Django Django - Tic Tac Toe
Way back whenever, the Djangoes were the first band we played on the radio. Now they're about to unleash their third LP. Marble Skies comes out in early 2018.
Johnny Kills - End Game
A third single from the Brighton/London grunge/surf rockers.
Treeboy & Arc - Merge
A Leeds quartet with a track from the forthcoming EP Not Yet.
Autobahn - Future
Still in Leeds, another track from the LP The Moral Crossing which is out in two weeks.
Duck - Stereo
Keeping it Yorkshire, Duck are from Sheffield and this is off the album FaceAche.
The Soap Opera - Eggs To Hatch And Cats To Kill
On Ample Play records, this is part of a double-A single with No Name, No Pack Drill on the flip.
Filthy Friends - Windmill
From Portland, Oregon, this is off Invitation which came out in August.
Terminal Gods - Interplay
London post-punkers with a track from the album Meridian which also came out in August.
Mount Kimbie - Delta
A first album in four years, Love What Survives is out now.
Sir Robert Orange Peel - Hurricane
Apt. Off the EP Plates Of Meat.
Psycho Comedy - The Hangman
Liverpool, with it's successful psych festival, is pretty much the home of UK psychedelia. That's where these are from. More than a hint of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band there.
Astrobal - Australasie feat. Laetitia Sadier
Emmanuel Mario is Astrobal and this is the title track to his 2016 LP which features a number of collaboration such as this with the Stereolab singer.
Hirola - Hollow
Bristol-based producers with a track from their self-titled mini-album.
Boobs Of Doom - Aretkistapha
Great name. Scottish 'morbid misanthropes, soundtracking the end of the world' with their tenth LP eXXpre$$ion.
The Retro Spankees - Here We Go
Here we go indeed. Seemed a decent enough idea to kick things off with. These are from Northampton and this is off Meagre Vengeance which came out last November.
Jacco Gardner - Find Yourself
We've played this chap from Hoorn in the Netherlands before, quite a while ago. His new album is Hypnophobia which is out in May and this is the first single. Almost prog in places and a bit grandiose, but none the worse for it.
Dick Diver - Tearing The Posters Down
This took a few listens before I really got it, but it does work. Quite a simple sound, but not in a bad way. They're from Melbourne - Australia not Lincolnshire - and the album is Melbourne, Florida.
Cover Version Corner Siouxsie And The Banshees/Junks - Hong Kong Garden
I'm fairly sure there is tongue in cheek on that Junks version. I mean, the original, their debut single from 1978, carries that stereotyped leitmotif that tells you it's Oriental. Junks seem to have J-popped it up in an over-the-top fashion. Equally, I might be making this up. Anyway, Junks are from Hong Kong and that's their debut single.
Django Django - Reflections
The second track taken from their second album Born Under Saturn which is out in May. Can not wait.
Teleman - Strange Combinations
Following on from their acclaimed album Breakfast, it's a new track from these. Hopefully a foretaste of a new album.
The Lovely Eggs - Magic Onion
Husband and wife duo from Lancaster go all Jefferson Airplane on us in their new single, the first release from the new album This Is Our Nowhere which comes out in May. They're touring at the moment and are well worth checking out.
The Wave Pictures - Fire Alarm
Another track from the excellent album Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon, written and recorded in conjunction with Billy Childish. If this isn't in the top half-dozen albums of the year come December, we're in for some treats later in the year.
The Landseers - Wasted
New track from this cross-continental supergroup. Part Welsh, part whatever the collective term for people from Connecticut is. Available as a free download from their bandcamp page.
Du Dauphine - Lose My Soul
I've been after playing these a while and finally have my hands on something. Off their self-titled debut EP, these are local and have clearly spared nothing in terms of production values.
One Degree of Separation TV Smith - Immortal Rich The Hurriers - Truth And Justice
TV Smith, still got the hump with society a long time on from The Adverts. That's off the album Immortal Rich from 1995. Then The Hurriers, from Barnsley and off an EP also called Truth And Justice. The link is that both tracks feature on the Orgreave Justice compilation available from Philosophy Football. There are some great tracks on there from an impressive array of artists - some you know, some you won't. And it's for a good cause.
Bloodflower - People/Places
I don't know anything about these other than it's off an EP called Noise and I like it. Very retro.
Outside Your House - Photos Out There
Slacker rap? Is that a term? Whatever. Laid back stuff and I like it. They're from Durham and this is off the new EP The Ones That Left Town available as a pay-what-you-like download from their bandcamp page.
Transmission 13 - Jackson Pollock
And finally... We've played these before, again a long time ago. They're from Manchester, although augmented here by Canadian producer Antonio de Braga. This is off the album Vanishing Point.
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Get Inuit - I Would
Widely tipped for a big 2015, these are from Kent and this is off the album 001 which is due on February 9 on Alcopop Records. They had a moment of fame after noticing that the ukip.org domain name had lapsed and bought it up. Made me laugh anyway.
Crushed Beaks - Overgrown
That is just fantastic. They're from London and their album, Scatter, is also scheduled for 9 February.
Doldrums - Hotfoot
Inventive and unusual, Doldrums is Airick Woodhead from Montreal. This is off an album called The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, due out on Sub Pop in April.
Cover Version Corner Chuck Berry/Shacklock Meth Party - Johnny B Goode
This is what this slot is about. A totally different rendition of the song. Of course Chuck Berry, from 1958 and the album Chuck Berry Is On Top and then Christchurch, New Zealand's Shacklock Meth Party with their lo-fi, slacker rock version from the 2012 EP Jurassic Park Changed My Life which you can get from their Bandcamp page. Very Fat White Family.
Django Django - First Light
The first track I played on this show almost 3 years ago was Default by Django Django. Through 2012 and 2013, I played pretty much every track from the debut, self-titled album. Now they're back with this new single and an album to follow in spring. Bring it on.
Chastity Belt - Time To Go Home
From one of those wonderfully named towns in Australia, Western Australia to be more exact, called Walla Walla. Like the previous track, it came out last week and the album, also called Time To Go Home, is due on March 24.
Ill Winds - Vision
More Australians, but this time based in Berlin. This came out in December on Not Not Fun records.
Ghost Culture - Arms
One from last September now, Ghost Culture is James Greenwood and this one of his sporadic releases.
Errors - Lease Of Life
A new-ish direction for this Glasgow outfit. Still blimmin' good though. From an album of the same name due in March.
The Go! Team - The Scene Between
New stuff from these which now seems to come out on a quadrennial basis. This is a forerunner to a new album due in March. Typical up-tempo pop from a perennially cheerful band.
One Degree of Separation Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait Bogshed - Run To The Temple
Both from West Yorkshire - Leeds and Hebden respectively - but more importantly both off the C86 compilation from the NME which is credited, probably a bit too much, with prompting the birth of indie pop. Pair of cracking tunes anyway.
Adamski - Pump Up The Waltz
You remember Adamski, right? Well he never really went away, just reduced back into the shadows. His latest project, Futurewaltz, has been exploring 3/4 time in dance music and it's spawned the album This Is 3-Step. I'm not musical at all. I don't read it, I don't play it and only have a vague notion of what time signatures mean, but you can really feel the difference between this and your standard 4/4 dance beat. Unusual and different.
Anthony Naples - Abrazo
Heading down tempo for the last couple of tracks starting with this from New York's Anthony Naples. This is off Body Pill, due out on February 17.
The Rustle Of The Stars - Sleeping Land part 1
I've not played anything quite so down tempo as this. I came across it after seeking out a remix I heard on the radio, but was captivated by the original. Part of what I can only really think to call an orchestration with Iceland as a theme, this came out in 2011. Quite beautiful.
Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
Because we really don't. Blaming people for being 'other' really isn't a solution to any of your perceived problems. This was their debut single from 1981, off the album Penthouse And Pavement.
Kate Tempest - The Beigeness
The poet and playwright makes her first steps into music. It took me a while to get into this - might be something to do with the accent, which is entirely my issue - but I'm glad I stuck with it as she's clearly got something to say and a new way to say it.
July Talk - Summer Dress
These are from Toronto and this is off a self-titled album which came out last autumn. It bypassed me completely then, but I'm glad it's finally on my radar. This is glorious.
Cover Version Corner The Monkees/Django Django - The Porpoise Song
Great to have Django Django back on the show. That was their effort for Record Store Day last month. Before that, The Monkees with the theme from the film Head, their ill-fated 1968 cinematic effort. It's a really good film, but flopped at the time given a lack of promotion and a combination of established fans not getting at where they wanted to go and the potential audience they were aiming for having already made up their minds about the band. Worth seeking out.
The Leaf Library - The Greater Good
This is just fabulous. They're from London and this is out on June 7. It's got pretty much everything I want from a single.
The Bamboos - Typhoon
Australian funk from a few years ago. These are from Melbourne and it's off the album 4 which came out in 2010.
Throwing Snow - Avarice
London producer Ross Tones is Throwing Snow. He's had a few releases in the past, but a debut LP is on the way, Mosaic, which this is taken from. Really interesting stuff - lots going on in there. Looking forward to hearing more. That bass....
Kindred Shins - My Resting Piece
Another band with a debut album coming soon - this one is as yet untitled, but due in the summer. Good old rock and roll. Get in.
One Degree of Separation
3D Shark - My Name Is Brian Clough
Dario G - Malaway
The 3D Shark track is taken from an EP called Some Boys Like To Hide Away. He bloody hated Leeds. After that, a track from the 1998 album Sunmachine from Crewe's Dario G, named after long-time Crewe Alexandra boss Dario Gradi. So there's yer link - football managers.
Quirke - Break A Mirrored Leg
This is off an EP which came out just over a week ago called Acid Beth. Eery, atmospheric, moody, and dare I say it, quirky.
Dreadzone - Iron Shirt
Get yer skank on. From their 2005 album Once Upon A Time.
The Egg - Electric City
I keep coming back to the 2012 album Something To Do and it always delivers. It's just a terrific album. This is from said disc.
Jackamo Brown - Lay Low
It's been a while since I last listened to the album Oh No, The Drift Of The World which came out in 2012, but had it on again this last week. It's just lovely. Apparently there's little to no chance of anything else. He's simply not interested in being a professional musician and had to be persuaded to put out the album. So we've got to keep spinning this instead of getting new stuff. Not that that's a bad thing, but also a bit of a shame.
Mr Scruff - Thought To The Meaning
And we'll finish with another track from the new Mr Scruff long-player Friendly Bacteria, again with vocals from Denis Jones. It's a total change of direction and it'll be interesting to see what he does next.
Lots of short records, records by sibling duos, and a tribute to a Rentaghost actor.
Rodriguez - Sugar Man John: It was the Oscars last week, but this featured on the 2012 best documentary winner, Searching For Sugar Man, in which two South Africans try to track down their favourite musician. Out originally in 1977, this also got a re-release in 2002. Carolyn: It's all a bit swooshy. John: Of it's time, methinks.
Bleached - Next Stop John: They've got three chords and they're not afraid to use them. Like that a lot - very retro feel. That's Bleached who are Jessica and Jennifer Clavin from LA. That's off the album 'Ride Your Heart Out' which is out on April 2. Carolyn: Fresh, yet immediately familiar. I like it when we play new stuff.
Django Django - Wor John: For a record-breaking 10th time, they feature on the show. This is the new single off the acclaimed debut album, 'Django Django'. Carolyn: I like these so much, they're pretty much on a loop in the car. John: Bonus points for Klaxon usage. Carolyn: Yeah, when that comes on, I'm checking around for blue lights in my mirrors.
Cover Version Corner The Vaselines/Nirvana - Molly's Lips John: 25 shows in before we play Nirvana. Ludicrous. As is Nirvana covering a Scottish band's tribute to Molly Weir who was Hazel McWitch in Rentaghost. Carolyn: Was she in Supergran as well? John: No. Or was she? I'm going to have to find out now... This section can normally take us 10 or 15 minutes, but this is less than five all in. Bosh, done, out. The Vaselines version is from 1988 off the EP 'Dying For It', Nirvana's was four years later and featured on the album 'Incesticide'.
Phenomenal Handclap Band - The Unknown Faces John: Not much clapping of hands there, but pretty fine nonetheless. That's from the album 'Form and Control' which came out in February last year.
Masters In France - Flexin John: Very much in the Hot Chip/Dutch Uncles envelope, I heard that the other day and have basically had it on a loop since. Layered. I like that. They're from Bangor in Wales.
Julia Kent - Transportation John: From Vancouver, but based in New York, Julia Kent is a classical cellist who has put together a pop album. Carolyn: Well, I wouldn't call it pop. It's a lovely piece of music, but I'm not calling it pop. John: Well, no perhaps not. Haunting, I'd call it. The album is called 'Character' and is out later this month.
Heavyball - Small Town Hero John: Hat tip to my chum Chris whose mate is in this band. That's off last year's EP 'Small Town Hero', but recently they've gone from playing back rooms of South London pubs to supporting the Kaiser Chiefs on tour. Carolyn: That's a big leg up for a young band. Obvious ska influence, and pretty good.
Low - Just Make It Stop John: From Duluth in Minnesota, that's off the album 'The Invisible Way' which comes out on March 19.
Drenge - Bloodsports John: We had sisters earlier, and here's a pair of brothers. Eoin and Rory Loveless are from up-country Derbyshire, but very much part of the Sheffield music scene, and there have been a fair few successes from there down the years. Carolyn: Again, it's all pretty stripped back and raw. Not that that's a bad thing. John: Reminds me of The White Stripes a bit. That's their debut single which is out today. Drenge means 'boys' in Danish and is the name of an avant-garde 1977 Danish film of which they're big fans, apparently, and is ace to say.
One Degree of Separation Tricky - Black Steel Portishead - Glory Box John: Almost 20 years old that Portishead track - unbelievable. Off their debut album 'Dummy' from 1994 which I've got on vinyl somewhere. Haven't listened to it in ages, but always worth reminding oneself of it. Tricky's anti-war Black Steel is off his 1995 breakthrough album 'Maxinquaye'. Carolyn: And the link? John: Both Bristolian, both part of that trip-hop scene down there in the mid-'90s and both excellent records.
Hidden Orchestra - Fourth Wall John: From Edinburgh, that's off the album 'Archipelago' which came out last October. Carolyn: Another more orchestral piece. John: Oh yes. I don't just throw this together, y'know.
The King Blues - Five Bottles Of Shampoo John: From 'Punk and Poetry' from a couple of years ago.
The Vanity Project - I Fear Nothing John: End on a happy one, yeah? Carolyn: Hmm, not exactly uplifting. John: No, but very worthy. From the EP 'What Really Matters'.
Granville - Polaroid John: From Caen, that was out last month on the album 'Les Voiles'.
With Carolyn unwell, John was flying solo this week. Who said men can't multi-task?
Adam Green and Binki Shapiro - Just To Make Me Feel Good
That's what we're here for - to make everyone feel good. This is the second one we've played off the album, also called 'Adam Green and Binki Shapiro' which came out last month.
Bat For Lashes - A Wall
Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes. What a voice. This is the latest single off 'The Haunted Man' which came out last October.
Junip - Line Of Fire
Wonderful stuff. Don't know a lot about these other than they're Swedish and this is off an album also called 'Junip' which is out in April. This reminds me of a number of things, none of which immediately leap to mind. Maybe they will with repeat listens, which is definitely what this will be getting.
Cover Version Corner Massiel/St Etienne - La La La
Massiel - Maria De Los Angeles Felisa Santamaria Espinosa to you - was Spain's 1968 Eurovision winning entry, bumping Cliff's 'Congratulations' into second. The St Etienne version was done for a Eurovision special of Eurotrash and was on the bonus disc of the deluxe edition of the 1998 album 'Good Humor'.
Django Django - Zumm Zumm
We haven't quite played everything off the Mercury-nominated - but scandalously not Mercury winning - album 'Django Django', but we're getting there.
Wedding Present - End Credits
Off the album 'Valentina' which came out last March and totally passed me by - what was I doing?? That's cracking, as good as they ever have been.
Matthew E White - Big Love
A huge slice of brand spanking new '70s Virginia funk, if you see what I mean. Off the album 'Big Inner' which came out last month. Big Inner.... Beginner.... I see what they've done there.
One Degree of Separation LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing In My House Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Where we tangentially link two records... The only link here are the words Daft and Punk. LCD Soundsystem sang about them playing in their house, so we play them on the radio. Both from 2005 as well, the former off 'LCD Soundsystem', the latter 'Human After All'.
Applescal - Spring and Life
That's quite fantastic. Applescal is Amsterdam-based producer Pascal Terstappen and that's off 'Dreaming In Key' which comes out tomorrow.
Delphic - Memeo
That ends quite abruptly. That's the new one from the Manchester band whose new album 'Collections' which came out last week.
Jesca Hoop - Ode To Banksy
That's nice and jaunty. From last year's album 'The House That Jack Built'.
Foals - My Number
Time to squeeze one more in, the new one from these off the forthcoming album 'Holy Fire' which is out next week.
Hopefully we'll be back to a team effort next week. In the meantime, here's your YouTube playlist.
After Carolyn had the airwaves last Monday to present her picks of what we played during 2012, here's John with his picks.
I want to concentrate on new music that we played. Also, as I'm not constrained by having to actually broadcast this, it doesn't have to fit an hour-long segment of air-time so I'm cheating a bit (a lot).
Django Django - Life's A Beach
If you've been listening to us at all, you'll know how much we like these guys. New and fresh while echoing the '60s is a tricky thing to pull off, but they do. It's a great album.
St Etienne - I've Got Your Music
I have always and probably will always love St Etienne. This, off Words And Music By St Etienne which came out in the summer, is as good as anything else they've ever done.
My favourite Cover Version Corner that we played: Edith Piaf - Je Ne Regrette Rien Half Man Half Biscuit with Margi Clarke - No Regrets
The greatest band in the world cover the Little Sparrow, only in English and with Margi Clarke. It's what this format section is supposed to be about.
Hookworms - Teen Dreams
This and the next few could form a new format section - Krautrock Corner. Hookworms are from Leeds and friends are beginning to tire of me plugging their wares on the Twitter.
Toy - Kopter
Make a cuppa before this one. 10 minutes of glorious brilliance from a band that have really made our ears prick up this last year.
David Holmes - I Heard Wonders
Recorded in 2008, but used during the opening ceremony to the London Olympics - and what a gloriously subversive triumph that turned out to be - without which it would have passed me by and fits the theme of the last couple of records. There was lots from the Olympics that could have made it - Orbital, for instance - but this is my pick of them.
Dan Croll - From Nowhere
Not quite in the Krautrock style of the last few, but there are cues there, I feel sure.
Matthew Dear - Earthforms
Dark, eerie, moody, bassy, brilliant.
After all that German-influenced stuff, a change of pace next.
My favourite One Degree of Separation: Wedding Present - Don't Take Me Home Until I'm Drunk The Ukrainians - Cherez Richku, Cherez Hai
Again, it's what we're trying to achieve with this format idea - totally different stuff, but with traceable roots. Back in the day, I was actually aware of The Ukrainians first and got into the Wedding Present on the back of that rather than the other way round.
Rhye - The Fall
Just a delight, yes even with the My Lovely Horse-style sax solo bit 3 minutes in.
Family of the Year - St Croix
And while it's dark and cold out there, here's to a summer in the Caribbean.
Foe - The Black Lodge
Heard this on the radio fairly early in the year and couldn't stop listening to it. Great song-writing, great tunes.
Bloc Party - Octopus
Back with a bang. Some of the tracks on the album have a harder edge than we're used to, but this is very accessible and provides a way in, if you like.
Paco Zambrano y su Combo - Meshkalina
Not new music - it's from 1968 - but had a release from a new label, Tiger's Milk, specialising in Latin American rarities. Right up my street, this.
The Zolas - Knot In My Heart
Hooked by the Doctor Who-esque intro.
Beth Jeans Houghton and The Hooves Of Destiny - Lilliput
What a voice. And what a thunderingly good gallop through the song. Magic.
And a cheeky bonus track to finish Guitar Wolf - Summertime Blues
Lo-fi goodness. Last year, I both saw Scott Pilgrim vs The World for the first time (loved it from the second I saw the 8-bit Universal logo), the soundtrack of which this features on, and Adam Buxton's Bug which featured this as well. There's not enough Japanese punk on the radio.
So many more I'd like to include, but you've got to cap it somewhere or I'd just go on forever. Here's it all wrapped up in a YouTube playlist.
Enough retrospection. I've got bucketloads of new stuff ready to go for next week's show and there's loads to look forward to in 2013, including new albums by Delphic, Dutch Uncles, Rachel Zeffira, Haim and plenty others besides.
For the first show of the new year, Carolyn takes the microphone over and presents her highlights from the shows we did in 2012.
The Vaccines - Teenage Icon Carolyn: Possibly my favourite track of the year. If it's on in the car and I pull up at home, I'll let it play through before getting out.
Django Django - Hail Bop Carolyn: From their Mercury-nominated debut album that came out last year, these quickly became show favourites. The whole album is great and we'll have another track off it later.
Tame Impala - Elephant Carolyn: Django Django have a '60s vibe, whereas this is more '70s. John: I think I said at the time that this is what T-Rex would be doing if they were still around.
Cover Version Corner Tears For Fears/Gary Jules and Michael Andrews - Mad World Carolyn: Tears For Fears from 1982 and the christmas number one from 2003 by Gary Jules that also featured on the Donnie Darko soundtrack.
Los Saicos - El Enterrio de los Gatos Carolyn: A curio John found on the back of a documentary which suggested that punk originated in 1965 in Lima, not ten years later in New York
Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed Carolyn: I didn't know these at all until John played it. I think the name put me off. John: Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Neville Staples' first post-Specials project.
Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks Carolyn: Probably better known now from an advert for home improvement stores, but good to hear the full thing .
One Degree of Separation Electronic - Getting Away With It Robbie Williams - No Regrets Carolyn: You have to listen well to get the connection, but it's Neil Tennant's vocals. We had played Electronic before, but the link is all my own work.
Django Django - Storm Carolyn: We did say we'd have another from these. It really is a great album. John: The test now comes with the second album. We've seen a couple last year that offered nothing above the first - the xx, Mumford and Sons, for two examples - and we hope these lot can keep innovating.
Haim - Don't Save Me Carolyn: The LA sisters who won the BBC Sound of 2013 recently. John: We expect an album shortly, but this will keep you ticking over for now.
Friends - Va Fan Gor Du Carolyn: Don't know why they sing in Swedish, but there aren't enough songs to clap along to.
It was the Q Awards last night, apparently. Anyway, show favourites Django Django won the Best New Act gong. Well done them. It really is a cracking album and no I'm not on a commission.
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - The Night John: Reached number seven in 1975, but it's got a real contemporary feel to it. Mark Ronson's doing this, basically. Carolyn: It's certainly stood the test of time.
The Vaccines - I Always Knew Carolyn: That's two for two off that album now. Teenage Icon is catchy and so is this. John: That's the new single and it's out on November 11.
Little Comets - A Little Opus John: From Newcastle and the album, Life Is Elsewhere, was out last week.
Cover Version Corner Velvet Underground and Nico/Record Club - Femme Fatale John: Record Club is a project Beck has put together where they cover a whole album in a day and this is off their first one. Also, Velvet Underground and Nico is re-released after a coat of varnish this week for it's 35th anniversary.
Django Django - Life's A Beach John: The fourth or fifth record from the album we've played on the show. It's terrific. Carolyn: It has a real '60s vibe.
The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day John: As peppy a pop record as you could wish for.
No Ceremony - feelsolow John: I don't know anything about these, because there's nothing to know.
The Kingstonians - Sufferer John: Skanking round the studio to that one. We don't play enough ska. Carolyn: Well you pick the records! John: Originally out in 1970, that's on a Trojan Records compilation called Boss Reggae
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy John: Less of a country feel to that than some of their others. Carolyn: I like the woah-woah-woahs
One Degree Of Separation The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward The d.o.t. feat. Claire Maguire and Danny Brown - You Never Asked John: Your link here is Mike Skinner, formerly recording as The Streets and that was his second single from way back in 2002. His new project with Rob Harvey, formerly of The Music, is The d.o.t. and their debut album, And That, is out today.
Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun John: From the album Contra from 2010.
Grimes - Genesis John: Grimes is Canadian chanteuse Claire Boucher.
Peace - Bloodshake John: From their debut EP Delicious which was out in August.
We're away next week. Back in a fortnight. In the meantime, here's your YouTube playlist.
Polica - Lay Your Cards Out John: Because 'autotune' isn't necessarily a dirty word
Dutch Uncles - X-O
Super Furry Animals - Golden Retriever
Cover Version Corner Tears For Fears/Gary Jules and Michael Andrews - Mad World John: The Gary Jules version featured on the soundtrack to Donnie Darko of course and was a christmas number one. Carolyn: I love how the two versions stir totally different emotions
Hookworms - Teen Dreams John: Very definitely influenced by the Krautrock scene - early Kraftwerk, Can and Neu! as part of a general revival we're noticing
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Coves - No Ladder
M83 - Midnight City
Pixies - Here Comes Your Man The Breeders - Cannonball John: Still not got a name for this section. Still want suggestions. Frank Black and Joey Santiago formed the Pixies and hired Kim Deal on bass. Kim and Kelley Deal formed the Breeders in one of the Pixies' numerous hiatuses
Django Django - Storm John: Yes, again. Show favourites.
The Count and Sinden feat The Mystery Jets - After Dark
iamamiwhoami - Goods John: We're only getting half of this here as it's very much an audio-visual project by Swedish duo Jonna Lee and Claes Bjorklund. Fortunately, this being both audio and visual....
The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D John: It stands for 'The will always negates defeat'
Orbital - Where Is It Going? John: How good is that?
Band Of Horses - Knock Knock
The Pond - The River
Django Django - Default Macabees - Pelican John: Both of these bands were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize this week and we'll have two more later
Simian Mobile Disco feat Beth Ditto - Cruel Intentions
Kele - Tenderoni
Cover Version Corner Simon and Garfunkel/The Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson John: Simon and Garfunkel's version from which film? Carolyn: The Graduate John: And The Lemonheads? Carolyn: Not a clue John: Wayne's World 2 Carolyn: Only you would know enough to care
Los Saicos - El Enterrio de los Gatos John: There's a new documentary out that says punk didn't start in mid-'70s New York, but Lima a good ten years earlier and this band at the forefront. The title means 'the burial of the cats' and I do think you can see blues moving in a direction towards what we know as punk
Grizzly Bear - Yet Again
M83 - Reunion
Julian Cope - If You Loved Me At All John: Possibly my second-favourite artist/band/whatever Carolyn: You want me to ask who your favourite is don't you John: You know who that is surely Carolyn: Half Man Half Biscuit
Richard Hawley - Seek It Field Music - Who'll Pay The Bills John: Two more Mercury nominees. The others are: Ben Howard, Roller Trio, Sam Lee, Plan B, Alt-J, Jessie Ware, Michael Kiwanuka and Lianne La Havas Carolyn: Who do you want to win? John: It'd be nice if it was Richard Hawley, but Django Django is probably my favourite. Not Alt-J will be acceptable
Bloc Party - Octopus John: Pick that one out. What a way to start.
Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks John: Whatever happened to a tune you could whistle?
Eugene McGuinness - Harlequinade
Django Django - Hail Bop John: Two weeks in and we're already calling these guys 'show favourites'
Chemical Brothers - Theme for Velodrome John: One of a series of pieces commissioned for the Olympics. Impossible to not to draw comparisons to Kraftwerk
Euros Childs - That's Better John: I'm really not sure whether I like this, but threw it in anyway for people to make their own minds up Carolyn: I'm not sure either John: Is it me or does it sound a bit like Cockney Rebel?
Beck - Girl John: Beck released a new work in the week only available as sheet music Carolyn: That's odd. Why? John: Part of that whole debate about how to make music pay in the digital era. If it's illegal copying he's worried about though, he's clearly not heard of fax machines or photocopiers
Cover Version Corner Bird - I Wanna Be Your Dog John: A folk-funk version of the old Stooges record Carolyn: I don't know the original. Maybe we should play that as well in future
Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks
Beat Connection - Further Out
Longpigs - On And On John: Bloody love this one. Can't believe it's nearly 20 years old
Smoke Fairies - Let Me Know
Housemartins - Me And The Farmer John: I had a look at the video when I was putting the show together. Blimey, they look young. Top record though
John: Our first show. My note-keeping wasn't very good, so I haven't got a running order. Or a full list. I do know what the first record was though and what we played out with...
Django Django - Default John: Thumping good foot-stomper from the Edinburgh art-rockers
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Foe - The Black Lodge
The Kinks - Victoria John: Victoria Pendleton had won gold at the Olympics during the week
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Manic Street Preachers - You Stole The Sun From My Heart
Cover Version Corner Dan le Sac feat. Pete Hefferan - Cherubs John: Our first format idea - play a cracking cover of an old song. This is an old Arab Strap record done in a totally different way and it is bloody brilliant.
Belle and Sebastian - Boy With The Arab Strap
Jack White - Freedom At 21
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Redemption Song John: It was Jamaican Independence Day the previous weekend, the 50th anniversary, so we had to really
John: That's all I can remember. My record-taking picked up subsequently.
Here's your YouTube playlist, albeit with the Arab Strap original of Cherubs and not the Dan Le Sac/Pete Hefferan version.
