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)

Download mix here or listen here:

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

You Can't Hide Your Glam Away, Get It Out For Christmas

Christmas is upon us and stockings fill with the melancholy of absent friends and family members perhaps no longer with us, faces of ghosts we thought we’d slain flicker in the lights and haunt our Christmas Eve dreams.

Yet for all of these reasons Christmas is beautiful and magical, other ghosts appear from nowhere, people remember and tell stories of those gone, and Christmas lights sparkle and make even the shadiest shithole shine.

So don’t cry yourself to sleep at Christmas, put on your finest threads, kife your grannies Baileys, download the Christmas mixtape, and get your Glam out for Christmas!

Don’t be glum, be Glam!!

Fast Sledge Past Blurred Robin - Symphonika

Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes

Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops

Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons

Santa’s on his way - The Pipettes

Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman

Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music

The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman

And The Salvation Army Band Plays - Helen Love and Ricardo Autobahn

Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs

Don’t believe in Christmas - The Junior Varsity

Winter on the Moon - Lucky Delucci

I Took Some Time for Christmas - Belle and Sebastian

We Dress Up Like Snowmen - The Wave Pictures

Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance - Sufjan Stevens

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Other Day - Glam Chops

Boogie Woogie Santa - Swing Republic

Outer Space Santa - The Lennon Sisters

Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon

Stop the Revelry - Shrag

Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans

Its Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas - Half Man Half Biscuit

Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci

Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl

 

Fishin' Rod Reel Handle

A new magazine has surfaced from the underworld and they had the privilege of having me to do a mix for them. The zine contains stories of drinking, fishing, music, sex, parties, sex parties, friendships, drinking, and any other shenanigans that the hardcore fishermen and fisherwoman get up to along the banks.

They might come crawling back for a Christmas mix soon so stay tuned.

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Those Days Are More Than Just Days

As I head for the exit at the Green Man festival I pass the dying embers of last nights fire, the seating logs appear empty, but I can see the ghosts of the weekend, I can hear the stories and the laughs and Richman dancing in the lesbian bar, and I can feel the sorrow setting in as the time to say goodbye sneaks up with the fading smoke.

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and its good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”

There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye - Television Personalities 

How to Say Goodbye – Magnetic Fields

We Already Said Goodbye – The Broken Family Band

Everytime We Say Goodbye – April Showers

The Ghost of New Orleans – Ballboy

Fly Into the Mystery – Jonathan Richman

Those Days, Those Nights – The Notes

Saying Goodbye – Frida Hyvönen

Farewell – Soda Shop

I Was Running – Alpaca Sports

Sorrow – Life Without Buildings

Those Nights Are More Than Just Nights!