A selected list of albums released by
Radium Wreckords
Third Street by Radio Rats (1995)
| # | Track Title |
|---|---|
| 1. | God Bless The Rolling Stones |
| 2. | Wild Rose |
| 3. | Where Have All The Usherettes Gone |
| 4. | Free State Rain |
| 5. | Angst Inside The Met |
| 6. | I Don’t Mind |
| 7. | Poxy Music |
| 8. | Third Street |
| 9. | Born In The Age Of Gasoline |
| 10. | Long Hot Summer Afternoon |
| 11. | Into The Night We Slide |
| 12. | Voodoo Doll |
| 13. | Pop Star Housewife |
| 14. | Welcome To The Weekend |
| 15. | I Don’t Know Why (But You Make Me Blue) |
| 16. | Welcome To My Car |
Compiled for the Rolling Stones visit to SA in 1995. James Phillips took 5 cassettes to their hotel – but I’m sure the Stones never got them / played them.
Jonathan Handley, 2007
Guitar on ‘I Don’t Know Why’ played by Steve Fataar from The Flames.
Primitive Nania by Nani (1999)
- Nani: vocals, guitar
- Riaan Esterhuizen: drums on 1 & 2
- Dave Pickover: drums on 8 & 10
- Jonathan Handley: drums on 9 & 10 and bass, guitars, keyboards, harmonica, flute, marching bass drum on 3, 4 & 7 and harmony vocals on 6.
| # | Track Title |
|---|---|
| 1. | Shine |
| 2. | Linger Longer |
| 3. | Vinegar |
| 4. | Ride Your Horses |
| 5. | Shades And Tones |
| 6. | Mirror Image |
| 7. | Catch 22 |
| 8. | Part Of Your Soul |
| 9. | Untouched |
| 10. | Whiskey |
Released in 1999 on Radium Wreckords.
Engineered and produced by Jonathan Handley from the Radio Rats / The Glee Club.
Jonathan “Radio Rats” Handley has a new discovery and her name is Nani.
SA Rock Digest Issue #22, 30 June 1999
Martie Tinanie van Niekerk was born 21 years ago. She is currently doing ART
(photography, film, painting) at the Art Academy in Klerksdorp (Cortina Interceptor City).
Available from Radium Wreckords.
{Editor: Nani has an incredible voice, similar to that of a Kate Bush or Stevie Nicks. This is great CD with some powerful folk-rock, hard-edged songs. Musicians include Jonathan Handley, Riaan Esterhuizen and David Pickover. Recommended.}
Home Decorating For Beginners by Radio Rats (2004)
- Jonathan Handley: Vocals, bass, rhythm guitar, drums
| # | Track Title |
|---|---|
| 1. | Trade |
| 2. | Ant Bath |
| 3. | Obz Cafe Blues |
| 4. | Song For Doomed Lovers |
| 5. | Perlemoen |
| 6. | Brandy And Coke |
| 7. | Main Road |
| 8. | Doomville Sunny SA |
| 9. | Been Down So Long |
| 10. | Zig Zag Road |
| 11. | Mirror Man |
| 12. | Stateway Cruise |
| 13. | Fall Into The Beat |
| 14. | Totally Under The Influence Of You |
Wreckorded in a garage in Rondebosch (Cape Town, Sunny SA) in 2003 using the saddest-looking drum kit on Planet Earth.
Released 14 August 2004.
Pure Pop 1985-1988 (2006)
- Jonathan Handley: vocals and all instruments
- Gil Marais-Gilchrist: guitar on 8, 10 and 11.
- Dave Davies: vocals on ‘Lucky No. 1’
“Agony” is by Titus Groan
- Dave Davies: vocals
- Dave Allen: guitar
- Peter Peyrl: drums
- Jonathan Handley: bass, vocals
| # | Artist | Track Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Radio Rats | Simple Love |
| 2. | Radio Rats | Oh You Make Me Low |
| 3. | Radio Rats | Hey Lee |
| 4. | Radio Rats | Bop To The Comet |
| 5. | Radio Rats | Lucky Number 1 |
| 6. | Radio Rats | Never Run Away From Love |
| 7. | Radio Rats | Heaven |
| 8. | Radio Rats | Meet Me At The End Of The Road |
| 9. | Radio Rats | Hunchback Love |
| 10. | Radio Rats | Rock ‘n Roll Is Dead |
| 11. | Radio Rats | Come With Me |
| 12. | Radio Rats | Sex Rays From Radio Toyland |
| 13. | Titus Groan | Agony |
| 14. | Radio Rats | Industrial Devolution |
| 15. | Radio Rats | Zipster – Elektraluv |
A collection of rare Radio Rats demos never released on CD.
All these recordings predated The Radio Rats album “Via Dolorosa” recorded in 1988.
“Via Dolorosa” was re-recorded by Shifty Records in 1990 and released on vinyl as “Big Beat”.
None of these songs ever made it to the next Radio Rats albums, hence this compilation.
All songs wreckorded by Lloyd Ross of Shifty Records between 1985 and 1988.
Song one deals with sitting in an empty house in Dalpark Ext 6 Brakpan and missing kids and wife in UK desperately. Song two I forget – just a standard, lustful and fanciful lyric about how things tend to end sadly.
Song three is for Lee Johnson of Springs who crashed into a tree outside our house in 1976 and died [with Les, who was with him]. Lee had a golden Fender Les Paul and played the blues. Song four is for the visit of Halley’s Comet. Song five is sung by Dave Davies and was written while driving into a rising full moon from Klerksdorp to Boksburg.
Song six is married to song one. Song seven is about endorphins being heaven on earth. Song eight deals with Frankie Lauder of Welkom who had a notorious brother and came from a poor family but was a cool guy. Song nine is about the Quasimodo in all of us trying to get out. Song ten is about dying in an hotel room and being discovered the next day by your kids, Punk and New Wave and Metal and Disco and Techno and Rap. Rock ‘n Roll had many children, some of whom he’s ashamed of.
Song ten is about a hairdresser and the vocal was done in the back seat of a Mitsubishi Colt. Song twelve is about pure teenage sexiness and innocence. Song thirteen says that love is close to grief as is agony to ecstacy. Song fourteen is guilt-ridden for my baby sister who I teased terribly and then dreamed about apocalyptically.
Song fourteen is inspired by the Prizzi trilogy. Song fifteen states that love is electronic and involves molecules and chemical bonds that are strong.
~ Jonathan Handley, 2006
Welcome To Joumasepoesfontein by The Ferrets (2008)
- Jonathan Handley: Vocals, bass, rhythm guitar
- Chris Palframan: drums on 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 & 8
- Jimmy Florence: Hammond organ on 1-8
- James Handley: lead guitar on 5
- Paul de Fleuriot: lead guitar on 1, 2 & 4
| # | Track Title |
|---|---|
| 1. | Roads, Hills And Stairs |
| 2. | Small Town Garage Toilet Blues |
| 3. | Joumasepoesfontein |
| 4. | Let Your Conscience Be Your Pilot |
| 5. | Wrapped Around A Tree |
| 6. | Liquid Kids |
| 7. | You’re So Mean |
| 8. | Itchy Feet |
| 9. | Sugar Trade |
| 10. | Perlemoen |
The debut album from The Ferrets, February 2008, reissued in 2015.
