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Joel joins us from around 18 minutes into the show with a prerecorded interview all the way from the UK. (Recorded on Jan. 9th 2022)Syd Arthur hold a special place in DJ Webbles' heart having been a band he first discovered at University in Canterbury, England back in the mid-naughties (circa 2005) amongst a great community of friends ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_ArthurThis show features Joel talking about some of Syd's amazing adventures and collaborations (incl. with Paul Weller!) as well as an extended podcast featuring Syd Arthur's collaboration with Jack Hues & The Quartet, which is no less than 22 minutes long to close out the session!

Jack Hues has had a career that most musicians can only dream of. He studied at the Royal College of Music, he recorded sessions for John Peel, he topped the U.S. charts, scored major Hollywood motion pictures and is now, finally, releasing his first solo album, the double LP, PRIMITIF. PRIMITIF will be released on March 20, 2020. PRIMITIF is the culmination of a career that has spanned 40 years and has seen Jack visit all four corners of the Earth, but we start our journey in Kent. Jack grew up in Gillingham in the Medway Towns about 40 miles southeast of London. He was interested in music from an early age. “My dad was a saxophone player and my grandfather was a musician too, but it was hearing ‘Please Please Me’ by The Beatles on the radio when I was about 8 years old that made me wake up and think…ahhh, so this is MY music.” Jack asked for a guitar that Christmas and while his parents agreed, they insisted he have proper lessons. Twice weekly Jack was taught classical and folk guitar and, unusually, how to read music, a skill that would serve him well many years later. “By the time I was 18, I had passed Grade 8 guitar and got a place at Goldsmiths College, London to study for a music degree. At this stage I knew very little about classical music. It was David Bowie and early ‘70s Prog that was my focus. The lines between genres were about as loose as they have ever been. Classical music didn’t seem remote, although I was turned down by 4 out of the 5 universities that I applied to, as Rock music was considered worthless by academics at that time.” Jack got his degree and won a BBC Composers Competition which enabled him to take a year at the Royal College of Music studying composition and electronic music. “Those four years immersed in classical music, particularly modern classical music, were very important and expanded my musical horizons immensely. However, when I came out of college the musical language I ‘spoke’ was rock music, albeit a highly seasoned vernacular.” Jack played in a variety of bands until he met bassist Nick Feldman through a Musicians Wanted ad in the Melody Maker. They formed a couple of bands before finally distilling their talents into Huang Chung. The band later renamed themselves Wang Chung at the suggestion of the head of their record label, David Geffen. “The name still comes up now. It was even on Saturday Night Live a couple weeks ago. I guess David was right.” Jack wrote the future hit-to-be, “Dance Hall Days”, while still teaching guitar at various schools around London. The song proved pivotal in the band’s development and established Wang Chung as an international success. They were signed direct to Geffen Records in the U.S., so Jack’s career was based in LA throughout the ‘80s. “I was fortunate to work on movie soundtracks during this time. William Friedkin (director of The French Connection and The Exorcist) commissioned us to score his movie, To Live and Die in LA, which was an incredible opportunity. We contributed songs to The Breakfast Club and Inner Space. In 1986 we had a Billboard #2 (Cashbox No. 1) hit in the U.S. with “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” whose chorus line ‘Everybody have fun tonight, Everybody Wang Chung tonight’ continues to capture the public imagination thirty years later.” 1987 saw Wang Chung on a coast to coast U.S. tour with Tina Turner and gigs all over the world, but by 1989, the times they were a’changing and the attention of the music business turned to grunge and hip hop. The band didn’t embrace either of those genres and eventually split in 1990. "Through the ‘90s I did various projects. I scored The Guardian for Bill Friedkin. I was the only composer to ever work for him twice! I recorded a solo album for Columbia in the U.S., but for various reasons the project foundered. I produced an album for Arkana and an EP for Arturo, working with Mick Glossop. I co-produced a couple of albums with Chris Hughes for The Definition of Sound and Gene and I formed Strictly Inc. with Tony Banks (of Genesis) to record his eponymous solo album.” For a change of scenery, Jack moved from London to Canterbury in 1998, only 25 miles away from where he was brought up, and with it came a new phase of his life which started to coalesce around Jazz. In the mid-nineties Jack met Sam Bailey and formed The Quartet, recording 2 albums Illuminated and Shattering with producer Chris Hughes on his Helium Label. In 2012 Wang Chung reformed and released their first new album in twenty years called Tazer Up!. Summer tours in the U.S. followed, but after a couple of years Jack stepped back from gigs to consider what he really wanted to do as he entered his seventh decade. “I released a trilogy of collaborative albums between 2013-18. My ‘jazz’ work tended to be instrumental, focusing on my guitar playing, but meeting and working with poets revived my interest in words and music. “ROTE-thru” is probably the most extreme experiment consisting of a long semi-improvised poem spoken by David Herd and Simon Smith set to music which I composed as 12 separate sections to be played in any order. “A Thesis on the Ballad” to poems by Kelvin Corcoran is more conventional, setting his words to song-based structures, but including space for improvisation.” Last, but not least, Jack recorded an arrangement of Beck’s “Nobody’s Fault But My Own” with his Quartet and members of Canterbury Prog band, Syd Arthur, plus Paul Booth on tenor sax. The recording was released in 2019 to critical acclaim. Also in 2019, in a parallel universe, Jack recorded and released an album of orchestral versions of Wang Chung songs entitled Orchesography to enthusiastic reviews. Due to a series of personal losses, Jack found himself more concentrated on music than ever. In the first 3 months of 2018 he wrote and recorded most of PRIMITIF. When asked to name the music that led him to the album, classical composers such as Schubert, Mahler and Debussy rub shoulders with Miles Davis, Robert Wyatt, Jon Hopkins, The Books and Lana Del Rey. He also wanted to design the album specifically as a 4-sided, double vinyl album, each side having a distinct character in the manner of The Beatles’ White Album or Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland. “I worked on the album through 2018-19 with another intensive period of writing and recording at the beginning of 2019. The resulting double album is my first-ever solo release and is, for me, the culmination of nearly 60 years of fascination and ultimately, obsession with Music and Recordings.” Music Videos: "A Long Time" - Jack Hues "Whitstable Beach" - Jack Hues

Jack Hues has had a career that most musicians can only dream of. He studied at the Royal College of Music, he recorded sessions for John Peel, he topped the U.S. charts, scored major Hollywood motion pictures and is now, finally, releasing his first solo album, the double LP, PRIMITIF. PRIMITIF will be released on March 20, 2020. PRIMITIF is the culmination of a career that has spanned 40 years and has seen Jack visit all four corners of the Earth, but we start our journey in Kent. Jack grew up in Gillingham in the Medway Towns about 40 miles southeast of London. He was interested in music from an early age. “My dad was a saxophone player and my grandfather was a musician too, but it was hearing ‘Please Please Me’ by The Beatles on the radio when I was about 8 years old that made me wake up and think…ahhh, so this is MY music.” Jack asked for a guitar that Christmas and while his parents agreed, they insisted he have proper lessons. Twice weekly Jack was taught classical and folk guitar and, unusually, how to read music, a skill that would serve him well many years later. “By the time I was 18, I had passed Grade 8 guitar and got a place at Goldsmiths College, London to study for a music degree. At this stage I knew very little about classical music. It was David Bowie and early ‘70s Prog that was my focus. The lines between genres were about as loose as they have ever been. Classical music didn’t seem remote, although I was turned down by 4 out of the 5 universities that I applied to, as Rock music was considered worthless by academics at that time.” Jack got his degree and won a BBC Composers Competition which enabled him to take a year at the Royal College of Music studying composition and electronic music. “Those four years immersed in classical music, particularly modern classical music, were very important and expanded my musical horizons immensely. However, when I came out of college the musical language I ‘spoke’ was rock music, albeit a highly seasoned vernacular.” Jack played in a variety of bands until he met bassist Nick Feldman through a Musicians Wanted ad in the Melody Maker. They formed a couple of bands before finally distilling their talents into Huang Chung. The band later renamed themselves Wang Chung at the suggestion of the head of their record label, David Geffen. “The name still comes up now. It was even on Saturday Night Live a couple weeks ago. I guess David was right.” Jack wrote the future hit-to-be, “Dance Hall Days”, while still teaching guitar at various schools around London. The song proved pivotal in the band’s development and established Wang Chung as an international success. They were signed direct to Geffen Records in the U.S., so Jack’s career was based in LA throughout the ‘80s. “I was fortunate to work on movie soundtracks during this time. William Friedkin (director of The French Connection and The Exorcist) commissioned us to score his movie, To Live and Die in LA, which was an incredible opportunity. We contributed songs to The Breakfast Club and Inner Space. In 1986 we had a Billboard #2 (Cashbox No. 1) hit in the U.S. with “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” whose chorus line ‘Everybody have fun tonight, Everybody Wang Chung tonight’ continues to capture the public imagination thirty years later.” 1987 saw Wang Chung on a coast to coast U.S. tour with Tina Turner and gigs all over the world, but by 1989, the times they were a’changing and the attention of the music business turned to grunge and hip hop. The band didn’t embrace either of those genres and eventually split in 1990. "Through the ‘90s I did various projects. I scored The Guardian for Bill Friedkin. I was the only composer to ever work for him twice! I recorded a solo album for Columbia in the U.S., but for various reasons the project foundered. I produced an album for Arkana and an EP for Arturo, working with Mick Glossop. I co-produced a couple of albums with Chris Hughes for The Definition of Sound and Gene and I formed Strictly Inc. with Tony Banks (of Genesis) to record his eponymous solo album.” For a change of scenery, Jack moved from London to Canterbury in 1998, only 25 miles away from where he was brought up, and with it came a new phase of his life which started to coalesce around Jazz. In the mid-nineties Jack met Sam Bailey and formed The Quartet, recording 2 albums Illuminated and Shattering with producer Chris Hughes on his Helium Label. In 2012 Wang Chung reformed and released their first new album in twenty years called Tazer Up!. Summer tours in the U.S. followed, but after a couple of years Jack stepped back from gigs to consider what he really wanted to do as he entered his seventh decade. “I released a trilogy of collaborative albums between 2013-18. My ‘jazz’ work tended to be instrumental, focusing on my guitar playing, but meeting and working with poets revived my interest in words and music. “ROTE-thru” is probably the most extreme experiment consisting of a long semi-improvised poem spoken by David Herd and Simon Smith set to music which I composed as 12 separate sections to be played in any order. “A Thesis on the Ballad” to poems by Kelvin Corcoran is more conventional, setting his words to song-based structures, but including space for improvisation.” Last, but not least, Jack recorded an arrangement of Beck’s “Nobody’s Fault But My Own” with his Quartet and members of Canterbury Prog band, Syd Arthur, plus Paul Booth on tenor sax. The recording was released in 2019 to critical acclaim. Also in 2019, in a parallel universe, Jack recorded and released an album of orchestral versions of Wang Chung songs entitled Orchesography to enthusiastic reviews. Due to a series of personal losses, Jack found himself more concentrated on music than ever. In the first 3 months of 2018 he wrote and recorded most of PRIMITIF. When asked to name the music that led him to the album, classical composers such as Schubert, Mahler and Debussy rub shoulders with Miles Davis, Robert Wyatt, Jon Hopkins, The Books and Lana Del Rey. He also wanted to design the album specifically as a 4-sided, double vinyl album, each side having a distinct character in the manner of The Beatles’ White Album or Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland. “I worked on the album through 2018-19 with another intensive period of writing and recording at the beginning of 2019. The resulting double album is my first-ever solo release and is, for me, the culmination of nearly 60 years of fascination and ultimately, obsession with Music and Recordings.” Music Videos: "A Long Time" - Jack Hues "Whitstable Beach" - Jack Hues

Featuring music from Anderson/Wakeman, Aurora Lunare, Book Of Reflections, Clearlight, Cynosura, Direction, Electric Sun, Eternal Essence, False Coda, Frame, Ghost (SW), Grupo N.H.U., Heylel, Host, Isildurs Bane, Makkiwhipdies, Orphan Project, Purpendicular, Rikard Sjoblom, SinSilencio, Syd Arthur, Ticket To The Moon, and Timothy Pure. Do you enjoy Prog-Scure? If so, perhaps you might consider helping me […]

Wang Chung are releasing a special new album today called Orchesography which re-imagines some of their biggest hits and deepest cuts in a classical setting. You may have already seen the video for "Dance Hall Days" which had a real viral moment when it was released about a month ago. Hearing these classic songs in this new context adds a freshness that is sure to delight listeners. Frontman Jack Hues (ep 163) returns to discuss the impetus of the idea, how the songs were recreated, and his recent collaboration with Syd Arthur on a 22 minute version of Beck's "Nobody's Fault But My Own" that will blow your mind and is available for purchase on iTunes.  Check it out, it's worth your time!    http://www.wangchung.org/ https://music.apple.com/us/album/nobodys-fault-but-my-own-feat-syd-arthur-ep/1453044529

Welcome to Live From Progzilla Towers Edition 231. In this edition we heard music by Jethro Tull, Fernando Perdomo, Flutatious, Peter Hammill, Mothertongue, Obiymy Doschu, Stefan Kaiser, The C:Live Collective, Supersister, Field Music, Discipline, Pendragon, Yello, Magic Pie, Syd Arthur, The Knells, Marcelo Paganini, Undertable Dreams, Weendo & Jeff Beck.

Welcome to Live From Progzilla Towers Edition 185. In this all request edition we heard music by UK, They Might Be Giants, Asia, The Strawbs, Humble Pie, Steve Hackett, Alan Reed, Mott The Hoople, Primus, Bill Nelson And The Gentlemen Rocketeers, Martin Orford, The Rosenbergs, Rishloo, Focus, Bent Knee, Cardiacs, Syd Arthur, Clannad & King Crimson.

Ranking 2016, segunda parte, exclusivo en orejasaluniverso.com. Parte de dos emisiones radiales y dos en la web. En este segundo programa de la web escucharemos a The Goo Goo Dolls, There Will Be Blood, Steve Adamyk Band, Status Quo, Parquet Courts, Umprey´s McGee, Goat, Off With Their Heads, Winterpills, De Rosa, Viola Beach, The Wave Pictures, The Cult, Syd Arthur, Nine Inch Nails, Jeff Beck, Bastille, Grizfolk, Nada Surf, Candlebox, Wolves at the Gate, The Lucid Dream, Kaiser Chiefs, The Rolling Stoes, Heart, Ryan Adams

Ranking 2016, segunda parte, exclusivo en orejasaluniverso.com. Parte de dos emisiones radiales y dos en la web. En este segundo programa de la web escucharemos a The Goo Goo Dolls, There Will Be Blood, Steve Adamyk Band, Status Quo, Parquet Courts, Umprey´s McGee, Goat, Off With Their Heads, Winterpills, De Rosa, Viola Beach, The Wave Pictures, The Cult, Syd Arthur, Nine Inch Nails, Jeff Beck, Bastille, Grizfolk, Nada Surf, Candlebox, Wolves at the Gate, The Lucid Dream, Kaiser Chiefs, The Rolling Stoes, Heart, Ryan Adams

Gary Connery is a Hollywood stunt-man. He's played them all: Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Indiana Jones. But it's for his role as Queen Elizabeth II, parachuting out of a helicopter in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, that he will truly go down in history. In this interview with Olly, he recounts how it felt to be standing on the edge of that helicopter, knowing that more than 40 million people worldwide were about to watch his stunt - live. And he reveals some tricks of the trade he's picked up in his career: how to fall through glass, where to buy your cardboard boxes, and whether or not Tom Cruise really does do his own stunts... Also in this week's show, Ollie Peart considers whether we're about to enter a world without dick-holes, a world of fix-it supremacy, or a world of Ugly Food - and Alix Fox has news of a Canadian gadget to help circumcised men who fancy regrowing their foreskin, and, as this week's listener question, advises a chap who has been knocked for six by an astonishing encounter with an Italian vixen. Finally, music this week comes courtesy of Syd Arthur and his track 'Apricity', out now on Communion Records. We will return next week for our annual Christmas Spectacular - until then, please do leave us a review on iTunes, send us your feedback and your kind donations... all the links are on our website, MODERNMANN.CO.UK This week's show is kindly sponsored by our friends at Beer52.Com, who are offering Modern Mann listeners an amazing case of eight delicious bottles of hand-picked craft beer for just £12. Just visit beer52.com/modern52 and for everyone one of you who takes up the offer, Beer52 will send us some beer money too. The Foxhole is proudly sponsored by MyCondom.Com - just use the code 'FOXHOLE' at Checkout to nab yourself a stonking 15% OFF. Presenter: Olly Mann. Contributors: Ollie Peart, Alix Fox. Producer: Matt Hill. Theme Music: 'Skies Over Cairo' by Django Django. Graphic Design: Jenny Robertshaw. Copyright: Olly Mann / Rethink Audio 2016. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Live From Progzilla Towers Edition 177. In this all request edition we heard music by Roine Stolt, Big Big Train, AC/DC, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Edgar Broughton Band, Ne Obliviscaris, Yes, Riverside, Franck Carducci, It Bites, Hawkwind, Syd Arthur, Slade, Flying Colors, Peter Gabriel, Cardiacs, Gentle Giant & Steven Wilson.

Possibly the UK's best psychedelic rock group of the moment, Syd Arthur came into the Radio X studio to chat about their new album, future tour and more.

Llegamos al final de la temporada, pero antes de irnos de vacaciones te ofrecemos nuestras últimas dos horas de actualidad. Esta semana descubrimos lo que está por llegar de Pixies, Ezra Furman, Archive, Syd Arthur, Darkstar, Beaty Heart, Eden y Phantogram, como muestra de algunos de los discos más interesantes a publicarse los próximos meses. Por si fueran pocas novedades, también estrenamos trabajo nuevo de The School, Hannah Georgas, Palace, Ed Harcourt, Bear’s Den, David Van Bylen, Dorian y Santi Capote, además de recuperar los últimos discos de We Are Scientists, Little Green Cars, Wolf Alice, The Vaccines, Jamie XX, Caloncho, Mexrrissey, Jacob Bellens, Underworld, Love of Lesbian y Alex Cooper. El toque veraniego lo ponen Band a Part con una versión de “El bello verano” de Family y Flow con una de nuestras canciones fetiche para el verano. Y por supuesto seguimos hablándote de festivales: FIB de Benicàssim, Low Festival de Benidorm, Sonorama de Aranda, DCode de Madrid… Feliz verano. Nos escuchamos a la vuelta de vacaciones.

Welcome to Live From Progzilla Towers Edition 60. In part two of our New Music Showcase, we featured music by Voyager, Freddegredde, Gazpacho, Heliopolis, Delusion Squared, Rumour Cubes, Syd Arthur, Hekz, The Andy Tillison Multiplex, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Yossi Sassi, Tom Slatter, Tusmörke, Dream The Electric Sleep, Se Delan, Frequency Drift & The No Name Experience.

A soundtrack for the summer, sizzling with specially selected songs of the season - there is sun, there are good times, there are warm nights ... and a little summer rain. Music: 01 Now Welcome Summer by Malthouse Passage - 02 Til The English Summer's Done by Ken Nicol - 03 Days Like Today by Duncan McCrone - 04 The Summer Shower by Tattie Jam - 05 I Love The Sun by Jon Redfern - 06 Summer On The L by Lisa Redford - 07 Summer Town by Pete Bennett - 08 Run To The Sun by Leatherat - 09 Ode To The Summer by Syd Arthur - 10 Greek Lightning by Bob Fox - 11 Suntrap by Show Of Hands - 12 Sun Goes On Rising by Sarah McQuaid - 13 Under Their Breath by Jon Boden - 14 My Back Garden by The Moonbeams - 15 After Summer Rain by Steve Tilston - 16 Midsummer Blue by Liz Law & Terry Conway - 17 Summer Sun by Folklaw - 18 Red Rose Summer by Big Al Whittle - 19 The Midst Of Summertime by Merrymouth - 20 Night Falls On Summer's End by The Owl Service - 21 Summer's End by Jackie Oates - 22 And Summer Slips Away by Goldenlikethesun.

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