Playlist 23.8.2007

01. Babyshambles - "Delivery"
02. The Ghost Frequency - "Nightmare"
03. ARE Weapons - "I Can't Get Started"
04. Black Flag - "Siy Pack"
05. The Vapors - "Turning Japanese"
06. Alexander Hacke - "Wildcat"
07. The Ting Tings - "That's Not My Name"
08. Kate Nash - "Foundations"
09. Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobious Pip - "Thou Shalt Always Kill" (Metro Area Remix)
10. Plemo - "Wir Raven"
11. Plemo - "Randale"
12. Plemo - "Top 40 DJs"
13. New Young Pony Club - "Ice Cream"


Mod. Jens Dreiser

Ein sehr trauriger Tag für Radio Flora

Unser lieber Freund und radio flora- Gründungsmitglied Petja Wundenberg ist heute Nachmittag nach längerer Krankheit verstorben. Er wurde nur 55 Jahre alt.
Wir von radio flora verdanken Petja sehr viel und werden ihn sehr vermissen.
Kaum eine andere Person hat ihr Wirken so in den Dienst unseres Senders gestellt, wie Petja. Die Ideen von Petja machen einen großen Teil des Erfolgs von radio flora aus, im vergangenen Jahr wurde ihm die radio flora Ehrenmitgliedschaft verliehen. Auch in der jüngsten Programmreform findet sich Vieles von Petjas Vorstellungen eines engagierten bürgernahen Radios.
Unsere Gedanken sind mit Petja, seinen Angehörigen und Freunden - wir sind sehr traurig!

R.I.P. TONY WILSON 1950 - 2007

Tony Wilson, co-founder of FACTORY RECORDS, has died at the age of 57.

Wilson passed away on this evening in the hospital after suffering a heart attack that his doctor said was unrelated to his recent battle with cancer. Professor Robert Hawkins, his doctor at Christie hospital, told the Guardian: "It's very sad. He died as a result of something unrelated to his cancer. His cancer was responding well to treatment but obviously did contribute to his poor health".

Born Anthony H. Wilson on February 20, 1950 in Salford, England, he went on to become a renowned broadcast journalist, band manager, record label executive and night club owner.
As the Factory Records boss, he was responsible for signing legendary bands including Joy Division and New Order to his label. Also, as owner of the renowned Hacienda nightclub in Manchester, he played a key role in the Madchester scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s that mixed indie rock and dance music and included artists such as Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses.
The Hacienda, which hosted Madonna's first UK television appearance in 1983, was forced to close in the late 1990s as it was losing money allegedly because its patrons were taking ecstasy rather than buying drinks at the club.
Wilson reportedly became involved in the Manchester music scene in the 1970s when hosting the culture and music programme 'So It Goes' on Granada Television.
After covering a Sex Pistols performance at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1976, he described the experience as "nothing short of an epiphany" and booked the band for one of the first television broadcasts of British punk rock.
These aspects of Wilson's life were later chronicled in the semi-fictional 2002 feature film '24 Hour Party People', in which he was portrayed by British actor Steve Coogan.
More recently, Wilson was involved in In The City, a yearly music festival and conference that takes place in Manchester and New York City, which he co-founded with his partner Yvette Livesey.
In 2005 he launched F4, the fourth incarnation of the Factory Records label.

Earlier this year, the music mogul was diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery to have one of his kidneys removed.

(From NME.com)

Playlist 9.8.07

1. Lee Hazelwood - Boots (original melody)
2. Tegan and Sara - Walking With a Ghost
3. Tegan and Sara - Dark Comes Soon
4. Okkervil River - Unless It's Kicks
5. Stars - The Night Starts Here
6. Devotchka - Such a Lovely Thing
7. M.I.A. - Jimmy
8. The Clash - Magnificent Dance
9. Celluloid with the Clash - Escapades of Futura 2000 (Original 12" Version)
10. The Mekons - Dicky, Chalky and Nobby

LEE HAZLEWOOD: 9 July 1929 – 4 August 2007

Kiss all the pretty ones goodbye
Give everyone a penny that cry
You can throw all my tranquil' pills away
Let my blood pressure go on its way
For my autumn's done come
My autumn's done come.
Lee Hazlewood, My Autumn's Done Come


We are sad to announce that LEE HAZLEWOOD has died peacefully at his home outside Las Vegas, USA, after a three year struggle with cancer. He celebrated his 78th birthday earlier this month surrounded by family and friends from around the world. He passed away on August 4th, 2007, in Henderson, Nevada, and is survived by his son Mark, his daughters Debbie and Samantha, and his devoted wife Jeane.

For over half a century, LEE HAZLEWOOD proved himself to be one of the most ingenious, inspired and impressively stubborn sons-of-a-bitch the music industry ever saw. His career – a word that HAZLEWOOD himself scorned – saw him take on almost every aspect of the music industry – a word that HAZLEWOOD himself was equally dismissive of – and come out on top every time. Most famous for his work with Nancy Sinatra – he wrote and produced many of her biggest hits, including These Boots Were Made For Walking, Sugartown and the unforgettable Some Velvet Morning – HAZLEWOOD in fact started his musical career as a DJ in Coolidge, Arizona. It was here he first met Duane Eddy, with whom he began to flesh out and record some of his songs. In 1955 he set up Viv Records and in 1956 hit paydirt with Sanford Clark's legendary The Fool, and the following year he gave up DJing to focus on production and writing. In the early 1960s he established the LHI label (which is best known for having released the debut album by Gram Parson's first group, The International Submarine Band) and began releasing his own solo albums, including the extraordinary "Trouble Is A Lonesome Town".

In the mid sixties, in the face of The British Invasion (led by the likes of The Beatles), HAZLEWOOD retired to the shadows (where he was always most comfortable) only to be reluctantly dragged out to work with Nancy Sinatra. Their work together – including the iconic Boots – was an overnight success and saw her become a star in her own right worldwide, but she also insisted that HAZLEWOOD step out in front of the microphone himself, leading to the release of three "Nancy & Lee" albums.

In the early 1970s HAZLEWOOD moved to Sweden to ensure his son was not drafted by the US military. He recorded a series of solo albums there as well as collaborating with film director Torbjörn Axelman, but then 'retired' again, working only occasionally over the next two decades. Instead he began to follow an itinerant lifestyle which he pursued until very recently, living in Ireland, Germany, Spain and of course America. However it was the rediscovery of this work two decades later by a new generation of musicians – including the likes of Sonic Youth, whose drummer Steve Shelley tracked HAZLEWOOD down and reissued a number of his solo albums on his Smells Like Records imprint – that led to a resurgence of interest in his work as a performer. In the late 90s he returned to the studio to record the typically cryptically titled standards album "Farmisht, Flatulence, Origami, ARF!!! and Me", and in 1999 he returned to the stage at the invitation of Nick Cave who was curating that year's Meltdown Festival in London. Following a sold out show at the Royal Festival Hall he sanctioned the release of two albums of unreleased material, most notably "For Every Solution There's A Problem", toured Europe, and then returned to the studio to record his final album, "Cake Or Death", which was released to worldwide acclaim in 2006.

HAZLEWOOD's music has always been a staple of movie soundtracks, but it has continued to become more and more fashionable, regularly turning up in films as diverse as The Dukes Of Hazzard – which saw Jessica Simpson perform These Boots Were Made For Walking for the title track – and the arthouse flick Morvern Callar – which used Some Velvet Morning to great effect.

The family have requested that those wishing to honour LEE HAZLEWOOD should make donations to the Salvation Army…