The first show in DP's long-awaited second series, which just finished transmitting a few minutes ago. As of this episode the program will now run for one hour instead of two.

Should've been broadcast 11/6/09... but wasn't, thanks to me winding up in hospital after suffering a stroke. My brain and I have always had a somewhat shaky relationship, but this was something new and more unexpected than it should've been. So instead of recording the show the day before broadcast, as per normal, I spent 2½ months in hospital and a similar period recuperating at hom before breaking radio silence at last. But I did have the playlist for the show fully worked out, and this is it, presented here for whatever doubtful historical interest it may have.

Let's face it, 2SER have been very nice running old editions of Dark Passage during my absence, but it's past time that I got some new ones on the air. (Also past time that I put up the playlists for the last two weeks before my brain crash.) To that end DARK PASSAGE is about to come roaring back out of the high-tech (?) studios of 15-11 Enterprises in a slightly different form to the show you hopefully remember and even more hopefully love (most notably that it will probably only be one hour from now on rather than two), but still offering an exceptionally fine selection of dark alternative music from Australia and around the world. Keep watching this space...

The usual love to all,
James

...in my brain, as a result of which i have been in hospital since june the 9th.

i expect to be here for several weeks to come.

all activity for 15-11 enterprises (my band) and dark passage (my radio show), and all live activity for the inflatable voodoo dolls (jo'h can still carry out record work in my absence) is necessarily cancelled until further notice.

i have net access now and can use myspace, and i have some friends whose generosity is stellar.

things really could be a lot worse.

blessed be, and hopefully your solstice was livelier than mine has been for obvious reasons,
james r.

The Horrors, “Mirror’s Image”
Ahrayeph, “Eden”
The Eden House, “The Dark Half”
(((S))), “Fall With Me”
Seven Sunless Days, “Last Breath”
Lucretia’s Daggers, “End of Oil”
This Gentle Flow, “Night Sky”
Angelspit, “Grind (Noir du Soleil remix)”
Lunar Module, “Get Low (extended mix)”
VNV Nation, “Chrome (Apoptygma Berzerk remix)”
Apoptygma Berzerk, “Eclipse”
In Strict Confidence, “Stern”
Imperative Reaction, “Drown”
Public Image Limited, “Careering”
The Fall, “Smile”
Ministry, “So What”
Toys Went Berserk, “Guns at My Head”
The Wreckery, “Ruling Energy” 
Xero, “The Girls”
The Church, “Reptile”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Amphetamine Logic”
The Cure, “The Top”

The Normal, “Warm Leatherette”
Joy Division, “The Atrocity Exhibition”
A. Tobias, “Heaven”
Spirit Photography, “Time is Racing”
Thylacine, “Lay Down”
Tearwave, “Shattered Fairytale”
Artica, “Dahlia”
Catastrophe Ballet, “Garden of Decay”
Dreadful Shadows, “Everlasting Words”
IKON, “Condemnation”
Big Electric Cat, “Orchid Dreaming”
Spahn Ranch, “Cesium 137”
Dandelion Wine, “Stained Glass Colours”
The Sunday Reeds, “2000 & Something”
Black Orchid, “Destiny”
Death In June, “Last Farewell”
Isomer, “Corps Sacre”
Coil, “Lost Rivers of London”
Lycia, “Clouds in the Southern Sky (Sweeping in Like Waves)”
The Damned, “Nature’s Dark Passion”
Nine Inch Nails, “My Violent Heart”
The Cure, “The Big Hand”

Thanks to another technical problem at 2SER where the show for April 16 was cut off halfway through, this was repeated last night. You may be as pleased as I am to know it played in full this time.

Lycia, “Defective”
The March Violets, “Snake Dance”
Rosetta Stone, “Adrenaline”
Voices of Masada, “Vathek”
Formfleisch, “Säge”
Creta, “Silence”
Screams For Tina, “11:11”
London After Midnight, “Revenge”
Red Harvest, “Last Call”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Vision Thing”
Diary of Dreams, “Chemicals”
Clan of Xymox, “Consolation”
Love Like Blood, “Painkilling Suicide”
Nosferatu, “Pictures of Betrayal”
Kiss The Blade, “Carrigan”
IKON, “Overcome”
Eternia, “Shattered”
All About Eve, “Calling Your Name”
The Danse Society, “Arabia”
Corpus Delicti, “Saraband”
Bauhaus, “Lagartija Nick”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Happy House”
The Fair Sex, “Not Now, Not Here”
Fields of the Nephilim, “Dawnrazor (live)”