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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II by Raquel Pinheiro

Marianne Faithfully & Warren Ellis © Rosie Matheson

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on edition #100 – The Poetry edition II is broadcasted Monday 05 & 12 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

I love poetry. Two recent birthday projects/presents by The Mild Ones. one for Brett Anderson’s birthday, the other for Richard Oakes’ birthday have me reading poetry. On the second instance The House Martin purpose written haiku by me for Richard.

There have been poems of mine put to music by among others, Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem/The June Carriers/Velho Homem) and João Diogo Zagalo (Silver & Scout, Vox Mambo, Dead Violets, The Lone Ranger) and my Poem #80 turned into the song Lucid One by Francisco Silva.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II has my own poetry sang by others, said/read my me, changed into a song

The Latin word for poem is carmen, hence Bizet’s Carmen in the voice of Maria Callas.

William Blake serves the lyrics of The Doors’ End of the Night, is named in The The’s Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake, and the inspiration subject of Patti Smith’s My Blakean Year.

Lorca comes in Leonard Cohen’s adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés, Take This Waltz. One of my favourite poems T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is on
Sibylle Baier’s Says Elliott.

Eminem’s Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido, and Rowland S Howard’s Autoluminescent gives another dimension of poetry and sounds.

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau singing Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree) from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Winter Journey) a dark folk song by Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche, takes us back to the classical world.

Johnny Marr’s All in a Life from his new album The Age of Everything mixes dark, sharp, mystical, upbeat, with soaring haunting backing vocals by Meredith Sheldon. Both Johnny and Meredith have a song each on Amazing Songs Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition.https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2026/09/19/amazing-songs-other-delights-99-the-luminous-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-on-ye-ye-radio-monday-21-28-september/

The House Martin, and haiku for Richard Oakes by Raquel Pinheiro

In the cliff and the cave
The House Martin nested
Then, to the city it moved to

Tracklist:
01: Raquel Pinheiro – Autopsicografia (Fernando Pessoa)
02: Maria Callas – Carmen live (from Bizet’s Carmen)
03: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – Ozymandias (an adaptation of Shelley’s poem)
04: The Doors – End of the Night (lyrics from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence)
05: Suede – Heroine (Byron’s She Walks in Beauty 1st lines)
06: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
07: Eminem – Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido
08: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43
09: The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake
10: Patti Smith – My Blakean Year
11: Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (an adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés)
12: Rowland S Howard – Autoluminescent
13: João Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51
14: Sibylle Baier – Says Elliott (lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock)
15: Dietrich Fischer Dieskau sings Der Lindenbaum from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche)
16: Johnny Marr – All in a Life
17: Raquel Pinheiro – The House Martin, an haiku for Richard Oakes

You can read about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #05 The Poetry edition
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/23/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition/ and listen to it here:
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/28/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-ye-ye-radios-mixcloud/

All previous shows on mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concert Reviews, Concerts

MAQUINA – CCOP, Porto, 02.10.2026.

© Ricardo Silva/Mondo Bizarre Magazine

Distortion, Mosh, and the Macarena: The night MÁQUINA. made Porto shake again

words: Joana Coelho
photos: Ricardo Silva

At 10:05pm, with a packed room and a palpable sense of anticipation, MAQUINA. took the stage for a long-awaited return to the Invicta city. Opening hostilities without warning or apology: a raw scream, a wall of distortion, and the immediate launch of a relentless sonic locomotive.

This tour serves as the live crucible for their latest record BODY TRANSMISSION: a devastating fusion where abrasive noise rock, and industrial techno collision-course into heavy, danceable catharsis. By the third song, the venue had already reached its boiling point. Crowdsurfers took over, frenetic dancing spread, and the trio’s signature raw energy turned the space into a non-stop celebration from start to finish. Between continuous dance and a jumping mosh pit, the floor was literally shaking under our feet.

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Alongside the hypnotic trance and industrial weight of the new tracks, there was also room for the band’s disarming charisma. Roughly halfway through the set, riding a wave of rhythmic clapping from the crowd, the drummer/vocalist busted out the Macarena moves: because anyone bold enough to drop the Macarena dance earns my absolute respect.

They closed the set with their usual finale, culminating in a collective mosh pit with the entire room jumping in a final burst of catharsis.

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Once the show ended, the band once again showed their usual warmth toward fans, welcoming everyone warmly for hugs, photos, and quick chats. After a small pilgrimage to find a pen that would actually write on the album cover, I managed to get my copy of their new vinyl signed by the trio.

Having followed MAQUINA. since the very first concert I caught back in 2023, the level they’ve reached on this album cycle is undeniable. The new material translates into one of the finest live performances I’ve ever seen them deliver: a band at the top of their game, fully committed, and completely tireless on stage. Always an absolute pleasure to watch this trio in action once again.

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Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Listening Room HQ

Coming Back To The Foundations of The Listening Room HQ

Harold Knight – The Reader c1910

Coming Back To The Foundations of The Listening Room HQ my new post on The Listening Room HQ, my men’s practice – and The Polymath sister site – is a return to its fundamentals. Stabilize and Deepen, in a somatic practice of attention rooted in neuroscience, intuition and lived experience that offers with Sessions for Men, and Maps & Readings for everyone. Coming Back To The Foundationnnn

ns of The Listening Room HQ can be read on the Listening Room HQ site.

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Why Sessions at The Listening Room HQ Matter

Flora Bowley – I Will Stand By You

Why Sessions at The Listening Room HQ Matter. Reading can open a door, but insight needs a place to live. The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice – sessions offer men a rare space to speak freely and discover clarity through deep, attentive listening. You can book a session at: https://www.thelisteningroomhq.com/p/sessions.html

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Europe Is Our Playground – a Birthday project/present for Mat Osman of Suede

Melissa Waterfield, one of The Mild Ones moderators arranged another birthday/project/present for The Mild Ones. This time for Suede wonderful bassist Mat Osman.

We both picked Europe Is Our Playground for the project. Both in it’s full instrumental version – Melissa – and just the baseline – me.

From Ohio to Portugal the World is Our Playground. 🙂

Here’s what Melissa wrote on the Mild Ones Facebook :

“🎶Happy Birthday Mat🥳🎂🎶

Europe Is Our Playground…….

“One of the most beautiful Suede songs written by our favorite birthday bassist inspired Raquel Pinheiro and I to collaborate on this celebration video for his special day.
Raquel combined her amazing photos of Porto with Mat’s bass line while I used photos from my European adventures to see Suede💙
So grateful to Mat and Suede for motivating me to travel more and to go from 🎶Heathrow to Hounslow🎶😉 Wishing Mat a birthday as wonderful as he is!!!!”

Europe Is Our Playground project/birthday project team:
video front and end photo: Mat Osman © Devin Baty
photos of Europe as a playground to see Suede, full video assemblage: Melissa Waterfield
photos of Porto, Mat’s favourite city, stems and instrumental isolation: Raquel Pinheiro

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Records, Reviews

Johnny Marr – The Age of Everything

by Raquel Pinheiro

The Age of Everything, Johnny Marr’s fifth solo studio album came out a week ago.

It’s the first album in a very long time I felt like writing about. Even more surprising, because it’s the first of Johnny’s solo albums I fully click and resonate with.

I danced to it from beginning to end. Sang along to it. Picked up the guitar and strummed something out of pure joy. Played air drums again.

The Age of Everything made me to want to write pop, catchy songs and have a band again.

I like everything on the album. The  music, the voice, the production, the mix, the lyrics, the backing vocals – they are absolutely stunning – the cover, the fact that if not all, many or most of the guitars Johnny plays were gone on his Christie’s auction held September 17.

I like that as Johnny put it “Sharp, fast and dynamic, filled with ideas and possibilities.” Particularly the full of possibilities part.

The songs on The Age Of Everything were written in London – you can feel the city bursting through them – developed on the road on tour on the East Coast of North America – there’s a certain East Coast flavour too – and recorded in Manchester at Crazy Face Factory – Johnny’s custom build studio and creative space.

The Age Of Everything is a fresh, danceable, guitar driven with great drums and bass, elegant,  pop album with a big sound. Not exactly a wall of sound, more of an expansive fell-good vibe of sound.

There are very audible guitar nudges and lines to Johnny’s trademark guitar playing in The Smiths. Particularly in It’s Time, Ophelia, In And Out of Love,  But they are layered with other guitars, and instruments transforming them into their own thing.

My favourite song from the album is the final one, All in a Life.

I deliberately wanted my words about The Age of Everything to be published after the official release. I wanted to let it wrap me, feel it, absorb it. Give it time. The Age of Everything is not an album for a day, or week, or a month. I suspect it’s an album I will be returning to often.

Which fits the idea behind the album, that in the age of everything is immediately available. Which can be overwhelming, and asking for an immediate response. There’s endless benefits of technology, but there’s also value in taking our time.

The Age of Everything
Tracklist:
1. Spin
2. Beyond the Rain
3. It’s Time
4. How Come
5. Ophelia
6. That Feeling
7. In and Out of Love
8. Just Once More
9. Fire with Fire
10. All in a Life

Personnel:
Johnny Marr: vocals, guitars, songwriting, production
James Doviak,: guitar, keyboards, co-writing, production
Iwan Gronow: bass
Jack Mitchell: drums
Meredith Sheldon: backing vocals
Nile Marr: backing vocals
Claudius Mittendorfer: mix
Frank Arkwright: mastering

Recorded at Crazy Face Factory, Manchester; and Mastered at Abbey Road Studios, London.

The Age of Everything is released by
New Voodoo Limited/BMG