Hey gang I popped into RTRFM’s Breakfast with Taylah for this week’s Breakfast Mix and to discuss all things Red Parrot and 6UVSFM including the joys of clubbing in the days before mobile phones and social media – its only a short interview and a short mix but it has 14 tracks – the DJs have been sharing lists this week and favs on the Red Parrot Remembered FB page for a much longer selection of 100% RP classics – see you Sat for RPR 3
Restream with interview here – starts at 0:28 into the stream
Red Parrot Remembered Photos Page here
here is the mix – just the music
Tracks:
Art of Noise – Moments in Love – 1985
West India Company – Ave Maria – 1985
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF) - Der Mussolini – 1981
Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened – 1984
Incantation – Cacharpaya (Andes Pumpsa Desi) – 1982
Cabaret Voltaire – Yashar (John Robie Mix) – 1983
Cabaret Voltaire – Do Right – 1984
Cabaret Voltaire – Sensoria – 1984
Shriekback – My Spine is the Bassline – 1982
Siouxie and the Banshees – Spellbound – 1981
Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84) – 1982
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead – 1979
The Birthday Party – Release the Bats – 1981
The Triffids – My Baby Thinks She’s a Train – 1984
more Red Parrot mixtapes here
NYE 1986 – “I remember it like it was yesterday” – NEW red parrot mixtape vol 3 plus Vol 1 and Vol 2 re-upped – here
Its 1986 on your iPOD…
Corner of Roe and Milligan Street (circa 84-85)
Always a favourite its Echo and the Bunnymen straight off my original 12 inch vinyl single – I think it was an import so cost $6.99 – grab some more on the mixes
If Manchester had ‘The Hacienda’ then Perth had ‘The Parrot’ – no need to travel half way around the world but sometimes it was a long stagger home from Northbridge – Claude digs deep to resurrect some Red Parrot dancefloor classics for your listening pleasure – and nearly all 12 inchers – none of that 7 inch short version stuff.
…and for an old clubbers trip down memory lane read some of the great stories here including wise words from legendary Parrort DJ Snuff and one of Claude’s earliest inspirations – refer the group Blood Brother B and learn “what about that jacuzzi?“and here possibly the most exciting idea to come out of Perth for years – resurrect Dirty Dicks in the old Parrot venue – oh yeah…I’ll get started on this …
…stick these Red Parrot mixtapes on your Sony Cassette Walknan – includes loads of original 12 inch mixes painstakingly programmed in my mind
red parrot mix – vol 1 and on HQ stream mixcloud
israel – siouxie and the banshees
celebration – u2
yashar – cabaret voltaire
theme for great cities – simple minds
my spine is the bass line – shriekback
buffalo gals – malcolm mclaren
whisper to a scream – icicle works
new gold dream – simple minds
madam butterfly – malcolm mclaren
uncertain smile – the the
ever so lonely – monsoon
cities lie in dust – siouxie and the banshees
der mussolini – daf
red parrot mix – vol 2 and on HQ stream mixcloud
african and white – china crisis
silver moon – echo and the bunnymen
dead eyes open – severed heads
never stop – echo and the bunnymen
temptation – heaven 17
west end girls – pet shop boys
questionaire – chas jankel
field of glass – the triffids
dazzle – siouxie and the banshees
red parrot mix – vol 3 and on HQ stream mixcloud
catcherpaya – incantation
the creatures – miss the girl
the creatures – right now
west india company – ave maria
single gun theory – from a million miles
Human League – Being Boiled
kate bush – running up that hill
echo and the bunnymen – the killing moon
tears for fears – pale shelter
the smiths – bigmouth strikes again
the smiths – william it was really nothing
lloyd cole and the commotions – perfect skin
orange juice – rip it up
the clash – rock the casbah (instrumental breakdown)
the birthday party – release the bats
too cool for school
…and check out hundreds more photos of punks, mods, rockabillys, new romantics and fashionistas all on the edge of the Perth 80s mainstream along with gig memories, favourite tracks and playlists – all at the Facebook group “Red Parrot Remembered”.
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