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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #83 – The 4th anniversary edition by Raquel & The Astro Travellers @ Yé Yé radio , Monday 14th

Maren Devine – Flower Cake

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights turned. The 4th anniversary edition airs Monday 14th, 3-4:10pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

This year, the anniversary programme is a little different than usual. Trials and tribulations didn’t allow for the several costumary purpose composed pieces, aside from mine and Francisco Silva’s Lucid One. The lyrics of Lucid One have my poem 80 as starting point, adapted to song by Francisco’s chatgpt, then, on a second round of singing the song, by him. It was a very interesting creative experience.

My Loss and December: Death, Sérgio Rocha’s Seclusões (excerpt), digei de bairro’s MG B GT (pre-master), Ned Swarbrick’s Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1), João Diogo Zagalo’ Lotar n.º 4 and Boxmonsters’ Holligans and Car Crash fall under that umbrella.

I picked two songs composed on purpose for previous anniversary editions. Mine and Francisco’s When Joe Came By, from the 1st anniversary edition, and Sweet Peace, by Bill Rivers and I, from last year’s anniversary show, here on Oh Bobby (Bill Rivers & Simon Wayward) version, from their album Swim The Universe.

There’s the usual assortment of songs, another round of surprises, picked for me by a few friends.

Because the songs represent me, because I may like them… Because…

Manuel Carvalho picked The Pixies’ Hey; António Cunha Suki Waterhouse’s Supersad, Paulo Navarro caroline’sTell Me I Never New That (feat. Caroline Polachek), Matt Hutchison Lyn Collins’ Think (About It) and Rui Pimenta Why Don’t You Stay by American Music Club.

As for both Francisco’s instrumental acoustic version of The Asphalt World and my soft instrumental electric stripped down version of The Asphalt World. Francisco thought it a odd choice for me to plays as far as Suede’s covers go, and sent me an impromptu short version of it.

At 0:55 it’s most likely the world’s shortest version of The Asphalt World. Mine runs past 10 minutes. It’s a one go, raw, unfiltered, no effects, aside from a little vibrato arm, and my micro jack amp distortion, no solos, also impromptu, played on a kitchen bench, purely for the joy of it version. Most of what seems effects, it’s my fretting fingers.

Lucid One lyrics
Sleepless nights, stuck in motion
Elevators fade, no clear emotion
Crex crex crex — the artach calls
Lucid tiles in echo halls

The megaphone speaks, louder than books
Slogans win where no one looks
Moral weight too hard to lift
We float inside this aimless drift

The empire of futility
Masqueraded as ability
Symbols fail, the noise gets loud
We vanish slowly in the crowd

Resperidone, the new tea brew

Quiet minds in static view
Fork in the road, by the sea we stand
Bathymetry traced in soul and sand

Invisible paths, the labyrinth sings
We mistook noise for gravity’s rings
You want the house still, free of harm
But the woman bangs the pots — her charm

The empire of futility
Attired in nobility
Mirrors turn, the spiral grows
Stagnant waters, no one knows
(Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro)

Poem #80
poem 80
sleepless nights,
stuck
perpetual movement
fading through the elevator
crex crex crex crex makes the artach
hearth and home
lucid tiles echoing
the megaphone is easier than read serious books
slogans are easier than moral inventory.
the empire of futility
disguised as art, intellectualism
the sound mirrors, a spiral
a stagnant pool of nothingness
resperidone, the new chamomile
there’s a road with a fork
for you and me by the sea
bathymetry of the soul
invisible pathways
labyrinth, the song
mistaken noise for gravity
symbols for substance
brought us here
you want the house quiet
but a woman bangs the pots
monks don’t worry about money
terror dreams, rage
somatic overload
the lucid one in a house of somnambulists
fog can’t be fought, what it erases
is watched
don’t go back to sleep
the messiness of desire
recycle, renewal, redemption
like a benediction
all the plants are watered
(Raquel Pinheiro)

Tracklist:
01: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – When Joe Came By
02: Raquel Pinheiro – Loss
03: Pixies – Hey (Manuel Carvalho)
04: Sérgio Rocha – Seclusões (excerpt)
05: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
06: digei de bairro – MG B GT (pre-master)
07: Suki Waterhouse – Supersad (António Cunha)
08: Boxmonsters – Holligans
09: Francisco Silva – The Asphalt World (acoustic excerpt)
10: Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Raquel Pinheiro)
11: caroline – Tell Me I Never New That feat. Caroline Polachek (Paulo Navarro)
12: Raquel Pinheiro – The Asphalt World
13: Oh Bobby – Sweet Peace – (*)
14: Lyn Collins – Think (About It) (Matt Hutchison)
15: Ned Swarbrick – Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1)
16: João Diogo Zagalo – Lotar n.º 4
17: Boxmonsters – Car Crash
18: Raquel Pinheiro – December: Death
19: American Music Club – Why Don’t You Stay (Rui Pimenta)

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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 #80- The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

The Shirelles

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80 – The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition is now on available to listen to on mixcloud.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs every other Monday, 3-4pm (gmt+1), on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80 – The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition features 17 of my favourite songs, including my favourite song, Will Your Me Tomorrow sang by The Shirelles, and three songs I would have love to have written, Sometimes I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake, A Lady of a Certain Age by The Divine Comedy, and Canção de Amigo by Um Zero Amarelo. Of course I would have loved to have written all the other songs. 🙂 You can read about the songs and my choices here.

Tracklist:
01: Julie Andrews – My Favourite Things
02: The Shirelles – Will Your Me Tomorrow
03: The The – Sometimes I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake
04: The Ramones – Baby I Love You
05: The Devine Comedy – A Lady of a Certain Age
06: Josh Rouse – James
07: The Rolling Stones – Under My Thumb
08: Um Zero Amarelo – Canção de Amigo
09 Elvis Presley – (Marie’s The Name) of His Latest test Flame
10: The Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)
11: Mick Harvey – October Boy
12: Mark Lanegan – Don’t Forget Me
13: Ben Watt – North Marine Drive
14: Tiwiza – At u Azeka
15: Erica Buettner – True Love and Water
16: Butler-Blake-Grant – Bring An End
17: Queens of the Stone Age – Mosquito Song

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Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concert Reviews, Concerts

Tinariwen, Casa da Música, Porto, 25.05.2025.

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words: Raquel Pinheiro; photos: Marcos Leal

Malian band Tinariwen arrived to Porto after the release of the compilation album Idrache (Traces of the Past).

Tinariwen means desert people, or people of the desert, Tamasheq. The band born in the borders of Argel and Mali in 1979, brought their assuf (longing, or longing for home), that we know as desert blues, to Porto.And what a concert it was.

Starting slow with Azawad, soon there was dancing and clapping from the stage, incentivinzing the audience to follow.

However, even if people were rocking on their seats, it would took an hour and twenty minutes for the room to stand up and dance.

By the encore, during Afric Temdam, Sastanaqam and Chaghaybou the front of the stage was filled with dancing people.On the other hand, the clapping and diverse vocals sounds from the audience to the stage stayed a staple during the performance.

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The way the band uses guitars, divided between acoustic and electric, at times for electric guitars, on stage, in conjunction with the electric bass and traditional percussion is extraordinary. No instrument submerges another.

Tinariwen music is sublime. Transcendent. The songs are sang in Tamasheq, their feelings, the emotions, the soul fulfillment, universal.

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80- The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro, Monday 2nd @ Yé Yé radio

The Shirelles

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80 – The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition airs Monday 2nd, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

This edition has a self explanatory title. Some of my favourite songs, from different time periods, in one radio show. I have many more favourite songs, and could fill 24 hours, or more with them. But, here, there are 17, including my favourite song, Will Your Me Tomorrow, sang by The Shirelles.

Will You Love Me Tomorrow is also known as Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, title that, to me, gives a better view of the longing, fear, expressed by the lyrics. It was written by Carole King, and her by then husband and co-songwriter, Gerry Goffin and first recorded by The Shirelles in 1960.

Sometimes I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake is, if not thee song,is a song I would like to have written. It’s brilliant. I would love to have written A Lady of a Certain Age by The Devine Comedy, and Canção de Amigo by Um Zero Amarelo. And all the other choises, of course.

Baby, I Love You was originally performed by The Ronettes in 1963. It was written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector, produced by Spector. Phil Spector produced The Ramones’ End of the Century, released in 1980, in which the band cover of Baby, I Love You appears.

North Marine Drive, Ben Watt’s debut album from 1983, is one of my all time favourite records. I could have picked any of the album songs. I went with the title track.

Aftermath ranks top on my favourite Rolling Stones albums, and Under My Thumb is without a doubt my Stones favourite song.

On the department of favourite albums, there is also Queens of the Stone Age’s Songs For the Deaf. Mosquito Song is the hidden song on the cd version of the album. And eerie, gentle, yet macabre, acoustic song, sang by Josh Homme, with Dean Ween, of Ween, on acoustic guitar, that grows in crescendo and ends with a bang.

Tracklist:
01: Julie Andrews – My Favourite Things
02: The Shirelles – Will Your Me Tomorrow
03: The The – Sometimes I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake
04: The Ramones – Baby I Love You
05: The Devine Comedy – A Lady of a Certain Age
06: Josh Rouse – James
07: The Rolling Stones – Under My Thumb
08: Um Zero Amarelo – Canção de Amigo
09 Elvis Presley – (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame
10: The Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)
11: Mick Harvey – October Boy
12: Mark Lanegan – Don’t Forget Me
13: Ben Watt – North Marine Drive
14: Tiwiza – At u Azeka
15: Erica Buettner – True Love and Water
16: Butler-Blake-Grant – Bring An End
17: Queens of the Stone Age – Mosquito Song

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #79 – The of Roots and Happy Sounds edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #79 – The of Roots and Happy Sounds edition is now on mixcloud.

You can read about the show here.

Tracklist:
01: Rodrigo Leão – O Rapaz da Montanha
02: Alex Fernet – The Nightdrive
03: Brian Bilston and the Catenary Wires – Every Song On The Radio Reminds Me Of You
04: Jeanines – What’s Lost
05: City Mall – Sapphire
06: Laufey – Tough Luck
07: Lightheaded – Same Drop
08: Miguel Mouta – Café feat Lika
09: Tinariwen (+IO:I) – Sastanàqqàm
10: noiserv – 20 . 05 . A self-conversation is too loud for an empty room
11: Real Estate – Pink Sky
12: Retimbrar – Só Ouve o Brado da Terra (by José Afonso)
13: Robert Forster – Strawberries
14: Roland Decembre – Fais-moi tout oublie
15: Tamara Qaddoumi – River In The Darkness
16: The Bug Club – Appropriate Emotions
17: Dirty Projectors – Through the Long and Lonely Night
18: Victor Torpedo & The Pop Kids – Friends

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #79 – The of Roots and Happy Sounds edition by Raquel Pinheiro – Monday 19th @ Yé Yé Radio

Tinariwen

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 79 – The of Roots and Happy Sounds edition airs Monday 19th, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

There are 18 songs raging from roots based ones – Rodrigo Leão, Miguel Mouta, Tinariwen, Retimbrar – to gentle, happy pop – Brian Bilston and the Catenary Wires, Lightheaded, Robert Forster and others – along with some dancefloor shades, Alex Fernet, and a dash or rock-‘n’-roll, Victor Torpedo & The Pop Kids.

It’s my usual “at first glance, it doesn’t seem to make sense, but it does” mix. 🙂 It’s a happy, vibrant show, with a wide diversity of geographies and sounds. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Tracklist:
01: Rodrigo Leão – O Rapaz da Montanha
02: Alex Fernet – The Nightdrive
03: Brian Bilston and the Catenary Wires – Every Song On The Radio Reminds Me Of You
04: Jeanines – What’s Lost
05: City Mall – Sapphire
06: Laufey – Tough Luck
07: Lightheaded – Same Drop
08: Miguel Mouta – Café feat Lika
09: Tinariwen (+IO:I) – Sastanàqqàm
10: noiserv – 20 . 05 . A self-conversation is too loud for an empty room
11: Real Estate – Pink Sky
12: Retimbrar – Só Ouve o Brado da Terra (by José Afonso)
13: Robert Forster – Strawberries
14: Roland Decembre – Fais-moi tout oublie
15: Tamara Qaddoumi – River In The Darkness
16: The Bug Club – Appropriate Emotions
17: The Dirty Projectors – Through the  Long and Lonely Night
18: Victor Torpedo & The Pop Kids – Friends

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Amazing Songs and Other Delights #5 – The Poetry edition’s by Raquel Pinheiro – repeat @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 21st

Phil Ochs

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #5 – The Poetry edition repeats tomorrow, Monday 21st, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

You can read about the show here.

Tracklist:
01 – Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis – Ode to a Nightingale (Keats poem)
02 – Suede – Heroine (Byron She Walks in beauty 1st lines)
03 – The Cranberries – Yeats Grave
04 – Amália Rodrigues – Barco Negro (David Mourão-Ferreira poem)
05 – Secos Molhados – Não não digas nada (Fernando Pessoa poem)
06 – Annie Lennox – Live With Me And Be My Love (Christopher Marlowe poem)
07 – The Waterboys – Stolen Child (Yeats poem)
08 – Bob Dylan – On the Road Again (Bob Dylan poem)
09 – Radio Bukowski – The Genius of The Crowd (Charles Bukowski poem)
10 – Carla Bruni – If You Were Coming In The Fall (Emily Dickinson poem)
11 – Rufus Wainwright – When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29th)
12 – Fagner – Fanatismo (Florbela Espanca poem)
13 – Ralph Schuckett and Richard Butler – Alabama song (Bertolt Brecht poem, Kurt Weill music)
14 – Patti Smith – Changing of the Guards (Bob Dylan cover and poem)
15 – Phil Ochs – The Bell (Edgar Allan Poe poem)
16 – Quilapayun – Complainte de Pablo Neruda
17 – The Smiths – Cemetery Gates (Keats, Yeats, Wilde came to play)

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 78 – The Debuts & More edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

The Ophelias

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 78 – The Debuts & More edition The Debuts & More edition.is now available for listening on mixcloud. Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs every other Monday on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

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Tracklist:
01: Agrupamento Musical Os Tais – Liga Pra Mim
02: Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles – Stranger
03: Beirut -Guericke’s Unicorn
04: Bill Fox – Terminal Way
05: Butler, Blake & Grant – The 90s
06: Calvin Harris – Smoke The Pain Away
07: Courting – After You
08: Flávio Torres – Vamos
09: Màiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts – The Bonny House of Airlie
10: Mark Fry – Not On The Radar
11: Mister Romantic – Dream
12: Model/Actriz – Doves
13: Oh Bobby – Sweet Peace
14: Reb Fountain – He Commands You To Jump Into The Sea
15: Sex Beat – This Machine Kills No One
16: The Hard Quartet – Lies (Something You Can Do)
17: The Ophelias – Salome
18 Tunde Adebimpe – God Knows
19: Trey Calloway – The Ballad of Righteous and Wrong

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Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concert Reviews, Concerts

The Legendary Tigerman, Casa da Música, 01.04.2025

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words: Paulo Carmona (edited by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Marcos Leal

A gentleman is always a gentleman, and rock’n’roll is no exception.The Legendary Tigerman, Paulo Furtado’s pseudonym, is a well of talent. He is a performance artist par excellence and has the ability to surpass himself. We see it again and again, but we always expect something magical to happen. And it did!

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An almost sold out Sala Suggia, dressed up to welcome the hottest rocker Portugal and his much-cherished women from Femina, on the 15th anniversary of the iconic album. A memorable evening that moved me to the limits of the most insolent glamour of my youth. This wonderful ability of rock’n’roll never ceases to seduce and amaze.

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Phoebe Killdeer, Maria de Medeiros, Rita Red Shoes, Claudia Efe and her partner – Sara Badalo – brought the intended charm and sensuality only within the reach of the Ladies of rock.Helena Coelho, who will be the mother of Paulo’s child in a few months, was also called to the stage to perform Summertime, alongside Ray.

The songs of Femina were played in full with an enviable technical rigor, with adjustments here and there. There was still room left for songs such as Keep it Burning, New Love and Ghost Rider, from the album Zeitgeist (2023).

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April Fools’ Day was rammed by the truth of rock’n’roll, which continues to be the fountain of youth for many like Paulo Furtado.The bar was risen again. This year is promising!

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