This is the final episode of Hello GoodBye before we take our well earned Summer holiday!

This afternoon we welcome the return of two of the capital’s finest perpetrators of contemporary, abstract pop music; Serafina Steer & Lime Headed Dog.

Plus, we also have Matthew Reynolds & Hannah from the Ukulele emporium The Duke Of Uke discussing the fact that their shop is currently under threat of closure.

Multi-instrumentalist Serafina Steer was tutored by the living legend and sitar genius, Ravi Shankar. Serafina’s sublime song writing skills, spellbinding voice and supreme dexterity on the harp have justifiably found her gaining huge critical acclaim from an ever expanding group of admirers.

Lime Headed Dog combine abstract, cut and paste, free-form pop with surreal lyrical aplomb, the result of which is a vaguely unsettling and yet altogether thrilling and infectious wall of sound.

Tune in between noon and 1.30pm on 104.4 FM in Central London or on-line via: www.resonancefm.com

NB* The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show will return to the airwaves on Saturday 3rd September 2011 @ 12 o’clock midday!

Track List

Sebastian Rochford / Pamelia Kurstin – Ouch Evil Slow Hop
Serafina Steer – Machine Room (LIVE SESSION)
Serafina Steer – Night Before Mutiny (LIVE SESSION)
Serafina Steer – Like The Wind (LIVE SESSION)
Ravi Shankar – Gat Kirwani
Serafina Steer – Interview
Trent Miller & the Skeleton Jive – Fear Of Flying
Duke Garwood – God’s In My Shoe (HG archive)
George Formby – With My Little Ukulele In My Hand
Matthew Reynolds & Hannah from The Duke Of Uke – Interview
Allo Darlin’ – My Heart Is A Drummer
Spizz Oil – 6,000 Crazy (HG archive)
Lime Headed Dog – Balloons & Dams (LIVE SESSION)
Lime Headed Dog – Where’s Beadle? (LIVE SESSION)
Lime Headed Dog – Exciting (LIVE SESSION)
Lime Headed Dog – Labrador (LIVE SESSION)
Las Kellies – Erase You
Trogons – Protest Song No. 678
Lime Headed Dog – Interview
Rude Mechanicals – The Vicar Of St. Martins

Hello GoodBye Show 4 June 2011: Serafina Steer and Lime-Headed Dog [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We have debut performances on Hello GoodBye this afternoon from Skinjobs and Ten.

SKINJOBS
Skinjobs is the current art-music project for the long standing collaborative partnership between the artist Adam Latham and former Xerox Teens (aka XX Teens) singer Richard Cash. Well-turned out and industrious (check out their merchandising!) troubadours Skinjobs play bespoke one-song gigs, often mimed and at far-flung venues, car parks, forests and art galleries across Europe. Who knows what they will play for us in session today? Probably not even they do…

TEN
From Leeds and London, Ten comprise guitarists Dominic Deane and Jonny Fryer. They create minimalist sonic soundscapes in equal parts folk and ambient.

Track List:
A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen – Farmers With Televisions
Skinjobs – Howdy Do (LIVE SESSION / PRE-REC)
Skinjobs – Who Wants Canaries (LIVE SESSION / PRE-REC)
Skinjobs – Beautiful Sea (LIVE SESSION / PRE-REC)
Skinjobs – Money In The Bank Vs. Money In The Pocket (LIVE SESSION / PRE-REC)
Xerox Teens – Cousin Called Jonathan (Live @ 12 Bar Club 11.09.04 – HG archive)
Milk Kan – Junk Yard
Ten – The Absent (LIVE SESSION)
Ten – Winter Light (LIVE SESSION)
Ten – 17 (LIVE SESSION)
Serafina Steer – Half Robot
Lime Headed Dog – Excited
Las Kellies – Totsunootoshigo
Maria & The Mirrors – Magadan ’92
Gertrude – Pigs In Mud
Gerry Mitchell w. Ten – Die To Love (LIVE SESSION)
Gerry Mitchell w. Ten – Faker Quaker (LIVE SESSION)
Hot Head Show – ‘Title Unknown’

Hello GoodBye 28 May 2011: Skinjobs, Ten and Gerry Mitchell [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Post-punk iconoclasts The Mekons join us to perform live in session on Resonance FM this Saturday lunchtime.

With a new album (Ancient & Modern) set for imminent release plus a documentary in the pipeline by filmmaker Jon Angio (Revenge of The Mekons), the collective of artists and musicians that comprise The Mekons are thankfully showing no signs of shipping back to Venus. In 1978 The Mekons’ debut single ‘Never Been In A Riot’, was denied distribution by Rough Trade after they deemed it too lo-fi and scratchy for the common or garden post-punk punter, yet despite this ignominious beginning the group are currently in their 5th decade and still going strong. Tune in to hear their distinct brand of barnstorming, politically charged, country-punk music.

Plus an interview with Irmin Schmidt, ex-keyboard player of CAN who talks about Lost Tapes, the upcoming boxed set of unreleased archive recordings from the Krautrock legends and his own soundtrack recordings.

Track list:
The Mekons – Never Been In A Riot
The Mekons – Beaten And Broken (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Club Mekon (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Abernant 1984/85 (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Hole In The Ground (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Fantastic Voyage (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Dan Dare
The Mekons – Interview
Interview with Irmin Schmidt by Michael Garrad
The Mekons – Corporal Chalkie (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Tina (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Heaven And Back (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Oblivion (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Big Zombie (LIVE SESSION)
Now – Ra
Skinjobs – Money In The Bank Vs. Money In The Pocket
The Mekons – Interview

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Returning to the show once more are the scintillating London based trio The Wave Pictures, while making a debut on the show we also have Broken Shoulder.

The Wave Pictures are a prolific London based trio who play pop music that is infused with a healthy, heady rush of youthful abandon. Frontman David Tattershall has a distinctly idiosyncratic stream of consciousness quality to his lyrics that is both melodic and playful. The group conjure up a sound that is slightly reminiscent of the New York new wave scene of the late ‘70’s (with both early Television and Talking Heads springing to mind.) The band are currently undertaking a nationwide tour of the UK to promote their LP ‘Beer In The Breakers’ (Moshi Moshi)

Broken Shoulder is the aching pseudonym of Neil Debnam from Fighting Kites. Conceived when he was out of action with a broken shoulder, Debnam lent in the darker shade of his influences; electronic and noise records from the likes of Tim Hecker, Ashtray Navigations, Core Of The Coalman and a wealth of Japanese experimental/improvisational music (Chihei Hatakeyama, Taj Mahal Travellers, Himeno Sayaka). His debut LP “Broken Shoulderrr” (Audio Anti-Hero) is a Lo-Tron collection of noises, ditties and misplaced notes sewn together by fuzz and feedback. It’s a unique record that evolves with each listen and has a shelf life longer than UHT milk.

Track List
Chas ‘n’ Dave – Rabbit
The Wave Pictures – Rain Down (LIVE SESSION)
The Wave Pictures – 2 Lemons 1 Lime (LIVE SESSION)
The Wave Pictures – Little Surprise (LIVE SESSION)
The Wave Pictures – Walk The Back Stairs Quiet (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – I Stole The Cutty Sark (HG archive)
The Wave Pictures – Interview
The Magic Lantern – Guilty Hearts
Smoke Fairies – Storm Song
Soft Cell – Tainted Dub
OMMM – Live in Cargo, 2003
Inner Space – Camera Song
Broken Shoulder – Ultimate Donko (LIVE SESSION)
Broken Shoulder – Morning Is Broken (LIVE SESSION)
The Mekons – Dicky Chalkie & Nobby
Broken Shoulder – Interview

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Listeners to The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show have helped to contribute to Resonance FM’s current fundraising drive by purchasing air-time on today’s broadcast of HG at the affordable rate of £10 per minute.

Listen in to hear the bizarre and rather beguiling menagerie of submissions that we have accrued!

Through The Pay-As-You-Go Hello GoodBye Show scheme we/you have succeeded in contributing the combined – and very substantial – sum of £900 towards the day to day running of this very fine radio station.

THANK YOU !!!

Track Listing:

Sebastien Craig – An Introduction To The British Constitution
Floating Di Morel – Looking Back (donation made by Simone Goldate)
Matron – Microdot
The Fifth Runway – TV Show
Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Footsteps In The Sand
Fireworks Night – Across The Sea
Diva – The Glitter End
Savaging Spires – Photographic Memory
Owen Tromans – The Guru Femmes
Dominic Felix – Nessun Dorma (LIVE SESSION) (donation made by Hendrik Huthoff)
JK Afloat – Dare To Love In Times Like These
The Empty Orchestra – Out In Nowhere (contact: mamapizza@yahoo.com)
The Troggs – Wild Thing (donation made by Lordship Lane Carpets)
AC/DC – Back In Black (donation made by Lordship Lane Carpets)
The Clash – London Calling (donation made by Lordship Lane Carpets)
Sexton Ming – Will We Meet Again?
Elephant Man Tours – ‘advert’
Unit – Osaka Boy
Dirty Viv – Clingy Baby
Dirty Viv – Good Looking
Dirty Viv – Soho
Dirty Viv – Washing
Aretha Franklin – Respect (donation made by Lordship Lane Carpets)

Hello GoodBye 7 May 2011: Pay As You Go Show [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The honeymoon is over!

Performing live in session on Hello GoodBye this afternoon are The Windsors and The Choo Choo Trains.

The Windsors rose from the ashes of the legendary Kenny Process Team. Simon King (guitar), Matthew Armstrong (bass), Phil Bartai (keys) and Paul May (drums) play jewel-like tunes written specifically for the band by Kevin Plummer, the genius tunesmith behind KPT. “The music of Plummer and cohorts remains of interest to fans of forward-looking electric guitar music with a rock base, and stylistically is somewhere between the precision control of surf rock groups such as the Ventures and the almost classical compositions Captain Beefheart created in collaboration with guitarists such as Zoot Horn Rollo and Gary Lucas.” Eugene Chadbourne

The Choo Choo Trains is the most static band in England, the best band in the world. They are Veronica, Emma and Sarihi and they play music for the heart and soul. They have supported bands like Television Personalities and Wet Dog and have also received much praise from Kurt Cobain’s wheelchair pushing friend Everett True. The Choo Choo Trains is dedicated to Elvis Presley, the King of Rock’n’Roll.

Track List:
Mari Elliot – Silly Billy
The Windsors – Baby Oscar’s Birthday (LIVE SESSION)
The Windsors – Hut (LIVE SESSION)
The Windsors – The Orient (LIVE SESSION)
The Broken Family Band – Borrowed Time
Erin K & Tash – Jiggy Miggy
The Windsors – Interview
Flame Proof Moth – Americans In Nunhead
The Mekons – Prince Of Darkness
Ferris Blood – The Count (Dear Puppeteer – Episode 2: Pure Fantasy *excerpt)
R.D.F. – Rebel Soul
Foss – Katharsi
Jess Bryant – Stone Lady
Now – Party
Electricity In Our Homes – Don’t You Want To? (Follow)
The Choo Choo Trains – Colours (LIVE SESSION)
The Choo Choo Trains – No. 38 To Your Heart (LIVE SESSION)
The Choo Choo Trains – Save Me (LIVE SESSION)
The Choo Choo Trains – Hilma (LIVE SESSION)
Splodgenessabounds – 2 Pints Of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps Please
Fireworks Night – One Winter, One Spring
The Choo Choo Trains – Interview
X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage Up Yours!

Hello GoodBye Show 30 April 2011 [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Brixton and Bristol are both represented in equal measure this afternoon on Hello GoodBye, from the West Country we have Siddy Bennett and from South East London The No Frills Band.

The South London Press recently described The No Frills Band as ‘ramshackle folksy Brixtonites’, the group play Irish, Welsh, English and Scottish tunes, American old time, bluegrass and western swing, Greek stuff, Turkish stuff, French tunes, Yiddish tunes, East European tunes and Scandinavian tunes, and some old country songs.

Siddy Bennett is poignant, poetic and often lyrically compared to the greats of Laura Marling and Sandy Denny. Her delivery, assured with the musicianship of her exceptional (violin included) band, ranges from upbeat, raucous, cider-infused festival dance music to epic, thought provoking folk ballads.

Track List:
The Rayographs – My Critical Mind
Siddy Bennett – What Do You Think Of Me (LIVE SESSION)
Siddy Bennett – Run Of The Mill (LIVE SESSION)
Siddy Bennett – The Edge Of The Road (LIVE SESSION)
Dan Sartain – Atheist Funeral
Siddy Bennett – Interview
The Bennett Sisters – Breakaway (HG archive)
Jess Bryant – Forest
Trogons – Sci-Fi Landscapes
No Babies – Tanuki
Hong Kong In The 60s (with The Advisory Circle) – Seasons Change
Vic Godard & The Subway Sect – Best Album
The No Frills Band – The Pipe On The Hob / Hag At The Churn (LIVE SESSION)
The No Frills Band – The Appalachian Set: The L & N Polka / Angeline The Baker / Campbell’s Farewell To Red Cap (LIVE SESSION)
The No Frills Band – Rock, Salt & Nails (LIVE SESSION)
Dan Sartain – It Ain’t So Easy To Fall In Love
The No Frills Band – Interview
The Windsors – Hut
Gerry Mitchell (with The No Frills Band) – The Absurd Poem (LIVE SESSION)
The Choo Choo Trains – (All I Ever Think About Is) Rabbits

Hello GoodBye 23 April 2011 [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

With Baaneex and Piper’s Son performing live in session.

Tune in between noon and 1.30pm on 104.4 FM in Central London or on-line via: www.resonancefm.com

Describing themselves as Dracula inspired garage-punk/noise-pop/roar-core, Baaneex are one of those rare bands that pull off avant sounds with a pop nous, with hooks and melodies breaking out from the melee of noise. How will they recreate these wonderful sounds live? Tune in today to hear them in session on Hello GoodBye. New signings to the groovy Oddbox Records, seek out their debut EP, available now.

Piper’s Son play intense, compact songs and combine a lo-fi musical sensibility with visually rich lyrics. No one song comes from a single place. Instead, like a time-lapse photo, these slowly written songs look in many directions at once.

Also as today is International Record Store Day, with a wealth of related events taking place across the capital and indeed the world, we’ve brought in the first records we ever bought to spin for your delight.

Track List:
Baaneex – Jumping Chinese Restaurant (LIVE SESSION)
Baaneex – Wierd Dance (LIVE SESSION)
Baaneex – Coool Count (LIVE SESSION)
Baaneex – Sandwich (LIVE SESSION)
Led Zeppelin – Four Sticks
Baaneex – Interview
Basil Kirchin – Pageing Sullivan
Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou – Spin Me A Rhyme
Ten – Fractured Lines
Men Diamler – Hello Heartache
The Rude Mechanicals – Irritating Fly
No Babies – Tanuki
Siddy Bennett – Waiting For You
No Frills Band – Jess’ Tune
Piper’s Son – Please Do Not Go Backward (LIVE SESSION)
Piper’s Son – Bones (LIVE SESSION)
Piper’s Son – Monkey’s Mouth (LIVE SESSION)
Ghostbusters (Main Title Theme) – Elmer Bernstein
Jungle Book Original Soundtrack – I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

Hello GoodBye Show 16 April 2011 [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

My Elastic Eye and The Count of Chateau Noir both make their debuts on Hello GoodBye this afternoon.

Tune in between noon and 1.30pm on 104.4 FM in Central London or on-line via: www.resonancefm.com

Formed in the early months of two thousand and ten, My Elastic Eye have already managed to capture the eyes and ears of many established artists and press as well as playing for Girl Records, Liverpool Gay Pride 2010, headlining the Camden Barfly for Union City, supporting Geneva Jacuzzi on the London Date of her European Tour, headlining Brave Exhibitions in Berlin and supporting no wave 80’s pioneers BLURT. Their influences come from the likes of Roxy Music, Spor, Futurisk and Cabaret Voltaire. My Elastic Eye have also worked with such highly acclaimed designers as Melissa, Vivienne Westwood, Judy Blame and Marco Mitanovski.

The Count of Chateau Noir took his name from Arthur Conan Doyle’s brutal anti-hero and is fascinated with myths, fairytales, pop songs and speculative physics, he writes, produces and records narrative songs that are in turn vulnerable, vicious and cruel but also blackly comic. Musically and lyrically the Count draws influence from Momus, Faultline Babybird and Tim Ten Yen.

Track List:
Design A Wave – Strange Feeling
My Elastic Eye – Clearing (LIVE SESSION)
My Elastic Eye – Put Out The Flame (LIVE SESSION)
My Elastic Eye – Mining (LIVE SESSION)
My Elastic Eye – Lightning (LIVE SESSION)
Diva – Jazzy Cats
My Elastic Eye – Interview
Art Terry – Miss Dominatrix
Frank Bangay & the Topsy Turvy Band – Something Gone Wrong
Jack Hayter – Au Lion D’Or
Baaneex – Wierd Dance 2
Piper’s Son – Golden Leaves
The Count Of Chateau Noir – The Lure Of The Sea (LIVE SESSION)
The Count Of Chateau Noir – The Battle Is Over (LIVE SESSION)
The Count Of Chateau Noir – The Dead Language (LIVE SESSION)
Keshco – Below The Waves
Yo Zushi – All Gone
The Count Of Chateau Noir – Interview
John Cooper Clark – I Don’t Want To Be Nice

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Live in session on the show this Saturday lunchtime are the original dark-folk progenitors Comus, plus the virtuoso guitar skills of Jack Allett (formerly known as Spoono)

Emerging from David Bowie’s ‘Arts Lab’ in suburban Beckenham (South East London) at the tail end of the ’60s, Comus were the poison-cure to flower-power.

With a mutual appreciation for The Velvet Underground, it is hardly surprising that founding members Roger Wootton & Glenn Goring garnered inspiration from the darker side of life, with murder, rape and madness the preferred subject matter.

Like a musical incarnation of ‘Seahenge‘ the band bore fruit from deep within the underground folk scene, while the roots to their name were found in the upper reaches of Greek mythology and the writing of the 17th century English poet John Milton. Comus’ legacy grows more acute with each passing decade, with Swedish Death-Metal outfit Opeth and British Apocalyptic-Folk group Current 93 heading the roll call of admirers.

Jack Allett is a 26 year old guitarist from Camberwell, South London. As a member of Towering Breaker and under his erstwhile pseudonym, Spoono, he has – over the past 6 years or so – released LPs, 7?s and CDrs on a plethora of labels (inc. Blackest Rainbow, Great Pop Supplement, Chocolate Monk, Psykick Dancehall…) In 2011 he has a solo LP – the first under his real name – planned for release on Blackest Rainbow, and a collaborative LP with Cam Deas to be issued on Present Time Exercises.

Also, journalist / musician Neil Walsh conducts an interview with the author Jeanette Leech about her new book, Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid & Psychedelic Folk (Jawbone Press)

Track List:
Neil Walsh interviews Jeanette Leech, author of ‘Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid & Psychedelic Folk’
Comus – Song To Comus (LIVE SESSION)
Comus – Diana (LIVE SESSION)
Opeth – Circle Of The Tyrant
Comus – Interview
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Fight Dem Back
The Count of Chateau Noir – The Dead Language
My Elastic Eye – Mining Song
Jack Allett – Walworth Road Blues (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Allett – Frozen Music (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Allett – Interview

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