Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 025 / 1969 Part 6
May 15, 2011
This is the last part of Jon Savages 1969 series – a very important year for him and music in general. Only four more shows to go in the series.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 024 / 1969 Part 5
April 17, 2011
Sundays = Jon Savage in our house (and a new Phil Mison mix all going to plan). Here’s part 5 of the 1969 series. Crazy depth.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 024 / 1969 Part 4
April 3, 2011
I haven’t run one of these for a few weeks so here’s the fourth part of Jon Savage’s 1969 6 parter. Have a listen if you’ve never tried them. He’s funny, slightly camp, full of amazing knowledge and importantly a music fanatic to the core.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 023 / 1969 Part 3
March 4, 2011
Part 3 of the 1969 series here from Mr Jon Savage. There’s a world of knowledge here if you fancy some weekend listening.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 022 / 1969 Part 2
February 21, 2011
Part 2 of the 1969 series here with Savage kicking off talking about the first gigs he ever went to that year – Spooky Tooth and The Who. This show kicks off with The Jeff Beck Group’s ‘Plynth’…
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 021 / 1961 Part 1
February 13, 2011
After a few weeks away here’s Jon Savage back in full effect. It’s the first of six shows that focus on the year of 1969, a year that Savage thinks is very important. As he says in the introduction – it’s the year of the moon landings, Woodstock, Charles Manson’s murders, Altamont, the 60s coming to a head and more. This show focuses on album tracks from that year…
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 020 / Sun Songs 4
January 15, 2011
Here’s the final part of Jon Savage’s Sun Songs series of radio shows. Maybe one to re-approach in a few months time but as always its fantastic music crossed with good old knowledge.
Tune in weekly to ByteFM for the Savage Music shows.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 019 / Sun Songs 3
January 9, 2011
Part three of the Sun Songs programs in the series of four – here’s Savage Music. This one starts off with a cut up of ‘Yellow Sunshine’ by Yellow Sunshine that he got from Downstairs Records in New York then into new psychedelic band The Assemble Head and a recent Bernard Sumner track. As ever, Savage is smart and informative.
Tune in weekly to ByteFM for the Savage Music shows.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 018 / Sun Songs 2
December 29, 2010
Part two of Sun Songs and back after our Christmas break – here’s Savage Music…
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 017 / Sun Songs 1
December 12, 2010
From moon songs to sun songs – here’s Mr Savage…
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 014 / Moon Songs 1
November 21, 2010
It’s Sunday and time to post a new show from Jon Savage, this time starting with the words of Neil Armstrong, as we move into the first in a series of three shows focusing on the moon. As Savage says at the start, “why the moon? because it’s to do with the sub-conscious, because it’s beautiful and because it’s been a pop staple since the late years of the 19th century”. In my humble opinion these shows get better and better. Today we go from early early ambient, to the Grateful Dead, an old R&S record and more. Click on the images at the bottom if you fancy hearing more Savage Music shows.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 009 / Dream Within A Dream Pt.3
September 19, 2010
If knowledge meant power Jon Savage would be ruling the world from his desk in Wales. Here we go with Part 3 of the Dream Within A Dream series.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 006 / Teenage
July 25, 2010
Its Savage Sunday and this time Jon covers one of his specialist subjects, Teenage.
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This weeks Jon Savage show arrives one day late (World Cup sidetrack) so sorry about that. This week the great Savage brings us the first part of a two parter on songs about dreams. Good good.
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Here’s this weeks Jon Savage installment. This week the subject of psychedelic instrumentals is covered in fine style. Lovely.
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Radio: Jon Savage – Savage Music 001 / Meridian 1970
June 3, 2010
Image: Aubrey Mayer
Jon Savage is one of the UK’s most respected music journalists, authors and social historians. Many of you will know his classic book on punk, ‘England’s Dreaming’ and it’s recently released companion, ‘The England’s Dreaming Tapes’, which consists of many of the source interviews for the book including all four original Sex Pistols, Joe Strummer, Chrissie Hynde, Jordan, Siouxsie Sioux, Viv Albertine, Pete Shelley, Debbie Wilson, Tony Wilson, Jah Wobble and more.
He also wrote ‘Time Travel: From the Sex Pistols to Nirvana – Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977-96’, the highly recommended book on youth, Teenage, and edited the Factory focused The Hacienda Must Be Built.
We were doing some work with Mr Savage recently in the office and were given some of his radio shows which I was totally unaware of. Jon records the shows for Germany’s ByteFM, the Savage Music shows appearing here. They are, as he says in the first show, ‘just a way of putting a lot of great music together’. To be honest they are a bit more than that. They are a treasure trove of music and knowledge with the character, stories and honesty of Savage at the helm.
Bit of background on the station these were originally recorded for. ByteFM was founded in January 2008 and covers many different genres, from alternative rock to country, techno to dubstep, reggae, French chansons and many other styles. The shows are presented by around 80 radio music journalists from all over Germany, many well known within their fields and they have won many awards. I think it may be a bit of an untapped source.
Everyone I shared the Savage Music shows with has thoroughly enjoyed so we spoke to Jon, as well as Klaus and Ruben at ByteFM, to ask for permission to use the shows on Test Pressing. Kindly the chaps have all said yes so here we go with the first show. By way of introduction here’s a brief Q&A with Jon.
How did this series come about? What was the original thinking behind it? How did you meet the ByteFM guys?
I was asked to do it by Klaus Walter after I did a long interview with him in Hamburg to promote the German language England’s Dreaming. Klaus is a friend of my translator Conny Losch.
We hear you have an amazing record collection at home, have you kept most of the music you have been sent over the years?
Well yes and bought music I like as well. I still buy records. I’ve been reviewing records since 1977. Mmm, quite a long time.
How do you catalogue? By artist? Genre?
Periods, artists and genres.
When it comes to prized pieces of vinyl or cassettes please could you list your top three.
First Velvet Underground Album mono promo.
Acetate of Byrds’ Eight Miles High.
White label of Sex Pistols “Never Mind The Bollocks” US – formerly the Ramones’ copy. They hated the Sex Pistols so it is barely played.
What’s next for you?
Script for feature documentary of ‘Teenage’ book and starting plans for new book. Working on exhibition of Joy Division materials this summer. And on Punk Graphics book for Rizzoli.
I think one of your most underrated compilations to date has been the Dreams Come True – First Wave Of Electro on Domino. What were the first records you heard form this scene and how did you come to it. Was it through the electronic/industrial side of things or more the disco side?
Big cross over between black American dance music and white avant-garde in the early 80s. I DJ’ed at the Hacienda in 1982 and so was exposed to a lot of early Electro/Rap thanks to Hewan Clarke and Mike Pickering. But I was going that way anyway. Then a bit later Vince Aletti showed me the true delights of Disco, which of course you were not allowed to like during the punk period (although I Feel Love and Magic Fly escaped the fatwa).
Favourite record of last year?
Oh something on Kompakt. Anything on Kompakt.
Back to the shows, I understand it is to be a series of 100 shows? Why?
Not necessarily 100. Maybe yes, maybe no.
Tune in weekly to ByteFM for the Savage Music shows or stay tuned for the next update. Forthcoming shows include Queer Noise, Songs About The Sun, Moon Songs, Motorik and more.
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