Episode #271 - You Know We Can't Go Back (5/28/26)

9:01 PM | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | You Know We Can't Go Back 
9:05 PM | Malcolm Todd | I Saw Your Face
9:08 PM | The Lemonheads | Into Your Arms 
9:12 PM | People I’ve Met | Bastards 
9:15 PM | The Flip Phones | Polaris 
9:19 PM | Ax and the Hatchetmen | Cheesecake 
9:25 PM | Everlast | Stones 
9:28 PM | Jonny Tex | Mustard Seeds 
9:31 PM | Dave Edmunds | Girls Talk 
9:36 PM | Willow Avalon | Cardinal Sin (w/ Jason Isbell) 
9:39 PM | Telehealth | Things I've Killed 
9:42 PM | Not For Radio | Ache 
9:48 PM | Fiona Apple | Fast As You Can 
9:53 PM | Liz Phair | Never Said 

Transcript

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We are radio.

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I am all over there with beautiful downtown Maryfield in the Shadow of the Mosaic District, it's the Ready Kilowatt Hour on Radio Fairfax. On tonight's show, DC band The Flip Phones with another one off their latest EP. Plus brand new songs from Telehealth, Not for Radio, Malcolm Todd, Axe and the Hatchet Men, People I've Met, Johnny Tex, and Willow Avalon. Also the first one in a while from legendary House of Pain Frontman Everlast. And lots more. For now, it's Happy Birthday tomorrow to the man lovingly referred to by Oasis and their fans as the Chief. Noel Gallagher will be 59. He's heading for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November with Oasis as the principal songwriter, guitarist, and sometimes singer. But this one is from his other band, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

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I saw you face what I was down. I turned the way. I didn't know where I told you the way. I saw you face what I was down. I turn around and love the way. I didn't know where I was there. I told the law. I love you more than you will know. Put that being I let you go. I thought you were down. I turned around and looked away. I didn't know where to stay. I thought you helped me know that I love you. I love you more than you don't know. But that reason I let you go.

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The Australian Nick Dalton wrote that for his dual love positions, and then came over to the US and replaced Juliana Hatfield on bass in the Lemon Heads in time for their sixth album, where they covered this track, and it was a number one modern rock track for nine weeks on the Billboard charts. In fact, it tied U2's records at the time, and this was an even bigger hit for Little Lemon Heads than It's a Shame About Ray. Before that, we heard Malcolm Todd. Brand new album. It's gonna be out June 5th. It's called Do That Again. And we heard I Saw Your Face. Malcolm Todd, only 22 years old, he's from LA, got signed to a record deal after two of his TikTok videos went viral about three years ago. He's doing a couple festivals in August, one in Montreal on August 1st at the Oshiaga Festival, and at the Outside Lance Festival in San Francisco on August 8th. We started out with our birthday boy, Noel Gallagher, from his 2015 album Chasing Yesterday. You know we can't go back. He's been playing guitar since the age of 12. He served as a roadie and guitar tech for the band in Spiral Carpets for several years. When in 1991 his younger brother Liam became lead singer of a group, he would rename Oasis. Then Liam asked Noel to be their manager. Noel saw them, basically told them they sucked. They needed a songwriter and a guitarist, not a manager. And he would write all their songs for them and play guitar. And he became the band leader, wrote and co-produced every single song on the first three Oasis albums, along with all the B-sides they recorded in the 90s. And yes, after 41 concerts last year with the Reunited Oasis, he and his brother are hanging out together again at Man City football matches. Last I saw, Manchester City were second in the Premier League to Arsenal. Anyway, enough about the Premier League. Good evening, I'm ReadyJ. Kilowatt, your rock and roll servant. Glad to have you along with us tonight. People I've met. It's from New York City. There are three of them. This is their first EP, it's called Bunny. They toured last year with Royal Otis. They're playing a couple festivals this summer, and we're going to hear a song called Bastards.

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No compass or map with me, guided by devotion. Then I look up high, see Polaris in the sky. Now Polaris is here with me, and it helped me conquer my fears. If I don't figure out something soon, I'm gonna face my ruin. Where is my Polaris? Where is the star that guides me at night? Then I see the clouds break and it lights up in the deep blue. Can't believe I ever doubted that you would always come through. Because you're closed, because you're the stars.

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When the lights out, only shadows and downside.

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In case I find the smoke fades, cigarettes die the hallway. I don't care where my elbow leads to presence is all mine.

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I'm a night out, only here for the right now.

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When the lights are only shadows and downside. Oh, my hair for the city.

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Axe and the Hatchet Men doing cheesecake from their latest album, So Much to Tell You. Their sex head out of Chicago. They're gonna be touring both as a headliner and supporting guess what? Royal Otis. Everybody's supporting Royal Otis. You'll get to see them around here in November. They'll be uh headlining the Howard Theater in DC on November 14th, and at the Broadbury in Richmond on November 15th. Before that, we heard the flip phones, the song Polaris off their EP Spinning Adrift. They're from DC. We featured them on our locals-only show in March. They're playing Saturday night at the Petworth Torch Fest in DC over in the Kalorama neighborhood. And on June 20th, they are playing at the pause for Purple Hearts charity concert at the Galactic Panther Art Gallery in Alexandria. We started out with people I've met at the song bastards off their EP bunny. You and I are listening to the world-famous Ready Kilowatt Hour coming to you live from the studios of Radio Fairfax, a service of Fairfax Public Access in the formerly moist marvel of Fairfax, Virginia. Now it's the dry marvel, and it's beautiful this evening. If you have any comments or requests, or just want to love us, visit and follow us on our Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok pages, or drop me a line at readykradio at gmail.com. That's R-E-D-D-Y-K Radio. I am the vacuum-sealed Ready J Kilowatt. Everlast, also known as Whitey Ford, is the front man for the hip-hop group House of Pain. This is an upcoming album that's going to be out August the 28th. The song is called Embers to Ashes. We're going to hear a song called Stones.

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I ain't already too much. Not saying anything. I do the dirty work, my hell. Oh you gotta do it. There ain't no thing you can say. There ain't no thing you can do. God knows I know what I don't know. Ain't no bitch. I ain't no ready to I'm ready to go. Don't think that I won't take the blame. We're aiming at the same time. There ain't nothing you can say. There ain't nothing you can do. God knows I know you'll say on me. Take a shot. Ain't no that you've been throwing me. I ain't already through.

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I ain't already through.

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Don't think that I wanna take the plane. We're aiming at the same hell today.

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Summer to stay in our journey. Here we're going to Saturday beach, where you touch down on the street. Are you inside that? Hundred percent.

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That's Dave Edmonds. Doing girls talk! His nineteen seventy-nine album Repeat When Necessary. That was an Elvis Casello song. Elvis gave that to Dave Edmonds, who would play it with his man Rock Pile, which also featured the bassist Nick Lowe, who used that same band for his solo record, and Dave Edmonds played the guitar on Nick Lowe's album. David Edmond was last money and we heard music now before. We heard Monitor And you welcome coming out August 28th, Cold Ember today. We heard on Cold Everland originally from Long Island. He's going to be at the Ocean Calling Festival 25th in Ocean City, Maryland. And uh he was the lead for House of Pain. I wonder if he's gonna be singing the jump around. Anyway, you're listening to the ready kill one hour. Lolly singer now, Willow Avalon. Hungry A. She's actually singing with Jason Isabel on this tune. Georgia, she just made her debut at the Grand Old Auckery last year. The new album on June 26th is called Pink Pocket Pistol. We're going to hear Cardinal Sand.

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Why now I'll have my evil shape? Why gush my legs? Breaking the heart like yours. After all the mother's love, after your mother's after your baby, your sister's troubles, your freaking troublesome, said that you have gone across the lines, but don't just and I've made you made Jesus.

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I guess they made Jesus.

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Running in circles, losing focusing the script body. Nobody knows when there's a whole right way I used to be a lay inside of it. Yeah, I just wanna be helped by you. Nobody has just taken what can I say? When the fan is to each view, yeah, each for you.

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Off an EP called Bloom. The song is a Not for Radio, a solo project of Maria Zardoya from the indie pop band The Maria. She's playing July 30th and 31st at the Lalapalooza Festival in the great city of Chicago. Before that, we heard HeliHealth from an album called Green World Image. The song is called Things I've Killed. They're a Seattle band, who call themselves the Post Information Pop Sensation. That's a song about millennials being blamed for killing everything off in society. We started out with Willow Avalon, doing a duet with Jason Isbell, the song Cardinal Finn, off her new album, Pink Pocket Pistol, that's gonna be out June 26th. She's playing in Richmond on September 11th at the Broadbury, and in DC on September 12th at the 930 Club. I have a feeling she's gonna be a beloved singer great voice. We're gonna start out with Fiona Apple. She had an album in 1999 that had a 90-word title, and if I were to read that entire title, we wouldn't have enough time to play the song. So we'll go ahead and play the song. The song is called Fast As You Can I let the bees down too soon.

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I don't know how to live without my hair on this throat I thought I'm always in still. Oh darling it's so sweet, just thinking on how crazy, how crazy I am You say you don't go crazy, you won't go, but I know and I pray you let you will be yourself up as fast as you can I may soft enough, I'm gonna soon go hungry by a fire and I will not let you in. I'm not putting out the final phrases that will disprove your faithful man So we do catch me done. Fast as you can be scratching, I'll free yourself as you can make a scratch me, I'll free yourself as you Sometimes Mama don't shake and share still the time with us to a place where I begin for live while I am the wonders and the world and be a girl if you say it's a gift, and you give me some work of your drug may I be a pet if you just tell me it's a gift Cause I'm tired of whites, joking on white, just need a little look up I let the beast in and then I even try for getting it with us. And for a little while more I saw the uneven with blame and blame as their own But if you're getting many bright ideas, quite yeah, I'm gonna leave it again. So fast as you can leave me let's say about fast as you never care that you never care.

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That's Liz Fair. Never said from Exile and Guyville, her debut record from nineteen ninety-three. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, grew up in Chicago, currently touring with Slater Kinney. She'll be one of many artists at the Ocean's Calling Festival in Ocean City, Maryland on September 25th. And before that, we heard Fiona Apple, Fast As You Can, off her second album, which has a title too long to uh to mention on the radio. But uh it was basically a response to people criticizing her, the way she looked, her weight, her music, her attitude, or whatever. So she decided to uh basically title her album after how she was feeling. But anyway, it's time to unplug the ready kilowatt hour for another week. A reminder you can stream our old shows on readykradio.buzzsprout.com and on your favorite podcast apps. Time to go now. Stay well, stay safe, and please don't kill anyone. Good night.

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