I am crap at timing (ooh errr!). Having trumpeted THREE tracks from the excellent new Mogwai LP “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will” I managed to play about thirteen seconds of the last one. A full unexpurgated version will follow next week. I bet Huw Stephens doesn’t mess up his timings. ‘Mazing!

Yuck – “Holing Out” (LP – “Yuck”) (Fat Possum)
Altered Natives – “The Rain” (EP “No Mortgage”) (Bosconi)
Ann Peebles – “I Can’t Stand The Rain” (LP- “I Can’t Stand The Rain”) (Hi)
Unsane – “Pigeon” (download EP – “3 Songs”) (Coextinction)
Carol Batton – “Wasps” (v/a 7″ EP – “Twisted Words Vol.1”) (Finders Keepers)
Speed Freak – “Have A Nice Apocalypse” (2 x 12″ – “Audio Damage All Stars”) (Audio Damage)
Mogwai – “White Noise” (LP – “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will) (Rock Action)
Busy Signal – “F.Y.I.” (Download from http://ghettobassquake.com)
The Humblebums – “Her Father Never Liked Me, Anyway” (LP – “The New Humblebums”) (Transatlantic)
Woebot – “Miner” (LP -“Moanad”) (Hollow Earth)
Mogwai – “San Pedro” (LP – “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will) (Rock Action)
Traxman -“WTF” (v/a Download EP – “Overkill”) (Ghettophiles)
Autopsy – “Fiend For Blood” (LP -“Dark Crusades”) (Peaceville)
Wanda Jackson – “Dust On The Bible” (7″) (Third Man)
Brilliant Colours – “You Win” (split 7″ with Girls Names) (Slumberland Tough Love)
The Fall – “Pay Your Rates” (LP – “Grotesque”) (Rough Trade)
Mogwai – “How To Be A Werewolf” (excerpt) (LP – “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will) (Rock Action)

Who Will Save Us From This Menace?

Yes, having got stuck in the snow last week, your humble DJ faced a new challenge in trying to get across town while dodging massed battalions of upper middle class women in pashminas, who evidently have decided that instead of getting the presents delivered this year , it’d be be a wizzard wheeze to go out Christmas shopping with the proles and mill about in narrow streets like with a mixture of indignation and amusement saying things like “Margaret, Margaret, I simply must find a cashpoint!” at the pitch of their lungs.

There’s millions of ’em. Personally I blame Joanna Lumley.

DJ Marc Smith – “Pump Up The Noise” (12″) (Notorious Vinyl)
Mogwai – “Rano Pano” (download single) (Rock Action)
Terry Edwards – “Pickin The Blues” (LP – “Cliches”) (Sartorial)
Tommy McCook and the Aggrovators – “Duke Of Dubs” (LP – “Brass Rockers”) (Jamaican)
The Fall – “M5” (LP – “50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong”) (Sanctuary)
Untold – “Stereo Freeze” (12″) (R&S)
LA Vampires and Matrix Metals – “Berlin Baby” (LP – “So Unreal”) (Not Not Fun)
Phobia – “Total Kollapse” (EP – “Unrelenting”) (Relapse)
M1dlet – “Mundian To Bach Speedcore” (EP – “No Title”) (Headache Rekords)
Kate Rusby – “Not Me” (LP -“Make The Light”) (Pure)
The Good Ones – “Umanahano” (LP – “Kigali Y’Izahabu”) (Dead Oceans)
Deerhoof – “Super Duper Rescue Heads” (download single) (Polyvinyl)
Spragga Benz – “Real News” (LP – “Shotta Culture”) (Boomtunes)
Fist City – “Debbie Get Yr Boa” (LP – “Hunting You”) (Deadbeat)
Joy Orbison – “BB” (12″) (Doldrums)

NOT "an arse"

I am very sorry, I got carried away.

Having had time to reflect, I appreciate now that I shoudn’t have been so mean about the nation’s beloved Radio 1 DJ Zane “The Indie Tony Blackburn” Lowe.

It was entirely wrong of me to intimate on the programme that he was “an arse”. Thank you to the many listeners who have called and emailed to point out to me that he is, of course, a twat.

Apologies for any offense caused.

The Emporer and Chromatic – “Cracid” (EP -“Lost and Found”) (Hardplastic)
The Fall – “Copped It – Live at The Pandora Box Music Festival” (4CD Set “The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall”) (Beggars Banquet)
The Fall – “Lay Of The Land – Live at The Pandora Box Music Festival” (4CD Set “The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall”) (Beggars Banquet)
The Vaccines – “Blow It Up” (b-side of 7″ single “Wrecking Ball (Ra Ra Ra)”) (Marshall Teller)
oOOoO – “Burnout Eyes” (EP – “oOOoO”) (Tri- Angle)
Beenie Man and D’Angel – “Time of My Life” (download single) (Mainstreet)
DJ Rashad – “Feel Da Sound” (download EP -“Footwork Essentials) (Ghettophiles)
Allo Darlin – “My Heart Is As Strong As A Drummer” (7″) (Fortuna Pop)
Kasai All Stars and Deerhoof – “Travel Broadens The Mind” (v/a LP – “Tradi-Mods vs.Rockers”) (Crammed Discs)
Konono No.1 and Mark Ernestus – “Masikulu Dub” ( v/a LP – “Tradi-Mods vs.Rockers”) (Crammed Discs)
Konono No.1 and EYE – “Konono Wa Wa” ( v/a LP – “Tradi-Mods vs.Rockers”) (Crammed Discs)
Rum Shebeen – “I’m An Old Punk” (b-side of 7″ single “Tropical”) (Gutrot)
Conan O’Brien – “And They Call Me Mad?” (7″) (Third Man)
Bukkha and Dread Fox – “Jah Bless The Jobless” (download) (Airtight)

Well, after a few weeks of enforced absence from Untitled Noise (you didin’t notice, did you?) here’s the tracklist for last Wednesday and what fun we had!

Al Holmes and the Hackney Empre – “Fraudian Slip” (download ) (Ghetto Bassquake)
Duane Eddy – “Three 30 Blues” (LP -“Twang Thang – The Duane Eddy Anthology”) (Rhino)
Four Eyes – “Anchor Home” (7″ EP) (Self Released)
Luigi Madonna – “Tropical Banana” (12″) (MKT)
Bad Banana – “Word Buzz” (LP – “Crushfield”) (Self Released)
Jah Mason – “Tuff Down A Yard” (LP – “Keep Yah Head Up”) (Rastar)
The London Snorkelling Team – “Norman Bates” (LP – “Audio Recording and Map”) (Brains and Hunch)
Solomon Burke – “Cry To Me” (LP – “The Very Best of Solomon Burke”) (Rhino Flashback)
The Shipping News – “Bad Eve” (LP – “One Less Heartless To Fear”) (Karate Body)
Alix Perez – “Behind Time” (12″ EP – “Dark Days”) (Shogun Audio)
Godstomper – “Frozen Kidney Harvest” (v/a LP – “17 Counts of Grevious Bodily Harm”) (Exilherate)
Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephens – “What A Wonderful World” (LP – “Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephens”) (Domino)
Zola Jesus – “Sea Talk” (EP – “Valusia”) (Sacred Bones)
DJ Rashad – “Teknitian” (EP -“Itz Not Rite”) (Planet Mu)
Flippa Maffia – “Road Again” (7″) (Young Vibez)
Black Time – “Mallory Park” (EP – “More Songs About Motorcycles and Death”) (Wrench)
Hype Williams – “Untitled” (7″ -“Do ‘Roids and Kill Ev’rything) (White label)