Playlist 416 - Sept 27 2016

Two bands from down under who burst through in the 1980s to start the show. The Moles have a new album out, it's great. From The Chills we heard from their 1986 album on Flying Nun, Kaleidoscope world, their album last year was a brilliant and thoroughly authentic update on the 1980s sound.

The singular sound of Xylouris White who play Cork in October as part of the Jazz Festival (my kind of jazz). Syrinx, the kosmische sound of the Toronto early 70s underground, a beautiful thing. Nathan Bowles, making banjo swing and swoon.

And Barry McCormack, the ex Jubilee Allstars man has a new album out, a rollicking folk rock set with a scathing eye on his home city of Dublin. Like The Fall, always the same, always different.

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Playlist 416
Tues Sept 27 2016
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
The Moles - Artificial heart
The Chills – Rolling moon
August Wells – Keep my matches dry
Frank Sinatra – Goodbye (She quietly says)
Barry McCormack – A long way away (playing Conservative Club, Dublin, Oct 21)
Itasca – Buddy (playing Islington Assembly Hall, London, Nov 17, w/ Ryley Walker)
Nathan Bowles – Moonshine is my sunshine (playing Gulliver's, Manchester, Nov 20, w/ Steve Gunn)
Xylouris White – Short rhapsody (playing Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Oct 28)
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek – Cin
Lake Ruth – The inconsolable Jean Claude
Syrinx – Tillicum
Hiss Golden Messenger – Biloxi
DTCV – Bourgeois pop (playing The Shacklewell Arms, London, Nov 3)
The Monochrome Set – Cosmonaut
Cory Hanson – Ordinary people

*next week's show features music from Trashcan Sinatras, Alien Ensemble & Fair Mothers, among others

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