Friday 20 December 2013

Life's Too Short For Lists...




Even with the endless time I have on my hands on the frosty riverbanks, between glorious battles with the Taff's Rainbow Trout, I find it hard to comprehend anything involving end of year lists, Dogging Tales just came on TV adding further discouragement to my already fragile willpower, but even so, there's a page that needs filling, and as the self proclaimed king of filler material, here’s a list with some of the music that shined like the stars on a crisp clear night through the murky fogs, shady shadows, and heaps of shit of 2013:



The All About - Suburban Heart (Bandcamp)

Cherry Glazerr - Papa Cremp (Bandcamp)

The Death of Pop (Bandcamp)
Ballboy - Merry Christmas To The Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers (Bandcamp)


Just Handshakes - Say It (Bleeding Gold Records / Bandcamp)

Major Leagues - Weird Seasons EP (RipeTV)

The Indelicates - Diseases of England (Corporate Records)

Flowers (Odd Box Records / Bandcamp)

Winter Villains - February (Barely Regal Records / Bandcamp)

I Like The Go GO (Bandcamp)

Makthaverskan - Makthaverskan II (Luxury / Bandcamp)

Tullycraft - Lost in Light Rotation (Fortuna POP!)

TV Girl - Lonely Women (Bandcamp)

The Courtneyes - The Courtneys - S/T (Hockey Dad Records / Bandcamp)

The Bobby McGee’s - Bon Bons (Je Vien Rechercher Mes) (Youtube)

The Spook School - Dress Up (Fortuna POP!)

Tyrannosaurus Dead - Pure // Apart + Bed Dread (Odd Box Records / Bleeding Gold Records / Bandcamp)

Laura Cantrell - No Way There from Here (Shoeshine Records)

Alpaca Sports (Bandcamp)

Eddie Argos and the Lo-Fi Punk Rock Motherfuckers - Volume 1 (Corporate Records)

Songs for Walter (Bandcamp)

Au Revoir Simone - Move in Spectrums (Moshi Moshi)


Monday 16 December 2013

The Star You Fell In Love To Comes Out On Christmas Eve (Christmas Mix)


Christmas is in the air along the frosty river banks, the grass sparkles like the stars with the morning frost, our mortality shines clearer and brighter than them all at this time of year. In the ice, reflections of Christmas’ past stare back; scalextrics with dodgy transformers, Frank Fish with his latex waders shagging that snow-woman he built after one too many candle-wax-whiskies, family members no longer swimming in our waters doing the rounds on Christmas day, pints of Baileys going down the hatch like cold cans of lilt, aching hearts wandering the streets searching for that feeling lost somewhere along the way as ever familiar landscapes whisper in the darkness.

I was young once
I was seduced by
The rebellion
Of youth

I was young once
I was seduced by
The rebellion
Of you 


String together some threads, sing, drink, and dance to the ghosts of the past and things that don’t last!

The Star You Fell In Love To Comes Out On Christmas Eve:
  1. Fast Sledge Past Blurred Robin - Symphonika
  2. Pray for Murderers - Ballboy
  3. Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
  4. Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music
  5. Mele Kalikimaka - Bing Crosby
  6. Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
  7. Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops
  8. I’m Getting Pissed for Christmas - Peter and the Test Tube Babies
  9. Come Round Here On Christmas - I Like The Go Go
  10. Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons
  11. The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman
  12. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
  13. Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans
  14. Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon
  15. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl
  16. Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman
  17. Outer Space Santa - The Lennon Sisters
  18. I Believe In Father Christmas - Keith TOTP & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
  19. Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs
  20. Don’t believe in Christmas - The Junior Varsity
  21. Boogie Woogie Santa - Swing Republic
  22. All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit
  23. Lonely This Christmas - Carter USM
  24. Stop the Revelry - Shrag
  25. This Town - The Thlyds