Join me for my usual monthly OTH-Replacement stream with no Jubilee content whatsoever. Just the usual stuff, extended. Tonight’s OTH show will be shown this coming Saturday, 4th June.
14:35 – Opening music.
14:38 – Musical Cab Ride – A journey from Brighton to Bedford, through the Thameslink tunnels of Central London, accompanied first by the Dead Can Dance best-of compilation “A Passage in Time”, then, from 15:43, Ozric Tentacles’ fourth album: “Jurassic Shift”.
16:39 – Pixies – Sell Out (Main Show) – Their 2004 reunion tour, filmed at the Eurockéennes Festival in Belfort, France. Plus a couple of cheeky bonus tracks: firstly, the totally-useless “backs of the crowd’s heads” angle of the DVD’s “Monkey Goes To Heaven” Manchester bonus track; secondly, a track called “Motherbanger”, by a certain Christopher Morris.
18:07 – Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity – Episode 3: Revelations and Revolutions – Radio Times: “Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force – electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements. Without electricity, we would be lost. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments – a story of maverick geniuses who used electricity to light our cities, to communicate across the seas and through the air, to create modern industry and to give us the digital revolution.
Electricity is not just something that creates heat and light, it connects the world through networks and broadcasting. After centuries of man’s experiments with electricity, the final episode tells the story of how a new age of real understanding dawned – how we discovered electric fields and electromagnetic waves. Today we can hardly imagine life without electricity – it defines our era. As our understanding of it has increased so has our reliance upon it, and today we are on the brink of a new breakthrough, because if we can understand the secret of electrical superconductivity, we could once again transform the world.” First broadcast on Thu 20th October 2011 at 21:00 by BBC4.
19:05 – The Sixties S01E06 – The British Invasion – A documentary miniseries, produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s studio Playtone, this 10-part series chronicled events and popular culture of the United States during the 1960s. In this episode, a new wave of British bands and artists enter and impact mainstream American culture. First broadcast on Thu 10th July 2014 by CNN.
19:45 – The Day The Universe Changed – S01E04 – A Matter of Fact – Radio Times: “A personal view by James Burke in ten parts. The 15th-century world was one of magic, mime and memory. Bible stories were told in pictures on church walls; news was broadcast in song by bands of wandering troubadours; when people died, what they knew died with them. Then, sometime around 1450, a German goldsmith and small-time entrepreneur came up with one more idea to make a few quick pfennigs. In doing so, he changed the world and took away our memories forever. His secret invention ushered in a new world of standardised technology. It shook the Catholic Church, and made Martin Luther a household name. It spread news like wildfire; what was fashionable in Florence became fashion in France. And vague memories became a matter of hard fact. Find out the goldsmith’s secret…” First broadcast on Tue 9th April 1985 at 8.00pm by BBC1.
20:36 – Sheepy’s Unwatched FILM Project #5: Arrival (2016) – an American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer, who conceived the project as a spec script based on the 1998 short story “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang. The film stars Amy Adams as Louise Banks, a linguist enlisted by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with extraterrestrial aliens who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war. Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Tzi Ma appear in supporting roles.
22:27 – Trailer for The Magdalene Sisters – The theatrical trailer for last week’s film about young Irish women kept captive in Magdalene Laundries, fearsomely presided over by nuns. Watch! as the cruelty is underplayed in favour of camaraderie, Gasp! at the over-the-top Hollywood strings, Thrill! as the trailer clearly implies they all lez-up (which they don’t)! One of the most ridiculous, deceptive and hilarious things I’ve ever seen…
22:29 – Pixies – Sell Out (Bonus Tracks) – Fifteen bonus tracks from their 2004 reunion tour, filmed at various venues across Europe and the USA, interspersed with brief interviews. Followed by a repeat of the two bonus tracks from earlier.
23:33 – A repeat of the Musical Cab Ride from earlier, this time including a 30-second break to hear the DC-to-AC changeover at City Thameslink, plus Dead Can Dance’s “Dawn of the Iconoclast”, the track that was sampled by Future Sound of London for “Papua New Guinea”.
01:34 – Closedown music.
01:39 – Closedown.