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Best Foot Forward Hit Futuresonic
Manchester’s electronic music festival Futuresonic is coming to town this week, and as the theme this year is “The Social”, and networking butterflies that we are, we’ve been invited to a few shindigs to show off our musical prowess …
Beef 2.0 @ Common, Saturday 3rd May, 9pm-2am
For one night only the surprisingly good companion blog […]
Getting A Little Nervous?
Frank Maya & The Decals - Too Nervous (MP3)
Something I downloaded from Midnight Mike’s currently “on-hiatus” blog 12am Maternal a while back, and have had on constant repeat ever since, this is a piece of post-punk which is perfect for those of you looking for something as equally as good (but a little more […]
Turn On. Tune In. Freak Out…
Elbow - Red (MP3)
Tying in somewhat loosely with Chris’s Talk Talk post…
Stuart Maconie does a show on BBC 6 Music, and if you, like me, are one of ‘the children of the zone’, you will know that it is a show that requires a certain fondness for the obscure. My Monday mornings would be […]
Lets do the voodoo…
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Voodoo Woman (MP3)
What we have here is some super smooth jazz-funk, courtesy of Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes. Available on the 1975 ‘Expansions‘ lp, ‘Voodoo Woman’ probably doesn’t get as much airplay as it should, due to most people playing the self titled ‘Expansions’ track […]
Start as we mean to go on…
Dancing Fantasy - Dancing Fantasy Dream Theme (MP3)
I was hoping to start the new look site with a track that had some sort of ‘get up and go’ title, something with a real ’start as you mean to go on’ message. How ironic then, that due to an incapacitating hangover, I really - for want […]
BFF back here with christmas cheer!
Various artists - Winter on Edge St (MP3 compilation)
Around this time last year I put together a compilation called “Winter on Edge St”, which sold at the last BFF of 2006 with all proceeds going to charity. It was put together with a lot of love, was something pretty special (even if i do say […]
Candyman candyman candyman candyman…
Terry Callier - You goin’ to miss your candyman (mp3)
A thorough going-over of this year’s purchases following field-marshall maguire’s orders to begin compiling our end of year chart (unbelievably the blog’s first - especially considering said military tactician’s predilection for lists) made me realise that over the last 12 months i’d managed to make a […]
Black Mountain - scaling new heights
Black Mountain - Tyrants (MP3)Well Stephen Mcbean and his band of merry men (and one merry lady) are back with a fuck-off album gifted from the ghosts of rock past, present and future. in a succinct and perfect distillation, the eternal bon vivant Danny Webb described this as “Black Mountain [their debut album] multiplied by […]
… and don’t call me Shirely
Shirley Ellis - The Name Game (MP3)
Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song (MP3)
If you’re not familiar with the name, I’m sure you’ll at least have heard one of these tracks before. often derogatorily referred to as a “novelty artist”, Shirley Ellis was a sixties soul singer who’s star proceeded to shine after her feel-good tracks […]
Essex on the beach
David Essex - City Lights (MP3)
No, don’t run away. This is David Essex, but not as you know it. I’d love to say i found this myself, but props must go to ex-beef guests Quiet Village who played this during their bain marie escapade on Tim Sweeney’s boundary-expanding Beats in Space radio show. Mark (i […]
