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Eclectic Mainline 9th December 2009

I’m still getting over how good Monday’s Battles / Flying Lotus / Nice Nice gig was.  So I played tunes by all of them in last night’s show.  Also featured was Graham Coxon, whose latest album we are giving away this week on BCB.   This is the full list from last night:

Depeche Mode – Come Back (SixToes remix)
I, Ludicrous – We’re The Support Band
Nice Nice – Ark Drum
Cortney Tidwell – Oslo (Hands Off Cuba remix)
Das Wanderlust – Someone to pull crackers with
Metronomy – You Could Easily Have Me
Husky Rescue – First Call (Metsä Kutsuu)
Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (new version)
Flying Lotus – GNG BNG Warp20 (Chosen)
Graham Coxon – Perfect Love
Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
Fionn Regan – Protection Racket
Battles – Race:Out – Warp20 (Chosen)
Atlas Sound – Quick Canal

Eclectic Mainline 2nd December 2009


Climate Chains - The Wheels To The Wave

Climate Chains - The Wheels To The Wave

This week finally saw Bradford’s Climate Chains cyclists head off from Bradford (a second branch also set off from Manchester) down to London for The Wave on Saturday. I’ve been involved in the planning since we had the idea about 6 months ago. It’s been a lot of hard work, and late nights in front of a computer for me. And although I’m not cycling all the way with them, I did go with them half way to Sheffield and back on Monday. That’s the furthest I’ve ever cycled in a day, and crikey, my knees didn’t like it. I shall be heading down the London for The Wave on the train on Saturday. Fingers crossed there are enough of us to effect a change, to halt the change. You can monitor progress of the cyclists on their blog, and on Twitter:

climatechains.blogspot.com
twitter.com/climatechains

Here’s what I played last night, finishing on a tune for the Climate Chains cyclists:

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NME – The case for the defence

Now y’see I like Albert Freeman. I like his excellent radio programme, I like his ready wit, I like his beard, hell, I even like his high visibility vest, but I can’t let his recent comments about my beloved NME go entirely unanswered.
So without prejudice and taking into account the fact I owe him money, I’m going to put forward a case for the defence.

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Eclectic Mainline 18th November 2009

I must say, that Jon Hopkins collaboration with Tunng and some ping pong balls is pretty fine.  I think this was one of my favourite shows for quite a while.  This is what I played:

James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players – Mary Connaught & James O’Donnell
Polly Scattergood – Unforgiving Arms
The Explorer’s Collective – Bangers and Mash
Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern – Out Of My League
Jon Hopkins (with Tunng) – Seven Gulps Of Air
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Interventions – Wild Roses
Good Shoes – Under Control
Emily Loizeau – Sister
Andrew Bird – Effigy
Betty & The Werewolves – David Cassidy (from Rough Trade Shops Indiepop 09 compilation)
David Cronenberg’s Wife – Desperate Little Man
Sparrow And The Workshop – Swam Like Sharks
Brakes – Worry about it Later
Laura Gibson – Sweet Deception

And don’t forget, this week you can win the new album by Andrew Bird here on BCB.

Eclectic Mainline 11th November 2009

It’s not every day that I get to announce a piece of music called Coral Larvae – Arabesque for Flatworms but today I had that pleasure.   Forgive my brevity, but this is the full list of last night’s show:

Trashcan Sinatras – People
We Fell To Eearth – Deaf
Alela Diane – Tatted Lace
Soulsavers – Unbalanced Pieces
Animal Collective – Brother Sport
Brakes – Worry about it later
Internet Forever – Cover The Walls
Life On Earth BBC TV series – Coral Larvae – Arabesque for Flatworms
Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
Grizzly Bear – Fix It
Archie Bronson Outfit – Rituals
The Antlers – Two
Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel

Eclectic Mainline 4th November 2009

What a few days lie ahead for gigs in the area!  Tonight (Thursday) there is Grizzly Bear + St. Vincent at Leeds Met Students Union.  Friday night there is Daniel Johnston + Laura Marling + The Wave Pictures at the Brudenel Social Club.  Then on Saturday back at Leeds Met again, Choir Of Young Believers are supporting Mew!  And of all the above, what with it being Fireworks Night, it would seem most appropriate to suggest you watch the marvellous video for Grizzly Bear‘s Two Weeks:

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Eclectic Mainline 28th October 2009

I will be VERY brief this week, because within the next hour there will be another blog post on this here Untitled Noise with details of how you can win the new album by The Twilight Sad!

This is what I played tonight:

Vegas Nights – It Came As No Surprise
Colourmusic – Yes!
The Twilight Sad – Seven Years Of Letters (acoustic version)
The Flaming Lips – Convinced Of The Hex
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Higher Than The Stars
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou – Malin Kpon O
Neko Case & Her Boyfriends – Twist The Knife
Madness – Bed And Breakfast Man (Peel Session)
Blockhead – Which one of you jerks drank my Arnold Palmer?
Japandroids – Wet Hair
J. Tillman – A Year In The Kingdom
The Gun Club – Eternity Is Here
Animal Collective – Brother Sport
The Twilight Sad – Interrupted (acoustic version)

Eclectic Mainline 21st October

I’ll be brief today because to be frank – I want to get home!  I was saddened today to learn of the death of Liam Maher of Flowered Up, so in honour of him I finished my show with a Flowered Up classic.  Also in tonight’s show was a tune so peculiar as to make listeners think the CD was scratched, that tune being Russell Haswell‘s version of Cabasa Cabasa.  Anway, as I said, I want to get off, so here’s the list:

The Brothers Movement – Standing Still
Local Natives – Camera Talk
Russell Haswell – Cabasa Cabasa – from Warp20 (Recreated)
The Gun Club – Bad Indian
Tilly & The Wall – Falling Without Knowing
James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players – Mary Connaught & James O’Donnell
The Twilight Sad – Seven Years Of Letters
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – hidden track from I Speak Fula
Marseille Figs – Jumbo
Kraftwerk – Tour De France
Neil McSweeney – Glencoe
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – 103
Daniel Johnston – I had lost my mind
White Tag Yellow Tag – Dalliance
Flowered Up – It’s On

Eclectic Mainline playlist – 9th Sept 2009

Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

Now then, I never got round to writing a proper live review of Okkervil River supported by Dawn Landes last Friday in Manchester.  I would have liked to though, because it was a marvellous gig, probably one of the most enjoyable I have attended this year.   I was surprised Okkervil River were playing such a small venue (Club Academy) as the only previous time I saw them was on the main stage at the ATP Festival in 2008.  But anyway, I did play tunes by both Okkervil River and Dawn Landes in last night’s show, which went like this…

The Dodos – Fables
Trashcan Sinatras – People
The Very Best Of – Zam’dziko
Bibio – Lover’s Carvings
George Pringle – LCD I love you but you’re bringing me down
Dawn Landes – Love
Okkervil River – Pop Lie
The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (mono)
HEALTH – Eat Flesh
M̼m РHullaballabal̼
Simian Mobile Disco – Cream Dream
Girls – Lust For Life
APSE – 3.1
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Song for Bob

Eclectic Mainline playlist – 2nd Sept 2009

Iron & Wine - Around The Well

Iron & Wine - Around The Well

Regular listeners will have, in recent weeks, heard me play wonderful covers by Iron And Wine of songs by New Order, Flaming Lips and The Postal Service, all from the new compilation Around The Well. Tonight I played one of the Iron And Wine originals from this 2CD set. It’s a mighty fine collection indeed. Also tonight’s show featured 4 tunes that could well be vying for inclusion in the ‘ best of the year’ list when it comes to thinking about such things – new releases by HEALTH, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, APSE and The Very Best Of are all jolly spiffing. By the way, I think I’m reflecting the bands’ own personal preferences there by using all capitals for some of them, but I could be wrong.

The full list of tunes played tonight is thus

Wildbirds & Peacedrums – My Heart (Deerhoof remix)
The Very Best Of – Warm Heart Of Africa
Bibio – Palm Of Your Wave
Joker’s Daughter – Lucid
Slow Club – Trophy Room
Metronomy – Do The Right Thing
APSE – 3.1
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Rider Song
Little Dragon – Feather
Iron & Wine – Sacred Vision
Grizzly Bear – While you wait for the others
Boards Of Canada – Amo Bishop Roden (Warp20 (Chosen) compilation)
HEALTH – Die Slow
Dark Captain Light Captain – Questions (Hatchback remix)