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!

TRACK LIST

1: Seagull Strange - La La La Ley (Selected by Jack)

2: The Haiku - The News Is: The World Sucks (Selected by Graham from It's A Frog's Life Acoustic Podcast)

3: Momentary Prophets - GO! (Selected by Pete from PC Podcast)

4: Invocal - Dear Friend (Selected by Janos)

5: Santa Dog - Big Bang (Selected by Grant from Three From Leith)

6: Post Death Soundtrack - Fingerprints (Selected by Gabor from Electrical Language)

7: The Chiara L's - You Do (Selected by Paul from Music And Mumblings)

8: Emigrate - My World (Selected by Rowley from Dark Compass)

9: Sick Of Sarah - Mr. Incredible (Selected by Dan from American Indie Music Podcast)

10: Stars - The Night Starts Here (Selected by Tim)

11: Battle - Demons (Selected by Anna)

12: The Last Parade - Modern Way (Host's Selection)

13: The Scissor File - Reason To Run (Host's Selection)

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

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!

TRACK LIST

1: Co.Jack - You Mean The World To Me

2: Echolounge - Distant

3: Fresh Body Shop - The Game

4: Girls Don't Cry - American Boy

5: Ripped - Show Me

6: Hello Operator - Chasing Satellites

7: Sugar Army - Now You're Old Enough

8: The Bastard Fairies - We're All Going To Hell

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

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!

TRACK LIST

1: Blood Red Shoes - You Bring Me Down

2: Johnny Panic - Dislocation

3: GK & The Renegades - That's OK

4: Civilised - Marvelous

5: Markovic - MakeBeliever

6: Emmon - High Horses

7: The Slants - Capture Me Burning

8: Sixtrak - I Collect Skulls

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

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...

TRACK LIST

1: The Void - Acid Reign

2: Friendly Fires - Paris

3: A Pack Of Wolves - We Lose It All

4: Steriogram - Just Like You

5: The Model Village - Candy & Coke

6: Dan Coyle - Waves Of Time

7: Backseat Angel - Lullabye

8: Transit Kings - Japanese Cars

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.