Playlist -- April 22, 2009

Ballboy -- Avant Garde Music (Guide for the Daylight Hours)
Suede -- The Drowners (Suede)
Pulp -- This is Hardcore (This is Hardcore)
Glasvegas -- Geraldine (Glasvegas)
Frightened Rabbit -- Heads Roll Off (Midnight Organ Fight)
Jesus & Mary Chain -- April Skies (Darklands)
Pet Shop Boys -- Love, etc. (Yes)
Madness -- It Must Be Love (Divine Madness)
Depeche Mode -- Personal Jesus (Violator)
Camera Obscura -- French Navy (My Maudlin Career)
St. Etienne -- You're In a Bad Way (Singles)
The Boy Least Likely To -- Saddle Up (Law of the Playground)
Radio Department -- Pulling Our Weight (Labrador 100)
Neil Halstead -- A Gentle HEart (Oh Mighty Engine)
Leisure Society -- Last of the Melting Snow (The Sleeper)
Superstar -- Barfly (Greatest Hits Vol. 1)
Stereolab -- Wow & Flutter (Mars Audiac Quintet)
Gene -- Sleep Well Tonight (Olympian)
Guillemots -- Trains to Brazil (From the Cliffs)
James -- Waterfall (Hey Ma)
Wonder Stuff -- Maybe (Never LOved Elvis)
The Fall -- Hey Luciani! (50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong)
Editors -- Smokers OUtside the Hospital Doors (An End Has A Start)
Flight of the Conchords -- Bowie (Flight of the Conchords)

Playlist for April 8, 2009

The Jam -- Going Underground (Sound of...)
Ikara Colt -- At The Lodge (Chat & Business)
The Fall -- Fiery jack (50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong)
Badly Drawn Boy -- Degrees of Separation (Born in the UK)
Camera Obscura -- Shine Like a New Pin (Biggest Bluest Hi fi)
Sean Lennon -- Headlights (Friendly Fire)
Robyn Hitchcok -- Belltown Ramble (Ole, Tarantula)
Lloyd Cole -- Music in a Foreign Language (Music in a Foreign Language)
Neil Halstead -- A Gentle Heart (Oh Mighty Engine!)
Echo & The Bunnymen -- Ocean Rain (Ocean Rain)
British Sea Power -- Waving Flags (Do You Like Rock Music?)
Divine Comedy -- I'm All You Need (A Short Album About Love)
Eurythmics -- When Tommorrow Comes (Revenge)
Black Box Recorder -- Girl Singing in the Wreckage (Child Psychology)
Cocteau Twins -- Rilkean Heart (Milk & Kisses)
Prefab Sprout -- Appetite (Steve McQueen)
Aztec Camera -- Walk Out To Winter (Retrospect)
Kinks -- Where Have All The Good Times Gone? (BBC Sessions)
Brian Eno -- The True Wheel (Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy)
Nick Cave -- Midnight Man (Dig Lazarus Dig!!!)
Jilted John -- Jilted John (UK Pop I)
Strawberry Switchblade -- Since Yesterday (Living In Oblivion)
Ride -- Twisterella (Going Blank Again)

Ahhhh, England....

At the risk of reducing my week in England to a single cliched image, here I am in the Truf Tavern pub in Oxford, pint in hand, fish & chips on the table in front of me.

NB: It's not raining. Or snowing.