She Persisted.

HOUR ONE:

1. TACOCAT – MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME
2. GARBAGE – SEX IS NOT THE ENEMY
3. MAYA DEREN – TOUGH TIMES
4. BIKINI KILL – REBEL GIRL
5. JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS (LESLIE GORE) – YOU DON’T OWN ME
6. FIRST AID KIT – YOU ARE THE PROBLEM HERE
7. QUEEN LATIFAH – U.N.I.T.Y.
8. YOKO ONO – WOMAN POWER (NEW VERSION) (REQUEST)
9. BLONDIE – WALK LIKE ME
10. BOOK OF LOVE – ALL GIRL BAND (KID MOXIE MIX)
11. MILCK – THIS IS NOT THE END
12. COCOROSIE (FT. AHNONI) – SMOKE ‘EM OUT
13. CAROLINE ROSE – BLOOD ON YOUR BOOT HEELS
14. BJORK – DECLARE INDEPENDENCE (MIX)
15. 7 YEAR BITCH – DEAD MEN DON’T RAPE
16. BLEACHED – CAN YOU DEAL?
17. REPRESENT – WOMEN’S POWER SONG (REQUEST)

HOUR TWO:

1. SONIC YOUTH – KOOL THING
2. GOSSIP – FIRE WITH FIRE
3. TORI AMOS – UP THE CREEK
4. ROXANNE SHANTE – BAD SISTER
5. THE SLITS – TYPICAL GIRLS
6. SLEATER-KINNEY – ALL HANDS ON THE BAD ONE
7. LE TIGRE – HOT TOPIC
8. KIM BOEKBINDER – PUSSY GRABS BACK (REQUEST)
9. LUSH – LADYKILLERS
10. MISSING PERSONS – NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
11. METRIC – GLASS CEILING
12. DR. MAYA ANGELOU – AIN’T I A WOMAN
13. BILLIE HOLIDAY – YESTERDAYS (MIX)
14. X-RAY SPEX – OH BONDAGE! UP YOURS
15. SALT-N-PEPA – NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS (MUGGS METAL MIX)
16. CHER – WOMAN’S WORLD (REQUEST)
17. LORETTA LYNN – THE PILL
18. MESH – PERFECT IDEA OF BEAUTY

VOTE! NOVEMBER 6TH – DO NOT FORGET!

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Tonight on Subculture: SHE PERSISTED.

Women have something to say. You might want to listen.

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John Peel Sessions 70s/80s

One of the most celebrated DJs, John Peel was Radio 1’s longest running on air personality from 1967 until his death in 2004. If no one else would take a chance on a band or artist, John Peel would… including taking a chance on David Bowie. His “Peel Sessions” usually featured four live in-studio songs by artists, which gave fans unique versions of their inevitable favorite tracks.

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HOUR ONE:

ALL SONGS ARE FROM 1970s & 1980s PEEL SESSIONS

1. THE ASSOCIATES – WAITING FOR THE LOVEBOAT (1982)
2. THE SMITHS – SWEET AND TENDER HOOLIGAN (1986)
3. THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS – ON AND AGAIN (IT GOES ON) (1981)
4. SIMPLE MINDS – CHANGELING (1979)
5. THE CURE – PLAY FOR TODAY (1980)
6. DAVID BOWIE – MOON-AGE DAYDREAM (1972)
7. ULTRAVOX – THE MAN WHO DIES EVERYDAY (1977)
8. CHINA CRISIS – THIS OCCUPATION (1982)
9. BLANCMANGE – RUNNING THIN (1982)
10. THE ICICLE WORKS – WHEN WINTER LASTED FOREVER (1981)
11. JOHN PEEL INTERVIEW ON CHANNEL 4’s “EAR SAY” 1984
12. THE UNDERTONES – TEENAGE KICKS (LIVE IN DERRY WITH JOHN PEEL INTRO – NOT A PEEL SESSIONS VERSION BUT ONE OF JOHN’S ALL TIME FAVORITE SONGS)
13. COCTEAU TWINS – WAX AND WANE (1982)
14. THE CHAMELEONS – PERFUMED GARDEN (1985)
15. BOW WOW WOW – I WANT MY BABY ON MARS (1980)

 

HOUR TWO:

1. THE SELECTER – DANGER (1979)
2. THE SLITS – DIFFICULT FUN (1981)
3. NEW ORDER – 5-8-6 (1983)
4. OMD – BUNKER SOLDIERS (1979)
5. BLACK – FAST CAR (1989)
6. THE SOUND – HOTHOUSE (1981)
7. TUBEWAY ARMY – ME I DISCONNECT FROM YOU (1979)
8. SISTERS OF MERCY – WALK AWAY (1989)
9. MODERN ENGLISH – SIXTEEN DAYS (1980)
10. THE ADVERTS – THE ADVERTS (1979)
11. JOHN PEEL ‘HARDTALK’ INTERVIEW 1999
12. DANSE SOCIETY – AMBITION (1982)
13. ORANGE JUICE – POOR OLD SOUL (1980)
14. THE TEARDROP EXPLODES – BRAVE BOYS KEEP THEIR PROMISES (1979)
15. BAUHAUS – GOD IN AN ALCOVE (1979)
16. TEARS FOR FEARS – THE HURTING (1982)

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Tonight: John Peel Session 70s/80s

From the famed John Peel radio program: A brief 70’s/80s selection featuring Tubeway Army, The Associates, Bauhaus, The Sound and more!

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Lindsay’s Influence

“For me, dancing is the quickest way to happiness. Just as music is the most direct route to heaven, isn’t it?” – Lindsay Kemp //

HOUR ONE:

1. AMERICAN HORROR STORY THEME (THE SEASON OF ‘FREAK SHOW’ IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY KEMP)
2. KATE BUSH – SAT IN YOUR LAP (STUDENT OF KEMP)
3. DAVID BOWIE – WEEPING WALL (BOWIE WAS MENTORED BY KEMP, THE TWO WERE IN A BRIEF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP. KEMP IS CREDITED FOR HELPING TO CREATE BOWIE’S ‘ZIGGY STARDUST’ PERSONA)
4. PETER DOHERTY – LAST OF THE ENGLISH ROSES (DOHERTY RECITES LINES FROM JEAN GENET’S ‘OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS’ NOVEL)
5. JEAN GENET – QUAND JE RECONTRE DANS LA LANDE (KEMP PERFORMED ‘FLOWERS’ IN 1974, BASED ON JEAN GENET’S ‘OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS’ NOVEL. THE GENET/KEMP INFLUENCE CAN BE HEARD THROUGHOUT THE SHOW)
6. COCOROSIE – BEAUTIFUL BOYZ (THIS SONG IS SAID TO BE ABOUT ‘OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS’)
7. THE STRANGLERS – CRUEL GARDEN (PRODUCTION OF ‘CRUEL GARDEN’ BY KEMP, CHRISTOPHER BRUCE AND CARLOS MIRANDA FOR RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY IN 1977, REVIVED IN 1998. THE PRODUCTION DEALT WITH BULLFIGHTING AS A METAPHOR, POLITICS AND SEXUALITY. THE SONG  BY THE STRANGLERS (1981) TALKS ABOUT DANGER & FATE IN WAITING.)
8. KATE BUSH – THE LINE, THE CROSS AND THE CURVE (EXCERPTS) (A 1993 MUSICAL/FILM WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY KATE BUSH, STARRED MIRANDA RICHARDSON AND LINDSAY KEMP. THE LINE WAS INSPIRED BY THE 1948 FILM, ‘THE RED SHOES.’ AFTER A LATE USA RELEASE, THE FILM WAS NOMINATED FOR A 1996 GRAMMY)
9. BAUHAUS – ZIGGY STARDUST (COVER OF BOWE CLASSIC)
10. SALVATORE BONAFEDE – FREDERICO FELLINI (KEMP DEDICATED 1996 SHOW, VARIETE, TO HIS HERO FELLINI. FELLINI WANTED TO CAST KEMP IN HIS 1976 MOVIE, CASANOVA)
11. THE DRESDEN DOLLS – COIN-OPERATED BOY (AMANDA PALMER CLAIMS KATE BUSH IS ONE OF HER INFLUENCES. THEIR DARK CABARET STYLE FITS PERFECTLY INTO THE KEMP-STYLE)
12. SECURITY PROJECT – I HAVE THE TOUCH (LIVE) (PETER GABRIEL COVER. GABRIEL WAS MENTORED BY KEMP.)
13. MAGNET – LULLABY (FROM THE SDTRK, ‘THE WICKER MAN.’ KEMP STARRED AS LANDLORD ALDER MACGREGOR,  IN THE ORIGINAL 1973 VERSION OF THE FILM)
14. KATE BUSH – MOVING (A SONG WRITTEN BY BUSH ABOUT KEMP)
15. PERE UBU – CARNIVAL (FROM CARNIVAL OF SOULS ALBUM, FEATURED ON AHS ‘FREAK SHOW’)
16. MUSIC FOR ZOMBIES – CARNIVAL OF SOULS (FEATURED ON AHS ‘FREAK SHOW’)
17. CAMILLA FASCINA – TIME (BOWIE COVER FEATURING LINDSAY KEMP)

 

HOUR TWO:

1. DAVID BOWIE – THE JEAN GENIE (INSPIRED BY JEAN GENET)
2. PRIMAL SCREAM – DOLLS (SWEET ROCK AND ROLL) (MENTIONS JEAN GENET’S ‘OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS’)
3. LOVE AMONG THE MANNEQUINS – MARCEL MARCEAU (MARCEAU WAS ONE OF KEMP’S HEROES)
4. THE DRESDEN DOLLS – BAD HABIT
5. PERE UBU – ROAD TO UTAH (ALSO FEATURED ON AHS ‘FREAK SHOW’)
6. KATE BUSH – EAT THE MUSIC (12″) (FROM ‘THE RED SHOES’ ALBUM)
7. LINDSAY KEMP – FLOWERS (PERFORMANCE)
8. DIVINE – YOU THINK YOU’RE A MAN (KEMP PLAYED THE MAIN CHARACTER DIVINE IN HIS PRODUCTION OF ‘FLOWERS.’ JOHN WATERS HELPED NAME HARRIS GLENN MILSTEAD — OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE PERFORMER DIVINE — AFTER KEMP’S CHARACTER)
9. LYDIA LUNCH – CARNIVAL FAT MAN (LYDIA INFLUENCES INCLUDE JEAN GENET  + HER UBER-FRANK SEXUALITY MAKES HER A PERFECT FIT FOR THE SHOW)
10. DAVID BOWIE – LONDON BYE TA TA (SECOND VERSION OF ‘THREEPENNY PIERROT’ W/ MARC BOLAN ON GUITAR. KEMP AND BOWIE WROTE, ‘PIERROT IN TURQUOISE‘ TOGETHER IN 1968)
11. JHEREK BISCHOFF & AMANDA PALMER W/ NEIL GAIMAN – SPACE ODDITY 
12. KATE BUSH – RUBBERBAND GIRL (THE VIDEO FEATURES AN ALBUM VERSION AND A VERSION FROM ‘THE LINE THE CROSS AND THE CURVE’)
13. DAVID BOWIE – ASHES TO ASHES (BOWIE DRESSES AS PIERROT IN THIS 1980 CLASSIC)
14. BRIAN ENO – MOTHER OF VIOLENCE (PETER GABRIEL COVER) (ROXY MUSIC WAS A SUPPORT ACT FOR BOWIE’S ‘THE ZIGGY STARDUST SHOW’ — A TWO NIGHT PERFORMANCE AT LONDON’S RAINBOW THEATRE THAT FEATURED KEMP. LOU REED SAID IT WAS THE GREATEST THING HE’D EVER SEEN, ELTON JOHN SAID IT WAS “TOO CAMP” AND WALKED OUT BEFORE THE SHOW’S END, BRYAN FERRY THOUGHT IT WAS BOLLOCKS.)
15. VIVIAN STANSHALL – DWARF SUCCULENTS (STANSHALL WAS A STUDENT OF KEMP & MEMBER OF THE BONZO DOG BAND)

 

LINDSAY KEMP’S LAST DANCE, DOCUMENTARY (STILL IN PRODUCTION AS OF 09/18)

Lindsay Keith Kemp (3 May 1938 – 25 August 2018)

 

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Tonight: Ode to Lindsay Kemp

Inspired by Jean Genet and Marcel Marceau, a teacher to David Bowie and Kate Bush.

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GUESS!

Be the first to guess who the show is about tonight and win a VFR tee!

Email your guess to: subculture-at-vallleyfreeradio-dot-org

HOUR ONE:

1. GUESCH PATTI – BILINGUE
2. LADYTRON – THE ISLAND (NEW!)
3. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – SILVER
4. NEW ORDER – CHOSEN TIME
5. NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB – GET DANCEY
6. TONES ON TAIL – PERFORMANCE
7. IVY – BLAME IT ON YOURSELF
8. LAMB – SWEETHEART
9. BOLSHOI – AWAY
10. RIDE – COLD WATER PEOPLE
11. OF MONTREAL – OSLO IN THE SUMMERTIME
12. OMD – HER BODY IN MY SOUL
13. KOMEDA – TOP STAR
14. ORANGE JUICE – JOHNNY TEARDROP

 

HOUR TWO:

1. FOUR TET – AS SERIOUS AS YOUR LIFE
2. TAMARYN – SOFTCORE
3. HEADMAN – DIRT
4. ETIENNE de CRECY – LE PATRON EST DEVENU FOU!
5. BLANCMANGE – ACID
6. ALPINE – FOOLISH
7. NOTWIST – OFF THE RAILS
8. DIFFORD & TILBROOK – MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
9. SQUEEZE – IS THAT LOVE
10. QUANTIC – THE 5TH EXOTIC
11. UH HUH HER – EXPLODE
12. ELASTICA – INDIAN SONG
13. ENGLISH BEAT – TOO NICE TO TALK TO
14. ZERO 7 – FUTURES (METRONOMY REMIX FT. JOSE GONZALEZ)
15. ECHOBELLY – PEOPLE ARE EXPENSIVE
16. (BONUS SONG!) SUGARCUBES – BIRTHDAY

 

Clue #1 – A man born in London, England

Clue #2 – He’s a singer-songwriter that owns his own recording studio

Clue #3 – The band he’s in has had three incarnations and will be playing in Knutsford, Cheshire England next month

Clue #4 – The band he’s in named themselves after a Velvet Underground album

Clue #5 – One of his solo albums featured Johnny Depp as a narrator.

Clue #6 – The band he’s in briefly had to add “UK” to their name due to closely named bands that were already established in the US and Australia.

Clue # 7 – Today is his 61st birthday!

Clue #8 – The biggest clues are in the songs listed above. Look at them closely! 🙂

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WE HAVE A WINNER! The answer is: “Glenn Tilbrook of the band Squeeze” Check out the first letter of every band name listed in tonight’s show 🙂

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