How do you say you love Echo and the Bunnymen without playing their music? With a set of their brilliant side projects. Also we celebrate the spirit of pirate radio and the upcoming presentation of the documentary "40 Watts to Nowhere" at the Roxie theater in San Francisco on 5/31. Some audio wabi-sabi appears throughout to remind you that this is all live, unedited and algorithm free. That's why there is a few minutes of silence - I pushed the wrong button when it was time to talk. Stay with it, the music resumes.

Set list for 5/26/2025

Intro 564B2 - Offworld (Radio Valencia themesong)

Bunnymen Adjacent:
A Golden Dawn-->Spirit--> In Blue Sunshine | Glide (aka Will Sargent) | Curvature of the Earth
Your Mind is a Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder) | Poltergeist (Will Sargent and Les Pattinson)
Bed of Nails - Electrafixion | Burned

Dead air for a few minutes - whoopsies

40 Watts From Nowhere:
Warped - Red Hot Chili Peppers | One Hot Minute
Guerilla Radio - Rage Against the Machine | The Battle of Los Angeles
We Want the Airwaves - Ramones
We're Coming Back - Cock Sparrer | Shock Troops

Cruel World Encore:
Senses Out of Control - Buzzcocks | Sonics In The Soul
Uncontrollable Urge - Devo | Are We Not Men?
Bugs & Humans - Provoker | Body Jumper
Must Be the One - She Wants Revenge
Cross My Heart - Social Order | Miss You EP

80s and Beyond:
The More You Live, The More You Love - Flock of Seagulls
Theme for Great Cities - Simple Minds | Sons and Fascination
Metal - Gary Numan | The Pleasure Principle
Jacked - Heartworms
Circles - Soft Kill | Roseland
A Shot in the Arm - Wilco | Summer Teeth

Shoegaze and Beyond:
Dragon Song - Seasurfer | Dive In
In the Light of Time - Flying Saucer Attack | Further
Naked Eye - The Who | Odds & Sods

Of Grooves and Dirges:
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I am Gooding - Yo La Tengo | I am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
So Tonight that I might See - Mazzy Star

Outro: Whale noises

In this episode of Radio Valencia's Escape Velocity show, DJ Fraser presents artists featured at the 2025 Cruel World festival. Both legendary and newer bands lay down goth, electric pop and dance; some call it "darkwave".

Whatever you call it, it is a celebration of life in the face of world that is indeed often cruel.

This episode of Escape Velocity starts off with a proper blast-off set that weaves together the seemingly unlikely flow of Steve Miller, Tribe Called Quest, Future Sound of London and... Montrose featuring Sammy Hagar? Once transported into the musical stratosphere, we find this particular world is populated with a lot of jangly indie rock ranging from giants like REM, to the hyper local.

Set list:

Space Intro - Steve Miller
The Space Program - A Tribe Called Quest
We Have Explosive - The Future Sound of London
Space Station #5 - Montrose
Radio Free Europe (Jackknife Lee Remix/2025) - REM
Stevie - Diary
To Take - Pants Yell!
Piece the Veils - Six Select
Say No to Love - the Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Clara Bow - 50 Foot Wave
Found Love - Darkside
Love Like Blood - Killing Joke
Skeletons - The Sound
Visage - Visage
Myths Come True, Pt. 2 - Mount Eerie
Devil in the Subtext - Creepoid
Metal - The Beths
Staring At the Sun - Ultravivid Scene
Butterfly - Love and Rockets
Natural Selection - UNKLE (featuring the Black Angels)
Holiday - Bryan Ferry (featr. Amelia Barret)
Long Live the Strange - Gaz Coombes
Loline - The Bats
Stonefly - Maria Somerville
Zebleyalo Agne - Le Mystere des voix bulgares
Into My Arms - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Strange Religion - Mark Lanegan
Oh I Wept - Free
Pop - Gas