Slide Into My Hand

Another month, another pod of great music from yours truly. Yay.

This month is one of celebration as I have just finished University, Charlton Athletic are to be awarded a trophy for being brilliant, and generally it is a new beginning which can only offer lots of great opportunities. Bring it on.

So yeah, I hope you enjoy the podcast. I enjoyed making it but I may be a little bit biased. Feel free to leave comments, and follow me on twitter @slideintomyhand. Bounce bounce bounce.

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1. Daphne and Celeste – School’s Out
2. Jack White – On and On and On
3. The King Blues – 5 Bottles of Shampoo
4. Spiritualized – Freedom
5. Leonard Cohen – Different Strokes
6. Animal – Burning Leaves
7. Rabbit! – Go For It
8. The Weeknd – DD
9. Nicki Minaj – Roman Holiday
10. Pelican – Ataraxia
11. te –
12. pg.Lost – Sheaves

Welcome to episode 24 of the podcast, a Bruce Springsteen special to celebrate his ace new album Wrecking Ball. There’s a mix of songs from throughout his career, including covers and live versions so I hope you enjoy.

I’ve used his keynote speech from SXSW to link into some of the tracks as I didn’t want to talk too much and show my ignorance.

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1. Wrecking Ball (live at Giants Stadium)
2. Human Touch
3. Youngstown
4. Atlantic City
5. Radio Nowhere
6. Streets of Philadelphia
7. This Is Your Land
8. Death to my Hometown
9. Oh, Pretty Woman (sung with Roy Orbison)
10. Chimes of Freedom
11. Mrs McGrath
12. Dancing in the Dark

Welcome to Episode 23 of slideintomyhand, I hope you are enjoying life and looking forward to another selection of tunes picked by yours truly. There are some real crackers this month, including a couple picked by folk troubadour Dave Hughes. Both are crackers so you are in for a treat.

Well it’s getting late so I will keep this short but sweet, you can find Dave Hughes all over the internet but wherever you choose to follow him look out for an announcement of a new tour tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed he comes to a venue near you.

For next month I will be doing a Bruce Springsteen special as I want to celebrate his fantastic new album, so if you have a favourite track of his please feel free to let me know what it is and why and you will probably be included in next month’s show. Cool eh?

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1. Sly Stone – Everyday People
2. DJ Format – Mr DJ
3. Errors – Magna Encarta
4. Twilight Sad – Not Sleeping
5. Mischief Brew – Roll Me Through The Gates of Hell
6. Sinead O’Connor – Back Where You Belong
7. Bonnie Prince Billy & Mariee Sioux – Not Mocked
8. Mark Lanegan Band – Riot In My House
9. Pulled Apart By Horses – Shake off the Curse
10. Emma Hallows – Sams Floor
11. Speech Debelle – The Problem
12. Air – Moon Fever

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of slideintomyhand, I hope you have all had a wonderful 2012 so far. It’s been ok here in sunny Dundee (although I say that with the wettest day of the year happening outside, humph) so I have no complaints.

This month we have a wonderful special guest in Lis (aka lastyearsgirl) introducing a couple of great tracks of her choice which is cool, so a big thanks to her. Go visit her site and be enlightened, challenged, and introduced to new music. Look out for more special guests in the coming months.

Apart from that the show is your usual mix of tunes and me waffling, there are two glaring errors which are my fault (or the red wines). First off, got mixed up between Lis’ new and old tracks when I wrote down the order so sorry about that. And I can’t read my own handwriting and Lindstrom’s track is Deja Vu (my u looked like an a). I am so professional it is scary.

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1. Miacca – I’ve Got A Boyfriend Now
2. Colour Me Wednesday – Holiday From Your Life
3. First Aid Kit – King of the World
4. Jenny Owen Youngs – Voice on Tape
5. The Horrible Crowes – Behold the Hurricane
6. Emma Ruth Rundle – Goteborg
7. Boy – This Is The Beginning
8. Malcolm Middleton – School Dances
9. Lindstrom – Deja Vu
10. Luke Haines – Big Daddy Got A Casio VL Tone
11. Mi & L’au – Faces
12. KRS-One – What it is/outro

Wow here we are in a New Year and into my “3rd year” of recording (that’s slightly cheating as I did only start mid-2010, but stats can be used how we want them right?). I hope you all had a great festive period and welcomed 2012 in with style? I managed till 4am which is good going, especially with those whisky and bourbon shots.

This is a bit of a tidy up episode as I’ve included tracks from 2011 that I’ve not been able to include before. There’s still plenty left as well so we shall have to see how 2012 goes before working out if I can sneak any of them in.

So yeah, sit back, pour yourself your drink of choice, and enjoy.

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1. Escort – Cocaine Blues
2. EMA – Milkman
3. Danielson – Lil Norge
4. Johnny Foreigner – Electricity vs the Dead
5. Kimya Dawson – Same Shit Complicated
6. Dave Hughes – Dancing Two-Step
7. Darren Hayman – The Ship’s Piano
8. J.Mascis – Circle
9. Marianne Faithfull – Gee Baby
10. Bright Eyes – Haile Salassie
11. 65daysofstatic – Burial Scene
12. Ryan Adams – I love you but I don’t know what to say

Welcome to my first ever Xmas Mix, it’s not a normal podcast as I don’t have the time just now so you can only download rather than stream through the site. There probably won’t be anything new here for you but it’s a bunch of Xmas songs I enjoy. I hope you all have a Merry Xmas and Happy Hogmonay.

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1. Bruce Springsteen – Santa Clause is Coming to Town
2. Ramones – Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)
3. Tom Waits – Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
4. Half Man Half Biscuit – All I Wanted for Xmas was a Dukla Prague Away Kit
5. Darren Hayman – The Christmas Wars
6. Ben Folds Five – A Bizarre Christmas Incident
7. Gruff Rhys – Post Apocalypse Christmas
8. The Vandals – My First Xmas (As A Woman)
9. Fountains of Wayne – I Want An Alien for Christmas
10. The Pogues feat Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York
11. The Long Blondes – Christmas is Cancelled
12. Low – Little Drummer Boy
13. Tim Minchin – White Wine in the Sun

As we enter the final few weeks of the year the usual question arises of where did it go? Time does seem to flying by yet I don’t be seem to be achieving what I want to, hmmmm. But let’s not be downbeat as Hogmanay is nearly upon us, and you can’t be miserable as you enter a New Year. That is illegal.

This month brings you a bunch of new tracks that hopefully you will love and cherish, well hopefully at least one track at least anyway.

Anyway, enjoy December and have a fun Xmas and a drunken New Year. See you on the other side.

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1. David Lynch – Pinky’s Dream
2. The Give It Ups – Whatever Happens Happens
3. Matric – Sick Muse (Maur Due and Lichter Remix)
4. Frank Turner – Magazines
5. Lana Del Rey – Video Games Remix
6. Lowkey – Blood, Sweat and Tears (feat. Klashnekeoff)
7. Cloaks – #00148
8. To Destroy A City – Narcotic Sea
9. Faust – Something Dirty
10. Joy and Revolution – Stuck in Your Wrap
11. My Dad vs Yours – Against Tide and Wind
12. This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren
13. Sinead O’Connor – House of the Rising Sun

Hello and welcome to episode 19 of slideintomyhand, can’t quite believe I’ve got that far. Should I celebrate number 20, or have a 21st party?

This month we have a guest contribution from my friend Karl Handy who offers an old track and new(ish) track that he loves, if you want to be included in a future podcast email me or leave a comment below.

We also promote a gig by Lastyearsgirl that is in Glasgow on 2nd December at the Old Hairdressers, follow this link here and book tickets and attend. You’ll have a chance to shake my hand and hug Lastyearsgirl, what more incentive do you need? Oh, the music is ace as well as she’s booked Franz Nicolay, Chris T-T and Dave Hughes.

And finally here is the promised video for the Erato song that is lighting up the internet with its greatness, I hope you enjoy it as much as me.

Erato

Well that’s all for this month, have a good one and I will see you all in December. Wow, where did the year go?

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1. Erato – Call Your Girlfriend
2. Franz Nicolay – Felix and Adelita
3. Ecomag – I Need A Dollar
4. Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers – Buzz Buzz Buzz
5. Wild Flag – Something Came Over Me
6. Atari Teenage Riot – Black Flag
7. Dolfinz – Whatever, Forever
8. Frightened Rabbit – Scottish Winds
9. Bonnie Prince Billy – We Are Unhappy
10. Half Man Half Biscuit – Rock and Roll is full of Bad Wools
11. Frank Musik – 3 Little Words
12. Sleepmakeswaves – our time is short but your watch is slow

Blatant plug for my fake little sister.

“Bloggers putting on gigs? It’ll never catch on…” – AYE TUNES.

Maybe not – but I’m determined to give it a go anyway. You should come. Not just because I’ll be out a fair bit of money if you don’t, but also because it’s going to be pretty brilliant.

LAST YEAR’S GIRL’S FRIDAY NIGHT SPEAKEASY*
The Old Hairdresser’s, Renfield Lane (opp. Stereo), Glasgow
Friday 2nd December 2011, 8pm

Franz Nicolay has the face of a villain, but the heart of a vaudevillian. He specialises in moustaches, raconteuring and the sort of antiquated instruments such as banjo, accordion and musical saw it’s pretty awkward to get through customs. He has played with a few bands you may have heard of (The Hold Steady, Against Me!, Guignol, The World/Inferno Friendship Society), and released two albums of solo material that are even better. If you want to see him make a third one, you could contribute to his Kickstarter pledge drive. He feels as weird about it as you do.
franznicolay.com
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Brighton-based Chris T-T tried to be a political songwriter, but Billy Bragg said he didn’t exist so he went back to writing about bunny rabbits instead. Sorry, what? That was a song about communism, you say? You might have seen him set the works of AA Milne to music at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, or joined in one of his acts of civil disobedience through the use of social media (#IAmSpartacus). He is currently working on his eighth album of original material.
christt.com
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Dave Hughes plays folk music without the scarves, handclaps or tambourines. Before buying a car he pretty much invented the Megabus tour, which is the only explanation for that time he ended up playing to a hen party in Birmingham He does not sound like Ed Sheeran, and does not get offended if you describe his performance as “ramshackle” with or without his Renegade Folk Punk Band. His latest release is the six-track Despite the Blackout EP, on Corporate Records.
davehughesmusic.co.uk
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The Old Hairdressers is a small independent arts centre run by the same people who run Stereo, situated across from its big sister venue on Renfield Lane. It doesn’t like to make a habit of hosting musical events, but some people can be pretty persuasive. And it turns out they’re just as excited about this one as we are.

Last Year’s Girl is a legal journalist by day and a superstar music blogger by night. She’s been famous on the internet since 1999; longevity she puts down to a combination of cake, Springsteen, cheesy iPhoneography and talking about intimate waxing in too much detail.
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More information: lisamarie@pixlet.net or @lastyearsgirl_. Tickets available from Brown Paper Tickets. Tell me you’re coming on Facebook!

*It has been suggested this event receives the alternative billing of Does Franz Know It’s Lis-Mas? For some reason, I don’t think it will catch on, Jules…

Greetings,

Welcome to episode 18 (wow, 18?!?!?!) of slideintomyhand. You’ll be glad to know it’s a return to normality with a bunch of new(ish) tracks, and one oldie thrown in to open up the show. I’ve also managed to keep the show to under an hour for the first time in a while, hopefully that means it won’t be as much as slog for you. Would you like even shorter shows, what would be the ideal length?

I’ll probably keep away from the themed episodes from a while as I’ve a load of new tracks piled up in a folder that I want you all to hear, hopefully I can fit them all in somehow.

Well that’s about all I have to say, apart from there being a review of the new Bjork album by me over at last year’s girl‘s blog which I was privileged enough to be asked to do. Go read and let me know what you think, it’s not something I normally do as I’m not the best with words but hopefully it works.

Well, have a good October and Halloween at the end of the month and see you back here soon.

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1. Pop Will Eat Itself – The Incredible PWEI v The Moral Majority
2. DJ Shadow – I Gotta Rokk
3. Boris – Les Paul Custom ’86
4. Tom Morello and The Night Watchmen – The Fifth Horse of the Apocalypse
5. Johnny Foreigner – With who, who and what I’ve got
6. Preach Jacobs and Jay Dilla – Driftin
7. Damon and Naomi – How do I say Goodbye
8. Barry Loius Palisar – All I Want
9. Kitty Daisy and Lewis – I’m Going Back
10. Seasick Steve – Whiskey Ballad
11. AA Bondy – Down in the Fire (Lost Sea)
12. Helsinki Poetry – Manchester
13. Lonely Island – Threw it on the Ground