31st August 2011: Lucie Thorne in Session / Playlist

Featured: Lucie Thorne - Bonfires In Silver City (Little Secret)

'Bonfires In Silver City' is the stunning new album from acclaimed Australian songwriter Lucie Thorne. Steeped in that striking spaciousness and sensuality for which Thorne's work has become so renowned. 'Bonfires In Silver City' encompasses a remarkable breadth of feeling and flavour and is an arrestingly assured collection from one of our finest song-poets.

Lucie's last album, 'Black Across The Field' (2009) garnered acclaim from leading critics, including being awarded 'Best Roots Album of 2009' by The Sydney Morning Herald, was short listed for the prestigious Australian Music Prize, and earned her a place as one of Australia's most distinctive contemporary songwriters. 'Bonfires in Silver City' is an exciting development from this remarkable musician who has clearly hit her stride.

Most of these songs were written whilst on the road, over the past two years of almost constant touring. Evocative songs brewed over this nomadic time, during which Lucie has only occasionally retreated back to her country cottage by the Tantawangalo Creek that she still calls home.

Lucie Thorne

Radio Playlist 31st August 2011 (here)
Drawn From Bees - Dreams Don't Lie (Of Walls & Teeth EP)
Dead Letter Chorus - Underdog (Yearlings)
Lucie Thorne - Can't Sleep For Dreaming (Bonfires In Silver City)
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Jonathan Wilson - Carousel (Frankie Ray)
Vetiver - It's Beyond Me (The Errant Charm)
Low - Try To Sleep (C'mon)
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Lucie Thorne - Great Wave (Bonfires In Silver City)
Lucie Thorne - Falling (Live on Sideways Through Sound)
Lucie Thorne - Till The Season (Live on Sideways Through Sound)
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True Widow - Duelist (S/T)
The Demon Parade - To The Mountain (Demo)
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Hills - Death 1 (S/T)
The New Lines - Off Axis (GPS 7" split with Still Corners)
Songs - Heavy (Demo)

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30th August 2007: Robin Allender - The Bird & The Word

24th August 2011: Sand Pebbles / Playlist

Featured: Sand Pebbles - Dark Magic (dot dash)

Dark Magic is the Sand Pebbles fifth album and features contributions from Galaxie 500's Dean Wareham, Luna's Britta Phillips, Tim Holmes (Death In Vegas), Will Carruthers (Spacemen 3, Spiritualized), and Malcom McDowell.

When Wes Holland joined the Sand Pebbles a couple of years ago at the age of 18, Andrew Tanner had just turned 50. The band quickly realised they ran a unique age gamut: a member born in each decade in the history of rock n' roll - 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. Far from disowning this unique fact, they decided to use it to inform their next album.

The result,Dark Magic, speaks from many minds and many times. Hypnotic, cosmic, kinetic and freewheeling.

Sand Pebbles

Radio Playlist 24th August 2011 (here)

Dollboy - Sun Will Rise (Demo)
Bibio - The Ephemeral Bluebell (Vignetting The Compost)
Sand Pebbles - Spring Time (who hasn't lost their head) (Dark Magic)
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Damon & Naomi - Walking Backwards (GPS 7")
The Magic Shoppe - Trip Inside This House (v/a Trip Inside This House)
The Laurels - Merry Go Round (Mesozoic EP)
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Sand Pebbles - Long, Long Ago (feat: Britta Phillips) (Dark Magic)
Dean & Britta - Knives From Bavaria (spoonful of fun) (L'avventura)
Hypnos 69 - My Journey To The Stars (v/a Trampled Underfoot)
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Sungrazer - 34 & More... (Mirador)
Freelove Babies - Sky Blue Feeling (Home Improvements For Condemned Buildings)
Sand Pebbles - Entrance To The Stream (feat: Will Carruthers) (Dark Magic)
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Still Corners - History Of Love (GPS 7")
Lucie Thorne - Falling (Bonfires In Silver City)
The Sun Blindness - A Crack In The Concrete (for D. Crosby) (Like Pearly Clouds)


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23rd August 2007: Earth - Hibernaculum
25th August 2008: Tan Or Boil - Seamstress In A Suitcase
26th August 2009: Luminous Night
25th August 2010: John Smith - Map Or Direction

17th August 2011: The Driftwood Manor / Playlist

Featured: The Driftwood Manor - The Same Figure (Leaving) (Rusted Rail/Slow Loris)

Initially released as a limited edition CDR on French label Ruralfaune in March of 2010, Rusted Rail and Slow Loris are proud to announce the release of 'The Same Figure (Leaving)' by Irish avant-folk project The Driftwood Manor.

Recorded between October 2008 and May of 2009, the album took in a considerable cast of long-time collaborators, with Driftwood Manor lynchpin Eddie Keenan working closely with friends from across the spectrum of the Irish folk and underground scene. United Bible Studies students Gavin Prior, David Colohan and Vicky Langan all added their talents with Prior in particular working closely with Keenan and co-Producer Steve Fanagan to help shape the sound of the album.

The Driftwood Manor have crafted their own brand of warm and earthy music which weaves strands of apocalyptic appalachia, psychedelic folk and Irish trad into a rich sonic tapestry. This CD is housed in a hand-assembled and hand-stamped recycled card sleeve... lovely!!

The Driftwood Manor

Radio Playlist 17th August 2011

James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg - Scarborough Fore & Aft (Avos)

Jim Ward - Easier Said Than Done (Quiet In The Valley, On The Shores The End Begins)

The Driftwood Manor - The Same Figure, Leaving (The Same Figure, Leaving)

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Peace For Old Ghosts - Escape Route (Dawn Chorus)

Polyminor - Saturn's Return (Echo & Shadow)

Mercury Rev - The Funny Bird (Deserter's Songs: Instrumental)

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The Driftwood Manor - To Be Done (The Same Figure, Leaving)

Jozef Van Wissem - The Day Is Coming (Ex Patris)

Arborea - Phantasmagoria In Two (Red Planet)

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John Smith - Not Over Yet (album sampler: Map Or Direction)

Fleet Foxes - The Shrine/An Argument (Helplessness Blues)

The Driftwood Manor - You Have Mapped The Pathways (The Same Figure, Leaving)

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Custom Blue - Let It All Fall Down (The Tree EP3)

Gravenhurst - Song Among The Pine (The Western Lands)

Lewis & Clarke - We Think We Have Eyes (Blasts Of Holy Birth)

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16th August 2007: Angelo Badalamenti / David Lynch

18th August 2008: Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh - S/T

19th August 2009: Grand Salvo - Soil Creatures

18th August 2010: The Soft Hills - Noruz

10th August 2011: William Elliott Whitmore / Playlist

Featured: William Elliott Whitmore - Field Songs (Anti)

On his 2011 album 'Field Songs', Iowa troubadour William Elliott Whitmore documents a vanishing American landscape with all the heartfelt soul and quiet fury one could hope for.

"Heartland firebrand blows fuse, fights for truth" heralded Spin Magazine when describing Whitmore, who utilizes a powerful singing voice beyond his years and a stark dramatic sound rooted in bluegrass, blues and folk protest music. These songs vividly evoke a life of struggle, humble resilience and family bond inspired by life on his family's farm along the Mississippi River.

Whitmore has made a name for himself both within the punk movement, where his populism and sincerity resonate with alienated urban kids, and the roots community, where writers like Andy Downing in the Chicago Tribune have placed him within the "new pastoralism" of Bon Iver and the Fleet Foxes.

William Elliott Whitmore

Radio Playlist 10th August 2011


Jarrod Dickenson - Northern Sea (Live At Roost House)
Oh Ruin - The Pillow Where Your Head Does Lay (Static Caravan 7")
William Elliott Whitmore - Don't need It (Field Songs)
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United Bible Studies & Jozef Van Wissem - The Seas Have Lifted Up Their Voice (Downland)
Apricot Rail - Surry Hills (Demo)
The Opium Cartel - Heavenman (Nightblooms)
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William Elliott Whitmore - Not Feeling Any Pain (Field Songs)
Bonny 'Prince' Billy & The Phantom Family Halo - The Mindeater (The Mindeater 7" EP)
Clogs - We Were Here (feat: Sufjan Stevens & Shara Worden) (The Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton)
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M. Mucci - Chase Down Alice St. (Time Lost)
Glenn Jones - Barbeque Bob In Fishtown (Barbeque Bob In Fishtown)
William Elliott Whitmore - Bury Your Burdens In The Ground (Field Songs)
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Gillian Welch - The Way It Will Be (The Harrow & The Harvest)
Sun City Girls - This Is My Name (Funeral Mariachi)
Coastal - Northern (S/T)

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9th August 2007: Sunn O)) - Altar
11th August 2008: The Great Pop Supplement Records
12th August 2009: International Vinyl Day
11th August 2010: The Soundcarriers - Celeste

3rd August 2011: The Travelling Band / Playlist

Featured: The Travelling Band - Screaming Is Something (Cooking Vinyl)

The Travelling Band’s shimmering blend of cosmic-country-pop, understated psychedelia, vocal harmonies and nu-folk has made them one of the most talked about artists to emerge from the Manchester music scene.

Their debut 'Under The Pavement' blurred the folk/rock boundaries, delicately intertwining sensitive lyrics with accomplished folk vocals and jangly instrumental accompaniments to form "a tapestry of glittering whimsy”, however, their follow up album 'Screaming Is Something' demonstrates a giant leap forward for the band.

The album was recorded in a few different locations but most of the recording was done in a converted church called Kinclochspelve on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. It was so desolate and tranquil on Mull and that gave that session a real focus.

The result, which isn’t quite soul music, isn’t quite folk, isn’t quite pop, country or rock has made them one of the most talked about artists to emerge from the Manchester music scene - "If you consider the term Mancunian Americana to be an oxymoron try listening to the Travelling Band. Brilliant." Marc Riley BBC 6 Music.

The Travelling Band

Radio Playlist 3rd August 2011

The Trouble With Templeton - Bleeders (Demo)

Fields - How Are You Now? (If You Fail We All Fail EP)

The Travelling Band - Hindsight (Screaming Is Something)

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Torn Sail - Birds (12")

Seabuckthorn - Submerged In The River (Twilight Synopsis)

Arbouretum - The Highwayman (The Gathering)

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The Travelling Band - Screaming Is Something (Screaming Is Something)

The Ovals - Refugees (Into The Eyes Of Those Who Sleep EP)

Black Mountain - Old Fangs (Wilderness Heart)

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Villagers - I Saw The Dead (Becoming A Jackal)

Winter Park - The Night Beetle (The Night Beetle EP)

The Travelling Band - On The Rails (Screaming Is Something)

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Grey Reverend - One By One (Of The Days)

Junip - To The Grain (Fields)

Weekend - End Times (Demo)

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25th August 2010: John Smith

18th August 2010: The Soft Hills

11th August 2010: The Soundcarriers

4th August 2010: Jez Mead in Session

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26th August 2009: Six Organs Of Admittance

19th August 2009: Grand Salvo

12th August 2009: International Vinyl Day

5th August 2009: Micah Blue Smalldone

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25th August 2008: Tan Or Boil

18th August 2008: Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh

11th August 2008: The Great Pop Supplement

4th August 2008: Luluc

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30th August 2007: Jessica Bailiff

23rd August 2007: Earth

16th August 2007: Angelo Badalamenti

9th August 2007: Travelling Bell

2nd August 2007: HRSTA