Just the ten tracks tonight as there are a few long uns in there.
Island Apollo - Hold It Down
And something sunshiney to start with, the new single from these Southern Californian indie rockers.
Cherry Glazerr - Told You I'd Be With The Guys
A new one from the LA trio and their first since signing to the Secretly Canadian label. From the album Apocalipstick.
The Pink Tiles - Sammy
To Melbourne next and a track from the LP #1 Fan.
Los Snorkels - Clank!
Surf guitar from La Plata, Argentina, now. This is off Surfing In Silver River which is fantastic.
Bitumen - Honey Hunter
Back to Melbourne. This is off a split-cassette with No Sister.
Bettie Serveert ft Peter te Bos - Love Sick
Amsterdam trio with a track from the LP Damaged Good which came out last autumn.
Red Axes - Hamem Oti
Another one from last autumn, this time from Tel Aviv. Off the album Ahuzat Bait.
King Ayisoba - Sooba
And one more from last year. Albert Apoozore is from Ghana and takes traditional music in new directions.
Mogwai - Coolverine
Finally, a follow-up to 2014's Rave Tapes. Every Country's Sun is out in September.
Superpitcher - Bluesin
And to finish, 17 minutes of Cologne... well I don't know what it is. I don't really care either. Astonishing. This is off The Golden Ravedays 5 which is out in a week or two.
The Blue Aeroplanes - Elvis Festival
Still going after 35 years, with an ever-changing roster, Bristolian indie pioneers return with a new LP in January, Welcome, Stranger!
Boxed In - Run Quicker
From Oli Bayston's debut LP from last year. New one should be out by now.
Lust For Youth - Sudden Ambitions
From Copenhagen, this is off Compassion which came out in March.
Featured album: The Fatima Mansions - Against Nature Only Losers Take The Bus The Day I Lost Everything
This was the debut album from Cathal Coughlan and his band from Cork, back in 1989. Released to universal critical acclaim, the NME said that "it never loses it's ability to stun".
Pauw - Visions
A progressive quartet with a debut LP out now, Macrocosm Microcosm.
Deny All Robots - Crash
The title track of the new EP from this West Midlands outfit.
Tigercub - Omen
From Brighton and off their forthcoming LP Abstract Figures In The Dark, out next month.
Nosferatu D2 - Broken Tamagotchi
First, great name. This is two brothers from Croydon and off the LP (deep breath) We're Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones On To Block Out The Noise.
Baby In Vain - The Urge
Back to Copenhagen for this one. This came out in April on the EP For The Kids.
Mogwai - Bitterness Centrifuge
Off the LP Atomic which was originally composed to soundtrack the Mark Cousins documentary Atomic, Living In Dread And Promise, an exploration of life and death in the atomic age.
Featured album: The Fatima Mansions - Against Nature
13th Century Boy
Another track from our featured album. It's a bit dated now - very '80s - but retains value.
Artbat - Momentum
DJ Artur and Batish combine to become Artbat and this is off the EP Chivvy which came out in May.
Abu Ama - Back In England
Of Turkish gypsy origin now based out of West Germany, this is off the album Abraxo Ishara which came out in March. Impressively different.
Pye Corner Audio - Lost Ways
Martin Jenkins is back with his Pye Corner Audio project and the LP Stasis. It came out in August.
Heavyball - Black Eye Friday
Out last Friday, this is the new one from these Nottingham lads now based out of London. Terrific stuff. More please.
Container - Glaze
This fair blew my socks off when I first heard it. Stunning stuff from Ren Schofield off the new EP 'Adhesive'.
Toy - It's Been So Long
Been a while since we played these. Off their second album 'Join The Dots', it's another winner.
Cover Version Corner Chris Isaak/London Grammar - Wicked Game
London Grammar were last year's big thing, but largely by-passed me. She's got a hell of a voice. The original before that from 1990 and the album 'Heart-Shaped World'.
Deadwall - Eyes-White-Shut
We saw these supporting Hookworms at Hebden Trades Club and this track, off the new album 'Bukimi No Tani', really made my ears prick up. The album is great and it's out as of yesterday. The unusual name comes from a book by roboticist Masahiro Mori in which he espouses the theory that we shouldn't make robots to human-like. Presumably that's how Skynet starts.
Balthazar - Leipzig
To Belgium now. These had a lovely album out last year called 'Rats'. This is a new single, out now.
Mogwai - Remurdered
A new album, 'Rave Tapes', is out now and ticks all the Mogwai boxes.
One Degree of Separation Half Man Half Biscuit - Paradise Lost (You're The Reason Why) Calvin Party - 8 Days
Label-mates and regular touring compadres is your link. The venerable Probe Plus put out both of these bands and Calvin Party are regular support for HMHB. The Biscuits are playing Holmfirth in April. Bit of luck, so will Calvin Party.
Pete Seeger - Rye Whiskey
The news of Pete Seeger's death came too late for last week's show. I could have picked out anything from his back-catalogue, but this old Scottish drinking song stands out. Off the 1954 album 'Frontier Ballads'.
Eight Rounds Rapid - Talent
That's traduced a popular TV show. It's a fair point. Britain has lots of talent, but most of us don't. New single from these. I think they're ace.
Smog - In The Pines
I should probably have put this after Pete Seeger. It's another old song, done here by Bill Callahan in 2005, most famously recorded by Leadbelly back in the day. It's had various names, various lyrics, various numbers of verses, but this is lovely. Gives the impression of a stream babbling by. Off Smog's 'A River Ain't Too Much Love' album.
Pizzicato Five - Baby Love Child
To Japan, now. These are from Hokkaido and this came out in 1991 on the 'Last Year's Girl' album. It's been used in many films and TV shows; Futurama and the Adam Curtis documentary All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace for two.
TCTS - Lose Control
Tuesday night banger. Sam O'Neill from Manchester is TCTS and that's off an EP called 'These Heights'.
The Fall - Hey! Luciani
And to finish, The Fall. A song about the conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I after just 33 days in office. That's from 1986 and couldn't possibly be any other band.
Back after the Easter break, and John's bang on the bonce, with some Monday night bangers.
Dan Le Sac - Four Thousand Thumbnails John: One of our favourites with a treat for his fans on his recent birthday. Once this hit 4000 views on YouTube, he gave it away as a free download. Which was nice.
Mat Zo and Porter Robinson - Easy John: In a proper late '90s/early 2000s club style, that's proper banging. Carolyn: Listeners should note that when we had this on in the car yesterday, John was throwing some serious shapes. Good job we were in a massive queue. John: That's Matan Zohar from London and Porter Robinson from North Carolina and it's out now.
Visuals - Levitation John: From Brooklyn, that's Marshall Ryan and Andrew Fox. It's got a real Joy Division-y feel to it, certainly in the bass and the guitars. It's available as a pay-what-you-like download from their bandcamp site.
Cover Version Corner Rolling Stones/Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction John: Devo, very much of the burgeoning MTV scene, had a very visual element to their work. That's from the 1977 EP 'Be Stiff'. The Stones, of course, need no introduction. We play them as they've been in the news lately with concerts in Hyde Park - not free, £300 this time - and headlining Glastonbury. That's from 1965.
Vitalic - Fade Away John: Vitalic is Frenchman Pascal Arbez. That's off the album 'Rave Age' which came out last December. It sounds like a number of things, none of which I can place.
Tomorrow's World - Drive John: Keeping it French, this is Jean-Benoit Dunkel - him out of Air - and Lou Hayter. We've played them before, but this is the second track from the album 'Tomorrow's World' which is out today. And yes they are named after the TV show.
Spectrals - Milky Way John: Someone else we've had before, this is Louis Smith from Heckmondwike, now firmly part of the Leeds scene. It's off the forthcoming long-player 'Sob Story' and is very jaunty indeed. Carolyn: Always good to play local stuff. We do a lot from all over the world, which is great, but also good not to forget those closer to home.
One Degree Of Separation Boards Of Canada - roygbiv Public Service Broadcasting - roygbiv John: We've been championing PSB like few others. 'Inform, Educate, Entertain' is out next month and I can't wait to get hold of it. Carolyn: We like them. John: Before that, a track we have played before, a 1998 10" single which I adore. The link is the title. Nothing else.
Menace Beach - Drop Outs John: Back to Leeds now for some lo-fi goodness. It's out on a limited release on Rough Trade records.
Tricky - Nothing's Changed John: New from the Bristol trip-hop veteran, from the forthcoming album 'False Idols' which is out next month. You can grab this as a free download from his website.
Serafina Steer - Disco Compilation John: Not enough harp on this show. This is off the album 'The Moths Are Real' which is out about now, I think. Carolyn: A bit bass-heavy isn't it? John: No such thing as too much bass.
And here's a website-only bonus, apropos of nothing:
The usual mix of new and old, a football theme later on, but we start with an old favourite.
Len - Steal My Sunshine John: From way back in 1999, that. Their only hit, from the album 'You Can't Stop The Bum Rush'. Carolyn: Takes us both back a bit, there. And why are we playing that? John: Well for two days last week, it felt like spring. And then someone nicked the sun and it's freezing now.
British Sea Power - Machineries Of Joy John: New from these, from the forthcoming album also called 'Machineries Of Joy' which is out on April 1 and I really like that.
B>E>A>K - Night Owls John: A Sunderland supergroup, that's a paean to a popular nightspot in the town. Carolyn: Are there enough bands to form a supergroup? John: There are members of Field Music, Futureheads, Lake Poets, Lorry... That's available as a free download from their bandcamp page.
Cover Version Corner Lykke Li/Triggerfinger - I Follow Rivers John: A pan-European cover version corner. Triggerfinger are from Antwerp and that was a non-album single that then cropped up on a 'B-sides/various' compilation last year. It's a bit of a cheat on the first one as it's the Magician Mix of Lykke Li's 2011 single off the album 'Wounded Rhymes'.
High Hazels - French Rue John: I've been after this for a while. From Sheffield, which might be why I'm drawing parallels with Richard Hawley. Carolyn: Yeah, it's got a bit of a Sheffield sound.
Public Service Broadcasting - Signal 30 John: Favourites of ours, this is off the forthcoming album 'Educate, Entertain' which I am very much looking forward to. Carolyn: Yes, very much like these. I think it only works with American and received pronunciation in a 1950s style. I don't think a modern public information film would work. John: And perhaps Chris Huhne could have done to listen to the original films about 10 years ago.
The Besnard Lakes - People Of The Sticks John: From Montreal, the driving force behind these is husband and wife Jake Lasek and Olga Goreas. That's off the album 'Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO' which is out on the 2nd of April. Carolyn: There's something about that I didn't like. Something underneath that made me think about swimming underwater.
One Degree of Separation Art Brut - St Pauli The Fall - Theme From Sparta FC #2 John: 26 shows and this is the first time we've played The Fall. That's slacking. That came out in 2004, off the album 'The Real New Fall LP, Formerly Country On The Click'. Art Brut are one of those bands that cling to silly names - Eddie Argos, Freddie Feedback and suchlike - and that was off their second album 'It's A Bit Complicated' from 2007. Carolyn: And the link? John: European football clubs. St Pauli are from Hamburg while Sparta FC... Well it could be Rotterdam or Prague, I suppose. Carolyn: It's a bit tenuous. You just wanted to play those records, didn't you? John: I wanted to play Art Brut, then went looking for a link elsewhere and, like I say, it's high time we played The Fall.
Toy - My Heart Skips A Beat John: Another band we've played a few times. That's the new single from the debut album 'Toy' which really is something. Such a variety on there, from poppy tracks like Lose My Way, through this which is just damned pleasant to the 10-minute epic that is Kopter. It really is very good indeed. Carolyn: Yes, we like those a lot. That's just a lovely track.
Haight Ashbury - Blow Your Mind John: Another one I've been after for a while. These are from Glasgow, but named after the area of San Francisco, and it's off the album 'Perhaps?', their third, which is out in May. Psych-folk, I think they call it. Carolyn: Oh, that's a genre is it? I'd have filed it under 'nice'. John: Well, it's got folk elements and a bit of a '60s/'70s San Francisco hippy vibe, hasn't it?
Lapalux - Guuurl John: Lapalux is Stuart Howard from Essex and that's 'Guuurl', with three Us. Carolyn: Another daft spelling... I don't particularly like that, the distortion effects. John: That's what sets it apart for me. You'll like the album title, I think: 'Nostalchic'. Carolyn: Yeah, alright. I'll let him off.
Mogwai - Modern John: To finish, the new one from Glasgow favourites Mogwai. From the forthcoming album 'Les Revenants' which, as you don't need me to tell you, is French for ghosts. Carolyn: I was just about to... John: Nothing too much new there. The usual cinematic qualities, which is no bad thing.
