Reeling

Here's a mix found embedded in the walls of Dai Disco's lair that featured in the May edition of the free fishing, music, and poetry zine Fishin' Rod Reel Handle. Most of the music is available on bandcamp on the 'name your price' scheme, so give the ones that make you smile, cry, and throw shit at the walls all of your dole money.

1. Jump start - joyride!
2. Swirl - WESTKUST
3. Drifting - The New Romantics
4. Reeling - Feature
5. Last Year - Joanna Gruesome
6. Woman in the Shadows - Ghost Car
7. Hardcore - NO/NO
8. Come See Me - Love L.U.V
9. Sleeping in the Backseat - Tigercats
10. When I Was Your Age - Mammoth Penguins (debut album Hide and Seek is due out on Fortuna POP! on 10 July)
11. Stuck Up A Hornbeam - Half Man Half Biscuit
12. One Too Many Things - Surf City
13. Albany - Spinning Coin
14. Nobody’s Empire - Belle and Sebastian
15. The Legend of Chavo Guerrero - The Mountain Goats
16. Statues and Snowmen - Storm the Palace
17. Candy - Knickers

Reel in Side 1 and Side 2 by following the links

Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers

Merry Christmas to the Drunken Lovers.
Side 1      Side 2

1. Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
2. Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy
3. Little Baby Hefner's Xmas Song for Holland - Hefner 
4. Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops
5. Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight - The Ramones
6. I Mugged Santa Claus - The Thlyds
7. Hark The Herald Angel Sing - The Fall
8. All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit
9. Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music
10. Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons 
11. Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman
12. Frosty The Snowman - The Ronettes
13. Santa’s On His Way - The Pipettes
14. Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
15. Outer Space Santa - Lawrence Welk and The Lennon Sisters 
16. December Boy - The Loves
17. The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman
18. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
19. Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans
20. Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon
21. I Believe In Father Christmas - Keith TOTP & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
22. All I want for Christmas is an Action Man - Jonny Cola and The A-Grades
23. Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs
24. Lonely This Christmas - Carter USM
25. Stop the Revelry - Shrag
26. Just Like Christmas - Low

Days you said the darkest things / Days you were the light

more like holding hands and not so much like future plans

1. Just For Fun - Jonathan Richman
2. Just For Fun - Alpaca Sports
3. Silver Tides - Major Leagues
4. Shut - Colour Me Wednesday
5. 90210 - The Courtneys
6. Days Of Being Wild - Trick Mammoth
7. Into Eternity - Jens Lekman
8. Love Goes On! - Sleuth
9. Josie - Go Violets
10. Paper Hearts - The Airplanes
11. Eden - Astro Children
12. Total Block - Slowcoaches
13. Like a Plate - Flowers
14. In Stranger Times - Jeremy Neale ft Go Violets
15. A Brief Moment - danmariska 
16. Dreams - Astrid Madberg
17. Girl I Can't Forget - The Death Of Pop
18. So Far Away - Stephen Duffy and the Lilac Time

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

Old Friends Are Older Now

Cold Winds Are Colder Now

1. We Are Nothing Alike - The Indelicates
2. Easier To Cry - TV Girl
3. Mosaic - Fear Of Men
4. Endless Drain - Major Leagues
5. Oyster Boy You're A Blast - Tyrannosaurus Dead
6. Nasty Habits - The Wild Ones
7. As Long As I Have You - Alpaca Sports
8. Surfing Cats - The Notes
9. Don't Hang Around - The Death Of Pop
10. Nick's Song - Songs For Walter
11. Heat Wave - The All About
12. Wish You Were Beer - The Great American Novel
13. BRAINS - Mega Emotion
14. Motherquake - DJ Freh & Diplo
15. Purge Your Inner Tory - Colour Me Wednesday
16. We Are All The Lo-Fi Kids - Helen Love
17. (Here's to) The Ghosts Of The Past - Dot Dash
18. This Town (Song For Karen) - The Thlyds

Hold My Hand As It All Slips Away...

... And we''ll wash up together on Arizona Bay!

1. Arizona Bay - Art Brut
2. She Smokes In Bed - TV Girl
3. Buried In The Ground - Tyrannosaurus Dead
4. Dig Up The Graves - Tullycraft
5. Stay A While - Beach Vacation
6. Alice - Dick Diver
7. Supermarket - Eddie Argos And The Lo Fi Punk Rock Motherfuckers
8. You Should Fall In Love With Me - Ballboy
9. Goat - French For Rabbits
10. Beautiful Despair - Comet Gain 
11. Bill Drummond - Wake The President
12. Moon / Two Out Of Ten - Songs For Walter 
13. Boat Song - Flowers
14. Lost For Days - The Notes
15. Cold Hands - Pants Yell!
16. Dovahkiin - The Indelicates 

Can I Always Dream with You?

 



































3am and I'm all alone / just a memory and a diet coke

1. Dead Dreamer - Glass Teeth
2. Stamping On Snails - Songs For Walter
3. Diet Coke - TV Girl
4. 1992 - Tynrannosaurus Dead
5. Dreaming - Seapony
6. Pale - Young Romance
7. You Held My Hand - Flowers
8. Buried Alive - Veronica Falls 
9. Welcome to Váxjó - Ballboy
10. Elks Lodge Riot - Tullycraft
11. Dead and Alice - Just Handshakes
12. Antabus - Makthaverskan 
13. The Ghost of Stephen Hawking's Legs - Baby Ghosts
14. Washington Weather - Beach Vacation
15. Fine Fine Fine - The Mentalettes
16. I Don't Want To Get Used To It - Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament
17. Thorns - Winter Villains

My Heart Was Broken Long Before I Met You

There's no money, there's barely any love, but I see you... and you're not alone

1. Asleep - Makthaverskan
2. Not Alone - The Indelicates
3. Gary Glitter Fan Convention - The Bitter Springs
4. We Knew Your Name Until Your Heart Stopped - Tullycraft
5. Nobody's Son - Race Horses 
6. Alchemy - Fever Dream
7. Soft - Tyrannosaurus Dead
8. Concrete - Breathe Out
9. Can You Tell Me One Thing - The Organ
10. When We Were Still Friends - Herman Dune
11. Tina Waymouth - This Many Boyfriends 
12. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
13. Vesper Two - Trick Mammoth 
14. Bright Lights - Just Handshakes
15. Hymn For The Alcohol - Hefner
16. Roll Me in Cotton - Ooberman
17. The Air - Winter Villains 
18. Colors and the Kids - Cat Power

You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

so kiss me before we run out of days

1. This Song Will Make You Love Me - The Great American Novel
2. Debbie Loves Joey - Eddie Argos
3. Boy - Chalk and Numbers
4. What a Day - The Death of Pop
5. German Ghost Cat - Baby Ghosts
6. The Art of Kissing - Ballboy
7. Family Hold Back - Songs For Walter
8. London Bound - Just Handshakes
9. Twisting to an Auld Tune - The Bobby McGee's
10. Kate Cleaver's House - Hefner
11. Who Would Want to Be Loved? - Kid Canaveral
12. You Can Hide Your Love Forever - Comet Gain
13. Angel Interceptor - Ash
14. Round and Round The Sun - Flipron
15. East Coast - A Little Orchestra ft Gordon McIntyre
16. Henrietta Maria - Darren Hayman and The Long Parliament
17. Julie (remix) - Jens Lekman
18. Hearts Are Trump - TRIO
19. True Love Will Find You In The End - Crybaby

I Heard You Shagged a Girl in the Record Shop...

...aye, it was quite nice for 15 minutes, but it wasn't half as good as you

1. All The Sad Young Literary Men - The Great American Novel
2. Katy Too - Johnny Cash
3. Ghost Next Door - Baby Ghosts
4. We're Gonna Get Fucked - The Death of Pop
5. Record Shop (MJ Hibbett remix) - The Bobby McGee's
6. Broken Toy - Veronica Falls
7. Runner - Go Violets
8. Popgirly - The Electric Pop Group
9. Put That Girl - Fat Children
10. Let Me Sleep - Island Twins
11. Glitter on Mars - Punks On Mars
12. Avant Garde Music - Ballboy
13. Losing My Glue - Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern
14. Sergio - The Secret History
15. Jean's Waving - Amor de Dias
16. So Sad To Say Goodbye (Baffin Island remake) - Tiny Fireflies 
17. Bad Comedian - Art Brut

Shallow Footprints in the Snow

And you go, shallow footprints in the snow
Leave the darkness in this hole
I watch until you go
I wonder if you know

Snow mix for a snow day

1. Fast Sledge Past Blurred Robin - Symphonika 
2. Shallow Footprints in the Snow - Ballboy
3. Me and the Major - Belle and Sebastian 
4. Fallen Snow - Au Revoir Simone
5. Melting Ice - Ladytron
6. N to the Ice - Lucky Lucky Pigeons
7. Ice & Snow - Sambassadeur
8. Snow Fell - The Consultants
9. The Ice Storm, Big Gust, and You - Tilly and the Wall
10. Abominable Snowman in the Market - Jonathan Richman
11. Ice Hockey - Art Brut
12. We Dress Up Like Snowmen - The Wave Pictures
13. Snow - JJ72
14. A Snowflake Fell (and it felt like a kiss) - Glasvegas
15. Uner the Snow - Cast King
16. Listen, the Snow is Falling - Galaxie 500
17. Here Come the Ice Wolves - Ooberman

Shallow Footprints in the Snow from PopMiwsig on 8tracks Radio.

Old and New

All the Christmas Discotheques are over and done with,  some tears have fallen others remain prime for dropping as the January blues hit as hard as ever, but do not fear for there is light at the end of the tunnel.

  At first that light appears to be the light of an oncoming train as Race Horses and Shrag have sadly announced that they will split after the next couple of shows. Shrag leave behind a trail littered with gems that rocked from the first distorted chord of ‘Forty Five 45s’to the last spike of ‘Tendons’, and Race horses leave us a feast with dishes of the indie-most subtleties to raging pop melodies, and the finest collection of oversized charity shop shirts you're likely to see. Race Horses will play one last show at Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach on Saturday 9^th February, where Marged Wedi Blino will captivate hearts for the last time. They will be sorely missed but have left their mark, Pop will stumble on as it always does, and new flowers will blossom on their graves. 

And flowers are starting to appear already. Legendary indie-poppers Tullycraft have a new single that overflows with the pop mastery of old with more than just a spoonful of Bis’ ‘This is fake DIY’. The single will be released on Fortuna POP! with the album set to follow in the spring.

If Tullycraft returning isn’t enough for you to dance your way out of the blues how about a new Pulp single and the return of Bowie, who is as evoking as ever as he takes over the internet with his first release in 10 years.

Tyrannosaurus Dead's new EP ‘Pure // Apart” is due for release in May on London's Odd Box Records. New track "Sadie" is available for your listening pleasures at Bandcamp. It's a Pop riot shimmering with fuzzy guitars. And just when you think it can’t get any better enchanting Dream-Poppers Veronica Falls are also set to release new LP ‘Waiting for Something to Happen’ in February.

Along with this wave of brand-new epicness a rare January rainbow has led me to a chest of nuggets that remained hidden from me last year, Boa Constrictors being at the top of the pile with their Garage-Beach Boy melodies and Winona Ryder posters.

Here’s hoping that your 2013 is filled with the best Discotheques and your next one is right around the corner! 

Old and New

1. Mostyn a Diego - Radio Luxembourg
2. Forty Five 45’s - Shrag
3. Old and New - Race Horses
4. After You - Pulp
5. Lost in Light Rotation - Tullycraft
6. Sadie - Tyrannosaurus Dead
7. I rote My Baby - Boa Constrictor
8. Waiting For Something To Happen - Veronica Falls
9. Mates - Race Horses
10. Something's Going To Happen Soon - Ballboy
11. Half a Century - The Delphines
12. Under Your Spell - Desire
13. Waiting in the Wings - Big Wave Riders
14. True Love Will Find You In The End - Crybaby
15. Allergies - Lovely Eggs
16. Cornered - Fat Children
17. Rather Die - Burnt Palms
18. As Long As I Have You - Alpaca Sports
19. On The Town - The Puddle
20. I Didn’t See It Coming - Belle and Sebastian
21. Absolute Peace - I DREAM IN TRANSIT
22. Where Are We Now? - David Bowie

A Ghosts Broken Heart

I was busy getting my Discotheque on when people were posting their best of 2012 mixes so here's a late mix with some good shit that I enjoyed last year. 2013 is already promising great things with the return of the legen...wait for it...dary Tullycraft, a new album from Veronica Falls, and maybe a new Ballboy LP. So here's hoping that your Discotheques go deep into the mornings. If you like the music buy the records, and Stay off the Crack!!

A Ghosts Broken Heart:

1. Killing Time - Veronica Falls
2. A Ghosts Broken Heart - French for Rabbits 
3. Sisters - Race Horses
4. Cover The Walls - Internet Forever
5. Just For Fun - Alpaca Sports
6. You Make Me Sick (Like The American Dream) - PRIS
7. If I Wanted a Job (I'd Have Been Born a Cunt) - The Thlyds
8. Tendons - Shrag
9. Wrath of God - Crystal Castles
10. Superstition Has Its Uses - Flipron
11. Shithead - Potty Mouth
12. Cut and Run - Flowers
13. Don't Lie - Hannah Lew
14. I Wonder Who She's Kissing Now - TV Girl
15. Friday Afternoons (Down The Union) - Just Joans
16. Free - Dexys
17. Tougher Than a Soldiers Boots - Songs For Walter
18. Cats Run Free - Tigercats
19. Another Bed - The Twilight Sad
20. Care - Westkust
21. Swollen Hearts, Bitten Tongues - Young Romance 
22. Heart On Fire - Hedgehog
23. Plastic Angels - LAKE R▲DIO (ft Paislienne)

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A Ghosts Broken Heart - Best of 2012 from PopMiwsig on 8tracks Radio.

Good Weekend

Went to London for the weekend and came back with 17 new favourite pubs, 10 new favourite ales, a new favourite Indie Disco in 'If You Tolerate Bis, Kenickie Will Be Next', and a comedown worse than the one encountered after a week of eating rhino tranquiliser sandwiches.

Cover the Walls – Internet Forever

Good Weekend – Art Brut

Full Moon Reggae Party - Tigercats

Memorize the City – The Organ

Something for the Weekend – Super Furry Animals

Disco Song – Au Revoir Simone

All Night Disco Party - Brakes

Party Out Of Bounds – The B-52’s

Disco Girl – BMX Bandits

Weekend – Ladytron

Dance Stance – Dexys Midnight Runners

The Safety Dance – Men Without Hats

Disco – Pete and the Pirates

Come to the City – The War on Drugs

We Love the City – Hefner

Those Days, Those Nights – The Notes

Man in my Mind/In a Party near You – Race Horses

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Hurricane to Heat Wave

One minute the wind and the rain are blowing a hurricane down the street, and you’ve resigned to the fact that summer, with its energy and warmth, is lost for yet another year, but suddenly… BOOM! From nowhere, the sun blasts out through the lifeless dull grey clouds clearing the skies and putting your sadness on hold for a while!

Hurricane to Heatwave:

Vashti Bunyan - Come Wind Come Rain
Au Revoir Simone - Hurricanes
Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Higginz vs Reardon
Veronica Falls - Misery
Half Man Half Biscuit - Little in the way of Sunshine
Voxtrot - Wrecking Force
Marissa Nadler - The Sun Always Reminds Me of You
Carter USM - Sunshine
Howling Bells - Setting Sun
The Primitives - (We've) Found a way to the Sun
Ladytron - Ninety Degrees
Plains - Heat