Show 186
In the northern hemisphere we are well and truly into the dog days of summer. This show is going to the dogs.
Front Row Seat - Office Dog, from Auckland, New Zealand, it's on their album Prime Corner, a June 2026 release.
Under Water - Dog Trumpet, from their album Live Forever, which came out in late 2025. The main guys in Dog Trumpet are bothers Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa (Christopher O'Doherty), mainstays in the band Mental As Anything. Reg Mombassa is also an artist and designer for the Mambo fashion label.
Three Legged Dog - The Cruel Sea, the title track of their 1995 album.
Win-Lose - featuring the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, from the soundtrack of a 1986 movie he was in called Dogs In Space. The movie was written and directed by Richard Lowenstein, and Hutchence played the singer in a band called Dogs In Space. The song was written by Ollie Olsen.
From the year 2026
Avon Valley - the Bures Band, a single from an album that's supposed to be coming soon. Avon Valley is a national park in Western Australia, near the city of Perth, which is where the Bures Band is from.
Bloodhorse! - Grace Cummings, it's the title track to her latest album, which arrived in mid-August. Blood horse is a term from thoroughbred horse breeding and racing.
Kill For the Steel - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, it's on their album Alien Metal,.also an August release. King Giz has often toyed with techno but this album is total techno, 40 minutes 58 seconds, eight "song" titles but no gaps. The album sounds as if the band plucked it out of the middle of a two-hour rave. By some counts, Alien Metal is the band's 28th studio album since they started in 2010.
Into the vault
From 1967, the self-titled debut album by the Masters Apprentices (or the Master's Apprentices, either is accepted. They got together in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1965, and in 1967 released eight singles and their first album. We heard:
- Undecided
- Theme For A Social Climber
- Hot Gully Wind.
Here we are, back in 2026
Play and Share - Ross McLennan and Heir To the Squandered Millions, another single from a promised new album. Ross McLennan has been around for many years with his band Snout.
Fever Dream - Bagful of Beez, a single that came out in April. The band is run by Link Meanie - aka Lindsay McLennan, Ross's brother - he's been around for yonks with his other band the Meanies.
Midnight TV - Huxton Creepers, a new single, their first new music since 1990.
Good clean fun
Selling cars, 1970s-style, with a TV jingle for football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars. Holden was Australia's very own car maker, until it was bought by General Motors of the USA.,
Followed by a comedy bit from beloved Aussie TV show Hey Hey It's Saturday.
Strange Girl - Belles Will Ring, from their 2007 album Mood Patterns.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
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