Every Friday, I present Friday Night’s Nightlink on Phantom 105.2 in Dublin and www.phantom.ie.

Here’s the playlist for Fri July 25th. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was ‘Hawaii’ by The High Llama’s.

Flying Lotus – Beginner’s Falafel
Story of Hair – Big Melt
She & Him – Sweet Darlin’
Daemian Frost – Ya Basta
Glen Campbell – Guess I’m Dumb
Subtle – The No
Tricky – Far Away
Johnny Foreigner – Salt, Pepper & Spinderella
David Bowie – Fantastic Voyage
Primal Scream – Beautiful Summer
High Llamas – Ill-fitting Suits
The Accidental – Knock, Knock
David Turpin – Melody of the Plains
Rollers/Sparkers – The Work of The Human Hand
Polar Bear – Tomlovesalicelovestom
Black Affair – Reel To Reel
Fleet Foxes – Blue Ridge Mountains
High Llamas – Nomads
Jape – Strike Me Down
The Move – I can hear the grass grow
Oxford Collapse – A Wedding
Beck ft. Cat Power – Walls
Elf Power – A Tired Army
Subplots – All the rats were overground
High Llamas – Tides
Wild Beasts – His Grinning Skull
Jeremy Warmsley – Lose My Cool
House of Love – Christine
The Rascals – Freakbeat Phantom
Paul Weller – Black River

And here’s The Playlist for July 18th. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was ‘Still Bill’ by Bill Withers.
Ladyhawke – Paris is Burning
Fight Like Apes – Knucklehead
Rollers/Sparkers – CIE Action Figures
White Denim – I Can Tell
MIA – Paper Planes
Leila – Time To Blow
Wild Beasts – She purred while I grred
Ratatat – Shempi
Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90
Dry County – Stop, Proceed (Expert Remix)
Bill Withers – Lonely Town, Lonely Street
Story Of Hair – Big Melt
The Week That Was – Scratch The Surface
CSS – Beautiful Song
Sigur Ros – Vid Spilum Endelaust
The Dudley Corporation – The Lens Begin
Bill Withers – Lean On Me
Daedelus – Drummery Jam
Port O’Brien – Fisherman’s Son
Santogold & Diplo – Guns of Brixton
Mogwai – The Sun Smells Too Loud
Problums meets Stab Daggers – Heist Dub
Fleet Foxes – Quiet Houses
Bill Withers – Use Me
Beck – Gamma Ray
Shugo Tokumaru – Parachute
The Dodo’s – Fools
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – Swinging Hawaii

I’ve been off the air for the last few weeks but I’ll be back tonight at Midnight BST on Phantom 105.2 and www.phantom.ie with loads of new stuff and 3 tracks from Bill Withers’ ‘Still Bill’ album. Here are some playlists I never got around to posting…

Playlist for 20 June 2008

The ‘Under The Radar’ album was Jilted John’s ‘True Love Stories’

Jilted John

Jape – Apple in an Orchard
El Perro Del Mar – Into The Sunshine
Black Affair – Subfuge
Grand Pocket Orchestra – Little Messy
James Brown – Night Train
Sigur Ros – Vidf spilum endalaust
Fight Like Apes – Something Global
Dudley Corporation – Holy Wars
XTC – Making Plans For Nigel
Leila – Little Acorns
Jilted John – Going Steady
The Dodo’s – Walking
The vinny Club – Tech Noir Grand Re-opening
So Cow – Halcyon Days
MIA – Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
Daedelus – Drummery Jam
The Week That Was – Scratch The Surface
Jilted John – Karen’s Letter
Daniel Johnson – Walking The Cow
Silver Jews – Suffering Jukebox
Kaki King – Pull Me Out Alive
My Brightest Diamond – If I Were Queen
Centro-Matic – Strychnine, Breathless Ways
White Denim – Shake Shake Shake
Jilted John – Jilted John
Port O’ Brien – Close The Lid
Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Satan Said Dance
Dry County – Attention
Halves – The Lamp Dies…A Sleeping Circuit Wakes

Playlist for 27 June 2008

The ‘Under The Radar’ album was ‘Isn’t Anything’ by My Bloody Valentine

Fight Like Apes – Something Global
Santogold – Unstoppable
Subtle – Exiting Arm
Lykke Li – Breaking It Up
Cylob – Rewind
Jeff Martin – Balancing Act
Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
Tricky – Council Estate
The Go-Go’s – We Got The Beat
Flying Lotus – Beginners Falafel
My Bloody Valentine – Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)
Get Well Soon – Prelude
Leila – The Exotics
David Turpin – White Lemonade
Animal Collective – Cobwebs
Albert Hammond Jr. – Bargain of the Century
Black Affair – Just Keep Walking
My Bloody Valentine – Feed Me With Your Kiss
The Jimmy Cake – Jetta’s Palace
The Dodo’s – Winter
Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
Sigur Ros – Inni Mer Syngur vitleysingur
Late Of The Pier – Focker
My Brightest Diamond – Apples
My Bloody Valentine – (When You Wake) You’re Still In A Dream
Chris Letcher – Parker
Portishead – Plastic
The Shangri-La’s – You Can Never Go Home Anymore
Wolf Parade – The Grey Estates

Here’s last Friday’s playlist for my show on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin at Midnight. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was:

PLAYLIST: 

TRICKY – Council Estate
NOTWIST – Gravity
LEILA ft. TERRY HALL – Time To Blow
LATE OF THE PIER – Focker
THROWING MUSES – Counting Backwards
THOSE DANCING DAYS – Home Sweet Home
WHITE DENIM – Sitting
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN – Something To Believe
EDDIE COCHRAN – Summertime Blues

MICAH P. HINSON & THE RED EMPIRE ORCHESTRA – When We Embraced
GRANDADDY – AM 180
THE JOHNNY PLUSE – How Ya
LADYTRON – Deep Blue
CAP PAS CAP v PROBLUMS – Cap Pas Cap v Problums
REBECCA COLLINS – Kill For You
CSS – Left Behind
SUBTLE – Unlikely Rock Shock
GRANDADDY – Summer Here Kids

LADYHAWKE – Paris is Burning
LEONARD COHEN – Suzanne
BROKEN RECORDS – If the news makes you sad, don’t watch it

THE DUDLEY CORPORATION – Vapour Trails
ALBERT HAMMOND JR. – Lisa
THE B-52s – Rock Lobster
THE RAPTURE – No Sex For Ben
WILD BEASTS – The Devil’s Crayon
UGLY MEGAN – The High Life (Check that ass out)
ADEM – Unravel
PORTISHEAD – Deep Water

I didn’t manage to see Radiohead at the weekend (A moral choice. I refuse to pay for overpriced tickets) and have heard very mixed reports but instead, here’s a great clip of Radiohead covering my favourite track (‘The Rip’) off the excellent new Portishead album (Third). True, it doesn’t have the deadly synth bit that’s on the original but still, well worth checking out.

I wasn’t sure about Lykke Li initially and I still haven’t heard the album in full but I’ve definitely come around to realising that the singles are pretty smashing. Here’s an acoustic version of her current single, ‘Im Good, I’m Gone’ featuring a toy piano and an accordian and one Ms. Li looking rather restricted perched atop a stool. I’ve a feeling this is another song destined to be in those end of year ‘best of’ lists.

I’ve been cocking an ear to this BBC radio documentary about Eric’s Club and the Liverpool Music scene in the late 70’s and Early 80’s. It’s one of those oft-overlooked scenes, responsible for introducing the world to the likes of Teardrop Explodes, Echo & The Bunnymen, OMD, Pete Wylie and his various Wah! incarnations, Holly Johnson, Ian Broudie, Pete Burns, Bill Drummond amongst others. Apparently, there was a recent TV documentary about Eric’s Club on BBC Four (I think) which I unfortunately missed – though there was a Rock Family Tree episode about it in the late nineties. Also, Julian Cope’s ‘Head On’ book goes into great detail about that period which seemed to mainly consist of a load of gobby fuckers, pretty much all of whom hate Julian Cope. His book is a wonderful read, by the way, which along with the sequel ‘Repossessed’ are a fascinating insight into something – probably just the mad world of Julian Cope’s head rather than any musical insight-type shit. And if you ever geta chance to read Bill Drummond of The KLF’s book, 45, it’s another damn good read and he also tells some amusing stories about those times.

The Teardrops and The Bunnymen are my favourites of all those Liverpudlian groups (though OMD’s ‘Dazzle Ships’ is a terriffic record). Click here to listen to the BBC radio documentary and I’ve included three videos below – one of The Teardrop Explodes doing ‘Ha, Ha I’m Drowning’, a Tube-version of ‘The Bunnymen doing The Killing Moon’ featuring Ian McCullough with an extremely dodgy haircut and one of OMD reminiscing about Eric’s.

Here’s the debut single for Barringtone, which is a new off-shoot from ill-fated popsters (Copyright Smash Hits), Clor. It’s off-kilter, bendy, disorienting and reminds me a bit of a poppier version of The Cardiacs. Although I’m sure Cardiac fans would strongly disagree with me about that…

Here’s the playlist for last night, Friday 6th June. I present a show every Friday at Midnight BST on Phantom 105.2 in Dublin and www.phantom.ie. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was:

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – MWNG

PLAYLIST:

THE WEEK THAT WAS – Scratch The Surface  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

BECK – Chemtrails
FLEET FOXES – Mykonos
SPORTSDAY MEGAPHONE – LA
SYMARIP – Skinhead Moonstomp
ELF POWER – Softly Through The Void
TRICKY – Council Estate
THE DUDLEY CORPORATION – The Lens Begins
SIGUR ROS – Gobbledigook
GEMMA RAY – Dry River
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – Ymaelodi A’r Ymylon
UGLY MEGAN – What’s My Name?
LAUREL COLLECTIVE – Billion Planets
FLYING LOTUS – Comet Course
LIQUID LIQUID – Cavern
WHITE WILLIAMS – Violator  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

PORT O’ BRIEN – I woke up today
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – Ysbeidiau Heulog
LEILA – Deflect
TOMORROW – My White Bicycle
JOHNNY FOREIGNER – Cranes and Cranes and Cranes and Cranes
JOHN MATTHIAS – Blind Lead The Blind
AUTUMN OWLS – Pavor Nocturnus
THE NAZZ – Open My Eyes
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – Pan Ddaw’r Wawr
BLACK AFFAIR – It’s Real
THE DODO’S – Red & Purple
WOLF PARADE – Bang Your Drum
JAPE – Graveyard  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

DAEDELUS – I Car(ry) Us

Here’s a couple of videos featuring the marvellous Clinic in session at the spacious studios for 89.3 The Current. They perform two of my favourite songs from their current album, ‘Do It’ – them being Emotions and Shopping Bag. They sound pretty much as you’d expect but that’s the make of a great band, I think. Most of my favourite bands have a very distinctive sound – many of them, such as Stereolab, Clinic, The Fall, New Order, etc. are often accused of only having one tune. But if it’s a fucking great tune, I don’t really care.

Here’s the new video for Daedelus’ ‘Make It So’ from their new album, ‘Love To Make Music To’. This track features the vocal talents of Michael Johnson and the video is quite a pop art treat. The album is a bit of a hit and miss affair, to be honest, though the high points make up for the more rubbish moments.

Note: I am presuming this is an official video as it is good enough to be, though the fact that the person who has posted it’s only other video is titled ‘Kenny vs Spenny Farting Competition’ makes me slightly dubious…

Here’s the playlist from last night’s show on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin – Every Friday at Midnight BST. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was:

PLAYLIST:

LATE OF THE PIER – Focker
JAPE – Strike Me Down
GRAND POCKET ORCHESTRA – Little Messy
SONNY J – Cabaret Short Circuit
FLYING LIZARDS – Money  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

SILVER JEWS – Strang Victory, Strange Defeat
SIGUR ROS – Gobbledigook
WILD BEASTS – The Devil’s Crayon
PIGBAG – Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag
SO COW – Off Out
JULIAN COPE – Julian H. Cope
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND – Inside A Boy
LADYHAWKE – Paris Is Burning
WOLF PARADE – Call It A RItual
MICAH P. HINSON & THE RED EMPIRE ORCHESTRA – When We Embraced
SANTOGOLD – Shove it
THE EXPLORERS CLUB – Do you love me?
JULIAN COPE – Poet Is Priest
EVANGELICALS – Skeleton Man
THE SPECIALS – Too Much Too Young   [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

LADYTRON – The Lovers
THE VINNY CLUB – It’s Not You, It’s Of
DAEDELUS – Make It So

BE YOUR OWN PET – Becky   [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

JULIAN COPE – No Hard Shoulder To Cry On
THE WEEK THAT WAS – Scratch The Surface
JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN – Furious
ELASTICA – Connection
SUBTLE – The No
M83 – Dark Moves Of Love

As excitement mounts around the release of the forthcoming, Wolf Parade album, ‘At Mount Zoomer’, here’s a brand new Spencer Krug song in the guise of Sunset Rubdown. It’s tentatively titled ‘You Go On Ahead’ but Krug explains that it could also be called, ‘Trumpet Trumpet Toot Two’, being as it is a sequel to ‘Trumpet Trumpet Toot Toot’ from his ‘Random Spirit Lover’ album. Quality stuff…

I went to see We Are Wolves last night Upstairs in Whelans. There wasn’t a huge turnout for them but it was a bit of a miserable summer Tuesday night. They took to the stage in bizarre inexplicable costumes, though they were shed by about the fourth number. Their sound is a synth-heavy sleaze attack, not unlike a punk-influenced Add N To (X). Melodies are few on the ground but energy levels are rather high. Their energy is actually rather infectious and it was entertaining enough. Unfortunately, the band suffer due to the fact that they’ve pretty much forgotten to write any songs. As my friend pointed out to me during the gig, their songs are just middle eights. They’re pretty great middle eights, to be fair, but they don’t have any verses or choruses which is a bit of a shame because if they managed to write choruses as good as their middle eights they could be a very good band. Above, you can see an interview with the band for Watchmojo.com

Here’s the playlist from my radio programme on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin last Friday night at midnight BST (technically Saturday morning). The Under The Radar’ album was:

PLAYLIST:

LADYTRON – Ghosts
SONNY J – Enfant Terrible  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

LATE OF THE PIER – Focker
GLASVEGAS – Geraldine
PINK FLOYD – Arnold Layne
LYKKE LI – I’m Good, I’m Gone  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

WILD BEASTS – The Devil’s Crayon
NO AGE – Eraser
TIM BUCKLEY – Once I Was
NOTWIST – Alphabet
BOBBY CONN – The Best Years of our Lives
ADEM – Invisible Man
SILVER JEWS – Strange Victory, Srange Defeat
CRAYONSMITH – 16 Going on 63
LIQUID LIQUID – Optimo
JAPE – Phil Lynott
STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS – We Can’t Help You
BOBBY CONN – No Revolution
JEFF MARTIN – Spoons (High Llamas Remix)
SPIRITUALIZED – Run
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE -Water Curses  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

WOLF PARADE – Language City
WHITE WILLIAMS – Headlines
THE TING TINGS – We Walk
BOBBY CONN – Angels
HALVES – Amberscene
THE ALOOF – One Night Scene
FLYING LOTUS – Camel
LAUREL COLLECTIVE – Hercules

Tune into Phantom 105.2 tonight at Midnight BST on www.phantom.ie, Phantom 105.2 in Dublin or Channel 935 on your telly if you have UPC anywhere in Ireland to hear my show where I’ll be playing loads of great new music. Tonight’s show will include Adem, Sonny J, Wild Beasts, Late of The Pier, Laurel Collective, Jape, Halves and many more. I’ll also be playing 3 tracks from this week’s ‘Under The Radar’ album, ‘The Golden Age’ by Bobby Conn. Below, you can watch a classic by Bobby (not on ‘The Golden Age’ unfortunately) – ‘Never Get Ahead’.