You’re getting older. And you don’t know why. And you don’t know what to do…

RIP Hamish Kilgour. 1957-2022.

Hamish Kilgour – The last beatnik
by Roger Shepherd (Flying Nun)

Life story: Musician Hamish Kilgour ’emanated generosity, possibility’ 
by Philip Matthews (The Press)

‘An understated power’: Hamish Kilgour of the Clean remembered as a restless innovator
by Matthew Goody (The Guardian)

“He was the yin and the yang, the sturm and the drang, the bucket, the glue, the whole shebang.” – Robert Scott

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 10 December 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • THE CLEAN – Getting Older *
  • JUST ANOTHER JUNE – Driving
  • ANNUAL LEAF – Racing Heart
  • HISS EXPLOSION – Blue wave
  • THE CHATS – THE PRICE OF SMOKES
  • DR HITCHCOCK – Disco Brutus (F.L.O.)
  • WILLEM WOLFE – Tobiko Bubblebath (Tour De Tokyo)
  • AKIO NAGASE – Mongol 303
  • HELENA HAUFF – Your Turn To Fly
  • DAVID SHRIGLEY – Rock Festival
  • ERNY BELLE – Nuclear Bombs
  • SHIT AND SHINE – Miami
  • R.A.P. FERREIRA – sittlichkeit (prod. Basico & ZOCHI)
  • ROME STREETZ – Ugly Balenciagas
  • PAUL HUMPHREY & HIS COOL AID CHEMISTS – Baby Rice
  • EBB & ILL FIGS – C Beams
  • PAIGE JULIA – Ease Your Mind
  • YOUNG GHO$T – JUNGLE HOLIDAY
  • PRIZEFIGHT – Maintenance (nickname & No Name Nath’s Old Skool Mix)
  • FRIKARDO – When Up Is Down
  • KATE BOLLINGER – Running
  • WEYES BLOOD – It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody
  • BREANNA BARBARA – You Got Me High
  • KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – Is it Me or is it You?
  • GRAND RIVER – Human
  • MITRA MITRA – Gappy Spheres
  • ASTROLOOP – Drape
  • KHOTIN – Fountain, Growth (feat. Tess Roby)

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

Hemmed in like a boar between archers…

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And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 10 September 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • THE BOO RADLEYS – The Queen Is Dead *
  • BUDDY PEACE – That One Joint
  • MA BARKA – Fracture
  • FLOWDAN X ABSTRAKT SONANCE – Antisocial (ColtCuts Remix)
  • AL LOVER – Cosmic Joke (Peaking Lights Remix)
  • DOG POWER – Idvor Girls
  • GORGEOUS BULLY – sober
  • THE TACKS – Fantasy
  • THE CHATS – I’VE BEEN DRUNK IN EVERY PUB IN BRISBANE
  • ANNUAL LEAF – Wish Radio
  • ANNIE HAMILTON – electric night
  • NAJA NAJA – Dong Dong
  • MASSIMILIANO PAGLIARA – Reset (feat. Fort Romeau & Coloray)
  • RED AXES – Rhythm Passage
  • JERRY BOUTHIER & PLAISIR DE FRANCE – Eccitatissimo (Outtake’s Punk Walk Remix)
  • CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY & BOLIS PUPUL – Cliché (Soulwax Remix)
  • DRY CLEANING – Gary Ashby
  • FAZERDAZE – Break!
  • CRUSH – Barcelona
  • JIM NOTHING – Fall Back Down
  • GOAT – Under No Nation
  • MOVULANGO – Other Way
  • MOTTE – Seeing Into The Minds Of Others
  • RECITALS – SLOW FAST
  • ROSETOWN – Tundra
  • MARY HALVORSON – Side Effect
  • CARAMEL SMOOTH HEAVEN – Open (feat. Jess Aspinwall)
  • SUDAN ARCHIVES – ChevyS10
  • TRANCE FARMERS – Jeans Dream
  • MADRID 79 – Barcelona 98

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: I still get nervous metaphysically…

Artwork by New Brighton and Christchurch music legend BLAIR PARKES

Musically the New Year used to feel like the graveyard shift of the music business –  a time of the year full of remixes and reissues and repackaging. This year, maybe due to the kids just getting on with getting on there seems to be a steady stream of releases coming out of Christchurch – Ōtautahi.

For that reason on the show today listen out for recent releases from Joint favourites Kelvin Hurts (ex CHC now ALK), Liam K. Swiggs, Mad Frank, Dilemma Beats, Jagā, a sneaky threesome from pickle darling, and some synth loveliness from the mysterious Supernova Wolf. Plus we plunder the immaculate selections of Keytars & Violins for some of the best left field techno of 2018. Happy New Year.

And speaking of Christchurch output, the artwork above is by New Brighton and Christchurch music legend Blair Parkes. Listen to his tunes at https://blairparkes.bandcamp.com and have a peek at his artworks at https://blairparkes.wordpress.com

Direct download: The Joint – 5 January 2019

And here’s the playlist in full…

  • KELVIN HURTS – Introduction
  • LIAM K. SWIGGS – WE SMOKE 19
  • KATERINA – Be A Child
  • PATRICIA KOKETT – Luxor
  • PICKLE DARLING – Happy Together (feat. Skirts) *
  • PICKLE DARLING – Biology
  • PICKLE DARLING – Greta
  • JIMOTHY LACOSTE – I CAN SPEAK SPANISH
  • MAD FRANK – Home by now
  • ANNUAL LEAF – A Head A Wing A Heart
  • DON PAPA – Kånge (DJ Sotofett Remix)
  • JAGĀ – Nocturnal (Dilemma Beats Remix)
  • DILEMMA BEATS – Longing
  • 51717 – Techelet
  • DONATO DOZZY – Cleo
  • JOHN T. GAST – Angela
  • WHODAMANNY – The Light of TCP
  • H. RUSSELL-ASHE – Kivaaluun
  • ESCAPE EARTH – Bleep Inside
  • AOUD – SE MKII
  • MOLLY – Si Seulement
  • SUPERNOVA WOLF – Sunset

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Behold, Old Scratch in 6-string form…

We do like a good prank call. But if a phone isn’t available, email can be just as good. On Malcolm Gladwell’s new podcast BROKEN RECORD, Dave Hill recounts the time he posed as 19 year old ‘Lance’ from Gary, Indiana – founder of the world’s darkest metal band of all time – WITCH TAINT. Through an ongoing email conversation ‘Lance’ engages the legendary Saiitham of the Norwegian Black Metal community in witty passive-aggressive banter. It resulted in ‘Lance’ having to form said Witch Taint. Life imitates art.

LISTEN TO BROKEN RECORD EPISODE #7:
https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/#/episode-7-dave-hill/

READ THE BLACK METAL DIALOGUES
https://www.theblackmetaldialogues.com/intro.html

And when you’re done you can listen to the latest instalment of THE JOINT…

Direct download: The Joint – 22 December 2018

Here’s the playlist in full…

  • JULIA HOLTER – Chaitius
  • YUMI ZOUMA – Powder Blue Cascine Park
  • MMDELAI – Fast Fire
  • PLANNINGTOROCK – Non Binary Femme
  • MR MEATY BOY X GRAND MASTER MAHI – BADULAH
  • MILO – stet (prod. the jefferson park boys)
  • KASHMERE STAGE BAND – Scorpio
  • JUN KAMODA – Crush
  • PETITE NOIR – Blowing Up The Congo (feat. Saul Williams)
  • SABIWA – XandG
  • WITCH TAINT – Are You Ready (to Black Metal) *
  • THE INCISIONS – Pain Amplifier
  • RQ – Third Ground
  • FILMICO – Memory Trees
  • LAWRENCE ARABIA – Oppositional Democracy
  • ADAM HATTAWAY AND THE HAUNTERS – Café Ryan
  • ANNUAL LEAF – Jaded Mint
  • BLAIR PARKES AND CARDIGAN BAY – do you good
  • FUFANU – One Too Many
  • HOAVI – Can’t explain
  • NATIVE CRUISE – Calypso Spring
  • SANDRO PERRI – In Another Life (Edit)
  • RECKONWRONG – 14 Days
  • SHELLEY PARKER – Red Cotton
  • HIDDEN SPHERES – McKenna’s Mind
  • PREQUEL – The Song I Said I’d Make For You

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Makin’ the ill just a little more sick…

With the winter ills upon us, and the World Cup diverting our attention away from the music’s, a tip of the hat to TULIP BLACK for putting us on to EBONY BONES‘ “No Black In The Union Jack.”

Direct download: The Joint – 07 July 2018

And here’s the playlist in full…

  • EBONY BONES – No Black In The Union Jack
  • SALAD BOYS – Blown Up
  • BLAIR PARKES – heavy lifting
  • S T F U – The Liar
  • ANNUAL LEAF – Polydactyl
  • CURXES – SILENT RUNNING
  • HORTON JUPITER – The Box
  • THE WHITE SCREEN – Death To Techno (Red Axes Remix)
  • PARASOLS – Body Parts (Unit Black Flight Remix)
  • ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI – Matrimony
  • LUCY RAILTON – The Critical Rush
  • ASTEROID ANXIETY – Okraina
  • EVITCELES – lft
  • JOHANNES ALBERT – Cottbus
  • ROY OF THE RAVERS – A Dim & Distant Past
  • LOW JACK – Brass
  • DXNO_ – her
  • FRENCH_CONCESSION – Summer Fire
  • SCHOFIELD SPIRES – seen bordering
  • CHRISTINA VANTZOU – Some Limited and Waning Memory
  • GROUPER – Breathing
  • JOHNNY JEWEL – Air Museum
  • SMITH – Beguine
  • AZURE & CARAMEL SMOOTH HEAVEN – Just Just, Lay Down
  • NU GUINEA – Stann Fore
  • BILL CALLAHAN – Faith/Void *

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.