It occured to me that I didn't fully explain why I don't play the same track multiple times. My philosophy has always been that there are many bands out there that deserve exposure. If I play the same track multiple times then that's taking a slot on the show that could be taken by a fresh new band. That's not to say I don't play the same band multiple times, just not the same track. If you hear it once that should be enough. If you like it you can always rewind and listen to it again. Another great facet of podcasting.

Another call for more bumpers for Weird Track of the Week. I'd still like more efforts in my archive and your imagination deserves to be heard on the show.

Truly pitiful amount of videos this week. Not even some live performances. The video I do have is pretty good to make up for it.

Birds Of Tokyo - Wild Eyed Boy

On Weekly Music Video Podcast this week an animated video that was made using a free program. Very imaginative and a very interesting style. Check it out on Friday.

Now off to catch up with some music podcasts.

As was plugged in this episode, and in various forms for the last few months, please go and have a look at The Legion Of Tangent. A syndicate of 6 geek-centric podcasts that are all highly entertaining. There's talk that more shows will soon be entering the fold as well. Here's the promo I recorded for the syndicate.

It's occured to me that there is another genre of music I'm prejudiced against that has so far escaped inclusion onto this podcast. Reggae. I just don't get it. I'm probably the wrong generation (Marley was a huge deal before I was even born), but it just all sounds the same, derivative and dull. This is not to say that I will never include some reggae on the podcast, just that it seems unlikely.

As ever another call for my listeners to provide some Weird Track of the Week bumpers. I'd still like more and I know I have some creative listeners.


Not a great deal on the video front this week. The Blue Seeds vid is creepy and weird, but the rest is mostly live performances.

New Nobility - Blue Butterfly
Lights Out Dancing - Worth The Wait [Live Performance, Poor Quality]
The Cold Rush - Open The Doors [Live Performance]
Two Cow Garage - Your Humble Narrator [Live Performance]
The Blue Seeds - Lost And Delirious

On WMVP this week a video that tackles the conformity of a non-conformist cultural grouping. A pretentious way of saying a cool vid about hipsters.

See you next week for some more music, ranting and irrelevant sport.

Strange combination of topics this week and once again I've caused controversy with my views.

Have a look at the new shows I've been enjoying this week. Creeping With Armstrong and This Reality Podcast.

Another telling factor about the gender divide in Sci-Fi is the fact that recently the American Sci-Fi channel changed it's name to SyFy. As is always the case, a company that rebrands makes it's customers unhappy. The company has said that it wanted to distance itself from Sci-Fi because it no longer only had science fiction content on the network. A coded phrase that says 'We want more women viewers'. Fortunately the UK Sci-Fi channel has not made the change, and I hope it doesn't. At least here we still have 100% Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror content on the channel.

As usually happens when I talk without a script I missed the major point of my latest discussion on religion. The two main things that I hate about Evangelical Christianity are the objections to Gay Rights and Evolution. It makes me furious that people are using their faith to deny the human dignity of a large group of people and deny a genuine scientific fact that has stood up to the rigours of a century and a half of investigation. As I said on the show you are perfectly entitled to hold your own beliefs, but when you start being successful in getting those beliefs passed into law there is something critically wrong. It is this fury that is the main reason fro my vitriol against religion.

It genuinely was a coincidence that I played 'The Unbeliever' after my latest religious rant. I set the playlist running order days before hand and then try and find things to talk about between the tracks. It just so happened that the thing I hasd to talk about before MDR was Dave's comment.

Not too long until the PodCrawl and my promised hug from Caroline Lee. If you want to join in then check out the itinerary on the website and search out the Facebook Event.

I also still want new bumpers for the Weird Track of the Week. If you are willing to risk the curse of most of my contributors podfading then send along an mp3 with your imaginative work.


For the first time in a long time we have a really special video this week. The Middle Distance Runner vid is fantastic and ends in a completely different place from where it started.

The Chambermaids - Lily  
Dead World Leaders - The Question [Live Performance, Poor Quality]
Middle Distance Runner - The Unbeliever
Fairmont - I Am The Mountain [Live Performance]

On Friday we have another episode of Weekly Music Video Podcast that answers the question 'What's the most interesting thing you can do in a swimming pool?'

See you next week where there will probably be more ranting.

You see how it goes. I think I have nothing to talk about and I end up ranting for ages about American politics. I really can't stop myself sometimes.

You need to go over to AMPed on Monday and check out Episode #201 that I hosted. See if there's any more music podcasts you like the sound of.

Check out the PodCrawl and maybe come and join us on the 21st November if you're in the London area.


Not much on the video front this week. We have three variations on the 'live-performance' video.

The American Life - We Are Alive
Hundred Days - No Better
I Am Three - Nostalgia

There was a delay in releasing this weeks WMVP due to some hosting room issues. I should have enough space on my hosting to release the interesting video with the girls in underwear on Monday.

I've been doing this for nearly 3 years and this is only the 3rd time I've played some feedback in a 'regular' show. Thanks to Brandi & Dave of The InsideOutcast for providing it. If you really want to be part of the show I'm still looking for Weird Track of the Week bumpers to add to the rotation. I've got 4 at the moment, but I'd love a few more.

Just in case anyone still hasn't seen it here's the fantastic video for 'Vitriol' by Bluejuice. Seriously one of my favourite tracks and videos of all time. It really was awesome when Stav from the band e-mailed me this week.

I've actually managed to avoid playing Puzzle Quest today. It won't last... The Sci-Fi themed sequel is only £7.50 on Amazon. More addiction beckons. I do love The Totally Rad Show, but my current obsession is entirely their fault.


Not a great selection of videos this week, but the Lusine vid is a really nice piece of work.

Bang Bang Eche - (You & Me) As Thick As Thieves
Frantic - Lost Souls
Lusine - Two Dots

On WMVP this week a video that features prominently girls wearing underwear, boots and military helmets. It's not as perverted as it sounds. Check it out on Friday.
 

Strange list of discussion topics this week. On the one hand I can't see how anyone (except me) would be interested in all of them. On the other there should be something that you're interested in.

As mentioned in the episode check out the excellent video for 'Aisha' by Death In Vegas.

Pretty good selection of videos this week. I didn't have to resort to live performances. The Bluejuice one is long, but worth it.

Bluejuice - Broken Leg
Brave Citizens - The Same Way
The Joy Formidable - Greyhounds In The Slips
Sounds Like Violence - You Give Me Heart Attacks
Twisterbait - Cannonball


I've now worked out what's coming up on WMVP this week. It's a simple, bizarre animated video in a very odd setting. Check it out on Friday.

Please don't think that I am insulting my fellow podcasters with my theories about psychology. I just think it's an interesting question and one that I include myself in.

You can download the Goth/Industrial Mixtape from the Boxroom forums. While you're there have a listen to The Boxroom, The InsideOutcast and The Black Dog Podcast.

Have a look at Phil Cooper's brilliant concept charity album The 9 Album.

Mostly live videos this week.

Dead World Leaders - House Of Frauds [Live Performance]
Infidelity - Conflict [Live Performance]
The A-B Theory - A City Scene [2nd Track of this Live Performance]
Windmill - Big Boom

On WMVP this week a stop-motion video that shows the literal city streets of New York.

A kind of sports special this week since I didn't have much to talk about.

Here's an article describing in more coherent detail the tale of the moronic James Martin. Cycling and cyclists in Britain have absolutely no respect.

I've now discovered that my beloved Everton are facing Blackburn Rovers tomorrow. Ordinarily it would be a game that Everton were marginal favourites for, but on current form it could go either way.


Not a bad selection of videos this week.

My First Earthquake - Outta The Band
Pluto Revolts - Bed Of Nails [Live, Acoustic Performance]
Zambri - Easier
The Cold Rush - Never [Live Performance]
The Raygun Girls - Look At Me [Live Performance]

On WMVP this week a parody song that has a fruit slasher film for a video. One of the most interesting sentences I've written on this blog. You can catch it on it's new release date of Friday.

Very, very, very late with the video blog this week so heres just the highlights.

District 9 Trailer - Can you spot the clue as to what the film's main plot is?

We Didn't Start The Flame War - Hilarious parody of the Billy Joel original for anyone who's ever been involved in a forum.

This weeks videos. Very slim pickings.

Frozen Inertia - Picking Up Where Billy Joel Left Off
Hot Beds - Leave Everything [Live Performance, Very Poor Quality]

A few quick updates that have come up in the hours since I recorded this show.

I spoke too soon about the crashes in the Vuelta a Espana. After I recorded the show I watched the footage from Wednesday's stage into Liege in Belgium. There was this MASSIVE crash and American Chris Horner has had to go home with a fractured pelvis and left hand. In all my years of watching cycling I can only think of one other crash on such a scale. Professional cycling is not for the timid.

The handheld mouse I ordered from China has finally arrived... and it's left handed. No big deal but slightly irritating.

For anyone wanting to follow up on my rant about movie studios listen to Episode 63 of the /Filmcast featuring Director of Fanboys Kyle Newman.  The full discussion of the trauma that Newman had to go through is on the 'After Dark' of Episode 63. It makes for some very sobering listening.


Not much on the video front with only one 'proper' video. Having said that it's a great, trippy video that fits the Drool Brothers' song perfectly. The Tigersapien. video is also so well shot it could almost be a produced video.

Profuna Ocean - Changing Legacy [Live Performance]
Drool Brothers - Journey To The Center Of The Mall
Bang Bang Eche - Fingers In The Till [Live Performance]
Tigersapien. - Luxury [Live Performace]
Soaked In I - Sometime Maybe  [Live Performance]

I faithfully promise that I will try to wrench myself away from Pro Cycling Manager long enough to record a new batch of Weekly Music Video Podcast. in any case you can go to the site and watch the archive. You can also stream them all from Vimeo.

See you next week and remember to tell me if the poorer audio quality is too distracting.

A late release this week, but hopefully the last for a very long time.

The new laptop is purchased and this is the first show recording with it, but teething troubles combined with a dodgy internet connection on the desktop has delayed the release. It turned out one of the dogs had peed on a phone connector and thankfully the internet is back to being reliable.

Speaking of the dogs, I forgot to mention on the show that the puppies celebrated their first birthday this past Tuesday. Yet 2 of them are still too wobbly to get up on the sofa by themselves...

Pleeeease watch the excellent web show First Things First TV hosted by the lovely and multi-talented Heather Stewart. Anyone on twitter should also follow @penciljesus. (I'm @ourobouros54 BTW)

Apparently some of my audio will be showing up on the next episode of Rant & Dick's Saturday Night Piss Takeaway. Very crude but very funny. It's certainly not for everyone, but go along, have a listen and see what you think.


Quite a full list of videos this week, including an excellent one for The Protist that will be showing up on a future episode of WMVP. The A-B Theory video is a live performance of the song that also features a second track that's equally as good.

Sawoff Shotgun - Lip My Stockings
Oh No Not Stereo - Let's Get It Started
Scarlet Grey - No Boys In The Ballroom [Live Performance]
The A-B Theory - Tell Me How Colorado Is [Live Performance, with an extra track]
The Protist - Cumulus

Weekly Music Video Podcast will hopefully be returning this Wednesday. If not it will be the week after.


Now I've got the laptop Hopefully I'll be on time next week. I always aim to release the shows at 2pm UK time Saturday. See you then!

Still getting glitching on the audio. Curses! Yet another reason I need a laptop. The Donate button on the right is going to remain active for the next few weeks. Please help out if you can.

In the category of odd coincidences, Anton Peterlin, the young American Everton player I was talking about on the show, went to college at Cal Poly-SLO. The home of my good friends at the Hyper Nonsense podcast.

Please check out the very cool InsideOutcast. They really are the cool kids across the pond. In another case of making contact at one remove, I'm pretty sure I'e just been followed on Twitter by Brandi's sister...


Not much on the video front this week. Only a live video, an odd fan-made effort and one absolutely genius piece of work.

Pluto Revolts - Collar Up Against The Wind [Live Performance]
Modwheelmood - Sunday Morning [Unofficial fan-made video]
Roche Limit - My Friend Ship

WMVP is taking a short hiatus until I get my laptop. When it does return expect to see the Roche Limit video.


By next week I should have ordered my laptop. Fingers crossed.

So yes folks, I'm asking you for money. If you can donate to my laptop fund please click the button on the right to donate through PayPal. I've now found a new button that donates in £ not $.

On top of everything else the audio glitching is back this week. Curses! Possibly another reason I need a laptop.

For people outside the UK here is a representative sample of the shit Phones4U adverts. This is the reason I didn't go there when investigating mobile internet dongles.

Phones4U - Scary Mary

Here are links to the other podcasts mentioned on the show

The InsideOutcast
Rant and Dick's Saturday Night Piss Takeaway
The Box Room (Forums for The Box Room, where you can find the 26 track mixtape I made for Jen)
The Random Three


The My First Earthquake video is a really nice tongue-in-cheek piece of work with the subtitle 'Invasion of the Hipster Bodysnatchers'. Pretty much how I feel about the latest fashion fad.

The Haiku - Amber [Live Performance]
My First Earthquake - Cool In The Cool Way
Staedler & Waldorf - Mode In Mind

On WMVP this week not so much a video as a power point presentation. Check it out on Wednesday.


See you next week with an update on how the laptop drive is going.

Hurrah! No audio glitches this week. Maybe I've finally solved my recording problems. Fingers crossed.

This is rapidly turning into the worlds only music/rant/cycling podcast. Normal service will be resumed next week since there's no major cycling races this week and barring more doping announcements I'll be laying of the peleton for a while.


Not much on the video front this week. A very literalist video from Art Noir, which seems to have been shot in a botanical garden, A well shot performance video from Ume and a couple of live videos.

Art Noir - Silent Green
The Sweet Hello - Love Maker Heart Breaker [Live Performance]
Kidnapper Bell - Targets [Live Performance, Poor Quality]
Ume - The Conductor

On WMVP this week an award winning video that completes my mini series of performance videos.


See you next week for more great music, less cycling and hopefully no more audio glitches.

I still haven't sorted out the glitching in the audio. It's starting to annoy me, as I'm sure it's annoying you. At least when you can hear my links they sound better now.

I am really impressed with Florence + The Machine. It's a rare case in recent years that who I want to win the Mercury Music Prize is probably actually going to win it. If you haven't come across her wonderfully dark and elegant music yet then check out the video for her last single.

Florence + The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)

Here's The Onion's Star Trek video that I talked about in the show. Substitute Dr. Who for Star Trek and it's almost how I feel.

I recommend everybody watch First Things First TV, the topical news web series hosted by the lovely and talented Heather Stewart. On top of this excellent show she's also a singer who has given me permission to play one of her tracks on a future episode.


Pretty good video selection this week and almost a full representation. It's no surprise that the videos are good this week, as two of this week's tracks I found on the blog of $99 Music Videos.

Bang Bang Eche - 4 To The Floor
Before Dawn - Drowning
Mellowdrone - Elephant [Live Performance]
El Dog - A Princess, A Monkey, The Stars And The Sea [Live Performance]
Home Video - I Can Make You Feel It
The A-B Theory - Fatal Flaw Attractions [Live Performance]

On WMVP this week the second in my series of performance videos. If you like the sound of Swedes being dressed in a car park then chack it out on Wednesday.


See you next week for lots more music and probably less cycling.

With so much else to talk about I forgot to update you on my employment status. As of yet I have not heard from SFX Magazine. It's been 10 days since the job closed and I'm taking it as a good sign that I have not been rejected yet. Fingers crossed.

To clarify my thoughts about the Tour de France. You expect the first week to be flat, sprinters stages that don't actually affect the final result of the race. By the second week you expect a contenders group to have formed at the top of the rankings and for them to attack each other and try to gain time. In this years race the contenders group is at the top of the rankings, but they are just not trying to gain time on each other. I fear that the organizers were trying to make the final week interesting and hard, and in doing so they've made it TOO hard. Everybody is planning on one huge attack on Mont Ventoux and not doing anything until then.


Really slim selection of videos this week.

Deastro - Parallelogram [Live Performance]
Starfucker - Medicine

On WMVP this Wednesday we have the start of a 3 week run of videos with a common theme. Really simple, really effective.


See you next week for another great selection of music, cycling news and general weirdness.

I experimented this week with a new post-production filter. Let me know if there's any noticeable difference. I'm still getting glitches in the audio though. I really thought I'd solved it and I'm not sure what else to do. Oh Well.

Following up on a story from last week. The Nashville police have announced that 36 year old Steve McNair was shot to death by his 20 year old girlfriend who then shot herself. McNair was married at the time of his death. It's a real shame that a man who pioneered black quarterbacks in the NFL and was part of the most memorable drive in Superbowl history will forever be tainted by his personal life.


An outstanding selection of videos this week. You can expect to see most of these in future episodes of Weekly Music Video Podcast. The Lowry video was one of the ones made by the excellent $99 Music Videos podcast. You can also check out the excellent 'Making Of'.

Beoptamystic - Maria
Saint Motel - Dear Dictator
Lowry - Whiskey
Takka Takka - Silence
Mint - Tricycle Days

On WMVP this week there's an excellent animated video that takes it's inspiration from Michel Gondry, or if it doesn't it independently came up with the same brilliant concept that Gondry has.


Off now to watch the Tour de France. See you next week for more great music.

It's been a really hard recording process this week, so this video link blog is really late. Sorry if anyone was waiting for it.

In a way it was cool that I had to delay recording and release of this show because I can comment on the first two stages of the Tour de France. Since Fabian Cancellara is the best Time-Trialist in the world and Mark Cavendish is the best sprinter, it is hardly surprising that they won the first two stages. I'm writing this before the finish of stage three, but I fully expect Cavendish to win again. I really can't wait until Mont Ventoux on the penultimate stage.

Completely shocked by the death of Steve McNair. At this early stage it looks like he was shot by his girlfriend who then shot herself. Of course this story could well change as more details emerge. In many ways McNair was a pioneer of race relations in the NFL. While there had been successful black quarterbacks before McNair, after he arrived on the scene it was no longer an issue if a quarterback was black. He will be sadly missed.


Only one 'proper' video this week, but it's a really nice piece of work that fits the song perfectly.

Sierra Alpha - Superhero
XOXO - The Dissociative Fugue [Live Performance]
Stillman - Runt Of The Litter [Live, Acoustic Performance]

On WMVP this Wednesday a simple video shot really well that has a surprisingly dark tone.


I really hope that next week I'll be less angry and therefore it will be a shorter show. This one was my longest ever episode. Oh dear...

Short blog this week as I spent so long recording I'm now exhausted.

Yet again I seem to have got unexpectedly angry in this episode so it's another long one. I really need to curb myself sometimes. For the first time ever I actually edited down my links.


Not a bad selection of videos this week

Frantic - It's All You
Raya Nova - Blood And Pride
The Haiku - Your Question Is Important
Idas - Going Down


On WMVP this week a simple, haunting video for a great track.


See you next week for hopefully a shorter show and a longer blog

Whoa! I really didn't see such a long episode coming. I didn't think I had that much to say. Sorry about that.

One reason for the length is my unexpected detour into the weirdos in the English Democrats. Have a look at this YouTube video which features an interview with the newly elected Mayor of Doncaster, Peter Davies and Toby Foster from the BBC Radio Sheffield morning programme. A brilliant example of an ambush interview.

Also thanks to Caroline for unwittingly providing the title for this weeks show. She's the wife of Dave, host of The Bugcast.

If you're unaware of the genius that is Idlewild here are videos for a couple of my favourite tracks:

Idlewild - When I Argue I See Shapes
Idlewild - You Held The World In Your Arms (The audio's really quiet on this vid)


Pretty good selection of videos this week. The Kid606 video is a work of twisted genius.

Modern Caveman - Johnnywise
White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
Kidnapper Bell - The Great Outdoors [Live Performance, with an extra track]
Kid606 - Mr. Wobble's Nightmare


On WMVP this week my new HQ production methods start in earnest and the first video to get the sparkly new treatment is an excellent piece of human-stop-motion that I've already written a guest blog for $99 Dollar Music Videos about.


See you next week for another show, which hopefully won't be quite so long.

A little bit of experimentation with my recording techniques this week means that a few of the links I recorded don't have the best sound. Sorry about that, but I've now sorted out the issues so as of next week the audio will be much better.

In the European elections the BNP were voted for by just over 2% of the total electorate and they managed to win 2 seats. This is just wrong.

No matter whether it's local, national or european elections ALWAYS VOTE.

In 1997 Labour had 43% of the popular vote yet won 63% of the seats. In 2001 they had 41% and retained their 63% of the seats and in 2005 it was 37% with 55% of the seats. Proportianal Representation makes sense.


As the episode title says this week has one of the highest levels of video quality for many weeks. The Dutchess video is particularly stunning.

East Hundred - Slow Burning Crimes
Dutchess - White Piano
Normandie - Thrill Of Victory [Live Performance]
Cowboy X - Japanese Toy
Reigns - Everything Beyond These Walls Has Been Razed

On the subject of high quality videos, I've altered the production process for WMVP, so this weeks episode will be slightly higher quality. The video itself is a great example of user-submitted input and was made for a very cool idea.


See you next week.

Anyone who listens to this show should also be watching Weekly Music Video Podcast. If you do, or have watched one of my 'Best Videos of the Year' podcasts in this feed, you know that cheap, inventive videos are my favourite type. That's why I am so pleased to endorse $99 Dollar Music Videos and be involved in whatever small way in the site. This podcast has one of those blindingly simple (if a little insane) concepts. You take a film-maker and a band, give them $99 and they make a video in 1 day. Despite the restrictions the videos that get produced are amazing. They also have a blog that features videos that they haven't produced themselves, but are 'In The Spirit' of their ethos. The first of my 'In The Spirit' guest blogs will be online Monday.

As well a $99 Music Videos you should also be listening to The Justin Wayne Show, The Random Three and The Box Room.


Small selection of videos this week. The Hot Beds video has an interesting idea, but is crippled by poor audio and shoddy editing.

Underwhelmed - Freak (Like Me)
In Isolation - The Wrong Girl
Hot Beds - See Right Through

On WMVP this week we have a weird green-screened video made by a comic book artist. Well worth watching.


See you next week for more great music.

I actually mispoke in the podcast. It's not Oregon that has the dual civil-partnership/gay-marriage-banned situation, it's Washington State (I always get those two states in the Pacific Northwest mixed up). New Hampshire has the same situation.

As far as gay marriage goes Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont allow gay marriage and New Jersey allows civil partnerships with rights equal to marriage.

6 states out of 50. Fucking pitiful.

These maps are very interesting to see how far justice and equality has spread. Same Sex Marriage In USA and Same Sex Marriage in Europe.


I hope the fact I will soon start to have ads on the show doesn't turn too many people off. I simply can't afford to keep my two shows going without the free hosting that the fine people at LibSyn provide and the only way I can keep the free hosting is to have the ads. I think it's a small price to pay.


Not much on the video front this week, but the Cradle video is a really nice piece of work.

The Joy Formidable - Cradle
Show Me The Skyline - Clocks & Calendars [Live Performance, Poor Quality]
Rieser - The Actor [Live, Acoustic Performance]
The Calling Card - Why So Serious? [Live Performance]


On WMVP this week we have a really fun and unexpected video. Check it out on Wednesday


See you next week and go Toffees!

Thanks to Grant Mason of Three From Leith for unwittingly providing this weeks episode title.

I got pretty angry about the cycling race attack this week, but I feel strongly about the need for closed-road cycle racing in mainland Britain. These not-in-my-back-yard idiots are going to have to accept that things are changing. The benefits of closed-road racing are demonstrated by the success of Isle of Man riders. Mark Cavendish is the fastest sprinter in the world, Jonny Bellis is a very promising top-level rider and Peter Kennaugh is almost certainly going to go pro next year with the Sky team. The ratio of IoM pro riders to pro riders from the rest of Britain speaks for itself.

Make The Girl Dance - Baby Baby Baby is one of the most amazing videos I have come across. Not because it's particularly well shot or clever, more because I can't believe they did it. Three models walking down a street in Paris on a Thursday afternoon absolutely stark naked. (Watch for the transition between the second and third girl. They mess up the timing a bit.) Matt & Kim did a similar video recently, but personally I have doubts about its authenticity. In the Make The Girls Dance video the bars to cover the naughty bits spell out the lyrics to the song, which is quite clever and reminiscent of this video by The BPA (AKA one of my heroes, Norman Cook).

I'm going to be appearing on The Random Three podcast soon, probably this week. It's like a condensed Desert Island Discs where you select three tracks that mean something to you. It's a non-podsafe show, so I treat it as a guilty pleasure. If you're interested in my musical influences then check it out.


Two good examples of videos that use a basic concept of only having the band perform, but do something interesting with it. Modern Caveman start miming their instruments before there equipment comes in and The Beauvilles line up before a cold war firing squad.

Call The Cops - Get Close [Live Performance]
Modern Caveman - Surrender
The Beauvilles - Snow


Lots of video links this week and here's another one. Check out WMVP on Wednesday for one of my favourite videos of the year. Sheer technical genius.

So here is the penultimate episode before the week-long celebrations for my hundredth episode. Starting next Saturday there will be one podcast a day, lasting around 20 minutes each, that delve into the genres of music that have been played in the first 2 years of this show. Some great stuff out of the archives that you might not have heard before.

In my usual rambling and unscripted way I might have buried my conclusions about the Atheism/Religion debate. Put succinctly my feelings are as follows:

1. I am against Evangelistic and Fundamentalist Christians, not Christians in general.
2.People like Pat Condell and Richard Dawkins have every right to reply to these Evangelists, especially since they started the war of words.
3. The Atheism that Condell, Dawkins et al promote is in itself a religious dogma, or more precisely an anti-religious dogma.
4. This Atheist dogma is not necessarily dignified or even helpful, but it may be possible that it is the only way to respond.

Further to these main points there's one thing that I didn't mention on the show, but is probably worth pointing out. The 'vocals' for the track in question that was played last week are anti-Bible not anti-Christian. There is a difference. As with all religions there is a question of interpretation and it's when people follow an absolutely literal interpretation that problems start.


Interesting video selection this week.
The Super700 video is so close to being brilliant, but it ends up being rather predictable. When the vocals of the track talk about woods, suddenly the singer is in the woods. It's frustrating because there are some genuinely arresting images in the video, but the whole does not add up to the sum of the parts.
There is also a good example of the differences between live videos on YouTube. Some, like the Atomic Tom video, have probably been shot on somebodies phone and the quality suffers; but some, like the Core Effect video, have been shot on proper equipment by somebody associated with the band and are pretty much broadcast quality.
Whatever the quality if I can find a video of the full song on YouTube I will always give a link to it.

Super700 - S.T.T.S.M.C. 
The Steps - Cold Floors
Sugar Army - Acute
Atomic Tom - Take Me Out [Live Performance]
Core Effect - I Did It All [Live Performance]


On WMVP this week there will be the notorious video that YouTube banned. I couldn't hold off playing it any longer.

So see you next week for the start of the week long Episode #100 extravaganza!

I realised late in the recording that I left you hanging about the popularity of The Totally Rad Show. It turns out that the two different formats that the show is released in are at 91 and 98 in the top 100 Entertainment video podcasts. You really needed to know that didn't you? If you're interested in seeing the episode that I appear in and was so controversial then it's episode 110.


Not a bad selection of videos this week.

Transit Studio - Forty and Desperate [Live Performance]
Anison - Spatial Awareness
Sweet Water - Rock Steady
Stars And Sons - If It's Good For Me
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You
Richard Termini - Desert Dogma


On WMVP this week we have a very sweet very artful video. Check it out on Wednesday.

Next week it's Episode #99 and only one week away from the Episode #100 extravaganza

Another delayed release this week. The internetz have been fine, but it's been one of those days when I just haven't been able to get on the computer at all.

Unconciously with Cycling races in Belgium, a track by an American band with a French title and a track by a French band I gave my French accent a real work out this week.

Remember to listen to AMPed this Monday for my latest hosting appearance on that show and The Totally Rad Show on Tuesday to see if the intro I recorded with Charlie the wobbly puppy was used.

I might even record some pieces for Made in the UK this weekend as well. If I do that will be 10 podcasts or pieces of podcasts recorded this week.


I really love the atmospheric video for the Here Come The Birds track. Very well shot and very artistic. I'm really hoping they let me play it on WMVP in the future.

Rieser - The Ringmaster [Live Performance]
Here Come The Birds - Sharp White Teeth
VTG - I Lie Pretty

 
On Weekly Music Video Podcast this Wednesday you have three videos for the price of one. A trilogy of videos by the same band that tell a single story. Crazy stuff.

I REALLY hope there are no interruptions to the schedule next weekend. Hopefully I'll see you then.

That was a long weekend without internet access.

Now I have access I can give a full rundown of where the bands are from. I'm not sure if this is important to anyone else, but I always like to give origins.

Lal Meri - Los Angeles, California (got that one wrong on the show)
Loudest Boom Bah Yea - Austin, Texas
Universal Poplab - Gothenburg, Sweden
Swedish For Beginners - Kalmar, Sweden
Captain And The Kings - Glasgow, Scotland (wrong again)
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Glasgow, Scotland
Zwish - Canberra, Australia
2-L8 - Greece ( I think Salonika, but I can't confirm)#


In my e-mail after a weekend away (510 spam messages!) I was informed that the piece I recorded for It's A Frog's Life ages ago was played on the last episode. If you are at all interested in acoustic music then it's a fantastic podcast to subscribe to.


This week is one of the finest selections of videos for many weeks, and not only because you get three for the price of one with Zwish.

Lal Meri - Dreams Of 18
Universal Poplab - Fame & Hate
Swedish For Beginners - Magical Machines
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Ships With Holes Will Sink [Live, Acoustic Performance]
Zwish - I Am the Emotional Devil (Part 3 of the trilogy, Part 1 of the trilogy It Ends Tonight, Part 2 I Do)
2-L8 - Excuse Me, But I Just Have To Explode (Parts I & II) [Live Performance]


WMVP this week will have a odd little animated video of a podsafe favourite track. Available on Wednesday.

Hopefully the internet will hold out for the week and I'll be back to my usual Saturday release next week. See you then.

A lot of great music this week and a lot of weird chat from the PodCrawl. Thanks to Rowley (Dark Compass), The Grumbler (Music & Mumblings), Pete (PC Podcast) and Gabor (Electrical Language) for contributing to the promos and also to Rowley for recording it all.

Perhaps one of the audio recordings needs a little explanation. Soho in London is one of the centres of the gay community in Britain. That's why we were bemoaning the fact that the 'gorgeous totty' probably wasn't playing for our team.


Not a great selection of videos this week, but the RedTrack one is a nice variation on 'When The Sun Goes Down' by The Arctic Monkeys.

We Should Be Dead - Forget Romance, Let's Dance
Atomic Tom - Red Light Warning Sign [Live Performance, Poor Quality]
RedTrack - Pole Dancer


On WMVP this week there will be a very funny animated video with an added beer break.

See you next week.

For those interested and in time, it seems that the PodCrawl will possibly be streaming video HERE. It looks like we'll be streaming sometime between 12pm and 4pm BST. If anyone is in the London area we'll be starting out at the Montague Pyke pub on Charing Cross Road.

Soon after I recorded the show I learnt that the Bears have also signed Orlando Pace. He's a sure-fire hall of fame Left Tackle and if he stays healthy that's another big boost to the Bears chances. That's a big if though. He hasn't played a full season for about three years.


As I said on the show the Stars And Sons video is fantastic. A bizarre, interesting journey into a fractured psyche with a little bit of the 'sea' theme that is so obvious from the track title.

Stars And Sons - In The Ocean
The Yolks - Faster [Live Performance]
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear [Live Performance]
Argon 40 - 44.66 Days


On WMVP this Wednesday there will be a very funny, very bizarre performance video. You really don't want to miss it.


Now off to count the minutes until PodCrawl time!

Here's the whole sorry tale of Jade Goody. (Trusty, trusty Wikipedia). I only really object to the fact that this horrible woman was a part of our lives here in the UK for 7 years for no good reason. She didn't even win the series of Big Brother she was on.

At time of writing Great Britain has 7 total medals at the World Track Cycling Championships, equal top with Australia. We've still only got 1 Gold though. It says something that that is a little disappointing.

Did anyone get the impression that I quite like that Transit Studio track?


Not a great selection of videos this week.

Pen Expers - Switch [Live Performance]
Nadine Loren - Cyberspace
Transit Studio - Somebody Noble [Live Performance, Poor Quality]


The WMVP this week will be a special extended episode featuring one of the coolest things a band I've played has ever done for me.

Roll on the PodCrawl and see you next week.

Well there wasn't a delay in releasing the show, but there has been a delay on posting these video links.

Since it's now so late I can tell you that Everton disappointingly lost 2-1 to Portsmouth and Mark Cavendish pipped Heinrich Haussler to the line at the Milan-San Remo. Rule Britannia!

I realised after I finished recording that I made a mistake in the show. The man who won Tirreno-Adriatico was Michele Scarponi not Leandro Scarponi. Leandro Scarponi is a footballer. Just shows how small the team is that I can't even remember his name. Of course nobody cares about this.

As I suspected, the Intercontinental Music Lab didn't play the track about LSD, but if you want to see the very entertaining concert the link is HERE.


Not a great selection of videos this week.

Rieser - Drinking Den [Live Performance]
The Steps - Dagger
OurAfter - Push The Pill [Live Performance]


On Wednesday the Weekly Music Video Podcast will have a very funny home-made video featuring a belly dancer, a french maid and some murderous chefs.

Another delayed release, but at least it's coming out on Saturday this week.

Within the next few weeks I will probably have to move this site so expect lots of bells and whistles soon. You'll also probably have to re-subscribe, which is a pain in the arse for you and me.

Any podcasters out there let me know what hosting you use, because I need the cheapest possible decent hosting/website builder package. Current best offer is US$18 per month for 3GB storage and 125GB bandwidth per month.


Nice selection of videos this week. Brad Sucks has a fan submitted effort and the animated video from 2-L8 is very cool and a great example of cheap and effective video making.

Brad Sucks - Fake It
Here Come The Birds - Bravery And Defeat
Attack! Attack! - You and Me
ArthurKill - Can't Back Down
2-L8 - You Walk On Empty Streets Now (Part II)


See you on Wednesday for WMVP with a great home-made stop motion video and on Saturday (hopefully) for another episode of Ourobouros Podcast.

Happy Birthday to me!

Who'd have thought I would make it all the way to 2 years. Certainly not me. I've nearly made it to 100 episodes too.

Thanks to everyone who contributed and even those who didn't, but still got into the show. Sorry for the pestering and the haunting is now off.

Also apologies for the background noise as well. Since I recorded this show I have actually upgraded my computer so it hopefully won't be a problem in the future. Since I'm not all that technical I'm absurdly proud of myself that I managed to install a new motherboard and graphics card all by myself.


Since this is a special anthology show I'm not bothering to put together a video playlist. Frankly I can't be arsed and have better things to do.


On Wednesday the Weekly Music Video Podcast will feature a fantastic fan participation video and on Saturday regular service will be resumed with Episode #90.

So see you next time and remember it's promotion not piracy!

It's quite humbling that one of the artists I played thought enough about what I said about their music that he bothered to make a video of my words. Like I said on the show it's possibly the coolest thing that any artist has ever done that involves me. There are actually 2 versions of Goldi's video online. One that has a full version of my intro and one that has a slightly edited version of my intro followed by the video to the track.

It's interesting that scrolling along the bottom of the MSNBC interview with Goldi in that video it says that Floyd Landis had just won the Tour de France. Of course we now know that he didn't, the lying, cheating steroid freak. Fortunately in his big return in the Tour of California he was nowhere. Congratulations to Levi Leipheimer who has almost certainly won the tour. Trivia Corner: The decisive time trial in the Tour was held in Solvang, which is the main setting of the excellent film Sideways.

Since I haven't plugged it in a while, remember you can follow me on twitter @ourobouros54.


What this weeks video list lacks in quantity it more than makes up in quality. Only two videos, but they are both brilliant. Beangrowers go for a fantastic approach that makes a lip sync video out of hundreds of still photos and Bluejuice jump out of a plane in pursuit of their art.

Beangrowers - Not In A Million Lovers
Bluejuice - The Reductionist


The next episode of the audio podcast will be the second anniversary show. SEND ME YOUR SUBMISSIONS! On the VidCast this week we will have an excellent cell animated video. So see you next time and remember that fuckwit Rush Limbaugh.

Did you notice that I didn't mention Valentine's Day. Maybe it's only because I'm single, but it seems to me that if you need one day to make a special effort and be romantic, then you're in trouble. Bah Humbug!

The webcam I have going spare is a refurbished Microsoft Lifecam VX-6000. Make me an offer if you're interested or it's going back on ebay.


Not a bad selection of videos this week. Fall Back Plan do interesting things with what is basically a performance video and Nadine Loren goes for a haunting minimalist approach.

Julie - Do Si Do [Live Performance]
Fall Back Plan - SuckaPunch
In This Moment - Forever
Janus - If I Were You
Nadine Loren - Big City


See you on Wednesday for another Weekly Music Video Podcast and on Saturday for another audio show and remember I hate February.

A surprisingly short episode from a cold and snowy Bath.

One thing I forgot to mention is the trouble I've been having this week with myspace. As you know I've just started a new podcast the Weekly Music Video Podcast (hint, hint). Myspace is the quickest way of getting in touch with the video directors to get permission to play videos on the show. The problem is that the new show has a blogspot URL and whenever I put the blogspot URL in the message it tripped the spam filter. I had to change my password about 5 times. It's a sorry state of affairs when having a website on a specific service is automatically treated as spam. Dear myspace, not everybody using a blogspot URL is a filthy spammer.


Almost a complete set of videos this week. Rachael Sage brings us a bizarre cabaret show and The Vanguard has a sweet, romantic video shot in a very interesting way.

Clubfeet - Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)
Val Emmich - Hurt More Later
Rachael Sage - Vertigo
The Vanguard - Rio
Hooray for Earth - How Are You Here
Pen Expers - Valentine Shirt [Live Performance]


See you next week and remember, it won't win any marks for originality.
 

Forgive the new podcast not showing up this week. I absolutely promise that this Wednesday (4th February) the Weekly Music Video Podcast will be available from wmvp.blogspot.com.

One thing I forgot to mention about Lazy Fat Stupid American. If you go to lazyfatstupidamerican.com for a limited time the track will be available for free download. I'm sure that if good ol' Rush has heard of Johanna Sigurdardottir (or even Iceland) he would definitely not approve.


Not bad videos this week. the Age of Sound video is an excellent rotoscoped video that I'm hoping the director lets me use in the new VidCast. CoolHunter have decided to make a video using martial arts and motorcycles. Barmy.

the Age of Sound - Anyone
Now And Forever - The Blacksmith [Live, acoustic, poor quality version]
Blonde Acid Cult - Calypso [Live Performance]
CoolHunter - My World

See you on Wednesday for the VidCast and on Saturday for the next podcast, and remember bigotry knows no compromise.

Sorry for the late release of this episode. Sometimes it's REALLY difficult to get access to the computer when I want to record.

If you liked my remix of Jen's track then you can visit her blog at Inside My Head and subscribe to her excellent podcast. The original version of the track I remixed was played on November 19th during NaPodPoMo.

Great news about Innerpartysystem getting some national TV exposure. Go and have a look at both videos. The original version that they couldn't get played and the new version that has been playing on MTV2 here in the UK recently.

What are you still doing here! You must immediately go and subscribe to my new Weekly Music Video Podcast! The debut episode will be released this Wednesday.

And you also really need to submit your favourite tracks to be played on my 2nd anniversary show coming up at the end of February.


Not a bad crop of videos this week. As well as this official video for 'Bombshell From Hell' there's also a really tacky one on YouTube featuring girls in their underwear pole dancing and posing on beds. I'm not going to link to it here, but you are welcome to go and find it if that's your kind of thing.

Ex Norwegian - Something Unreal
Fazeshift - Let Her Down [Live Performance, in a church]
Scum Of The Earth - Bombshell From Hell
Anti-M - Let U In
XBloome - Time Crisis

See you on Wednesday for the inaugural Weekly Music Video Podcast and back here on Saturday (hopefully) for another episode of this here podcast. So see you then and remember I have momentous news!

I'm finding myself with less to rant about recently. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not.

If you like the sound of They Sink Ships, then remember to vote for them to support Attack! Attack! on their upcoming tour. The site to vote is Here. There's also going to be another Attack! Attack! track coming up on the podcast in the next few weeks.

If you haven't got enough podcasts to subscribe to then go and check out the new podcast from Oz's finest Erk. He's started his own music show at erkfm.com.

I still need my listeners to submit their favourite track that has been played on the Ourobouros Podcast for my second anniversary show at the end of February. E-mail your suggestions to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com and if you have the ability to record your own intro for the track you want played then send that along as well.


As I said on the show, the main reason for playing a track by Effektor! again was finding the video for this track on YouTube. It's a very fine example of the stop-motion-using-people genre.

The Happy Hollows - Tambourine [Live Performance]
MC Envy - One Life
Effektor! - BrainBrainBrain

See you next time and remember, it's either exceedingly creepy or exceedingly sweet.

Could you tell I was under-prepared and very tired?

It's taking me a bit of time to truly get back into the groove of podcasting after taking a month off. It didn't help that when I should have been preparing I was doing a remix for Jen of Inside My Head, and while I use the same software to both remix and podcast, I use them in very different ways. It was a little weird switching methodology later in the day.

Don't forget, if you don't make a submission of your favourite track for my second anniversary show at the end of February I will hunt you down. I know where most of you live.

Also follow me on twitter.


One thing I didn't mention when I was gushing over how much I love 'Vitriol' by Bluejuice is that the video is bloody fantastic. They dress up like The Polyphonic Spree, act like a cult and perform to a bemused audience in the middle of a Sydney shopping mall. Ammp's video is nice too.

Bluejuice - Vitriol
Stand - Low Culture [Live Acoustic Performance]
The Let Up - Miss Vanity [Live Performance]
Ammp - Go
Tearwave - Nothing's Wrong
Hospital Ships - Bitter Radio Single [Live Performance]


See you next weekend and remember, that's enough geekery.

 

I'm back with my first new podcast of the year. It's been nearly a month since I recorded a new show so it was kinda weird to get back in the saddle.

The loud buzzing you can hear in the background is my computer. It's on it's last legs and is getting increasingly noisy. There's not much I can do about it so we're just going to have to put up with it until it finally dies.

Another reminder that I've finally signed up to twitter, so you can follow me at twitter.com/ourobouros54 if you really want to.

And please, please, please send me your favourite tracks for the second anniversary show. Let me know your favourite track that I've played and if you can record your own intro for the track then that would be fantastic. Ideally I'd like tracks suggested that have been played in the last year (since the first anniversary special), but any track that has been played on the show can be suggested.


Not much on the video front this week.

The Camerawalls - Clinically Dead For 16 Hours
Marnie Stern - Transformer
Fagan - When The Lights Go Out


Remember that the VidCast featuring my 10 favourite videos for tracks that were played in 2008 will be released on Wednesday and there will be another 'regular' show next Saturday. So see you next time and remember, I hope you're all now headbanging like mental patients.

So here we are with the last numbered podcast of the year. Not so much 'wine' as recent episodes (thank you Pete...), but it's still what you've come to expect from this here fine podcast.

I've slightly changed my recording methods this week so hopefully the links will be a bit clearer from now on. Let me know if there's any noticeable change.

For the next three weeks there will be Christmas/New Year party mixes in the feed. These will be in a different format. No introductions and no links, just 16 tracks from my archive mixed together followed by me telling you what you've just been listening to. That way if you did want to use them as background for a party you don't have me wittering on as well. Each mix will have a different flavour. The first straight ahead dance, the second chill-out and the third industrial.

My 'Best of the Year' podcasts will be out in the first week of January. One featuring my top 10 tracks of the year and another featuring my top 10 videos of the Year. The Joy Formidable are definitely in...


Only two videos this week, but The Scenic's one is kinda cool.

Beta Rays - I Fell In Love
The Scenic - The American Way

Next week there'll be the 'Dance' party mix in the feed, so see you then and remember I'm not all about the hate.


PS Seriously, if anyone in England wants a 3-month old Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppy let me know. Only one left and he's starting to eat a lot...

Back in the saddle and back ranting. Only a little over the hour though.

Having just had a quick look on The Pirate Bay there are at least 5 different cracks of Football Manager 2009. It is 8 days since the game has been released. This only proves my point that piracy protection does not work and only serves to punish honest people by making them go through a ridiculous number of hoops to play the game.

The Sega customer service leaves a lot to be desired. To be fair to them when the enquiry was made they were quick to respond, but not having a running customer service line on the day of release and not giving out clear instructions are both unforgivable.

I made a small error with the URL's for The Opposite Of Faith. Both the URL's are oppositeoffaith not THEoppositeoffaith.

Since I recorded the show I've had a quick look at SellaBand and it's pretty good. Fans of the artists have an opportunity to buy $10 shares to help bands record their record. Once the band has $50,000, SellaBand matches them up with professional A&R and studios and they record the album. The profits are then split between the 'shareholders', the band and SellaBand. It seems unacheivable to get that much money, but apparently 24 artists have done it. All in all it's a really good business model.


Not much on the video front, but the Zox effort is really good. A simple, but mad, idea effectively pulled off. Not a massive budget, but a really nice video. The Ghost Of A Stranger video is really weird. It seems to be a fan video of a guitarist put through a very large pixel filter.

Zox - Line In The Sand
Shortwave - Whatcha Get
Ghost Of A Stranger - Fight It Out (Remix)

It'll be the last numbered show of the year next week, so see you then and remember it's a bit eerie.

It's ironic that the same episode I talk about Michael Moore's film 'Sicko' is the same one I have to edit out my sneezes from. It's about 12 hours after I recorded and I'm feeling much worse. I hope it's a little better before I have to record again on Monday.

Remember you can hear an alternate version of the Savage Lucy track 'Bright Light Amusements' in the episode of Made in the UK that's going to be in this feed tomorrow. I was always intending on putting this episode of MIUK in my personal feed, it's just a happy coincidence that it gives you an opportunity to hear the alternate versions of the same track.

I'm not sure if I explained Made in the UK properly so here goes. MIUK is a collaberative podcast co-ordinated by Rowley Cutler from Dark Compass. A group of British podcasters send two track submissions from British artists to Rowley and he puts them together into 6 track shows that go out every Sunday. As it happens the submission I recorded a couple of weeks ago with a special intro has the original version of the Savage Lucy track. I've played one of izzie's submissions in my own show as well.


Good selection of videos, but as I mentioned on the show only one is posted on YouTube. Really weird. The video for 'This Nightmare' is excellent and worth all that waiting time.

un:armed - This Nighmare
Audrye Sessions - Turn Me Off
Degiheugi ft. Ghostown - Night Black Crow
muSic fOr cAp - What Did You Think About?

See you tomorrow for an episode of MIUK and remember, the show must go on.

Only just over the hour mark this week. Not bad.

It took me a very long time to record this show. The first link was finally completed on the third attempt. I eventually finished at 6:15 this morning.

It's great to be able to play Rieser and Anemo on the same show. Seriously it's these two bands who are most responsible for me starting to produce this podcast.


Not a great selection of videos this week. The two live performances are so dark they're barely worth it, but I committed to giving you any video that was available. The Dragonette video is excellent and I really didn't do it justice by describing it. You're just going to have to see it for yourself.

Evertheory - Rain [Live Performance]
Anemo - MusicBox
More Amor - Same Damn Song [Live Performance]
Dragonette - I Get Around


See you tomorrow for my first shorter episode for NaPodPoMo and remember, Russell Brand is an erudite wanker.

Since I went on three seperate rants on this show I'm rather surprised that the final running time was 'only' 1:11.10.

Some clarification is needed since as usual I did all the talking on the show off the top of my head from memory.

It was the 1998 Tour de France that had all the drug scandals. Eventual winner Marco Pantani was never officially convicted for drug taking, because what he almost certainly took, EPO, could not be detected at the time. His blood tests leave little doubt that he was guilty though, it could just never be definitively proved. The man who finished second Jan Ullrich was also forced to retire after being named in an anti-drug investigation. He also was never officially convicted. In 2004 Pantani was found dead in a hotel room in Rimini from Cocaine poisoning.

Don't get me wrong RCRD LBL is a great site, it's just very frustrating to use for podcasters. No doubt I will be namechecking Explosions In The Sky in the future, so if you want to know what I'm talking about download Welcome, Ghosts from RCRD LBL yourself. It comes from their last EP All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone.

After I recorded the Sharon Little link I realised that the track I had in my sound mixing software (called REAPER by the way, an excellent audio editing package) ended rather abruptly. The file I had was corrupt and re-downloading it didn't work either. I eventually downloaded the track again from a different (LEGAL) source. Not only was it a badly designed PR campaign they weren't even giving out usable content.

One thing I meant to mention, but the ranting got in the way, was Zander Bleck. You may remember he was the artist I played last week with what I described as homoerotic publicity photos. Jen seemed to appreciate his charms as well. I had a message from Zander on myspace saying he would probably tone the photos down. This was surprising on two fronts, Firstly that he was so good natured about it and secondly that he actually listened to the show. I produce this podcast on the assumption that none of the artists will actually listen to it, because it's been my experience that they don't. I always tell the bands they've been played and if I get a response at all it's usually just 'thanks'. It's nice to get messages from bands who have definitely heard the show. I also got an e-mail from Search The House regarding the whole Slurpee/Kennewick story. Very cool.


Almost a full list of videos for this week. Just like the Koh video from last week, for some reason the Broken Day Machine video has only the second half of the song. Weird...

No Gravity - My Dark Side
The Gay Blades - Hey She Say [Live Performance]
Broken Day Machine - Close Enough [Short Live Performance]
Attack! Attack! - This Is A Test
Sharon Little - Follow That Sound
The Lovely Eggs - I Like Birds, But I Like Other Animals Too


See you next week for the start of NaPodPoMo and remember, cycling is broken.

Here's some thumping beats for you.

A couple of these tracks wouldn't pass muster in a club, but I'm never going to be a dance music podcaster and I'd never claim to be. Still it's good to let loose and play some heavier electronica music once in a while.

Only one video this week and it's not even on YouTube.

Los Joplin - Mas Cerca Que Nunca [Live Performance]

This is going to be the last mini episode for a while, so see you at the weekend and remember it's certainly a strange corner of the world.

I always go well over an hour when I rant.

Whatever the podcasters involved say, they were criticising me and my methods. The phraseology of their comparisons made it clear that they were against my standpoint and their own was the correct one. No matter how much they deny it, the sentiment was clear.


Nice selection of videos this week. For some reason the performance by Koh only features the second half of the track and the Boy Crisis video is a weird hybrid of home movie and proper video. It's a typical 'shaky-cam' performance video, but they have re-edited it with the production version of the track. Oddly effective. The Kara Sea's video is also oddly effective. Atmospheric and the very definition of home-made.

Koh - Use You [Short Live Performance]
Stagecoach - (Come Find Me In The) Library
Sonya Kitchell - For Every Drop
Zander Bleck - Get Up
Boy Crisis - Dressed To Digress
The Kara Sea - The City Is A Sorceress


See you on Wednesday for my last midweek show and remember I'm getting vaguely homoerotic myself...

The thing about blanket statements is they are always wrong. This is why I always say I don't like the vast majority of acoustic music. In any genre there is going to be some tracks that grab your attention. Here are 4 acoustic flavoured tracks that I like.

Sorry if this episode is a little rushed and incoherent, but I was determined to get it finished even though the puppies were going mental. If you missed any important details about the bands you can always follow the links below.

50% hit rate for a 4-track episode isn't bad. The Urusen one is nicely atmospheric.

doublePark - I Don't Want To Party
Urusen - Nosediving

See you at the weekend and remember, the puppies were trying to kill each other.

Even though I played a 9 1/2 minute track It was still under an hour. I guess I was just too depressed to talk too much.

I seriously considered just not doing the podcast this week, but I've got too much music lined up to take a week off. It's just as well I recorded the mid-week show for last week early, or you'd have had two 'depressive casts' in a row.


Not bad videos this week. The Pin-Up Girls video was actually directed by the singer and he did a pretty good job. Redvers Downs did a very good parody of 'Go With The Flow' by QOTSA.

The Pin-Up Girls - All Seats Are Taken
Second Dan - Forget To Remember
Redvers Downs - Oh Lover
Sine Star Project - The Temptress [Live Performance]


See you for another mid-week show on Wednesday and remember, always check your back-ups.

When you are doing a podcast there are certain bands you fall in love with. No matter how much you'd like to believe that each band you play has an equal place in your heart, some bands are always going to be favourites. Here are four of my all-time favourite bands, with new material I haven't played before.

My favourite track of last year was 'Vultures' by Dead World Leaders and my favourite album was 'The Well Dressed Thief' by Rieser. Here we have new tracks by both bands as well as more tracks by GK & The Renegades, who I played first on a podcast (to the best of my knowledge) and The Chiara L's who I have spread throughout the podosphere.

I cannot say enough how much I love these 4 bands.


Only one video this episode, but it's a good one. Nicely tongue-in-cheek and another masterclass in cheap video making.

Rieser - Confusion Parade

See you next time and remember if you don't go and download it right now I will not be your friend anymore.

I was rather surprised that I got the show in well under an hour this week. I guess I used up all my talking on HN 130. (I'm going to keep on plugging that until you go and listen to it!)

Big thanks to Shawno And Jen for inviting me onto their show. It was a lot of fun and let's hope we can do it again sometime.

For those Trans-Atlantic listeners, it's probably a good idea to explain the UEFA Cup. It's a football (or if you're a heathen, soccer) competition for clubs all over Europe. It's the second-tier European competition and the two ways you can get into it are finishing behind the elite in your domestic league or getting knocked out of the more important European Champions League. For example Everton finished 5th in the English League and Standard Liege who beat them were champions of Belgium who then got knocked out of the Champions League. We bought their best player and they still beat us convincingly.


Pretty cool selection of videos this week, and also a lot of them. The Ravens Court are typically over-the-top and All Crazy & Live Sex Act are Lo-Fi in the best possible way.

The Fins - Adaptor
Dead Leaf Echo - Tears
The Ravens Court - Live Wire
All Crazy - Wrong Time
Live Sex Act - FiSt
Trevor Rockwell - Take It [This is a promo video from the record label that includes snippets of this track and the two remixes on the single.]


Remember there will be a mini episode released on Wednesday, so see you then and remember, don't panic you podcast police.

Once again my playlist has got insanely long so for the next 4 weeks there will be an extra mini show in the feed on a Wednesday. Each one will have a theme and this episode has 4 tracks from the '25' compilation released by netlabel af-music. You can download the whole compilation FOR FREE here.

Don't forget to listen to the next episode of Hyper Nonsense. I will be a guest on the show this week. I'll be phoning into HN 130.


Given that the four tracks for this podcast come from a netlabel I'm rather surprised that I found a video for this episode. It's only a live performance, but it's cool that I found one at all.

The Search - The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter [Live Performance]

See you at the weekend and remember, listen to HN130!

Given that I had a big rant about myspace and a big moan about my lack of a job and the Chicago Bears, I'm rather surprised this episode only clocked in at 1:06.

As a matter of fact after I recorded this show there was a blog posted by Tom, the founder of myspace, which apparently makes my rant redundant. Supposedly the free downloads will be coming back once the new software is sorted out. However he didn't say how long this would take or how smooth it would be. Given that they seem to have completely rebuilt the music aspects of myspace I'm not hopeful it will be smooth. My points about the new Myspace Music service being too little too late stands and the screwing over of all those bands who do want free downloads available on myspace while the change over is ongoing is unforgivable.

Remember everybody go along to Haiku Of Frustration and contribute!

I love that Dennis Green clip I started the show with. In 2006 the Arizona Cardinals lost a 20 point lead in under 20 minutes to Da Bears and in the post game press conference the soft-spoken Green completely lost it. Here's the clip. The British equivalent is Kevin Keegan. In 1996 his Newcastle United team was so close to winning the title from Manchester United, but a late season collapse meant that Man Utd won the Premier League title. Just before the end of the season Keegan lost it in a post-game interview with Sky Sports. Here's that clip.


Quite nice selection of videos this week. The Four Trips Ahead video is very good, but it's hardly art. I always search for the best live performance when there's no 'produced' video, and it just so happened that the clip with the best A/V quality for Delta Spirit was the one where they're performing in a record store car park. Seriously, how cool is it that you have a gig in a car park. Since I've recorded the show I've checked and the store is in Encinitas, California. It's in San Diego county, so I was nearly right.

Four Trips Ahead - A Moment
Electric Touch - Love In Our Hearts
Delta Spirit - Trashcan [Live Performance]
Why? - The Hollows

Remember there's going to be a special mid-week mini episode this week. So See you then and remember, they are who we thought they were!

Despite almost nothing happening this week I still managed to make the podcast over an hour long. I just can't stop talking sometimes.

On the other hand because I haven't had a lot else to do, I've been beavering away at a special project that you'll be able to see the fruits of sometime in mid December. Do you ever have an idea and you just have to do it right then, even if it's far too early to be doing it?

To see the 'battle' between Orange Tim and myself on the Hyper Nonsense comment page then head over there now. Some of it's quite funny. Some of it's just pathetic. While you're over there why not subscribe to the podcast itself. You won't regret it.


Pretty good selection of videos this week. 5 videos out of 8 tracks is a good average for me. They're all promo videos as well rather than live performances captured on dodgy camcorders and phones.

The Hair - Half Cut
{satellite-state} - Plans
Amy MacDonald - Mr. Rock & Roll
Ameris Shephard - Scream
Thermostatic - Driving

See you next week and remember, soon it shall be mine!

Very long show this week. I really must stop talking for so long about subjects that no-one else cares about.

Speaking of which, this picture is of Edvald Boasson Hagen, who I mentioned on the show. His victory on the stage of the Tour of Britain into Stoke was one of the best finishes of any cycle race I've ever seen. He pipped a rider named Giario Ermeti literally on the line. Ermeti had been leading on his own for about 20km from the finish and never saw Hagen until he was beaten by him. If the finishing line had been two inches closer then Ermeti would have won. This guy is going to go far, and in the near future he's going to be a legitimate contender for the Tour de France.

Once again big congratultions to Elbow for winning the Mercury Music Prize for their latest album 'The Seldom Seen Kid'. Here's the video for Red I promised. This is the track I played a snippet from on the podcast and comes from Elbow's 2001 debut album 'Asleep At The Back'.

Just before I started writing this blog I received a comment from my previous show written by Jen from the Hyper Nonsense show. She's an Illinois native and obviously appreciates a fellow Bears fan. The reason I support the Bears is that my uncle used to work for the World Bank and was posted all over the world in his career. This means my cousins were born in Chicago and when I first got interested in American Football it was obvious to support the Chicago team. As it happens I'm writing this wearing my Rex Grossman jersey. Fans will know just how pathetic that is.

Nice selection of videos this week. The novel approach to producing a cheap video by Alkari and the one-take effort by Passenger are particularly good.

Alkari - Pieces Of Rome
Passenger - Walk You Home (AKA Night Vision Binoculars)
The Lodger - The Good Old Days
NiCad - Garments [Live Performance]

See you next time and remember, that's well worth your time going along to having a look for?

Managed to keep it WELL under the hour mark this week. Anxiousness about 9 little squeaking critters probably had something to do with it.

I also want credit for not making any '69' jokes in this episode.

Bugger I've just made one.

RCRD LBL is a fantastic site with some seriously mainstream acts available as completely free and legal mp3's. It must be said that quite a lot of these free tracks are remixes. It seems to be a common strategy for big labels trying to shoulder their way into our little corner of the internets. Their thought seems to be 'oh it's only a remix, we can shove that out for free'. This attitude greatly misunderstands the current market for music. Podcasters like me have found quality bands out there who are more than happy to release their catalogues for free download. Releasing a remix to drum up enthusiasm just doesn't cut it. These remixes (if they're done right) usually don't bear any relationship to the track they're based on. It's also discrediting the hard work of the remixers. Labels should realise that releasing free music doesn't always mean less sales.


Not many videos this week.

The DeathSet - Negative Thinking
My Brightest Diamond - Inside A Boy [Live Performance]
Sick Of Sarah - Daisies

See you next time and remember, you don't force anybody to dress up as a squirrel

Rather remarkably this episode went under the hour mark. With the long 'catching-up' section at the beginning of the show and two small puppy related interruptions I was sure I would go over.

Speaking of puppies, no doubt you will have noticed the picture I have posted of our dog Izzie and her 9 new arrivals (Bradley the escape artist is far left). I'm sure you'll agree that they are all very cute. Try recording a podcast when you have to look over your shoulder every few minutes to check no-one is getting crushed.

Last time the podcast got interrupted by Izzie I promised a picture, and now thanks to a new digital camera I can finally provide one for you. Given this modern, hi-tech age it's rather remarkable that this is the first time there's been a digital camera in the house.

I feel I must apologize to my international listeners for my borderline jingoistic celebration of the British Olympic cycling team. I am a big sports fan and my two particular passions are cycling and American football. Seeing Britain do well at the Olympics at a sport I love so much made me prouder than I can possibly say. I realise that not all my listeners are British, but I hope you will forgive a little national pride.


Pretty good collection of videos this week. Partly thanks to the fact that Ariel Cyber PR also posts videos on their service. As mentioned on the show The Crash Moderns' video is a lot of fun.

sOuth - Better Things
Soundside - Loss For Words
The Crash Moderns - Pimp My Life
The SilenTreatment - Pretty Little Girl

And as tribute to Elle S'Appelle (RIP) here's their excellent video for Little Flame

See you next time, and remember it doesn't matter if you are sitting down.

In the 18 months or so since I've been doing this podcast, this is probably the one I'm most proud of. It's pretty heavyweight with some big political ideas. Hopefully it's also got some really quality music as well.

 

The British National Party, Nationalism in general and Nick Griffin are dangerous things and need to be fought at every turn. A small part of this fight is the Love Music, Hate Racism campaign and the compilation album that this podcast is dedicated to raises money for this organization. You can find the album at Repeat Records and it costs a measly £3 including P&P.

 

Since I don't use a script anymore and rarely use notes, sometimes the links on the podcast can be a little rambling. In this case I think it's worth writing down here the main points of my argument in a coherent and measured form.

 

1.      We should never forget that the BNP was formed from the Neo-Nazi National Front. No matter how slickly presented and plausible they now are this party are racist scum.

2.      Both the Nazis in Germany and the Bolsheviks in Russia were minority parties who were discounted until they took power. The BNP have 'prepared' for an eventuality like this in the UK.

3.      Nick Griffin describes Islam as an 'innately fanatical' religion. This is like saying Christianity is innately fanatical. All religions have extremes on both ends and the only difference with Islam is that the extremely conservative have a massive budget.

4.      Nick Griffin seems to genuinely believe that he can stop Islamic extremism by simply making them go home. Even if this concept was achievable it would not work. Forcibly removing people from their home country is going to create more extremism. We'd only be proving their argument for them.

5.      It is my belief that there are many philosophies that work perfectly in theory, but human nature makes them impossible to implement in the real world. Communism is one and Salafism is another. The idea of Salafist thought is to go back to the Islam that was practised in the first three generations after the prophet Muhammad. It's fundamentalism in the truest sense of the word and I don't think it's a theory that is bad. Unfortunately the way it has come to be practised, mainly thanks to the Saudi Arabian oil fields, is to whip up hysteria about the undue influence that the western world has on the Islamic one. Salafism is a dangerous philosophy, but it is not dangerous simply because it is Islamic, it is dangerous because of the way its followers have chosen to implement its tenets.

 

I hope all that is a little clearer than my links in the podcast. In general I don't think politics should enter into the music world, but there are exceptions to every rule and the fight against Nazism is one of those rules.

 

Videos are not really the point of this podcast, but I'm not going to break with tradition so here are the videos I've found.

 

Nebraska – New Uniform [Live Performance]

We Start Fires – Hot Metal [ Live Performance]

 

 

See you next time and remember, love music hate racism.   

Only just over the hour mark. Note to self, less angry ranting about war movies next time...

A happy week for me. Podcasted bands getting TV exposure, friends getting nominated for awards and the chance that I will finally get myself a job.

Also lots of success in the Olympics, especially in my beloved cycling. By the time you read this Great Britain will probably have a ton load more than the two golds and a silver we currently have.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that Atlantic Wave Radio is back. I had only just started listening to it when it went 'off-air' so I'm really pleased to see it back.


Not much on the video front this week.

The Exits - Neon City
BANGBANGBANG! - Fashion Victim [Live Performance]
Hot Little Hands - Scene Of The Crime

See you next time and remember, it's been a good week.

Veery close to the hour mark on a show I was convinced I'd go well over on. I'm getting better.

Quite coincidentally both me and Pete Cogle at PC Podcast started our shows this week with exactly the same track. I suppose it's appropriate since Pete originally introduced me to Dead World Leaders and it was him who made me aware of the new material after I saw he'd submitted some to AMPed.

There's a new cable music channel starting in the UK and they asked people to create a themed 10 track video playlist for possible inclusion on the channel. Here's my effort on the theme of 'Cheap Videos':

OK Go - Here It Goes Again Take 4 people, 8 treadmills and a sister who's a choreographer and you have an internet phenomena. Since I was one of the few people who actually bought OK Go's FIRST album I was very happy for them.

Radiohead - No Surprises As I mentioned last week I don't really like the majority of Radiohead's music, but they always produce good videos. The little smile Thom gives as the water drains is priceless.

Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life Put a couch in a coffee shop, ask people (mainly couples) to listen to the track and film their reactions. Amazingly simple, amazingly effective. I particularly like the reaction to the 'lottery' line. No matter how many times I see this video it still makes me smile.

Seagull Strange - Love's Sick Disease The one truly 'unknown' band I included in the list. It's a very similar video to 'My Year In Lists' by Los Campesinos!, but I plumped for this one because it fits the song better. Basically it's just the whole band lip-syncing to the track. It's sounds crap, it isn't.

Fatboy Slim - Praise You Fatboy Slim is one of my favourite artists and Spike Jonze is one of my favourite directors, but having said that I've never really liked this video. However it is very well known and fits in perfectly with the theme.

Digitalism - Pogo I debated with myself a long time before finally including this one. I absolutely love it, but I would lay money it's the most expensive video in this list. I'm not really sure it qualifies as 'cheap', but it's so good and aesthetically it fits.

Moby - Bodyrock The legend about this video (and I'm not sure if it's true) is that the director had a concept for the video, but as soon as Moby saw these audition tapes he insisted that they be released as the video. Not a bad idea.

The Black Ghosts - Repetition Kills You Having the lyrics printed on baseball caps is a new variation on an old theme, and it's pulled off really well in this video. It's also a video where everyone is clearly having a lot of fun.

Elle S'Appelle - Little Flame Take various round-shaped household objects and a camcorder and make a video. The pinnacle of home-made videos and absolute proof that cheap doesn't mean bad.

Feeder - Just A Day Why did no-one do this before? The lucky fact that this track had already been a B-Side before it was a single meant that they could get the fans to make their video for them. The imagination of some submissions and the exuberance of others makes this a classic video. Not just for cheap videos, but for videos full stop.


Now that we've got through the playlist done for 4Music it's time for this weeks Podcast video playlist.

Fat City Reprise - People Like You [Live Performance]
MayOrWest - Back From The Brink
Crud - Reality

See you next time and remember, there's no justification for pixelation.

See what happens when I don't rant at anything. The show comes in at well under the hour mark. A job well done.

The quote I made in the show when describing hip-hop music and which provides the title for this episode is actually a song lyric. It's a song that pretty much agrees with my stance on hip-hop and I'd be interested to see if anyone recognises it. Answers on a postcard please (or at least a blogpage).

One thing I neglected to mention in the show is that I received an e-mail this week from a listener I'd never heard from before. His name's Gustav Bertha and despite the name he's actually Scottish (although he lives in Switzerland). He's a musician and podcaster so have a listen to his Way Past Bedtime Radio Show. He was complimentary about my show and agrees that it's weird that listeners never seem to get in touch, but having said that the important thing is that the band names get mentioned and enter the minds of the listeners. After all that's what it's all about.


Really, really nice selection of videos this week. Both in quantitiy and quality. Usually I'm lucky if there's one decent piece of work in the collection, but this week there are at least three. As mentioned on the show, the Innerpartysystem is absolutely fantastic and is an early entry for my top 10 VidCast. The Hot Tramps video is a little weird as it's actually a dance routine that uses the track. It's the video that is linked on their myspace site so it's 'sanctioned' and is probably as close as we're going to get to an official video so I added it to the play list.

The Hot Tramps - Dixie Peach
Windmill - Tokyo Moon
The Brute Chorus - Grow Fins
Innerpartysystem - Don't Stop
The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Choose To Give It
Plastic Operator - Home 0207


See you next time and remember, the West Country is the best part of the world.

Bit late this week. Sorry about that, but I've only just got access to the family computer. Also went over the hour mark for the first time in about a month, but I just had too much ranting. I can't help myself.

Have a look at the full list of nominations for the Mercury Music Prize. As usual there's a mix of successful albums from the upper echelons of the charts, some underground stuff that just needs exposure and the token folk and jazz contenders. I still think Hold On Now Youngster by Los Campesinos! was cruelly overlooked.


Nice collection of videos this week. The Black Ghosts' one is very clever and a lot of fun and the Five A.M. one is star studded and has a powerful message. Unfortunately it's not for the song I actually played on the podcast, but it's such a good piece of work I'm bending my rules for this week. Seabird are working on an official video for their track, but it's not ready yet so for the time being here's a live performance.

The Black Ghosts - Repetition Kills You
The Whip - Muzzle #1
Seabird - Rescue [Live Performance]
Five A.M. - Still In Love With You

See you next time and remember I'm a bit angry aren't I?

Just squeaked under the hour mark this week. I was sure I would go over with all the ranting and wheedling there was in this episode.

I debated with myself whether to put the explicit tag on this show. My rule is that I put the tag on if there is audible swearing in any of the tracks. At the end of the day I thought it would be hypocritical of me to put the tag on. If it offends you I apologize (and grow up).

A quite nice bit of trivia for this show is we have two duos who are couples. I believe in both cases they might be married as well. Quite sweet, or at least sweeter than I usually am.

Let the comments roll in...

 

Nice selection and variety of videos this week. The Donora video was made by a project called Post Secret, which seems to be one of those places you can send anonymous confessions. It's very well put together and very effective. The Stampead video is very good as well. I'm not generally a fan of 'slideshow' videos. They never seem to quite work and are usually just lazy. This one however is very cool. Lots of interesting images that are edited together very well and fit the song perfectly. It's an almost subliminal experience.

How To Swim - Little Orgasm Of Disappointment

Donora - Shhh

Kinetica - Epoch

Stampead - Sinners, Saints & Accidents

GoodNight City - Tragedy [Live Performance]

vileevils vs. The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside

 

See you next week and remember, you don't want me to talk about masturbation do you?

 

 

 

 

 

(Do You?)

Ooops! Released a little bit late this week. I actually forgot it was Wednesday. The perils of being unemployed.

Despite the late release I hope you enjoy this final midweek show. It's a bit of a weak theme, but the songs hang together rather well I think.

 

We have a story with the videos this week. In the show I mentioned an extraordinary video that was made unofficially for The Joy Formidable's track. It featured video of various people of both genders masturbating. This was not something sleazy (OK, maybe a little) it was only shot from the shoulders up and you never saw as much as an exposed breast. It was a little bit uncomfortable, a little bit arousing and a little bit brilliant. Between my recording the show and writing this blog, those killjoys at YouTube have removed the video for violating policy. In my opinion it did not violate anything and they were stupid for removing it. The band are not going to make a stand because they now have an official video which is not controversial in the slightest. The new video is a very fine piece of work, but not nearly as memorable as the unofficial one. I just wish I could link to both versions.

Angelspit - Skinny Little Bitch [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

BANGBANGBANG! - This Way, That Way [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

The Joy Formidable - Austere

 

See you at the weekend and remember it's not fair to keep the bands waiting.

A tiny bit hysterical in this weeks show. I recorded considerably later than I usually do after not having much sleep. Computer failure meant I didn't have as much preperation time as I would have liked either.

This is probably the reason that I made several stumbles this week including potentially insulting my trans-atlantic colleague Jen. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

And talking about insulting people, the spectre of the GK & The Renegades 'controversy' reared it's head this week. Trust me Jack it's not a big deal.

Going to be continuing with MIUK for the next few shows including izzie Voodoo making her debut as a host tomorrow. Rather enjoying it and Rowley seems to think I did a good job. I don't really care how many people listen (although you should all be subscribed of course), but I don't want to spoil the good work that Rowley's done over the past 6 months or so.

 

Pretty good selection of videos this week. Both in quantity and quality. The Come On Gang! one is only a teaser for the video which is being made now, but it promises good things to come.

GK & The Renegades - It's Down To You [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

My American Heart - The Shake (Awful Feeling)

The Crash That Took Me - Julianne

Come On Gang! - Wheels [Teaser]

Simon Wilcox - Eyes On You

Reverse E - The Windows

 

See you next time and remember, I'm babbling so lets just move on.

A global musical trip of epic proportions! Or just an excuse to play music from exotic corners of the world. You decide...

It occured to me after I'd finished putting this show together that it's rather surprising that there are no acts sourced from Jamendo. Whenever a band on a podcast comes from an unusual country, particularly continental Europe, 9 times out of 10 the podcaster got it from Jamendo. I managed to put together a 4 track show with a global span and never went to the Jamendo well once. I'm oddly proud of myself.

 

75% success rate on the video front this week. The Hedtrip one is very clever and rather cool.

Taken By Cars - Uh Oh

Hedtrip - Mother Love

The Ravens Court - Revolution

 

See you at the weekend for a regular show and remember, we are living in a golden age.

With all my gushing about VQS and the sad demise of AIMP I was sure I would go over the hour mark for this show. I don't know what's been going on recently, but I'm consistently managing my ideal length of less than an hour.

One thing I forgot to mention on the show is that izzie Voodoo kindly played my promo on the last episode of her show. Unlike me she doesn't play a lot of promos, so that was really cool. She also sent me a very nice e-mail regarding the review of her album I wrote. I was worried she wasn't going to like it, but shes put the whole thing on her website. Even the mildly critical stuff I wrote.

Podcasting can be time consuming so it's unfortunately rather common for shows to stop broadcast. At least Dan told us that the latest episode of American Indie Music Podcast would be the last one. Thanks for the great music and I hope you manage to come back Dan.

The great thing about podcasting is also one of the worst things. Every week I put out a music programme. I am a complete amateur with absolutely no background in music and a competent background in technology. It is a great thing that someone like me can send music all around the world and I have verifiable listeners in the US, Sweden and Australia. We are living in a golden age where access to music can be universal. This is also a bad thing in a way. I am one person with no staff to deal with. Each week I can play exactly what I want and I do. I am imposing my personal music taste on my listeners with no checks and balances. My deep seated aversions to R & B, Jazz and the vast majority of Acoustic music can come through without any interference. But this also means that when I find a track I like in one of those genres I can mix up my policy and play it. The Ruben Angel track is really not something I thought I would have played and I have another track lined up for a few weeks that is a much heavier Hip Hop influenced track. It's my musical taste, it's weird and I can send it out worldwide very easily. Ohhh The Power!!!!!

 

Not many videos. The Femtastic one is very interesting as the whole thing's been rotoscoped. For those who don't know, rotoscoping is a process where each individual frame of a piece of film gets painted over to create animation. At least that's how it used to work. In this modern, digital age it's probably not nearly as time consuming as that. However it's done nowadays, it's an effective and interesting visual style. If you search on YouTube you can find the 'before' video so you can see what it looked like before it was painted over.

Jennings - Femtastic

Ruben Angel - Stereo Is Dead

My Secret Life - Easy When You Know How [Live Performance]

Rosalita - Way Past Bedtime [Live Performance]

 

See you next time and remember open the mic and see what happens.

The second of my planned four mid-week extra episodes. This time the theme is bands I've played in the past who've recently sent me new music.

A couple of clarifications from the links in the show:

The Slants backgrounds are Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese and Filipino. They also have a token caucasian.

Since I recorded the show The Ropes have made another track available on their myspace. It's the title track from their forthcoming album 'What They Do For Fun'. So at time of writing you can get four lovely mp3's for absolutely nothing.

 

As with last weeks show, there's not much on the video front and with only two videos I'm not going to put the video player on the myspace page. Here are the links though.

The Slants - Kokoro (I Fall To Pieces) [Live Performance]

The Ropes - I Don't Like To Get Dirty

 

See you at the weekend for the regular show and next Wednesday for another mini episode and remember it's got an explicit tag for a very good reason.

Well under the hour mark this week. I was sure I was going to go over and am now rather pleased with myself.

As promised on the show, here are the statistics for where my artists come from. This is a countdown of artists not number of plays. For instance I've played Los Campesinos! and Echolounge several times but Wales only gets one mark for each artist. The list makes fairly interesting reading. At least for me...

CITY

1. London 40 Artists

2. New York 22 Artists

3. Los Angeles 18 Artists

4. Bristol 16 Artists

5. Manchester 9 Artists

=6. Bath, Glasgow 8 Artists

8. Montreal 7 Artists

=9. Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Sheffield, Stockholm 6 Artists

REGION

1. London 40 Artists

2. California 36 Artists

3. New York State 24 Artists

4. Yorkshire 18 Artists

5. Bristol 16 Artists

6. Somerset 14 Artists

7. Manchester 9 Artists

=8. Oregon, Texas, Glasgow 8 Artists

COUNTRY

1. England 158 Artists

2. USA 146 Artists

3. Canada 22 Artists

4. Scotland 17 Artists

5. Australia 11 Artists

6. Sweden 10 Artists

7. Germany 6 Artists

=8. France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Wales 3 Artists

Putting this list together has made me realise two things. I've been doing this a pretty long time if that's the amount of bands I've played and also the diversity of countries I've had music from. Those not on the list include Brazil, Faroe Islands, Thailand & South Africa.

It was a fun exercise for me and I hope it's marginally interesting for my listeners. To answer Gabor Kovac's question, if I cheat slightly and include British Columbia in Canada to 'The Pacific Northwest' then 6.6% of my artists come from that region.

With the vaguely interesting statistics out of the way a quick reminder to check out the PCP2 Industrial show that I inspired and co-hosted with Pete Cogle and Rowley Cutler. It was a lot of fun to do and the show turned out rather well, with a nice diversity of styles.

 

Slim pickings this week for the videos, but the JDSY one is delightfully quirky.

FANOE - I Am

Say Hi - Toil & Trouble [Live Performance]

Ejectorseat - To Be More Animal [Live Performance]

JDSY - Smoke And Mirrors

 

There'll be another mini-episode midweek, so see you then and remember people just can't spell the surnames right.

 

In an effort to clear the backlog of music I have stored up to play I have decided to release this shorter mid-week episode of my podcast. When you have 6 weeks worth of music to play it's starting to get a little ridiculous.

The theme for this extra show is Wonderland Records, a really cool independent label from Sweden. Back in February Sebastian Hess, who runs the label, e-mailed me out of the blue with a link to download loads of promotional mp3's from his labels roster. I liked what I heard and played tracks by Markovic and Emmon on Episode #39. A couple of weeks ago Sebastian e-mailed me again saying he's updated the promotional download page if I wanted a listen. I of course said yes and here are 4 more tracks from the label.

 

For a short show it's a fairly high hit rate on the video front, 50%. Since there's only two videos I wont be putting the player on the myspace page. Just follow the links below or here's a link to the YouTube playlist.

Markovic - Crayons

Emmon - Rock D'Amour

 

See you at the weekend for a 'regular' show and remember, Wonderland is a nice place to visit.

I was absolutely convinced I would go over the hour mark with this show considering the audio I recorded at the PodCrawl, but for the first time in about a month I was well under. Just after I recorded the show I received an e-mail from my friend Tim asking me keep the length down. He's aiming for 35-40 minutes, but at this stage I think under an hour is the most achievable target. We take our victories when we can.

It was great to use the audio I recorded at the PodCrawl last week. Even at this stage it brought back good memories. Here's to the next one. Edinburgh/Liverpool/Birmingham/Manchester (Delete when we work it out) here we come!

I've got so much music stored up to play at the moment that I'm probably going to put a mid-week bonus episode in the feed this week. Look out for that on Wednesday.

 

Nice selection of videos this week. The NIN one is unofficial but very funny. It's probably as official as we're going to get so I had no hesitation in putting it in the playlist. The Brad Sucks video is also unofficial, but very cool.

Reel Big Fish - Party Down

Nine Inch Nails - Discipline

Tin Soldiers - 24 Hours

Get Back Loretta - Mary Sunday

Radars To The Sky - Long Walk Home [Live Performance]

Jonny Dongel - Sorry Simon

Brad Sucks - Making Me Nervous

 

See you next time and remember, Simon Cowell is a tosser.

In yet another example of podcast time-twisting, this episode was recorded before I went on the PodCrawl on Friday, but I'm writing this on Saturday after the event. It was a lot of fun, but slightly strange as I hadn't slept for about 30 hours by the end of it. Recording was done, but my iPods battery was drained after nearly an hour. I haven't actually listened to what was recorded yet, I haven't been brave enough. You'll probably get some of that recorded material in next weeks show.

Note to self: don't record in the late afternoon when the dog thinks she should be taken for her walk. When I leant forward towards the mic to record the first link for this show Izzie, my 16 month old Staffordshire Bull Terrier, decided it would be fun to jump up behind me in the chair. This is one of her favourite positions so I thought nothing more of it. Half way through the recording of that link she decided to start furiously licking my neck. This is one of her methods to tell me that it's REALLY walkie-time. During the second link she then started whining loudly right next to me. I was planning on posting a picture of my admittedly very cute dog, but I don't have any digital photos and I didn't have time to take one. Fortunately Izzie Voodoo wasn't as much hassle...

Because of the long time that it takes between my getting a song to play and it actually getting on the play list I've got used to other podcasters beating me to playing particular tracks. Oddly this happened three times in this particular show.

 

Not a bad selection of videos this week.

Mates Of State - My Only Offer [Live Performance]

The Ascetic Junkies - Dracula [Live Performance]

Flykkiller - Fear [This video is for the original version of the song, not the remix I played]

Crisk. - Beute

Foals - Balloons

 

See you next week and remember, I'll take you for a walk in a minute.

It was a great experience to go and see Rosalita and Ejectorseat live here in Bath last week. Unfortunately the recording of the interviews didn't go so well with the mic cutting out seemingly at random. Very frustrating, but there's enough of the interviews left to make some kind of sense. It was a delicate editing job to make it hang together, but I think I managed OK.

One thing that probably needs to be explained is that the Moles venue here in Bath is actually underground. It's built into an old wine cellar on the side of a hill. This means that the entrance to the venue is on road level, while the pavement is on a higher level above the entrance. Where the interviews were conducted was on this higher pavement level so we were on top of the venue.

Looking forward to the second 'PodCrawl' where a bunch of us degenerate podcasting types are going to meet up in London and have some serious networking time (i.e. some serious drinking time). On the off chance that I have some listeners in the London area who want to join us then we are meeting in the Montague Pyke pub on Charing Cross Road at Noon on the 13th June. I'm intending on recording some of our 'discussions' so at some point there'll probably be recordings shoved at random into my show.

 

Bit sparse on the video front this week, but as mentioned in the interview the Ejectorseat one is particularly fine. As I've said many, many times in the past you don't need an astronomical budget to come up with an effective video. In this case all you need is five band members, five video cameras and five locations. Very simple, very cool.

Rosalita - What Would Your Mother Say?

Ejectorseat - Not My Girl

Broken Trophy - 50 Times A Day [Live Performance]

Five Star Iris - Starry Eyed [Live Performance]

Atoms Inception - Lovely

 

See you next time and remember, sometimes microphones can be annoying.

Sometimes I just can't stop myself talking...

I realised that a lot of my links were getting very long, but to go well over the hour mark for the second straight week was surprising. Note to self, less talking. (And a prize for anyone who recognizes that last quote).

Mainly because of my excessive talking I have made a slight change to the way I edit my show together. I consider myself a purist and have always been reluctant to talk over the beginnings and the ends of tracks. My philosophy has always been to play the track as the artist intended and not to spoil it by talking over it. The necessity of making this show as short as possible has made me reconsider. I think it still sounds pretty good. Since I was making that change I also decided to make another one and this is the first 'regular' show that has a title other than the number.

A couple of errata regarding the link for City Breathing. Of course I mispoke and the band they remind me of is Explosions In The Sky. They are a really fine instrumental indie band who I have loved since they did the soundtrack to a great American Football movie called Friday Night Lights. (By the way Friday Night Lights the book by Buzz Bissinger is a fine read even if you don't like American Football). Have a listen to Explosions In The Sky at their website. The other mistake I made about City Breathing is that their CD's are available for between $5 and $12 it's their T-Shirts that are available for between $8 and $15. Even better value!

 

So close to a complete video playlist this week. Electrocute let me down at the last minute. Oh well, the quest continues...

Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Liam Finn - Second Chance

The Charlatans - You Cross My Path

The Attika State - Anchors

City Breathing - Rain And Revolution

Say Hi - Northwestern Girls [Live, Acoustic Performance]

 

I'm now off to watch and interview Rosalita & Ejectorseat! See you next time and remember, it's not right to torture podcasters just to entertain us.

It seems I really had a lot of extra stuff to talk about as I've gone well over the hour mark for the first time on an 8 track show. Note to self, stop talking...

The main reason for this loquacity is the fact that I had two different sets of e-mail correspondence this week. It's a rare enough occurence when I get one e-mail in a week that relates to my show, so to get several from two different people was a nice change.

A welcome to the new de facto leader of the Association of Music Podcasting the venerable Mr. Pete Cogle. Let's hope that our new boss can bring AMP into the fore-front of the podcasting community where it belongs.

And please remember that this show has the explicit tag and is most definitely not work-safe. Just look at the last track title.

 

Slim pickings on the video front this week.

Dark Room Notes - Love Like Nicotine

Postmark Twain - Matter Of Seconds [Live Performance]

 

See you next time and remember, it's promotion not piracy.

New music source for this week with all music coming from MusicSUBMIT.com. Not entirely happy with having to pay for podplay, but at the end of the day the more new music I hear the more new music I can send into your ears.

A plot has been hatched this week to plug Made In The UK on an upcoming episode of AMPed. A little bit ethically dubious to plug a non-AMP anthology show on the AMP anthology show, but that's what Rowley from Dark Compass is planning to do, so there's going to be a lot of cross-over on those two shows over the next few weeks.

 

Nice selection of videos this week, with three different but equally good videos. The zwish one is home-made and very funny, Otto's Daughter has some impressive production values and fits the song well and Fans Of Jimmy Century is very tongue-in-cheek and ridiculously got banned by AOL videos for excessive sexual content. Make up your own mind and click the links below.

zwish - Toy Boy

Otto's Daughter - Everything

Fans Of Jimmy Century - Blonde Ambition

 

See you next time and remember, it's amazing what you can do with some Lego and some Jam.

Another bit of nostalgia this week with all the tracks by artists who have previously appeared on the show.

The main reasoning behind this is all the lovely CD's I've been receiving through the post to review. Those lovely blokes at The Haiku not only sent me their debut CD but they also put me down as one of only 8 people given an acknowledgement in their sleeve notes. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

One of my favourite bands, The Madisons, have split up but Aaron their lead singer is back with a new solo project. It's great to see that even when bands come to an end the music continues. What's even better is that it's some bloody good music.

Also remember to look at the Noize Makes Enemies webzine where all the reviews I've been writing are located.

 

Only one video this week. Sometimes it just happens that way.

The Bastard Fairies - A Venomous Tale

 

See you next week and remember, it's almost like I'm a real journalist.

Sorry for the slightly late release this week. It's been a frustrating day of trying to get the damn show uploaded. It should be OK now and be available for your listening pleasure.

Despite my 10 minute rant at the beginning of the show I still came out at under the hour mark. I'm a little bit surprised at that.

Since I mentioned the excellent cover art for the Karmella's Game album 'The Art Of Distraction' I thought I may as well add it to this blog.

Remember to look for the reviews I did for Of The I, Venus Verse and O Titus! on the Noize Makes Enemies webzine. Hopefully more reviews coming this week.

 

Another case of quality over quantity this week. The Nada Surf and Mexicolas videos are both excellent. The Karmella's Game video I found is a live performance that contains a short interview at the start.

Nada Surf - I Like What You Say 

My Captive Audience - The Butterfly Effects [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

Karmella's Game - One Phone Call [Live Performance]

Mexicolas - Come Clean

Steriogram - Own Way Home

 

See you next time and remember, it's called a podcast now and it's far too late to change it.

10 tracks on this special episode, but I deliberately tried to cut down on the talk so I rather surprisingly brought it in under the hour mark.

50 Episodes isn't that big a deal, but it is a deal and I felt like celebrating. I hope you appreciate this trip down memory lane, especially if you are a new listener and didn't hear these tracks first time round.

The one 'new' track on this episode is a brand new mix of 'Between Being & Ego' by Of The I. I played the original mix of the track in the early days, but the band have re-recorded it for their forthcoming album and sent me a copy. Good timing for this special show. I've written a review of the album sampler they sent me and I submitted it yesterday to the Noize Makes Enemies webzine along with another couple of reviews. I'm not in charge of these things, but I'll guess they'll be online by the end of the week.

 

A couple of new videos since I originally played these tracks, including an animated video for 'Between Being & Ego' that's absolutely brilliant.

The Impulse - Get Ready To Go

Speechwriters LLC - Blood On The Frets [Live Performance]

Popup - Chinese Burn

Of The I - Between Being & Ego

Mates Of State - Goods (All In Your Head)

 

See you next time and remember beautiful women on myspace aren't always spam.

Not much to say this week, so back well under the 50 minute mark.

A hugely welcome return to the show for Rieser, who were one of the very first bands I contacted to play on the podcast over a year ago. They were one of those unsigned bands that I was always playing to my friends until one of them just said 'why not do your own podcast'. They were very agreeable to being played on my show and sent me a preview of their absolutely fantastic 'The Well Dressed Thief' album. It was one of my favourite albums of last year and is well worth your time to go and download. I wrote a review of it for Podcast User Magazine and it's actually been quoted in their press release for the Rockstar Single. It makes me feel all fuzzy that I'm contributing in a small way to the success of such a fantastic band. If you want to listen to the full Rockstar single you can find it on Ourobouros Podcast #36, AMPed #111 or Made In The UK #2. You can also watch the Video.

Also go and have a listen to Zoon Van Snook's remix of 'Nude' by Radiohead on his myspace site. All the remixes that have been done can be found at radioheadremix.com. Whether you like Radiohead or, like me, find them pretentious and irrelevant you have to admire the innovation of making it so easy for people to do remixes of their song.

It's going to be Show #50 next week and I have something planned. It's a minor milestone, so only a minor celebration, but it is going to be an extended show. That's all I'm saying for now, but a heavy hint of what type of show it's going to be was given on Episode #46.

 

Not a great deal on the video front this week as far as 'proper' videos goes, but I did manage to find quite a few live videos.

Rieser - Just Seen A Ghost [Live Performance]

Ours - Murder [Live Performance]

Seppuku Paradigm - Sure Thing

Bury The Bully - Army Of Love [Live, Acoustic Performance]

Matthew Dear - Don & Sherri

 

See you next week and remember, Rockstar out 5th May.

My theory that I might have room to squeeze in another Los Campesinos! track because 'My Year In Lists' was so short proved to be a little optimistic. For the first time on a 'regular' podcast I went over the hour mark. Oh well any excuse to play more LC!

On this weeks show we have a couple of acts that I have been wanting to play for a loooong time, a mini local music special section, a couple of 'trashy' tracks and purely coincidentally on the same episode that I play Los Campesinos! a band that really reminded me of them.

It was my turn to host AMPed this week so you can check out Episode #122 on Monday featuring my dulcet tones.

If you hurry you can pick up The Whip's album 'X Marks Destination' for £4.74 from the New Artists Showcase promotion on iTunes. With any luck you can pick up 'Hold On Now Youngster' by Los Campesinos! on the same promotion. It was listed, but for some inexplicable reason not only has it been taken off the promotion, the whole album has been removed from iTunes. I have no idea what's going on there. The promotion ends on 15th April.

 

Nice selection of videos this week.

Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists 

Los Campesinos! - ...And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes In Unison [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

The Whip - Trash

Razmataz Lorry Excitement - The Biggest Waste Of 33 Minutes

Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe

Cherry Poppin' Daddies - White Trash Toodle Oo [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

 

See you next time and remember, I'm gonna kill them all and eat the bodies.

It's weird how things work out. I haven't actually checked, but it could well be that we have the longest track title and the longest band name in the same show.

Assuming that the Black Kids record label Almost Gold doesn't object it's probably going to be a situation where I play a track one week and it's high up in the top 40 the next week. Footage from the 'Later...' show I mentioned is on YouTube already. Those bands move fast.

On this weeks show a lot of music from Yorkshire, mainly thanks to Penny Broadhurst and her excellent Instant Classic Podcast, a track taken from a CD I received through the post (something that doesn't happen very often) and some funk/electronica/rock that sounds bloody brilliant.

I feel some explanation is required for the madness at the beginning of the show. I've been listening to this new podcast called Hyper Nonsense which is not a music podcast, but rather the hosts Shawno & Jen from San Luis Obispo, California discussing weird stuff and chatting. It's been a while since I have listened to one of these types of show since the last one I subscribed to broke up rather acrimoniously and it's very entertaining. Last week they recorded a promo for their show and said they would welcome a promo trade. I thought what the hell and recorded one myself. Well I'm afraid I got a bit carried away and it ended up being slightly insane. Anyway it exists now and if any other podcasters want to play my promo on their show then drop me a line.

 

It's another case of quality over quantity on the video front this week. Only three for you, but they are all fine pieces of work. The Minus The Bear video in particular is very funny. You can also hear the differences in the Black Kids' track between the demo version and the single version before you go out and buy it on Monday (hint, hint).

Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You

Minus The Bear - Throwin' Shapes

Darlings Of The Splitscreen - I Know What You're Doing

 

See you next week, and remember it's the DEMO version record label!

 

Having talked about when I first started doing my 'Weird Track Of The Week' on the show, I got curious. I had a quick listen to my archive and it appears that the first time I used the phrase 'Weird Track Of The Week' was on Episode #25, but I'd been deliberately putting strange tracks on the end of the show for some time before then. The last 'Non-Weird' track to end the show was on Episode #19. It seems I over-estimated when I thought it was Episode #16 or #17.

All of that doesn't matter at all, but since I mentioned it on the show I thought I may as well clarify.

Also mentioned on the show was the first time I played Murder Of Lilies on the podcast. They kicked off Episode #4 with a great track called 'Elector', which will make a re-appearance on the show in a few weeks. That's all I'm saying for now...

On this weeks show we have two acts I've played before, one act whose name sounds like a band I've played before and the first time I've ever really liked a true Drum & Bass track.

 

Not much on the video front this week, but there are lots of live videos to make up for it. As usual it's quality over quantity with the promo videos. The YACHT one is great.

Midnight Movies - Should Have Known [Live Performance]

Whalebones - Blood Bank [Live Performance]

Visionary Underground - State Of Mind [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

Robots In Disguise - We're In The Music Biz

YACHT - See A Penny (Pick It Up)

 

Next week a lot of tracks sourced from one of the new podcasts I've been listening to, including one of my tracks of the year so far that I'm amazed I got permission to play.

See you next time and remember the Gallagher brothers spew horrendous music. 

Another fine selection of music for you this week as well as more over-use of the word interesting.

We have two 'bands' that are actually just one bloke from New Jersey and have very different styles, the final selection from one of my favourite local bands and some French weirdness provided by Mr. Cogle.

 

Only one video this week, but it's a cool example of the live videos you can find on YouTube. The band have some serious problems with the PA, but fortunately the girl holding the camera knows the song to the extent that she knows when the handclaps come in.

The Apathy Eulogy - Maybe Baby [Live Performance]

 

See you next time, and remember acoustic guitars aren't evil.

Since I've stopped using scripts my three favourite words 'on-air' seem to be interesting, basically and umm. Interesting...

Some unbelievably mainstream music for this episode and a big shout out to the good people at Wichita and Domino for embracing the concept of promotion through podcasting.

Mentioned in the show are two fantastic bands on the Domino roster who I absolutely love, but unfortunately aren't podsafe as of yet. Check out Psapp and !!! (Chk Chk Chk). Also have a look at the superb video for Psapp's track Hi and !!!'s latest album Myth Takes.

Also remember to have a look at the lovely Penny Broadhurst's Instant Classic Podcast.

 

Since it's mostly 'Major' labels this week there are a lot of quality videos for this show. There's also a video for The Getaway Team that was recorded by Rowley at the PodFest gig I mentioned in the show.

Los Campesinos! - Death To Los Campesinos!

Those Dancing Days - Hitten

The Futureheads - The Beginning Of The Twist

Lightspeed Champion - Galaxy Of The Lost

Sons And Daughters - Chains [Live Performance]

The Getaway Team - I Regret [Live Performance]

 

See you next week for some old favourites of the show as well as some marvellous new acts.

Not a lot of extra stuff to talk about this week, so we're back to pretty much just playing the music. Really that's what it's all about anyway isn't it?

One thing I forgot to mention in the show is that I first heard the excellent She & Him on The Phill(er) Podcast. An excellent indie show that has a similar musical style to me.

 

Only two videos this week.

Two Hours Traffic - Stuck For The Summer  

Luna Halo - Untouchable

 

See you next week for a bit of a 'major' label special.

Back to normal this week, well, as normal as it gets around here anyway.

Yet again I've managed to get a track to play that I never thought I would get. It's fantastic that so many rising stars of indie music are OK with podcasting now, and Elle S'Appelle have joined that elite club. There's been some REALLY big bands added to the Podsafe Music Network recently and I will be having a fangasm over the next few weeks. It'll take a while to get to the big stuff since at the moment I've got so much music stored up that the next 4 shows have been set.

I've been told that those incredibly nice Haiku boys have included me in the sleeve notes of their debut album Fan The Flames. A little milestone in the history of this podcast achieved!

To get the full story of The Slants laudable decision to turn down the chance of a 'Million Dollar' recording deal read the blog here. Those insidious people at Bodog Music only seem to have started this competition in order to take advantage of desperate and foolhardy musicians. Fortunately The Slants were brave and smart enough to get out while the going was good. Good luck to them.

 

Small selection of videos this week, but the Elle S'Appelle one is exactly the kind of video I like. Inventive, arresting and made for pennies. It boggles the mind that record companies are willing to spend tens of thousands of pounds on insipid high-production-value videos, when with a little imagination and various round objects you can come up with a clever video like this one.

Elle S'Appelle - Little Flame

Chutes - It's You In Support Of Me [Live Performance]

Rival Joustas - Clarity

the Age of Sound - On A Sunday [Live, Acoustic Performance]

 

I now have to do absolutely nothing for the show until Friday. I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I have so many shows planned into the future.

 

And Relax..........................

Happy Birthday To ME! A full year of podcasting is in the books and it's been a bumpy ride sometimes. I've had a lot of fun and also made a lot of friends as can be seen by the amount of congratulatory messages I received from other podcasters. I had so many it's a really long show this week, but so what! I'm celebrating. Go along to any of the other podcasts linked in the show notes and you'll find a lot of good music in a wide range of musical styles.

Another reason to celebrate is today is the official release of the Los Campesinos! album. I've been waiting for this to come out for well over a year and I'm now desperately working out if I've got enough spare cash to actually get it. Speaking of new albums, as mentioned on the show The Haiku's full length debut 'Fan The Flames' is out as well. So much good music, so little money...

 

A surprising amount of videos this week, including a couple of efforts that weren't available the first time I played the tracks.

Seagull Strange - La La La Ley

The Haiku - The News Is: The World Sucks

Momentary Prophets - GO! [Live Performance]

Santa Dog - Big Bang

Emigrate - My World

Sick Of Sarah - Mr. Incredible [Live, Acoustic Performance]

Battle - Demons

Stars - The Night Starts Here

The Last Parade - Modern Way [Live Performance]

The Scissor File - Reason To Run

 

Normal service will be resumed next week (If you can call it normal). Here's to another year!

A rather long winded opening this week. I'm not quite sure what happened, but I was trying to explain the psychology of podcasters and it just got a little out of hand. That probably explains more about my psychology than anything else really.

A really nice selection of music this week from England, Wales, France, The US, Canada and Australia. All over the bloody shop really. It's all kicked off with one of my favourite finds since I've started doing this podcast.

There's still time to send in suggestions and intros for my anniversary show next week. I've had a load of suggestions already and the show is going to be really long. It can always be longer! Any input can be sent to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com.

 

Not a great deal on the video front this week, but The Bastard Fairies video is really, really good.

Ripped - Show Me

Hello Operator - Chasing Satellites

Sugar Army - Now You're Old Enough

The Bastard Fairies - We're All Going To Hell

 

Remember to come back for the first birthday show next week. The anticipation is mounting!

I'm being very good about releasing these shows on time recently. I'm rather pleased with myself.

Kicked off the show this week with a couple of tracks I was delighted to bring to you and didn't think I'd be able to. Unfortunately Mr. Clitheroe of Suffolk 'n' Cool beat me to the punch with the one I was most excited about. Ah well that's podcasting. I'm not bitter. Not really.

Also mentioned on this weeks show are a couple of new podcasts by members of the Podcrawl Collective. When we all met up a couple of weeks ago for Pete Cogle's 200th show there were 6 podcasts between the 5 of us and now there are two more for the group. Paul 'The Saint/The Grumbler' Snelling was corrupted by the rest of us and has started his first music podcast called Music And Mumblings and Rowley Cutler has just started his third show, Dark Compass Metal Show. As you might have guessed that last one deals with all things metal. At time of writing both of them are two episodes old and are worth your time checking out.

Another reminder that it's my first anniversary show in two weeks and I still need suggestions from my listeners as to what I should play. I've had a few in already, but I can always do with more. Send in your suggestions and any links you feel like recording to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com.

 

Nice full selection of videos for this week. Almost a full selection with only Sixtrak letting the side down. It's made up for by two different videos for the Blood Red Shoes track. They originally released it as a single in 2006 with the old video, but the band have now re-recorded the track and released a new video in preparation for their album release in April. See which video you prefer. I like the old one personally. It's also interesting seeing the subtle differences between the two different recordings.

Blood Red Shoes - You Bring Me Down New Version Old Version

Johnny Panic - Dislocation

GK & The Renegades - That's OK [Live, Acoustic Performance]

Civilised - Marvelous

Markovic - MakeBeliever

Emmon - High Horses

The Slants - Capture Me Burning

 

It'll be a regular show next week followed by the all-star 1st Anniversary show. Can't Wait!

Another fine collection of independent music for you this week. Tracks from Canada, New Zealand, The US and The UK including an acoustic interlude, which is something I don't do very often.

 

Please let me know what tracks you want me to play on the 1st Anniversary show in two weeks. Any suggestions can be sent to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com and if you want to record your own intro for your selection, then send those along as well.

 

Not bad on the video front this week.

The Void - Acid Reign

Friendly Fires - Paris

Steriogram - Just Like You

The Model Village - Candy & Coke [Live Performance]

 

Regular show next week and then followed by the 1st anniversary show. At least that's the plan...

A very long episode this week, mainly because of the full scale Dark Compass style rant about Glamour For Better and Ear Candy Music at the start of the show and the interesting and tragic tale of Solomon Linda and The Lion Sleeps Tonight at the end of the show. I never intended to make it run nearly an hour, but I think it was well worth it on both counts.

The lead up to my first anniversary show begins now! At the end of February I will have been doing this show for a year and to celebrate I am planning to put together a show where my listeners can select their favourite tracks from my show and if they like they can record a link for said track that will be played on the show. Get thinking about what tracks you would like me to play and then send me an e-mail and maybe a link to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com.

 

Another week of slim pickings on the video front this week. One that only got made because of the awful Resident Evil Extinction film, has a huge budget and looks pretty crap, and one that was made for absolutely nothing and is ingenious.

Emigrate - My World

un:armed - Talk Talk

 

See you next week, when hopefully there will be less talk and we'll be back down to the 35-40 minute show I aim for.

The podcast after the drunken trip to London before. After a Tuesday afternoon having a 'wail' of a time celebrating Pete Cogle's 200th show I'm back having only just recovered from the cold I caught after getting soaked on the way to London. A great time was had by all and you can hear what got recorded on PCP #200 released on Wednesday.

In the above picture we have (L to R): Rowley Cutler, Pete Cogle, Peter Clitheroe, me and Paul Snelling 

A quick note on this weeks artists. A couple of days ago when I last checked on the websites of the acts I was going to play act 6 was using his real name of Michael Trac'e. After I recorded the show I was shifting my top friends about on myspace and now he is using the name Tragic Soul. Just in case there's any confusion.

 

Videos for this week:

Dead World Leaders - Vitamins

Freezepop - Less Talk More Rokk

The Epilogues - Caroline [Live Performance]

Karoshi Bros - Love The World [Video is for 'clean' version of the track]

 

As ever remember to listen to Made In The UK and I'll see you next week.

A small delay in releasing the first show of the new year, for which I apologise. With Christmas, my birthday on Saturday and my latest gig this past Wednesday it's been a busy couple of weeks.

Speaking of my gig it was a brilliant night with two great bands. The bar staff at the venue said it was the best gig they'd seen in a while. Yet again it was only two bands since I had a band pull out on me at the very last minute. You expect some problems when you start promoting gigs, but to have a bands pull out of every gig except the first one is ridiculous. Even for the first gig the bottom band on the bill showed up 20 minutes after they were supposed to be on stage. That was the quickest sound check I've seen in my life. For last months gig I had a total of 5 bands pull out on me, one on the day and they only managed to tell me after they were supposed to arrive. Stress is not the word. It will be the last gig I am promoting for a while, but hopefully when I return the stressful part will have been over.

I'm off to London tomorrow for a 'podcrawl' with some of my podcasting friends, which I'm really looking forward to. A lot of beer will be drunk, a lot of talk will be recorded and hopefully we'll all be coherent. This will either be a fantastic idea or the worst thing British podcasting has ever produced. We'll have to wait and see.

 

Pretty good video selection this week. The Gay Blades' video is something to behold.

 

The Gay Blades - O Shot  

Silly Fools - Stay Away

The Scissor File - Reason To Run

Metropol - Collision PART 1 PART 2 [Live Performance]

65daysofsorrow - Don't Go Down To Sorrow

 

The way things have been going I don't know when the next episode will be released, but I'll see you in about a week.

Another late release this week. I think at this stage I should just stop aiming for a Sunday release and just release them when they're ready.

A bit of an American Football theme for the start of this episode. I know it's weird, but it just happened this way. We also have a welcome return for some Wichita artists and one of my favourite bands of the year. Also a weird track of the week that's, well, weird.

Also mentioned in this episode is a very important opportunity for one of the bands I played last week and really, really like. Dominic Castillo & The Rock Savants recently told me that they have made it into the last 10 of an online competition that will get them a 60 second slot during the Superbowl (worth about $3 million dollars) and a contract with the fantastic Interscope records. Obviously this is a huge opportunity for the band and I think they truly deserve it. This round of voting ends on December 31st and you can vote once a day here.

Also remember to check out Made In The UK. Contributions from me, Dark Compass and PC Podcast. The first episode is out now and the second one is scheduled to be released on December 23rd. Go have a listen as it really is the best UK independent music provided by the best UK podcasters (and me).

 

For the first time ever I've managed to find a video for all the tracks on the show. Admittedly a couple of them are live performances and one of them is a bit ropey. I'm claiming it as a victory though. Here they are:

 

Stars - Personal  [Live Performance]

Jupiter One - Countdown

Bloc Party - Flux

Los Campesinos! - The International TweeXcore Underground

The Chiara L's - Knives [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

Drive-By Argument - The Sega Method

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Lets Make Out

Robots In Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid

 

 

It's the last show of the year next week, but don't expect any seasonal music. I don't go in for that kind of thing. Bah Humbug!

The first show of the new year will be a review of 2007. I'm also planning on putting out a video podcast featuring the best videos of the year. Do you think I'll include the video I was in? 

Yet again it's a very late release the week of my gig. Because yet again I had a band pull out on me at the very last minute. Try as I might I couldn't get a replacement, so the gig will only have two acts appearing.

On the good news front I am starting a new project. My friend Rowley Cutler from Dark Compass is creating a new podcast called Made In The UK and he has asked me to be a co-host on the show along with some other UK podcasters. The first episode is scheduled to be released some time this week with a contribution from yours truly. When it's online I'll let you know.

 

And here are the videos for this week

Echolounge - Insipid [Live Performance]

Dominic Castillo & The Rock Savants - Keep You Around

Cancel The Astronauts - Intervention [Live Performance]

The Young Punx! - Your Music Is Killing Me

 

See you next week.

My second local special is in the books and it's a special extra long episode as well. I just happened to have a couple of extra local tracks to bring you. All the music in this episode comes from Bath, Bristol, Somerset & Wiltshire.

So this week we have an exclusive pre-release track, a solo project from an old friend, some 'indie hardcore' and as ever a weird track of the week that is part poetry, part trip hop, but all good.

 

Only one video this week, but it's a good one.

JUB - Where To Begin

 

A bit of advanced warning that next week I will be in America on the day I usually put out the podcast. The plan at the moment is to record the episode during the week and then put it online with a release delay on it. That's the plan anyway. The way things have been going I might not be able to do it and there might not be an episode next week. Let's hope I manage to do it.

So anyway, hopefully see you next week, if not it'll be in a fortnight.

As promised here is a double length 'comeback special' to celebrate the return of The Ourobouros Podcast. I know my loyal listeners have been bereft during my three week break, but here I am and ready to keep providing you with quality podsafe music. (Did anyone actually notice I was gone?)

In this 16 track episode we have the three bands who played at my last live gig, some industrial electronica from the Dark Compass podcast, some love shown to the excellent American Indie Music Podcast, a really fun Swedish dance-rock track and of course some weird electronica to close out the show.

Hopefully there won't be any more extended breaks from doing the show, not even when I go to America at the start of December. Obviously I can't promise anything, but at the very least I'll probably get a bit more warning if I ever need another break from broadcast.

 

And here are the videos:

SixNationState - So Long 

Sick Of Sarah - Bittersweet

The Skooners - Bad Bad Man

Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days

Natalie Walker - Crush [Live Performance, audio not great]

Anemo - Pray [This video is for the original mix of the song]

 

Join me next week, when I will have another extended show, this time highlighting the music of my local area.

A busy week at Ourobouros Towers. Had the gig on Wednesday that was a good night out, though sadly poorly attended. I've still got the 5 Unsigned show to turn into a podcast and of course I had to put out the 'regular' podcast as well. I think it's a good show if I do say so myself.

I've also discovered some new software after I read an article in Podcast User Magazine so I started using it for this episode. Gabor over at Electrical Language has also started using it for his last episode as well. It's called REAPER, is very easy to use and I think has increased the audio quality of the show. Let me know what you think.

This weeks show includes some house music, which is a first for me, some violin rock, a welcome return for a band I've played before, some pop-punk and some extraordinary music created by two acoustic guitars.

Don't forget that there will be two 'live' podcasts released shortly. One recorded at my own gig and one recorded at 5 Unsigned.

 

Pretty good selection of videos this week:

Martijn Ten Velden - I Wish U Would 

Echo Helstrom - Hungry Ghost

Last Letter Read - Leabridge

Grand Atlantic - Smoke And Mirrors

The Grams - On A Wednesday [This is an extended video with footage from a live show. 'On A Wednesday' is the first track]

Momentary Prophets - Go! [Live Performance]

 

I have something a little bit different lined up for my next episode so keep listening.

A severely late episode this week. I hate to keep my adoring public waiting...

The reason for this is that one of the bands I had booked to play at my gig tomorrow had to pull out and I had to find a replacement before I could do the last minute promotion on my podcast. I finally found a replacement and could put out the podcast the day before the show.

So all you Bath fans, Wednesday 10th October at The Porter Butt you will be able to see Cherry Stain, Group 4 and We*Take*Flight. And of course there will be a live podcast featuring tracks recorded on the night released some time next week.

Speaking of live podcasts there will also be a 5 Unsigned podcast released soon recorded this past Sunday at the monthly acoustic night. Sadly it will be the last show for a while as Rich who runs it is taking a break. Lets hope he comes back sometime next year.

 

Not much on the video front this month but here they are:

The Dykeenies - Pick You Up [Live Performance]

Peter, Bjorn And John - Young Folks

George Demure - My Baby's Gone

 

If I don't see you at my gig I'll see you next week for another selection of fine independent music.

Sorry about the missing week. As you can see from the post below I had a little trouble last week and then it was time to do AMPed again and I just didn't have the time to do my own show.

Good news is that the AMPed episode is finished and will be online this Monday. It sounds pretty good, although I'm only going to be playing one track off it on my own show.

It's also inching ever closer to my second gig so if you're in the Bath area on 10th October come along to The Porter Butt to see We*Take*Flight, Group 4 and Liken.

I think the wait for this episode was worth it. It's kind of a tribute to IODA and the Podsafe Music Network as they have provided me with some quality music that I was desperate to bring you. So we have some melodic singer/songwriter, some fun rock tracks, a couple of down tempo electronica numbers, a very odd cover and for some reason several tracks that have odd recording effects included.

 

Very nice selection of videos this week. Enjoy:

Windmill - Fit

The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy

Dartz! - Once Twice Again

You Say Party! We Say Die! - Opportunity

The Artists Formerly Known As The Look - Broken Record

Angelique Kidjo feat. Joss Stone - Gimme Shelter

 

Next week will be the live gig preview show, with a new track by all three bands on the bill as well as some more quality podsafe music and of course the weird track of the week to close out the show. Trust me next weeks is REALLY weird.

Speak to you then.

The podcast after the gig before. It's finally in the books and and can now officially call myself a music promoter. You will be getting highlights of the show released as a podcast soon, which will have all the gory details.

Thanks are due to Danny, my foster brother, for agreeing to be my door man and photographer (he's also the one who did the e-mail promo for my podcast) and also to The Laughing Gnome for doing all the sound engineering and doing his best to keep me sane through what was a pretty stressful day.

And now normal service has been resumed. On this weeks show we have half male/half female singers, some emo, some quirky acoustic music and one of my favourite singles of the year so far.

 

Still not much on the video front, but here they are.

The Ghost Frequency - Nightmare

Sick Of Sarah - Mr. Incredible [Acoustic Performance]

 

Keep an eye out for the live podcast. I've just realised I'll have to do this whole thing again next month...

After 5 months of planning and many pot holes along the way, the week of my first gig is upon us. This Wednesday the 12th of September 'Ourobouros Podcast Presents...' will have it's first show. You get a sneak preview of the acts on the bill in this weeks podcast. The first three tracks played are by the three acts on the bill. I hope that anyone who's in the area comes down and has some fun with some great live music. You might also get one of the free mix CDs that I will be giving out at the gig.

Anyone who can't make it down will still have an opportunity to listen to highlights of the show. There will be an 'Ourobouros Live' podcast released some time next week.

Apart from the three live acts, on this weeks show we have some American rock, a track that was NME's single of the week and a very funny track from 4 ladies from Northampton.

 

Not much on the video front again this week:

The Kick Inside - To Be Someone  [Live Performance - Poor Quality]

Nick Black - Sorry

We Start Fires - Play You

 

Hope to see you on Wednesday!

It's all about the extras this week. This episode is slightly later than usual because on Sunday night when I usually release the podcast I was at the 5 Unsigned gig here in Bath. It's a monthly acoustic showcase with, as you might expect, 5 acts performing. I've been talking to Rich who runs the gigs for months trying to get the shows recorded so I can put them out as a podcast. Well this month we actually managed it so the first 5 Unsigned podcast recorded live at the gig will be online by the end of the week.

Other bonuses coming your way include the gigs I am promoting obviously and an extra track on each show. Since I got my brothers to record some promos for me I'm spending a lot less time yapping on the podcast. The running time has been going down for the two weeks I've been doing it and since I like each show to be around the 35 minute mark as of next week you will be getting 8 tracks per show instead of the traditional 7.

On this weeks show (the quarter century!) we have some electro-indie decadence, a track I've had running in my mind for ages and some truly strange electronica from Brazil.

 

Very few videos this week, but the (We Are) Performance one is absolutely mental (In a good way)

 

(We Are) Performance - Live A Little 

SuperSmiler - Guitarsy [Live Performance]

Dead World Leaders - Vultures [Live Performance - Poor Quality]

 

In order the next stuff up in Ourobouros Podcast land will be as follows:

 

1. 5 Unsigned Podcast

2. Episode #26 (With an extra track)

3. GIG!!!!!

4. Live Podcast with highlights from the gig

5. Episode #27 (Still with extra track)

 

I spoil you people, I really do...

All the tracks this week come from the excellent IODA service. We have some left-field legends, a welcome return from a band I've played previously and of course some weird shit to close out the show.

As well as the new music there's some new promos as well. I had my brothers record some links for me giving out my e-mail and website addresses. I think they came out rather well and now I don't have to say that stuff every week. I have plans to record another link so look out for that in the next few weeks.

Very slim pickings on the video front this week, but here they are.

 

Take Out The Trash - They Might Be Giants [Live Performance]

Von Iva - LALA [Live Performance]

 

Just listen to my brother and sign up to the mailing list through the box on the right. You wouldn't like him when he's angry...

 

With any luck you'll be getting a bonus soon. I know I've been promising this for a while, but it might actually be happening this time. My gigs are getting closer too...

As hoped I had a quieter time this week. I did manage to get to a gig at The Porter Butt last night for a bit of a scouting trip for my own gigs and had a good time. I also managed to make contact with two of the bands so hopefully you will be getting some stuff from them soon.

I have also managed to twist the arms of my friends and family to record some links for me. They should be in next weeks show.

In this weeks show we have half a show of AMPed related material, another lucky find from IODA (this is the third time they've managed to provide a track I really, really wanted to play) and two tracks received from the Noize Makes Enemies webzine. Go and have a look through the link in the right hand column.

 

Slim pickings on the video front this week

 

Two Loons For Tea - Sunset Room (Live Performance)

Carbon Leaf - Love Loss Hope Repeat (Live Performance)

You Say Party! We Say Die! - Monster

Echolounge - I Thought You Had It All (Live Performance)

 

As always you can e-mail me at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com and any CDs etc. that anyone wishes to send me can be sent to 134 London Road West, Bath, BA1 7DD

 

See you next week with some new links.

Busy week this week. I had to record two podcasts as it was my turn to host the review podcast for the Association of Music Podcasting, which is called AMPed. It will be online this Monday and a couple of the tracks on it will be played on future episodes of this show. I had a great time doing it but it obviously meant I had twice the work to do from a normal week.

It was made more complicated by the fact I managed to lose my pop guard. For those of you who don't know that's the piece of mesh you put in front of a microphone to stop 'p' and 'c' sounds being incredibly loud. A bit of a concern when you have to say 'podcast' a lot. Anyway we've moved the desk from one side of the room to the other and in the move the pop guard got lost. I had to improvise by placing a bit of toilet paper in front of the mic.

The other complication was that I had to record the show in the daytime instead of my usual routine of recording it late at night. This meant that I had to deal with the two puppies we have in the house at the moment  being awake. I had to re-record a couple of the links after the puppies woke up and tried to kill each other.

Among all this I have started the serious preparation for the first gig I am promoting. Some of the handy work can be seen in this post. I've also finalised the playlist for the mix CD I shall be giving away.

 

Videos for this show:

Art Brut - Direct Hit

The Lovemakers - Whine & Dine

Jack In The Pulpit - 12:04

A Loss For Words - Half Step Down

Jack Bird - The King Of Blues (This is a live performance of two songs. First is 'Call For Love', which I played a few weeks ago. 'The King Of Blues' starts at 4:02.)

ddd - Wall To Wall

 

Correspondence through the interweb can be sent to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com.

 

Should be a bit calmer this week and remember to have a look at AMPed on Monday.

Recorded this show after having a fine meal out with some friends. Tim and Anna were up from London (hence the bit at the beginning of the show) and Dan was up from Exeter. I haven't seen all of them in the same place for about a year so it was a fine night out. The fact that I was still slightly pissed might explain any slurring and stumbling in this weeks show. Anyway that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it...

In this weeks show we have some Eastern European rock, some Canadian rock, some drum & bass and some blip pop. If you haven't got a clue what that last one means then don't worry you are not alone. Just listen to the show.

Bit thin on the video front this week, but here they are:

 

Farel Gott - Velvet S

Autokat - Dish Out

Harry Munk Project - Stalker

Best Fwends - Skate Or Live

 

Every time someone who lives within spitting distance of Bath doesn't sign up to the mailing list to find out about the gigs I am promoting a puppy dies. Just thought you should know you puppy murderer. The box is on the right.  

 

See you next week when hopefully I should be more sober.

It's hard to believe that an adapter only 2 inches long can cause so many problems. That's what stopped working so I couldn't put out a new show last weekend as I was hoping. Having replaced it yesterday all is back as it should be and normal service has been resumed.

I'm incredibly excited that I was able to bring you the first track this week. I tried to get permission to play it a month ago after I saw Los Campesinos! play live, but didn't manage it. They then released it onto IODA so all podcasters can use it. I'm absolutely delighted. Also on the show we have some acoustic music, some dark electronica, some synth rock and some straight ahead rock.

I have been in contact with the venue I am promoting my gigs at this week and things are moving along nicely. The first gig I am promoting will be at The Porter Butt in Bath on September 12th with a line-up of The Madisons, Slovakia and The Haiku.

 

Nice selection of videos this week

 

Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!

(We Are) Performance - Vandals (Live Performance)

Our Lunar Activities - It Comes In Waves

St. Christopher - It's All Gone (Live Performance)

Jack Bird - Call For Love (Live Performance) [Also contains a track called 'The King Of Blues', which I should be playing in a few weeks.]

Drifting In Silence - Chameleon (Drev Mix) [Warning: Contains flashing images.]

 

Any questions, comments, mp3s, proposals of marriage and suicide notes can be sent to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com

 

See you next week for more quality independent music. I've got loads of tracks lined up for all you lucky listeners.

Brothers and sisters I have travelled far in the wilderness of the capital and have seen the light of the cyclists as they flash by! I did see The Devil walking the streets of that far city, but I resisted him and have returned to you brothers and sisters, to spread the word! To spread the word of independent music! Can I get an amen!!!

 

This is by way of saying I have not had a road to Damascus conversion, but while I was in London I did see The Devil. He is a German bloke called Didi Senft, who for years has followed The Tour de France wearing a devil costume. He also holds the record for the worlds largest working Bicycle. He's a complete nutter, but is a bit of a cycling icon. It pretty much made my weekend when I saw him walking towards Hyde Park.

 

With bizarre pseudo-celebrity sightings out of the way we move onto the music for this week, which I knicked from other podcasts. We have a double dose of Canadian rock, some unbelievably up-beat synth pop and two of the catchiest choruses you will ever hear.

 

Videos for this week:

Seagull Strange - La La La Ley here   

The Ropes - Kill Her Off here

Anti-Hero - Unpretty here

 

Any questions, comments, mp3s, sentient computer viruses that will overtake the universe and MILF videos can be sent to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com

 

I'm off to play my new Cycling computer game. See you next week.

I had to record this show twice. I am puppy sitting for my brother while he is on holiday, and recorded the show with a 3-month old Staffordshire Bull Terrier on my lap. He was asleep for the whole of the recording process before waking up and unplugging the computer before I'd had a chance to save the show. I nearly throttled the little bastard. Unfortunately he's just too damn cute and resolved myself to re-recording the whole show. So here it is, a day later than I was intending to put it out but I think it was worth the wait.

We have some synth-indie, some indie pop, some glam revival, some mellow trippy indie and I'm not quite sure how to classify my last track. All I know is it's fantastic.

On the gig promotion front I had a bad week. I had yet another band pull out from the gig I was planning in August, which left me with little option but to cancel the whole show. This means that the first gig I will be promoting will be on 12th September at The Porter Butt in Bath. The line-up is confirmed as The Haiku, Slovakia and The Madisons. For each of my gigs I will be handing out free mix CDs to the first 25 people throught the door. If you want to get more details about the live music promotion then sign up to my mailing list using the box to the right.

 

Nice selection of videos this week.

 

Low vs. Diamond - Heart Attack here

Krief - La Verite Live Session

Amida - Class Of 2000 here

The XCorvettes - An Alcoholic State Of Mind here

The Cordels - The Jowna Live Performance

Sound Sanctuary - Broken Signs here

 

Any questions, comments, mp3s, answers to the deepest philosophical quandries we face and offers of little blue pills can be sent to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com And you can sign up to the mailing list there too.

 

I don't think there'll be a show next week as I'm spending the weekend in London watching the Tour de France and I probably wont have time to put out a podcast. So see you in a fortnight.

Lots of connections to previous podcasts in this one. Hope I didn't lose any new listeners I might have. I think your only option is to listen from Episode #11 onwards... Go on you know you want to.

 

Interesting mix of styles in this show. We have some classic mainstream punk, some acoustic rock, some ambient indie and some more bizarre electronica. Throw everything at them, that's what I say!

 

Nearly a full video playlist for this one. I particularly recommend The Young Punx! video. Very odd and very cool.

 

The Haiku - Taking Control [No video for this track, but did I mention I was in the bands video for this track?]

Alkaline Trio - Private Eye here

Treehouse Burning - The Escape here (This is a homemade fan video made using footage from the Final Fantasy series of video games.)

CountrySide - Estuary Live Performance

The Young Punx! - You've Got To... (Norman Cook Mix) here (This is a different version from the video I posted for this track on Episode #15)

Daisy Daisy - Michelle Plays Ping Pong here

 

Please sign up to my mailing list. You can use the box to the right. My first gig is inching ever closer. I'm all excited!!!!!!!!!! Are You?

Any questions, comments, mp3s, death threats, fatwahs or offers of untold millions in Nigerian gold can be sent to ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com

See you soon.

Nice mix of tracks this week and a new intro in honour of the fact I'm now a member of AMP. Since I was going to have to add the AMP bumper I also redid the sample from The Sunshine Underground track I use as theme music.

We have some good old fashioned rock, some soulful singer-songwriters and some frankly quite barmy electronica this week. The last track has to be heard to be believed.

 

Only a few videos this week, but they're all very cool.

 

Harrisons - Dear Constable here 

Elizabeth - War Is Beautiful here

The Fuzz Machine - Love Her Madly  Nothing for this version, but here is a link to The Doors original version

Albert Aguilar - Movie Star [Nothing on YouTube, but there is a link on his myspace profile for a video to this track.]

 

E-mail me with questions, comments, unconditional love, vitriolic abuse or anything else that's on your mind at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com and please also sign up to the mailing list, where you can get extra information on the tracks played in this episode, details of the forthcoming gigs I'm planning in Bath and a sneak preview of next weeks show.

 

Bye for now.

There is some exciting stuff in the pipeline for my Bath listeners. And I don't just mean the gigs. More news as it comes in.

On the subject of the gigs, it is starting to look questionable whether the August show will be going ahead as planned. Panic not my live music fans. The September gig is all locked up and will definitely be going ahead. I will be posting as soon as I get confirmation one way or the other, but if you really want the inside track on all the live music information then sign up to my mailing list using the box on the right.

Got sent a promo CD this week by Santa Dog. It's a great album and a review of it will soon be on the Noize Makes Enemies Webzine. Again, follow the link on the right.

 

After a slow week for videos last episode we've got a great selection this week. The Young Punx! video in particular is superb

 

Santa Dog - Big Bang here

The Answering Machine - Silent Hotels here

Mirno - The Light Of The Bar here

GK & The Renegades - Girls From Birkenhead here

The Young Punx! - You've Got To... here

 

And if you've got any questions, comments or tips for good indie music then e-mail me at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com

 

See you next week.

Busy week for me.

You may remember on Episode 11 I played a track by local band The Haiku and last weekend I went over to Trowbridge to appear in the video for the track I played 'The News Is: The World Sucks'. I'll put it up on my myspace page as soon as it's online. I also confirmed with them that they are playing at my gig on the 12th September at The Porter Butt here in Bath.

Speaking of the gigs I am planning, I've had a lot of confirmations from bands this week. Sign up to the mailing list to get all the latest info.

This weekend I went to two gigs. On Saturday I saw Los Campesinos! who I played on Episode 6, more details about that on the next podcast. Then on Sunday I went to the monthly 5 Unsigned acoustic night. I am going to be collaborating with Rich who runs the night to put out a podcast of the live performances from 5 Unsigned. It looks like it won't be starting this month, but expect a monthly bonus podcast from July.

 

Only one video this week, but it's a good one

The Vincent Black Shadow - Metro here 

 

You can e-mail me at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com or even better sign up to my mailing list.

I was in a bit of a rush this week so I forgot to put on the ident at the end of the show. I hope you won't be too devastated...

Exciting things in the pipeline.

The dates for my first three gigs have been finalised. They will be at The Porter Butt in Bath and will be on August 8th, September 12th and October 10th. The line ups haven't been fully finalised, but they are inching ever closer. I hope to continue putting on shows on the second Wednesday of every month. Keep checking back for updates, or even better sign up to my mailing list at the box on the right.

You will hopefully be getting some extra material on my podcast feed soon. I have an agreement in principal with 5 Unsigned, who put on monthly acoustic shows in Bath, to put highlights of the concerts on this feed. You will hopefully be getting the first of these bonus podcasts within the next few weeks. Having said that this is still in the planning stages so don't hold your breathe.

 

And now for the videos

 

Brandon Schott - Simple Life here

Mixel Pixel - You're The Kind Of Girl here

Soular - So, This Is The Way It Feels here

Gallows - Abandon Ship here

 

You can e-mail me at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com (Have I mentioned you can also sign up to my mailing list?)

Another great episode with stuff gleaned from The Association of Music Podcasters and The Road to V competition.

If you like listening to my show your bound to find more podcasts that you like at the AMP homepage or if you just want a flavour of the shows available then subscribe to the AMPed podcast, which is a highlight show for AMP.

There is some very exciting stuff in the pipeline. As well as the live gigs I have been planning, there's some other stuff on the way as well. I don't want to give too much away until I have more details. Suffice it to say you could soon be getting some bonus content when you subscribe to this feed.

 

Not too many videos this week, but what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality. The Some Velvet Morning video in particular is brilliant.

 

Some Velvet Morning - Settle Down here

Emma McGlynn & The Monorails - Hey You here

Johnny Foreigner - Sofacore Live Performance [Poor Quality]

 

E-mail me at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com

 

It's a local music special this week with all the bands coming from Bristol, Somerset or Wiltshire.

In related news I will be promoting gigs here in Bath for the bands I play on the show. I am in the early stages of arranging two shows. An electronica bill featuring Parry:Matthews, Jetstream Lovers & iamchemist and a guitar bill featuring The Madisons, Liken & The Haiku. These will probably be taking place in mid-August. I will be posting further details when they become available.

 

Some fairly small scale bands this week so only one video, but I did find a couple of videos for tracks I mentioned in passing.

 

Scarlatti Tilt - The Insect's Party Live Clip

Alkaline Trio - Private Eye here [Great song about stalking]

Police - Every Breath You Take here [The classic song about stalking]

 

 

As always you can e-mail me at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com and keep checking back for further details about the gigs I will be promoting.

Sorry the audio's a bit dodgy this week. I had to replace my computer this weekend and I'm still working out the kinks in the settings for recording the show. Also if you hear some yelping in the background nobody was hurt in the making of this podcast. I was recording the show in the same room as my brother's 7 week old puppy.

I am going to be promoting some gigs in Bath some time in August. More details next week as it's going to be a local music special and a lot of the bands I shall be promoting are on the show.

 

The videos for this week:

 

Amy Millan - Skinny Boy here

The Dears - Ticket To Immortality here [Also have a look at their video for 22: The Death Of All The Romance here]

Seven Story Down - Jessica here [This is a photo-montage from a live performance with the track playing as the music]

Tearwave - Lotus Flower here

 

You can e-mail me at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com.

See you next week when I should have more details about the gigs I will be promoting. 

Slight delay in publishing this week. I am an American Football fan and was following the NFL draft all weekend.

They say that all things come to those who wait so it should be a good show this week...

 

And here are the videos:

 

Bloc Party - The Prayer here

Mates Of State - Goods (All In Your Head) here

Lo-Fi-Fnk - Change Channel here

Exile Parade - Fire Walk With Me Live Performance

 

You can e-mail me at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com

 

There's some good stuff in the pipeline for those of you who live near Bath. Keep a look out for a big announcement in the next week or two. More details in the next episode.

Little bit of everything this week. Hope I don't sound too dead as I'm a bit ill this week.

 

I have written a review of Ben Westbeech's album for Noize Makes Enemies. Go and have a read at the link to the right.

 

As mentioned in the show a good friend of mine recently had his first book published. If anyone has an academic interest in the Second World War go and have a look at British Propaganda to France 1940-44: Machinery, Method & Message. I bet that's the first plug ever for a history book on an alternative music podcast

 

And so on with the videos

 

Ben Westbeech - So Good Today here [Complete with lovely views of the UEL campus]

Shakes - Disneyland (Pt. 1) here

Elliot Minor - Parallel Worlds here [There is also an extensive video diary on YouTube following the recording of their album]

Leiana - 2B Unkind [Nothing On YouTube for this track, although there is a live performance video on Myspace]

Headland - Love Hate here

 

The e-mail address is ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com

 

See you next week, when hopefully I should be a bit brighter.

 

Excited about a small spruce up I did of the home page this week and a special show featuring new tracks by bands I have played previously.

If you're curious, the previous shows featuring these bands are:

1 - Anemo

2 - Far From The Dance, Gompa, Rieser

3 - Infidelity

4 - Of The I

5 - Maddicott Mountain

 

Also very excited because the nice boys from Rieser are sending me a demo CD of their brand new album, The Well Dressed Thief. It's available as a download from their website (link in the show notes below), but is not yet available as a CD.

As soon as it gets here I will be writing a review of it for the Noize Makes Enemies webzine (link to the right). I have also written a review of the Gompa CD, which should be on the site soon.

Please go and have a look at it because I think It's one of the best review blogs out there. (And I'm not just saying that because I write for it)

 

Only two videos this week

 

Rieser - Secrets Promo Video [Doesn't feature the track Secrets, but is a good introduction to the band]

Gompa - Jack Knife Live Performance [Features 'Jack Knife' and another track called 'Tranquil Mind']

 

You can e-mail me at ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com

 

See you next week.

Nice compact show this week with a couple of tracks on it I've really been wanting to play and finally got approval.

 

Here are the videos:

 

Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives here

Stars - Ageless Beauty here

Popup - Chinese Burn here

The Hedrons - Heatseeker here

 

You can e-mail ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com or check me out on Myspace

 

See you next week, which promises to be a bit special...

Probably the most diverse range of styles I've managed to put together so far.

 

I have written a review of the album 'Appreciation Night' by Bound Stems for the Noize Makes Enemies blog. There is a link to the site on the right. As well as a couple of reviews that I wrote there is a wealth of reviews, videos and streaming music. It's well worth a look.

 

If you like the last track I played on this show from Maddicott Mountain check out their second myspace page The Blood Choir.

 

The videos for this show

 

The Apples In Stereo - Energy here [There is also a 5 part documentary on YouTube showing the making of the album this track comes from.]

Planetakis - Pogo In the Shoes Of Kylie Minogue here

Fear Of Flying - Three's A Crowd here

 

You can e-mail ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com or check me out on Myspace

 

I'm off on holiday now so there won't be a show next week. See you in a fortnight.

Special show this week for two reasons.

I've had an equipment upgrade so the links should be clearer from now on. I've also got myself a domain name so you can now go to ourobouros.co.uk to find this page.

The other reason it's a special show is that the first four tracks are by bands who got in touch with me rather than the other way round.

I've also set up a YouTube channel where all the videos I have linked to will be stored. The link is to the right.

 

Not many video links this week, but here are the ones that are available

 

Bat For Lashes - Prescilla here

Love Minus Zero - Psychobaby Live Performance Clip (Poor Quality) [There is a full promo video for this track on their myspace page]

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet here (Mentioned on the podcast)

Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill here (Bonus Link)

 

You can e-mail ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com or check me out on Myspace

 

See You soon.

Bit of a Greek flavour to this episode. Listen to this show and you can expect some unusual stuff occasionally.

I had a bit of difficulty with the mp3 conversion for this episode so the ident at the end got messed with. I figured 4 seconds at the end of the show doesn't matter that much, but apologies anyway.

 

Here are the video links

 

Little Man Tate - Sexy In Latin here

Love Is All - Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up here

Infidelity - Breathe Live Performance Clip

The Dykeenies - Waiting For Go here

Jack Penate - Second, Minute Or Hour here

 

You can e-mail ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com or check me out on Myspace

A nicer mix of styles in this episode I think. We have something for the electronica and acoustic fans as well as the rock fans.

 

Here are the video links

 

Blood Red Shoes - ADHD here

Far From The Dance - Don't Give It Up Live Performance Clip (Poor Quality) Unofficial Fan Video [There is an 'official' video up on the bands website]

Rieser - Angerflow General Promo Video [This is a general promo video for the band, which contains a snippet of 'Angerflow']

David E. Sugar - We Weren't Put Together here

Drop Da Bomb - STereoid [The only video for this track on YouTube is the one that Fitts For Fight did, and I am NOT going to link to it here]

 

You can e-mail ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com or check me out on Myspace

 

See you in a fortnight. Or perhaps sooner...

Since I figured the whole point of podcasting was getting the music out there. I left the first post as just a bare bones track listing.

For those of you interested in me, my name is Colin, I live in Bath in England and I love Indie music.

The podcast is now up and has a couple of unsigned bands mixed in with some indie acts. I hope you enjoy it.

 

I will be posting links to YouTube for any videos available for the tracks I play in a seperate post like this one. So here they are:

 

The Impulse - Get Ready To Go here

Dirt Bike Annie - Battlelines here

Battle - Demons Official Version Unused Version

Anemo - Johnny 5 here

The Sunshine Underground - Put You In Your Place 7" Release

Album Re-Release

 

You can e-mail ourobouros.podcast@googlemail.com or check me out on Myspace

 

See you in a fortnight.