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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:
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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

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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

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition by Raquel Pinheiro on Yé Yé Radio Monday 21 & 28 September

Johnny Marr photo © Andrew Cotterill

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition edition is broadcasted Monday 21 and 28 September, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

After a pause and repeat shows I’m back to new editions.

As soon as I became aware Johnny Marr was having an auction of his guitars, amps, and memorabilia at Christie’s 17 September I knew how the snow begun. Spin is taken from Johnny’s upcoming album The Age of Everything.

The last song, Bernard Butler singing The Irish Goodbye – one of his new songs live from the Irish Embassy in London for RTE (the Iris national broadcaster) 100th anniversary – was also decided.

The other songs, aside from Lucinda Williams version of The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps that I have played before – appeared from different sources and fitted the programme flow and imaginary.

There’s a second Johnny Marr presence. He plays the guitars on Meredith Sheldon’s Once We Were Dust album which I found through his Instagram.

The guitars, or most of them, Johnny plays on Spin and Diamonds Like are no longer his, have changed hands at the auction.

The songs vary in gente, in age, in being from lost albums, or just released. Together they form a diverse tapestry I like.

Tracklist:
01: Johnny Marr – Spin
02: Velcro Dog – The Gonzo Futurist Manifesto
03: The Pineapple Thief – God Knows
04: Susanna Hoffs – Casablanca
05: Bikini Body – Leipzig (ft. Ben Katzman)
06: Meredith Sheldon – Diamonds Like
07: Soft Science – Spinning
08: Cesária Evora – Sonsente
09: Filipe Karlsson – Rota
10: The Go – Secular Century Man
11: Lucinda Williams – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
12: Garcia – Quando Não Estás
13: Railcard – Flannelette
14: Yoko Ono – Never Say Goodbye (2026 Remaster)
15: Ex_Re – Radio Station
16: Prince – I Am You
17: Bernard Butler – The Irish Goodbye (live at RTE 100)

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #82 – The It’s Summer edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is now available on mixcloud.

It’s a beautiful, fresh, Summer radio programme. You can read about it here.

Tracklist:
01: Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr
02: Cass McCombs – Peace
03: Robert Robertson – Broken Arrow
04: Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
05: Pressyes – The Sunlighttt
06: The Durutti Collumn – Sketch For A Summer
07: Jeanines – Coaxed A Storm
08: AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia)
09: Panda Bear – Virginia Tech
10: The Go-Betweens – Two Heads
11: Laufey – Lover Girl
12: The Rebels – California Dreamin’
13: Weezer – Island In The Sun
14: Lightheaded – The Garden
15: James Yorkston – Love Luck (feat. Johanna Söderberg)
16 – Forth Wanderers – Bluff
17: Swansea Sound – Pacior’Fan
18: Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna
19 – April March – Laisse Tomber Les Filles

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #82 – The It’s Summer edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 30th

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Strolling along the Seashore (1909)

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #82 – The It’s Summer edition airs Monday 30th, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: till yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

As the name says, it’s summer. Therefore, let’s celebrate it. Nearly all the songs, from Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr to Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna have just been released or are recent.

There are two indie oldies, The Durutti Collumn’s Sketch For A Summer and The Go-Betweens’ Two Heads. As tends to be the case with my shows, indie and mainstream go hand in hand, although here there are several pop breezy indie alternative songs. But Harry Styles and Laufey pair with Jeanines or April March. There’s an acoustic guitar instrumental, AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia), and the customary Mamas & the Papas classic California Dreamin’, here in covered by The Rebels.

Tracklist:
01: Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr
02: Cass McCombs – Peace
03: Robert Robertson – Broken Arrow
04: Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
05: Pressyes – The Sunlighttt
06: The Durutti Collumn – Sketch For A Summer
07: Jeanines – Coaxed A Storm
08: AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia)
09: Panda Bear – Virginia Tech
10: The Go-Betweens – Two Heads
11: Laufey – Lover Girl
12: The Rebels – California Dreamin’
13: Weezer – Island In The Sun
14: Lightheaded – The Garden
15: James Yorkston – Love Luck (feat. Johanna Söderberg)
16 – Forth Wanderers – Bluff
17: Swansea Sound – Pacior’Fan
18: Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna
19 – April March – Laisse Tomber Les Filles

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #72 – The Ecosystem edition @ mixcloud

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #72 – The Ecosystem edition is now on mixcloud.

Of late, I’ve been coming upon the word ecosystem from different sources. Or happen upon lyrics, or otherwise that mention the concept that we’re all one, we’re connected, that we depend on each other.

That concept is part of Body Count’s
Comfortably Numb version of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb the song that opens this edition. Ice-T writes and says:
“Listen… ’cause I’ve been on both sides of the gun
As you stand before me we’re all here as one
We gotta come together or our chances are none
Maybe I’m just a dreamer, too many obstacles” (full lyrics here)

An ecosystem implies environment and those in it interacting, forging connections, relationships, one thing leading to another. That is how both Mondo and Yé Yé came to be. The longer text about My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #72 – The Ecosystem edition can be read here.

Tracklist:
01: Body Count – Comfortably Numb (feat. David Gilmour)
02: Raveloe – Passing Place
03: 12 Roads – Waiting For JB
04: Rowland S. Howard – Shut Me Down
05: Ned Swarbrick – Somebody, Something, Somewhere Else (live York City FC)
06: Mick Harvey – October Boy
07: Johnny Marr – New Town Velocity
08: The Birthday Party – The Friend Catcher
09: Saint Sappho – Grass is Gold
10: Oh Bobby (Bill Rivers and Simon Hayward) – Are You Still There
11: Sorry Monks – One Rule For Them
12: Paradise Lost – The Last Time
13: Harry Howard And The NDE – Sensitive To The Cold
14: Mark Robin White & Adam Lato – Rabbit Hole (Tranquility mix)
15: The Courettes – Shake!
16: A Resistência – Maré Alta

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