Been listening to this amazing station now for for 5 years or so when I stumbled across it.Born and lived and worked in England into adulthood, but then lived in France, loving the life and culture with my wife and kids but really missing the music of my life. Found RP and it was weird. It was like someone had tapped into my life's soundtrack, but then introduced me to 'if you liked this then let's try this one on you' ....brilliant, familiar, happy (and sometimes sad, but happy) memories mixed with a dynamic energy and an approach to new and old music that is inspirational. Well done you guys...keep going...Craig x.
A.V. Undercover veterans Shearwater came by the studio earlier this year to tackle a song from the main list—business as usual, right? But a couple of days before they showed up, Jonathan Meiburg asked if we might want to film his band covering the entirety of David Bowie’s>Lodger, too. Why would we say no to that? So as a special pre-season bonus for Undercover 2016, here’s Shearwater covering Lodger from start to finish, along with an essay by Meiburg explaining his relationship to the classic record. Shearwater’s latest is the excellent Jet Plane And Oxbow.
I rediscovered David Bowie’s Lodger last year after some rough traveling. In the span of a couple of months I’d had unnerving encounters with the world’s largest spiders in Guyana and a jaguar in Brazil; I’d hugged my knees in terror in Hyderabad’s traffic and asked for divine intervention on a jetliner circling the Persian Gulf as it dumped its fuel for an emergency landing. When I finally got home, I wanted to hide in a corner with a blanket over my head and never go outside again. Listening to Lodger over and over somehow helped the world seem less frightening.
A.V. Undercover veterans Shearwater came by the studio earlier this year to tackle a song from the main list—business as usual, right? But a couple of days before they showed up, Jonathan Meiburg asked if we might want to film his band covering the entirety of David Bowie’s>Lodger, too. Why would we say no to that? So as a special pre-season bonus for Undercover 2016, here’s Shearwater covering Lodger from start to finish, along with an essay by Meiburg explaining his relationship to the classic record. Shearwater’s latest is the excellent Jet Plane And Oxbow.
I rediscovered David Bowie’s Lodger last year after some rough traveling. In the span of a couple of months I’d had unnerving encounters with the world’s largest spiders in Guyana and a jaguar in Brazil; I’d hugged my knees in terror in Hyderabad’s traffic and asked for divine intervention on a jetliner circling the Persian Gulf as it dumped its fuel for an emergency landing. When I finally got home, I wanted to hide in a corner with a blanket over my head and never go outside again. Listening to Lodger over and over somehow helped the world seem less frightening.
