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.

1: The Haiku - Sleazy Pop Song

2: Echo Helstrom - Where I Sleep

3: Venus Verse - Dreaming Again

4: Of The I - Single Units

5: The Bastard Fairies - A Venomous Tale

6: The Stand Alone Empire - The Same Mistakes

7: Self Destructing Messengers - Seven Cigarettes

8: ddd - Drown

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.

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.

1: Yes Means Yes - Leave The Earth Behind

2: Nada Surf - I Like What You Say

3: My Captive Audience - The Butterfly Effects

4: The Heavycoats - The First Time

5: Karmella's Game - One Phone Call

6: Mexicolas - Come Clean

7: Steriogram - Own Way Home

8: Novastorm - Painmarch

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.

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.

1: The Impulse - Get Ready To Go [From Episode #1]

2: Speechwriters LLC - Blood On The Frets [From Episode #2]

3: Infidelity - Breathe [From Episode #3]

4: Murder Of Lilies - Elector [From Episode #4]

5: The Blood Choir (AKA Maddicott Mountain) - Dreams In America [From Episode #5]

6: Popup - Chinese Burn [From Episode #6]

7: Of The I - Between Being & Ego [From Episode #7]

8: Leiana - 2B Unkind [From Episode #8]

9: Mates Of State - Goods (All In Your Head) [From Episode #9]

10: Lesbians On Ecstasy - Party Time (a womyn's luv) [From Episode #10]

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.

Anyway since the demo software I had ran out after 30 Days that's what I've called the 'EP' and since my online moniker has been Ourobouros 54 forever I present to you 30 Days by Ourobouros 54.

Here are some explanations for the tracks:

1. Infinity 

I wanted to do a down-tempo ambient style track and this is what came out. Since the Ourobouros is a symbol of infinity that seemed a good title.

2. The Zeppo 

My all time favourite TV program is Buffy The Vampire Slayer and my all time favourite quote was Xander's line that I used in the track. I found a wav of the line and used it to create this track. The title comes from one of my favourite episodes of the show that focuses on Xander.

3. Concussed Duckling

I wanted to create a weird track and the flute sample fitted the bill perfectly. The title comes from a Terry Pratchett line: 'He had all the self-awareness of a concussed duckling'. It's one of the funniest lines I've ever read and it fitted a funny sounding track.

4. Roc Stars

eJay gets some well known artists to provide samples for their software and one of them for the edition I had was Cut La Roc. I was already a big fan of his as he was on Skint Records and I had a lot of his tracks from Skint compilations. I challenged myself to create a track that only used Cut La Roc samples and this is the result.

5. Playboy 

I wanted to create a trippy, down tempo track and was looking for inspiration. At the time I was a fan of WWE wrestling, and one of the female performers was named Torrie Wilson. Her entrance music was pretty good and had the feel I was looking for. This is my attempt at re-creating her music using the available samples. Since she'd recently posed for Playboy at the time I did it I had my title.

6. Tajiri

As I said above I was a WWE fan at the time and my favourite wrestler was a Japanese guy named Yoshihiro Tajiri. He inspired me to create a Japanese sounding track and this is the result.

If for some unknown reason you want to own these tracks you can download it from this link.

Ourobouros 54 - 30 Days

Normal service will be resumed this weekend with the long anticipated 50th Episode special.

1. Infinity

2. The Zeppo

3. Concussed Duckling

4. Roc Stars

5. Playboy

6. Tajiri

Hope you enjoy them and they'll be available for download from my homepage.

1: Rieser - Just Seen A Ghost

2: Page 44 - With Or Without Your Help

3: Ours - Murder

4: Seppuku Paradigm - Sure Thing

5: Bury The Bully - Army Of Love

6: Boys Will Be Boys - Word On The Street

7: Matthew Dear - Don & Sherri

8: Zoon Van Snook - Bibliophone

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 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.

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 Â4.74 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.

1: Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists

2: Los Campesinos! - ...And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes In Unison

3: The Whip - Trash

4: Razmataz Lorry Excitement - The Biggest Waste Of 33 Minutes

5: Lego Castles - My First Casio

6: Lodestone - Stay For A While

7: Slovakia - Part Of The Factory

8: Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe

9: Cherry Poppin' Daddies - White Trash Toodle Oo

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.

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!

1: Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Demo Version)

2: The Seven Inches - The Little Things

3: Ian Cockburn & The Whole World - I Thought We Had It Good

4: Minus The Bear - Throwin' Shapes

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

6: O Titus! - Loopy Loo

7: Televandals - Dirty Lovers

8: Normaa - The Void - Triumph

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.

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. 

1: Murder Of Lilies - Pirouette

2: The Band Of The Eye - Lippy Children

3: This City Romance - Star Smile

4: Midnight Movies - Should Have Known

5: Whalebones - Blood Bank

6: Visionary Underground - State Of Mind

7: Robots In Disguise - We're In The Music Biz

8: YACHT - See A Penny (Pick It Up)

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.

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.

1: Halo In Reverse - Pop Icon Puppets

2: The Bastard Fairies - Ode To The Prostitute

3: Co.Jack - Break The Silence

4: Lowstar - Alphabet Blues

5: Sons And Daughters - The Nest

6: The Winning Season - 95

7: The Apathy Eulogy - Baby Maybe

8: Degiheugi - Feel The Difference

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.

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.

1: Los Campesinos! - Death To Los Campesinos!

2: Those Dancing Days - Hitten

3: The Futureheads - The Beginning Of The Twist

4: Lightspeed Champion - Galaxy Of The Lost

5: Sons And Daughters - Chains

6: The Getaway Team - I Regret

7: Penny Broadhurst - London (Klar Mix)

8: Jenny Omnichord - Buildings

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.

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.

1: Riothead - Screaming Beauty

2: The Trade - I Plan

3: She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?

4: Two Hours Traffic - Stuck For The Summer

5: Luna Halo - Untouchable

6: Jag Star - Missed Out

7: TV/TV - Get It Get It

8: Wollstoncraft - Secrets

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.

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..........................

1: Elle S'Appelle - Little Flame

2: Co.Jack - Norman

3: Chutes - It's You In Support Of Me

4: The Slants - Stranglehold

5: Rival Joustas - Clarity

6: Venus Verse - Loving Arms

7: the Age of Sound - On A Sunday

8: EFFEKTOR! - SelfImmolation

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 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!

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 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!

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.

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!

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.

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...

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.

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.

1: Emigrate - My World

2: The Blacks - Raincoat

3: The Chiara L's - Kate's Kid

4: un:armed - Talk Talk

5: Two Shots Of Rye - I'll Be Running My Whole Life

6: White Trash Cowboys - White Trash Cowboys

7: Black Lab - Hole In My Heart

8: Amaryoni - Lion Sleeps No More

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.

Glamour For Better got back in touch with me saying that they never gave me permission, despite the fact I had the e-mails to prove it. Then the record label, Ear Candy Music, got involved and insisted that I remove the track from the podcast. This is doubly irritating considering that Ear Candy were complicit in previously allowing the same track to be available as a free download for an extended period.

This is a ridiculous situation where record labels and even artists still don't appreciate the benefits of podcasting, but I have followed their wishes and removed the offending track.

The edition of Episode #36 now available for download does not contain the offending track. 

1: Rieser - Rockstar

2: Dead World Leaders - Vitamins

3: Freezepop - Less Talk More Rokk

4: The Epilogues - Caroline

5: Niki Kwik - Northern Cities Shift

6: Michael Trac'e (AKA Tragic Soul) - UnDone

7: Karoshi Bros - Fuck Da World

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.

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.

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.

1: The Modern Cliches - Sharp Suits & Dirty Handshakes

2: Seagull Strange - Bitten To The Quick

3: Information Society - Synthesizer

4: The Gay Blades - O Shot

5: Silly Fools - Stay Away

6: The Scissor File - Reason To Run

7: Metropol - Collision

8: 65daysofstatic - Don't Go Down To Sorrow

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.

This has left me with a collection of videos, and it seemed sensible to attempt a video podcast of my favourites of the year.

My criteria for selection are basically for the video to have a strong central idea and for it to fit the song.

Here's what I've come up with:

1: David E. Sugar â We Weren't Put Together

Played Episode #2

Directors: Tomfoolery Pictures

This is a humorous puppet video that uses the old Michel Gondry technique of each element of the song having its own visual cue. I know that sounds incredibly pretentious, but all you need to know is that it's very funny. David's expression at the end pretty much sums it up.

2: Fear Of Flying â Three's A Crowd (Band have changed their name to White Lies)

Played Episode #5

Director: James Appleton

When I said at the top of these notes that the video should fit the song, I couldn't have thought of a more appropriate video than this one. The song involves a battle of wills between a man and his girlfriend's pet cat, so you can imagine where this story driven video ends up. The bits at the end where the girlfriend shows some distinctly feline characteristics are very odd.  

3: Los Campesinos! â We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives

Played Episode #6

Director: Monkmus

When this track originally came out, the band had a difficult time persuading people that this was not an anti-war song. After seeing this video it's easy to understand why. The primary coloured battlefield animation is at times priceless. It's probably safe to say that the video is anti-war even if the song isn't.

4: Headland â Love Hate

Played Episode #8

Director: Andrew Harmer

When the chorus for a song goes 'I hate racism, I love orgasms' it's difficult to imagine a video that could possibly fit the song. A puppet bobbing his head along to the music before tripping out after watching too much TV shouldn't work. It really, really does.

5: The Haiku â The News Is: The World Sucks

Played Episode #11

Directors: The Band

There was no way that this video wasn't going to make the final list as this is the music video I was in. The band only lives about 20 miles up the road from me, and when they sent out a myspace message asking for extras I went along. I'm the one with the big no. 54 on my shirt. Even if I wasn't in it, this would probably have made the list anyway. The idea of a mass protest march fits the song perfectly and when the fun of it all is brought down by a list of wars that British forces have fought in, it becomes thought provoking too.

6: Some Velvet Morning â Settle Down

Played Episode #12

Director: Shane Davey

This is a perfect example of a really simple idea defeating the obvious lack of budget. When the lyrics of a song talk about the problems of trying to grow up, having the uninterested protagonist of the video being chased by scantily clad women seems to work perfectly. When record companies can spend millions on a video that ends up looking like crap, this is the kind of thing they should be considering.

7: The Young Punx! â You've Got To...

Played Episode #15

Director: Han Hoogerbrugge

There's only one way to describe this video. Absolutely bloody mental. The brightly coloured animation of empty shirts with clown heads and animal headed mummies beating each other up is certainly one of the most interesting visual experiences of the last year. I really worry for the sanity of the director.

8: Harrisons â Dear Constable

Played Episode #16

Directors: Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace

With The Manic Street Preachers becoming more MOR with every passing year, the mantle of politically aware British rock has passed to a new generation of bands. Harrisons are one of these bands and this dystopian vision of a future Sheffield is a great place to start. The visuals have been heavily influenced by the film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 and compliment the song perfectly. You have to admire the bands commitment to the video concept in the final scenes.

9: The XCorvettes â An Alcoholic State Of Mind

Played Episode #18

Directors: The Band

Another example of what can be achieved with imagination and a camcorder. I have managed to avoid programmes like The X Factor and Pop Idol, but the bloody things are so entrenched in the popular conscience that even I can see what a good spoof this is. I am slightly concerned with how comfortable Johnny from the band seems to be in drag though...

10: Echo Helstrom â Hungry Ghost

Played Episode #30

Director: Kurt Nishimura

Stop motion animation using humans can be a very effective tool in the film-makers arsenal. When it's done right it can be spectacular and this is an example of it being done right. The dark, foreboding stage with the haunted dancer all alone starts us off and when the band members appear, briefly, in the black background the doom-laden feeling is enhanced.

I'm not going to put up video links for this episode like I usually do. If you want to look back in the archives Elizabeth, Jupiter One, Planetakis and ddd all have a video available for their track. The reason I'm not going to produce an official list is that I will be releasing a video podcast featuring my favourite videos of the year within the next few days. It's a completely different playlist with 10 more great songs combined with 10 great videos.

A quick announcement that it's my turn to host AMPed again this week, so look out for that this coming Monday.

It's also my next live gig on Wednesday and it's looking like it might be the last for a while. Details on the next 'proper' podcast episode.

Hope you all had a happy and safe holiday period, and here's to a great 2008.

1: Gompa - Popsong (From Episode #2)

2: The Chiara L's - You Do (From Episode #27)

3: Elizabeth - War Is Beautiful (From Episode #16)

4: Dead World Leaders - Vultures (From Episode #25)

5: Jupiter One - Countdown (From Episode #34)

6: Rieser - Angerflow (From Episode #2)

7: Invocal - Cheer Up, Frowny Face (From Episode #26)

8: Planetakis - Pogo In The Shoes Of Kylie Minogue (From Episode #5)

9: Pipe Choir - Savior (From Episode #18)

10: ddd - Wall To Wall (From Episode #22)

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 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? 

1: Stars - Personal

2: Jupiter One - Countdown

3: Bloc Party - Flux

4: Los Campesinos! - The International TweeXcore Underground

5: The Chiara L's - Knives

6: Drive-By Argument - The Sega Method

7: Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Lets Make Out

8: Robots In Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid

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.

Go and have a listen. It's rather good.

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.

1: Echolounge - Insipid

2: Slaveen - Ghost Track

3: Dominic Castillo & The Rock Savants - Keep You Around

4: FreeSlave - Save My Day

5: Irya Gmeyner - My Angel

6: Young Sensation - Happiness

7: Cancel The Astronauts - Intervention

8: The Young Punx! - Your Music Is Killing Me

9: Cannonball Jane - Take It To Fantastic

10: Post Death Soundtrack - Fingerprints

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.

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.

1: Fabric - The State I'm In

2: Phil Cooper - Numero Uno

3: Malago - What's Wrong Daisy?

4: The Peelers - Handful Of Stones

5: FIRSTOFTHEGIANTS - Obsessive Compulsive

6: The Exiles - Start A Revolution

7: MelonFarmer - Everything You Told Me (Was A Lie)

8: Birch - Speed

9: JUB - Where To Begin

10: Wollstoncraft - Leibniz

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.

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.

1: El Coda - The After Party

2: Decora - Meet The Dalai Lama

3: Fabric - Wrong Song

4: SixNationState - So Long

5: Sick Of Sarah - Bittersweet

6: The Skooners - Bad Bad Man

7: VeinCage - Hooked, Line & Sinking

8: Helalyn Flowers - DGTal Blood

9: Heartbreak Club - She Talked To Me!

10: The Logicals - Clueless

11: Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days

12: Shortwave Fade - Cover Your Eyes

13: Natalie Walker - Crush

14: Anemo - Pray (Ropey Remix)

15: Arrow!!! - D.O.E.S.

16: Telephone Jim Jesus - A Mouth Of Fingers

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.

Rest assured I am still here, and as determined as ever to provide you with quality independent music. I'm still doing gigs as well and the next one is tonight, Wednesday 14th November, at The Porter Butt. I know this is very short notice, but yet again I had a band pull out on me and had a lot of trouble finding a replacement. As ever there will be free mix CDs handed out to attendees.

As far as the podcast goes I am planning to release a double length 'comeback special' at the end of the week. Lets hope I can actually get it out...

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.

1: Martijn Ten Velden - I Wish U Would

2: Echo Helstrom - Hungry Ghost

3: Rob Gough - Don't Have A Voice

4: The Chiara L's - Odio

5: Last Letter Read - Leabridge

6: Grand Atlantic - Smoke And Mirrors

7: The Grams - On A Wednesday

8: Momentary Prophets - Go!

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.

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.

1: Group 4 - With Him

2: We*Take*Flight - Broken Bones

3: The Dykeenies - Pick You Up

4: Peter, Bjorn And John - Young Folks

5: Tempo No Tempo - A Different Weapon

6: The RoundSquare - Stop Freaking Me Out

7: Weapons Of Youth (AKA Death Of A Dancer) - Exit Body

8: George Demure - My Baby's Gone

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.