Chris Bent presents TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION

Chris B - 60 minute samples of programming for Radio Seagull
1. 28th May 2004 Guitar Wolf-Summertime Blues May Blitz-Smoking The Day Away Anti-Pop Consortium-Here They Come Now Nick Drake-Fruit Tree Lee Scratch Perry-African Hitchiker Dirtbombs-Underdog Loretta Lynn-Have Mercy Richard Thompson-Oops I Did It Again Love-You Set The Scene Morgan Fisher-Miniatures, including Norman Lovett 'John Peel Sings The Blues Badly'; Patrick Portella 'Serrons Nous Les Coudes'; George Melly 'Sounds That Saved My Life (Homage To K.S.)'; Robert Fripp 'Minature'; Andy Partridge 'The History Of Rock'n'Roll'; Phantom Captain 'Breather' Torch Song-Venus In Furs/Mothdoom Ecstacy with studio guest Paul Welton with Ozzy the cat	2. 4th July 2004 (now playing) Morrissey-How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel? Cake-I Will Survive Liz Phair-Extraordinary Audio Bullies-We Don't Care Duran Duran-All She Wants Is (US Master Mix) Ian Dury-Spasticus Autisticus Fugs-Marijuana I Monster-Daydream In Blue (remix) Placebo-Passive Aggressive (Brothers In Rhythm mix) Taboo-No.6 (The Prisoner Remix) Siouxsie & The Banshees-Happy House The The-Heartland
dedicated to Mike Spenser	Samples are presented in watery 20.7kbps real player. This was when bandwidth and disk space were at a premium... recorded at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada NOTE (added April 2012): e-mail addresses and websites given in progs may no longer exist
3. 12th October 2003 The Psychedelic Psundae Pseagull Pseaquence (sic) in session Gaven Dianda recorded at CIUT Toronto Cosmic Sounds-Aries Flashing Lights-Since They Were Crowned Flashing Lights-Friends You Learn To Hate Gaven Dianda plays the sitar for us Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup-Which Dreamed It Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup-Jabberwock Gaven Dianda talks about Boeing Duveen, a.k.a. Dr Sam Hutt a.k.a. Hank Wangford Flashing Lights-It's Alright Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends-Flashing Lights Pretty Things-Defecting Grey Deep Purple-Emmaretta Jason Crest-Black Mass Jimi Hendrix Experience-1983 A Merman I Should Turn To Be... Moon Turn The Tides Gently Away...
...for Gaven Dianda in Toronto	Amsterdam radio day 2003 - Chris B (centre) talks to Bob Noakes, watched by Tony Christian

FEEDBACK+++ COMMENTS+++

BRITS are not usually comfortable with shouting from the rooftops how good something is (or isn't) so I've deliberated about posting your comments about the show. Rather than have a guest book where Polythene Spam and frendz could bare all I had decided to have no feedback posted. However, eight years later, bearing in mind this is the place where pomposity and pretentiousness know no boundaries, here are a selection of your thoughts (warts and all). All anonymous unless you'd like a credit for your own words:

"What the hell are you smoking, or sniffing ? I have spent an hour now listening to your show this Saturday night and i have heard about four tracks worth listening to. IF John Peel has affected you please get some treatment, the man was an eccentric weirdo who loved playing crap which is why he suited different youth cultures and the BBC kept him on. Listening to your show i feel like i am on drugs with weird folky Scottish tunes, then ethereal music followed by god knows what. I know no offshore radio friends that ever gave Peel a listen, and in the 70's Caroline never played anything of his taste so maybe you should be working for some some old radio one appreciation society where Peely music is appreciated."

from a media entrepreneur:
"Always beats me why you don't have some late night gig on the Beeb somewhere - the quality of your music choice is excellent but then I guess that opens a whole discussion topic of why radio in the UK is so dire at present ...."

"I love a mixture of Rock, dance, trance & progressive music, that's why I enjoy what you do"

"Thanks again (for the Nth time) for your most excellent shows. Sorry if it sounds exaggerated but it is simply the truth - but then I'm sure others will say so too!

Radio Seagull - and your show being my absolute favourite, to hear your selection of new music and the occasional Kraftwerk, Mr. Coconut or Klaatu track..."

"listening to your wonderful show.. Just LOVE Emerge by Fischerspooner - had to do a Shazam text check to find that out"

about the show from Seborga, Liguria, with co presenter Mark Dezzani:
"Sorry Chris....

all I can say is..............

BLOODY Brilliant ,

you've got me hooked to your shows,
regards to Mark D 'cause he sounds Kool too.. "

The Seborgan Seagull with Mark Dezzani & Chris B
The Cure-The Holy Hour
Noir Desir-Le Vent Nous Portera
Isabelle Antenne-Playback
Senor Coconut Y Su Conjunto-Autobahn
Stanley Clarke-Desert Song
Robert Wyatt-Heeps Of Sheep
Lunar Drive-50 Cents
Urzi Fantasia-Meikku
Lee Scratch Perry-African Hitch Hiker
Dr John-Take What I Can Get
Calexico-Alone Again Or
Les Negresse Vertes-Les Megots
Madaski-A Forest

from a DJ at another radio station (previously on RNI, ex Radio Caroline etc.), this carefully considered and reasoned comment, about the above Seborgan Seagull playlist:

What a load of obscure crap if you don't mind me saying so...

"I try to listen every time you are on Radio Seagull.

Love the show.

Why aren't you on Radio Seagull every night?"

A general comment about Radio Seagull:
"I own a bar in Thailand. Most nights at 2am (Just before the bar closes) I put radio Seagull on the PA system. We have a large international customer base, from America, England, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Germany etc etc. It's interesting to see their reaction when they realise what they are listening to!"

"I'm now hearing your excellent show.

You played America by Bert Sommer ??

Loved it, love the Simon & Garfunkel original, Love the YES / Jon Anderson version too..."

...whilst live on air at Radio Caroline Maidstone studio:

"Hi Chris,

This is simple, either follow our playlist or put the automation on and go home.

Your choice."

from a radio professional:

"Truly, you "get it" in terms of doing creative radio. Your playlists are the type of radio I love to see being done. Your ideas on how a show should be presented are quite progressive. I can think of no better compliment than to be told to "return to playlist" as I was in the exact same boat here on an American FM station. I was the operations manager and also handled music and programming of the station until they realized I was actually going to LOOK for music to play instead of sitting back and passively letting the computer play things over and over and over.. I had a vision to grow the station which was not shared..."

from another presenter:
"...you were yet another bloody presenter who refused to work to dull and out-dated playlists. And quite right too !!!

Funny how people who make up playlists always seem to know a hell of a lot less about music than the guys who are actually doing the programmes. Weird isn't it ?

Freeform rules !"