Playlist 421 - Nov 1 2016

An extra hour this week so time to fit in a few indulgences like

12 minutes (well most of) of glorious orchestral sweep from The Fiction Aisle
New music from Jess Williamson, great desert blues with a voice on the edge of cracking
Fantastic shifting cosmic soul from Ex Reyes
Lovely country boogie from Hiss Golden Messenger.

Also time for some more wonderful Russian film music from Mikael Tariverdiev
Irresistible beats from Yama Warashi
Some treasures from The Byrds & Big Star.

And a Grant McLennan interlude featuring a great solo cut from 1997 and two of his genius Go Betweens catalogue.

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Playlist 421
Tues Nov 1 2016
11.00am-1.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
Entrance – Promises (playing Le Guess Who Festival, Utrecht, Nov 12)
Sans Chateaux - Aspendale
Jess Williamson – See you in a dream
Ex Reyes – Bad timing (playing The Village Underground, London, Nov 21, w/ How To Dress Well)
The Moles – Beauty Queen of Watts
Laish – Learning to love the bomb
The Notwist – They follow me (live)
Alien Ensemble – Sun
Mikael Tariverdiev – Melody (from the soundtrack of the film The irony of fate)
Lord Kesseli & The Drums – MDMA (playing Old Blue Last, London, Nov 7)
14 Iced Bears – Holland
The Byrds – She don’t care about time
Hiss Golden Messenger – As the crow flies (playing The Village Underground, London, Dec 5)


**Hour 2**
Grant McLennan – One plus one
The Go Betweens – Bye bye pride
The Go Betweens – The wrong road
Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – Maureen (playing Sticky Mike's, Brighton, Nov 11)
Piano Magic – Exile (playing The Lexington, London, Dec 3)
Yama Warashi – Funa Uta (playing Servant Jazz Quarters, London, Nov 27)
The Chills – Pink frost
Apricot Rail – Scarecrow
Big Star – Thirteen
Las Kellies – Sugar beat (playing Moth Club, London, Nov 6)
Michael Nau – Maralou (playing Islington Assembly Hall, London, Nov 10, w/ Okkervil River)
Morgan Delt – Sun power
The Fiction Aisle – Tonight

*next week's show features music from Hilma Nikolaisen, Virginia Wing & Arab Strap, among others

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Conor O'Toole,
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University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.



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