Sunday 31 October 2021

Saturday 30 October 2021


 Good morning with I Can't Remember the Dream by They Might Be Giants. Have a nice weekend.

Wednesday 27 October 2021


Good morning with our MIddle of the Week Song- Go Away From My Window by Myriam Gendron. Have a nice day.

Tuesday 26 October 2021

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #12 Dream Baby Dream (Songs for Tânia) Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro - mixcloud

This show was weaved between Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem ) and I in loving memory of our friend Tânia Pereira Mendes who died seven years ago this month. Tânia was a member of Fórum Sons - an online community for music lovers where either many of us met of got to know each other better - loved the stars, the cosmos, music, to dance, and, of course, to dream. The 21 songs we chose for Dream Baby Dream, including Suicide's one are Tânia to a T. Songs 1 and 21 were picked by both of us. 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18 and 20 by Francisco; 3, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 19 by me. Tracklist below.

01 - Suicide - Dream Baby Dream (Francisco & Raquel)
02 - James Orr Complex - The Good, the Bad & the Indifferent (Francisco)
03 - Amen Dunes - Love (Raquel)
04 - Migala - Gurb song (Francisco)
05 - Brian Eno - By This River (Francisco)
06 - Howe Gelb Piano Trio - Clear (live) (Raquel)
07 - Cocteau Twins - Fluffy Tufts (Raquel)
08 - Cat Power - I Found a Reason (Velvet Underground cover) (Francisco)
09 - Pixies - Velouria (Raquel)
10 - Low - Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me (Smiths cover) (Francisco)
11 - Nina Nastasia - Superstar (Francisco)
12 - Rose Blanket - Feel My Way Around (feat. Jennifer Charles) (Raquel)
13 - Slint - Good Morning, Captain (Francisco)
14 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Bring It On (feat. Chris Bailey) (Raquel)
15 - Tom Waits - Grapefruit Moon (Raquel)
16 - Francoise Hardy - Rendez-vous d'automne (Raquel)
17 - Smog w/ Cynthia Dall - Renée Died 1:45 (Francisco)
18 - Sebadoh - Too Pure (Francisco)
19 - Mazzy Star - Five String Serenade (Raquel)
20 - Talk Talk - The Rainbow (Francisco)
21 - Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream (Suicide cover) (Francisco & Raquel)

All previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/

Monday 25 October 2021


 

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #12 - The Dream Baby Dream (Songs for Tânia) by Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro (Songs for Tânia)


 

Today, 2:20-4pm the 12th Amazing Songs & Other Delights The Dream Baby Dream (Songs for Tânia) brings you 21 songs picked by myself and Francisco Silva in memory of our friend Tânia. On Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app

Sunday 24 October 2021

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #12 - The Dream Baby Dream by (Songs for Tânia) Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro (Songs for Tânia)

 


Amazing Songs & Other Delights #12 is called Dream Baby Dream (Songs for Tânia) and was weaved between Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem) and I in loving memory of our friend Tânia Pereira Mendes who died seven years ago this month. It can be listened to tomorrow 2:20-4pm on Yé Yé Radio.

Tânia was a member of Fórum Sons - an online community for music lovers where either many of us met of got to know each other better - loved the stars, the cosmos, music, to dance, and, of course, to dream. The 21 songs we chose for Dream Baby Dream, including Suicide's one are Tânia to a T. 

Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app. 

                                                           




 Hi and Happy Sunday with The Escape by Nick Delffs.

Saturday 23 October 2021


 Good morning with This Thing Called Life by Richard Ashcroft. Have a nice weekend.

Wednesday 20 October 2021


Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song BAd Penny by Folios. Have a nice day.

Monday 18 October 2021

Sunday 17 October 2021

Saturday 16 October 2021


 Good morning with Jessy's Girl by The Darkness. Have a nice weekend.

Good morning with June by Inner Wave. Have a nice weekend.

Friday 15 October 2021

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #11 - The Kick & Backbeat edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé's mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #11 - The Kick & Backbeat are 22 songs and one instrumental with druns, and, or percussion, and drummers in mind and can now be found on Yé Yé's mixcloud - tracklist below. I mixed things a little. Some drummers are not playing with their main band, or the band they become known for ( Simon Gilbert), here with Futon rather than Suede), others are playing a little differently than what is usually thought of them (Dave Grohl). A couple or so aren't even seen as drummers, or drumming is not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of them - Josh Homme, Mick Harvey. All in all I choose songs I like, with drummers I like. A few of those that are important to me are missing, Pete de Freitas, John Convertino, etc. The start of the show is the late Charlie Watts, that has a double appearance. And nothing like a fabulous yellow (my favourite colour) drum kit to make it all brighter and, well, drummy. 🙂 Rui Pimenta & Pedro Tenreiro allowed me to push the envelope and come up with an a hour and a half show. 😃
(the yellow drum kit is a Val di Fiemme made by Andrew Johnston of Repercussion Drums)

Monday, 11th October, 2021, 2:30-4pm
Running Time: 60:25:24
Tracklist:
01 - The Charlie Watts Orchestra - Stomping at the Savoy - live at Fulham Town Hall (Edgar Sampson's original )
02 - Japan - Visions of China (Steve Jansen)
03 - Futon - Strap it On (Simon Gilbert)
04 - Le Tigre - Tell You Now (J.D. Samson)
05 - Sonic Youth - Stones (Steve Shelley)
06 - Stan Ridgway & Stewart Copeland (Stewart Copeland)
07 - Rowland S. Howard - Dead Radio (Mick Harvey)
08 - Cream - Dance the Night Away (Ginger Baker)
09 - The Other Two - The Greatest Thing (Stephen Morris)
10 - Manic Street Preachers - This is Yesterday (Sean Moore)
11 - Rádio Macau - Acordar (Samuel Palitos)
12 - The Clash - Train in Vain (Stand by Me) (Topper Headon)
13 - Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers (Janet Weiss)
14 - Eagles of Death Metal - I Only Want You (Josh Homme)
15 - The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Ringo Starr)
16 - Sharleen Spitery - Mistery (Mako Sakamoto; Serge Gainsbourg's cover)
17 - The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning (Maureen Tucker)
18 - Swell Maps - Collision with a Frogman (Epic Soundtracks)
19 - R.E.M. - Maps and Legends (Bill Berry)
20 - Durutti Column - Menina ao Pé de Uma Piscina (Bruce Mitchell)
21 - The Smiths - Nowhere Fast (Mick Joyce)
22 - Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World - MTV Unplugged (Dave Grohl; David Bowie's cover)
23 - The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb (Charlie Watts)

Yé Yé Radio can be listened to at: https://yeyeradio.com or on the free app. All previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/

Wednesday 13 October 2021


Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song - Bloor Street by
Kiefer Sutherland. Have a nice day.

Tuesday 12 October 2021

Old Jerusalem, M.Ou.Co., Porto, 02.10.2021.

Old Jerusalem ©  Afonso Dorido

 

by Raquel Pinheiro


Out of the ordinary, this review took longer than usual. It matches the out of the ordinary, in a good way, concert by Old Jerusalem, Saturday October 2nd at M.Ou.Co, a new hotel in Porto, that has a concert room. The concert come with many firsts, my first time at M.Ou.Co, my first time in a room with so many people close to each other audience since the pandemic, my first Old Jerusalem concert in a while.

Old Jerusalem, that are celebrating their 20th anniversary, presented their eighth album, Certain Rivers in a stripped down version. Francisco Silva, the singer-songwriter behind the moniker played solo, in an intimate concert for voice and acoustic guitar.

Alone upon the stage, Francisco sang from the new album, including its opening song High high up that hill - on the record sang by Peter Broderick - from previous albums, and he also presented us with beautiful renditions of 2/15 (poem by Rabindranath Tagore, music by Mick Turner & Will Oldham Blood, Red Bird (Smog), Shivers (Rowland S. Howard), Forever in My Life (Prince) and Katy song (Mark Kozelek).

The detailed naming of the songs covered is not in vain. One of the things Francisco spoke to us about, before or between songs, was the tradition of handing down, covering, passing along, been inspired by someone else's songs. Picking on and continue giving life to existing songs is both a way to show them to a different audience as well as make them ours.

Music and words share a confessional, warm, feeling, here and there punctuated by humour - Love & Cows - wrapping us in world of beauty, emotions, quiet spoken drama, even if depiced events may be anything but. Love in its many faces, loss of faith (and regaining it in something else?), dreams, youth and its flippancy, all emanate from Francisco's songs or from the ones he choose to cover.

Enhanced, punctuated, accentuated, by the tone, or lack thereof, of the acoustic guitar, voice and words are transported to a land of magic, lifting us along. Old Jerusalem at M.Ou.Co was a beautiful, cherished concert, that, at least in my memory, shall last.


Monday 11 October 2021


 Hi with Unclean Mind by Grouper. Have a nice afternoon.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #11 The Kick & Backbeat edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio


Tune in between 2_35-4pm (London time) to listen to Amazing Songs & Other Delights #11 The Kick & Backbeat edition on Yé Yé Radio. It is all about drums, drummers and, of course, songs. Songs in which drums drive or sustain the song. There will be 23 songs to listen to from an assortement of bands/drummers. Previous shows can be found on the radio's mixcloud.

Sunday 10 October 2021

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #11 The Kick & Backbeat edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio

© RePercussion Drums


Amazing Songs & Other Delights #11 is called The Kick & Backbeat edition and it is all about the drums and the men and women behind them. It is longer than usual, at nearly 90 minutes and it airs  tomorrow, Monday 11th, 2:35-4pm (London time) @ Yé Yé Radio. 

From  Charlie Watts to Maureen Tucker, through Samuel Palitos, J.D. Samson, Mick Joyce, Ginger Baker or Janet Weiss there are 23 songs to be listened to. 

This show was a long time coming. The possibility of interviewing Simon Gilbert  propelled it and Charlie Watts' death sealed it. Drummers have a special place in my heart. It was a jazz drummer, Lino Oliveira, that taught me pretty much everyting I know music wise - but, for classic music and music theory. A little later, in 1986, it was another drummer, Carlos Moura, that helped me with my bass and a few other things.

There are beloved dummers missing, like Pete de Freitas of Echo & The Bunnymen. The show is not meant to be a "best drummers" one. Rather, a showcase of drums in songs, be it songs driver by drums or with drums more in the background. And a selection of good songs with drums and, or,  percussion that I like. 

The beautiful yellow drum kit in the photo is called Val di Fiemme kit and was made by Andrew Johnston of RePercussion Drums.

Special thanks to Simon Gilbert for introducing me to Andrew's amazing drums.

Yé Yé Radio can be listened to at: https://yeyeradio.com or on the free app

All previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/

 


 Hi and Happy Sunday with Lagunas by Jaguar.

Saturday 9 October 2021


 Good morning with Fim do Mundo by Estranhos Românticos. Have a nice weekend.

Thursday 7 October 2021

Raquel @ Lisboa Clichê by Daniel Blaufuks

Some Thursdays are different than others. This is me, through Daniel Blaufuks' lens, in Lisboa, in 1986. The photo and text are part of Daniel's latest book Lisboa Clichê. Lisboa Clichê is a photo and text book about a semi, if not fully, gone Lisboa. The one of the late 80s and early 90s. It was a vibrant, full of discoveries, dreams, wants and lots of things being done time. The book is published by Tinta da China and can be found at their website and in bookshops.



Wednesday 6 October 2021


Good morning with our MIddle of the Week Sog. Today we go with So Young by Suede in celebration of Simon Gilbert book So Young: Suede 1991-1993 a photo and diaries book of Suede's early years. So Young, the song is taken from Suede's debut album Suede, released in 1993. Simon's book comes out October 8th.

Monday 4 October 2021


Hi with Der Rhythmus der Maschinen by Public Service Broadcasting (ft. Blixa Bargeld). Have a nice afternoon.

Sunday 3 October 2021


 Hi and Happy Sunday with Walking at a Downtown Pace by Parquet Courts.

Saturday 2 October 2021


 Good morning with Water Dragon by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance). Have a nice weekend.