Playlist 285 - Oct 22 2013

I was reminded of Heaven or Las Vegas recently so felt like pulling it out for some classic Cocteau Twins from 1990. It still sounds as fresh and brilliant as ever.

Elephant are responsible for an alluring modern brand of dream pop, love that too. SlowPlaceLikeHome from Donegal plays Cork soon; Cork band The Shaker Hymn tour the country on the back of their really good debut single; This Is The Kit are on tour with The National; Colleen too is in Cork, as are Dott ahead of their debut album.

Dan Haywood with some intoxicating pastoral folk music, The Doomed Bird of Providence with another set of deeply affecting folk songs around the Australian colonial experience.

Satelliti, loving them, smouldering, deconstructed jazz meets math rock...or something like that. (The) Caseworker making more beautiful minimal drone rock.

And Brous back again, I can't get enough of her joie de vivre, soaring melodies and bonkers arrangements.

Oct 22 2013 w/ SlowPlaceLikeHome,The Shaker Hymn,Dott,Colleen Remixed,Connan Mockasin,Satelliti++, by Theundergroundofhappiness on Mixcloud



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Playlist 285
Tues Oct 22 2013
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm
*listen back to this show here
http://i.mixcloud.com/CERtc3

Playlist
Cocteau Twins – Cherry coloured funk
Elephant – Shapeshifter
SlowPlaceLikeHome – Selkie (playing Gulpd Café for Vitaphonic @ Cork Film Festival, Nov 9-17)
Brous – Streamers
Garret Baker & The Random Nouns – The Desultory Streets
The Shaker Hymn – Hunter & The Headman (playing Coughlan’s, Cork, Nov 8)
The Doomed Bird of Providence – To those who are most hungry
Dan Haywood – The apple tree
Colleen – Ursa Major Find (Comma Period Remix) (Colleen playing Triskel Christchurch, Cork, Nov 2, w/ Seti The First & Áine O’Dwyer)
Dott – Day that I found you (playing Triskel TDC, Cork, Nov 8, w/ French For Rabbits)
Connan Mockasin – I’m the man, that will find you
This Is The Kit – Earthquake (live) (playing o2, Dublin, Nov 10, w/ The National)
(The) Caseworker – Dependence Day
Satelliti – Esprit de corps
Chantal Acda feat. Peter Broderick – We will, we must

*next week's show features music from Angele David-Guillou, French For Rabbits & La Femme among others

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