December 29

Note to self - the amount of prep time put into a show correlates to its goodness (or lack there of). Too many irritations/distractions!

Playlist:

1. Bloc Party – "This Modern Love" - Silent Alarm
2. J Dilla – "Workinonit" – Donuts
3. Miracle Fortress – "Five Roses" – Five Roses
4. Orgone – "It’s What You Do" – The Killion Floor
5. Big Star – “Stroke It Noel” – Third/Sister Lovers
6. Sir Richard Bishop – “Hecate’s Dream” – Polytheistic Fragments
7. Creaking Tree String Quartet – “Phoenix Lair” – The Soundtrack
8. Andrew Bird - "Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left" - Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
9. Kevin Drew – “Gang Bang Suicide” – Spirit If…
10. The Velvet Underground - "Stephanie Says" - VU
11. Letters Letters – “Everyone’s Afraid of Fear” - Letters Letters
12. Supergrass – “St. Petersburg” – Road to Rouen
13. Paul Bley – “III” – Solo in Mondsee
14. Patrick Wolf – “The Magic Position” – The Magic Position
15. Elvis Costello - "Less Than Zero" - My Aim Is True
16. Warren Zevon – "The French Inhaler" - Preludes
    
17. Panda Bear – “Take Pills” – Person Pitch
18. Popol Vuh – “Kyrie” – Hosianna Mantra
19. Austine – “Rhume” – Le Pop 4 (Les chansons de la nouvelle scène Française)
20. Various – “Nana Kru” – Songs of the African Coast: Café Music of Liberia
21. Of Montreal – “Miss Blonde Your Papa Is Failing” – Icons, Abstract Thee [EP]
22. Electro Group – “Periphery” - Good Technology

I'm filling in on Wednesday the 2nd, from 5-6. Until then.

Andrew Bird, Live at Good Shepard Faith Church

December 22

Some fellow phoned in at the end and asked about Nifty. A phone call not about Sounds of Scotland?! Perhaps it was just a dream...

Playlist:

1. Simon Bookish - "Interview" - Trainwreck/Raincheck
2. The Divine Comedy - "To Die a Virgin" - Victory for the Comic Muse
3. William Shatner - "That's Me Trying" - Has Been
4. Antons - "Yellow Ribbon" - Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul
5. Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Christmas Time Is Here" [instrumental] - A Charlie Brown Christmas [soundtrack]
6. Bridget Bardot - "Contact" - Master Serie: B.B. Vol. 2 [originally on The Bridget Bardot Show (1967)]
7. Roger Rodier - "While My Castle's Burning" - Upon Velveatur
8. Justice - "Phantom Pt. II" - †
9. Final Fantasy - Medley: "Hey Dad" / "The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead" / "ABC Auto Industry" / "Telegraph" [the last two are Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark covers] - Live at Hailey's, Denton, TX, November 11, 2007
10. Immaculate Machine - "Numéro de téléphone" - Les uns mais pas les autres [EP]
11. Julie Doiron - "Swan Pond" - Live at CFUV, April 20, 2006
12. Space Waltz - "Fraulein Love" - Alastair Riddell: Space Waltz
13. The Kinks - "Two Sisters" - Something Else by The Kinks
14. David Bowie - "Bombers" - Bowie at the Beeb
15. Beirut - "Une dernier verre (Pour la route)" - The Flying Club Cup
16. The 1900s - "When I Say Go" - Cold and Kind
17. Robert Wyatt - "Just as You Are" - Comicopera
18. Field Music - "Trying to Sit Out" - Field Music
19. Sunparlour Players - "Hymns for the Happy" - Hymns for the Happy
20. Nifty - "Two Figures" - A Sparrow! A Sparrow!

December 15

Playlist:

1. Jeremy Stewart - "Fairy Prince and Princess Fair" - Jeremy Stewart
2. Patrick Wolf - "Pigeon Song" - Lycanthropy
3. The Jessica Stuart Few - "Insploration" - The Ittiest Bit EP
4. Pickering Pick - "Suite for S.W. (They Are Not Gone That Are Lost to Us)" - Waxwing
5. Hayden - "Street Car" - Skyscraper National Park
6. The Fall - "Bombast" - This Nation's Saving Grace
7. Jacques Dutronc - "La métaphore" - Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveilles
8. Thomas Dutronc - "Veish a no drom" - Comme un manouche sans guitare
9. Scarlet's Well - "Maybe" - David Shrigley's Worried Noodles
10. Brian Current - "For the Time Being" - This Isn't Silence
11. Cindy & The Playmates - "Now That School Is Through" - Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul
12. Ike & Tina Turner - "Mama Tell Him" - Don't Play Me Cheap
13. Nifty - "Tinto de Verano" - A Sparrow! A Sparrow!
14. Robyn Hitchcock - "Cathedral" - I Often Dream of Trains
15. Curtis Mayfield - "We've Only Just Begun" - Curtis/Live!
16. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "My Life" [Phil Ochs cover] - Ask Forgiveness
17. Andrew Bird - "I" - Weather Systems
18. Brian Joseph Davis - "The Franklin Mint Job" - The Definitive Host
19. Jason Kao Hwang & Sang Won Park - "Listen" - Local Lingo
20. PJ Harvey - "The Devil" - White Chalk

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Minor UVic celebrity Troy was kind enough to cover my show last weekend whilst I was writing my Philosophy exam. But I'll be there Saturday to field your questions as to when Sounds of Scotland will be coming on.

Curtis Mayfield! Jacques & Thomas Dutronc, other stuff. Obligatory Ike Turner commemoration.

December 1 - (first show!)

Playlist:

1. Jean-Claude Vannier - “L’enfant au royaume des mouches” - L’enfant assassin des mouches
2. Serge Gainsbourg - “Cargo culte” - Histoire de Melody Nelson
3. Brigitte Fontaine - “Blanche neige” - Brigitte Fontaine est... folle
4. Final Fantasy - “Joys” - David Shrigley’s Worried Noodles
5. Beirut - “A Sunday Smile” - The Flying Club Cup
6. Patrizia & Jimmy - “Trust Your Child Pt. 1” - Homeschooled: The ABCs of Kid School
7. Deep Dark United - “Zut!” - Ancient
8. Brian Current - “Concertino for Flutes and String Orchestra” - This Isn’t Silence
9. The Olivia Tremor Control - “Hideaway” - Black Foliage Volume One
10. Degenerative Art Ensemble - “Mr. Schmidt’s Levitation Apparatus” - Cuckoo Crow
11. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - “When the Other Drops, Uncle” - 100 Days, 100 Nights
12. Jeremy Stewart - “Off to School Again” - Jeremy Stewart
13. Nifty - “Two Figures” - A Sparrow! A Sparrow!
14. Stereolab - “Cybele’s Reverie” - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
15. The Chords - “Maybe Tomorrow” - At the BBC
16. Colin Blunstone - “Misty Roses” - One Year
17. Brian Eno - “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
18. Pentangle - “So Clear” - Reflection
19. The Chesterfield Kings - “Inside Looking Out” - Psychedelic Sunrise