April 6, 2009

Theme: Back in action On Air: Frank

Yes it has been a while since the last show, sorry about that. The good news is that I managed to submit my PhD thesis this week, the downside was that I wasn't able to put out a show for over 2 months. Hopefully I should be able to keep a regular schedule from now on. The thing is that I never stopped accumulating music over the past 2 months so I really have enough material for about 4 shows, but I didn't think that putting out a 6 hour show was a good idea. So I kept it down to its usual 2 hours and just took a small dent of the backlog. Apart from playing all the pent up songs from the last 2 months I also did a spotlight on Wee Pop records ( www.weepop.net ). This is a record label out of England that specializes in TWee pop on the format of mini-CDs so each one can only hold about 20 minutes of music. Each release has a very limited edition and the liner notes are all handmade, this combined with the size just makes each release really cute. But they do pose a storage problem as they don't fit well with regular CDs. I got a delivery of 5 releases from Wee Pop just after the last show. Hopefully it won't be such a long break before the next show. Fireball XL5 Setlist - April 6, 2009 TALK-Theme My Teenage Stride - Ears Like Golden Bats Young Rival - Your Island Hooded Fang - Land Of Giants (C) Cuddle-pop - You Moustache of Insanity - I Need MORE!!! TALK Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele - Meet Me In The Garden Nickel Eye - Brandy Of The Damned The Very Most - April Is The Kindest Month FemBots - My Hands Are A City (C) Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - Take Off Your Sunglasses TALK (Wee pop records spotlight) One Happy Island - Temporary Tattoo Horowitz - Drop The Hat Megamoog - Icicle Little My - Sellotape My Hands The Endless Bummer - Boring But Beautiful (C) TALK The Dodos - Winter **See Note 1 The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Red Sleeping Beauty - Don't Say You Love Me The Killers - Spaceman TALK Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - 1999 The Sound Of Arrows - M.A.G.I.C. Lowood - Crash Niels Nielsen - It's All In My Head Architechture In Helsinki - That Beep TALK Black Kids - Listen To Your Body Tonight **See Note 2 Mates Of State - My Only Offer Note 1: The banjo and voice on the song by the Dodos reminded me a lot of Stephin Merrit, thus the reason for playing the Magnetic Fields right after Note 2: I went to see The Black Kids and Mates of State in Toronto just after the show (C) Denotes Canadian Content