Thursday, February 3, 2011

Show 32: Rip 'n' Dip

Wow great way to start the show with the awesome budd super new release from their album launch on the weekend with extra special thanks to em for letting me borrow it to play on the show, definitely an awesome band writing awesome music and felt pretty good to get into it straight up.

Bit of a disclaimer should go out to pushing the Macgyver Meal segment forward this week, we didn't mean to bring doubt to the quality of chips you can obtain at the emerald chippy and we apologise if this was impression given to our humble bretheren of the deep fryer. But the segment went on early with the special guest this time being Bealy from our preceeding show roundabout. Many ins and outs were discussed on what it really means to order minimum chips and what you walk away with 6 minutes later, to chicken salt or not, to pay 30 cents for a pissy little drop of dead horse or head over the road to the IGA and score a bottle for a buck 50 or better still pack your own, coz if your anything like me you are highly likely to have a minimum chips moment any day of the week and your morals are that of the 80's where you expect as much watered down redness as you like sprayed all over your chips from some old greek guy called Nontas, all without payment!
but im straying from my point here, surprise surprise, so what i recommend is hitting up maccas for some free sauce sachets, you might as well get something out of that giant bullshit corporation and, ah fuckit im gonna stay away from that tangent just so i can finally get this retarded idea of sharing my tightarseness tomato sauce tales with you all.... so yeah stock the glove box with maccas frebees, leave a few in your bag coz you never know. But one super crazy item that i wrongly assumed to be the holy grail of on the go tomatosauceahoilics is the rip and dip canned tomato sauce, a catchy name on a catchy can, really cool things to keep on you for all the options it provides, you can dip shit and you can pour it onto shit, fucking brilliant eh! but in the end they are pretty useless if you cant even open the things up.
one thing that was good about the deep fryer friends in emerald is that i walked in ordered my chips and the dude saw my hunger and my rush and banged them on before i even had to think about being pissed off that he was going to fruit around with the business end of our transaction!
so heres the facts - PROS: quick cooking, fat chips and reasonable portion i suppose. CONS: Low grade crispiness, no real starchy flavour in the spuds and No free sauce. so in the end it was a hard call but enought of this shit, trust me the rest of the show got better!

A cool excuse to play Holy Fuck with their tour of melbourne happenning tonight and on the weekend ahead, and we happilly paired them up with maserati off their 2009 offerings. Primal Scream wooohooo no tools!

using current wild weather as inspirations for this weeks 3MDR, 3 MurDeR radio triple homicide of 3 killer tracks from 3 stoner rock heavyweights following the windy theme. and gave us a chance to nut out the difference between a hurricane and a cyclone , its a hemisphere thing and they spin in different directions.... we think, anyway, its not just that ones a girl and ones a boy.

The guys from Grifter (UK), tracked us down and hooked us up with a free download of their EP, brilliant it is, some really cool new stoner rock and we look forwward to playing more tracks next week, check them out and look for the ep on bandcamp.

House of a thousand 80's film review was this week the return of the living dead part 2, given more confused discussion than it deserved, and supported by some grouse zombie tunes that shoulc have replaced whoever the fool was that decided they should go shit 80's electro pop instead of awesome 80's rock of the misfits and vitus.

We were pretty happy to be back doing a journey through a fabulous artist each month and this time we chose the iconic yawning man, with three tracks off the original 1986 desert session jams, sadly not the best quality but one of which many would recognise as being done healthy justice by the mighty kyuss, look forward to more yawning man this week hopefully a bit earlier in the show so we can give ourselves the time needed to discuss what this band did for developing the desert scene and what came from the influencial riffs they rocked in the early years in the califronian desert and working our way up to what they are still doing today with the best lineup yet some might say.

enough of my rambling, we finished with a melbourne double of two great bands doing great things for the local scene. check them out Hotel Wrecking City Traders and Swidgen, where ever you see it written you must make it, there willl be loud heavy original greatness

Budd - 351
Maserati - No More Sages
Holy Fuck - Pulse
Primal Scream - Move On Up
Fu Manchu - Cyclone Launch
Monster Magnet - Cyclone
Kyuss - Hurricane
Bird Blobs - Settle Down & Breed
Grifter - Blind Rat Swarm
Orange Goblin - We Bite
Stonehelm - Zombie Apocalypse 420
The Misfits - Braineaters
Saint Vitus - Zombie Hunger
Yawning Man - Tuff Dude
Yawning Man - Saucey & Saggy
Yawning Man - Catamaran
The Hotel Wrecking City Traders - Sutter Cane
Swidgen - No Limit

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Show 31: Invasion Day Blues

What better way to start a show of all aussie tunes off than with the less popular but far more awesome band of wollongong wowsers of the mighty riff thumlock. it was so awesomely apt that we also finished the show up with more thumlock, but here i am getting ahead of myself. so i digress, we were very happy to play another taste of shpongle in reminiscence of last weekends rainbow serpent festival, which from all reports will struggle to meet the bar now set so high in future years. but a treat for all this weekend is budd's album launch at the tote. tune in next week for a full review and for some brand new tracks from their fresh release! Another tune that has been sitting in the want to play pile and this week we finally got around to it with the sand pebbles and my favourite track of theirs or pherhaps most recogniseable in honour of them being awesome aussie ( melbourne) musos, but also playing a benefit gig for RRR's the ghost thats on this monday night! check it out via www.rrr.org.au.

Too much talk of the great tunes we were playing really limited our list and so i'd expect there to be a few treats coming up next week, but thats half the fun hey, playing good shit then talking about how good it was, especially when its all home grown you feel a bit more proud and want to share this quality stuff to listeners overseas in greater detail, but i said something about digressing earlier so i should keep the ramblin a tamblin'

to go with our great lineup of aussie rock'n'roll we had our macgyver meal this week be nothing better than a half arsed barbeque segment, with ideas for cooking dead animal on a flame grill, yep that about sums that about, was pretty lacklustre in my department but saved by tristans recipe from the mighty judge of belgrave for a tasty barbeque pork in a Cider marinade and barbeque sauce, not sure if that was in there, but of course you have to have some sauce on top otherwise it just aint right.

Anyway the rock prevailed and we reached the end with a decent little swell of a list under us.

proud as always we were happy to give you a great soundtrack to an invasion day, sadly forgot to do a house of a thousand 80's VHS review this week but will continue to aussie it up next week with a review of the classic the big steal, feel free to watch in advance and join us in the banter if you can call it that.

heres the tunes you all should listen to and become more amazing people than you already are, if thats at all possible!!!

Thumlock - The Ornithopter
Shpongle - Dorset Perception
Budd - Pull Me Down
The Sand Pebbles - Future Proofed
Ahkmed - Ilanesia
Laura - Numbers Stations
This Is Your Captain Speaking - Lift
Buffalo - Sunrise (Come My Way)
The Saints - Know Your Product
Tumbleweed - Silver Lizard
Dern Rutlidge - Lines On The Table
Legends Of Motorsport - Cream
Sons Of The Ionian Sea - Legends Of Motorsport
Rocket Science - Burn In Hell
Thumlock - Lunar Mountain Sunrise

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Show 30: Rainbows, Tomatoes & Sweden....

ok so something a likttle different, here i am writing the spiel to the show on a late saturday night on a porch with a nice coopers green in hand at 3am. tonight i got on it at the tote and saw the mighty swidgen, heavy stoner doom brilliance, got in a bit late but caught king parrot who also gave a good dose of tunes to set the bowels a rumblin' , anyway pretty done right now but felt the urge to get something up here in a nicely intoxicated state and take my mind of the ringing of the ears that was earned so well.

Swidgen, fucking brilliant and have a cd on the go for ten bucks but in my state of boozed out freakdom missed the opportunity to grab a copy for the show this week but spoke to the bloodied up drummer, whose name i shamefully forget, and hopefully will still score a few tracks from via email (pilottheduneradio@gmail.com) for the show this week to treat you with what the latest top rockin band in the melbourne scene has on offer.

Also found out on this quiet saturday that the sons of the ionian sea had a gig at idgaff ton ight. bit shit that the bars promoters didn't mention anything of this on the various street press's of melbourne otherwise im sure there would have been more than one in the audience for the show.

was prety funny though with the huge crowed there was that only about 30 people were in the actual bandroom during the swidgen set! poor form, and i know im a victim of it in the past, having too gooder time to bother moving over to see what i actually paid to get into, but for few bucks sake people get in there and see some awesome tunes, spread your legs and take in the mighty riffs and let your cocles do the rest!

so enough bullshit, although i gotta say there were a few sweedish backpakers at the bar making a bit of small talk and the best music discussion i could get out of them was refused, after trying to explain a triple homicide of sweedish rock i quickly realised the futility of such a discussion and aborted with whatever grace i had left in my pocket, not much let me tell you.

so this weeks show was pretty fucking cool. as always an opening bracket of the new goodes on offer as well as getting psyched for an oz music special in annual celebration of invasion day next week by playing a bit of the great peeping tom. Also hope you enjoyed the 3mdr three killer tracks from the world of sweedish stonerrock, went for some personal and possibly lesser known faves from the mighty truckfughters dozer and lowrider! and enjoyed playing the birthday request from topher in canada of some classic sabbath.

but this week we hope to crank a bit of great doomness from clagg in celebration of their album re-launch, not sure hoe that works but should be pretty cool, as well as the legendary budd being finally by all accounts releasing an album of gutbusting fortitude on saturday at the tote, all great excuses to play some aussie tunes for the big week thats coming up just round the corner.

dont forget open mics up at scarab bar in belgrave on tuesday nights, hopefully your pilots will drag their sorry areses up there over the next few weeks to play a couple of tunes from the KOME days...

an yway enough thinking im semi interesting and writing shit. im gonna finish my brew and hopefully see hear from you all for some awesome aussie day requests this week, and yes mr. Richard stoner doom you will get the thumlock you've been asking for all this time!!!

hope your weekend was as earsplittingly productive as mine and be well. tune in for a full rainbow serpent update next week and a more sober (or so the station manager knows) review of this weekends shinnadigans!!!!

below is this weeks playlist which kicked off with the kiwi boys kerretta!

Kerretta - Maven Fade
The Nation Blue - Damnation
Ghost Box Orchestra - The Lodge
Peeping Tom - Strike Clones
Oresund Space Collective - The Black Tomato Pt. I
Truckfighters - Manhattan Project
Dozer - Inside The Falcon
Lowrider - Texas Pt. I & II
Red Fang - Bird On Fire
Grails - Reincarnation Blues
And So I Watch You From Afar - A Little Bit Of Solidarity Goes A Long Way
Black Sabbath - Into The Void
Atomic Rooster - Devils Answer
Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Show 29: Van-Fucking-Tastic!

Indeed it was, with a great house of a thousand 80's VHS's jump back into the simpiler 70's where special effects lacked bryan brown, rape was laughed at and B grade meant B grade in the film SUPERVAN. starring an obtuse electric van named vandora and some sort of freak out event that can only be described as an excuse to show lots of shots of cool old school vans and some awesome original airbrush jobs that you just don't get to see today. so anyway if this is all confusing you, just check out 3 minute supervan on you tube for a total movie summary save yourself 87 mins of your life and use it more wisely, pherhaps wander up the road, get some beer and put on the fu's king of the road as a good supplement for this vanhicular film.

So Shpongle the massive are doing a special tour as part of the rainbow serpent festival, with tristan wearing nappies till he goes straight after next weeks show, especially after all reports from their solo show give the impression they are here to make an impression! and as such were granted a special play during this weeks gig guide.

Stories of leeches and deer hunting gave a great excuse to play some more cool tunes and lots of other awesome shit happenned this week with a macgyver meal of a breakfast pizza a tasty and warm alternative to toast which some losers call an open omlette pfff... fools. some massive sidewave tours were announced too with high on fire and kylesa, qotsa doing the original and best album in its entirity for their tour with a much welcomed back nick oliveri (hopefully) and Motorhead are touring this year too!

But more next week and remember our oz music special on the 27th to cure some post australia day blues, after we are told all day to only eat our aparent national meat lamb and having been force fed many sad examples of national pride with tossers wearing fuck off we're full shirts on this our "invasion day", till then suck it up and rock on dudes

The Grand Astoria - Rat Race In Moscow
Been Obscene - The Magic Table Dance
Thee Oh Sees - Everything Went Black
Shpongle - Nothing Is Something Worth Doing
Buried Feather - Magnetised
Baptism Of Uzi - Dead By Dawn
Down - Eyes Of The South
Orange Goblin - Whisky Leech
Black Math Horseman - Deerslayer
Azure Agony - The Temple Of Vandora
Fu Manchu - Boogie Van
Queens Of The Stoneage - Mexicola
Peeping Tom - Hoss No
High On Fire - Holy Flames Of The Fire Spitter
Kylesa - Cheating Synergy
Motorhead - Built For Speed

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Show 28: Pilot the Dune... OVER THE WORLD

I challenge you to find a better sounding gathering of awesome psyched and stoned out grooves, funky throwbacks and heavy gauge vagrant wanderings on the frets!

Had an absolute ball tonight playing the best of the rest of 2010 with the mighty fatso, brought low, masefuckinrati and other stalwart champions of last year that made the killer cut.

Kicked off two-O-eleven with a much maligned cooking segment from the T bag and we hope to continue to meet the high standards set in the macgyver meals arena for the rest of the year.

God DAmn Numbah Ten sound pretty fuckin rad dont they! and not to mention Black Pyramid to who we pay homage and salute with great thanks for supplying some good rocking shit to our humble radio show.

Earthless!!!! check out the arthouse in north melbourne and get along this sunday night, if their new years show at the tote was anything to go by with melting amps to go with all the faces in the room then it will be a pure night of earthless destruction at the arty

last but not least, yes it happenned, we cranked some reverend bizarre off the mighty crush the insects album a song we were jamming on on the weekend and i thought before we destroy it completely we should give it a proper airing this week.

cheers for listening and hope to catch you next time


Numbah Ten - Voice Inside
The Dynamites - Burn It Down
The Dynamites - Somebodies Got It Better
Fatso Jetson - Play Dead
The Brought Low - Blues For Cubby
The Brought Low - The Kelly Rose
The Brought Low - Slow Your Roll
Maserati - We Got The System To Fight The System
Eddy Current Suppresion Ring - Second Guessing
Black Pyramid - The Worm Ouroboros
Reverend Bizarre - Doom Over The World
Mugstar - Sunburnt Impendance Machine
Brant Bjork - The Future Rock (We Got It)
Truckfighters - The Deal

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Show 27: Be Excellent To Each Other

Well we have made it to the end of the year, and what a year it has been,musically speaking. 2010 was chock full of amazing albums from all over the globe, we here at pilot the dune had a hard time picking our favourites but if you look at the track list for this show it roughly serves as a best of the year.

Have a glorious end to the year and a bitchin 2011

Tune in next week for a recap of our new years eve shennanigans and as always ,more excellent tunes!

Sons Of The Ionian Sea - Down By The Lake (Playing All The Time In Melbourne, Go See Em!)
The Sheepdogs - Suddenly
The Sheepdogs - Baby, I Won't Do You No Harm
The Sheepdogs - We'll Get There
The Sheepdogs - I Should Know
Dios - Toss My Cookies
Future Of The Left - Small Bones Small Bodies (Playing Jan 2nd @ The Corner)
Earthless - Flower Travellin Band (Playing Jan 9th @ The Arthouse)
Sleepy Sun - Wild Machines
Dead Meadow - Push Em To The Crux
Crippled Black Phoenix - Troublemaker
Black Mountain - Rollercoaster (Playing Feb 21st @ The Corner)
Evel Gazebow - Secret Door
Wooden Shjips - Auld Lang Syne

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Show 26: Radio With Muscles

Christmas on the dune has happenned, with a more finer sampling of christmas tunes than you are likely to come across anywhere else on the airwaves.

We gave a serve of the fantastic sons of the ionian sea in celebration of their vinyl launch this weekend and god damn are we happy that has finally arrived! bring a beard to the tote on xmas eve for 5 bucks off and some cool giveaways!

Christmas jollies allround with a film review being the scarrilly bad santa with muscles starring the hulkster what more can be said other than dont bother unless you are deaf and blind and want to piss off some dinner guests.

Christmas kitchen goodness with all my secret classic meals stolen by celebrity chefs this year i had to settle for the old cozza classic christmas pavlova, all the chrissy colours represented ontop of the worlds tastiest cake base the pavlova. firstly dump a load of cream on top, then grap a heavy blunt instrument and two packs of peppermint crisp choc things belt them till they crumble and sprinkle ontop of pav, next cut up some straberries and give them a home with the choc mint crumble and there you go a half arsed 15 buck 15 min cake, time can be cut down if you are focused and not distracted by booze and apache helicopters encircling boronia.

anywawy the vibes not here this time is it, tune in though, its not that hard, and we are heaps better live and in the flesh then reading about it and seeing what i got out of those hard fought years of creative writing at school, yep good times

Lastly we included a lesson in stocking sampling of old 60's wild west cowboy vinyls with the bombastic frankie laine giving you what for. so thats about it.

Tune in next week for a well rounded round up of all

Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra - Little Drummer Boy
Wooden Shjips - O Tannenbaum
Sons Of The Ionian Sea - Lucky Country
James Brown - Satan Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto
James Brown - Santa's Got A Brand New Bag
Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis
Monster Magnet - Dead Christmas
Vibravoid - Christmas On Earth
Twisted Sister - Heavy Metal Christmas
Twisted Sister - White Christmas (Spanish Version)
The Border Brass Orchestra - Tijuana Christmas
Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra - Do You Hear What I Hear
Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The Rolling Stones - Shake Your Hips
The Sonics - Santa Claus
Canned Heat - Wooly Bully
Frankie Laine - Bowie Knife
Twisted Sister - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas