Honky-Tonking and Rough 'N' Rowdy ways with a little bit of Psychedelic trippiness to soften the edges!.. BONANZA on Resonance 104.4FM... The perfect hangover cure on Sunday lunchtime...A weekly show 'Tracing the roots and subsequent influence of the pioneers, innovators, outlaws and mavericks of Country Musics past, present and future: 'Avant-Country' + live studio sessions and selections from the 'not so usual' Bonanza pub/club night playlist. Tune in to BONANZA on Resonance 104.4 FM. Sundays 12:00 Noon. + random repeats...Some past shows/live sessions:The Coal PortersThe Fabulous Penetrators18th Day Of MaySid GriffinMichael J. Sheehy & THe Hired Mourners.Kris DollimoreRing (Norway)The Urban Voodoo MachineJosh T. PearsonTune in to Resonance 104.4 FM. Sundays 12:00 Noon- 1:30PM with random repeats...Alternatively listen on-line www.resonancefm.com ... Sundays at 12Noon-1.30 (GMT)
Avant-Country, Psych', Blues, Folk, Cajun, Bluegrass, Freakbeat, Garage Punk and twisted Rock 'n' Roll... Basically Classic tunes new 'n' old, underground or popular... Oh you want specifics ok... Johnny Cash, Mickey Newbury, The Who, Steve Young, Charley Patton, The Pretty Things, Kris Kristofferson, The Butthole Surfers, The Standells, Lee Hazelwood, Bobbie Gentry, Lift To Experience, Buddy Guy, AC/DC, Jeanie C. Riley, The Remains, John Hartford, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Tom Petty, Fairport Convention, Dolly Parton, Motorhead, Tom Rush, The Temptations, Link Wray, Jimmie Rogers, Memphis Mini, Nathan Abshire, Waylon Jennings, Smokey Robinson And The Miracles, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Monks, Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Tony Joe White, The Music Machine, Bessie Smith, The Poets, Otis Redding, Skip Spence, Uncle John and Whitelock, John Renbourn, The Elastic Band (US), Davey Graham,The Elastic Band (UK), Neil Young, The Shangri-Las, Richard Thompson, Tintern Abbey, Ma Rainey, The Kinks, Tom T Hall, The Screaming Blue Messiahs, Son House, Love, Buck Owens, The Godfathers, Clifton Chenier, Dantalions Chariot, Gordon Giltrap, Dogbreath, John Fahey, The Seeds, Guy Clarke, The Surgens, Phil Ochs, The Sir Douglas Quintet and Doug Sahm, The Reverend Elvis, All 3 Hanks, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Mark Pickerel, The Smoke, Nick Cave, ? And The Mysterians, Lefty Frizzell, The Mike Stuart Span, Shel Silverstein, The Small Faces, Waylon Jennings, Frank Zappa, Bobby Bare and Bobby Bare Jnr, The Left Banke, Salem, Nick Cave, Kraftwerk, Scott Walker, Robbie Fulks, Tompall Glazer, Spacemen 3,... 'I Could Go On For Hours And I Probably Will But I'd Sooner Put Some Joy Back Into This...' First one to name that tune wins a prize!.. The Hollies, Joe Meek, Kris Dollimore, Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band, Billy Swan, The Family, Harald Thune, Michael J. Sheehy & THe Hired Mourners, Josh T. Pearson...
Billy Liar "Grateful, grateful I've always got to be bloody grateful", The Pawnbroker (the most powerful performance of any actor ever), Funny Games... won the Oscar for best post-deconstructivist film, The President's Analyst, Man Bites Dog, A Fistfull Of Dynamite, La Haine, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Big Lebowski, Nostalgia, A Clockwork Orange, La Bete, Tommy, Inside Lydia's Ass, American Psycho (geddit?), Chopper, Listomania, The Anderson Tapes, Videodrome, Last Night, Gummo, Doctor Jeckyl and Sister Hyde, Quadrophenia, Lust For Life "It's impoooooooossible!", Westworld, Psycho, Nosferatu, The Anderson Tapes...
It was invented by John Logie Baird and it hasn't been worth switching on since the early 80's! BONANZA considers T.V. to be 'The Banality of Evil!' and Radio is King. "Turn OFF, Tune In and Drop Out".
Crime And Punishment, Catcher In The Rye, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, 1985... yes '85, The Dictionary and Thesaurus, The Overcoat, Guiness Book of Hit Singles, Bend Sinister... (hence no 1984), The Doors Of Perception, White Line Fever (Lemmy), Mille Plateaux, The Crucible, anything by Freud, Marx, Trotsky, 'I Was A Robot' by Wolfgang Flur,
As John Lydon said in '77 "I don't have any heroes"... BONANZA admires and respects people but doesn't worship 'em.