Toad on Fresh Air Radio – 18th November 2009
It’s Fresh Air time again, and once again Ruth and I have a splendid live session. We might even have Ruth’s voice back, just to make matters even more special.
This week The Pineapple Chunks are going to play live in session for us. And instead of being sensible and doing it acoustically we are going to end up having the full band in the studio and are going to just have to try and find some way of arranging the mics so that we pick it all up. Basically, I think we are going to just have to have two room mics and ‘mix’ the sound by having people move closer or further away from them, much like the way everything was recorded in the olden days!
So, for too-many-people-in-a-tiny-little-studio mayhem, tune in from seven and see how we get on. You can always point and laugh if it goes horribly wrong.
On air 7pm-8.30pm gmt – listen live here.
Here is this week’s tracklisting, which will be updated live as we go along. Feel free to heckle in the comments section.
1. The Strokes – The Modern Age
2. Interpol – PDA
3. The Pineapple Chunks – Gyroscope + Look Back in Horror (Live in Session)
4. Deerhoof – Snoopy Waves
5. Stephen Malkmus – Walk Into the Mirror
6. Erik Gundel – Lake On My Roof
7. The Pineapple Chunks – The Diagonal (Live in Session)
8. Khaya – Duet (Single Version)
9. Sparrow & the Workshop – Into the Wild
10. The Maxwell Cult – Sound is a Place
11. Trips and Falls – How Do You Do
12. The Pineapple Chunks – Man Love (Live in Session)
13. Huey Lewis & the News – Trouble in Paradise (Live)
14. The Pineapple Chunks – Art Storage (Live in Session)
Last week’s session was with the occasionally mental, occasionally hilarious and occasionally joyous Japanese War Effort. Interview podcast, downloadable session tracks and videos are all after the break.
The Japanese War Effort Fresh Air Session
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The Japanese War Effort – Winning XI (Live on Fresh Air)
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The Japanese War Effort – Lanark (Live on Fresh Air)
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The Japanese War Effort – Face Like a Lemon (Ivor Cutler – Live on Fresh Air)
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The Japanese War Effort – Punk is Not Dead (Live on Fresh Air)
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where is ruth?
i want husky radio host.
She’s just as husky and even less perky than last week unfortunately.
sorry folks, i’m lying on the sofa with lemsip and feeling fed up! (sympathy please!) love from the popular side of the radio show! x
p.s. well done matthew…the mics are working well!
p.p.s HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TOMORROW!
x
That Sparrow and the Workshop song is huge, amazing!!
Good, innit. And rockin’!
Ruth, shut up about birthdays you treacherous wench! I was hoping to have a quiet night in doing admin tomorrow! Unlike Sparrow, I rock less and less these days.
oh Ruth, i could hug you, I’d forgotten that it was Matthew’s birthday tomorrow. CAKE AND BALLOOONS!
You. Are a shit wife.
ah! Matthews birthday! Have a good one won’t yer! Oh who’s this The Maxwell Cult?
Maxwell who? Never heard of them.
Hmm sounds like some dodgy Maxwell Panther wannabe to me