The Last Two Weeks

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

2 Playlists I didn’t get around to posting

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

Playlist for Fri 6th June 2008

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

Playlist for Fri 23/05/08

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

Tonight! Phantom 105.2! Midnight!

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’.

 

Playlist for Friday 16th May 2008

Here’s the playlist for my show on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin which is on every Friday night at Midnight BST. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was:

PLAYLIST:

SO COW – Exclamation Mark
BORN RUFFIANS – In A Mirror
FLEET FOXES – English House
SANTOGOLD – Anne
ADAM & THE ANTS – Antmusic
ELF POWER – Owl Cut (White Flowers in the Sky)
ATLAS SOUND – My Car
THE TING TINGS – Shut Up & Let Me Go
EL-P – Deep Space 9mm [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

LAST SHADOW PUPPETS – I don’t like you anymore
THE SONICS – Psycho
MICHAEL KNIGHT – Ascending and Ascending
CHEQUERBOARD – Quotidian Debris
WOLF PARADE – Call It A Ritual
REDNECK MANIFESTO – You owe me five potatoes
CLINIC – Shopping bag
LADYHAWKE – Back of the Van (Van She Tech Remix)
THE SONICS – The Witch
MAN MAN – Top Drawer [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

PLONE – Plock
JAPE – Appile in the Orchard
LATE OF THE PIER – Focker
THE SHORTWAVE SET – Replica
SILVER APPLES – Oscillations  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

THE SONICS – Strychnine
CAP PAS CAP v PROBLUMS – Cap Pas Cap v  Problums
CASS McCOMBS – Crick in My Neck
SKYPHONE – Quetzal Cubicle
THE VINNY CLUB – Everybody Can Change
PORTISHEAD – Deep Water

On Phantom 105.2 at Midnight BST Tonight

On tonight’s show on Phantom 105.2 in Dublin and www.phantom.ie on the worldwide interweb at Midnight BST, I’ll be playing the best in new music including the blindingly stupendous new single by Late of the Pier, new Wolf Parade, Atlas Sound, Fleet Foxes, Elf Power, Cap Pas Cap v Problums, Man Man, Jape and The Shortwave Set amongst others. The ‘Under The Radar’ album will be ‘Here Are The Sonics!!!’ by The Sonics (pictured above). Please tune in for fun and frolics…

Playlist for Friday 9th May 2008

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

 

PLAYLIST:

MYSTERY JETS – Two Doors Down  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

CSS – Rat Is Dead (Rage)
THE VINNY CLUB – Infinite Smokebombs
GET WELL SOON – You/Aurora/You/Seaside
NEW YORK DOLLS – Trash
THE FUTUREHEADS – Work Is Never Done
JAPE – Replays
EL PERRO DEL MAR – Somebody’s Baby
THE BUZZCOCKS – Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
BON IVER – Lump Sum  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

VINCENT GALLO – Yes I’m Lonely
SPIRITUALIZED – You Lie You Cheat
JAPE – At the heart of all this strangeness
SO COW – Halcyon Days
ENEMIES – For One Night Only
FOALS – Olympic Airways
JAPE – Strike Me Down
VINCENT GALLO – When
AZTEC CAMERA – Oblivious  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

PORTISHEAD – The Rip
CRAYONSMITH – All The Elders
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN – The Flame That Burns
HALVES – Medals
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO – I’ll be your Mirror
VINCENT GALLO – I wrote this song for the girl Paris Hilton
NOTWIST – Boneless
THE JIMMY CAKE – Red Tony
JEFF MARTIN – The Promise (John McEntire remix)
CORRECTO – No-one Under 30

Deerhunter, Health, Other Bits & Bobs from the last few days

Last night, I went to Health & Deerhunter in Whelans. Health are energetic, visually exciting and fucking loud but lacking in substance. And when I say substance, I mean tunes. Health exist in a world of feedback and distorted loops and layers upon layers of noise. Fun to watch but I know now that I never have to listen to their records, to be honest.

I had been looking forward to seeing Deerhunter, having missed their last show here.  And last night’s gig was a good, if fairly shambolic, performance. The problem was that I kinda expected more from them. I expected it to be more extreme, to be louder and more full-on. I wanted the extremeness of Health but with the tunes I’d expect from Deerhunter. They mostly concentrated on new material from their forthcoming album, ‘Microcastle’ (due at Halloween time). The new songs sounded good – poppier, almost Beatlesy at moments but they didn’t always go as far as I wanted them to. They seemed to stop short of climaxes. But the older stuff really shone for me – particularly ‘Strange Lights’. It just would have been nice to have heard a bit more old stuff. It was new guitarist, Whitney’s first gig and she seemed to fit in without any problems, spitting and leap-frogging and joining in on all manners of japes.

Speaking of which, I will be playing three songs tonight from Jape’s new album, Ritual, which is less dancier than you might expect but full of cracking tunes, all the same. I’ll also be playing tracks from the new Vinny Club tribute to Rocky IV, a track from the new Notwist record and the new Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan album and my ‘Under The Radar’ album will be ‘When’ by Vincent Gallo. So that’s all on at Midnight BST tonight (Friday May 9th) on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin.

On Wednesday night, I saw Dan Le Sac v Scroobius Pip again and Messiah J & The Expert who played some of their new tunes. I’m really liking The Button Factory these days. The sound is pretty good and it’s a comfortable venue, no longer feeling like a Russian warehouse . More places could learn from this. It’s an example of a well-considered renovation.

Here’s a link to Deerhunter’s photos and blog from Dublin and below you can watch that very song I mentioned – ‘Strange Lights’.

Playlist for Fri 02/05/08

Here’s the playlist for Fri 02/05/08 for my show on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin. It’s on every Friday night at midnight. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was:

 

PLAYLIST:

BE YOUR OWN PET – Becky
SANTOGOLD – Shove It
SO COW – Off Out
LOS CAMPESINIOS – My Year In Lists
RICHARD HELL – Love Comes In Spurts
FLO & EDDIE – Thoughts Have Turned
JEFF MARTIN – Strange for a Tuner (Chequerboard Remix)
TINDERSTICKS – Hungry Saw
LAST SHADOW PUPPETS – Meeting Place
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN – Who Built the Road?
THE SUPERIMPOSERS – Would it be Impossible?  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

DUCHESS SAYS – Rabies (Baby’s Got The)
DRY COUNTY – Another Idea
JAPE – I was a Man
THE LONG BLONDES – Guilt
THE DODO’S – Fools [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

THE BREEDERS – Walk It Off
THE SUPERIMPOSERS – Seeing is Believing
LYKKE LI – Melodies & Desires
SO COW – One Hundred Helens
HALVES – Amberscene
THE NOTWIST – Where in this World
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – The Back of Love [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

PORTISHEAD – Magic Doors
THE SUPERIMPOSERS – Rainbow
CSS – Rat Is Dead (Rage)
M83 – Kim & Jessie
BRIAN ENO – Cindy Tells Me
CRAYONSMITH – Bad Days Move On

Jape – I Was A Man

He/They seem to be everywhere these days. Ray D’Arcy declared that if he had such a thing as a Single Of The Week, ‘I Was A Man’ would be it. Richie’s album ‘Ritual’ is released in a few weeks, after a very long gestation period. I (hopefully!!) will be playing three or so tracks from it on my show at midnight on Phantom 105.2. I have just seen a comment made by Padraic expressing his concerns over the way Jape are being marketed over in the UK – somehow I don’t think the press release Padraic speaks of would get the all-clear over here. But I have also come across this version of ‘I Was A Man’ recorded by Channel 6 for The Airfield Seesions. I think this is actually a better version than the mastered single mix. I’ve loved ‘I Was A Man’ for ages – knowing it from both his live shows and his Myspace page – but the single version just doesn’t have quite the oomph that I had hoped for. I still think it’s a fantastic song, however, so this is me just being a niggly pedant and I can’t wait to sit down with the album and have a proper listen to it.

This track also contains another excellent couplet: “I popped my cherry to ‘November Rain’/I think she liked it but don’t think she came”. Indeed.

Playlist For Friday 18/04/08

Here’s the playlist from my show last Friday (I know It’s been slow around these parts lately – apologies). I’m on every Friday at midnight on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was:

 

PLAYLIST:

THESE NEW PURITANS – Swords of Truth [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

THE BREEDERS – Istanbuol
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS – Separate and Ever Deadly
WE ARE WOLVES – Magique
U-ROY & HOPETOWN LEWIS – Tom Drunk
BORN RUFFIANS – Barnacle Goose
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND – Inside A Boy
KELLEY STOLTZ – Let’s Go Out Tonight
TRICKY – Brand New You’re Retro
PETER MOREN – Le Petit Coeur
THE SEWING ROOM – Slide
DUCHESS SAYS – Tenon Non Neu
ELF POWER – Paralysed
THE FUTUREHEADS – Radio Heart
FOALS – Red Sock Pugie [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

PORTISHEAD – Machine Gun
RED WIRE BLACK WIRES – Compass
THE SEWING ROOM – Ghost
PRIMAL SCREAM – Kowalski
FLO & EDDIE – Flo & Eddie Theme
THE JIMMY CAKE – The Day The Arms That Came Out Of The Wall
DAN LE SAC v SCROOBIUS PIP – Tommy C
M83 – Graveyard Girl [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

TINDERSTICKS – Come Feel The Sun
THE SEWING ROOM – It Doesn’t Hurt
CHROMATICS – Night Drive
WIRE – Dot Dash
DAWN LANDES – Bodyguard
LADYTRON – Burning Up

Playlist for Fri 11/04/08

Every Friday at midnight, I present Nightlink on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin (also on Channel 935 on your telly if you have UPC). Here’s the playlist from last night. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was

‘Something Else’ – The Kinks

PLAYLIST:

Tall Firs – Hairdo
The Kills – Alphabet Pony
White Denim – World As A Waiting Room
White Williams – New Violence
Kraftwerk – Numbers [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

The Shortwave Set – No Social
The Owl Service – A Garland of Song
The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of The Understatement
Monade – Regarde
Chequerboard – 20th Century Artillery
The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
Weakling & King – Wichita Lineman
The Jimmy Cake – Jetta’s Palace
Atlas Sound – Ativan
Soda Fountain Rag – Monkey Girl
El Perro Del Mar – How did we forget?
The Kinks – Harry Rag
Awesome Color – Already Down
Michael Knight – Sorry to bother you again, but
Portishead – Machine Gun [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

Born Ruffians – In A Mirror
Spizz Energi – Where’s Captain Kirk?
Tindersticks – The flicker of a little girl  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

The Kinks – Tin Soldier Man
Deus – The Architect
Clinic – Winged Wheel
Gang of Four – Damaged Goods
Skyphone – Quetzal Cubicle
Midfield General ft. Noel Fielding – Seed Distribution
Eric Cheneaux – Arms, Legs And Moonlight

Friday Night is Radio Night

At least for me, anyway. But you can join me at www.phantom.ie or Phantom 105.2 in Dublin or Channel 935 on your telly if you have NTL/Chorus/UPC. This week, I’ll be playing new music from Tindersticks (pictured above), Oppenheimer, Crystal Castles, Michael Knight, The Jimmy Cake, The Breeders, The Black Keys, The Shortwave Set, Clinic and many more. I’ll also be playing three songs from this week’s ‘Under The Radar’ album – ‘Vespertine’ by Bjork.

Playlist for Friday 28/03/08

Here’s the playlist from last Fridays show which I presented on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin. It’s now also on the  telly on channel 935 if you have NTL/Chorus/UPC. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was :

 LC – Durutti Column

PLAYLIST: 

THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS – The Age of the Understatement
BLOOD RED SHOES – ADHD
EMILY LOIZEAU – L’autre Bout Du Monde
THE DEATH SET – Had a Bird
BOOKER T & THE MG’s – Green Onions  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

CRAYONSMITH – Lost in the Forest
THE BREEDERS – Bang On
SANTOGOLD – L.E.S. Artistes  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

WHITE WILLIAMS – New Violence
KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE – Heart Like A Wheel
THE DURUTTI COLUMN – Messidor
SODA FOUNTAIN RAG – Army of Silent Kids
LE GALAXIE – LA Takedown
NEW BLOODS – Oh, Deadly Nightshade
CUT COPY – Feel The Love
CLINIC – Emotions
CORRECTO – No-one under 30
THE DURUTTI COLUMN – The Missing Boy
ATLAS SOUND - River Card  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

NEON NEON – Dream Cars
THE JIMMY CAKE – Jetta’s Palace
WE ARE WOLVES – Fight & Kiss
THE DURUTTI COLUMN – Jacqueline
MICHAEL KNIGHT – Coronation St.
HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR – Time Will
THE KILLS – M.E.X.I.C.O
FOALS – Red Socks Pugie
MONADE – Change of Destination