1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980
[WMM’s theme song]

2. The Jesus and Mary Chain – “Always Sad”
from: Damage and Joy / Artificial Plastic Records / March 24, 2017
[7th studio album by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. It is the group’s first album in 19 years, and marks their first collaboration with producer Youth. Half of its 14 tracks are re-recordings of songs that were previously released in some form—as Jim Reid solo releases or as part of their sister Linda’s Sister Vanilla venture. Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid. After signing to independent label Creation Records, they released their first single “Upside Down” in 1984. Their debut album Psychocandy was released to critical acclaim in 1985 on major label WEA. The band went on to release five more studio albums before disbanding in 1999. They reunited in 2007.]

3. Lennon Bone – “Cut The Line”
from: Cut The Line – Single / Lennon Bone / February 24, 2017
[About “Cut The Line” Lennon Bone wrote: “ It’s a song about my mothers passing, which happened on Feb. 23rd, 2016. Chance Bone on bass, backing vocals and artwork. All other vocals, instruments, production, mixing and mastering by Lennon Bone. Engineered and recorded by Lennon Bone at Element Recording Studios and Sound and Patterns Studios, Kansas City. Lennon Bone spent 10 years touring the world as a professional drummer. His writing and playing has been heard on television shows like “Nashville”, “Criminal Minds”, MTV’s “Catfish” and “Gossip Girl”. His previous band, Ha Ha Tonka, was featured on an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations”. He backed his brother (Chance Bone) as the drummer for music featured in the 2016 feature film “The Meddler”, starring Susan Sarandon. He’s been on 3 Billboard Top 200 albums, (K. Flay // Ha Ha Tonka), and has toured 13+ countries. Lennon currently resides in the midwest, producing and mixing records out of Sound and Patterns and Element Recording Studio’s in Kansas City, as well as doing freelance drumming and compositional work for film and television through his company Sound and Patterns Music. More information at: http://www.lennonbone.com]

4. The Besnard Lakes – “Laura Lee”
from: The Besnard Lakes Are the Divine Wind – EP / Jagjaguwar / Februry 9, 2017
[Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Formed in 2003 by the husband and wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, the band also includes Kevin Laing on drums, Richard White on guitar, Sheenah Ko on keyboards and Robbie MacArthur on guitar. They played Middle of The Map last year.]

[The Besnard Lakes will play recordBar, Sunday, May 14, with The Life and Times.]

10:13 – Underwriting

10:15 – Interview with Clint Hoffmeier & Matt Tady

5. Clint Hoffmeir & Matt Tady – “W.N.D.P. Theme”
from: Wednesday Might Drinking Practice/ Clint Hoffmeier / October, 2016

You are listening to the original theme song of the weekly podcast Wednesday Night Drinking Practice produced and hosted by Clint Hoffmeier & Matt Tady who join us on terrestrial radio to share details about their new weekly podcast, now in their 23rd week, recorded at Clint’s home studio, in his Rosedale KCK neighborhood.

Clint Hoffmeier is a Kansas City native, He has played in bands since I was 10. Although heavy into film and theater in his 20’s, music has continued to be a big part of his life. In 2008, he opened CODA, with Dan and Ann Tutko, friends he made while working for The Majestic Restaurant. Clint has been involved in many recording projects and his currently writing and performing with the Kansas City based band, The Dynamite Defense.

Matt Tady was born in Wyandotte County, but grew up in Southeast Kansas. After landing in Kansas City, he met his wife Danielle Meister in 2004. Matt has collaborated as an actor and dancer on perfomance installation pieces for the Charlotte Street Foundation, and has worked hanging art in galleries and bars in the Crossroads. Matt has also been a part of the astro-conspiracy rock band, The Cosmic Tady Brothers with his brother Chris. He is also the owner of Tadej Leather Goods with his wife Danielle Meister, who is the owner of We Are Sincerely Yours, at 2711 Troost Avenue, in Kansas City.

Clint has written about how Wednesday Night Drinking Practice is an old tradition. Many of his close friends and brothers have met every Wednesday in his garage to have drinks and talk about movies and music and such. The idea to do a weekly podcast with the same concept came to him last year. Clint asked Matt to join him on this project. What was once just an idea, has turned into an amazing experience in which he gets to hang out and get to know local Kansas City musicians and artists.

One of the features of the Wednesday Night Drinking Practice is “This or That”

10:24

6. Clint Hoffmeier, Matt Tady, and Johnny Hamil – “This or That Theme”
from: Wednesday Might Drinking Practice/ Clint Hoffmeier / October, 2016

“This Or That?”

Curtis Mayfield or Sly & The Family Stone

David Lynch or Quenton Tarentino

C-Span or Public Televison

The podcast: Wednesday Night Drinking Practice is now in their 23rd week.

Clint formed Ancient House Productions with Jason Orr at Phosphor Studios last year. We work with artist to record music and also video production.

Clint has been involved in many recording projects and am currently writing and performing with The Dynamite Defense. Clint’s band that includes: Jordan Carver, Tess Jehle-Ray, Chris Tady, and Chris Teasley.

10:33

7. The Dynamite Defense – “Hit The Town”
from: The Dynamite Defense EP / The Dynamite Defense/ June 2, 2015
[The Dynamite Defense include: Jordan Carver, Clint Hoffmeier, Tess Jehle-Ray, Chris Tady, Chris Teasley]

We are talking with Clint Hoffmeier & Matt Tady about their new weekly podcast, Wednesday Night Drinking Practice. The podcast is now in their 23rd week. Clint & Matt host and produce the show, that is recorded at Clint’s home studio, in his Rosedale KCK neighborhood.

To hear and download, “Wednesday Night Drinking Practice” podcasts, you can visit: http://www.wednesdaynightdrinkingpractice….

10:45

8. Second Hand King – “Go So Wrong”
from: Go So Wrong – Single / Second Hand King / March 22, 2017
[Second Hand King is Joe Stanziola, who grew up in Shawnee Kansas, and Overland Park, Kansas, where he graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School in 2008. He calls his music Doo Wop / Hip Hop. He is a student of Hip Hop with a passion for Doo Wop music, and he takes his name from a 1966 Doo Wop song known as “The Joker went Wild” by Brian Hyland. Second Hand King released his debut EP, The Santa Sangre, in December 2011, followed by the full length albums: All My Fears (December, 2012), Lower Depths (October, 2013), Chuck (March 2014), Before the Bomb Drops (May, 2015), and Almost Blue (January, 2016). Second Hand King is getting set to release his sixth full length release, FRANKIE this year.]

[Second Hand King plays recordBar, Friday, March 31, at 8:00 PM with Pistol Pete, The Kid Nicky Halt, Rachel Mallin & The Wild Type, and Chris Flow.]

9. Modern English- “Moonbeam”
from: Take Me To The Trees / Modern English / February 24, 2017
[8th studio album from 5-piece band formed in Colchester, Essex, England, in 1979 by Robbie Grey on vocals, Gary McDowell on guitar & vocals, and Michael Conroy on bass & vocals. Modern English were originally known as The Lepers. The group expanded to “Modern English” when Richard Brown on drums and Stephen Walker on keyboards were subsequently added to the lineup of the band. Modern English are a new wave/post-punk band from Colchester, Essex, England best remembered for their songs “I Melt with You”, “Hands Across the Sea”, and “Ink and Paper”. The group disbanded twice, in 1987 and 1991, but reunited again in 1989 and 1995. This new album was recorded, produced and mixed by Martyn Young from Colourbox and MARRS, who also adds additional keyboards.]

10. Sky Smeed – “Lunker Bass”
from: Lunker Bass / Sky Smeed / Digital Release Feb 1, 2017 – Physical Release Mar 1, 2017
[Sky Smeed was born and raised outside of Chanute, Kansas, in an old, one-room schoolhouse his parents bought and turned into a home in the early 1970s. Last year, he sold the country home he built by hand and migrated to Lawrence, Kansas, a place that has provided a non-stop supply of creativity, community and culture, and began settling in to an old fixer-upper on the north side of the Kaw River. To date, Smeed has self-released five full-length albums: Flying High (2002), The Front Steps (2004), Mill River (2006), Sky Smeed (2012) and Drive All Night (2015). His sixth album, Lunker Bass (2017), was recorded and produced at The Ninth Ward Pickin’ Parlor in Lawrence by none other than award-winning folk duo Truckstop Honeymoon (Mike & Katie West).]

[Sky Smeed plays a record release show at recordBar, Sat, April 1 at 8:00 with Truckstop Honeymoon.]

11. Pieta Brown – “Street Tracker”
from: Postcards / Lustre Records / March 10, 2017
[Pieta Brown’s new release Postcards features her collaborating with musical friends, including Calexico, Bon Iver, Mark Knopfler and the Pines. She compiled the album by writing simple acoustic demos of what would become the album’s songs, sending them to the musicians that make up Postcards‘ roster of guests, and having those artists finish the tracks. Brown and her collaborators never worked in the same room, which lent the album its distance-implying title. Street Tracker was created with Mark Knopfler. Brown was born in 1973, in Iowa City, Iowa. She is an American musician and singer-songwriter who has released five albums and three EPs. She has performed with artists such as Mark Knopfler, John Prine, Amos Lee, Justin Vernon and Calexico. Her early upbringing was in Iowa. There, Brown was exposed to traditional and rural folk music through her father, singer songwriter Greg Brown. Brown spent her childhood living in 17 different residences between Iowa and Alabama. While living with her mother in Alabama, Brown began writing poetry and composing instrumental songs on piano. Pieta Brown is married to musician and producer Bo Ramsey.]

11:00 – Station ID

11:00 – Interview with Matthew Dunehoo

Matthew Dunehoo of First Friday Film Fest

Matthew Dunehoo, serves as Festival Director of the First Friday Film Festival, at Musical Theater Heritage in Crown Center on April 7, with eleven short films from Barcelona, Minneapolis, Columbia, NYC, Los Angeles, France, Sweden, and Michigan that will be screened. Matt is also a film maker, musician and actor. Matt is the founder of Elk’s Pride Pictures, a film production company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Matt has also been at the center of many of our favorite and often played bands on this show, including Tidy Hippy, Loose Park, Baby Teardrops, and Doris Hensen. Today we’ll play a track from Matt’s new band, Slights, play The Tank Room, Friday, April 7 at with Spellbook, and Kids & Chemicals.

First Friday Film Festival, Friday, April 7, at Musical Theater Heritage in Crown Center, features eleven short films from Barcelona, Minneapolis, Columbia, NYC, Los Angeles, France, Sweden, and Michigan will be screened.

DOORS 7:30 SCREENING BEGINS 8:30
MTH THEATER, 3RD FLOOR, CROWN CENTER

AND THERE WAS LIGHT
LEA KONCZAL – COLUMBIA, MO
DOCUMENTARY – 5 MIN
A SHORT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT A MAN WITH ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS JOBS IN AMERICA.

12. Audio Clip – “And There was Light”
from the short film, “And There Was Light”

SCHMOTTS, direcred by KYLE KENYON – LOS ANGELES
NARRATIVE SHORT – 8 MIN – COMEDY
AFTER A LONG DAY OF JOB HUNTING, AN OBLIVIOUS STEPFATHER TRIES TO ENJOY A MEAL WITH HIS FAMILY. UNFORTUNNATELY THERE’S ONE THING HE LOVES EVEN MORE.

Written and Produced by Matt Stauter who plays Gary, the stepfather.

12 B. Audio Clip – “Schmotts”
from the shart film “Schmotts”

11:08 – Interview with Matt Dunehoo

We’re talking with Matthew Dunehoo about the First Friday Film Festival, at Musical Theater Heritage in Crown Center., on Friday, April 7, with eleven short films from Barcelona, Minneapolis, Columbia, NYC, Los Angeles, France, Sweden, and Michigan that will be screened. More information at http://www.firstfridayfilmfest.com

Films:
WE THE PEOPLE
Rollence Patugan – LOS ANGELES

SCHMOTTS
KYLE KENYON – LOS ANGELES

BEST BEFORE END
NICOLAS FOGLIARINI – FRANCE

SHOWING IT ALL
LASSE PERSSON – SWEDEN

NIGHT GAME
SIMON TESSMER – MICHIGAN, USA

20 METERS OF LOVE IN MONTMARTE
PIERRE GAFFIE – FRANC

MARC CHUNG PROTECTS HIS ADDRESS
MICHAEL CHAN – LOS ANGELES, CA

AND THERE WAS LIGHT
LEA KONCZAL – COLUMBIA, MO

COLOR OF FEAR
RAHUL CHAKRABARTI – MINNEAPOLIS

THE BREAKDOWN
ANTHONY JAMES FAURE – NY

CROISSANT
MARIUS CONROTTO – BARCELONA

Matthew Dunehoo created: Elks Pride Pictures, LLC – Founded February 1, 2015. His film works include: ”No Magrettes” “The Vetting” – Folk Alliance International – Fishtank Theatre

Matt’s “band-ography” includes: Tiddy Hippy, Loose Park, Baby Teardrops, and Doris Hensen.

Matt’s new band, Slights is a collaboration band between Ben Parks (Of Tree) and Matthew Dunehoo. In late January, 2017 the band recorded an album in San Francisco with Ryan Kleeman and their friend Andrew Skikne on bass. Their new music was recorded at Ghost Cat Studios in San Francisco.

First Friday Film Festival, is April 7, at Musical Theater Heritage in Crown Center with eleven short films from Barcelona, Minneapolis, Columbia, NYC, Los Angeles, France, Sweden, and Michigan that will be screened.

11:16

13. Slights – “Why Cats Purr”
from: Rough Mixes For Demo / Independent / February 7, 2017
[Slights is a collaboration band between Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo. In late January, 2017 the band recorded an album in San Francisco with Ryan Kleeman and their friend Andrew Skikne on bass. Their new music was recorded at Ghost Cat Studios in San Francisco.]

[Slights, play The Tank Room, Friday, April 7 at 9:30 PM, with Spellbook, opening for Kids & Chemicals.]

11:20 – Underwriting

14. Arc Flash – “Earls”
from: Carbon Copy/ High Dive Records / March 31, 2017
[1st single from debut album of Arc Flash, James Thomblison on lead vocals & guitar, and Mark Osman on drums & percussion to be released on CD & vinyl on High Dive Records and cassette on Whatever Forever.]

[Arc Flash play an ALBUM Release Party w/ Condor & Jaybird. Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk , and Wendy Moira, Friday, Mar 31 at 10:00 PM, at Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS.]

15. The Sleazebeats – “Goosesteppin’ Nazis”
from: The Sleazebeats – The Sleazebeats / Independent / Jan. 1, 2012
[Charlie Colborne – keyboards, guitar, vocals; Bill Belzer – drums; Jeff Harshbarger – bass; Recorded at More Famouser Studios w/ Mike Nolte engineer, mixing, mastering the recordings. The Sleazebeats have played Live on the show on several occassions.]

[The Sleazebeats play Big Bang Buffet’s “Black Sheep Rising,” Tuesday, April 11, at 8:00 at The Buffalo Room. A benefit for 90.1 FM KKFI featuring Ron Megee, Lisa Cordes, Jon “Piggy” Cupit, Kristie Stremel, Calvin Arsenia, Jen Harris, Linda Barnhouse, Maria Vasquez Boyd, Jen Appell, Bil Belzer, Charlie Colborne, Mark Manning, Susan Cedarquis-Brewington, BJ McBride, Michael McQuary, Janet Henry, Ryan Wilks, and Nico Gray. go to: http://www.kkfi.org for more information.]

11:27 – Interview with Lou Jane Temple and Ron Megee

Lou Jane Temple & Ron Megee

Lou Jane Temple & Ron Megee join us to talk about Cafe Lulu, The Spoken Word, Big Bang Buffet, Late Night Theatre, 39th Street, Golden Girls Gone Wilder, Nasty Sally Searsucker, Food, and Art.

Lou Jane Temple is a chef and author. During her final year of college and for several years after, she ran all of the back stage catering for the leading rock and roll producer in the midwest. This led to her own catering company doing events for the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and eventually her own restaurant, Cafe Lulu which opened in 1989. Since 1992 she has served as a marketing and restaurant and wine consultant, she has worked as a private chef on an island, off the coast of Maine. She became a columnist for the Kansas City Star. She wrote seven semi-autobiographical culinary mysteries in her own Heaven Lee Series, through St. Martin’s Press, and then two more in a new Spice Box Series with Berkley Press. She also co-authored The Big Platter Cookbook. Through all of this Lou Jane has worked extensively in film, theatre, retail, marketing, and radio. Lou Jane is a 1977 Graduate of The University of Missouri with a double major in Communications and Administration of Justice. http://www.loujanetemple.com

Originally from Anaheim, California, Ron Megee has worked at every theater in Kansas City including The Kansas City Rep, The Coterie Theatre, New Theatre, The Unicorn Theatre. I first met Ron Megee through The Unicorn Theatre. He was running the spotlight for The Rocky Horror Show. We became friends while working together with Lou Jane Temple at Cafe Lulu. Laughter is healing and Ron Megee is a comic genius. He has created one of Kansas City’s most enduring and successful theatre companies, Late Night Theatre that began in 1997, and after a hiatus, was reborn several years ago at Missie B’s, on West 39th Street. In the last 20 years Late Night Theatre has produced over 100 shows, in the last 20 years, and are currently presenting. “Golden Girls Gone Wilder” now on stage through April 21,

Late Night Theatre presents Golden Girls Gone Wilder
MISSIE B’S ON 39TH STREET 805 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111

This time around, We are adding new skewered episodes. Ma, Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy take up Jazzercise, go to jail, deal with drug addiction, and end up at a nudist colony. The whole time Stan is tagging along! Can the Girls survive a wild time on the Lanai?

RON MEGEE as Dorothy
GARY CAMPBELL as Ma
STEPHONNE SINGLETON as Blanche
CHADWICK BROOKS as Rose
RYAN GOVE as huge number of characters
MARTIN BUCHANAN as Stan

Director: Ron Megee
Costume Designer: Chadwick Brooks
Wig And Make up Designer: Andy Chambers and Alan Dunham of Wonderland
Sound and Lighting Designer: Roger Stoddard
Photographer: Ron Berg Photography
Producers: One Trunk Productions, Jessica Dressler, Ron Megee, and Chadwick Brooks

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND MONDAY SHOWS
Note: All shows start at 8pm. Except Sundays at 6pm. Box office opens 7pm. doors 7:30 (Unless it is SUNDAY, then the Box office opens at 5pm.) general seating.

Cafe Lulu is where I had originally met Lou Jane Temple when I worked on a show at The Unicorn where she catered the opening night of Expiring Minds – Six Women with Brain Death and where she designed special food props for Kiss of The Spider Woman.

It all started at Cafe Lulu, a restaurant started by Lou Jane Temple on West 39th Street that opened on my 26th birthday, on a Tuesday, June 5, 1989. The restaurant was packed, people waited for hours, champagne was ordered for the entire room, Lou Jane’s friends from the Art Institute, her catering company, her work in film, her connections to Westport, Kansas, music, and art, were all waiting to eat her food. Lou Jane was my art mother. Between her and myself, and Ron Megee we created a Monday night, weekly, curated, live variety show of writers, theatre people, musicians, bands, performance artists, puppeteers, storytellers, who shared the tiny stage at the center of this one of a kind place.

Several of the weekly contributors were using the show as an opportunity to try out new material before a live and willing audience. Before long, scenes and material led to full-length works, and projects to be produced outside Cafe Lulu. For these performances we needed an identity. Mark Manning, Janice Woolery, and Ron Megee, founded Big Bang Buffet as an effort to provide venue for original, difficult pieces, controversial material.

Ron and Lou Jane talked about Ron’s first musical, produced as part of Big Bang Buffet’s first season of shows, in the Spring of 1992, Nasty Sally Searsucker was produced in Lou Jane’s Columbus Park Loft and featured a Cafe Lulu bartender who also was an talented electric guitar player named, Jimmy McCallister, who created a lot of the music with Scott Seitz for the show.

Many of us think of Lou Jane as our “Art Mother”

She wrote seven semi-autobiographical culinary mysteries in her own Heaven Lee Series, through St. Martin’s Press, and then two more in a new Spice Box Series with Berkley Press. She also co-authored The Big Platter Cookbook.

Late Night Theatre is presenting Golden Girls Gone Wilder thru April 21. http://www.latenighttheatre.com

Big Bang Buffet’s “Black Sheep Rising,” Tuesday, April 11, at 8:00 at The Buffalo Room. A benefit for 90.1 FM KKFI

11:56

16. The Sleazebeats – “You’ll Sparkle”
from: The Sleazebeats – The Sleazebeats / Independent / Jan. 1, 2012
[Charlie Colborne – keyboards, guitar, vocals; Bill Belzer – drums; Jeff Harshbarger – bass; Recorded at More Famouser Studios w/ Mike Nolte engineer, mixing, mastering the recordings. The Sleazebeats have played Live on the show on several occassions.]

[The Sleazebeats play Big Bang Buffet’s “Black Sheep Rising,” Tuesday, April 11, at 8:00 at The Buffalo Room. A benefit for 90.1 FM KKFI featuring Ron Megee, Lisa Cordes, Jon “Piggy” Cupit, Kristie Stremel, Calvin Arsenia, Jen Harris, Linda Barnhouse, Maria Vasquez Boyd, Jen Appell, Bill Belzer, Charlie Colborne, Mark Manning, Susan Cedarquis-Brewington, BJ McBride, Michael McQuary, Janet Henry, Ryan Wilks, and Nico Gray. go to: http://www.kkfi.org for more information.]

17. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]
[WMM Closing Theme]

Next week on April 5, members of the bands Red Kate and Stiff Middle Fingers join us with music from the new split single. Plus Guest Producer Nico Gray will take over the second hour of the show.

Our Script/Playlist is a cut and paste of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

Wednesday MidDay Medley in on the web:
http://www.WednesdayMidDayMedley.org,
http://www.facebook.com/WednesdayMidDayMed…,
http://www.kkfi.org

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