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Strange Fruit #106
Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample.
The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks).
Strange Fruit founding presenter Neil Nixon has just released a book about rare albums for Gonzo Multimedia. The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight.
However, this week we introduce you to a new face, and we asked Jeremy Smith to introduce himself, and he wrote the following:
I’ve been a huge music fan ever since my parents bought me a transistor radio and I would listen to the sixties pirate music stations at nights under the covers. At the age of 13, I discovered progressive music and went to my first gig which was Barclay James Harvest at Guildford Civic Hall. This was shortly followed by what is still one of the best gigs I can remember, Alice Cooper and Roxy Music at Wembley.
In 1976, I found myself going to the Nashville every week to see the Stranglers where my long hair and flares soon started looking out of place, but it was always the music that I loved and especially seeing bands in pubs and clubs.
This love of live music has stayed with me to this day and I still love standing in a small club like the Borderline in London with some mates and watching a band with a pint in my hand.
With the Strange Fruit radio show, I want to continue the trend of doing themed shows and playing the music I love, whether it is bands from the seventies, eighties and nineties who never quite made it, unsigned bands of today from all over the world, or those bands that have kept going for twenty or thirty years through their love of music and performing rather than financial reward.
Strange Fruit 106 -
Songs with a Story to Tell
A collection of songs with meaningful or personal storie Featured Album: Workbook (25 year reissue) by Bob Mould
Tracks
1 Half Man Half Biscuit: The Light at the End of the Tunnel (is the Light of an Oncoming Train)
2 Wolf People: Painted Cross
3 Wreckless Eric: Lureland
4 Bob Mould: Brasilia Crossed with Trenton
5 Gene Clark and Carla Olson: Del Gato
6 Dustin's Bar Mitzvah: To the Ramones
7 American Music Club: I Just Took my Last Two Sleeping Pills (and Now I'm Like a Bridegroom Standing at the Altar)
8 Bob Dylan: Hurricane
9 The Decembrists: Here I Dreamt I was an Architect
10 Bob Mould: If You're True
11 Kevin Ayers: Stranger in Blues Suede Shoes
12 Jackie Leven: Poor Toun
13 Richard Thompson: Beeswing
14 Michelle Shocked: Anchorage
15 The Raconteurs: Carolina Drama
16 Blue Oyster Cult: Last Days of May
17 Bob Mould: Compositions for the Young and Old
18 John Prine: Sam Stone
19 The Ramones: Now I want to Sniff Some Glue
20 Doctors of Madness: Marie and Joe
21 The Handsome Family: The Giant of Illinois
22 The Velvet Underground: The Gift
23 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Where the Wild Roses Grow
24 Television Personalities: Goodnight Mr. Spaceman
