Northern Wish

1. The Three Of Us - Ben Harper
2. Intervention - The Arcade Fire
3. King Of Birds - R.E.M.
4. Mother Of Pearl - Roxy Music
5. Friction - Television
6. Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue) - Rickie Lee Jones
7. Tonight - Supergrass
8. I Wanna Stay Home - Jellyfish
9. Salesmen, Cheats and Liars - The Lowest Of The Low
10. Powder Blue - Elbow
11. Jealous Of Your Cigarette - Hawksley Workman
12. Red Red Sun - INXS
13. This Woman’s Work - Kate Bush
14. The Sea Refuses No River - Pete Townshend
15. Long Long Way To Go - Phil Collins
16. Tha Pharoahs Love Y’all - The Pharoahs
17. Julius - Phish
18. Consciousness Raising As A Social Tool - The Pursuit Of Happiness
19. Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead
20. Your Heart Is An Empty Room - Death Cab For Cutie
21. Sometimes (Lester Piggot) - James
22. Summer In Siam - The Pogues
23. Put The Message In The Box - World Party
24. Track Display - The Violet Archers
25. On The Verge - The Tragically Hip
26. Broken Heart - Spiritualized
27. Jessica - The Allman Brothers
28. Nobody’s Fault But My Own - Beck
29. Hasn’t Hit Me Yet - Blue Rodeo
30. The Blind Stagger - The Charlatans U.K.
31. I* - Dada
32. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God - Manic Street Preachers
33. Cortez The Killer - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
34. Christopher - Rheostatics
35. Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth
36. Scarlet - U2
37. Hotel Arizona - Wilco
38. Mr.Jones - Talking Heads
39. Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield
40. I Would Be Your Slave - David Bowie
41. Slip Away - Tempus Fugit

Next week is the Canada Day special. All Canadian bands for 3 hours!

Go to radiojohnson.net and click on the ear to hear. Go to What’s Happenin to see what’s playing.

1. Roulette Girl - Mary Prankster
2. Very Best Years - The Grays
3. Can’t Find My Way Home - Blind Faith
4. 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) - Bruce Springsteen
5. All Your Time - Blue Peter
6. Feet To The Sun - Dada
7. Mirrorball - Elbow
8. I’m Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground
9. You’re A Hurricane, I’m A Caravan - World Party
10. Everlong - Foo Fighters
11. Let DOwn - Radiohead
12. Sadness Soot - Grant-Lee Philips
13. The Glutton Of Sympathy - Jellyfish
14. Outbreak Of Love - Midnight Oil
15. When You Dance I Can Really Love - Neil Young
16. Planet Of Sound - The Pixies
17. Cover Me - Ken Tizzard
18. Sheep - Pink Floyd
19. Breaking The Girl - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
20. Saskatchewan - Rheostatics
21. Twisterella - Ride
22. Fools In Love - Joe Jackson
23. Reggatta De Blanc - The Police
24. Strokin’ The Grits - Poets Of Rhythm
25. Iggy & Angus - Sloan
26. Waterfall - The Stone Roses
27. Flamenco - The Tragically Hip
28. Don’t Look Back - Teenage Fanclub
29. Back Of A Car - Big Star
30. Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
31. The Universal - Blur
32. Call It Democracy - Bruce Cockburn
33. Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now) - Cracker
34. It Ain’t Easy - David Bowie
35. Good Enough - Dodgy
36. The Chamber Of 32 Doors - Genesis
37. Maybe I Belong - Howie Beck
38. Savory - Jawbox
39. Flowers - New Radicals
40. Stash - Phish
41. Find The Rive - R.E.M.
42. Sing The Absurd - The Wonder Stuff

Go to radiojohnson.net and click on the ear to hear. Go to What’s Happenin to see what’s playing.

1. Time Murder Ballad - Chris Brown and Kate Fenner
2. Mayor Of Simpleton - XTC
3. Tahitian Moon - Porno For Pyros
4. Here Comes The Image - Rheostatics
5. Sometimes (She’s So Far In) - Howie Beck
6. Save It For Later - The English Beat
7. I’m In Love With A Girl - Big Star
8. They Systematic Dumbing Down Of Terry Constance Jones - Butterfly Jones
9. Bittersweet - CSN
10. There Goes The Fear - Doves
11. Jimmy’s Got A Little Bit Of Bitch In Him - Funkadelic
12. Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead
13. Fee - Phish
14. History Repeating - Propellerheads
15. And Someone With Strengths - Wheat
16. Rock & Roll - The Velvet Underground
17. Bandit - Neil Young
18. She Will Have Her Way - Neil Finn
19. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Pogues
20. Skeletons - Rickie Lee Jones
21. She Just Wept - Starsailor
22. Don’t Let Go The Coat - The Who
23. Spiders (Kidsmoke) - Wilco
24. The Unforgettable Fire - U2
25. Titanic Terrarium - The Tragically Hip
26. Star Sign - Teenage Fanclub
27. Waiting For Slow Songs - Sloan
28. Little America - R.E.M.
29. Oceans Have No Memory - Porcupine Tree
30. House Of Cards - Radiohead
31. September Lily - Hawksley Workman
32. God’s Cup - Happy Mondays
33. Sunless Saturday - Fishbone
34. Try To Believe Me - Ginger
35. I Think I’m In Love - Spiritualized
36. Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes
37. On Your Radio - Joe Jackson
38. Town Called Malice - The Jam
39. Beautiful Girl - INXS
40. Fugitive Motel - Elbow
41. Devil Will Ride - Gomez

Go to radiojohnson.net and click on the ear to hear. Go to What’s Happenin to see what’s playing.

1. Rumours Of Glory - Bruce Cockburn
2. Catherine Wheels - Crowded House
3. Give It Up - Fishbone
4. Enlightened - Marillion
5. Slide Away - Oasis
6. Wallflower - Peter Gabriel
7. Sweet Dark Angel - Dada
8. Me In Honey - R.E.M.
9. Downstream - Supertramp
10. Heartland - U2
11. Can’t Wash It Off - Wheat
12. Dash 7 - Wilco
13. Vaccination Scar - The Tragically Hip
14. Crosseyed And Painless - Talking Heads
15. Jack-Ass - Beck
16. Can’t Get Out Of Bed - The Charlatans
17. Sweet Potato - Cracker
18. Your Love Gets Sweeter - Finley Quaye
19. Turn Your Lights Down Low - Bob Marley
20. Loose Booty - Funkadelic
21. Dirt - Phish
22. Tomorrow Will Be Like Today - Money Mark
23. Awful - Hole
24. Stacked Actors - Foo Fighters
25. Pets - Porno For Pyros
26. Everybody Knows - Ryan Adams
27. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - Radiohead
28. California Dreamline - The Rheostatics
29. Rude Groove - The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
30. Blackest Eyes - Porcupine Tree
31. I Can Feel It - Sloan
32. Dream Brother - Jeff Buckley
33. Blaze Of Glory - Joe Jackson
34. The Man With The Child In His Eyes - Kate Bush
35. The Complications Of Glitter - Joie Calio
36. Stewart’s Coat - Rickie Lee Jones
37. Revolution Blues - Neil Young
38. Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd
39. Remedy - The Black Crowes
40. Forget Myself - Elbow
41. The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
42. The One You Wanted - Howie Beck
43. Is This Music? - Teenage Fanclub

go to radiojohnson.net and click on the ear to hear. Go to What’s Happenin to see what’s playing.

Memorial Day show:

1. The American - Simple Minds
2. Silence - Gomez
3. Television Man - Talking Heads
4. The Fool On The Hill - The Beatles
5. No Beginning No End - Hawksley Workman
6. You Stole The Sun From My Heart - Manic Street Preachers
7. Afraid Of Sunlight - Marillion
8. Sea And Sand - The Who
9. The Completists - The Tragically Hip
10. The Bones Of You - Elbow
11. She Goes On - Crowded House
12. Cheapskate - Supergrass
13. Someday - The Strokes
14. On The Beach - Neil Young
15. Chalkdust Torture - Phish
16. Home - Foo Fighters
17. Perpetual Change - Yes
18. Always - World Party
19. Leave That Man - The Philosopher Kings
20. Knives Out - Radiohead
21. In The Name Of The Father - Black Grape
22. West Of The Fields - R.E.M.
23. It’s Different For Girls - Joe Jackson
24. The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon and Garfunkel
25. Wild Honey - U2
26. Velvet Morning - The Verve
27. Agent’s Got No Secret - Dada
28. If I Can’t Change Your Mind - Sugar
29. Mumbletypeg - The Rheostatics
30. When You Wake Up Feeling Old - Wilco
31. Tokyo - Bruce Cockburn
32. Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
33. Spanish Bombs - The Clash
34. Biological Speculation - Funkadelic
35. Lady Grinning Soul - David Bowie
36. 7/4 Shoreline - Broken Social Scene
37. The Body Electric - Rush
38. The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
39. Army Dreamers - Kate Bush
40. Going Places - Teenage Fanclub
41. I Was Watching You - Rosanne Cash
42. A Long Time Coming - Sloan
43. Courting Ed Templeton - Wheat

Victoria Day show

1. Victoria - The Kinks
2. V-2 Schneider - David Bowie
3. Little Bit Of Perfection - World Party
4. We Are The Pigs - Suede
5. Patchwork - Tindersticks
6. Little Wing - Neil Young
7. Stand By Me, Yeah - Sloan
8. So Alive - Ryan Adams
9. Shake This Town - Robbie Robertson
10. Vapour Trail - Ride
11. Ain’t That Enough - Teenage Fanclub
12. I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
13. Cool Waves - Spiritualized
14. Tropicalia - Beck
15. Born Again - Starsailor
16. True To Life - Roxy Music
17. How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
18. Can You Get To That - Funkadelic
19. Songbird - Fleetwood Mac
20. Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
21. Already There - The Verve
22. Watching You Without Me - Kate Bush
23. My Iron Lung - Radiohead
24. Welcome To The Occupation - R.E.M.
25. When The World Is Running Down - The Police
26. I Am Secure - Pete Townshend
27. Mothers Of The Disappeared - U2
28. Tir Na Nog - Van Morrison
29. Tumble Down The Years - Marillion
30. The Fleecing Of America - Dada
31. Summer Teeth - Wilco
32. Put Your Head On - The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
33. Scientist Studies - Death Cab For Cutie
34. Here Comes The Breeze - Gomez
35. Echoes - Pink Floyd
36. Shine Like It Does - INXS
37. Say Something - James
38. Bug - Phish
39. Shake Off The Ghosts - Simple Minds

There were some sequencing issues this week so not all tracks were played in their intended order. Here is what it should have been. I Can Feel It was not played.

1. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
2. East At Easter - Simple Minds
3. Watch The Sunrise - Big Star
4. Silver Wheels - Bruce Cockburn
5. She’s Electric - Oasis
6. Throw It Away - Joe Jackson
7. Moments Of Pleasure - Kate Bush
8. A Collection - Marillion
9. White City Fighting - Pete Townshend
10. Perfect Circle - R.E.M.
11. Soul Glue - Rheostatics
12. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here - Porcupine Tree
13. Hunger Strike - Temple Of The Dog
14. Go To Sleep - Radiohead
15. Summer - Wheat
16. Impossible Germany - Wilco
17. Love Street - World Party
18. Indian Summer Sky - U2
19. Speed Of Light - Teenage Fanclub
20. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
21. Good Souls - Starsailor
22. Sometimes (Lester Piggot) - James
23. Wild West End - Dire Straits
24. Look Back In Anger - David Bowie
25. Rise - Dada
26. Walk The Lake - Chris Brown and Kate Fenner
27. Sometimes Salvation - The Black Crowes
28. Venus As A Boy - Bjork
29. The Ballad Of John and Yoko - The Beatles
30. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
31. It Makes No Difference - The Band
32. You’re Missing - Bruce Springsteen
33. Starlight - Muse
34. Axilla Part II - Phish
35. Mother Of Violence - Peter Gabriel
36. Impossibilium - The Tragically Hip
37. How Do You Sleep? - The Stone Roses
38. Drive You Home - The Verve
39. Sometimes (She’s So Far In) - Howie Beck
40. Bike - Pink Floyd
41. A Movie Script Ending - Death Cab For Cutie
42. I Can Feel It - Sloan

1. Acadian Driftwood - The Band
2. The Darkest One - The Tragically Hip
3. All Uncovered - The Watchmen
4. Dead End Job - The Police
5. There There - Radiohead
6. Breakin The Rules - Robbie Robertson
7. Say You Miss Me - Wilco
8. Debaser - The Pixies
9. Dark House - Spirit Of The West
10. This House Is Not For Sale - Ryan Adams
11. 5.15 The Angels Have Gone - David Bowie
12. girlshapedlovedrug - Gomez
13. First Tube - Phish
14. Everything You’ve Done Wrong - Sloan
15. Calling Sarah - Jellyfish
16. She’s The One - World Party
17. Keep The Car Running - The Arcade Fire
18. Dragway 42 - The Pretenders
19. Thirteen - Big Star
20. Cast No Shadow - Oasis
21. Newborn - Elbow
22. Between A Laugh And A Tear - John Mellencamp
23. Stella Heart Ocean - By Divine Right
24. Exquisitely Bored - Pete Townshend
25. Addicted - Neil Finn
26. Soft Polluted Blacks - Wheat
27. The Chemistry Between Us - Suede
28. Stay (Faraway, So Close) - U2
29. Mary - Sarah McLachlan
30. Ta Bouche Est Tabou - Poi Dog Pondering
31. Long Road To Ruin - Foo Fighters
32. Albuquerque - Neil Young
33. Box Of Rain - The Grateful Dead
34. Marquee Moon - Television
35. Shut Out The Light - Bruce Springsteen
36. As Sure As I Am - Crowded House
37. Habit Forming - X Levitation Cult
38. Lift You Up - Chris Brown and Kate Fenner
39. RDA (Rock Death America) - Rheostatics
40. Hollow Man - Dada
41. What Sarah Said - Death Cab For Cutie
42. Aku Aku - Styx

So I did my first DJ slot on www.radiojohnson.net today. I do a show called Soulgazers and Hellraisers which is a bit of a mash up of mellow and not so mellow. it is every Monday from 2-5PM Eastern Standard Time and features an array of bands from Rheostatics to Wheat, from Fishbone to Ryan Adams, from Grateful Dead to The Verve and from The Hip to Death Cab For Cutie. A five decade long emotional roller coaster of Melancholy and Elation.

Here is the set I programmed for today’s show:

1. Canadian Skye - Spirit Of The West
2. Get Off This - Cracker
3. See The World - Gomez
4. Judas - Charlatans UK
5. Catacombs - Poi Dog Pondering
6. The Wind - Cat Stevens
7. Lusitana - Watchmen
8. It Should Be - Change Of Heart
9. Mayonaise - Smashing Pumpkins
10. Body Talk (Part 2) - Wheat
11. Lurgee - Radiohead
12. Helpless - Sugar
13. Step Out - Oasis
14. Medicine - By Divine Right
15. Tears - The Stone Roses
16. Weeping Willow - The Verve
17. The New Maybe - The Tragically Hip
18. Lazarus - Porcupine Tree
19. Everyday Sunshine - Fisbone
20. Broke Jennifer’s Window - Joie Calio
21. Baby’s Coming Back - Jellyfish
22. In A Future Age - Wilco
23. Lullaby Requiem - Neil Finn
24. Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads
25. Dark Quiet - Chris Brown and Kate Fenner
26. Just A Touch - REM
27. Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
28. Avalanche - Ryan Adams
29. Shanghai Sky - Joe Jackson
30. Don’t Change - INXS
31. Surrender - Cheap Trick
32. Ripple - Grateful Dead
33. Razor Love - Neil Young
34. Here Comes Everyone - The Wonder Stuff
35. Another Tricky Day - The Who
36. Scattered Black And Whites - Elbow
37. Thank You World - World Party
38. All I Am - Dada
39. No Surface All Feeling - Manic Street Preachers
40. If I Never See You Again - Teenage Fanclub
41. Northern Wish - Rheostatics
42. Emperor Penguin - The Tragically Hip
43. The Morning Fog - Kate Bush
44. Brian And Robert - Phish

SERIOUSLY I’VE BEEN WAITING 12 YEARS FOR THIS!!!!!

I missed the band’s last show in 1996 but I saw their second last show in Toronto. The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir were my definitive life changing band. I first saw them at a Halloween show at The Diamond - Dave had long hair and was dressed up like Olive Oyl from Popeye. Actually the first show I saw was at their first show at The Battle Of The Bands at The Concert Hall in 1985. You can read about it at http://www.bourbontabernaclechoir.com/history.shtml.

Then I remember hearing some cuts from Sister Anthony on Q107 on their “Indie Hour” back in 1990. I must have seen 100 Bourbon shows between 1990 and 1996. Clinton’s Tavern, Lee’s Palace, Kingswood, Maryhill, Kitchener, Guelph, London Fairgrounds, Call The Office, A Gathering Of Human Beings (easily the weirdest show I have ever been to …. ever), Hamilton, Peterborough etc, etc..

I can’t Imaging how many nights I must have annoyed them off backstage in my post show excited state (courtesy of many double rum and cokes).

The Bourbons were the by far the best live band I ever used to go see (except perhaps for Rheostatics but they are a whole different kind of fun). Bourbons were drink you face off, dance wildly and get your funk on kind of fun. I have missed them every day since 1996 and Never EVER figured they’d play together again.

Well it looks like Never EVER has arrived! On Saturday July 26 after a 12 year hiatus Chris Brown, Dave Wall, Kate Fenner, Chris Miller, Andrew Whiteman, Jason Mercer, Gene Hardy and Tom Bona will take the main stage at Hillside 2008. It will not be a night to miss and I’m sure just like the final Rheostatics show, there will be people coming from all over the country to see them once again, if only for one last time.

I can’t wait!

Check out all things Bourbon at my http://www.bourbontabernaclechoir.com site. Lots of Live shows, Videos etc.

TIckets for Hillside 2008 go on sale May 3 at 10AM - http://www.hillsidefestival.ca