Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Playlist from January 28, 2009

Mclusky -- To Hell With Good Intentions (Mclusky Do Dallas)
Superfurry Animals -- At Least It's Not The End of the World (Ringz Around the World)
David Bowie -- New Killer Star (Reality)
Pulp -- Pink Glove (His & Hers)
Teenage Fanclub -- Sparky's Dream (Grand Prix)
Heavy Blinkers -- He Heard His Song (The Night and I Are Still So Young)
Black Box Recorder -- Facts of Life (Facts of Life)
Badly Drawn Boy -- 40 Days, 40 Fights (Have You Fed The Fish?)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -- Spanish Dance Troupe (Spanish Dance Troupe)
Divine Comedy -- PErfect Lovesong (Regeneration)
Lilac Time -- The Girl Who Waves at Trains (Compendium)
Noah & The Whale -- Shape of My Heart (Peaceful the World Lays Me Down)
Kaiser Chiefs -- Never Miss a Beat (Off With Their Heads)
Graham Coxon -- Bittersweet Bundle of Misery (Happiness in Magazines)
Teitur-- Catherine The Midwatch (The Singer)
Ballboy -- A Europewide Search for Love (Guide for the Daylight Hours)
Brian Ferry -- More Than This (Street Life)
Belle & Sebastian -- Sleep the Clock Around (The Boy With The Arab Strap)
The Streets -- Everything is Borrowed (Everything is Borrowed)
Slowdive -- Alison (Souvlaki)
Kings of Convenience -- Homesick (Riot on an Empty Street)
Bloc Party -- The Pinoeers, M83 Remix (Silent Alarm Remixed)
The Chrysler -- WOunded Night (Failures and Sparks)
The CUre -- Plainsong (Disintegration)

BBC 1! BBC2! BBC3! BBC4! BBC5! BBC6! BBC7! BBC heaven!

So I got to talk to my all-time radio idol live on-air last night!

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie have a nightly show on BBC Radio 2, a station known for being pretty staid and safe and inoffensive. Radcliffe and Maconie are hadly hellraising wild men, but they are probably the only DJs on R2 to play Iggy Pop, The Fall, Buzzcocks, etc. Anyway, they have both been huge godlike geniuses to me for years (Radcliffe especially, whose shows I have listened to ever since I was a callow teenager.)

So they have an ongoing feature on their show called The Chain, whose concept is simple enough: each record (or 'link') in The Chain has to be somehow connected to the previous one. The connection can be as tenuous or obvious as the submitter likes. Each night at a couple of points in the show they speak to the listener whose suggestion has been accepted as the next link.

And last night it was me! My suggestion of a Divine Comedy song to follow a Madness song (on the grounds that both bands had written songs about Michael Caine) was triumphant! For the next week you can hear, courtesy of BBC.co.uk's 'Listen Again' feature, my three minutes of starstruck babbling...

So...click here and then select Tuesday's episode ('Graham Nash speaks') from the Listen Again list on the right hand side. Although you would do well to listen to the whole show, you can skip ahead to my bit if you like -- I'm on at around the 1hr 42 minute mark.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Last Week's Show -- Audio File

If you missed the last show, and feel like hearing it (see playlist below), then feel free to email me at transatlanticaradio@yahoo.com, and I'll send you a link to an online location where I have uploaded the WAV file.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Playlist From January 14, 2009

Ballboy -- Avant Garde Music (Guide for the Daylight Hours)
Heavenly -- 'C' Is The HEavenly Option (Le Jardin De Heavenly)
Steve Harley -- Come up And See Me (Velvet Goldmine)
Badly Drawn Boy -- Silent Sigh (About a Boy)
Brian Eno -- Dead Finks Don't Talk (Here Come The Warm Jets)
Hidden Cameras -- Breathe On It (The Smell of Our Own)
Kaiser Chiefs -- Never Miss A Beat (Off With Their Heads)
Trashcan Sinatras -- I've Seen Everything (I've Seen Everything)
Blur -- Chemical World (Modern Life Is Rubbish)
U2 -- In A Little While (All That You Can't LEave Behind)
The Smiths -- What Difference Does it Make? (Singles)
Hot Chip -- The Warning (The Warning)
Aztec Camera -- Good Morning Britain (Retrospect)
Streets -- Everything Is Borrowed (Everything is Borrowed)
Lemon Jelly -- Space Walk (Lost Horizons)
Turin Brakes -- Future Boy (Optimist LP)
Belle & Sebastian -- Another Sunny Day (The Life Pursuit)
Teenage Fanclub -- It's All In My Mind (Man Made)
Manic Street Preachers -- Raindrops Keep Falling On My HEad (HELP: Warchild)
Teitur -- Catherine the Waitress (The Singer)
The The -- Lonely Planet (Dusk)
James -- I Wanna Go Home (Hey Ma)
The Chrysler -- When Sara Came to Town (Failures and Sparks)
Elbow -- Scattered Black and Whites (Asleep at the BAck)