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TRANSISTOR
SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta) - our adopted
theme tune so you know where you are. Transistor Six is Frances Castle,
there’s lots of her fine art and creativity to explore from Francis so
please please do. You can now get the whole tune downloaded for yourselves
and find links to her artwork, albums and lots more over at www.myspace.com/transistorsix
2:
SLEEPER
– Faulty (Mush) – An opening minute from a track you can find on the new
Sleeper album Behind Every Mask. An instrumental album of experimental
electronic noise, sculpture, sound generators, effects units, a dot matrix
printer turned into a drum machine and claustrophobic atmospheric sample-based
hip-hop goodness.... Sleeper is from “the middle” of the USA, and nothing
to do with the 90’s brit pop band of the same name – www.mushrecords.com
or www.myspace.com/madawkward
3:
GRASSCUT
– High Down (Ninjatune) – Grasscut’s new single is a sweeping
slice of melodic beauty, grasscut fresh indeed. Quiet unassuming
epic pastoral delights, glitch-warmth, and the feelings of Sussex,
the Downs and relaxed experimental beat driven refined gentle goodness
– www.myspace.com/grasscutmusic
4:
UNITED
FRUIT – Track The Hunt (She Said) – From the Glasgow band’s debut
EP proper (on the back of demos and such), here’s the recent Organ review:
“Eather urgently abrasive five track EP from this immediate Glasgow four
piece. Tightly wound jagged guitars and new wave post hardcore angular
hardcore noise-rock goodness that bites down hard.. .Reptile Mistress indeed,
a demanding sound, a wired sound, all creeping in from different angles
and gooseberries jarring with blackberries and lemons and bananas and experimental
visceral intensity and we like this lots... all discordant and jagged and
nagging at your head to eat your oranges and your Fugazi and your Shellac
and your Mclusky and... yes... go grab your united fruit, five a day needed,
obey your mistress, strength of character.. – www.myspace.com/unitedfruitband
5:
VOWELS
– Sonny (Loaf) – From the forthcoming album The Pattern Prism (out
7th September and the consistently good LoAF label, fast becoming one of
those labels that demand you pay attention to all their releases,
who ever it is they’ve got for us this week, you know they’re going
to be interesting). Vowels is a band comprising James Rutledge and drummer
Chris Walmsley. More meticulously crafted melange of sound and rhythm that
cites Krautrock as a starting point. A warm ride through crystal clear
ambience via dense intense experimental noisescapes – www.l-o-a-f.com
or www.myspace.com/vowelsvowelsvowels
6:
LED
BIB – Yes, Again (Cuneiform) – Track from the London jazz-rock band’s
rather fine new album of foward-looking challenging earfood. You can download
this track and get a taste from the band’s website. Led Bib play a free
instore gig at Rough Trade East in Brick Lane this Wednesday 12th August.
www.myspace.com/ledbib
or www.ledbib.com or www.cuneiformrecords.com
7:
LIME
HEADED DOG – Bobby Fischer (Volcano Attack) – Track from the
debut album KFUM KFUK (out on 3rd August) and a genuinely different band,
awkwardly fluid other pop and seriously hyperactive energy, different and
so easy to go with, why aren’t all bands like this? You can be different...
different, good, busy... good good good... Catch the strangely
headed dog at the Fly, New Oxford Street, on August 19th - www.myspace.com/limeheadeddog
8:
GRENOVILLE
– City Of Sirens (demo) – Now this looked hopeful from the start, hand
painted envelop, good looking CD, fine press release and a one man bedroom
band from La Laguna, Tenerife (we love our daily post sack). Grenoville
is Javier Afonso and you’d never guess he did all this in a bedroom, sounds
likefrontlinestudio work of quality to us. Fine album’s worth of tracks
in a kind of Nick Cave, Nick Drake manner. Javier is over here in London
now trying to put a band together and get this album out, the album is
called Shadows Of The Legion and judging by the feedback and e.mails
waiting for us from you listeners, you were as impressed on first play
as we were... www.myspace.com/grenouillespace
9:
ARAB
ON RADAR – No3 (Skin Graft) – A self indulgent three minute
ten second blast of one of the finest band’s of recent times. Absolutely
no reason for us to be playing this tonight other than the fact that their
challenging awkward fluid post-new wave post-punk constructions always
sound good boiling up on the radio... www.myspace.com/arabonradar
or www.skingraftrecords.com
10:
JAMES
YORKSTON & THE BIG EYED FAMILY PLAYERS – Low Down In The Groom
(Domino) – James Yorkstom has a new album out this Monday, the Scotsman
has stripped it back to the simple art of folk songs with a collection
of traditional songs from the length and breadth of Britain & Ireland
called Folk Songs – simple as that really, and all rather beautiful – www.myspace.com/jamesyorkston
or www.dominorecordco.com or
www.jamesyorkston.co.uk
11:
DIABLO
SWING ORCHESTRA – Lucy Fears The Morning Star (Ascendance) – The Diablo
Swing Orchestra have a new album on the way (on September 21st) and it
builds massively on all the promise of the last one, their debut was interesting,
this second album nails it! We’re talking a swing orchestra with overblown
theatrics, grandiose operatic vocals, metal riffs, delirious tunes for
the damned – www.ascendancerecords.com
or www.myspace.com/diabloswingorchestra
12:
GG
ELVIS AND THE TCP BAND – Suspicious Mind (Mental) – That’s right,
the real king is alive and well and he’s been inhabited by the spirit of
GG Allin! GG Elvis leads an Elvis tribute band, they do it GG Allin extreme
punk rock style and the good news (oh yes, it is good news!) is that they’re
on the way over here for an August UK tour that you’ve now almost missed,
one last play tonight through due to a last minute end of tour gig here
in London, at The Royal Sovereign, Clapton, E5, on Monday August 10th.
More from www.myspace.com/ggelvis
– We’d love to be playing some GG Allin for you but that’s probably pushing
the patience of the hair-tearing station bosses just a little too much...
13:
AGNOSTIC
FRONT – Urban Decadence (Epitaph) – Track from the forthright
New York hardcore street punk band’s 2001 album Dead Yuppies, played tonight
in anticipation of the band’s London show at the Camden Underworld this
week – 11th August... www.myspace.com/agnosticfront
14:
THRACIA
– Eyes Shine Black (demo) – Track from the Northampton based female-fronted
punkish metal-flavoured hardcore band Thracia’s new demo which I guess
they plan to release as a single sometime soon with someone or other. Sounds
like they’re ready for a ‘proper’ release to me, and you’ don’t mess with
frontwoman Gen. Catch them this week opening for Agnostic Front at the
Camden Underworld this week – 11th August to be exact - www.myspace.com/thraciatowers
15:
PETER
HAMMILL – Stumbled (FIE) – Another visit to his fine fine new
solo album that really is as good as anything he’s done over the forty
year plus span of cutting edge music (both solo and as frontman of Van
Der Graaf Generator). The latest album us called Thin Air. More from
www.sofasound.com
16:
PERE
UBU with SARAH JANE MORRIS – Bring Me The Head (Cooking Vinyl) –
Oh, now here’s a goodie that dropped through our letterbox this week...
New Pere Ubu album coming out in the UK on September 14th. The album is
called Long Live Pere Ubu and it seems that, some 34 years in, the long
standing US new wave “inventors of modern music” are taking on the proto-absurdist
stage play they lifted their name from in the first place – Alfred Jarry’s
Ubu Roi. The band have also announced a UK date at the ICA here in London
on September 25th – www.cookingvinyl.com
or www.ubuprojex.net
17:
LR
ROCKETS – Renee Loves Losers (Ctrl.Alt.Del.) – New single from the
now East London based Yorkshire band. The single is out on September 7th
and you can catch the band in London this week at Madam JoJo’s in Soho
on Tuesday 11th August. They deal in frantic new wave pop, they deal
it well – www.myspace.com/lrrockets
18:
SLEEPER
– Mr.Megatron (Mush) - Back to where we started on tonight’s
show and another slice of Sleeper, see track two for more details...
Next week Marina will be
in the chair once more with her OTHER ROCK SHOW and the continued
exploration of rock that goes beyond the convention on mere 4/4 time |