Monday, July 30, 2007

10 Best Pub Gardens in UK

Here's a great article from the Guardian (a great paper, as it happens), listing the 10 best pub gardens in the country, according to them. It's hard to convey to an American audience how crucial the pub garden is to British society and culture. Perhaps a browse through this article will get it across.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

A Couple of Great Songs

Here are the videos for a couple of tracks I played on the last show. Thanks, YouTube!

St. Etienne - Like a Motorway



Super Furry Animals - It's Not The End of the World

Playlist, July 4th 2007

Here it is, the playlist for the Independence Day (or, as we call it in England, "Wednesday") show. It took me a while to get this typed up, because as soon as I left the station my wife went into labour, and six or seven hours later I was the father of a lovely baby boy (Lucian Charles). Details to follow...

Trashcan Sinatras - Hayfever (Cake)
Squeeze - Up The Junction (Cool for Cats)
Teenage Fanclub - 120 Mins (Thirteen)
Belle and Sebastian - Expectations (Tigermilk)
Cribs - Men's Needs (Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever)
The View - Same Jeans (Hats off to the Buskers)
Maccabees - First Love (Colour It In)
Playwrights - Dislocated (London Version) (English Self Storage)
Gorky's Zygotc Mynci - The Humming Song (Spanish Dance Troupe)
Supergrass - St. Petersburg (Road to Rouen)
Aliens - I Am The Unknown (Astronomy for Dogs)
Elbow - Station Approach (Leaders of the Free World)
British Sea Power - Carrion (The Decline of...)
Art Brut - Pump up the Volume (It's a Bit Complicated)
Fields - Song for the Fields (Everything Last Winter)
Jakob Dylan and Dhani Harrison - Gimme Some Truth (Instant Karma)
Paul McCartney - Ever Present Past (Memory Almost Full)
Sondre Lerche - Sleep on Needles (Faces Down)
Stereolab - Ping Pong (Mars Audiac Quintet)
Pipettes - I Love You (We Are the Pipettes)
Arctic Monkeys - Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend ('Brianstorm' single B-Side)
Travis - Battleships (The Boy With No Name)
Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block (Hour of the Bewilderbeast)
Black Box Recorder - Facts of Life (Facts of Life)
St. Etienne - Like a Motorway (Tiger Bay)
Super Furry Animals - It's Not The End Of The World (Rings Around The World)
David Bowie - Changes (Hunky Dory)