Playlist 330 - Oct 28 2014

More new material from Wildbirds & Peacedrums this week - their wonderful new album is available to stream on Spotify and bandcamp now. And a new band (on me) with a Halloween reference from San Francisco, Cool Ghouls, playing sprightly psych rock which I like very much.

Also a new album from Elisa Luu, great to hear from her again, and sounding just as beautiful and strange as ever. Silver Servants with Anna Bronsted on vocals, and that gauzy dream pop that I hear as a kind of companion sound.

Benjamin Schoos is back too, new album soon but here's the single feat. April March on duetting vocals - swoonsome is the word. Grasscut covering Robert Wyatt gorgeously.

And East River Pipe being many shades of wonderful.

More on these pages as always.

Oct 28 2014 w/ Cool Ghouls,W&P,Little Tornados,Benjamin Schoos,East RIver Pipe,Elisa Luu++ by The Underground Of Happiness on Mixcloud



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Playlist 330
Tues Oct 28 2014
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Mind blues (playing Village Underground, London, Nov 14)
Cool Ghouls – And it grows
Ultimate Painting – Winter in your heart
Micah P Hinson – The one to save you now
Little Tornados – Space liner
Benjamin Schoos feat. April March – J’ai essayé de t’aimer (playing Surya, London, Dec 1)
Theatr Royal – Doubt
Arms – Are we all in this together
Cormac O Caoimh – Yellow crumbs (playing The Beggarman, Cork, Nov 30)
SIlver Servants – Jerusalem
Elisa Luu – Shebeen
Martin Carr – The Santa Fé Skyway (playing Pepper Canister Church, Dublin, Dec 16+17, w/ Gruff Rhys)
Tarwater – Adrift
East River Pipe – All you little suckers
Haley Bonar – Last war (playing Liverpool Music Week, Nov 1)

*next week’s show features music from The Go Betweens, Chloe March & Merchandise, among others

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Ireland.



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