Good morning with Restless Nights by Izzy and the Black Trees. Have a nice weekend.
The Twist Connection – I Can’t Breathe Now
Hi with I Can’t Breathe Now by The Twist Connection. Have a nice afternoon.
The Young Gods, Hard Club, Porto, 24.10.2025.
words: Neno Costa (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota
Six years on, The Young Gods returned to Porto for a performance that in no way disappointed the legion of devoted followers who filled the Hard Club to capacity.
With Swiss punctuality, the trio -long familiar to Portuguese stages since 1990 – appeared to promote their latest album, Appear Disappear, released in June this year.
“I spend my time in the brain of the monster,” sang Franz Treichler, quoting Che Guevara, on Appear Disappear. Riding the mounting tension woven by the energetic guitar riffs, the vigorous electronics of Cesare Pizzi and the tribal percussion of Bernard Trontin, the concert flowed through the creative storm of their latest work before revisiting TV Sky (1992), creating an intriguing juxtaposition that reaffirmed the unmistakable sonic fingerprint of the Swiss trio.
Undisputed masters of finely orchestrated industrial landscapes, The Young Gods delivered a flawless performance that extended across two encores.
The finale came with Did You Miss Me, from their 1987 debut album, a multifaceted evocation at a time when the band celebrates forty years of existence. The night reaffirmed them as a performative force still capable of surprising and stirring… the teenagers of the ’90s.
Sugar – House of Dead Memories
Good morning with the phenomenal return of Sugar with House of Dead Memories. There is nothing dead in Bob Mould, David Barbe and Malcolm Travis. I’m delighted to see one of mine, and Mondo’s favourite trios back. Have a nice weekend.
Guided By Voices – (You Can’t Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda
Good morning with (You Can’t Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda from Guided By Voices new album Thick, Rich and Delicious. Have a nice weekend.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80- The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud
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
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 76 – The New, Found, Remembered edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 10
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 76 – The New, Found, Remembered edition airs Monday 10, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
The title is self-explanatory. This programme is a mix of new songs, songs I chanced upon from different songs, some new, some not, and songs I remembered.
It’s also another case of one thing leads to another. As a whole the 19 songs from various decades, with emphasis on very recent ones, on Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 76 – The New, Found, Remembered edition form a fresh, engaging, beautiful programme.
A friend posted about Robert Wyatt’s 80th birthday, Epic Soundtracks song Jellybabies with Wyatt singing flashed in mind.
Berkley’s Gram Theft Parsons is one of those songs that tell a story, a narrative style often absent in recent songs. Gram Theft Parsons is the story of the final months of Gram Parsons life, told with no sugar coating.
Crazy Horse are better know as Neil Young backing band. I Don’t Want to Talk About It is from their self titled debut album, released in 1971. I Don’t Want to Talk About It was written by Danny Whitten and would become a hit for Rod Stewart and Everything but the Girl. Ry Cooder plays pedal steel guitar and slide guitar on Crazy Horse’s original that is produced by Jack Nitzsche.
Marlon Williams’ Aua Atu Rā is the first single from Te Whare Tīwekaweka Williams first album in Māori language. OMIRI’s Pé com Pé mixes of Portuguese traditional music and dance music, resulting in an attractive, strange song.
Love No More comes from The Durutti Column 1989 album Vini Reilly, re-released last year on Record Store Day. Durutti Column Vini Reilly re-released is one of my records of 2024.
Rent Boy, a song by Jude Alderson is from the 1986 documentary Andy The Furniture Maker, about Andrew Marshall, part of the documentary series Six of Hearts, directed by Paul Oremland. I learned of the documentary by reading an article on The Guardian. I liked the documentary and loved the song.
Tracklist:
01 – Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt – Orchestra
02 – Alpine Subs – Rely On Me
03 – Attawalpa – Always The Girls
04 – Berkley – Gram Theft Parsons
05 – Born Folk – Seize the Day
06 – Crazy Horse – I Don’t Want to Talk About It
07 – Electric Man – New Wave
08 – Epic Soundtracks feat Robert Wyatt – Jellybabies
09 – Hamish Hawk – Juliet as Epithet
10 – Jude Alderson – Rent Boy
11 – Julian Shah-Tayler – Sufferation
12 – Julien Baker & Torres – Sylvia
13 – Little Barrie & Malcom Catto – Zero Sun
14 – Marlon Williams – Aua Atu Rā
15 – OMIRI – Pé com Pé
16 – The Durutti Column – Love No More
17 – The Gentle Spring – Looking Back At The World
18 – Tunng – Didn’t Know Why
19 – Vanarin – Memories
All previous shows on mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/playlists/amazing-songs-other-delights | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine
Temples, Hard Club, Porto, 14.11.2024.
Lost in translation. Definitely.
words: Paulo Carmona (edited by Raquel Pinheiro); photos Telma Mota
Temples are a band of dreams. The magic feeling is constant throughout the band’s performance. Atmospherically very rich and diverse in the structure of their songs, they take us to rest in meadows that stretch far as the eye can see. An immensity of nostalgia and divine emotions that, in fact, can only be reached in temples of sound in which music is the supreme divinity.
You almost feel a cool breeze on your skin that gives you goose bumps, a constant throughout the concert. In Move With the Seasons I almost levitated, in The Guesser I dreamt and in Fragment’s Light I almost cried. What more could I ask for?
As the songs flowed, bodies moved to the rhythm of the band’s sound, applause was effusive and appropriate for the marvellous setting. The band felt that the audience was with them and James Bagshaw, the band’s singer, ended up saying that this was thee crowd of the tour. I bet it was.
I dare say that Temples are one of the best bands of the last 20 years, for its originality and musical creativity, and that Sun Structures is a masterpiece of musical art.Outside, the city is perfectly suited to what was experienced and witnessed indoors. Perhaps because its the city of temples. I still feel it all very much alive and present in me. Thank you, James, Tom, Adam and Rens. Don’t make us wait another 10 years for your return to Portugal and, in particular, to Porto.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #64 – The Grandeur of Ghosts edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Rádio Yé Yé @ mixcloud
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #64 – The Grandeur of Ghosts edition can now be listened to on mixcloud. It is a good soundtrack for today, 25 de Abril (April 25), is the day my country stopped being a dictatorship 50 years ago. April 25 is also Anzac (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day. The programme includes Portuguese songs connected to 25 de Abril, an instrumental track from Mick Harvey’s Waves of Anzac and other anti war songs, instrumentals and poems from Siegfried Sassoon and Federico Garcia Lorca. You can read more about the programme here: https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2024/04/21/amazing-songs-other-delights-64-the-grandeur-of-ghosts-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-radio-ye-ye-monday-22nd/
Tracklist:
01 – Johnny Mandel – Suicide is Painless (from M.A.S.H.)
02 – Credence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
03 – The Cranberries – Zombie
04 – Golpe de Estado – Rev 25
05 – JP Simões – Mudam-se os Tempos Mudaram-se as Vontades feat. Ruca Rebordão, Nuno Ferreira, Márcio Pinto, Pedro Pinto
(José Mario Branco song)
06 – Mick Harvey – Vietnam
07 – José Afonso – Grândola Vila Morena
08 – Vivian Kubrick – Ruins (Full Metal Jacket soundtrack)
09 – New Order – Love Vigilantes
10 – Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun (live at the Filmore East,1st night, 31.12.1969)
11 – Jacques Brel – La colombe
12 – Siegfried Sassoon – Suicide in the Trenches read by Stephen Graham
13 – Paulo de Carvalho – E Depois do Adeus
14 – The Libertines – Shiver
15 – Federico Garcia Lorca – Balada de la gran guerra by Joan Mora
16 – Amália Rodrigues – Zé Soldado, Soldadinho
17 – R.E.M. – Orange Crush
18- Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding
19 – Tom Waits – Day After Tomorrow
20 – Manic Street Preachers – Suicide is Painless, Theme for M.A.S.H.
The Grandeur of Ghosts by Siegfried Sassoon
When I have heard small talk about great men
I light my two candles; climb to bed; then
Consider what was said; and put aside
What Such-a-one remarked, and Someone-else replied.
They have spoken lightly of my deathless friends,
(Lamps for my gloom, hands guiding where I stumble,)
Quoting, for shallow conversational ends,
What Shelley shrilled, what Blake once wildly muttered…
How can they use such names and be not humble ?
I have sat silent; angry at what they uttered.
The dead bequeathed them life; the dead have said
What these can only memorise and mumble.
All previous shows on mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine
Pop Dell’Arte, Hard Club, Porto, 29.03.2024.
words: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos Hiliana Melo
On stage, more than showbiz, more than show off, give rock’n’roll truth. As it is in its essence. Unpretentious and genuine. That is what Pop Dell’Arte is. That is it, and it is very good.
Sonorously speaking it is complex in construction, structure, form. Bass, drums and guitar played by Zé Pedro Moura, Ricardo Martins and Paulo Monteiro are extremely competent performing the songs as well as on their own, leaving an impression with the daring passion the music flows to our senses. João Peste’s voice is what we were used to over decades. Intense and very charismatic. At times powerful and resounding, at times sarcastic, dragged, and insolent filled of an apparent juvenile innocence. Take note, apparent! Maybe that is why he and his companions can make Pop Dell’Arte’s music seem so fresh. Each concert is a celebration. An hymn to the band’s aesthetic conscience and its survival along its life spam.
This concert didn’t deviate from it, and that is good. It started with Star Wars and Em Creta, through Avanti Marinaio, Planet Lakroon, Panoptical Architecture for Empty Streets in a Silent City, Wil’n’Chic, Be Bop and Sonhos Pop, and, towards the end Freaky Dance and My Funny Ana Lana. A great celebration, no doubt.Is it me or this more thrilling, frantic, alternative as well as pop side of rock as its strongest expression in a time references were few, but, indisputably, remarkable.
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