Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, The Polymath

The End of an Epoch and The Begining of The Year of The Fire Horse at The Polymath

Robert Zietara – 2020

In The End of an Epoch and The Begining of The Year of The Fire Horse is my concise overview on The Polymath The Polymath of the end of an epoch meeting the beginning of the Lunar Year of the Fire Horse. A structural reset, from diffusion to direction, from dissolution to ignition. It can be read on The Polymath site.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Amazing Sounds & Other Delights, Radio Show, Raquel Pinheiro, YÊYÊ Radio

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition on YÊ YÊ Radio Monday 16 & 23

Elvis Presley

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition is broadcasted Monday February 16 & 23, 3-4pm (London time) on YÊ YÊ Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Monday February 14 is Carnival Day. Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition combines carnival, fair, fetes, rodeo songs, or songs that mention those things with the circus, the carny, arriving and leaving.

The programme titles comes from Bert Jansch’s When the Circus Comes to Town and Kyuss’ … And The Circus Leaves Town. Interestingly, both albums were released in 1995.

There’s a fair deal of my beloved Elvis, three songs, enough Chico Buarque and Bert Jansch, two songs each.

Bert is essentially the starting point of this show. I’ve only recently found Jackson C. Frank, through the book Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival, and marvelled.

I came up with another of mine apparently implausible to make sense of such diverse type of songs and genres. Feira Popular, Chic, The Magnetic Fields, Kyuss, The Smiths and others keep company to Elvis, Bert, Chico, Jackson C. in a lively, but with sorrow here and there under an upbeat tune, programme.

Also featured is Gary Lucas’ – Live Score for The Chase Scene of Tod Browning’s 1932 film Freaks. And David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes, for Ash Wednesday.

Tracklist:
01: Bert Jansch – When the Circus Comes to Town
02: Jackson C. Frank – (My Name is) Carnival (2021 remaster)
03: David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes
04: Chic – Le Freak
05: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Carny
06: Chico Buarque – Quando o Carnaval Chega
07: Feira Popular – Carrossel feat. Femme Falafel
08: Elvis Presley – It’s Carnival Time
09: Rufus Wainwright – Going To A Town
10: Gary Lucas – Live Score Tod Browning’s Freaks 1932 The Chase Scene
11: Elvis Presley – Take Me to the Fair
12: The Magnetic Fields – Papa Was a Rodeo
13: The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians (2011 Remaster)
14: Bert Jansch – (My Name is) Carnival
15: Chico Buarque – Sonho de um Carnaval
16: Kyuss – El Rodeo
17: Elvis Presley – The Fair’s Moving On

All previous shows on mixcloud: l
YÊ YÊ Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concert Reviews, Concerts

Miles Kane, Hard Club, Porto, 13.02.2026.

Š Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Telma Mota

words: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro)
photos: Telma Mota

I could have begun this article with any of the following titles: The Art of Knowing How to Be on Stage; The Magic of Rock’n’Roll; A British Rocker à la Carte; or The Fever of a Friday the 13th at the End of a Storm. Any one of them would have suited Miles Kane’s concert at the Hard Club in Porto.

But I’ll start by saying that I witnessed one of the finest performances I have had the pleasure to see in recent times, because Miles Kane is utterly captivating on stage. All that mojo spills from every pore of his skin. He wants to be loved and idolised by the audience — and he achieves it with a chameleon-like passport in shades of fine French champagne.

He offers the back of his neck to the crowd at the front, to be stroked like a pampered cat, but always in moderation. Then he erupts with every song, exuding the attitude of a wild, untamed Baudelaire. He smiles, sending sensual sparks with every movement, and his guitar is a lunatic that seems intent on reaching multiple climaxes, so excited is it.

It all began the very moment he set foot on stage, launching into Electric Flower, Rearrange, Trouble Son and Cry on My Guitar, and continued seamlessly, supported by his backing band, who give him the space to shine, until he closed with Come Closer. Naturally.

He thanked the crowd, thanked them again, distributed greetings, autographs, and love to his fans, and withdrew with poise, swagger, and the style of a true artist. And he truly is one.