Today on Hello GoodBye we open our doors to Renu and No Cars.

Multi-instrumentalist, percussionist, songwriter & composer Renu recently self-released her debut LP ‘Love from London’ to critical acclaim. The album was recorded over a two year period in London, Paris, Warsaw & Toronto and features a host of collaborators, including Seb Rochford (Polar Bear / Acoustic Ladyland) and Anna Tabbush (Tabbush English Folk Family.) The influence of Gainsbourg, Drake & Morricone can all be heard in the cinematic scope of Renu’s music, all swept along with the atmospheric combination of viola and theramin.

No Cars are an all-girl Japanese trio who first met and formed in London. They have declared themselves the new ‘Queens of Cute‘ and perform delightful Bubblegum-Pop ditties about bananas, octopuses and Sellotape.

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Track List:
The Fall – Winter
Renu – Love Theme (LIVE SESSION)
Renu – Twin (LIVE SESSION)
Renu – London To Alabama (LIVE SESSION)
Renu – We Love You (LIVE SESSION)
Fireworks Night – One Winter, One Spring
Renu – ‘Interview’
Way Though – Arro
Date Palms – Honey Devash (extract)
The Honeycombs – Have I The Right
Patrik Fitzgerald – Animal Mentality
Ulysses Storm – Franzka The Bear
Dirty Viv – Teeth
Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats – Rocket 88
No Cars – Geisha Girl In Sentimental Mood (LIVE SESSION)
No Cars – Help Me Octopuss (LIVE SESSION)
No Cars – Banana Song (LIVE SESSION)
No Cars – Sellotape (LIVE SESSION)
O-Arc – Dear Friend
No Cars – ‘Interview’
Chips For The Poor – Live From Downtown Transmissions (extract)

Live sound engineers: Kacper Zienianin, Leanne Bower & Joe Oldfield

Hello GoodBye 5 November 2011: No Cars and Renu [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today we focus our attention on the record label Upset the Rhythm, with featured live sessions from Way Through & Vice Cooler.

Upset the Rhythm began to promote live concerts in London in 2004 and has consequently helped to transform a once a sterile and uninspiring music scene, into the thriving and truly innovative platform that we are able to behold today. UtR has since metamorphosed into an equally seminal record label and continues to lend its unwavering support to a massive groundswell of like minded and groundbreaking international artists.

Plus, a live set and interview with Eternal Tapestry (recorded this week at Corsica Studios in Elephant & Castle)

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Eternal Tapestry make music which is loosely structured, densely layered and spontaneously composed. Massively prolific, they have released two LPs on Thrill Jockey this year alone, Beyond the 4th Door and Night Gallery, a collaboration with Sun Araw, which was improvised for a radio session at this year’s South By South West festival. And that’s not to mention two self-released tour cassettes.

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Track list:
Peepholes – Tunnels
Upset The Rhythm – ‘Interview 1’
Gentle Friendly – Speakers
Upset The Rhythm – ‘Interview 2’
Vice Cooler – ‘Interview 1’
Vice Cooler – Mega-Mix for Resonance FM
Vice Cooler – ‘Interview 2’
Kit – Cure Light Wounds
Eternal Tapestry – ‘Interview’
Eternal Tapestry – Cosmic Manhunt live at Corsica Studios, London
Way Through – Ruined Acre (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Henry My Son (Trad.) (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Salmon Patch (LIVE SESSION)
Piney Gir – My Halloween

Engineers: Kacper Zienianin, Leanne Bower & Joe Oldfield
Live sound at Corsica Studios: Amir Shoat; thanks to Adrian Jones at Corsica

Hello GoodBye 29 October 2011: Upset the Rhythm and Eternal Tapestry [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Hello GoodBye Show enjoys a little inter-station, cross pollination this afternoon, with Mining For Gold host Johny Brown experiencing life from the other side of the control desk, performing live in session with his folk-punk outfit Band Of Holy Joy.

Also, making their live radio debut we have the psych-pop trio Trees & the Slipway. Plus a live gig recording from Agathe Max.

Band Of Holy Joy are fronted by Johny Brown and have been going – on and off – for nigh on 30 years now. They play punk infused folk music, the current (and rather scintilating) results of which, can soon be heard on their forthcoming album ‘How To Kill A Butterfly’ (released on Exotic Pylon Records on 28th October)

Plus, refracted through the psychedelic environs of Tamworth and Liverpool, then heading down to London when right and ready, the trio of Matthew Lees (Vocals, keyboard and guitar), Joss Cope (Vocals and bass) and Stephen Wood (Vocals, guitar) formed TREES AND THE SLIPWAY. They play guitar/Casio comedown anthems for the dispossessed, Kraut-y stompers for the still-flying, and in between, songs about mad kings and more earth(l)y things… all shot through with the outsider micro-cubed raga-pop sensibility that you will come to know and love…

Violinist Agathe Max uses loops and distortion to create densely layered ambient music which is at one moment delicate and orchestral, and the next visceral abstract noise. Agathe was in the UK from her native Lyon for two shows recently and on today’s show we bring you a live recording from her performance at XOYO.

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Track listing:
David Cronenberg’s Wife – Pushing Too Hard
Band Of Holy Joy – The Observers Book Of Birds Eggs (LIVE SESSION)
Band Of Holy Joy – On The Ground Where John Wesley Walked (LIVE SESSION)
Band Of Holy Joy – Oh What A Thing This Heart Of Man (LIVE SESSION)
Misty In Roots – Bail Out
Band Of Holy Joy – Interview
Agathe Max – Live at XOYO
Agathe Max – Interview
Eternal Tapestry – Cosmic Dream
Trees And The Slipway – Crash Pad Sister (LIVE SESSION)
Trees And The Slipway – Sunday Morning Come Down Song (LIVE SESSION)
Trees And The Slipway – Spaced Out Day (LIVE SESSION)
Trees And The Slipway – 20 Years Ago (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Shaw – Somewhere Over The M6
Trees And The Slipway – Interview

Engineers: Kacper Zienianin & Joe Oldfield.
Live sound at XOYO: Thom Hollands

Hello GoodBye 22 October: Band of Holy Joy, Agathe Max, Trees & the Slipway [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Live music in the studio today from Simon Stanley Ward and Protagonists of David Gadsdon, plus a live recording from Purling Hiss.

Simon Stanley Ward is a 24 year old English Country Music singer / songwriter from London, his newly released CD “Myself to Blame” is currently getting rave reviews on the UK’s thriving Americana grapevine.

Protagonists of David Gadsdon is a punchy, mock-bop recitative bunch. They play the spoken characters of David Gadsdon with drums, bass, sax, and detailed odds-and-ends. This is the first ever live performance of Doom Radio, releasing the babblistic world of Reginald Ffolkes, plus a bag of others.

Started as a solo project of the 4-track cassette recordings of Mike Polizze, Purling Hiss have quickly released a string of LPs and EPs on a series of labels, including Chicago’s Permanent Records. Polizze’s music is raw and unedited, the music is free of structure, Polizze values the idea over creating a polished product. Recruiting bassist Kiel Everett and drummer Mike Sneeringer, Purling Hiss is now a live force, and in today’s show we have a live recording of them from the last date on their European tour.

Track list:

Snails – She’d Like An Hour
Simon Stanley Ward – The 7 o’clock Alarm (LIVE SESSION)
Simon Stanley Ward – The Monster Song (LIVE SESSION)
Simon Stanley Ward – The Man Next To Me (LIVE SESSION)
Hank Williams – Move It On Over
Simon Stanley Ward – ‘Interview’
Purling Hiss / Mike Polizze – ‘Interview’
Purling Hiss – Live from the Lexington
Protagonists of David Gadsdon – Come On Baby Show Me Something (LIVE SESSION)
Protagonists of David Gadsdon – Doom Radio (LIVE SESSION)
Protagonists of David Gadsdon – Mister Nemo (LIVE SESSION)
Protagonists of David Gadsdon – My Private Anarchy (LIVE SESSION)
Band Of Holy Joy – Oh What A Thing This Heart Of Man
Trees And The Slipway – Crash Pad Sister
Protagonists of David Gadsdon – ‘Interview’

Live sound engineers: Kacper Zienianin & Leanne Bower, assisted by Joe Oldfield
Live sound at the Lexington: Serge Mas

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Hello GoodBye 15 October 2011: Purling Hiss, David Gadsdon, Simon Stanley Ward [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Hello GoodBye Show is thrilled to have the Rude Mechanicals and One True Dog visit the studio to perform live in session on Resonance FM this afternoon.

Rude Mechanicals are a Pan-dimensional Creature manifesting itself in your reality as an Absurd Rock/Jazz/Punk Band consisting of Miss Roberts and her symbiotic slaves.

One True Dog splash colourful and witty spoken word flourishes upon a Jazz-Punk sonic canvas.

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Track List:
Pissinboy – Pick Me Up
Rude Mechanicals – Aliens (LIVE SESSION)
Rude Mechanicals – Wednesday’s Child (LIVE SESSION)
Rude Mechanicals – Automatic Priest (LIVE SESSION)
Rude Mechanicals – Rotten Tango (LIVE SESSION)
Roshi – Girl From Boyerahmadi
Rude Mechanicals – ‘Interview’
Purling Hiss – Walking Down The Street
Dethscalator – Midnight Feast
The Rayographs – You Are Made Of Glass
Poino – Sex Pesto
One True Dog – It’s A Delay (LIVE SESSION)
One True Dog – It’s So Confusing (LIVE SESSION)
One True Dog – Railway (LIVE SESSION)
One True Dog – Imagine Waking Up (LIVE SESSION)
One True Dog – ‘Interview’ (LIVE SESSION)
Bomber Jackets – Strange Sensation

Hello GoodBye 8 October 2011: Rude Mechanicals and One True Dog [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Business as usual this Saturday lunchtime here on Hello GoodBye, with a debut live performences on the show from Zapoppin’.

Zapoppin’ are the key proponent of the powerskiffle genre. Thomas G.J. Sharpe and Luke Richards on banjo, harmonium and drums straddling sinister pop, awkward croon and upbeat folk. They have entertained audiences from Penzance to Berlin, summoning great intensity from the most meagre of instruments.

The band have been noted for their ‘black humour and obtuse lyrical themes’ by Clash and in 2010 were said that they ‘could be the face of a new strain of folk once everyone has recovered from their Mumford measles’ by 247 Magazine.

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Track list:
Sylvia Robinson – Sunday
Temperatures – Kakorr
Zapoppin’ – Calves (LIVE SESSION)
Zapoppin’ – She’s His (From Heels To Lips) (LIVE SESSION)
Zapoppin’ – Hoisted (LIVE SESSION)
Zapoppin’ – Digital Ace (LIVE SESSION)
Zapoppin’ – Pumpin’ Out The BTU’s (LIVE SESSION)
Zapoppin’ – Pub Dog (LIVE SESSION)
The Bomber Jackets – Routemaster
The Sticks – Ee Yeah (HG Archive)
Baaneex – Here Comes The Count (HG Archive)
Josh Shaddock – True Faith
Purling Hiss – Passenger Queen
Zapoppin’ – The Lurch I Left You In (LIVE SESSION)
Zapoppin’ – The Cheapest Laugh (LIVE SESSION)
Zapoppin’ – A Hymn For Eaton After The Apocalypse (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Salmon Patch
Rude Mechanicals – Rude Mechanicals
Zapoppin’ – ‘Interview’
Band Of Holy Joy – Between A Nightingale’s Song And Now
Date Palms – Psalm 3 (Intro)

Hello GoodBye 1 October 2011: Zapoppin' [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

deXter Bentley invites you to spend time in the arms of one of the UK’s newest and most innovative labels; Critical Heights.

Dedicated to unique musical artefacts in sumptuous and desirable packaging, Critical Heights has already gained plaudits for its releases by Diva and Savaging Spires amongst others.

Hear Savaging Spires play live alongside stablemates Delphic Vapours this Saturday lunchtime. The troupe will reunite later this evening for a Critical Heights curated show at the legendary Cafe Oto in Dalston headlined by the Dead Rat Orchestra.

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Track list:
Simon Stanley Ward – Standing In The Rain
Dead Rat Orchestra – Joy/Sorrow
Critical Heights – Interview 1#
Diva – Glitter End
Delphic Vapours – ‘Pink Floyd European Tour 1968’ (LIVE SESSION)
Alexander Tucker – Red String
Hong Kong In The 60s – Theme From King Of China Town
Savaging Spires – Photographic Memories (LIVE SESSION)
Crater – Coalition Blues
Critical Heights – Interview 2#
Dead Rat Orchestra – Walrus Hunt
Savaging Spires – When The Devil Says He’s Dead (LIVE SESSION)
Barbados – Prelude
One True Dog – It’s A Delay
Electricity In Our Homes – You’re Doing So Well

Hello GoodBye 24 September 2011: Critical Heights Special [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A jam packed edition of The Hello GoodBye Show to sate your appetite this Saturday lunchtime, with live music from; Khaos Alberto, Fighting Kites and Bob Rafkin.

Hailing from London, Sheffield and Manchester, Art-Punk ensemble Khaos Alberto won’t allow a minor geographical hurdle to hinder their quest for sonic supremacy.

Fighting Kites are a North London based, instrumental Post-Rock quartet. Their new joint release with Broken Shoulder entitled ‘Split’ is soon out on Audio Antihero.

Plus, Martin Hungry-Dog joins us to discuss his Phil Ochs tribute night ‘I Phil Therefore I Am’ (@ The 12 Bar Club on Wednesday 21st September), former Ochs guitarist Bob Rafkin is headlining the event and is dropping by the studio to perform his favourite Phil Ochs tune.

Track List:
Phil Ochs – Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends
Bob Rafkin & Martin Hungry-Dog – Interview
Bob Rafkin – Changes (LIVE SESSION)
Khaos Alberto – The Megatron (LIVE SESSION)
Khaos Alberto – From The Disco Fitta Of Montezuma (LIVE SESSION)
Khaos Alberto – Wizard Launch (LIVE SESSION)
Khaos Alberto – Arc Tops (LIVE SESSION)
Khaos Alberto – Brimful Of Anger (LIVE SESSION)
Supreme Vagabond Craftsmen – Luther Vandross Co:Write
Khaos Alberto – Interview
Sexton Ming – Ice Cream Mountaineering
Baaneex – Jumping Chinese Restaurant (HG Archive)
Fighting Kites – Cat Is Egg (LIVE SESSION)
Fighting Kites – Wojtek The Bear (LIVE SESSION)
Fighting Kites – Fr.. (LIVE SESSION)
Fighting Kites – Conquers (LIVE SESSION)
Horse Brothers – Hangman’s Neck
Fighting Kites – Interview
Trogons – Forge (HG Archive)

Hello GoodBye 17 September 2011: Khaos Alberto, Fighting Kites, Bob Rafkin [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We have live performances this Saturday lunchtime from Sexton Ming and Emily & the Faves.

Renaissance man Sexton Ming is a painter, poet, musician and ‘keeper of the fire‘ for Outsider Music with his own Rim Records imprint. Sexton has been a regular guest on various programmes for Resonance FM over the years and is a particular favourite of the Hello GoodBye Show. He is about to celebrate his half century and has promised to drop by the studio with a handful of poems, a few exclusive tunes from his latest collaboration with Billy Childish plus all the details regarding his upcoming 50th Birthday Party!.

Emily & the Faves have been whipping up a lot of interest in their native Merseyside with their bright and breezy psychedelic pop songs and now hope to take London by storm as they embark upon a series of gigs here in the capital.

Track List:

Lumpen Noblemen – Scaling The Yablonois
Now – Monotone Plug Suggestion
Jason McNiff – Tombola
Lime Headed Dog – Labrador (HG archive)
Cleckhuddersfax – A Decree
Emily & the Faves – I Never Saw (LIVE SESSION)
Emily & the Faves – Lazy (LIVE SESSION)
Emily & the Faves – This Time (LIVE SESSION)
Sexton Ming – Evil David Bowie
Sexton Ming – Interview
Bird Radio – London The Forest
Scuzz Homo – Satan Is A Secret Nappy Fetishist
Sexton Ming – Feed The Bread To The Byrds (LIVE SESSION)
Sexton Ming – Goodbye Eric
Emily & the Faves – Is It Still Nighttime? (LIVE SESSION)
Emily & the Faves – Sometimes (LIVE SESSION)
Emily & the Faves – Golden Hair (LIVE SESSION)
Stealing Sheep – I Am The Rain
Emily & the Faves – Interview

Hello GoodBye 10 September 2011: Emily & The Faves and Sexton Ming [ 1:29:39 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hot, sweaty, burnt and blistered!

deXter Bentley peels himself off his clammy sun lounger to return to air with Hello GoodBye, midday every Saturday lunchtime from the 3rd September.

With live music stretching from the ominous, introverted alchemy of Benjamin Shaw, to the outer reaches of neo-psychedelic reverie with Trogons.

Trogons’ soaring vocals and chiming guitars recall the late ’80s psychedelia of Slowdive, The Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil. Both tuneful and droneful, the London-based four-piece are regulars on the capital’s live circuit and have notched up a number of prestigious slots. Today they make their Resonance live debut and, by rights, tomorrow they’ll be signed to 4AD!
Their forthcoming 7’’ single, ‘Awakenings’ will be released on X Ray Recordings.

Benjamin Shaw’s debut album, ‘There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet’ is due for release on November 21st on the Audio Anti-Hero imprint.. The album’s impenetrable Lo-Fi Megasoul will either propel him up into the stratosphere or deep down into the abyss. Either way, it’ll be great with dissonance and majesty smothering your principles.

If you’re not tuned in then you’re not listening!

Track Listing:
Eternal Tapestry – Galactic Dialect
Hong Kong in the 60s – When You were Dreaming
Trogons – Forge (LIVE SESSION)
Trogons – Awakenings (LIVE SESSION)
Trogons – Where’s My Sword? (LIVE SESSION)
The Honeycombs – I Can Tell Something’s Up
Poino – Code Brown
Trogons – Interview
Band of Holy Joy – Oh What a Thing this Heart of Man
The Plan – Call Me Spike if You Like
Sexton Ming – The Milk Goes in the Baby
Emily and the Faves – White Night
The Catcher Nine – Driving Overflow
Benjamin Shaw – How to Test the Depth of a Well (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Shaw – Home (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Shaw – Pig (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Shaw – I Got the Pox, the Pox is what I Got (LIVE SESSION)
Beards – Brick by Boulder
Benjamin Shaw – Interview
Terror Bird – Married Women
Bomber Jackets – Strange Sensation

Hello GoodBye 3 September 2011: Trogons and Benjamin Shaw [ 1:29:51 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download