Thanks Jesus!

Hello, remember me?????? Been remarkably busy of late what with work, getting pissed, going to see Morrissey in Sweden and DJing a Be Your Own Pet gig its been a social whirl the last couple of months so I am extremely grateful for this Easter break. Thanks Jesus!!!!!!
I have been finding time to check out lots of new music and there is a lot of great stuff that has been on constant rotation. I have put together a 32 track compilation of a lot of the tunes I have been loving lately, some forthcoming, some recent and a couple of oldies, I hope you like.



Kickabout Playlist April 2006


Part One

1. Cigarette Smoker Fiona - Arctic Monkeys
Taken from the forthcoming EP Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys

2. Faith In Strangers - The Diggs
Been listening to a lot of similar sounding US bands, and I particularly like this lot

3. Free Jazz- Envelopes
Swedish band, getting a lot of love from the cooler kids at Candybox

4. Skip To The End - The Futureheads
A less angular sounding new direction from Sunderland's finest??? Who knows but I like this a lot. Spaced reference for the title????????

5. This Isn't It - Giant Drag
Good album, excellent new single

6. Tear Your Love Apart - Gomez
Best album for a few years from the Southport lot

7. Firewall - Horse Stories
Great band, great voice, lovely Americana from Australia????

8. I'll Write The Song, You Sing For Me - Irving
Despite sounding in places a bit like The Killers, these Anglophiles have a great new album
entitled Death In The Garden, Blood On The Flowers

9. Eanie Meany - Jim Noir
Loved this album for a while now, this song is going to feature in an adidas TV commercial during the World Cup this summer

10. Gravitys Rainbow - Klaxons
Happy hardcore meets post punk,,,,interesting!!!!!

11. She Painted Pictures - Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family
Acoustic loveliness from oop north, Guy Garvey loves him, so do I

12. Nan You're A Window Shopper - Lily Allen
Myspace star is wickedly funny about old people, well they are shit aren't they?????

13. Pope John Paul - The Lovely Feathers
Another bunch of jingly-jangly Americans, this song is educational, you too will know where the dead pontiff comes from!!!

14. Latchmere - The Maccabees
Punky poppy Brightonians sing about a leisure centre

15. I, Manface - Man Man
I fucking love this lot, this comes from their previous album The Man In A Blue Turban With A Face

16. Fraud In The 80's - Mates Of State
Yeah, its good.


Part Two

17. Everyone's A Winner - Meligrove Band
Flaming Lips meets Ben Folds Five in a cave

18. Lady Of The Valley - Michael Nesmith
So The Monkees were talentless puppets right? WRONG!!!

19. Two Brains - Misty's Big Adventure
Brilliant brilliant pop band from the midlands

20. Long Distance - Phoenix
Latest single from the French Hall and Oates

21. Broken Boy Soldier - The Raconteurs
Some familiar sounding blokes get all Deep Purple on us

22. Alive With The Glory Of Love - Say Anything
Named after the John Cusack movie??? This sounds like Weezer doing The Smiths (ooerrr!!)

23. Whole Again - The Sick Anchors
Stuart from Mogwai and Aidan from Arab Strap strip down the Atomic Kitten song to its bare miserable bones.

24. Pumpkin - Starlight Mints
New album Drowaton is so full of sunshine it will burn your retinas

25. Big Dot - They Shoot Horses Don't They
I like this, i like the handclaps. From the album Boo Hoo Hoo Boo

26. Closer - Tiny
Scandinavium loveliness, like Bjork, Joanna Newsom

27. Province - TV On The Radio
The guy doing backing vocals sounds familiar????!!!!!!????

28. Dead To Rights- The Twilight Singers
Greg Dulli has made his best record since The Afghan Whigs, buy it in May!!!

29. Bagatelle - Vanessa And The O's
French pop featuring James Iha on guitar

30. Cecile - Victory At Ses
Piano driven emo-pop from the album All Your Things Are Gone

31. Joker And The Thief - Wolfmother
Aussie retro rockers, Yes!!!!

32. Futures - Zero 7
Taken from their forthcoming LP The Garden this features Jose Gonzalez who was on the same Ryanair flight as me from Stansted to Gothenburg the tight bastard!!!


Download Part One

Download Part Two

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Bye for now!!!!