Well, I’m still coming to terms with the fact that Mark Linkous shot himself on Saturday. But his music will always live on, and I played some tonight, along with, it has to be said, some marvellous new tunes. These were they:
Soulsavers – Some Misunderstanding
Nice Nice – Big Bounce
Sparklehorse – Spirit Ditch
The Loves – Sweet Sister Delia
Liars – Goodnight Everything
Carter Tutti – Too Much, Too Much (from Liars ‘Sisterworld’ album CD2)
Archie Bronson Outfit – Run Gospel Singer
Mahalia Jackson – Come on children, let’s sing
Efterklang – The Soft Beating
Autechre – d-sho qub
Field Music – Share the words
Fursaxa – Poplar Moon
Sparklehorse – Hey, Joe
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Deanna
Oh the power of a major label marketing campaign. Yes, even an indie kid like me succumbed to them in my youth. In 1992 Parlophone sent me a postcard suggesting I might like the debut EP by a new band of theirs called Radiohead. I bought it for 99p and never looked back. Four years later Parlophone sent me another postcard suggesting that the debut album by another new band, Sparklehorse, might tickle my fancy. As the postcard alluded to Radiohead’s admiration for this new band, I thought it was worth a speculative purchase (this was of course before the days of the free 24/7 listening post on the internet). Again, I never looked back. Sparklehorse and Radiohoead ended up collaborating on a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”, and I think it’s a pity no smart alec at Parlophone sent me a postcard about that.
And so, I’m afraid that’s the only gag in today’s blog entry by me. For it was with great sadness that I learnt that last weekend Mark Linkous, the heart of darkness that drove Sparklehorse, took his own life. I still can’t quite believe he’s done it, even as I write this. When Elliott Smith killed himself in 2003 I felt a similar sense of shock and upset. Yet I have to admit that in the case of Both Smith and Linkous, there was a thought that ran through my mind along the lines of “it’s not a total surprise“. But I do need to qualify that statement by saying that I didn’t know either man personally, and it is only based on what I knew of their music, on record and live, that makes me think that way.
So, tonight we launched our revised schedule by having a Beach House interview split between my show and Too Much Too Young, and also a Lawrence Arabia session in Laura’s.
Beach House have commissioned videos for every song on the new album Teen Dream, as you may have heard in tonight’s interview. The above video, for Silver Soul was actually directed by Victoria Legrand herself.
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Last night show, it lookie like this….
Eugene & The Lizards – Bugjuice
Tunng – Hustle
Liars – Scissor
Gonjasufi – Holidays
These New Puritans – Time Xone
Nedry – Scattered
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Watching Alice
Quasi – Rockabily Party
Sone Institute – On Tree Hill
Eels – Line In The Dirt
Dum Dum Girls – Jail La La
Four Tet – Circling
Mahalia Jackson – Didn’t It Rain
Local Natives – Airplanes
Grasscut – Muppet
Here’s the rather nice video for the new Archie Bronson Outfit single:
After a (relatively) quiet start to the year, the past week has been chockablock with activity, as I’ve been recording sessions and interviews for your future listening pleasure. Fans of Beach House, Fionn Regan, Peter Von Poehl, Lawrence Arabia and Danny And The Champions Of The World, you have some treats in store on BCB over the coming weeks!
The new album by Gil Scott-Heron came as something of a surprise to me, but what a wonderful surprise it was! Although I don’t make a habit of having a ‘featured album’, I’m New Here was this week’s featured album.
I’m not sure if you heard Joel White’s Too Much Too Young earlier in the day, but he played the new single by Oh No Ono. Â Some bands don’t make a video for singles, but ONO have made three for their new one, and are asking you the fan to vote for your favourite:
This is what I played in Eclectic Mainline last night: Continue reading →
Quasi – Repulsion
Caitlin Rose – Dead Flowers
Fool’s Gold – Poseidon (Sizzla’s Judgement Yard Dub Version)
Frightened Rabbit – Nothing Like You
El Goodo – I Saw Her Today
Liars – Proud Evolution
Allo Darlin’ – The Polaroid Song
Nice Nice – See Waves
Holly Miranda – Forest Green Oh Forest Green
Mos Def – Quiet Dog Bite Hard (from Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 09)
Charlotte Gainsbourg – In The End
Dum Dum Girls – Jail La La
Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
Gigi – No, My Heart Will Go On
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Beat The Devil’s Tattoo
Wild Beasts – We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues
Last night I included in my show something from the best album I didn’t hear in 2009 – a marvellous reswizzle of Pet Sounds by Bullion.
Here’s the full list for what I played in the show:
Lightspeed Champion – Concerto .2 “So Long! So Long!”
Broken Bells – The High Road
Oh No Ono – Helplessly Young
Liars – Scarecrow On A Killer Slant
Laura Veirs – Carol Kaye
Bullion – You Still Believe In Dee (from Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee)
The Soft Pack – Answer To Yourself (from Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 09)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Memory (from The Road OST)
Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Know What To Say
Vampire Weekend – Horchata
Death Vessel – Deep In The Horchata
Midlake – Acts Of Man
Tunng – Hustle
Beach House – Used To Be
Charlie Alex March – Snow Feet
Per Olund Band – The Crippled Court Jester ( from Bearsuit Records compilation – Captain Woof Woof’s Guitar)
Well now, the new Beach House album is out next week, so I went a bit Beach House loopy this week, and played 2 songs from Teen Dream in last night’s show…
The new album by Autechre is worthy of note for more reasons than one. Firstly, the deluxe vinyl edition looks really..really nice and I will be very tempted to buy it when it’s released on 22nd March. But what I think is especially interesting about this release is what you get as a download with the album.
