Happy 20th Birthday to John Cavanagh’s ‘Soundwave’ show at the Flying Duck
John Cavanagh’s Soundwave radio show reaches its twentieth anniversary on Thursday 22nd August and there’s a special happening to mark the occasion at Glasgow’s Flying Duck. This twentieth birthday concert highlights three favourites, heard regularly on the show. Tickets are on sale at Monorail Music, King’s Court: https://www.seetickets.com/event/soundwave-at-20/the-flying-duck/3127343 https://tickets-scotland.com/
Master songwriter (and David Shrigley collaborator) Iain Shaw will open the event and have copies of a new and exclusive tape to give out on the night.
Teenage sister duo The Cords, one of Scotland’s most exciting new bands, bring their indiepop/punk energy to the Flying Duck and the show will be headlined by legendary Glasgow band The Orchids. For this event, the Orchids plan something unique: their first time ever with an onstage acoustic show – hear their classic songs in a new way, only at the Soundwave Birthday Party! There’ll be special guests too: at the time of writing, Caesar from the Wake, is confirmed to be appearing with the Orchids for this show.
The Orchids have been regulars on John’s shows since the ’90s and a session on the Soundwave in 2006 proved so popular with avid Orchids fans that it crashed two internet networks and had to be rebroadcast for those who missed it!
In addition, DJ sets through the evening will be from John Cavanagh, Peter Easton (he of the much loved and fondly remembered Beat Patrol radio show) and Dragged Up’s Eva & Simon. There’ll be record giveaways on the night too.
The Soundwave began in 2004 as a fortnightly show going out online from Radio Six International, the U.K.’s oldest radio station, and on a U.S. Network in Monticello, Maine. It’s now syndicated by around fifteen stations in the U.K., U.S., New Zealand and Taiwan, plus coming from Radio Six International’s studios on the Isle of Lismore each weekend.
For an hour a week, John Cavanagh mixes together a sequence that can sometimes span more than a century of sound, with new artists getting their first plays of unreleased music to guests like legendary session musician Carol Kaye, who’s appeared on the show four times and says “I love you John, you tell it like it is”!
Fay Fife travelled to John’s studio especially to appear on the 1,000th Soundwave earlier this year, and guests on the show across time run the gamut from Greg Lake, Ogoya Nengo and the Dodo Women’s Group playing in session, The Shonen Knife to Focus!
Listeners around the world enjoy the show from its many outlets or via Mixcloud, where each programme is archived and can be heard anytime, with back editions available across more than a decade. From Australia to Finland, Argentina to Japan, Ascension Island to… Hawick, the Soundwave is a well-loved point of the week for many fans.
John Cavanagh is also known as a voiceover artist, record producer, writer, occasional record label operator (with releases by Delia Derbyshire and Ron Geesin) and for his work across time with the BBC, spanning U.K. radio & tv networks and World Service.
John Cavanagh’s Soundwave radio show reaches its twentieth anniversary on Thursday 22nd August and to mark the occasion there’s a special happening at Glasgow’s Flying Duck: read on to find out more…
Tickets are on sale at Monorail Music, King’s Court:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/soundwave-at-20/the-flying-duck/3127343
https://tickets-scotland.com/