February 16, 2007

Theme: Labrador Records spotlight On Air: Frank

I started the show with one of the few vinyl albums I have acquired in the last few years. I got it at a showing of the Canadian movie Monkey Warfare ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832906/ ) at the Princess Cinema, the director, Reginald Harkema, was at the showing and answered questions after the movie. A few of the questions were about the music in the movie and in particular how much is costs to use a song in a movie (answer: about $500 to the person who performed the song and another $500 for the rights owner of the song). He also mentioned that the bands agreed to have the songs part of a limited edition 1000 vinyl pressing and that he had some copies of it with him. So after the questions were over I was second in line to get a copy. The first two songs were from the soundtrack along with some bonus dialogue from the movie. Most of show ended up being a spotlight on the Labrador Records label ( http://www.labrador.se/ ). This idea came to me after using a quote from the band Suburban Kids With Biblical Names for my UW weather Station contest ( http://weather.uwaterloo.ca/contest2007/contest2007_entry.htm ). So I thought that I should play at least that song, but when I was looking at the band's record label and saw the rest of the great bands they have put out I started downloading all the songs I could from the record label's website. The label also has just came out with their 100th release, and to celebrate they have released a four CD set featuring a song from each one of their releases, it has the very humble title of "The Complete History of Popular Music". I ended the show with two songs (a rarity as I usually end with a single song) featuring a couple of people that I saw a few days after the show playing at the Jane Bond. Bob Wiseman did a multimedia show playing various videos from his laptop, playing along with some while others were just funny videos, while Geoff Berner was his usual comical self. TALK - Theme The Fugs - Kill For Peace Wierd War - Girls Like That The Gruesomes - Wat Dat? (C) The Gruesomes - Three Men One Coffin (C) Books On Books - One Page At A Time (C) TALK Saturday Looks Good To Me - Since You Stole Me Heart Of Montreal - Cato As A Pun The Fiery Furnaces - Single Girl Spirathon - Cherry Girl (C) Elvis - I Need Your Love Tonight TALK (Labrador records set 1) Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Funeral Face S'Ambassadeur - New Moon Lasse Lindh - The Stuff Pelle Carlberg - Riverbank Starlet - When The Sun Falls On My Feet TALK (Labrador records set 2) Henry Morgan Solokarriar - One Day, Any Day Laurel Music - No One Want's Forever Corduroy UTD - Daddy's Boy South Ambulance - Hanging In A tie Leslies - Collins TALK Knock, Knock, Ginger - The Makeout Song (C) The Poison Dart - Occupations (C) Friday Morning's Regret - Poor Caroline (C) The Postage Stamps - Turning Off (C) Lindy - Beautifully Done (C) The Fembots - Countdown Our Days (C) The Bicycles - Australia (C) TALK Geoff Berner - Would It Kill You (C) Bob Wiseman - You Don't Love Me (C) (C) Denotes Canadian Content