Playlist from June 3, 2009

Death in Vegas -- Dirge (Contino Sessions)
My Bloody Valentine -- When You Sleep (Loveless)
Pulp -- Pink Glove (His & Hers)
T-Rex -- Telegram Sam (the Slider)
Belle and Sebastian -- Blues are Still Blue (The Life Pursuit)
Futureheads -- First Day (Futureheads)
David Bowie -- Ashes to Ashes (Changes)
Nick Cave -- Dig Lazarus Dig (Dig Lazarus Dig)
Rumble Strips -- Girls and Boys in Love (Girls and Weather)
The Boy Least Likely To -- Every Goliath has Its David (Law of the Playground)
Morrissey -- First of the Gang to Die (You Are the Quarry)
Kate Bush -- How to be Invisible (Aerial)
Magic Numbers -- Love is a Game (Magic Numbers)
Aerospace -- The Great Divide (Labrador 100)
Sambassadeur -- Between the Lines (Labrador 100)
Radio Department -- Pulling Our Weight (Labrador 100)
Glasvegas -- It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry (Glasvegas)
James -- Tomorrow (Best)
Rolling Stones -- Tumbling Dice (Exile on Main Street)
Neil Halstead -- Oh Mighty Engine (Oh Mighty Engine)
Kate Walsh -- Your Song (Tim's House)
Stina Nordenstam -- Little Star (And She Closed Her Eyes)
Flotation Toy Warning -- Popstar Researching Oblivion (Bluffers Guide to the Flight Deck)
Turin Brakes -- Feeling Oblivion (Optimist LP)
Divine Comedy -- Everybody Knows Except You (A Short Album About Love)

Playlist from May 6, 2009

Divine Comedy -- Lucy (Liberation)
The Coral -- Dreaming of You (The Coral)
Reindeer Section -- You Are My Joy (Son of Evil Reindeer)
Graham Coxon -- Bittersweet Bundle of Misery (Happiness in Magazines)
Glasvegas -- Geraldine (Glasvegas)
Mclusky -- To Hell With Good Intentions (Mclusky Do Dallas)
Primatives -- Crash (Lovely)
Jens Lekman -- Friday Night at the Drive In Bingo (Night Falls Over Kortedala)
Acid House Kings -- This and That (Labrador 100)
Sambassadeur -- Between the Lines (Labrador 100)
Pet Shop Boys -- Love, etc. (Yes)
Boy Least Likely To -- A Balloon on a Broken String (Law of the Playground)
Paul Weller -- All I Want to Do Is Be With You (22 Dreams)
Radiohead -- Wolf at the Door (Hail to the Thief)
Aereogramme -- Black Path (Sleep & Release)
Coldplay -- Strawberry Swing (Viva La Vida)
Morrissey -- Something is Squeezing My Skull (Years of Refusal)
Cribs -- Men's Needs (Men's Needs Women's Needs Whatever)
Libertines -- Time for Heroes (Up The Bracket)
Beth Orton -- Concrete Sky (Daybreaker)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -- Faraway Eyes (Spanish Dance Troupe)
Heavy Blinkers -- He Heard his Song (The Night and I Are Still So Young)
Love Spit Love -- Am I Wrong? (Love Spit Love)
Stranglers -- No More Heroes (UK Punk I)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin -- Grey Cells Green (God Fodder)
Cast -- Alright (All Change)

Skinner, you swine!

Mike Skinner of The Streets has been quick to respond to the H1N1 influenza-A situation. Has he bought a load of face-masks and made a Tamiflu stockpile in his basement?

No, he's recorded a song about it.

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.

Playlist for March 25, 2009

Badly Drawn Boy -- You Were Right (Have You Fed the Fish?)
Delgados -- Coming in from the Cold (Hate)
Blur -- End of a Century (Best of)
James -- Whiteboy (Hey Ma)
Lightning Seeds -- Sense (Sense)
Belle & Sebastian -- Another Sunny Day (Life Pursuit)
Stereo Total -- Dactylo Rock (Stereo Total)
Southside Stalkers -- Five (Sound of Speed)
Cocteau Twins -- Seekers Who Are Lovers (BBC Sessions)
St. Etienne -- Like a Motorway (Travel Edition)
Black Box Recorder -- The English Motorway (Facts of Life)
Bjork -- Play Dead (Greatest Hits)
Nick Drake -- Hazey jane II (Bryter Layter)
Neil Halstead -- A Gentle Heart (Oh Mighty Engine!)
Sondre Lerche -- You Know So Well (Faces Down)
Ballboy -- A Day in Space (Club Anthems)
Acid House Kings -- This & That (Labrador 100)
Club 8 -- Missing You (Labrador 100)
Lasse Lindh -- C'Mon Through (Labrador 100)
Leslies -- Dear Friend (Labrador 100)
Maps -- Elouise (We Can Create)
My Bloody Valentine -- Blown a Wish (Loveless)
Slowdive -- When the Sun Hits (Souvlaki)
Hidden Cameras -- Builds the Bone (Mississauga Goddam)
Dire Straits -- Going Home, theme from Local Hero (Alchemy -- Live)