Clement O'Sheehan

It’s midnight, now the 15th August and you’re with Theo Fitch on Radio 2RSR.

 

Radio 2RSR is posited under The Molecular Bioscience Building, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Corner of City Road and Broadway. The year is 1988.

 

I played my gig that evening at the Kardomah Café, 22 Bayswater Road, King Cross and finished early. I hold the Tuesday evening residency with bassist Brad Phipps and keyboardist Janelle Bova, I play drums and sing. The venue puts the tables out as only a few people venture out on Tuesday night. It is the middle of Winter in Sydney, and it’s raining.

 

I like the word Kardomah, it means A Happy Home in Native American Lore. The word has a numerical value of the number eight in Chaldean and Pythagorean Numerology.

 

The Radio 2RSR licence has a 5KM catchment area taking in the suburbs of Newtown/Enmore, Balmain/Glebe, Chippendale/Redfern and Darlinghurst/Kings Cross.

 

My playlist begins tonight/this morning with The Church as they are number one in the Alternative album charts with Starfish and the singles charts with Under the Milky Way.

 

Here is the rest of the playlist;

 

12AM - 1AM

- Under The Milky Way – The Church 1988

- Lit By The Fuse – The Ups And Downs 1988

- Everybody Moves – The Died Pretty 1988

- I Saw God – New Christs 1988

- Return To The Womb –  Crumbsuckers 1986

- Do You Wanna Dance/Chainsaw/Today Your Love Tomorrow The World – The Ramones 1977

- Dancing Barefoot - The Celibate Rifles 1987

- Government Flu – Dead Kennedys 1982

- Five Year Plan – DRI 1987

- Awakening Of The Gods – Kreator 1986

- Seventh Star – Black Sabbath 1986

- A Dangerous Meeting – Mercyful Fate 1984

- I’ll Wait – Van Halen 1984

- No regrets – The Walker Brothers 1975

- Wonderful Land – The Shadows 1962

- Big Country – Big Country 1983

- No Milk Today – Herman’s Hermits 1966

- That's Entertainment - The Jam 1980

- A Night Like This – The Cure 1984

- Banana Republic – The Boomtown Rats 1981

 

1AM to 2AM

- Let There Be Drums – Sandy Nelson 1961

- Aloha Stevo and Danno – Radio Bridman 1978

- Jacks Car – Painters and Dockers 1988

- Know Your Product – The Saints 1978

- Could You Be The One – Husker Du 1987

- Bombora - The Atlantics 1963

- 1-2-5 – Lime Spiders 1984

- Stay Sane Somehow – The Eastern Dark 1985

- Love And Death  - Beasts Of Bourbon 1984

- Trip You Up – The Jesus And Mary Chain

- Miss Haversham – The Deadly Hume 1988

- 100 Fools – Deniz Tek 1988

- The Passenger - Iggy Pop 1977

- The W Song – Bailter Space 1988

- North By North – The Bats 1987

- Fury Little Things – Dinosaur Jnr 1987

- Everything – Vanilla Chainsaws 1983

- Swampland – The Scientists 1981

- Paint It Black – The Rolling Stones 1966

- All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix 1968

 

2AM to 3AM

- One Night In Bangkok – Murray head - 1985

- Eyes Without A face – Billy Idol 1982

- The Unforgettable Fire – U2 1984

- Life In A Northern Town – The Dream Academy 1985

- Speed Your Love To Me – Simple Minds 1984

- Rising Sun – New Order 1987

- The Pan Within – The Waterboys 1985

- Hey St Peter – Flash’N The Pan 1976

- Drivers Seat – Sniff’N The Tears 1978

- Date With Destiny – Mental As Anything 1985

- Room Full Of diamonds – The Radiators 1983

- Got Me Under Pressure – ZZ Top 1983

- Gold  - John Stewart and Stevie Nicks 1979

- Mississippi – Pussycat 1976

- Midnight Bus – Betty McQuade 1961

- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – Gene Pitney 1962

- Galveston – Glenn Campbell 1969

- Big John – Jimmy Dean 1961

- Cow Patti – Jim Stafford 1981

- I Was Born Under A Wandering Star – Lee Marvin 1970

- Don’t Come Around here No More – Tom Petty 1984

 

3AM to 4AM

- Far Side Of Crazy – Wall Of Voodoo 1985

- Ashes To Ashes – David Bowie 1980

- Wide Open Road – The Triffids 1986

- My Girl – Hoodoogurus 1984

- One Step Ahead – Split Enz 1980

- Downhearted (radio Edit) - Australian Crawl 1980

- Before Too Long – Paul Kelly 1986

- Sleeping Beauty – The Divinyls 1985

- Golden Playpen – INXS 1982

- Magic – Dragon 1984

- Harry’s Reason – Spy Vs Spy 1986

- Clock On The Wall – Wet taxis 1984

- The Logan Girls – The Johnny’s 1988

- Water On My Fire – Big Bill Broonzy 1957

- Suburban Boy – Dave Warner 1976

- No Say In It – The Machinations - 1985

- Ventura Highway – America 1972

- Summer Breeze – Seals and Crofts 1972

- Groovin – The Rascals 1967

- Fanfare For The Common Man – Emerson, Lake and Palmer 1977

- Oxygene IV – Jean-Michel Barre 1976

 

4AM to 5AM

- Harlem River Drive – Bobbi Humphrey 1973

- Daughters Of The Night – Ritchie Havens 1975

- Move On Up – Curtis Mayfield - 1970

- Reach Out – The Four Tops 1967

- Laughter In The Rain – Neil Sedaka 1974

- I'll Be Around - The Spinners 1973

- Grease – Frankie Valli 1978

- September – Earth Wind And Fire 1978

- The Message – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 1982

- Edge Of Reality – Elvis Presley 1970

- Take 5 – Dave Brubeck 1959

- Albatross – Fleetwood Mac 1968

- Bird Of paradise – Snowy White 1983

- Babooshka – Kate Bush 1980

- Back On The Chain Gang – The Pretenders 1982

 

5AM to 6AM

- Josephine – Chris Rea 1986

- Golden Brown – The Stranglers 1982

- Harden My Heart – Quarterflash 1981

- Love Is A Battlefield – Pat Benetar - 1983

- Without You – Eurogliders 1982

- Sounds Of Then – Gangajang 1985

- Stay With Me Till Dawn – Judie Tzuke 1979

- A Short Note – Matt Finnish 1980

- Lady Love – MEO45 1980

- Sensitive – ReFlex 1983

- Myrrh – The Church 1985

- Man Of Colours – Icehouse 1987

- Vienna - ULTRAVOX 1980

- Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime – The Korgis 1980

- Lets Go Away For A While – The Beach Boys 1966

 

At 6AM I deliver the first of the day’s news bulletin;

 

Good morning, it is 6AM. I am Theo Fitch with the news bulletin. We have no news for you today. Here is an excerpt from Antonio Vivaldi’s Orquesta Reino de Aragon: The Four Seasons.

Thank you for joining me on the program, I look forward to your company again tonight from midnight. Have a pleasant day.