Space... the
final frontier
This is the
theme of this year's Preesall & Knott End Gala on July 13th
It's Saturday
afternoon mission, starting in Knott End car park at one o'clock
![](Magic%20Bullet%202024/Starship%20Psychotron%20(b&w).jpg) To
explore strange new floats
To seek out new
marshals and other helpers
To boldly go
where no gala has gone before!
01. Toshiyuki Hiraoka (Japan) - T (Track 9) (4:25)
Extremely talented electronic and
experimental musician we first came across over 30 years ago, releasing some
of his music on cassettes on Music & Elsewhere. He has since forged an
interesting career, recording albums with the likes of Dave-iD Busaras
(Virgin Prunes) and has scored several movies...
https://toshiyukihiraoka.bandcamp.com
02. Magic Moments At Twilight Time (A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Far
Away) - The Starship Psychotron (6:37)
You know who they were...
seriously?
03. Daniel Dapin (Germany) - Loop To The Moon (6:44)
A new name to us is this electronic
musician from Spiegelberg, playing keyboards in bands until 2020, then the
pandemic reared its ugly head and rather changed things, thus he began to
compose his own music. I'd say that was a good result...
https://danieldapin.bandcamp.com
04. Cheapo Card Company (England) - Rusty Machine (2:05)
Largely the work of Wil Walker, better
known as a cartoonist and TV comedy writer, but well known to all fans of
the Music & Elsewhere days for their humorous ditties, such as this
wonderful spoof of Hawkwind's "Silver Machine". They're still at it too, I
fear there's no hope for them...
https://www.youtube.com/@CheapoCardCompany
05. Astral Magic (Finland) - Cruising The Celestial Highways (4:16)
A shining light of the spacerock community
is Mika Laakso, aka Santtu, former bassist with Dark Sun, now enjoying
himself solo with this popular and prolific project. I suspect we will be
hearing much more Astral Magic on the show in the coming months. Well, I
know we will, I do the playlists...
https://astralmagic.bandcamp.com
06/07. Stormclouds (England) - He's Dead, Jim (1:45) / Lost In Space (2:01)
The brainchild of the late great Steve
Lines, a much missed force of wonderment in the psychotronic universe. The
label he helped to run, Rainfall Records, still seems to have a site online
for now, includes plenty of info about his work. These two tracks are from
"Not Of This Earth", featuring himself and Louise Allen, recorded for
Elefant Records of Spain in the mid 90's, a digital version of which is
still available on Bandcamp, though the CD is long gone...
http://www.rainfallsite.com/StormHome.html
https://elefantbackcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/not-of-this-earth
08. X Zen Tricks (England) - If It's Time For Robot (5:51)
Solo electronic music project by Jamie
Wattz. We released a cassette album called "An Awareness Of Time" on M&E in
1999 and have had some contact with him since our return to the fold in
2012, but sadly not for a few years, and I've had no luck with a response
this time around either. I've had a good check online too, including under
the latter name of Zen Tapestry, but short of a track on "Decadion 2.2",
absolutely nowt, sorry. Great music though...
09. Cult Of Free Love (Wales) - Space Jam # 1 (6:49)
Put our way by Neil Crud over at Punk &
Beyond on Louder Than War Radio, ta very much, absolutely perfect for the
show. Looks like they've been around for a few years, see a 2016 album
called "Love Revolution", I can tell you they play a nice blend of
psychedelia and electronica, aside from that I think they share that
greatest of qualities with Scooby Doo; they like the mystery...
https://www.musicglue.com/the-cult-of-free-love/
10. Cactus Rose (Scotland) - Spaced Out (3:10)
The duo of Dave Menzies and Mo Bird are
better known to M&E supporters as their latter incarnation, Glass, and you
may also recognise this track from "The United World Underground
Collection". The band are still a going concern, but appear to be called
Champagne Tree nowadays...
https://glass5.bandcamp.com
11. Gary Rostock (Czech Republic) - Knott End (excerpt - 6:00)
When I was looking for something with a
local theme for the show, I came upon this track... by a guy in the Czech
Republic!? I'm with Scooby too, love a good mystery. So I sent him an
e-mail, and small world, turns out his mum used to live down the road in
Poulton and he still has a sister right here in Knott End! This track is
taken from his 2020 album of ambient electronica, "Dreams Of An English
Coastline"...
https://garyrostock.bandcamp.com
12. Magic Bullet (Knott End-On-Sea) - The Magic Bullet (Reprise) / Waiting
For Wyre Rose (excerpt 4:25)
And just a little of The Bullet to round
the show off, including an excerpt from our minimally processed
recording of Knott End's iconic ferry, the Wyre Rose, because... all
together now... ♪♫
we're The Bullet from Knott End-On-Sea, ooh
♫♪
https://www.blackpooltransport.com/fleetwoodknott-end-ferry
* * * C O M
I N G N E X T M O N T H - S
A T U R D A Y 3 r d A U G U S T * * *
We'll be
there next Saturday at the gala to join in the celebrations as Preesall Town
Council bid to be the first to put a man on Mars...
We'll be
covering all the build up and the launch of the WSS Boobyprise (Consolation
Class) from Knott End International Space Station...
We'll be
joining the people of Over Wyre in wishing Captain Riz Sigma and crew all
the best for their epic journey to the red planet...
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