BRING ME THE HEAD OF PERE UBU

This has been going on for over a month, but I just got hip to the Pere Ubu podcasts. The fourth one was unleashed today.

Go HERE for the downloads. Below is the press release:

Chicago, IL, June 9, 2009 ­ Beginning June 16th, and then every two weeks until September 22nd, 2009, a scene from the first half of the radio play featuring the band Pere Ubu titled, "Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi" (Version 2), will be podcast for free download at hearpen.com. Pere Ubu¹s online-only record store, hearpen.com, is administered by Smog Veil Records.

This series of eight podcasts covers the first three acts of the six act radio play that was inspired by the songs on Pere Ubu's forthcoming Hearpen Records CD titled, Long Live Père Ubu!, (digital release via hearpen.com is available September 14, 2009). The idea to record a "radio play" was conceived as a way of managing the "silence" between songs in the concert set for the album so that the spoken word is manipulated and mixed with electronic ambience and transformed into a unique musical style of its own.

The script for the radio play, adapted by David Thomas from Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (King Ubu), is also Version 2 of a theatrical production, featuring Pere Ubu, also called "Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi" that premiered in its original version at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 25 and 26 2008.

Embedded in the podcasts are songs from the Long Live Père Ubu! album, as well as dialog and electronic ambience. Sarah Jane Morris (ex-Communards, Happy End) performs the role of Mère Ubu, partnering Thomas who performs as the character Père Ubu. Members of the band supply the voices of other characters in the play.

Jarry's proto-Absurdist stage play (which premiered in Paris in 1896) gave the band its name, and supplied the inspiration for the songs on Long Live Père Ubu! In its day the play provoked riots in the theatre and a national scandal. A vicious and satiric re-telling of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Jarry's work lambastes do-gooder monsters and the survival of the Unfit.

Pere Ubu is David Thomas on vocals, Keith Moliné on guitar, Robert Wheeler on EML synthesizer and theremin, Michele Temple on bass and Steve Mehlman on drums.

The eight scenes to be released episodically in the form of podcasts are:
1. Act 1 Scene 1 (5:04) Release date: June 16.
2. Act 1 Scene 2 (1:16) Release date: June 30.
3. Act 1 Scene 3 (6:07) Release date: July 14.
4. Act 2 Scene 1 (4:12) Release date: July 28 5. Act 2 Scene 2a (8:13) Release date: August 11.
6. Act 2 Scene 2b (3:20) Release date: August 25.
7. Act 2 Scene 3 (4:10) Release date: Sept 8.
8. Act 3 (4:07) Release date: Sept 22.

THE MOST TWISTED ANDY KAUFMAN PERFORMANCE EVER

This made me laugh harder than any other time I saw Andy on TV.

The show is Fridays, a Saturday Night Live rip-off in the early '80s. Several months before this appearance Kaufman created a stir by breaking character and refusing to do his lines in a skit. This led to a brawl with cast and crew members. Supposedly it was all a joke.

In this appearance, a cleaned-up Andy talks about changes in his life and introduces his "fiance," Kathie Sullivan a gospel singer who was a regular on the Lawrence Welk Show.

Yes, just like his "feud" with Jerry "The King" Lawler, it was a hoax. But here Andy proves he can stay in character. (Warning: The weirdness doesn't really start until about 5 minutes into this Youtube.)

(By the way, what's a "Monolouge"?)

QUOTE OF THE DAY: BILLY CHILDISH

From a recent interview with eMusic:

"... it isn't fun if it's going along with fashion. It's got to have vim and vigour, and things that are sanctioned don't, because they are being sanctioned to nurtur… No, to n… — what is it when you cut a thing's balls off? Neuter? That's what sanctioning is. To take the life out of it, emasculate it. That chap who died last week, Michael Jackson, yeah, he was like the emasculated James Brown. And that's meant to be some kind of victory!"

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, July 26, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Blinding Sun by Mudhoney
Barricuda by The Standells
Boys are Boys and Girls are Choice by The Monks
Astral Plane by The Rockin' Guys
Rats' Revenge Part II by The Rats
Mr. Eliminator by Dick Dale
Tubby by Los Straitjackets
(Can't Stop) The Hands of Tyme by Marshmallow Overcoat
Mommy's Little Baby by Wizzard Sleeve
Put de Pot on Mary by Poontang Perkins

Yesterday's Sorrows by Chesterfield Kings
Wild Wild Lover by The Monsters
Know Your Rights by The Clash
House at Pooneil Corners by The Jefferson Airplane
Mad Mad Daddy by The Cramps
Go Man Go by The Olympics

Alright by Jesse Dee
Can't Have Enough by The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker
Love Attack by James Carr
Get Yo' Shit by Black Joe Louis & The Honeybears
If Ya Got Soul by Willie Magee
Killer Diller by King Khan & The Shrines
My Mumblin' Baby by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Gloria by The Cadillacs

Theme from Burnt Weenie Sandwich by The Mothers of Invention
Grown So Ugly by Captain Beefheart
Please Don't Drop the Bomb by Nathaniel Mayer
Sail On by T-Model Ford
This Is Ridiculous by The New York Dolls
Lap Dance by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with Andre Williams
I Started a Joke by The Dirtbombs
Massachusetts by Die Zorros
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

Podcast 12: THE BIG ENCHILADA: THE MONKEY WRESTLING POLKA

The Big Enchilada is back with The Monkey-Wrestling Polka!

This episode is divided into four segments. There's a set of songs from bands I've discovered through The GaragePunk Hideout. There's a barrel of monkey songs, inspired by a recent You've Got Good Taste podcast. There's a bone-crunching, loser-leave-town cage match of wrestling tunes and finally, a crazy polka party. Truly this is a milestone in Freeform Weirdo Podcasting!

CLICK HERE to download the podcast. (To save it, right click on the link and select "Save Target As.")

Or better yet, stop messing around and CLICK HERE to subscribe to my podcasts and HERE to directly subscribe on iTunes.

You can play it on the little feedplayer below:

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Here's the play list:

(Background: Red Rose Tea by The Marquis Chimps)

Bearded and Bored by Quan & The Chinese Takeouts

Jack Rabbit by The Strawmen

Gulls Rock by The Molting Vultures

Yumma 2 by The Fuzzy Set

(We're the) Knights of Fuzz by The Marshmallow Overcoat

Goin' Ape by The Tex Reys

(Background: Monkey Island by The Derangers)

Rockabilly Monkey Face Girl by Ross Johnson

The Monkey Song (You Made a Monkey Out of Me) by The Big Bopper

You're Bound to Look Like a Monkey by Hank Penny

Monkey's Uncle by The A-Bones

Koko Joe by Don & Dewy

(Background: Hulkster's In the House by Hulk Hogan & The Wrestling Boot Band)

Viva del Santo by Southern Culture on the Skids

Hammerlock by The Shrunken Heads

The Crusher by The Novas

Apartment Wrestling Rock 'n' Roll Girl by Lightning Beat-Man

Gorgeous George by Ronny Elliott

(Background: No Sabemos Polka by Santa Rosa Band)

The Happy Wanderer by Brave Combo

Beer, Broads and Brats by The Polkaholics

Who Stole the Kiska by Frankie Yankovic

Weiner Dog Polka by Polkacide

(Background: Ranch Hand by Desert Suns)