The Underground of Happiness

The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com   Playlist 162 Tues Feb 8th 2011 11.00am-12.00pm (repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm) Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr *listen back to this show at http://rapidshare.com/files/446853426/UOH_Podcast_Feb_8_2011.mp3   Playlist   Fleet Foxes - Helplessness blues   ( playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 26-28 ) The Unthanks - Lucky Gilchrist  ( playing School of Music, Cork, Apr 10 ) Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the dark Grant Hart - 2541 (live) ( playing The Pavilion, Cork, Mar 31) Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix  ( playing Radisson Hotel, Galway, Feb 14 ) Hotels - The bat watusi A Lazarus Soul - We start fires Ben Ottewell - Blackbird ( playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Feb 26 ) Toro y Moi - Still sound Codes in the Clouds - Look back, look up Thomas Truax - January egg race dream Gary Wilson - Electric End...

Spring is here The grass is ris I wonder where the birdies is... Governments are falling like skittles this weather. As usual, pop music has its own soundtrack to world events. Try turning down the volume of your favourite news channel and turning up some of this UOH playlist instead. It might just turn your world upside-down. *All albums below, unless otherwise stated. John Stammers - John Stammers (Wonderful Sound) Gorgeous folk-blues hybrid from the Manchester native, built around fingerpicked acoustic guitar and a smoky, unassuming voice. For fans of Nick Drake or (especially) Bert Jansch. As usual, the beauty is in the detail - the keening cello of Idle I'm , muted trumpet set against mournful pedal steel on Here again , the one-note violin chorus of The fridge . Plaintiff and heartfelt, a beautiful addition to the canon of modern English folk music. A Lazarus Soul - Through a window in the sunshine room (Intent to Supply Records) Authentically downbeat album of el...