Hard Enough To Start With

Our guest on Line Noise today is Richard Norris. a man who can claim to have made the UK’s first acid house album, found worldwide chart fame with The Grid and was a creative partner for Joe Strummer, among many other things. His autobiography Strange Things Are Happening, is scheduled to be released on March 21, 2024. We talked about Swamp Thing, acid house, Genesis P-Orridge, Jack the Tab and more.

Line Noise Episode 154 (Richard Norris, The Grid, Jack The Tab)

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Xianedelica 1966-1978: Xian Psych, Garage & Acid Folk from the Private Press

¡Extry Extry! JESÚS BACALÃO’S LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME SPLITS FROM IT’S ALL-SHELLAC KICK ON A TRIP THRU THE REALMS OF XIAN PRIVATE PRESS VINYL

On Tonight’s Programme

Twas 66 & among the heads of the Haight, Spores of Disillusionment were germinating- inhaled twixt tokes of Acapulco G. Nam cocktailed with the Lysergic Prohibition were proving a potent downer

The bud of 66 bloomed a 67 & the Spores were palpable to a growing bouquet of Flower Chillen. The Dream was all but over when Time ran a story on hippies in Jan 67. No head had HEARD of a hippie & next thing ya know, they were coming to look at us like we was in a glass bowl, said Mickey Hart. Literally- 67 saw the maiden voyage of Gray Line's Hippie Tour, billed as A SAFARI THRU PSYCHEDELIA

Press drew youth like moth to flame. FORGET FLOWERS IN YA HAIR The Oracle headline read- pilgrims bring sleeping bags & scratch instead

Like THAT, Utopia became a cesspit of B&E; VD; bum trips on STP. The Spores’ prime symptom, spiritual void, was taking hold- exacerbated by culdesac forays into krishna, zen & the occult

& in this darkness... The Living Room

Est. by ex-beats who found salvation on LSD, TLR was a coffeehouse that offered beds for bible readings. 1000s of youth dropped by in 67, listening to the word of these counterculture evangelists. Their Jesus was presented as a revolutionary outlaw and their strain of worship stressed direct contact with Jesus via drug metaphors aplenty. This was a mainliner to the soul of the disenchanted doper- soon TLR was Saving over 20 a week- Jesus Freaks were here

coffeehousi/ street ministries swiftly dotted the Coast. TLR convert, Lonnie Frisbee, held services at SoCal's Calvary Chapel, now THE hippie church, it’s membership growin from 200 to 2000 in 3 months. Among the converts were musicians, many of which had played in bands in SF, who were now writing music for praise/worship, sonically rooted in the Frisco Sound. Performances by these freshly minted Christian Psych (dubbed Xian Psych by 90s collectors) bands were incorporated into services and went down a storm. Soon they were in the studio recording privately pressed LPs funded by the church/ by the bands themselves. In time, the lyrical subject matter had evolved, waxin not only on the XTC of Jesus, but also pre-conversion experiences with drugs/promiscuity & the alternative that was the Jesus Trip

As headlines blurred from RFK to MLK to Altamont, The Jesus People spread, with Calvary affiliates founding 20 communes across Cali before departing en masse, sending teams across the US & Canada. Other factions of Jesus People toured the US (& by the end of '70, Europe) too, sharing the gospel/ the farout sounds of Xian Psych. New communes were founded as were new bands who lay down their own private press LPs, flying the Frisco Sound’s freakflag

As Nam’s curtain closed, counterculture was absorbed by pop culture and so too, most of the Jesus Freaks folded into m'stream Christianity. The once radical music of the movement was dropped in favour of an MOR sound, later the lucrative Christian Contemporary Music industry. Though some bands from the salad days of xian music became stalwarts of that scene, most disappeared but some, like NYC based commune/collective, The Trees Community, spent the rest of the decade travelling the US, sharing their otherworldly sound in a converted school bus housing 
10 people
2 cats+dog
80 instruments. Now if THAT aint The Dream...

The cornucopia of Xianedelic delights on Tonight’s Programme were recorded largely by American Jesus Freaks, with a few sounds by their EU/CA counterparts. 92% of the records were privately pressed (with the remainder released by church funded indie labels), usually produced in numbers of 50-200, allowing the bands full creative freedom, which as you'll hear, was used to the fullest

Now, Praise The Lord, Take a Trip & Take it Sleazy

j.

Jesús Bacalão’s Light Entertainment Programme: Xianedelica 1966-1978

Little lockdown Demo about being grateful for the people we know.

Sharing as our sound engineer started a project to encourage acts to write positive songs while in lockdown, each Wednesday the gang upload their song for the week on this website:

https://www.positivesongsproject.org/weekly-submissions/

We got involved with this demo made by Boone in his home studio.
Adrian features on 'The Pigeon' with Granfalloon too!

Lock up!

Grateful for you (Demo)

"We have the audacity to celebrate our joys, and power through our pain" - https://audacityfest.com/

This past weekend I was honored to be one of the DJs featured for the Audacity Fest, please do take time to read up on the Nomadness Tribe and the Audacity Fest.  Here is the recap mix. Be sure to follow @evierobinson @audacityfeat

More info: https://www.iamlikwuid.com/post/audacity-fest

Audacity Fest DJ Likwuid Mix

Blue Side (2021)

Produced by Hiss noise, ADORA
(j-hope, Hiss noise, ADORA)

Keyboard - Hiss noise
Synthesizer - ADORA
Guitar - Hiss noise
Vocal Arrangement - Slow Rabbit
Digital Editing - Hiss noise
Recording Engineers - Slow Rabbit @ Carrot Express
			                j-hope @ Hope World
Mix Engineer - 박진세 @ Big Hit Studio
Mastering Engineer - Chris Gehringer @ Sterling Sound, New York, USA

모든 게 변해버린 우리 사이 나 홀로 외쳐 Blue
너로 인해 물들어 새파란 눈물이 맺혀 Blue
봄 여름 가을 겨울 항상 그 느낌 그대로 Blue
돌아가고 싶어 아무것도 모르던 그때로 Blue

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차가움에 태양이 비추고 구름이 감싸준 Blue
하늘 바람 타고 지금 이 순간 그곳으로 Blue
지금 날 위로해 주는 내 마음의 Blue
파란 달빛 아래 나 홀로 Blue

어둠 속 내 아픔을 토해낼 때
한숨으로 찬 공기가 죄어올 때
난 느꼈어
무지개다리에
파란 길만 걷고 싶단 걸
I’m singing my blues
Singing my bloom
Back in my room
그립다 그 시절 파란 나와 가벼운 숨
냉정과 열정 사이 그 무게를 재보지만
지금 난 그저 파랗게 타서 죽고 싶다

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내 파란 꿈속에
널 담을래
아니라고 해도
내 눈 속에

내 파란 꿈속에
널 안을래
안 된다고 해도
내 품속에
 
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Blue Side by j-hope of BTS

Hello Cosmos are a Manchester-based band and collective of creatives. A four piece at their core, the band are led by songwriter and bass player Ben Robinson , the founder of the celebrated bluedot & Kendal Calling festivals . Also featuring the talents of mainstay members Angela Chan on viola/synths/vocals (notably a member of the Mercury-shortlisted Lanterns on the Lake and a touring member of Placebo) , powerhouse drummer Simon Robinson (brother of Ben) and the uniquely styled guitarist Adrian Ingham (assisted by a stack FX pedals); together as Hello Cosmos they are a meeting of minds of telepathic harmony with immense capability.

 “People need to get on board with this.” - Jack Saunders, The Next Wave - BBC Radio 1

“Propelled by self-belief, hope and a heavy groove. Guaranteed to knock your socks off.” 9/10 - Louder than War

“Epic stuff, will be rising up the bills in years to come.” - Gordon Smart – Radio X Drivetime

 “A terrific album. Intense and thought-provoking throughout… its lyrics pack an almighty punch.” 8/10 - God is in the TV

“Blowing the dust off the speakers of life.”  - Chris Hawkins – BBC Radio 6 Music

Hard Enough To Start With

HELLO COSMOS