The Show: Stay with me, play hide and seek…

RIP Gina Lollobrigida (1927-2023).

Plus very belated Christmas festive horror greetings from dreamweaver, doomsage, and  Sunday Times bestseller Garth Marenghi with a sneak preview of his new novel TerrorTome…

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 21 January 2023

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

  • GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA – Prendimi Tu
  • SOFIE ROYER – Someone is smoking
  • BILLY NOMATES – saboteur forcefield
  • ROZI PLAIN – Help
  • EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL – Nothing Left To Lose
  • CAMERON ROMANCE – Meet You on the Other Side
  • BLAIR PARKES – if you wanna forget
  • BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – So In The Moment
  • LITTLE SIMZ – Heart on Fire
  • HOVVDY – Town
  • BIG BLACK – Jordan, Minnesota *
  • GARTH MARENGHI – Garth Marenghi Returns To TV After More Than 15 years To Read From His Festive Horror Novel
  • CLEAR PATH ENSEMBLE – Revolutions
  • KYOTO JAZZ SEXTET – Rising (Ron Trent Remix)
  • NCY MILKY BAND – 100 Ans
  • YĪN YĪN – Shēnzhou V.
  • 2XM – Bonsai
  • FLEECED – Not A Gangsta
  • PATELLA – Wheres Bongo? (feat. Rachael Travaille)
  • COASTAL DRUM GROUP – Wire Blue
  • LIELA MOSS – Ache In The Middle (feat. Jehnny Beth)
  • MOTTE – Crystal Waters
  • HAAI – Human Sound (with Kai-Isaiah Jamal and Obi Franky)
  • BABII – BUTTERFLY 11 ( PSYCHE)_w_pholo_ii
  • ANDWAHN – SKY CREATURE
  • SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL – NuTribes

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

There’s a loneliness in the city…

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 27 August 2022

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

  • DOG POWER – Cab Driver *
  • ESPER STAR – Boys of Summer
  • ANNIE-CLAUDE DESCHÊNES – Electric Light
  • ALTERED IMAGES – Mascara Streakz
  • 2XM – Hear My Call
  • COASTAL DRUM GROUP – Golden Bay
  • SPACEWALK – Essence
  • TOFFO – Train Trips
  • MOTTE – Andromeda
  • MOTTE – Gargantuan
  • MOTTE – Falling Star
  • WILMA VRITRA – Clean Me Clean
  • SYD – Getting Late
  • TESS PARKS – Suzy & Sally’s Eternal Return
  • HOVVDY – Everything
  • CRUSH – Abstract Oils
  • CLEAR PATH ENSEMBLE – Solar Eclipse
  • CARAMEL SMOOTH HEAVEN – Coal Miner feat. Seb the Vegabond
  • OPEN MIKE EAGLE – i’ll fight you
  • THE CHATS – PAID LATE
  • JIM NOTHING – Borrowed Time
  • GORGEOUS BULLY – live this way
  • DOUBLE MIXTE – Chateau D’eau
  • MINAMI DEUTSCH – Whereabouts
  • AFRORACK – Last Modular
  • *JOY* – 1975
  • JERRY LA FLIM – Tell Me
  • LESINGE – Chica Patata

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Ding dong

R.I.P. Florian Schneider (1947-2020) a founding member of Kraftwerk. The breakthrough was perhaps their fourth album “Autobahn” released in 1974 but a bit of delving reacquainted us with their first two albums (efficiently titled “Kraftwerk 1” and “Kraftwerk 2”) and a reminder of the gentle beauty that is the epic Klingklang. A nice way to start a contemplative show.

And later… down the YouTube rabbit hole we went discovering live footage from 1970 of Kraftwerk at Rockpalast. We thought we were big deal going to house discos and raves in 1989 and had no idea how far ahead of us those crazy German kids were. Keytars, synths, multimedia, a motorik beat we can bug out to, and a stylish crowd. Minds blown…

And those interludes today? That was Phoebe Waller-Bridge recounting to Deborah Frances-White in episode 199 of The Guilty Feminist her Covid-19 lockdown experiences with the three neighbourhood cats: Good Cat, Bad Cat and Mystery Cat.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 09 May 2020

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

  • KRAFTWERK – KlingKlang
  • BLAIR PARKES – turn off turn on
  • REVBJELDE – SWAMP GAS vert_x remix
  • AUDIO ARCHAEOLOGY – Pegasus Bay
  • PHOEBE WALLER BRIDGE – Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s good cat
  • DESIRE – Black Latex
  • LAURA LEE LOVELY – Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Beyond The Rain – Remake)
  • MANFREDAS & FANTASTIC TWINS – Gimme Pizza
  • PLACES FOR PEOPLE – Atrium
  • PLACES FOR PEOPLE – Conference Room
  • PLACES FOR PEOPLE – Do Not Disturb
  • DLINA VOLNY – I’m Not Allowed (Drumappella)
  • T. G. SHAND – Fields to Flower
  • PHOEBE WALLER BRIDGE – Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s bad cat
  • CLEAR PATH ENSEMBLE – Inner Space
  • FALLE NIOKE & GHOST CULTURE – Barké
  • DAMU THE FUDGEMUNK, ARCHIE SHEPP & RAW POETIC – Learning to Breathe
  • R.A.P. FERREIRA – RO TALK
  • HOLLY AFOA – mum, dad, I’m lesbian
  • C.A.R. – Becoming Strangers
  • THE_UNDERSCORES – Xi Wang-mu Tessera
  • PETER WRIGHT – The Föhn Brings The Fever
  • PHOEBE WALLER BRIDGE – Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s mystery cat
  • MADELEINE COCOLAS – A Basic Understanding
  • ANDREA LASZLO DE SIMONE – Immensità
  • JUNUS ORCA – One Arm Pack
  • THE TRENDEES – TV Presenter Stupid Loins
  • MNTTAB – Iss Eine Ratte
  • KRAUS – An Arrow in the Haunch
  • CARAMEL SMOOTH HEAVEN – Axed The Angel (2XM Remix)
  • JAGĀ – Inter Alios

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.