Radio Free D’ni

Broadcast on Easter Sunday, proving that none of us looked at the public holiday dates before we announced the show time…  Nevertheless, a maximum of 29 with 22 – 24 all the way through.  Thank you all for listening, and this time it was something away from the mainstream.  Our skipping trip through Dave Swarbrick’s career seemed to go down well.  Here is the playlist.

Preshow

The Show

Postshow

A good crowd joined us to remember the career of Robert Stigwood and the artists and shows that he was responsible for.
He more or less invented the role independent record producer, changing the way that popular music was created and marketed, and was an important part of the development of both bands and shows that achieved worldwide recognition.

Radio Free D’ni isn’t quite in that league, but we did have up to 30 listeners, with about half of you with us on the plaza.

Pre and post show music consisted of items that had not made the cut for the show – and there were plenty of them, too.

Preshow

The Show

Postshow

Yoda put on another light show for us in Magic Tolesa and we followed up with a dance party, as is traditional 🙂  The Kadish bay was a great place for the light show, with lots of space for the audience to spread out along and a big flat area to perform on.  The dance afterwards made use of one of the best dance floors in MOUL, the interior of the pyramid puzzle building.

The light show was accompanied by music from Malcolm Cecil, Robert Margouleff and the TONTO synthesiser, one of those unique electronic instruments that in fact turns up all over the place, but only credited in the small print, if at all.

Preshow

Show

Dance party

A second set of Covered Up songs, where we find the original versions of songs and then play one or two covers that are interesting and different from the original.  A bit nerd-ey perhaps, but fascinating if you are into that sort of thing.

Preshow

The Show

Postshow

Radio Free D’ni provided some of the music for the St. Patrick’s Day parade and post-parade bop, and here is the playlist :).

The preshow was, as usual, designed to let people find the broadcast channel and get tuned in to the music.  Unfortunately, I had not created the playlists, and doing so took up so much processing power that the channel dropped out for most people.  However, I promised not to do that again, and the listeners returned…  at one point, 43 folks were listening, more than were in the cavern, and we still had 27 on line when I handed over to Joker at 15 KI.

Preshow

The main event began with the parade, following Minasunda’s artfully placed set of markers, which included instructions for dance moves or emotes to be performed in certain locations.

Parade

After the parade we went to the (green, of course) Greeters Pub for some  dancing

Dance

For IWD 2017 Radio Free D’ni presented a four-hour show of music by female artists, presented by Root Beer with AlanDJ, Malaclypse and Edison Rex.  Hummingbird was with us on the plaza, and delivered some reminders of what the day was about, and biographical details of significant women, some famous and others not so.  In addition, Ghaelen D’Lareh (who could not be with us due to other commitments) contributed a spoken piece about Mary Woolstonecroft and Mary Shelley.

We had over 35 listeners for the majority of the show, with a peak of 43 – Do join us again 🙂

For this, we chose albums that we consider to have no weak tracks at all, that is, no fillers, no tracks just to pad out the album to its full length. Naturally enough this is a little bit subjective, so if we haven’t included your favourite, I apologise, but will note that we have several albums left over in our list, enough for more shows on this theme, if you like it. And do please send us your own suggestions for this category.  Tracks were chosen as far as possible to be the less-well known and played ones from each album

The Preshow was made up from the F section of my stash, with Flanders and Swann interjecting some humour between Fairport Convention and Fleetwood Mac.

The Postshow consisted of tracks that didn’t quite make the cut for the main show, given that we restricted ourselves to two tracks from each album.  This was one way to fit those extra tracks in.

Preshow

The Show

Postshow