Sunday 29th of March

This week was quite an experience, I completely wrecked my neck by sleeping funny on it so I'm sailing the painkiller wave to happy land, and the grouse folks from Tinpan Orange came in for a chat. 

I managed to push all the buttons ok despite the clouds and birdies around my head, and was well chuffed with all the tunes that Jesse and Emily brought in. You should definitely check out their website Tinpan Orange

MUSIC LOG

Jesse and Emily's picks:

Tinpan Orange - She Watched Him Dance

Tinpan Orange - La La La

Jackson Jackson - The Devil In Me

Mama Kin - Sleep In My Bed

Jordie Lane - I Could Die Looking At You

The Basics - Just Hold On

Tinpan Orange - Lovely

Second hour:

Lucie Thorne - As You Find It

Joe Neptune - My Other Dream Of You

Tom Woodward - Roadside Crosses

Downhills Home - Travelling Light

Mark Hilton - Anything Special

Sal Kimber - Drive

Trifecta! Sia:

Fear, Don't Bring Me Down, Lullaby

Holly Throsby - One Of You For Me

Ryder - Allibi

John Farnham - Age Of Reason

MUSIC OBSESSION OF THE WEEK

I'm all about Sal Kimber's album Sounds Like Thunder at the moment. It brings me down to earth after a stressful day, and makes me smile. 

WHAT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

Comedy Festival starting up! Checking out Fiona O'Loughlin on Friday

Sal Kimber at Edinburgh Castle Hotel on Saturday night

Lucie Thorne at the Toff in Town on Sunday night

Sunday 15th March

This week was the week after International Women's Day, so I focused on the manly blokey fella tunes in the second hour. 

The first hour my feature artist was Cilla Jane, the lady responsible for a very sweet album called When The Night Falls. Her otherworldly vocals are beautifully offset by cello and gently cascading music. It's a great album to bliss out to, check out her myspace and have a listen.

Music Log

Cilla Jane - A Dream Of Mine

Cilla Jane - The Lighthouse Song

Timothy Cannon - Sattelite

The Stillsons - Monday Morning

Luca - Zora

Blokey Music Extravaganza

The Drones - Your Acting's Like The End Of The World

Jack Ladder - The Barber's Son

Joe Neptune - No Time To Grow Up

Art Of Fighting - Reasons Are All I Have Left

The Panics - More Than You Ever Wanted To Know

Josh Pyke - The Summer

Vorn Doolette - Orange Dress

Mat McHugh - Under The Landslide

Paul Kelly - Just Like Animals (live, May 1992)

Dan Kelly - I've Been Moved

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Marrandil

Bobby Flynn - Fire Me Away

Neil Finn - Sinner

Van Walker - Milk and Honey

MUSIC OBSESSION OF THE WEEK

Van Walker - The Celestial Railroad... and other stories

WHAT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

• My hair growing. It's darn cold with a shaved head!
  
• Going to New Zealand in July! 
• Fireside Bellows and Sal Kimber at East Brunswick Club next Sunday night
• Opening night of Queer Film Festival on Wednesday at the Astor Theatre

We're back!

Local and Vocal is back on board for the Autumn Grid, Sundays 1 - 3 pm. I'm pretty stoked about that.

Today's triumphant return happened to fall on International Women's Day (other wise known as happy birthday Angie Hart day), so there was a big focus on the ladies. I might play all dudes next week in the second hour, just to ensure I remain an equal opportunity radio program.

I had a chat on the phone with fab Sydney lady Sarah Aubrey, who you may know for many reasons:

• her band Girl Most Likely
• she was featured in a Tropfest short film about her doing a poo, and won best actress at Tropfest for this in 2002
• the girl in the Silverchair video for Ana's Song

Sarah is in a band with her girlfriend Beck (drums), neighbour Chris and friend Scott. They're grouse! Check them out. 

In the second half of the program the happiest lady I've ever met popped in to have a chat and a play, Coby Grant is launching her EP Coby Grant Is In Full Colour at the Northcote Social Club tonight in the middle of her national tour. We played BAM and Coby played A Song About Me (which was not about me, but about her) live in the studio. It was so lovely and affirming that I almost floated away but I did force myself to stick around and press the buttons til the end of the show. 

MUSIC LOG

Girl Most Likely - Black Eyes

Girl Most Likely - England

Angie Hart - Kiwi

Don't Mess With The Pony - It's You I Love

Rosie Burgess - Skin & Bone

Coby Grant - A Song About Me (live on Local and Vocal)

Coby Grant - Heartbeat

Anita George - The Lost

Abbie Cardwell - Can't You Hear Me Knocking (Rolling Stones cover)

NEXT WEEK

Abbie Cardwell will be feature artist for the whole first hour. Looking forward to THAT one! She's handy on the banjo, and also DJs around Melbourne from time to time. 

CURRENT MUSIC OBSESSION

Cat Power is where it's at for me at the moment. Her and Feist. Hells yeah.

WHAT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

Shaving my head for the World's Greatest Shave next weekend, to raise money for the Leukaemia foundation. I need more donations! If you'd like to sponsor me check this out :

http://my.imisfriendraising.com.au/personalPa ge.aspx?SID=48117

I can't wait to see Mia Dyson and Jen Cloher play at the Athenaeum next Saturday night.

It's good to be back. I feel happy inside.

Hey if you're interested in hearing some ye olde L&V, head to iTunes and download the podcast! Vivan Vo has been doing amazing technical stuff and made millions of shows available on the electric internet machine. Thanks Viv, you're the best. 

Jenny out

xo