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Eclectic Mainline 16th June 2010

Unintentional as I set out on my hour-long musical sojourn into current new releases, but I ended up playing an atypical number of remixes in tonight’s show…

Local Natives – “World News” (single) (Infectious)
Kaki King – “Falling Day” (single b-side – “Close To You”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Grasscut – “The Door In The Wall (PRDCTV Remix)” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Hannah Peel – “Sugar Hiccup” (EP – “Re-Box”) (Static Caravan)
James Yuill – “On Your Own (Hot City remix)” (single) (Moshi Moshi)
Lady & Bird – “Not Going Anywhere” (LP – “La Ballade of Lady & Bird”) (Delabele Hostile)
Pearly Gate Music – “Bad Nostalgia” (single) (Bella Union)
Extra Life – “Head Shrinker (Tyondai Braxton remix)” (single b-side – “Black Hoodie”) (Loaf)
Gayngs – “Cry” (LP – “Relayted”) (Jagjaguwar)
PVT – “Window” (single) (Warp)
Frightened Rabbit – “Living In Colour (Andreas Lust Mix) (single) (Fat Cat)
Mountain Man – “Babylon” (LP – “Made the Harbor”) (Bella Union)
Eels – “Little Bird” (single and album “End Times”) (E Works)
Hot City – “Another Girl” (single) (Moshi Moshi)

Eclectic Mainline – 9th June 2010

And so it came to pass that it was Hannah Peel who first discovered that a good pop song will also sound good when sung accompanied by a music box.  Her Re-Box EP of covers of Cocteau Twins, New Order, OMD and Gloria Jones (or more likely Soft Cell given the era of her other choices) is well worth getting hold of.  Here’s a full list of what I played tonight:

The Bluetones – “Firefly” (LP – “A New Athens”) (CIA)
Surfer Blood – “Twin Peaks” (LP – “Astro Coast”) (Kanine)
The Acorn – “Crossed Wires” (LP – “No Ghost”) (Bella Union)
Micah P. Hinson – “2’s and 3’s” (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Seahawks – “Fantasy” (free CD with 7″ single – “Astral Winds”/”High Tides”) (Static Caravan)
Roland S. Howard – “(I Know) A Girl Called Jonny” (LP – “Pop Crimes”) (Infectious)
Nina Nastasia – “A Kind Of Courage” (LP – “Outlaster”) (Fat Cat)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Fright Night (Nevermore)” (LP – “Before Today”) (4AD)
2020 Soundsystem – “Dark Matters” (free download from Bleep.com)
Dan Sartain – “Bohemian Grove” (LP – “Dan Sartain Lives”) (One Little Indian)
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – “The Wave” (EP – “Iris”) (Leaf Label)
Bonobo – “Stay The Same” ft. Andreya Triana (single and LP – “Black Sands”) (Ninja Tune)
Faust – “Hit Me” (LP – “Faust Is Last”) (Klangbad)
Hannah Peel – “Blue Monday” (EP – “Re-Box”) (Static Caravan)

Eclectic Mainline – 2nd June 2010

The Love Apple, Bradford. RIP

The Love Apple, Bradford. RIP

Admittedly the closure of The Love Apple in Bradford isn’t the saddest news I’ve been greated with in the past couple of days. I wish it was, however, and that the shootings in Cumbria hadn’t happened.  However, I’m totally shocked and gutted that The Love Apple had to close, and this is a sad result of what has happened to Bradford in the past few years.  About 5 years ago the place (both Bradford and The Love Apple) was buzzing (quite literally after The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit‘s loud gig there!)  and there was a real vibe around the place.  Now…well, how things have changed.  The Bradford Playhouse is showing promising signs, but if a nice independent bar like The Love Apple can’t make ends meet, well, we’ve got problems.  Other highlights that I’ve seen there include Jeffrey Lewis (at which I was very proud to be part of the support with Wilful Missing), Dufus and The Wave Pictures (a great, yet poorly attended gig, again at which Wilful Missing were lucky enough to be asked to support).  I was also at the Jeremy Warmsley gig at which one Laura Groves made her first appearance, many a moon before blossoming into Blue Roses.  So, thanks must go to Pav and co for giving us The Love Apple, and I wish him and his staff the best of luck for whatever they do next.

Here’s what I played in my show tonight:

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Eclectic Mainline 26th May 2010 – Darren Hayman session

Tonight on BCB we had a special guest in one Darren Hayman. He came into BCB with his band before their gig at Theatre in the Mill on 1st May.

Darren Hayman at BCB

Darren Hayman at BCB

We shared the session between two of this evening’s shows. If you were listening to Too Much Too Young at 6:30pm with Patrick and Keiron, you will have had the delight of hearing Darren Hayman’s BCB session version of “Room To Grow”. I then featured two more tunes by Darren and his band in my show Eclectic Mainline at 8pm:

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Eclectic Mainline 12th May – Fuck Buttons interview

Well, another May, and another life-changing experience at an All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival.  This year, at the Matt Groening event,  it was Boredoms who turned my life upsite down.  They really were phenomenal.   I hope to have some photos to show you soon.  In the meantime, I can show you the back of my head occasionally popping into view during the start of the Spiritualized set.  Several things brought me close to tears, but this song was the one that actually did it.

Fuck Buttons did a couple of DJ sets at the festival, so it was apt that tonight we had an interview with them in my show.  If there is demand for it, I can make the interview available here on the blog as a podcast.  Here’s the tracklist for tonight’s show:

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Eclectic Mainline 5th May 2010 – Rough Beats Festival preview

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”
– Plato

With that in mind, if you are reading this before the general election (it’s tomorrow at the time of writing) please do one thing for me …..

VOTE!

If you were thinking of not voting at all in protest, i.e. staying away from the polling station, I would like to urge you to still actually go along, but make your protest by instead spoiling your ballot paper. The reason is this: to those counting the votes, there is no difference between your stay-at-home protest and apathy.

Right, now I’ve got that off my chest, on with the show….

Rough Beats Festival 2010 – 4th-6th June

Rough Beats

Rough Beats

“Yorkshire’s best and most original independent music festival” (in their own words, and who’s to disagree?) is back, and to mark it myself and Laura Rawlings previewed the festival in our shows tonight. Partially because Bradford’s Little Attic Records (home to Wilful Missing) are curating one of the stages, there are quite a number of West Yorkshire artists playing. Laura played previous BCB session tracks by some of the artists playing, and I slotted in a few studio recordings by some of the artists too. Full details of the festival can be found on the Rough Beats website.

Here’s the full list of what I played in my show:

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Eclectic Mainline 28th April 2010

OK, OK, so I’ve not been very quick of the mark with First Aid Kit, but I’m with it now.  Having bought their album on Record Store Day, and having listened to it almost every day since, I figured it was about time I snuck something in to my show.  I could have played either I Met Up With The King, or Hard Believer, both equally brilliant.  However, as Emma and Maria played the latter in Buffet on Saturday, my choice was made for me.   Have a lookie here if you’ve not heard it yet…

And here’s what else I played in tonight’s show:

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Eclectic Mainline 21st April 2010

This afternoon Laura and I recorded sessions with Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou and The Duke And The King.  These might be broadcast next week, and trust me, you don’t want to miss this, so keep your ear to the ground about that!

Now, back to the present, this is what I played tonight.  My thanks to Phil Cope for his advice on how to re-structure these playlists so that artist, title, release and label are all clearly detailed.

Elliott Smith – “No Name #3” (LP – “Roman Candle”) (Domino)
Caribou – “Sun” (LP – “Swim”) (City Slang)
Sparrow And The Workshop – “Devil Song” (LP – “Crystals Fall”) (Distiller)
Emma Pollock – “Hug The Harbour” (LP – “The Law Of Large Numbers”) (Chemikal Underground)
Flying Lotus – “…And The World Laughs With You” ft. Thom Yorke (LP “Cosmogramma” (Warp)
Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou – “Allotment Song” (LP – “Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou”) (Loose)
Dum Dum Girls – “Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout” (single and LP – “I Will Be”) (Sub Pop)
Fuck Buttons – “Olympians” (single and LP – “Tarot Sport”) (ATP)
Good Shoes – “The Way My Heart Beats” (EP – “The Way My Heart Beats”) (Brille)
Teenage Fanclub – “Baby Lee” (single and LP – “Shadows”) (PeMa)
Avi Buffalo – “Truth Sets In” (LP – “Avi Buffalo”) (Sub Pop)
Malachai – “Simple Song” (LP – “Ugly Side Of Love”) (Domino)
The Neat – “In Youth Is Pleasure” (single) (Chewing Gum)
John Grant – “I Wanna Go To Marz” (LP – “Queen Of Denmark”) (Bella Union)
The Radio Dept. – “Heaven’s On Fire” (album version) (LP – “Clinging To A Scheme”) (Labrador)
Recoil – “Jezebel” (LP – “Selected”) (Mute)

Eclectic Mainline 14th April 2010 – Record Store Day preview

Record Store Day

Record Store Day 2010

This Saturday, 17th April, is Record Store Day, the day on which we celebrate the independent record shop and acknowledge its importance to music. This year there are dozens of special limited edition releases coming out to mark the day (many limited to just 1000 or even as few as 100 copies). For a full list of releases, see the Indie Record Shop website. You will be able to get these in Leeds at Crash and Jumbo on 17th April.

If you heard the Drive show this evening you will have heard us talking to Jumbo Records about the day. Then in Too Much Too Young, you might have heard Joel, Patrick and Keiron talking about the day, and they played  She & Him and Peggy Sue, both of whom are releasing singles on Record Store Day.

I dedicated the whole of my show to things being released on Record Store Day tonight, and this is what I played:

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