Ruth and I are back on Fresh Air in a couple of hours, so it is naturally time for much rejoicing on the airwaves of the interwebs. In fact, I am sure the internet could barely be more excited about the prospect than it clearly is already. Can’t you see it trembling with anticipation?
While we’re indulging in hyperbole, incidentally, last week the unbelievable happened: Ruth was genuinely impressed with one of my music choices. I think it was Do It Every Time by Ringo Deathstarr, but the shock when she raised her eyebrows and said ‘this is really good’ rather than just rolling her eyes and letting out a weary sigh almost knocked me clean out of my chair.
As per usual, if you have any trouble with the audio stuttering (a problem which seems to be solved now) just pause and un-pause the player, or find us in the ‘College Radio’ section on iTunes.
The playlist will appear below, as we play it, so feel free to stop by and heckle.
1. TuneYards – Bizness
2. Joni Mitchell – Little Green
3. The Honey Pies – Get it Right
4. Dr. Dog – Breeze
5. The Leg – Twitching Stick
6. Zed Penguin – This Town
7. Dusty Springfield – I Thing it’s Gonna Rain
8. Leonard Cohen – Hey, That’s No way to Say Goodbye
9. Seefeel – Dead Guitars
10. David Byrne & Dirty Projectors – Knotty Pine
11. Wolf Eyes – Track 1
12. Active Child – Body Heat (So Far Away)
13. Virgin of the Birds – Love Among the Cannibals
So, after several weeks of half of us being there, or me being in bloody Aberdeen doing launch nights and so on, Ruth and I are finally reunited on the internetwaves of Edinburgh’s student radio station at long last. Just in time, I believe, for the last show of the term.
I assume there will be plenty of catching up to do, and I have plenty of new music for Ruth to scoff at, so it should all be good, festive fun. I may even bring in a couple of Christmas son… no, fuck that, that would be awful. Just one, maybe.
If you have any trouble with the player on the Fresh Air site, just pause and un-pause it and that should do the trick. Alternatively, you can stream it through iTunes, where it is listed in the college radio category. We’ll be updating the tracklisting live as we go along, so feel free to jump into the comments and make smart-arsed remarks – like you ever need any encouragement anyway.
1. Au Revoir Simone – Fallen Snow (FOUND’s Broken Lock Refit)
2. Anthony & The Johnstons with Bjork – Fletta
3. Phosphorescent – A Picture of Our Torn Up Praise
4. The Maladies of Bella Fontaine – Longsocks
5. Dr.Dog – Shadow
6. John Lennon – Watching the Wheels
7. Jason Lytle – Liquid Hyper Tweeker Energy Drink
8. Leonard Cohen – Suzanne
9. Viking Moses – Folly of Man
10. Coco Rosie – Grey Oceans
11. Jason Lytle – Indie Rock Freestyle
12. Julie Doiron – Too Much
So, finally some more sessions happening – this week we have Edinburgh’s most tippediest new band The Last Battle popping in. There are something like seven of them, I think, so I hope they’ve either limited their numbers for this evening or I suddenly develop into a technical genius, because recording seven musicians with two microphones might prove to be somewhat tricky.
Ruth and I are still trying to think up a suitably hybrid name for the show. Song, by Toad is basically my thing, and calling the show that rather underplays her role in it, so we thought we’d try and find another name if we could.
Last week’s suggestions included the Princess and the Toad and the current favourite: Toad on a Hot Tin Ruth. Any further suggestions will be most welcome – please just pop ‘em in the comments below.
I’ll fill in the playlist live below from 8pm onwards, so please come and say hello, shout mindless abuse or whatever else it is you internet people spend your time doing.
1. Clem Snide – Moment In The Sun
2. Amanaz – Sunday Morning
3. The Last Battle – Nature’s Glorious Rage (Live in Session)
4. Joni Mitchell – Carey
5. Slow Club – Lets Fall Back In Love
6. The Last Battle- Black Waterfall (Live in Session)
7. Dr. Dog – Shadow People
8. The Last Battle – Cutlass (Live in Session)
9. Hailey Beavis – In Any Case
10. Yo La Tengo – Yellow Sarong
11. The Beatles – Sexy Sadie
12. The Last Battle – Oh Best Beloved (Live in Session)
13. The Akron Family – River
14. The Last Battle – Soul of The Sea (Live in Session)
15. Lambchop – Every Time I Bring it Up it Seems to Bring You Down
Thanks people, see you next week for the Mammoeth session.
Yes, it’s Fresh Air time again, and Ruth is back from the bring of death and ready to chatter away once more. This week we have Russell from Mammoeth playing live in session for us. He has an album out on Mini50 Records some time in the relatively near future, so we may try an weasel a preview out of him if we can.
We’ve also got some interesting new stuff – Eels released a new song from their forthcoming album just the other day, and we’ll be playing the phenomenal new eagleowl single as well. We are recording a Toad Session with them in December, which is also really fucking brilliant news.
This week’s playlist:
1. Modest Mouse – Float On
2. Taken By Trees – Anna
3. Mammoeth – Latin Scribe (Live in Session)
4. Dr. Dog – The World May Never Know
5. Mammoeth – Scramble Eggs (Live in Session)
6. Brian Eno & David Byrne – Strange Overtones
7. Belle & Sebastian – She’s Losing It
8. Arthur Russell – Love is Overtaking Me
9. Mammoeth – Writing on the Walls (Live in Session)
10. Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere
And as always we have last week’s session below the fold – it was with the Pineapple Chunks, and we have downloadable mp3s, and interview podcast and four live videos for you to check out. (All our videos can be found on our Vimeo page.) Read the rest of this entry »
