man – brilliant article and the last show heavily leant on (ie stole) this information – hope you don’t mind!
2. Inside the Wicker Man: How Not to Make a Cult Classic (excellent book – most ‘interviews’, ‘documentaries’, ‘new information’ and ‘shocking exposes’ are seemingly this book reheated/nicked – it’s a good read despite having heard a lot of the info from elsewhere, not the books fault as this seems to be the source for all of that)
3. Wiki Man (lol)
4. Gary Carpenter – Setting the Score – interesting info especially about the Trunk release, although in fairness I have to link their response and without the Trunk release being successful there would be no other versions or anything to kvetch about. Also I think the legalities of performance fees are now very different from 1973.
5. Burnt Offerings – Cult of the Wicker Man
6. Wicker Man Enigma – both on the DVD
7. A Darker Shade of Pagan – Wicker Man posts

Phew I think that’s all! You probably can’t hear it in the shows with all the umming and erring, but I did an uncommon amount of research on this one.

he now wears cuckold’s horns, and they’re growing full, pushing through the soil (88Mb, 97Min)

Tracklist:

• Paul Giovanni – Beetle
• The Pentangle – Light Flight
• Forever Children – Merry Go-Round
• Paul Giovanni – Fire Leap
• Vashti Bunyan – Here before
• Wendy & Bonnie – By The Sea
• Linda Perhacs – (Hey Now) Who Really Cares?
• Forest – Graveyard
• Turid / Song
• Paul Giovanni – Lullaby
• Doves – Willow’s Song
• Sneaker Pimps – Johnny
• Willow’s Song (Hammer sandwich mix) – Spacedog
• Fleet Foxes – Silver Dagger
• Midlake – We Gathered In Spring
• Paul Giovanni – Hum
• The Low Anthem – Ticket Taker
• Paul Giovanni – Approach
• Mudboy – Solitron Wave
• The Leisure Society – The Last Of The Melting Snow
• Paul Giovanni – Appointment With The Wicker Man
• Wild Beasts – His Grinning Skull
• Paul Giovanni – Sunset
• Paul Giovanni – Festival / Mirie It Is / Sumer Is A-Cumen In

Outer Hebrides, 2006

Get out your apples, pipes and fairisle jumpers, it’s a trip back to the 1970′s folk and a return to Summerisle – the Wicker Man⁺ awaits…This part is about the older influences to the amazing soundtrack by Paul Giovanni – English, Irish and Scottish songs dating back upto 800 years – to the start of recorded music itself.

Where’d they find virgins nowadays? (86Mb, 92 mins)

• Sumer is icumen in (English, c.1260)
• Paul Giovanni – Willow’s Song
• [anonymous] – Martin said to his man (English, 16th Century)
• Paul Giovanni – Gently Johnny
• Unknown – Gently Johnny, My Jingalo (English, earlier but first written down 1907)
• Meg Baird – Willie O’Winsbury (Scottish, 1775)
• Paul Giovanni – Procession
• Shantalla – The Highland Widow’s Lament (Scottish, c.1715-1745)
• Robertson’s Rant (Scottish, N. Gow, c.18th C)
• Paul Giovanni – Searching for Rowan
• Drowsey Maggie (Irish/Scots? c. 1833 – prob earlier)
• Emily Smith – Rigs O’ Barley (Scottish, R. Burns, 1783)
• Paul Giovanni – Corn Rigs
• Paul Giovanni – Maypole Song
• Seamus Kennedy – Rattlin’ Bog (Irish)
• Barry & Robin Dransfield – I Sowed Some Seeds (English, Ishmael Cornick, 1906/ early 19th C.)
• Paul Giovanni – The Landlord’s Daughter
• Cyril Tawney – The Hostess’s Daughter (English, Ishmael Cornick, 1906/ early 19th C.)
• Paul Giovanni – The Masks / The Hobby Horse
• La Reverdie – Miri it is hwile sumer ilasts (English, late 13th C.)
• Sneaker Pimps – How Do

⁺ the 1973 film, not that goddess-awful 2006 remake

EDIT: I forgot to say these sources of information and inspiration:

1. The Music of the Wicker Man – brilliant article and this show heavily leant on (ie stole) this information – hope you don’t mind!
2. Inside the Wicker Man: How Not to Make a Cult Classic (excellent book – most ‘interviews’, ‘documentaries’, ‘new information’ and ‘shocking exposes’ are seemingly this book reheated/nicked – it’s a good read despite having heard a lot of the info from elsewhere, not the books fault as this seems to be the source for all of that)
3. Wiki Man (lol)
4. Gary Carpenter – Setting the Score – interesting info especially about the Trunk release, although in fairness I have to link their response and without the Trunk release being successful there would be no other versions or anything to kvetch about. Also I think the legalities of performance fees are now very different from 1973.
5. Burnt Offerings – Cult of the Wicker Man
6. Wicker Man Enigma – both on the DVD
7. A Darker Shade of Pagan – Wicker Man posts

My collage contains elements from Leandroid, superk8nyc, kumar303, and bertwerk via Creative Commons derivative works license off Flickr

Yes after 4 years in the wilderness, the Aural pOddities show is BACK! Aren’t you lucky…after the last very POP show this is as unpop as it gets, including the mad, bad, sad, and just plain irritating avant-retard latest in car-crash audio.

You’ll feel like you’ve been in an audio trainwreck and will rush to your Kylie CDs for relief after this, but it’s worth reminding yourselves there’s a strange world out there, and people make and made music and audio like this…and the stranger sadistic thing, I really enjoy it all

Note: not all tracks used in this are ‘unlistenable’ nor ‘crap’ – but they are mixed with a specially developed ‘Unbeliev-a-bull-crap-o-sonic’ technique so terribly with other tracks to make them so. So no offence intended – the most crap thing here is me after all

With thanks (blame?) to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, 365 Days Project, Hotrod’s Run for Cover, Cool and Strange Music Magazine , Lux and Ivy’s Favorites and many more.

Play LOUD to all your enemies (141Mins, 129Mb)

Tacklist:

• I Cut People – optimistdroppings

Kids and Religion Don’t Mix

• Jim & Tammy & Their Friends – Oops! There Comes a Smile
• Aunt Bertha Presents Singtime with Tiny Tot Calvin – A Cowboy For Jesus
• I Cut People – delete jesus
• Bill Carter – Baby Brother
• The Holiday City Hotcha Kitchen Band – Welcome From Holiday City
• Rick McNamara – Are You Hung Up?

Sex in the Shitty

• Byrd E. Bath – Old Fashioned Balls
• FAX Records Special Erotica Series #5 – Nights of Love In Lesbos: Side 1
• Les Baxter – Lust
• The Four Skins – It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Syphilis
• Cyrus Sullivan – Sex Worker
• Peter Gault & Amy Rachelle – Cosmic Vagina
• Edith Massey – Big Girls Don’t Cry

Invert Advertorial Interval

• Soul :60
• Cassetteboy – Crapboasts
• I Cut People – A Few Good Product Placements

Food Fight!

• Shakin Jake Woods – Fat Bacon
• Peter Gault & Amy Rachelle – Constipation
• Roger Roger – Sound Industrial 15
• GITAR – His Holy Exalted Donut
• The Readymen – Shortnin Bread
• Johnny Parker – tv commercial
• Peter L. Batsin – How To Make a Tape Recorder
• Helen & Dick Bouchard – At The End Of The Rainbow Is Tweekertown
• Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow
• Helen & Dick Bouchard – Nobody Wears A Frown In Tweekertown

By God It’s Foreign Gibberish!

• bosstones – mope-itty moope
• Unknown – Yoodling
• Charlie Drake – I’ve Lost The End Of My Yodel
• Sheena Scott – Yodelay
• The Credibility Gap – Foreign Novelty Smash
• Mala Fe – Beat It
• Gianko y su Sonido La Limpia – A Heart Alone (chichin!)
• Antonio Eugenio Martinez – Volver Volver
• Leonard Simmons – Somewhere My Love
• Mr. Miller and The Blue Notes – Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter
• Mme St. Onge – Prends-moi (Try Me)
• Graveworm – Holding Out for a Hero (Bonnie Tyler)
• Spike Jones – The Jones Laughing Record

Animals Never Work

• Wevie Stonder – Gypsy Chimp
• Virginia Belmont – Billie – Dick – Duke (Canary Solos)
• Nino Nardini – Waltzing Birds
• Pancho the Parrot Sings! – I Left My Heart In San Francisco
• Forbidden Five – Enchanted Farm
• The Tape-beatles – /o/ for frog
• Vampires’ Sound Incorporation – The Lions and the Cucumber
• Eddie Osbourne – Kitten On The Keys
• Nino Nardini – Doggie Boogie
• The Seven Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

Deaf and Violence

• Frank Perry and the Big Action Sound – I Can Fly
• EXEDEXEX – not didgeridoo fight ???
• Sound 8 – Music For Children’s Activities
• John Oswald – z
• GITAR – no-gitar
• The Tape-beatles – …of rebellion
• Groove Da Praia – Used To Love Her (Guns N Roses)
• Bernard Cribbins – The Hole In The Ground
• dicky doo & the don’ts – flip top box
• John Oswald – case of death [part one. chapters 1-16]
• The Frantics – Werewolf
• GITAR – la_getaway
• Embers – I walked all night
• Naomi Hall – Bride of the Monster
• John Oswald – case of death [part two. chapters 1-9]
• Katie Lee – Repressed Hostility Blues
• Erika Eigen – I Wanna Marry A Light House Keeper
• Topmost – The End

POP^# in more than one sense – this is the Crimes Against Pop set Kirk and myself played last weekend, mixed in with some of our other choices and the rough (well +20%!) 1 hour set we’d planned. * indicates tracks we played at CAP.

POP you can’t STOP (107Mb, 112Mins)

• The Divine Comedy – At the Indie Disco
• Kylie Minogue – Your Disco Needs You (Casino Radio & Club Mix)*
• Scissor Sisters – Any Which Way
• Kelis – Acapella
• Fenech-Soler – Lies (Alex Metric Remix)
• Vampire Weekend – Holiday*
• Dandy Warhols – Every day should be a holiday
• Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You*
• David Bowie – Rebel Rebel*
• MGMT – Time to Pretend*
• Junior Senior – Move Your Feet*
• FPI Project – Going Back To My Roots
• Dolly Parton – 9 To 5*
• Marilyn Monroe – I wanna be loved by you  [interval]
• Power Station – Some Like It Hot
• Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – (Love Is Like A) Heatwave
• Little Boots – New In Town (Radio Edit)
• De La Soul – A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays”
• Noisettes – Wild Young Hearts
• Phoenix – Lisztomania
• Adam & the Ants – “Antmusic”
• Blur – Song 2*
• Placebo – Nancy Boy
• The Breeders – Cannonball*
• Kenickie – Punka
• DJ Lobsterdust – Knock Out Eileen (L L Cool J vs. Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
• Saint Etienne – Stoned To Say The Least (Richard X Remix)

RANT starts now:

# This was a nightmare of a podcast – from a POPping soundcard – now have a shiny Native Instruments Audio 4 DJ which although not POP-less is far better sounding than my old troublesome firewire M-Audio Audiophile….still got nasty digital hum though. I then re-recorded the whole set – only to have my laptop crash and the whole Hi-MD disc to corrupt on final transfer, losing the lot (Sony’s stupid DRM and encryption is the reason why; no wonder MD as a format bombed – here is an explanation why by the wonderful Quiet American, who I know from modulator days – hi!) so when I upgrade I’m going solid state memory card recorder I think.

Love MiniDisc and it’s highly tolerant auto gain recording, hate it’s stupid DRM…

(image created in part by Data Bending – like Circuit Bending or Data Moshing but taking the data of an image file and hacking it about to create interesting errors

Time to let the machines run the show, so this is DJ Charles IV (my iPod) choosing the playlist for this show, with a little Blue Peter style help from me, but it’s mostly his choices, I’m just tagging along for the ride!

He’ll be making the tea next (94Mb, 128Mins)

• Cee-Lo – Night Train (with the Goodie Mob – from Stray Bullets mixtape)
• Mos Def – The Embassy (from The Ecstatic)
• David Cain – May (from The Seasons)
• Dennis Alcapone – No.1 Station
• Goodie Mob – Cell Therapy
• B.o.B – Don’t Break My Heart
• Ian Dury – Don’t Ask Me
• Passion Pit – I’ve Got Your Number
• John Baker – Milky Way
• Hot Chip – Hand Me Down Your Love
• Sage Francis – The Best of Times (from LI(f)e)
• Goodie Mob – Free
• David Cain – July (from The Seasons)
• Horace Heidt & His Californians – Turn On The Heat
• Frankie Goes To Hollywood – One September Monday
• Link Wray & The Raymen – The Fuzz
• Mos Def – Casa Bey (from The Ecstatic)
• Ian Dury – Inbetweenies
• Justice + Cursive – Justified Bad Sex (eve massacre mix)
• Sir Mix-A-Lot – Swass
• The Jamaicans – Ba Ba Boom
• Goodie Mob – Guess Who
• Sage Francis – Slow Man
• Iron & Wine – Boy With A Coin
• Cee-Lo – I’ll Kill Her (feat. ME, LOnan the Destroyer - from Stray Bullets mixtape)
• Mark McGuire – Sun Shining Through The Open Barn Door
• Dolly Parton – Early Morning Breeze (Bent Remix with B.J.Cole)