Show 08/02/09

Here's this week's show (my 37th ever, if you're interested) and playlist. Helana was the guest.

Manhattan Love Suicides - Extra Medication
The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin to Me
Art Brut - Modern Art
Frances Conway - Since I Laid My Burden Down
Yo la Tengo - Sugarcube
BARR - The Song is the Single
Spoon - Merchants of Soul
Mary Hampton - Silver Dagger
Animal Collective - Did You See the Words?
The Fall - Winter [Peel Sessions version]
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon for You

http://www.sendspace.com/file/0z8fja

Have fun!

Show 01/02/09

Here's the playlist from this week's show. We had James Hodgson as a guest. It was fun.

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner
Spare Snare - Skateboard Punk Rocker
Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso
Polvo - Thermal Treasure
Long Fin Killie - Pele
Davy Graham - Banish Misfortune
Saloon - Bicycle Thieves
I Heart Hiroshima - Surgery
Belle & Sebastian - I Could be Dreaming
Twinkie - This is Your Enemy Taking Over the World
Richard & Linda Thompson - Back Street Slide
Cauld Blast Orchestra - Tower of Babel Stomp

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3r53ge

No show tonight

Sorry, no show tonight as the studio's broken.

Fanzine new issue

Some of you may already have seen this but check out the new issue of the fanzine at

http://undercitylightszine.blogspot.com

!

Show 18/01/09

This week's show:

Pele - A Scuttled Bender in a Watery Closet
My Bloody Valentine - Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)
Halves - May Your Enemies Never Find Happiness
Jeffrey Lewis - Seattle
Fridge - Clocks
The Velvet Underground - New Age
Hangedup - Automatic Spark Control
Maybeshewill - Not for Want of Trying
Shearwater - A Makeover
Pavement - Shoot the Singer
The National - Fake Empire

I also meant to talk about the London popfest which is happening at the end of February, but I forgot so I'll do it next time!

Here's the mp3:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/kp7bub

Show 11/01/09

Special show rounding up my favourite releases etc. from 2008.

10 No Age - Teen Creeps
9 The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer
8 Shearwater - Leviathan, Bound
Reissue of the Year - Pavement - The Hexx [BBC Session version]
7 Dodos - Red and Purple
6 Times New Viking - (my head)
5 Crystal Stilts - Shattered Shine
EP of the Year - Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
4 Deerhunter - Never Stops
3 A Silver Mount Zion - Blindblindblind
2 Los Campesinos - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
Gig of the Year - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
1 Bon Iver - Wolves (Act I & II)

Here's the show:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mjd3z0

And here's 40 minutes I did before the show started of random tracks I felt like playing:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4pofp0

Guitar stuff

Not posted anything for a bit, as last time after I'd done all my preparation and everything for the show there was a huge powercut in the area of the Union and the stream went down. Fingers crossed it'll be back up for Sunday. If it is I'll be doing the postponed "Best of 2008" type show as promised before Christmas.

Anyway, the last couple of days I've been playing around with Open D tuning on the guitar. For some reason when I was first experimenting with alternate tunings a while ago I never really got into this one, which is a shame as it's really nice. I especially like the ringing low Ds you can get on the bottom string.

I was bored this afternoon so I recorded a quick instrumental in Open D. It's a bit ragged and needs a bit more developing, but hey, I only did 2 takes!

Download here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/u0kkn6

Feedback etc. appreciated.