Playlist 407 - June 21 2016

Check out Moon Bros (pic), Matt Schneider from Chicago with some help from that city's finest under(over)ground musical talent, sublime stately country music.

Stay for William Tyler right after, clear eyed ruminations on the state of America today, in the form of gorgeous chiming guitar picked tunes.

The nasty groovy Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds are in Ireland this week playing shows, inc Pine Lodge by the sea in Cork June 26.

Morgan Delt is a new name on me but what a beautiful fuzzy psych pop noise he makes, from west coast US.

And finally summer music (if we play enough of it summer might actually come), two songs written by Andy Partridge, for XTC & The Monkees.

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Playlist 407
Tues June 21 2016
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
XTC – Green man
The Monkees – You bring the summer
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - La arana (playing The Grand Social, Dublin, June 25; Pine Lodge, Cork, June 26)
King Khan & The Shrines – Children of the world
Lost Left – Ferdinand Cheval
Morgan Delt – I dont wanna know what’s happening outside (playing Moth Club, London, Aug 15)
Howe Gelb – Paradise here abouts (playing Larmer Tree Festival, July 16)
Moon Bros – These stars
William Tyler – Kingdom of Jones
Ralegh Long – Night (The river)
Nocturnes feat Adrian Crowley – Heikegani (playing Bello Bar, Dublin, July 29)
Whitney – No woman (playing Green Man Festival, Aug 18-21)
Stephen Steinbrink – Absent mind (playing The Lexington, London, Oct 4)
Mendrugo – Estrella fugaz
Maria Usbeck – Llamame
The Chills – When the poor can reach the moon

*next week's show features music from Stranded Horse, Robert Rotifer & Wye Oak, among others

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