“John Richards searches for the perfect summer song as he plays a
number of his recent favorites from the Morning Show.”

1. Miike Snow – Animal
2. Arch Cupcake – Rubix Dude
3. Iran – Buddy
4. Wussy – Muscle Cars
5. Phoenix – Listamania
6. Escape Act – Cabin Fever
7. Threatmantics – Big Man
8. Bell X1 – The Ribs of a Broken Umbrealla
9. Erik Blood – To Leave America
10. Akron/Family – The River
11. O + S – We Do What We Want To
12. Bill Callahan – All thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast
13. Faunts – Alarmed/Lights
14. Fever Ray – If I had a Heart
15. Alaska in Winter – The Homeless and the Hummingbirds
16. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Ships With Holes Will Sink

Each podcast usually reaches about 40,000 listeners, so we’re pretty pleased about this – thanks to John for his support!

Download it using iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=76069540

or grab the feed and more info from
http://www.kexp.org/podcasting/podcasting.asp

The main studio at Blackstaff is like a giant hangar, but with some cunningly positioned foam boxes and a lot of curtains there’s no reverb, you could be in the cupboard under your stairs… anyway this excellent sounding room made the recording process all the more enjoyable, as did the dedication and enthusiasm of recording team Davy, John and Trish. Thanks to them and Rory and assistant Steven for having us along

don’t forget, we’re playing the Menagerie with Panda Kopanda and Barry’s Electric Workshop this Friday 2nd Jan

A bit of great news just in, we’ve been chosen by the BBC’s Steve Lamacq as this week’s ‘Unsigned’ group!!

Please tune into Steve’s show on BBC 6 Music this evening at 6.15 to hear Chris chat live with Steve: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve_lamacq/

Don’t forget, if you are in Belfast, we’re supporting New Amusement in Auntie Annies tonight, and of course tomorrow night its CLUB NING with Dirty Stevie, us, and La Faro DJs – it will be immense!

see you there

Rich

listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radiofoyle/programmes/electric/index.shtml for the next 7 days

thanks to Stephen for having us in!

03.11.08: ESCAPE ACT
Belfast trio Escape Act recently completed a MUZU TV session in Dublin, though that’s not the reason we are tipping them, though it does mean we’ll be able to plug them again later in the month when the results of that session go online. But these guys definitely deserve your attention right now. Single release ‘God Says’ is a good start, though the Springsteen-aping arena stomp of ‘Cabin Fever’ is their best offering, meeting the ethereal Brit-rock of Doves with the melancholy, shoe gazing vocals of Teenage Fanclub. If this sounds like your thing then you’ve no reason not to explore, particularly given that they’re giving away their album, ‘Loosely Based On Fiction’, entirely free through various channels.

check it and other tipped bands here: http://www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk/unsigned/index.html

for now we’ve popped the groovy God Says promo up there, but expect more soon!

we’ve added some pics of the session we did on Phantom’s I:Con show to our facebook page. We’d like to thank Lynn and Cathal for having us! you may need to be a facebook ‘fan’ to view them…

we’ve also confirmed another Dublin gig, September 18th at McGrudders, Thomas Street, promoted by Dublin Underground.

The voting page is at http://www.ukjapan2008.jp/campaign/enq/index.html so please surf along and give us your support!

If you happen to be from Japan, or just wanna help out, you could put this banner on your web page, myspace, facebook, bebo or whatever using the code below!

<a href='http://www.escapeact.com/index.php/2008/07/18/vote-for-escape-act-to-hit-japan-electronically/vote-for-escape-act-in-japan/' rel='attachment wp-att-115' title='Vote for Escape Act in Japan'><img src='http://www.escapeact.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/japan-vote.gif' alt='Vote for Escape Act in Japan' /></a>

There’s plenty of good stuff in there too, so well worth a listen…

Full tracklisting:
Ham Sandwich – Keepsake
Escape Act – God Says
The Grace Jones – Weirdlings
Kowalski – Duck, Duck, Goose
Oppenheimer – Straight Out Of Comp (In)
Si Schroeder – Lavendermist

It also features Director Brian Philip Davis and collaborating screenwriter David Kinghan and actress Bernadette Brown.