Playlist 485 - Apr 10 2018

New John Parish album coming soon. The first song from it is a remembrance of the late Mark Linkous feat. PJ Harvey, both of whom worked with Linkous. And some wonderful slowcore Americana from the man himself. Gone too soon, 8 years already.

Bedouine plays Dublin in May, a sublime slice of soulful folk from her debut album.

Both Fixity and The Bonk playing live shows this month. Sample their brilliantly atmospheric mongrel jazz.

And Lee Hazlewood giving expression to a mature years world view with grace and genius string arrangements.

More on these pages.



The Underground of Happiness
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Playlist 485
Tues Apr 10 2018
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
goo.gl/UJAsbD

Playlist
Sparklehorse – Homecoming queen
John Parish feat PJ Harvey – Sorry for your loss
BOYTOY – Mary Anne
Girls Names – 25 (playing Whelan’s, Dublin, June 23)
Alasdair Roberts, David McGuinness & Amble Skuse – Babylon (Alasdair Roberts playing The Wandstead Tap, London, Apr 14)
Bedouine – Heart take flight (playing Whelan’s, Dublin, May 9)
The Bonk – In praise of Vril (playing Spailpin Fanach, Cork, May 5, w Percolator)
LOMA – Dark oscillations
Fixity – Hungry clouds (playing It Takes a Village Festival, Cork, Apr 13)
Lee Hazlewood – My autumn’s done come
August Wells – Nothing like love (playing Coughlans, Cork, Apr 19)
The Wave Pictures – Jim (playing The Fleece, Bristol, June 25)
Greenshine – Dandelion seed (playing Cork Opera House, June 3 w Iarla Ó Lionáird & Steve Cooney)
De Lux – Keyboards cause we’re black and white

*next week's show features music from Kacy & Clayton, La Luz & Jim Ghedi, among others

e-mail the show on radio@ucc.ie

Conor O'Toole,
c/o UCC 98.3FM,
Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.



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