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Hello all,

Hello, here's the playlist for our setlist at The Royal, Derby last Friday

Songs I done played

A couple of weeks ago I covered for Jyoti at his regular DJ slot in The Big Blue Cafe on Saturday nights. If you're ever in town and you fancy supping your booze, coffee or crepe somewhere a little calmer than the average pub then I highly recommend it. You can click the link above for Jyoti's previous playlists.

Mine however, looked like this... You'll notice I started doing links and then couldn't be bothered. It's probably about as quick for you to google them yourselves anyway.

Gonzales - So Called Party Over There
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Agent Simple - Brother
Dntel - Dumb Luck
Alias - Divine Dissapointment
Boy In Static - Kissed Under The Sun
After Christmas - A Step
Jeffrey Lewis - Life
The Research - I love you but
Love - Little Red Book
Say Hi To Your Mom - Pop Music Of The Future
Lupe Fiasco - Kick Push
Schneider TM - The Light 3000
Prefuse 73 - Hide Ya Face
Wintersleep - Jaws Of Life
Amy Millan - Headsfull
Adam Green - Crackhouse Blues
Clor - Love & Pain
Maritime - Someone Has To Die
The Essex Green - Don't Know Why (You Stay)
Neko Case - Porchlight
Felt - I Worship The Sun
Man Or Astroman - Munsters Theme
Gruff Rhys - Candylion
The Decemberists - O Valencia
The Lemonheads - If I Could Talk I'd Tell You
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Phoenix - Run Run Run
Lou Barlow - Ballad Of Daykitty
Secret Machines - Sad And Lonely
Louis Jordan - Open The Door Richard
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Blackalicious - Powers
Elk City - Cherries In The Snow
Preston School Of Industry - Whalebones
Elvis Costello - Please Stay
Sly And The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay
Russian Futurists - Paul Simon
Solex - Shady Lane
The Spinto Band - Brown Boxes
My Morning Jacket - Off The Record
Teenage Fanclub - I Don't Care
Magoo - PerfumeV
Belle And Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying
Magazine 60 - Don Quichotte
Jim O'Rourke - It's All Downhill From Here
Jonathan Richman - Eqyptian Reggae
Juliana Hatfield - This Is The Sound
The Besnard Lakes - Devastation
Laura Veirs - To The Country
Common - The Corner
Hot Club De Paris - Clockwork Toy
De La Soul (Feat. Chaka Khan) - All Good?
Jens Lekman - Black Cab
Half Man Half Biscuit - Even Men With Steel Hearts
MF Doom - Hoecakes
Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead
Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
Dangerdoom - Old School
Don Lennon - Gay Fun
Madness - My Girl
Heavenly - Ben Sherman
Helen Love - Shifty Disco Girl
Apples In Stereo - Atom Bomb
Devo - Whip It
Of Montreal - Lysergic Bliss
Hello Saferide - I Was Definitely Made For These Times
The Beach Boys - Little Honda
Ben Kweller - Wasted & Ready
The Format - Oceans
The Flaming Stars - Only Tonight
The Get Up Kids - I Am A Loner Dottie, A Rebel
The Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Ice-Land
Sebadoh - Flame

Ok, tonight I decided to sign up for a free 25 download trial at Emusic.com. I'm not going to go on about these bands too much because A) I don't really know much about them beyond the fact I'm enjoying their music and B) I'd rather you just listen to some songs.

I ended up downloading two albums by artists I found via the excellent indiefeed.com podcasts. The first is Elk City and the album is called New Believers.
The track I heard on the indiefeed podcast and in my opinion the standout track on the album is Cherries In The Snow, I became a bit hooked on that one. If you head over to their myspace then you can hear it for yourself. Better still, why not treat yourself to the album.

New Believers

Elk City

The next band (and another Indiefeed pointer) is Palomar.
They're a Brooklyn four piece with some catchy indie pop in their trousers. The album I downloaded is Palomar III: Revenge Of Palomar and it's great. Bits remind me of Metric with a twee indie twist. You can listen at their Myspace to more of their songs and although I haven't got any of their other albums yet I can happily recommend Palomar III...

Palomar III: Revenge of Palomar

Palomar

And finally, an artist I couldn't find on Emusic and didn't hear on indiefeed... but it is a girl again (thus giving this post some kind of theme). I first heard Hello Saferide in my friend Rich's car, he'd got it off his Swedie girlfriend Marie. The track was called The Quiz and has some of the best lyrics I've heard in ages. They're witty, funny, incredibly sweet and they make me want to hug things. The only thing I could find on iTunes was a release by UK label Regal Records which is a 7" single (only the iTunes version is somewhat obviously not a piece of vinyl) featuring The Quiz and equally excellent I Was Definitely Made For These Times. You can buy it here from iTunes or you can get more stuff of theirs (which I can't afford yet, but will definitely buy) from CDON.

Would You Let Me Play This

Hello Saferide

The usual, coffee, bitches.

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Happy birthday to Ele. Hope she enjoyed bowling, she's only three!

My band, Plans & Apologies recording in St. Mary's Church in Nottingham. We recorded the backing for a new track which should be on our forthcoming album later this year.

Went to catch a bit of Jazz down at 5Lamps last night. Very enjoyable it was too with candles and free nachos to go with the music.