Wacos @ Hoboken tomorrow (Sat) night

1999-03-12 Thread Sophie Best
I'm THERE! If anyone else is going please contact me off list. Sophie _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Playlist Jan 21 1998 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-01-21 Thread Sophie Best
D. Braxton Harris – Severed & Proud (Deep Dark Black) Smog – I Was a Stranger (Red Apple Falls) “ - Let’s Move to the Country (Knock Knock) Lambchop – My Face Your Ass (Thriller) Bonnie Prince Billy – Nomadic Revelry (All Around) (I See A Darkness) Will Oldham – I Am Still What I Meant To B

Playlist 15 April 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-04-19 Thread Sophie Best
Hi all! It's good to be back after my US adventures - listening to great music, imbibing many micro-brews and confirming that Postcarders and P2-ers are, indeed, the best people alive - thank you to all the nice folks who looked after me so beautifully - Seth, Stacey, Jim, Robert, Paul, and of cou

Re: Playlist 15 April 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-04-19 Thread Sophie Best
Hey Slim! That's so cool that one of your family members heard you on the radio - howzabout that?!? I really love your CD and have been listening to it incessantly at home. It was so nice to meet you and hang out in Austin. cheers, Sophie ===

Playlist April 22,1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-04-22 Thread Sophie Best
Son Volt - Windfall (Trace) Steve Earle & Del McCoury Band - Yours Forever Blue (The Mountain) The Cultivators - Wrong Side (Mama's Kitchen) Chuck Prophet - Say It Ain't So (Brother Aldo) Kelly Willis - Not Forgotten You (What I Deserve) Chris Cacavas & Junkyard Love - Blue River (s/t) "

RE: new Go Betweens best of

1999-04-25 Thread Sophie Best
Wow... reading through that track listing brought back some very sweet memories... I was lucky to see the Go-Betweens live several times during the 80s... another one to add to the must-buy-as-soon-as-credit-rating-is-restored list. Sophie I, yi, yi, yi love Lee Remick... she's a darlin' === _

Re: Bad Company quote, URL

1999-04-27 Thread Sophie Best
I'm impressed too, Slim, but I can top that... I went to a funeral (of a young guy) where they played "I've Been to Paradise But I've Never Been To Me". The part about holding a baby in your arms and making love to your man that night was particularly, um, poignant. Sophie === Give a man a fis

Playlist -Jan 26 1999 PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-01-26 Thread Sophie Best
Today's program was a fill-in for the mellow/acoustic program. This show was dedicated to the memory of my friend Norman Fagg who was taken by heroin on the weekend. Norm was a senior broadcast technician at our radio station, and as tour manager for the Dirty Three and countless other great band

Playlist Jan 28 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-01-28 Thread Sophie Best
Richard Buckner – Faithful Shooter (Since) Richmond Fontaine – Watsonville Waltz (Safety) Chris Buhalis – Footprints in the Snow (Kenai Dreams) Brian Lillie & the Squirrel Mountain Orchestra – Too Early/Too Late (Row Boats) Birddog – Fruita (Ghost of the Season) Last Train Home – Who Could Blame

Playlist PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia, Jan 14 1998

1999-01-14 Thread Sophie Best
Steve Earle – Someday (Guitar Town) Bap Kennedy – Angel is the Devil (Domestic Blues) Greg Trooper – These Sunday Nights (Popular Demons) Colin Leyden – Interstate (For the Wicked) Kevin Gordon – Dissatisfied (Cadillac Jack’s # 1 Son) Lucinda Williams – Still I Long for your Kiss (live at Philade

Townes & Cowboy Junkies

1999-01-14 Thread Sophie Best
The Cowboy Junkies are touring here in a couple of weeks and a friend is putting together a radio special. We were listening to that wonderful "Documentary" CD where Townes talks about the Junkies but there are no liner notes to indicate when those songs were recorded - does anyone have further d

Cowboy Junkies/Over the Rhine query

1999-02-02 Thread Sophie Best
The Cowboy Junkies played in my town last night and it was a beautiful show - sometimes on the verge of being bland, but enough breathtaking moments to make up for it. Margo Timmins introduced her touring band as having two members of Over the Rhine (sp?) - an amazing keyboard player called Linfo

Re: OFF TOPIC: MPLS drummer wanted for Sargent York!

1999-02-03 Thread Sophie Best
Welcome back Nick! And just to add my testimony... Sargent York are pretty special. Sophie == "If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com addres

Playlist Feb 4, 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-02-04 Thread Sophie Best
Another sad sort of a program today, paying tribute to David McComb who passed away two days ago, a week before his 37th birthday. I didn’t know David very well, but admired him from afar, and remember how much his music meant to me, especially his early work with the Triffids, which was the sound

RE: Obscure Australian band: Daddy Cool

1999-02-04 Thread Sophie Best
Gary Young from Daddy Cool plays for countless cool country bands these days... Ross Hannaford has a nice little funky-roots-type combo called Dianna Kiss who has been playing at the Espy every Monday night for what seems like 40 years... but everything that Ross Wilson did since was unrelenting

Playlist Feb 11, 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-02-11 Thread Sophie Best
Golden Smog - Fear of Falling (Weird Tales) Wilco - Candy Floss (Summer Teeth) " - Don't You Honey Me (All Over the Place) " - What's the World Got In Store (Being There) " - I Must Be High (AM) Billy Bragg & Wilco - Hesitating Beauty (Mermaid Ave) Uncle Tupelo - Cold Shoulder (Still F

Re: Playlist Feb 11, 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-02-11 Thread Sophie Best
It was the 10" limited edition EP released on vinyl last year. I scored a copy from the Wilco website folk for being the "furthest away Wilco fan"... see, there are sometimes advantages to being 15,000 miles away from anything. :) Sophie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > << Wilco - Candy Floss (Su

Playlist Feb 18, 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-02-18 Thread Sophie Best
Heaven = Joe Pernice sitting in the studio singing just for me (well, and 30,000 listeners, I suppose). It was a great performance and interview – I’ll post the transcript if people are interested. Can’t wait for his gigs this weekend! Oh, and I’m completely besotted by the new Steve Earle. Not s

Joe Pernice Interview (long)

1999-02-18 Thread Sophie Best
Warning: this interview contains jokes which don’t look so funny in print as they were live in the studio! - Joe, we’re so glad that you finally made it to Australia… you had a few dramas getting here last time, didn’t you? Yeah, it was just one big drama, haha. It’s good to be here, actually.

Steve earle interview

1999-02-24 Thread Sophie Best
Thought I'd post this over from the Steve Earle list (maybe cos I just love interviewers who don't try to hide what great fans they are...) Sophie STEVE EARLE INTERVIEW Steve Wildsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From “The Mountain,” Steve Earle reflects on making records, writing stories, internatio

Sparklehorse Interview

1999-01-17 Thread Sophie Best
I'm interviewing Mark Linkous tomorrow night (gulp) and I'm wondering whether I dare ask him about his 80s power pop band Dancing Hoods. Does anyone know whether he's reluctant to talk about his previous work? They don't rank a mention in any of the interviews I've seen. thanks people Sophie

Playlist Feb 25, 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia

1999-02-25 Thread Sophie Best
Today was my last on-air shift before the big SXSW odyssey. I raised $500 for the station by offering to send postcards from Austin to subscribers, which the listeners found strangely appealing. Lots of requests. T'was fun! Steve Earle - Leroy's Dustbowl Blues (The Mountain) Hogwaller Ramblers -

Sparklehorse Interview (long)

1999-01-19 Thread Sophie Best
Here’s a transcript of my interview with Mark Linkous. It looks better in print than it’s gonna sound on radio. It was late afternoon but he sounded sort of sleepy and fragile, and spoke very….very…..slowly…. I’m sorta glad it was pre-recorded so I can edit out the long silences… !! Can’t wait