Here’s my soulful mini mix that went out on Glen Lewis’ First Avenue breakfast show on national Metro FM, South Africa this morning. Great to be back on the airwaves in SA!
MD AT SOUL CITY, IBIZA, TUESDAY 15TH/ WEDNESDAY 16TH JULY
I’m gassed up up to be heading out to Ibiza next week. I’ll be throwing down at Soul City, the island’s original and best urban music spot, in the notorious West End of San Antonio on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th. Looking forward to reuniting with the Soul City fam.
In the meantime, here’s the latest Black Sheep Mag article on SC:
MD’S CLUB/ RADIO/ TALK DATES, JUL/ AUG ’14
Saturday 12th July
Covering Danny Prince’s As It Goes revival show, Destiny 105FM, Oxford (4-6pm)
Saturday 12th July
The Sound Of Now, Destiny 105FM, Oxford (6-8pm)
Tuesday 15th July
Soul City, San Antonio, IBIZA
Wednesday 16th July
Soul City, San Antonio, IBIZA
Saturday 19th July
Live vinyl mix on Danny Prince’s show, Destiny 105, Oxford (5pm)
Saturday 19th July
The Sound Of Now, Destiny 105FM, Oxford (6-8pm)
Friday 25th July
Presentation, Glastonbury Symposium, Glastonbury Town Hall
Saturday 26th July
The Sound Of Now, Destiny 105FM, Oxford (6-8pm)
Saturday 26th July
Back In The Day, The Old Bank, Swindon
Saturday 2nd August
The Sound Of Now, Destiny 105FM, Oxford (6-8pm)
Saturday 2nd August
Soul Sessions Alldayer, Richmond Athletic Ground, Richmond On Thames
Saturday 9th August
The Sound Of Now, Destiny 105FM, Oxford (6-8pm)
Friday 15th August
Destiny 105 Live, Blanco, Oxford
Saturday 16th August
The Sound Of Now, Destiny 105FM, Oxford (6-8pm)
Saturday 23rd August
The Sound Of Now, Destiny 105FM, Oxford (6-8pm)
Sunday 24th August
Hot Box, Blanco, Oxford
Saturday 30th August
The Sound Of Now, Destiny 105FM, Oxford (6-8pm)
GOOD VIBRATIONS PODCAST, VOL. 43: DAVE McGOWAN/ LAUREL CANYON
We keep with strange stuff in the music scene for Volume 43, as US author and researcher Dave McGowan guests. Dave was behind the recent series of web articles shining the spotlight on the Laurel Canyon neighbourhood of Los Angeles, which has now become his new book, Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon. We ask the question why, of all places, LC became the birthplace of the counter-culture/ hippie movement of the mid-1960s, rather than San Francisco as is often assumed, and why a staggering number of the most prominent musicians from that era just happened to congregate in this community.
The waters get muddied when it turns out that LC was home to a covert military intelligence base, and some delving into the backgrounds of the artists reveals that, almost without exception, they came from family backgrounds connected with arms of the government. The most striking example is the father of The Doors’ Jim Morrison, who just happened to be US naval commander at the site of the Gulf Of Tonkin false flag incidents that catapulted America into the Vietnam War.
This raises the alarming question of whether the hippie movement was as organic and grass-roots as has always been believed, or whether it could have all been a cynically manipulated exercise in mass social engineering and mind control.
THE SOUND OF NOW. PLAYLIST FOR 5/7/14
THE SOUND OF NOW, WITH MARK DEVLIN
DESTINY 105.1FM, OXFORD
PLAYLIST FOR SATURDAY 5TH JULY 2014
JENNIFER HUDSON FEAT. R. KELLY. IT’S YOUR WORLD
DJ SKT. GIVE IT UP
RAY FOXX FEAT. RACHEL K COLLIER. CURIOUS (DEVOLUTION REMIX)
MAX MARSHALL: BE FREE
BIMBO JONES & BEVERLEY KNIGHT: I FOUND OUT (DISCO MIX)
CORMEGA: RAP BASQUIAT
AZ. RED MAGIC
ILLA GHEE: 90
STREET BEAT OF THE WEEK:
RESOLUTE FEAT. AZ. ONLY NATURAL
SOULS OF MISCHIEF FEAT. SNOOP DOGG. THERE IS ONLY NOW
GQ FEAT. NIPSEY HUSTLE & RAPPER BIG POOH: COUNT ‘EM UP
HOUSE OF ABI. BEAUTIFUL LIGHT (ORIGINAL)
ALLUSION: THINK ABOUT ME
NILE RODGERS: DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO (IMS ANTHEM) (MOON BOOTS REMIX)
DONAE’O FEAT. KAYLA: KODAK
DJ SKT. RUNNING
FERRECK & DAWN & REDONDO: LOVE TOO DEEP (APEXAPE REMIX)
KNYTRO: MISS COLA
J MANIFESTO: MONOLOGUE
FAITH EVANS FEAT. MISSY ELLIOTT & SHARAYA J: I DESERVE IT
MARY J. BLIGE FEAT. PHARRELL: SEE THAT BOY AGAIN
FAYE B FEAT. RAPPER BIG POOH & LOUIE BELLO: ANY OTHER WAY (THE PACKXSZ REMIX)
GOAPELE: HEY BOY
GORGON CITY: HERE FOR YOU (RONI SIZE REMIX)
LIGHT WORK: GIVE ME LOVE
SOULUTIONS: LISTEN (BLAZING ENCORE MIX)
SOUTH ROYSTON FEAT. ELLIOT CHAPMAN: UNFAMILIAR GROUND (EXTENDED MIX)
GOOD VIBRATIONS PODCAST, VOL. 42: TINA FOSTER/ MATT SERGIOU RE ‘PAUL IS DEAD’
As ‘conspiracy theories’ go, the suggestion that the real Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by an impostor is right up there with JFK, 9/11 and the moon landings hoax. When first heard, the very idea sounds preposterous. But how many who scoffingly dismiss it have spent any time looking into the hard evidence for the switch? Two years ago the suggestion that Jimmy Savile could have been sexually abusing children on BBC premises for 50 years would have been greeted with similar derision.
In this volume, Mark Devlin chats with Tina Foster, proprietor of the Plastic Macca blog, (http://plasticmacca.blogspot.co.uk/), the web’s leading source of information on ‘Paul Is Dead’. Also along for the ride is Matt Sergiou, who runs the Conspiro Media blog, (http://conspiromedia.wordpress.com/), documenting the darker side of the entertainment industries.
Tina goes through a multitude of evidence for McCartney being replaced, from data presented by two Italian forensic experts, to over 400 lyrical and symbolic clues placed in The Beatles’ music and imagery. We revisit the comments made by Heather Mills in 2007 about her discovering ‘a terrible secret’ about Paul, which take on new significance if viewed from this perspective. Also discussed are some aspects of ‘Paul’s intriguing behaviour in recent years, and some of the occult elements of The Beatles’ music. We end by speculating on who the impostor, (or impostors) may be, and on whether this secret will ever be revealed, or will remain a theory that goes with everyone to their graves.
As with all things, each listener must of course make up their own minds. but please do listen to all the information first!
THE SOUND OF FREEDOM, SHOW 23. PLAYLIST & LISTEN AGAIN LINKS
THE SOUND OF FREEDOM. SHOW 23
Listen/ Download link:
JERU THA DAMAJA: ATTACK THE WACK (SKIT)
DISL AUTOMATIC: REVOLUTION (REMIX)
ALAIS CLAY & STEVE GRANT. CUT THE TIES
CORMEGA: INDUSTRY
CANIBUS: CHANNEL ZERO
MIZAN THE POET: END OF TIMES
GAPPY RANKS: FALSE PROMISES
MORGAN HERITAGE: DEM AH RUN COME
BUSY SIGNAL FEAT. RC: DREAMS OF BRIGHTER DAYS
UNITONE ROCKERS & STEEL: CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION (LONG MIX)
TRUTH TRIP:
EARTH WIND & FIRE: WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE
CURTIS MAYFIELD: WE GOTTA HAVE PEACE
RICHIE HAVENS: WHAT ABOUT ME
NU YORICAN SOUL FEAT. Q-TIP: I AM THE BLACK GOLD OF THE SUN
SOULUTIONS: LISTEN (BLAZING ENCORE MIX)
SIMONE: MY FAMILY DEPENDS ON ME
LOWKEY: TERRORIST
WU TANG CLAN: BETTER TOMORROW
GOOD VIBRATIONS PODCAST, VOL. 42: TINA FOSTER/ MATT SERGIOU RE ‘PAUL IS DEAD’
As ‘conspiracy theories’ go, the suggestion that the real Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by an impostor is right up there with JFK, 9/11 and the moon landings hoax. When first heard, the very idea sounds preposterous. But how many who scoffingly dismiss it have spent any time looking into the hard evidence for the switch? Two years ago the suggestion that Jimmy Savile could have been sexually abusing children on BBC premises for 50 years would have been greeted with similar derision.
In this volume, Mark Devlin chats with Tina Foster, proprietor of the Plastic Macca blog, (http://plasticmacca.blogspot.co.uk/), the web’s leading source of information on ‘Paul Is Dead’. Also along for the ride is Matt Sergiou, who runs the Conspiro Media blog, (http://conspiromedia.wordpress.com/), documenting the darker side of the entertainment industries.
Tina goes through a multitude of evidence for McCartney being replaced, from data presented by two Italian forensic experts, to over 400 lyrical and symbolic clues placed in The Beatles’ music and imagery. We revisit the comments made by Heather Mills in 2007 about her discovering ‘a terrible secret’ about Paul, which take on new significance if viewed from this perspective. Also discussed are some aspects of ‘Paul’s intriguing behaviour in recent years, and some of the occult elements of The Beatles’ music. We end by speculating on who the impostor, (or impostors) may be, and on whether this secret will ever be revealed, or will remain a theory that goes with everyone to their graves.
As with all things, each listener must of course make up their own minds. but please do listen to all the information first!