Illegal Gunshot - Ragga Twins
Like An Arrow - Baobinga & ID
Ti Tree Bush Mix - Big Low
Sandshoe - Peret Mako
Wayfaring Stranger - Jamie Woon
The Escape - Early Day Miners
Out the Window With the Window - Tunng
Remember Love - Noze
The Devil’s Crayon - Wild Beasts
The Bizness - Killaqueenz
Requiem In A-Flat Reprise - Dead Leaf
Winter Coat - Hit The Jackpot
Russian Websites - The Tongue
Kiss With a Fist - Florence and the Machine
Gang Sound - Lindstrom
Met Suf I Eyrum - Sigur Ros
Bright Tomorrow - Fuck Buttons
Introduction - Natural Causes
Black Members - Deadbeat Club
Heavy Gum - Vincent Over the Sink

I’m off for a USA road trip tomorrow. Danny Jumpertz - Feral Media boss, Cyclic Defrost contributor and once upon a time presenter of The Album Show on FBI - will cover Canvas for the next month while I’m away. That’s Sunday mornings 10-12 on FBI 94.5.

I can’t imagine there are too many theatre companies that revel in walkouts. Syd Brisbane, an actor with 25 years experience who’s worked with the Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian Shakespeare Company, founded The Rabble with designer Kate Davis and lighting/production expert Emma Valente.

Their latest - a version of the Biblical tale of Herod’s step-daughter Salome (first told for stage by Oscar Wilde), radically reinterpreted for the cavernous Bay 17 stage at Carriageworks - is short on words, big on physical drama. Apparently it’s inspired a few walkouts too. I’m looking forward to seeing it this week, but this morning Syd was our guest on Canvas.

(Me and Syd in the studio)

Here’s what we played.

Neu - DJ DSL
Percy On The One - Clutchy Hopkins
These Boots Are Made For Walking - The Boys Next Door
The Book I Write - Spoon
Come Around (Lovestoned Remix) - Urthboy
How Much I’ve Lied - Jason Walker
Time of Songs - Tapes ‘n Tapes
About to Walk - Throw Me The Statue
Shadowland - Youth Group
Are Ya - Mensy
Hold Me Down (Shoes remix) - Primary 1
No Tomorrow (prod Kirk Degiorgio) - Robert Owens
Wanderlust (Ratatat remix)- Bjork
So Low - The Mime Set
Aileen - Lindsay Phillips
Like Air From Your Lungs - Karoshi
Hands On Us - The Notwist
Bright Tomorrow - Fuck Buttons
Heart It Races - Architecture In Helsinki
Blue Planet (Abacus mix) - Chaser
Crying In Her Room - Silver City Highway

Jeff Burch was our guest on Canvas this morning.

(Jeff Burch and I in the FBI studio)

Born in New Zealand but living in Sydney, he’s released LPs (NY’s Magic Markers and his own band Songs‘ pop debut EP) and books by Max Doyle and others on indie publisher/label The Spring Press.

(Magic Markers - ST LP)

He works with fashion designer Therese Rawsthorne, he designs websites and record covers, writes interviews, makes films. Basically Jeff Burch is prolific.

Here’s a record Jeff originally released on the now defunct Brothers label:

Jeff Burch - As I remember, if I remember correctly, I arrived sweetly (51.8MB)

Jeff’s band Songs played at the Hopetoun last night - intriguing, that’s for sure - and they’ve got a few more shows this coming week in Sydney (more details here).

(Songs, live at the Hopetoun, May 3, 2008)

No Evil - Luciano
Not Fair - Skullsquadron
The Length of Your Breath - Matt McBeath
Hesitation Nation - David McCormack
August (Aeriae remix) - Catcall
Rise to Glory - Earth
Time to Pretend - MGMT
Totally Debase (feat Babymachine) - Suckafish P. Jones
Pumpkin - Tricky
Communication Pact - Traps
Relax In a Panic Free Atmosphere - Magic Markers
Keeping It Clean - Songs
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
A Parade in Littleton - Tom Verlaine
Open - Kahn Brothers
Rockist Part 1 - School of Language
One Blood One Source (feat Rudey Lee) - Pinch
Beautiful Gloom - Padded Cell
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
Warm Rising Sun - Radar Bros
I’m Now - Mudhoney
Re-arrange Us - Mates of State

ICE director Lena Nahlous came in to FBI this morning to talk about last weekend’s 2020 Summit. She took part in the summit’s creative strand, and was one of a small number interested in (and demonstrably capable of) talking about digital media, creativity (as distinct from The Arts), and the audience out there for art drawn from outside the big institutions; art and stories from migrants, young people and women.

A Victim - Omar S
Around the World - The Death Set
Track 6 - Fabulous Diamonds
My Life (feat. Newham Generals)- Dizzee Rascal
You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son - Wolf Parade
Water Curses - Animal Collective
Dancing On Our Graves - The Cave Singers
Footwork - Guilty Simpson
Shall We Take a Trip - Northside
Shut Up and Be Young - Parades
Magic Doors - Portishead
Goodbye Goodbye - The Lost Mariachi
I Feel It All (Escort remix - Feist
Marwurrumburr - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Weapons - Son Lux
Counterpoint - Cleptoclectics
Eraser - No Age
Great Escape - No Kids
Arrabida - Portable
Slow Motion World - The Longest Day
Ethiopio - Noze

Northern Territory readers take note. I’m taking a virtual trip north today covering for the music guy on ABC Darwin’s Mornings show.
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And… several hours later, I’ve chewed the fat with Mornings presenter Leon Compton, made my first ever appearance on the national broadcaster, and here’s what I played.

1. Institut Polaire - ‘Kentucky Society Drought’ from The Flora and The Fauna (Popfrenzy, 2008)
2. Dan Sultan - ‘Your Love Is Like a Song’ from Homemade Biscuits (self-released, 2008)
3. Ross McLennan - ‘I’m Heavy As I’ve Ever Been’ from Sympathy for the New World (Mistletone, 2008)

Show number three. Sydney artist Peter Newman came in to talk about his video, sound and paint show at ICAN (the acronym seems more appropriate to the small space than the high falutin’ ‘Institute for Contemporary Art Newtown’) - it’s an immersive show that’s material and real and flickeringly indistinct at the same time.

(Canvas producer Jesse Cox with Peter Newman in the FBI studio)

(Peter Newman’s Swarm Transfer at ICAN)

Percussionist extraordinaire Bree van Reyk arrived in the studio a little later to talk about this week’s Synergy Percussion show (at Carriageworks) featuring a series of Reich and Xenakis works. It’s on from Wednesday this week, and I am excited.

Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind - Vashti Bunyan
Dragonfly - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Your Love Is Like A Son - Dan Sultan
Danse Avec Moi - Noze
Little Bit - Lykke Li
City Walking (feat Abdominal)- Ghislain Poirier
LGOMWOCT - Alps of New South Wales
Gentle Elf - Kes Band
Fine Friend - Pale Saints
Right Here - Sun
Beat You Back - Dom
Same Suburb Different Park - Firekites
Quandary - Peter Newman
Headin’ Inside - Surf City
Roscoe (Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Mix)- Midlake
The King Is Dead - The Herd
Barnacle Goose - Born Ruffians
Drumming Part 1 - Synergy Percussion
3 - Pikelet

Join The Dots finished several weeks ago. And as someone who’s always liked bars called Phoenix (in Canberra and Sydney) I’ve found another spot on the FBI program to call home. Sunday mornings from 10 until noon with a show called Canvas.

First week up, Sydney Writers Festival director and CEO Wendy Were came in to discuss this year’s program. Last week, UWS grad Graham Skimin came in to talk about his show at Mori Gallery, and former Clan Analogue/Zonar musician and artist John Aslanidis was in to talk about his show at Gallery 9.

(John with Canvas producer Jesse Cox)

Which Way to Go - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
On the Roof of the World - Purdy
Twee Twee Dee - Adam Green
Keeping It Clean - Songs
Black Eyes - Amy Meredith
Double Dealings - Radioactive Man
A Punk - Vampire Weekend
Enchanted - Patrick Wolf
Dead Roads - Derwent River Star
Don’t Call the Bird You Used to Go Around With - Zxspecky
The King is Dead - The Herd
Quiet Before the Storm (Quarion remix)- Foster
Magnum on Crack - Braintax
Gujo Ondo - Setsubun Bean Unit
Gangstaz - Pinch
Can You Blame the Sky? - Alela Diane
Inner City Pressure - Flight of the Conchords
Help - The Apartments

This Sunday, Peter Newman’s in to talk about his paint, video and sound show at Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown. My other guest’s Bree van Reyk, who’s been has been (seriously under-) described as a crossover percussionist, she plays with Charge Group, Holly Throsby, Darren Hanlon, Rand + Holland, Coda, the Rebel Astronauts and Josh Pyke, as well as Synergy Percussion, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra.

Thanks to everyone who’s rung up, emailed, sent records and listened to Join the Dots over the past couple of years.

Thanks to my occasionally regular guests: Emmy Hennings and Andrew P. Street.

Thanks to my other guests: Adrian Klumpes, Alex Jarvis, Alex Vivian, Andrew Mueller, the Beautiful Few, Ben Eltham, Camera Obscura, Cameron Macdonald, Chris Abrahams, Drop the Lime, Fujiya Miyagi, Gotye, Kharkov, Kid 606, King Curly, Mark Mordue, Matt Cousins, Milkrun, Oren Ambarchi, Plaid, Post, Richard MacFarlane, Scissor Lock, Simon Reynolds and Tooth.

It’s been great. Here’s my last Join the Dots playlist. Stay tuned for a reshuffle at FBI soon.

Grandpa Jones - Turn Your Radio On
Link Wray - 5-10-15-20
Link Wray and His Wray Men - Run Chicken Run
Carlos and The Bandidos - Fever
Der Tobende Luftkampf - Fieber
Mania D - Track Four
Barbara Morgenstern - Das Schone Einheitsbild
Masha Qrella - I Don’t Like Her
Pole - Maedchen (Gudrun Gut version)
Gudrun Gut - Pleasuretrain (with Manon P. Duursma)
Einstuerzende Neubauten - Fuer den Untergang
Ash Wednesday - Love By Numbers
Sacred Cowboys - Down to the Lord
JAB - Blonde and Bombed
The Brunettes - Small Town Crew
The Ruby Suns - Look Out SOS!
Animal Collective - Fireworks
Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica (XXXChange Remix)
Panda Bear - Search for Delicious
Mike Devellis - Funkalicious (Onur Engin remix)
Onur Engin - Brisk (Quincy Jointz remix)
Colin Stetson - Quincy Had a Glandular Problem
Quincy Jones - Smackwater Jack (feat Bill Cosby)
Badfoot Brown and the Bunions Bradford Funeral and Marching Band - Martin’s Funeral

I’ve been doing Join The Dots since March 2006, which makes it just over two years, but I’m finishing this week to make room for program reshuffle at the station. Listen for a Berliner smorgasbord from Gudrun Gut’s various projects, new tracks from Melbourne label Straight Up, Bill Cosby and a bit of rockabilly. 94.5 in Sydney, 9-11pm.