ALIVE!

Hi all,

Dead and Alive are back! Resonance FM are currently broadcasting repeat programs Friday's at 3pm, and we're devising new programs for future broadcast. Watch this space!

DEAD

On 15 August 2008 the final episode of Dead and Alive was aired.

We really enjoyed presenting the show and will miss you all dearly.

Thanks to our listeners for listening, and to Resonance FM for having us.

So long...

Josh and Tim x

COUNTRY & WESTERN

Howdy!

Thanks to all those who tuned into our Country & Western special on 1st August - we do hope you enjoyed it. Tim and I both adore Country & Western music, so we had to devote a whole show to it. Just be thankful you didn't get 90 minutes of my minimal techno and Tim's camp pop cheese!

Here is the playlist, including subheadings:

Introduction
1. Copland: Hoedown, Rodeo
2. Luther Strong: Glory in the Meeting House
Cowboys
3. Eddie Arnold: Cattle Call
4. Sons of the Pioneers: Tumbling Tumbleweeds
5. Sons of the Pioneers: Cowboy Camp Meeting
Drinking
6. Rocky Bill Ford: Beer Drinking Blues
7. George Jones: Just One More
8. Tex Williams: Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine
9. Merle Haggard: Wine, Take me Away
10. Porter Wagoner: Wino
11. Gillian Welch: Barroom Girls
12. Loretta Lynn: Don't Come Home Drinkin' with Lovin' on your Mind
13. Kitty Welch: Death at the Bar
14. George Jones: George Stopped Drinking Today
Intermission
15. Ives: Violin Sonata 2, 2nd Movement 'In the Barn'
Heartbreak
16. The Handsome Family: Weightless Again
17. Don Williams: Some Broken Hearts Never Mend
18. Blue Sky Boys: Banks of the Ohio
19. Dolly Parton: Chas
20. Hank Williams: Cold, Cold Heart
21. Porter Wagoner: Cold, Hard Facts of Life
Tammy and Strange Songs
22. Tammy Wynette: I Don't Wanna Play House
23. Johnny Wright: Hello Vietnam
24. Tammy Wynette: Don't Liberate Me, Love Me
25. Porter Wagoner: George Leroy Chikashea
26. Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn: Hillbilly Heaven
27. Tammy Wynette: Alive and Well

This was one of our favourite shows, thanks for listening. Final playlists will be posted in the next few days. It's been lovely.

LAZY

Apologies for the lack of updates, we've several playlists to, erm, list, and news to provide... but not right now. Just to note that the final programme of Dead and Alive will be broadcast on August 15th, 9pm, so put that in your diaries. Also - this Friday will slightly depart from our usual show, with a country & western special (Tammy Wynette pictured). Stay tuned...

APOCALYPTIC SOUFFLE

Many thanks for those who stuck out our final mash-up featuring Max Benezeth. We had fun, and hope you enjoyed it. Here's what was played:

1. Rytis Mazulis: Talima Cumi
2. HIV+: hertz hell, abstract and harsh ironworks
3. Frost Jockey: Come the mighty Burgundy tracks vol 1
4. Takemitsu: Le Son Calligraphié
5. Pierre Bastien (pictured): Tender red net
6. Schubert: Impromptu 4
7. Xenakis: Kyania
8. Frost Jockey: Theme From Frost Jockey
9. Schoenberg / Ehlers / Rabelais: Verklate Nacht, Dead and Alive edit
10. Squarepusher: Do you know Squarepusher?
11. Juantrip: Movies
12. Psychic Space: Invasion

Thanks Max for coming in, and for the listing. Lord knows I'll miss you.

Thanks too for all those who made it to the Macbeth on the 2nd, and to the Raven Quartet, Gabriel Prokofiev and Andrew McDonnell , for a good night.

More soon...

LIVE AT NONCLASSICAL

Hey listeners,

Wednesday 2 July Dead and Alive play their farewell concert at Gabriel Prokofiev’s nonclassical club night, from 8pm at the Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street N1 6LP (pictured above). Tim and I will be spinning the sort of noisy contemporary music we do for Resonance FM for most of the evening, supporting live performances by the Raven Quartet who’ll be reworking film scores. Time Out calls it one of the nights of the week http://www.timeout.com/london/clubs/events/765642/nonclassical.html and says the following:

“Time Out’s official favourite classically inclined club night returns to the Macbeth with yet another line-up that is radically different from the last. Tonight’s show is a mix of extremes which is sure to stimulate debate, and possibly violence, among its ever-multiplying and increasingly notable clientele. First up is a brand new outfit on the scene, The Raven Quartet, whose set is based around reworkings of modern film scores. Their source material includes work from the likes of Jon Brion, Brian Eno and Clint ‘I was in Pop Will Eat Itself’ Mansell. While the Raven players have been regulars at the club as punters, this is the first time they’ve performed there, so don’t blame us if it’s not hardcore classical enough for you. At the other end of the earth, it is with heavy heart and relieved ears that we report Resonance FM DJs Dead And Alive will be making their farewell Nonclassical appearance tonight. As usual, they’ll be playing a selection of contemporary compositional sounds alongside some live improv/remixing – a combination that’s as punishing yet rewarding as training with the Foreign Legion.”

It promises to be a night to remember, or for Tim and myself, probably to forget…

See you there!

ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL

On 20 June we broadcast a programme featuring music performed at the Aldeburgh festival (artistic director Pierre Laurent Aimard pictured). Playlist soon. This Friday 27 June I'll be joined by Max Benezeth for a classical apocalyptic souffle. Stay tuned...

Here is the playlist for our programme on the Clarinet, broadcast 6 June 2008 (Benny Goodman pictured):

1. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
2. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
3. Haba: Suite for quarter-tone clarinet & quarter-tone piano
4. Ockeghem: Missa Sine Nomine, ‘Kyrie’ (arranged Trio Lignum)
5. Webern: Five Canons on Latin Texts for soprano, clarinet and bass clarinet
6. Kalliwoda: Overture
7. Xenakis: Charisma
8. Acker Bilk: Stranger on the Shore
9. Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto, Benny Goodman, clarinet
10. Billie Holiday/Benny Goodman: Your Mother’s Son-in-Law, Benny Goodman, clarinet
11. Debussy: Rhapsody, Benny Goodman, clarinet
12. Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, Benny Goodman, clarinet
13. Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Thanks for listening. We were off on the 13th, and on 20 June we played music from the Aldeburgh Festival. Playlist soon…