TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION
with Chris Bent a.k.a. Chris B
Click here for Chris B Radio Seagull Biography


01 April 2017
on Radio Seagull online 3 hours from 12 noon (UK time) Saturday, repeated midnight (UK time) Saturday into Sunday morning
on the Netherlands DAB+ Network. Also on 1602Khz & online

Hour 1 PODCAST
Manfred Man Chapter III-I Ain't Laughing
Rodney Bewes-Dear Mother.. Love Albert
Manfred Man Chapter III-Devil Woman
Captain Beefheart-Upon The My Oh My:

Don Van Vliet a.k.a. 'Capitain Beefsteak', Dutch TV:


Captain Beefheart-I'm Gonna Booglarise You Baby
Supersister-No Tree Will Grow (Dandelion records 45rpm single)
Ritchie Havens-What About Me
Yardbirds-The Nazz Are Blue
Nazz-Open My Eyes/Back Of Your Mind/See What You Can Be/Hello It's Me/Wildwood Blues

Hour 2 PODCAST
Forest-Graveyard
White Noise Welfare State-Silence Is Requested (from John Peel's Top Gear LP)
Simon Dupree and the Big Sound-Thinking About My Life
Gravy Train-Think Of Life (Vertigo LP)
Affinity-Cocoanut Grove (Vertigo LP)
Gracious-Introduction (Vertigo LP)
Manfred Mann Chapter III-Happy Being Me (Vertigo mono single version)
Traffic-Medicated Goo (with false ending, only available on island single WIP6050)
Aphrodites Child-Spring Summer Winter and Fall
Tyrannosaurus Rex-King Of The Rumbling Spires
Caravan-Love To Love You
Melanie-Candles In The Rain
Melanie with Edwin Hawkins Singers-Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)

Hour 3 PODCAST
Cockney Rebel-Sebastian (unreleased until 2012 Anthology - CAVALIERS Young Feisty & Fearless)
ELP-Tarkus
Spooky Tooth-Love Really Changed Me
Melanie-Bobo's Party
McDonald & Giles-Suite In C/Flight Of The Ibis
King Crimson-Cadence and Cascade (Greg Lake vocals)

Judge Dread-Big 7

Chris B in green velvet trousers, circa 1973, with the future Mrs B.

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Back next Friday with more recent musics (sic)
and on Saturday with more alternative 60's & 70's trax

TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION
(new: expanded and improved)

on Radio Seagull

every Friday & Saturday at midday UK time, and again at midnight
on the Dutch DAB digital network
 and also on 1602Khz & online
 

Chris B can now be heard on Radio Seagull two days every week. On Friday the Weekend Starts Here when we head Toward The Unknown Region with an eclectic mix of recent releases and those tunes that may have escaped your attention. Electronica, Psychedelia, Folk, Prog, World...
on Radio Seagull online 3 hours from 12 noon (UK time) Friday
repeated midnight (UK time) Friday into Saturday morning
...and on the Netherlands DAB+ Network & 1602Khz AM

Meanwhile, on Saturday, three unexpurgated hours of those Alternative Sounds of the 60's and the 70's
on Radio Seagull online 3 hours from 12 noon (UK time) Saturday
repeated midnight (UK time) Saturday into Sunday morning
...and on the Netherlands DAB+ Network & 1602Khz AM

 

Chris B, Hunstanton 1972

Chris & Jez: Hunstanton, Summer 1971 - Schools Out for 'Bent + Bowles'

Chris B with Girlfriend/Wife, Kathy, circa 1972

'Hair, Flares, Platforms and Hotpants'



Happy Daze: Jeremy Bowles, owner of the greatest ever tent -
with flysheet, sown in groundsheet and bell end

'Sorting out the gubbins in the tent'
In foreground: Teleton cassette recorder, Best of Cream, box of cassettes, 6x supersize 1.5 volt batteries (black, held together with green and yellow tape), extension loudspeaker (with bottle of cider on top)

 

Watch BBC Man Alive tv documentary 'The Disc Jockeys':
 

 

Interested in the Mellotron? Want to check whether any of the songs played feature a Mellotron? Visit:     

The Ultimate Recordings List (probably)