Danny and The Nightmares tape Sugarhill Session
YO - CHECK IT. Did you know that there is sometimes music played on KPFT? No, we're not talking about when a guest on The Prison Show bursts into song. For atleast an hour a month Pacifica's ditches the talk and gets to the rock in an hour-long live-on-tape show called the Sugarhill Sessions. And, on Wednesday night, Waller-based but Houston-claimed Daniel Johnston brought his band Danny and the Nightmares up to the studio to record a some songs for an upcoming broadcast.
The tracks, recorded as part of the Houston-is-crazy-right-now SXSWeek, will be on the air at a TBD time in the future - You'll know when we do.
For those of you reading from Austin and sporting one of those bandgey/wrist-bandy things, you can catch Johnston in the home-town of his most famous graffiti, playing with his Nightmares at the Austin Convention Center Day Stage today at 5PM or tomorrow at the Ritz/Blender Bar at 11pm.
(ok - before leaving a sensy-fensy comment about there being lots of music on KPFT and that its Klan-inciting talk programming serves an important role in the community, please understand our propensity for JOKEZ and let us take this opportunity to send big shouts to everyone involved with the station, especially some of our favorites like Soular Grooves, Reprogram Radio and radioACTIVE.)
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4 Comments:
Hey ADR - Give some love to the radio hosts there.
This is part of Phil and Rhonda's show Radioactive. They've done a bang-up job of highlighting local acts (former Sugarhill session shows include Jana Hunter, Ume, Bring Back The Guns, et al)and without them, this wouldn't even be happening. I may not agree 100% with their tastes but there's no denying the enthusiasm, love, and the work they put into their show.
Do they archive these so we can listen to them/download them later? That would be awesome. Like Daytrotter, but here in Houston.
My understanding is that Radio Active first broadcasts these on their show but that afterwards the shows are archived on Sugarhill's site for your listening pleasure.
Ramon is right (thanks, Ramon!). The SHS are a one hour 'live' performance & interview recorded at Sugar Hill Studios and aired the last Friday of every month at 2PM on KPFT radioACTIVE show. This month we will air Tacks, the Boy Disaster from Austin, followed in April by either Danny and The Nightmares OR Black Fiction fron SF.
Rhonda and I are working on some local bands, too; major props to Heba and Gina at SugarHill, and Steve Christiansen and John Griffin for engineering.
SOME of the shows are archived at the SugarHill site- I am working on getting them all up there.
Check out my sxsw experience at myspace.com/kpftradioactive
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