Extended hours at Coop Radio

Did a long haul show last night today on Coop Radio.

Here's the complete set list,

A salty salute - Guided By Voices
Evil speakers - Guides By Voices
Watch me jumpstart - Guided By Voices
They're not witches - Guides By Voices
America the beautiful - Neil Young
Open up your heart - The Rapture
Jackie - Sinead O'Connor
Love - The Smashing Pumpkins
Bones - Murder Ford Monument
Sweet tooth - The Stance
Baby What you want me to do - Neil Young with Crazy Horse
Jenny jitters - The Stance
Haircut economics - Hot Hot Heat
Modern lovin - Pine Tarts
How the west was lost - Old World Vulture
Faulty times - Black Mountain
Beware of bees - Twin Library
Morning drift - Efterklang
Reach out your hands - Friends Electric
Are you mine - The Robots
I believe - R.E.M.
Lord of overstock - Guided By Voices
Your name is wild - Guides By Voices
My best plaid - The City streets
Lies lies lies - Elephant Stone
Yesterday's gurl - Elephant Stone
Anxious - Cousins
Baby learns to crawl - Paul Westerberg
16 shells from a thirty-ought six - Tom Waits

I've been waiting for tomorrow (all of my life) - The The
Ailene - Broken Records
Eumenides - Esben & The Witch
She's so loose - Supergrass
Always where I need to be - The Kooks
White riot - The Clash
London calling - The Clash
London's burning - The Clash
Transmission - Joy Division
Journal for plague lovers - Manic Street Preachers
The sinking feeling - The The
England - PJ Harvey
Warpath - Esben & The Witch
Lotus flower - Radiohead
Hand me down your love - Hot Chip
Make you laugh - We Are Enfant Terrible
Faults - Seefeel
Zaffa Hindi - Mahmoud Fadl
Crystallised - The XX
Dead guitars - Seefeel

Now read this!

Just had a funny thought. Perhaps cos I'm watching Doctor Who and marveling at time travel but where are the readers of this blog. Yeah where are you reading this blog from?

So here's my message in a bottle. I'm getting lots of hits from the United States but where in the U.S. Also are all you Danish readers reading just cos of Esben?

Cheers mateys!

set list Six Fifty Seven To St John's 7 may 2011

an audio file coming soon on radioisradio.wordpress.com

set list

Lies lies lies - Elephant Stone
Are you mined - The Robots
Someday I won't - The Murder Plans
Happy new year - We Are The City
That's it that's all - We Are The City
Places to stay - Friends Electric
Maybe I wanted phantoms - Twin Library
Colours - Young Liars
The winter hive - Twin Library
Prey for rain - Pete Tremblay & The Boozy Truth
Party party party - Pete Tremblay & The Boozy Truth
Ain't Mama - Scott Dunbar
Nightmares - Isobel Trigger
Public square - Mutatis Mutandis
Rut & nuzzle - Snowblink
Make art - The Paperbacks
Regrettable tattoos - The Paperbacks
The common bird - Jess Hill
Bull dog - Sheena Grobb
OMG - The Streets
Immigration officer - Dubin Hood
90s kids - Oh No! Yoko
A minefield - The Murder Plans
Crazy people on the internet - Laurie Biagini
Loyal man - Yukon Blonde
Dance 'til the end of time - Steven McKay
She rises - Maria In The Shower

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain.

Vancouverites will be both cursing and delighting in our plentiful rain this May. It is both amazing and devastating. It's like nature is demonstrating the energy which makes this province and in the particular the Lower Mainland so verdant.

At the same time it is devastating for the poor people and I mean poor both in the pecuniary sense of the word and also for being the unfortunate ones. It could be so very different. The homeless of Vancouver could be sleeping in shelters by night and leaving their possessions secure by day.
Rider Cooey talking on Vancouver Coop Radio today said that some 200 people lost a roof over their heads at the end of April.
In Scotland there's a saying "Dinnae cast your cloak until May is oot." How apt for the weather Vancouver is experiencing right now.

The city chose to cut funding and close the shelters resulting in an immediate climb in the number of homeless. Both housing advocates and activists will agree that that number is likely to be less than 200 due to the fact that some have moved into Single Room Occupancy hotels. For others this is not an option due to addiction risks.

You don't have to look very hard to see the folks who could be benefiting from a place at the HEAT shelters were they still open. This is a city with wealth. It can be seen in the downtown bars and expensive cars. Then there's the new housing developments in the DTES. The occupants of Woodwards living a life of luxury cheek by jowl with men and women sleeping in doorways.

At Vancouver Public Library on Georgia - a ten minute walk from the DTES the homeless congregate to escape the rain. One homeless man wears shoes so worn down that only his toes and instep are covered from the elements. His heels hit the ground. His baggy trousers are soaked and his "street feet" *, add another burden to his daily struggle.

In the washrooms in the basement area of the library patrons are warned to not "sponge bath". In addition to the no-loitering signage the homeless can hardly call the library a refuge. It's not meant to be. It's a library, but many are finding this is the only place they can go where they can sleep and see out the day hassle free. After the library closes many stay in the atrium area of the downtown library until they are requested to leave by the security staff. It's a sorry state of affairs.





* Street feet is a condition of blistered and damaged feet which results from a person walking around all day with no means to change their socks and shoes or to care for their feet.

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Last Call set list 4 may 2011

After a slight delay only solved by marmite and peanut butter sarnies Last Call is proud to bring you the set list for the 4 May show. Remember you can listen to the archives of the show at http://www.coopradio.org/station/archives/27

Some tech glitch means that today's show is showing as incomplete. 51 mins for first hour and even less for the second hour of the show.

Nevermind. You'll just have to tune in next week at midnight (pacific coastal time), remember we're 8 hours behind the UK, 3 hours behind Toronto. Hope that helps. Also trying to sort the distortion that appears to persistent on the archives.

It could be as simple as having the microphone too high. Let's see what we can do about. I will be back at Coop on Saturday morning 7am for the The Six Fifty Seven To St.John's.


Last Call set list 4 May

Time - Supergrass
Police & thieves - The Clash
Underdogs - Manic Street Preachers
In another world - Maximo Park
The hill - Bombay Bicycle Club
Always where I need to be - The Kooks
Sticks and stones - Jamie T
Roof of your car - The Streets
Love - Orange Deluxe
Song of a baker - The Small Faces
Abstain - Five Thirty
Lost in the supermarket - The Clash
All we make is entertainment - Manic Street Preachers
The words that maketh murder - PJ Harvey
England - PJ Harvey
Warpath - Esben & The Witch
Which side are you on - Billy Bragg
Got the shakes - James
Lotus flower - Radiohead
Surfacing - Chapel Club
Window - PTV
Infinity - The XX
Everloving - Moby
Here comes the blackout - Stornoway
I want the world to stop - Belle & Sebastian
Dead guitars - Seefeel
Tell her I said so - James
Kaliedscope - James
A leaving song - Broken Records
Rabbit hole - James