Meagan Dreams 11: Nude Beaches and 9-Volt Velvet

Join me for this week's installment of Meagan Dreams as I proudly feature an interview with Mark Cross of the band 9-volt velvet. Following the interview, I play selected songs from the 9-volt velvet discography, with a focus on songs from the band's 2024 full-length release, which is titled "Nude Beaches." 

After that, I'll be playing songs that refer to the "nude beaches" album title and theme - whether in the song subject, the artist's name, or using nudity/nakedness as a metaphor for something else.  I'm eager to share this week's selections with you. My hope is that they will encourage the listener to think about aspects of being uninhibited, unguarded, unadorned - or also about being on the beach/in the ocean, as we try to squeeze the last drops of sunlight-heavy days and summer from and in the Northern Hemisphere.

Flyer photo and design are by Patrick Dickson.

 

Meagan Dreams is a weekly live show on Tuesdays from 6pm-9pm Pacific time on www.eardrumbuzz.net

 

Part One: Interview and music from 9-Volt Velvet

9-volt velvet - Thrill Ride (from their 2022 EP, titled Mirrors)
Introduction and welcome spoken break
9-volt velvet - The Awe of You (from their 2022 EP, titled Mirrors)
Interview with Mark Cross of 9-volt velvet
(all 9-volt velvet songs that follow are from the 2024 full length release, titled Nude Beaches)
9-volt velvet - Tropicalia  (4:56 runtime)
9-volt velvet - Riptide (5:20 runtime)
9-volt velvet - Floating Away (2:27 runtime)
9-volt velvet - Storm (Where’s My Sunny Day) (3:16 runtime)
spoken break
9-volt velvet - Hurricane Brain (5:14 runtime)
9-volt velvet - Hey Candy (5:12 runtime)
9-volt velvet - Brainwaves (2:51 runtime) 
spoken break

9-volt velvet are:
Mark Cross - lead vocs, guitar, bass, keys, stylophone                                       
Donnie Robertson - drums, percussion
Kevin Robinson - backing vocs, guitar

 

Part Two:
Cat Power - Nude as the News (from 1996 album, What Would the Community Think)
Hushhh - In My Head (from 2023 debut EP, Summer Medication)
Ramones - Rockaway Beach (1977 - from Rocket to Russia)
Naked Eyes - Promises, Promises (1983 - from Burning Bridges)
’Til Tuesday - What About Love (1986 - from )
spoken break
Sinéad O’Connor - The Emperor’s New Clothes (1990) 
Jane’s Addiction - Up the Beach  (1986)
Moose - Sexy M.O.R. (Take Your Clothes Off) (1994 - from Bang Bang EP)
spoken break
Strange Magic - Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 (2023 - from Mirrors and Smoke)
Shedfromthebody - Nude (Radiohead cover) (Shedfromthebody version released in 2022) (Radiohead original released in 2007, also on their In Rainbows album
Joao - Hands Over Your Naked Body (from the single release, 2023)
spoken break
Dirty Beaches - Sweet 17 (from Badlands, 2011)
Wavves - King of the Beach (from King of the Beach, 2010)
Isa - Promo for Vapour Trail (EDBZ fortnightly show on 1st and 3rd Friday of each month, 6-9 Pacific time)
SLOW CRUSH - Beached (from Aurora, 2018)
spoken break
The Pull of Autumn - No Day at the Beach
Kilbey Kennedy - Naked as a Star (Joshua Easley remix)
Nico - BEATASTIC promo
Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure (from 2011) 
Naked Souls (Andy Jossi) - Auto Da-Fé
Greg, Meagan and Bret - Vapour Trail Live promo
Andi Roti - Shazam Me at the Bach Bar
Beach Fossils - Don’t Fade Away (from 2023, off of the album titled Bunny)