the svelte selection – May All Your Dreams Come True

Another month gone, another raft of excellent gigs and releases. Music truly is brilliant, innit?

Here’s the show as it went out, you can, as usual, download the whole thing from here, or check out some of the tunes from Spotify.

1. Bob Marley – Burnin’ & Lootin’ from Live On Air
2. Regular Fries – The Pink Room from Accept the Signal
3. James Canty – Something You Choose from James Canty EP
4. Sam Amidon – Johanna The Row-di from I See The Sign
5. One Little Plane – It’s Alright from Into The Trees
6. Markus Stenz: London Sinfonietta – Thomas Adès: Living Toys – Playing Funerals from Adès: Living Toys
7. Markus Stenz: London Sinfonietta – Thomas Adès: Living Toys – Tablet from Adès: Living Toys
8. Dustin O’Halloran – A Great Divide from Lumiere
9. Midaircondo – Could You Please Stop from Domino 06
10. Julia Holter – Goddess Eyes from Tragedy
11. Origamibiro – Sedimental Value (K-Conjog Remix) from Shakkei Remixed
12. Errors – Holus-Bolus from Have Some Faith In Magic
13. Zammuto – Weird Ceiling from Zammuto
14. Radiohead – Idioteque from I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
15. Cate Le Bon – The Man I Wanted from CYRK
16. Ben Folds Five – Do It Anyway from New Album-In Progress
17. The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again from The Queen is Dead
18. Gina X Performance – Nice Mover from Nine O’Clock Drop
19. Actress – Shadow From Tartarus from R.I.P.
20. Seams – Potential from Potential
21. Squarepusher – Dark Steering from Dark Steering
22. Shifted – Structure from Control
23. Girl Unit – Double Take from Club Rez EP

A couple of extra things:

Blue Touch Paper with the London Sinfonietta.

Upcoming gigs

I’M GOING TO CERN!!!

the svelte selection – Spring forward!

Oh dearest ones, the arrival of the Spring sunshine is cheering me LOADS, as in the plethora of musical delights I’ve been experiencing of late and the anticipation of many to come. This month’s show was BLOODY GREAT if I do say so myself. Chat was a bit rushed, but only cos there was so much brilliant music to get out, as you’ll see below.

If you want to know more details about the gigs I’m booked in to see, you can check the list over on last.fm by clicking here. Yes, I know I should be blogging about them all, but I’m a bit rubbish, y’see.

Aaaaanyway, here’s the show in all its glory. Download using this discreet link, or for (some of) the music, try this Spotify playlist.

Fill. Your. Boots.

1. Jim White – What Rocks Will Never Know from Where It Hits You
2. Tindersticks – This Fire of Autumn from The Something Rain
3. Tanya Auclair – Fluke from ORIGAMI
4. Anna Meredith – Orca from Black Prince Fury EP
5. Oren Ambarchi – Passage from Audience of One
6. Sam Amidon – Nico Muhly: The Only Tune: I. The Two Sisters – Samamidon from Mothertongue
7. Raffertie – Courage Boy from Mass Appeal
8. Wolfgang Voigt – Rückverzauberung 5 from Pop Ambient 2012
9. Bowerbirds – Sweet Moment from The Clearing
10. Rob St. John – Sargasso Sea from Weald
11. Orchestre Métropolitain – Claude Vivier: Orion from Orchestre Métropolitain 2
12. Drivan – Inget Mer Sen from Disko
13. SOAP&SKIN – Boat Turns Toward The Port from Narrow
14. Dirty Three – Sometimes I Forget You’ve Gone from Toward The Low Sun
15. Breakbeat Era – Ultra-Obscene from Ultra Obscene
16. Peaches – Shake Yer Dix from Fatherfucker
17. Fanny Jam – God and Women from The Lady Love EP
18. The Magnetic Fields – God Wants Us To Wait from Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
19. Bang On A Can All-Stars – Michael Gordon : For Medeline from Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
20. The 2 Bears – Be Strong from Be Strong
21. Factory Floor – Two Different Ways from Two Different Ways

Oh, and here’s a brief thing about the awesome Anna Meredith at the National Portrait Gallery Lates

And, as a bonus treat, my first film for BishUK:

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