Theme: I heart Cloudberry Records |
| This show started with two sets dedicated to the record label Cloudberry records ( www.cloudberryrecords.com ). Their website describes themselves as "an indiepop label purveying the sound of jangly guitars based in sunny Miami, Florida", how could I not love them. They look to specialize in shorter products such as 7 inch vinyl, split CD singles, and mini-CDs. The other cool think is that for pretty much all their releases they have at least one song that you can download for free. I also put in an ectro-pop and funky set, something I haven't done in a while, so that was nice. Things I referenced on the show: Maia Hirasawa - The Wrong Way Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEnMc9xakeg link to soul sides blog: http://soul-sides.com/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - September 25, 2009 TALK (Cloudberry Records 1) The Parellelograms - Dream On Daisy The Shandy Express - Surfing On Love's Wave Girl Alliance - Frances And The Dancing Fairies Pale Man Made - In Your Bed Play People - Goes Out TALK (Cloudberry Records 2) Twig - Ciao Ciao Bomb Kevin McGrother - A Week Of Wednesdays The Tartans - My Baby Doesn't Care For You The Westfield Mining Disaster - Hank Williams Saved My Life The Cavalcade - Meet You In The Rain TALK So Many Dynamos - New Bones Golden Glow - Adore Me Voxtrot - Trepanation Party Astrid Swan - Unrelated Bad Hands featuring Nina Kinert - Badn Hands TALK Jenny Wilson - Only Here For The Fight The Bandwagon - Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache Lydia Marcell - The Girl He Needs The Impossibles - Easy To Be Heard Melvin Bliss - Synthetic Substitution TALK The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars Horse Shoes - The Imperial School Rubik - No Escape Afternoon Naps - Beach Bums Maia Hirasawa - The Wrong Way TALK Free Energy - Free Energy The singles - can you go out tonight (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
September 25, 2009
September 5, 2009
Theme: I Wanna Go Surfin' |
| This was a 4 song set kind of show, just kind of worked out that way. My top song for the show was a song that I heard a while back at the NYC popfest this spring. But I was reminded of the great performance by Karim and his Brown Coach of Leisure podcast ( http://silenttalkie.com/ ). I just can't get the song out of my head. They are also releasing their first EP soon that I'm very much looking forward to. I tried not to talk a lot during this show as I felt there was a lot of talking during the Hillside review show. Keeping with the same sentiment I won't write a lot about the show except to say that I was happy with how it came together. Even got a slow set in which is relatively rare for me. And do listen to the end of the show as the last song by the band Death By Chocolate was fighting to be my top song, but I still can't describe it, you just have to listen. Things I referenced on the show: See video of the performance by The Drums at the NYC Popfest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC4W5SEwdOk Download the Celestial song here: http://musicismygirlfriend.com/celestial/hop-you-know/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - September 5, 2009 TALK (Theme) The Drums - Let's Go Surfing Dylan Mondegreen - Wishing Well Girl Alliance - Straight To My Heart The Champagne Socialists - Blue Genes TALK Papermoon - What are you going to do with me? (c) The San Marinos - On Our Way The School - And Suddenly The Darling Buds - Burst TALK Downdime - Lessons The Charade - A tough Decision Cut Off Your Hands - Happy As Can Be The Mugs - Could It Be TALK The Faintest Ideas - Procrastination Of Every Day Tasks Knight School - Pregnent Again Candy Panic Attack - Heartbreaker Casa Murilo - 19th Floor TALK Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream Horse Shoes - Changing Winds Voxtrot - Berlin, Without Return The Radio Dept. - David TALK Margo & The Nuclear So and So's - As Tall As Cliffs Landon Pigg - Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop Tiny Microphone - Home Celestial - Hope, You Know TALK Phantogram - When I'm Small Glass Cake - We'll Work It Out Jenny Wilson - Like A Fading Rainbow The Understudies - Flickknives TALK Death By Chocolate - Magpie (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
August 9, 2009
Theme: Hillside review
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| A lot of this show was dedicated to my review of the Hillside Festival that took place in Guelph in late July. Apart from the artists that I previously knew about, it is always cool to find out about bands that I didn't know existed. My favourite find this year were the Library Voices, as I said in the show, if Los Campesinos! grew up in Regina instead of Wales, they would have been the Library Voices. Another band I quite enjoyed was FRED, apologies to Bernard for not seeing them at the Starlight for St. Patrick's Day. The first song of the show I first heard on a patio overlooking Niagara Falls, thanks to S for helping to find out the name of the song. The last song was from the movie "500 Days of Summer", a movie I liked on its own but the peppering of indie music throughout made it all the better, thanks to M for getting the song for me. The rest of the show was my usual indie mix. Things I referenced on the show: link to lightning strike at Hillside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQE_JbE2zRU link to Final Fantasy at Hillside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7WxTP3ger8 Acid House Kings twitter: http://twitter.com/acidhousekings Fireball XL5 Setlist - August 9, 2009 TALK (Theme) Lavender Diamond - Open Your Heart Ivy - Get Enough Basil Pieron - Don't Ever Go Away Again Stars In Coma - Invisibility Trick Pop Art Toasters - Go Ahead TALK (Hillside Review 1) Library Voices - Love In The Age Of Absurdity (C) Winter Gloves - Hillside (C) Gentlemen Reg - We're In A Thunderstorm (C) Coeur De Pirate - Ensemble (C) Dancehall Free For All - Kelsey (C) TALK (Hillside Review 2) FRED - Skyscrapers Sunparlour Players - If the Creeks Don't Rise (C) Great Lake Swimmers - Concrete Heart (C) Clues - Crows (C) Final Fantasy - The Butcher (C) TALK The Acid House Kings - Boyish Holiday The Legends - Always The Same Love Is All - Wishing Well The Fizzbombs - The Words That The Pooh Sticks - Girl Who Made Me Smile TALK The Mockingbirds - That's How It's Gonna Stay Francis - Beat, Beat, Beat Hey Marseilles - Rio The Mayfair Set - Desert Fun The Paper Merchants - I Don't Care TALK Mumm-Ra - She's Got You High (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
July 10, 2009
Theme: Give me the green light |
| Uncharacteristically I started this show with a funky set as it went well with my pick for my top song of the week. A few of the songs in that set are a bit long so I hope you can make your way through them. The rest of the show was back to the indie pop sound. As well as a leftover set from last show's spotlight on the blog Heaven Is Above Your Head, I also played the song "Heaven Is Above My Head" by Louis Philippe that I assume the blog was named after. As coincidence would have it I heard the Philippe song on another podcast last week. I ended with the song Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants in honour of the Toronto Raptors signing free agent Hedo Turkoglu (I stole this idea from Peter). Also, a note to anybody looking for something to do on the evening of Saturday, July 18th that I'll be DJing live at the Jane Bond Cafe in Waterloo starting at 10 pm. So if you can make it that would be great and as I wanted to have a more "indie-pop" name I'm calling the DJ nights "The coolest thing about love" after the song by the Smittens. Things I referenced on the show: The One and Other art project - http://www.oneandother.co.uk/ Fireball XL5 Setlist - July 10, 2009 TALK (Theme) Johnny Legend - Green Light Cut Glass - Without Your Love All Because Of You - Dramatics Greyboy featuring Jeremy Ellis - Colour In Between The Lines Johnny Burnette Trio - Honey Hush TALK (leftover HIAYH set) Ann Perry - That's The Way He Is Lois Lane - Turn Me Loose Jackie Deshannon - Find Me Love Bobble Smith And The Dreamgirls - Now He's Gone Patti And The Emblems - It's The Little Things TALK (Female indie pop) Pocketbooks - Fleeting Moments Comet Gain - A Kind Of Loving Steso Songs - The Worse The Popguns - Where Do You Go? God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl TALk My Teenage Stride - To Live And Die In The Airport Lounge The Mary Onettes - Dave Fireflies - Butterscotch Hotels - Kite Flight Louis Philippe - Heaven Is Above My Head TALK Little Big Adventure - Happiest Time The Paper Merchants - I Don't Care Loney Dear - Airport Surroundings Ketch Harbour Wolves - So Long To The Ground The Blind King - Driving In America TALK AA-Awesome - I Wish I Were A Belgium **From Karim Harlem Shakes - Sunlight **From Sari or Michelle Candy Panic Attack - What's He Got That I Haven't Love Is All - Wishing Well Project A-Ko - Molten Hearts TALK They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) **Stolen from an idea by Peter (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
June 26, 2009
Theme: Heaven is above your head |
| As often happens, as soon as I find a new source of music I go crazy and get obsessed about getting all the music from that source ignoring my regular go-to sources. For this show it was my discovery of the great MP3 blog/podcast called "Heaven is above your head", the blog is based in New Zealand but it appears that it started out in Sweden. The blog seems to have been going a few years and this past February they started a podcast that unfortunately seems to have ended this past week. Although the blog mostly plays the same sort of indie pop that I love, the podcast also has a heavy focus on 60s and 70s soul songs which is very cool. It just kind of worked out that about half of the songs from this show are from HIAYH as well as a set specifically focused on those cool soul songs. http://heavenisabove.blogspot.com/ Even with the focus on HIAYH the show was back to the normal sets divided by different musical types and of course I had to end off with a song by the recently departed Michael Jackson. I know that I haven't really been into anything he has put out in the past 20 years, but when I was growing up Thriller was certainly an album that I (like the rest of world) was in love with. I went with P.Y.T. (Pretty young thing) instead of one of the more famous songs as I remember particularly liking that song back in the day. Also, a note to anybody looking for something to do on the evening of Saturday, July 18th that I'll be DJing live at the Jane Bond Cafe in Waterloo starting at 10 pm. So if you can make it that would be great and as I wanted to have a more "indie-pop" name I'm calling the DJ nights "The coolest thing about love" after last show's top song by the Smittens. Things I referenced on the show: Video for the Biker Boy songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBZUaFG7C8 video for Juni Jarvi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7SaJr58qHw Video for Little Boots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUs9YzY7t-8 Fireball XL5 Setlist - June 26, 2009 TALK (Theme) Sandstream - Teenage Love Biker Boy - Where Do You Go To? Juni Jarvi - Looking At You Is Like Looking At The Sun Baby Doll Lounge - Paisley Shirt (HIAYH) Bunnygrunt - We Suspect He Was Trying To Spell Monkey (HIAYH) TALK Baby Daylinger - You Push, I'll Go Little Big Adventure - The Hateful Eye Mike Snow - Animal Passion Pit - The Reeling Little Boots - New In Town TALK God Help The Girl - Come Monday Night Au Revoir Simone - All Or Nothing Asobi Seksu - Transparence Helen Love - We Love You (HIAYH) Stolen Hearts - Fire (HIAYH) TALK Even As We Speak - I Won't Have To Think About You (HIAYH) Fireflies - Sledding Godsmania - All Gone Wrong Today The Seven Inches - Open-ness And Honesty (HIAYH) The New Breed - Summers Coming (HIAYH) TALK (HIAYH spotlight) Paul Sindab - You Dropped Your Candy In The Sand (HIAYH) Ty Karim - You Just Don't Know (HIAYH) Ann Perry - That's The Way He Is (HIAYH) Mickey And Silvia - Love Is Strange (HIAYH) The Moments - You Said (HIAYH) TALK California Gold - Love Is All You Need (HIAYH) World Atlas - Inner city Kids (HIAYH) Matt & Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare Moustache Of Insanity - The Cat Chicken Song The Windmills - Beach Girls TALK Michael Jackson - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) (C) Denotes Canadian Content (HIAYH) Denotes song from Heaven is above your head |
June 11, 2009
Theme: The New York City Popfest |
| This show highlighted my experience at the New York Popfest back in May, in fact the first two sets were from CDs that I bought at the festival. The next set was a combination of other bands that played the festival and songs that were covered during the shows. Overall, it was a great time and of course being in New York City is always cool, especially walking around Harlem at 2 in the morning. The best conversation I overheard on the subway was one teenage girl telling her friend that she was bummed that she didn't have her iPod, the cops took it when she got busted and she hasn't had the time to get up to the Bronx and get it back, but she only has a month to do it. I won't go into a detailed description of the festival here as you can see the daily summary of my impressions of the New York Popfest on the Wall the Fireball XL5 radio show facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2437232020 Fireball XL5 Setlist - June 11, 2009 Smittens - 11:11 My Teenage Stide - Grim Wind Cats On Fire - Steady Pace Eux Autres - When I'm Up TALK Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart Burning Hearts - Iris Pants Yell! - Tried To Be Good A Faulty Chromosome - Bad Things TALK The Radio Dept. - Freddie And The Trojan Horse The Drums - Me And The Moon Very Truly Yours - Homesick The Sixths - Falling Out Of Love (With You) Matt Pond PA - In The Aeroplanes Over The Sea The Go-Betweens - People Say TALK The Lucksmiths - Good Light Spent - Excuse Me While I Drink Myself To Death Surf City - Dickshakers Union Pretend You're Happy - The Other Side Of The Earth Matt & Kim - Daylight TALK Threatmatics - Big Man The Interiors - My Little Pony Ribbons - Plain The Fizzbombs - Sign On The Line TALK Nouvelle Cuisine - Comunicacion no verbal (C) Denotes Canadian Content |
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