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Eclectic Mainline playlist – 30th September 2009

HEALTH

HEALTH

If I can make one recommendation for a gig next week, it would be to see HEALTH at the Brudenel Social Club in Leeds on Tuesday 6th October.  Die Slow is certainly one of my favourite tunes of 2009, and I’ve been led to believe they’re excellent live, so I shall be there on Tuesday as will Laura Rawlings.

Now, onto matters relating to tunes in last night’s show.  Of course, I played Die Slow, as well as covers of songs originally by John Denver (Micah P. Hinson) and The Beatles (The Feelies).  Here’s a full list of what I played:

Spiral Stairs – Stolen Pills
Anti-Pop Consortium – Capricorn One
Micah P Hinson – This Old Guitar
F*ck Buttons – Surf Solar
Cate Le Bon – Me Oh My
The Twilight Sad – The Room
The Feelies – Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
HEALTH – Die Slow
Richard Hawley – As the dawn breaks
The Kindness – Swinging Party
APSE – Closure
The Death Set – Paranoia (Strike! compilation)
Hudson Mohawke – Fruit Touch
Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown
Choir Of Young Believers – Why must it always be this way

[addition at 17:30 on 1st October:  I have to admit, I didn’t learn until today the sad news that Beau Velasco of The Death Set died a few days ago, and it wasn’t for that reason that I played a song by them in my show]

Eclectic Mainline playlist – 23rd September 2009

E Day 2009

E Day 2009

Last Wednesday’s show was punctuated by me giving snippets of information about E-Day which takes place on 6th October.  Last year E-Day fell on a Wednesday so I gave you numerous bits of energy saving advice, stopping short of suggesting you actually turn the radio off.  This year the main focus of E-Day is a social experiment on the Isles Of Scilly.  There is lots of info about it on the E-Day website, including real-time energy meters for a school on the isles, the islands themselves, and even the whole country.

The songs I played this week, which I’m afraid had no direct linkage to E-Day, were:

J. Tilman – Crosswinds
The Heavy – Short Change Heroe
Lou Barlow – The Right
Juliana Hatfield – We’re Not In Charleston Anymore (from Ciao My Shining Star – the songs of Mark Mulcahy)
A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Zanstra
Micah P Hinson – You Didn’t have to be so nice
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Autechre – EP7/Envane (Bogdan Raczynski remix)
Tender Trap – Fireworks
BLK JKS – Lakeside
Stardeath And White Dwarfs – Those who are from the sun return to the sun
The Twilight Sad – Seven Years Of Letters
Girls – Laura

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)