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The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Jan 11th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
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*this week's show features music from The Phoenix Foundation, Thread Pulls, Esben & the Witch, Julianna Barwick and Syd Matters among others

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Playlist 158
Tues Jan 11th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
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*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/441977662/UOH_Podcast_Jan_11_2011.mp3



Playlist
Dutch Uncles - Fragrant
The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo (playing The Liquid Room, Edinburgh, w/ The Go! Team, Feb 4)
Igor Boxx - Bunker sweetheart
Our Broken Garden - Garden grow
Marmaduke Dando - No tomorrow
Esben & the Witch - Warpath (playing XOYO, London, Feb 9)
Yo La Tengo - Let's save Tony Orlando's house
Wye Oak - Civilian
Coud Control - Meditation song #2
Julianna Barwick - The magic place
Dollboy meets Sone Institute - A slow reader
The National - Sorrow (playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 26-28)
Rich Bennett - Goodbye to love
Syd Matters - Lost
Thread Pulls - Wake up (playing Ones to Watch 2011, Whelan's Upstairs, Dublin, Jan 12-15)
Neville Skelly - He looks a lot like me






*next week's show features music from Galaxie 500, Junip, Ennio Morricone and Dark Dark Dark, among others

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Conor O'Toole,
c/o Cork Campus Radio,
Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Jan 18th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features music from Galaxie 500, Metronomy, Junip, Ennio Morricone, The Go! Team, Bobby Garrett and Codes in the Clouds among others

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Playlist 159
Tues Jan 18th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr
*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/443235404/UOH_Podcast_Jan_18_2011.mp3



Playlist
Ben Butler & Mousepad feat. The Niallist - Infinite capacity (for love)
Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July (live) (Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500 at The Workmans Club, Dublin, Feb 11)
Metronomy - She wants (playing Academy 2, Liverpool, Jan 22)
Junip - Rope and summit (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Feb 5)
The Go! Team - Buy nothing day (playing Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Feb 4, w/ The Phoenix Foundation)
Rue Royale - Halfway blind
Bobby Garrett - I can't get away (Munster Soul Northern Soul Night, The Pavilion, Cork, Jan 30, w/ documentary screening "The way of the crowd")
Codes in the Clouds - Where dirt meets water
Ennio Morricone - Ninna nanna per adulti (from the soundtrack of the film Vergogna schifosi)
One Happy Island - A night with a friend
Standard Fare - Kudzu girlfriend
Dark Dark Dark - Daydreaming
Muhammad Ashraf feat. Ahmed Rushdi - Dama dam mast qalander (from the soundtrack of the film Dekha jayega)






*next week's show features music from The Phoenix Foundation, Joan as Police Woman, Jim Sullivan, John Stammers and Matthew Friedberger among others

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Conor O'Toole,
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Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Jan 25th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features music from The Phoenix Foundation, Jim Sullivan, Matthew Friedberger, Joan as Police Woman, Fujiya & Miyagi and Telekinesis among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

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Playlist 160
Tues Jan 25th 2010
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr
*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/444462660/UOH_Podcast_Jan_25_2011.mp3



Playlist
The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo (playing Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Feb 4, w/ The Go! Team)
Hotels - The bat watusi
John Stammers - Idle I'm
Matthew Friedberger - Shirley
Jim Sullivan - U.F.O.
Joan as Police Woman - The magic (playing The Button Factory, Dublin, Feb 10)
Mogwai - San Pedro (playing Radisson Hotel, Galway, Feb 14)
Young Magic - You with air
Telekinesis - Dirth thing
Jonny - Continental (playing Deaf Institute, Manchester, Feb 14)
Fujiya & Miyagi - Yoyo
Incarnations - Make you mine
Duo 505 - Whirligig beetle party
Lost Idol - Hushed strokes
The Go! Team - Buy nothing day (playing Black Box, Galway, Mar 3)






*next week's show features music from Toro y Moi, Vessels and Smoke Fairies among others

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Conor O'Toole,
c/o Cork Campus Radio,
Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Feb 1st 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features music from Essie Jain, The Chap, Twin Shadow, Toro y Moi, Smoke Fairies, Vessels and John Stammers among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

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Playlist 161
Tues Feb 1st 2011
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr
*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/445656417/UOH_Podcast_Feb_1_2011.mp3

Playlist
Essie Jain - Lay down (playing Union Chapel, London, March 12)
The Chap - We'll see to your breakdown
Twin Shadow - At my heels (playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 26-28)
Deerhunter - Desire lines (playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 26-28)
Grinderman - Palaces of Montezuma (playing Marquee, Cork, June 20)
Toro y Moi - Still sound
The Memory Band - Run river run
Smoke Fairies - Strange moon rising (playing Scala, London, Feb 3)
John Stammers - The fridge
Vessels feat. Stuart Warwick - Meatman, piano tuner, prostitute (playing The Quad, Cork, Feb 26, w/ Sideproject)
Incarnations - Make you mine
Darren Hayman - Ventriloquism
John Barry - Theme (from the soundtrack of the film Midnight Cowboy) John Barry RIP
The Phoenix Foundation - Flock of hearts (playing Scala, London, June 2)
The Go! Team feat. Bethany Consentino - Buy nothing day (playing Academy, Dublin, March 5)

*next week's show features music from Gruff Rhys, A Lazarus Soul and Mogwai among others

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Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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Jan 2011 Music Picks

The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

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Tuesdays 11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr

A fresh and hopeful New Year to everyone. Apparently it's spring already (and there's revolution in the air) - in Ireland usually marked by the return of Wind. Some tunes following, which have been doing a great job of making us forget about the dodgy central heating at UOH HQ. They should keep the most reptilean among you warm, and the most revolutionary cool.
All albums, unless otherwise noted (*check the blog for added video links).

The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo (Memphis Industries)
Cracking opening single from album of same name by the Wellington, New Zealand band. The tune is equal parts giddy, joyous and amiably psychedelic (let's face it, the plot concerns a seafaring buffalo), with an irresistible "woo-hoo" middle eight. The jangly guitars, high-fretted bass and spot-on arrangement make me think of fellow kiwis The Chills (something everyone should be made to do, daily). The whole thing is as fresh as a daisy and tends to remind you why you fell in love with pop music. Practice singing along with this killer chorus - "I'm on the sea-floor/I am the mammal you adore/I am the buffalo/Through the ocean I do roam".

*By the way, the rest of the album is a similar thing of warm, psychedelic beauty and dangerously liable to banish all thought of elections and recessions.

Essie Jain - Until the light of morning (Light of Morning)
Already loved in the UOH bunker (one of my albums of last year before it was even released!). No frills, it's primal and straightforward stuff, this, and all the more beautiful for it. An album of lullabies featuring uncluttered rhythms (waltzes are prominent) around simple guitar and piano figures, with a single voice (mostly). But what a voice, an upper register landing somewhere between folk and classical - reassuring, soothing, cerebral somehow. Look no further than the sublime Lay down or What a big wide world. Perfect for children, and susceptible adults.

Telekinesis - Dirty thing (Morr Music, from the album 12 desperate straight lines)
An electric piano bouncing on the downbeat, a snaking guitar line and an appealingly self-deprecating lyric - it must be another catchy-as-hell Michael Benjamin Lerner tune. From his upcoming new album, another fine power pop collection.

Julianna Barwick - The magic place (Asthmatic Kitty)
More celestial gorgeousness featuring banks of layered voices from the New Yorker, title track from upcoming album, her first on Asthmatic Kitty.

Syd Matters - Hi life (Le Cargo session)
Thanks to Cormac from Boa Morte for unearthing this live version of one of my favourite songs of last year, from Frenchman Jonathan Morali and friends. Starting with the McCartneyesque slapping on the knees of the drummer, the wonderful interplay between the band adds depth to an already great tune (a lower key, or less showy, but creepingly insistent relation to Andrew Bird, if you must have a pigeonhole). From the excellent, soon-to-be-released album Brotherocean on Because Music.

Rich Bennett - Buddy Cop (Hidden Shoal)
Not content with releasing a beautiful album of songs towards the end of last year (On holiday, also on Hidden Shoal), Mr Bennett is back with a soundtrack to a fictional (or is it?) movie. Taking its cue from John Carpenter film music (Assault on Precinct 13 in particular), Bennett weaves an entertaining sci-fi noir atmosphere. Did I mention that it's free? And comes with a 50% discount voucher for his last two albums, both highly recommended from this direction.

Duo 505 - Whirligig beetle party (Morr Music, from the album Walzer oder nicht)
Begins like Beach House (organ swell, sparse drum machine) but ends up closer to Mogwai (pummelling guitars). Along the way, the journey takes in glitch electronics, harmony guitar riffs and lounge noir. As you'd expect from a band named after a synth, there are also synths involved. From this Viennese duo's 2nd album of compelling instrumentals.

The Go! Team - Rolling blackouts (Memphis Industries)
Another album of the year contender on this ace English label. The first single Buy another day features the dreamy vocals of Best Coast's Bethany Consentino, yet still manages to be a thrillingly jangly, shouty affair. The infectious Secretary song sounds like a Japanese girl group covering Camera Obscura (that could only be a good thing); Ready to go steady also has an appealingly wispy C86 feel; there's the shake-your-fist, hip hop girl gang dynamics of Apollo throwdown and T.O.R.N.A.D.O.. My favourite track though is the (mostly) instrumental Yosemite theme, with slide guitar, banjo and harmonica, conjuring up the image of Ennio Morricone scoring an episode of Bonanza. If that sounds like gold-plated entertainment with a pop heart, that'd be right. Essential.

Dark Dark Dark - Wild go (Melodic)
Minneapolis group lead by Nona Marie Invie and Marshall LaCount. Comes on like a poppier Beirut, with similarities in instrumentation (accordions are prominent) and a taste for Balkan-style waltzes. Overall though more of a chamber than a cabaret atmosphere. Sign up here and get the rousingly beautiful Daydreaming for free, http://brightbrightbright.com. The elegaic piano ballad Something for myself, the twirling trumpet of Right path and the plaintiff Robert are other particular highlights. On release in April on the very tasty Manchester label.

Hotels - The bat watusi (Hidden Shoal, single)
Fantastic lead single from the Seattle band's new album. And the second appearance this month of that most under-appreciated of genres, lounge noir (albeit a pumped-up, garage-y version - I've also seen sci-fi pop offered as a label, justifiably). A stalking bassline, ray-gun synths and glittering cascades of melody convey a wealth of intergalactic drama over four minutes. Taken from a concept album that re-defines ambitious, concerning as it does the "grand opening of the universe's only outer space casino complex"*. Now, more than ever, the world needs more of this kind of thing.

*"In-joke for Irish readers" alert - I wonder did Micheal Lowry have a hand in that casino too.

Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. (Light in the Attic, from the album U.F.O.)
Title track of an album re-issued in the latter part of 2010 (having been originally released in 1969, when it criminally sank without trace), but that passed me by in the end of year rush. Overall, the style of the album is reminiscient of the stately country rock of Gene Clark or Mike Nesmith, with shades also of Lee Hazlewood in the swoonsome orchestral arrangements. This song has a spooky subtext to it given the circumstances of Jim Sullivan's life and disappearance (find the full background here, http://lightintheattic.net/releases/502-u-f-o), outside Santa Rose, New Mexico in 1975. The tune is wrapped around a beautiful, melancholy trumpet line, with a fluttering flute and sweeping strings in support. A sad loss but a fine epitaph.

Fujiya & Miyagi - Yoyo (Full Time Hobby, from the album Ventriloquizzing)
Wonderfully sleazy and sinister opening single from the Brighton band's new album. Hushed vocals and motorik rhythms are again the order of the day, with added fuzz pedals this time.

Young Magic - You with air (Carpark Records, single)
Irresistible male falsetto refrain set over a buzzing synth and tribal beats. Also features recordings from a playground, which is always a good thing.

Malachai - Rainbows (Double Six, from the album Return to the ugly side)
Beautiful but unsettling, downtempo number from the Bristol band, with heavily reverbed guitars and wistful male-female vocals, and just the slightest hint of a dub influence. Without giving much away, it manages to recall The Specials and Portishead, somehow.

Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the dark (Turnstile, from the album Hotel Shampoo)
Falsetto vocals, mariachi trumpets, a rolling piano, buzzing synths, and a Blues Brothers-style breakdown. More musical madness/genius from the Welshman. The B-side is also class, the Eastern-tinged and winningly titled Follow the sunflower trail (Theme tune for a national strike).

 

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Feb 8th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features music from Toro y Moi, Gruff Rhys, Mogwai, Grant Hart, Thomas Truax and The Unthanks among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

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Playlist 162
Tues Feb 8th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr
*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/446853426/UOH_Podcast_Feb_8_2011.mp3

Playlist
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness blues (playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 26-28)
The Unthanks - Lucky Gilchrist (playing School of Music, Cork, Apr 10)
Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the dark
Grant Hart - 2541 (live) (playing The Pavilion, Cork, Mar 31)
Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix (playing Radisson Hotel, Galway, Feb 14)
Hotels - The bat watusi
A Lazarus Soul - We start fires
Ben Ottewell - Blackbird (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Feb 26)
Toro y Moi - Still sound
Codes in the Clouds - Look back, look up
Thomas Truax - January egg race dream
*d'load interview with Thomas from 2009 here
http://rapidshare.com/files/250738993/Thomas_Truax_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Gary Wilson - Electric Endicott

*next week's show features music from Vessels, Halves, Agnes Obel and Carried by Waves among others

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Conor O'Toole,
c/o Cork Campus Radio,
Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Feb 15th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features music from Twin Shadow, Halves, Vessels, Nancy Elizabeth, Cloud Control, Malachai and Darren Hayman among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

Playlist 163
Tues Feb 15th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr
*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/448059547/UOH_Podcast_Feb_15_2011.mp3



Playlist
Twin Shadow - At my heels (playing Crawdaddy, Dublin, Feb 19)
Liam Singer - The brief encounter
*d'load i'view with Liam here
http://rapidshare.com/files/433844759/UOH_Liam_Singer_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Agnes Obel - Riverside (playing The Sugar Club, Dublin, Apr 16)
Vessels feat. Stuart Warwick - Recur (playing The Quad, Cork, Feb 26)
Darren Hayman & the Secondary Modern - Winter makes you want me more
The Milk - (All I wanted was) Danger
Malachai - Rainbows
Carried by Waves - Expectation is a killer (playing Fred Zeppelin's, Cork, Feb 24)
Tim Kasher - I'm afraid I'm gonna die here
Transept - Antler song
Cloud Control - There's nothing in the water we can't fight (playing Academy 2, Dublin, Apr 7)
Christian Kjellvander - Bad hurtin
Halves - Darling you'll meet your maker (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Mar 6)
Nancy Elizabeth - Please please please let me get what I want (playing Cube Cinema, Bristol, Feb 20)
Rich Bennett - Main credits






*next week's show features music from Dutch Uncles, Tune-Yards and Lost Idol among others

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Conor O'Toole,
c/o Cork Campus Radio,
Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Feb 15th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features new music from The Unthanks, also Tune-Yards, Amadou & Mariam, Treefight for Sunlight, The Luyas and Asha Bhosle among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

Playlist 164
Tues Feb 22nd 2011
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr
*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/449270773/UOH_Podcast_Feb_22_2011.mp3



Playlist
Jacques Brel - Quand on n'a que l'amour
The Unthanks - My laddie sits ower late up (playing School of Music, Cork, Apr 10)
Dutch Uncles - Face in
Treefight for Sunlight - What became of you and I
Amadou & Mariam - Sabali (Vitalic remix)
Vessels feat. Stuart Warwick - Meatman, piano tuner, prostitute (Rolo Tomassi remix) (playing The Quad, Cork, Feb 26)
Lost Idol - Hushed strokes
Tune-Yards - bizness (playing Whelan's, Dublin, June 17)
*d'load i'view with Merrill from Tune-Yards from 2010 here
http://rapidshare.com/files/354243779/Tune_Yards_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3


John Stammers - The fridge
Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds are a girl's best friend (from the soundtrack of the film Gentlemen prefer blondes)
Asha Bhosle - Kya gazab karte ho jee (from the soundtrack of the film Love story)
Popscar - That gypsy grin
The Luyas - Too beautful to work
Cloud Control - There's nothing in the water we can't fight (playing Academy 2, Dublin, Apr 7)

Carried by Waves - Autumn leaves (playing Fred Zeppelin's, Cork, Feb 24)






*next week's show features more music from The Unthanks, also Toby Kaar, Epstein and Hotels among others

e-mail the show on [email protected]
or text +353 (0)86-7839800
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Conor O'Toole,
c/o Cork Campus Radio,
Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Mar 1st 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features new music from Gablé, also The Luyas, Banjo or Freakout, Hotels, Toby Kaar and Black Devil Disco Club among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

Playlist 165
Tues Mar 1st 2011
11.00am-12.00pm

(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr
*listen back to this show at
http://rapidshare.com/files/450407762/UOH_Podcast_Mar_1_2011.mp3



Playlist
The Go! Team - Secretary song (playing Academy, Dublin, Mar 5)
Gablé - Bunch (playing Great Escape Festival, Brighton, May 12)
Epstein - Cuttlefish
Emphemetry - After Catalunya
Banjo or Freakout - Idiot rain
Grimes - Sagrad
Thomas Truax - February what ya doin to me
*d'load i'view with Thomas from May 2009 here
http://rapidshare.com/files/250738993/Thomas_Truax_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3


The Unthanks - Queen of hearts (playing School of Music, Cork, Apr 10)
Toby Kaar - One for the broken hearted (playing Whelan's Upstairs, Dublin, Mar 5)
Hotels - The bat watusi
The Luyas - Too beautiful to work
A. Human - Take me home
Black Devil Disco Club feat. Nicolas Ker - My screen (playing Bloc Weekend Festival, Minehead, Mar 12)
A Lazarus Soul - A penthouse view






*next week's show features music from Sin Fang, Dark Dark Dark and Treefight for Sunlight among others

e-mail the show on [email protected]
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Conor O'Toole,
c/o Cork Campus Radio,
Áras na Mac Léinn,
Student Centre,
University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

Tuesdays 11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio, 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/ccr

Spring is here
The grass is ris
I wonder where the birdies is...

Governments are falling like skittles this weather. As usual, pop music has its own soundtrack to world events. Try turning down the volume of your favourite news channel and turning up some of this UOH playlist instead. It might just turn your world upside-down.
*All albums below, unless otherwise stated.

John Stammers - John Stammers (Wonderful Sound)
Gorgeous folk-blues hybrid from the Manchester native, built around fingerpicked acoustic guitar and a smoky, unassuming voice. For fans of Nick Drake or (especially) Bert Jansch. As usual, the beauty is in the detail - the keening cello of Idle I'm, muted trumpet set against mournful pedal steel on Here again, the one-note violin chorus of The fridge. Plaintiff and heartfelt, a beautiful addition to the canon of modern English folk music.

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A Lazarus Soul - Through a window in the sunshine room (Intent to Supply Records)
Authentically downbeat album of electro-pop from Dublin band. The single We start fires, in particular, sits comfortably among recent Irish releases by David Turpin, for example, and Patrick Kelleher. Shades of late Talk Talk, but given a social realist make-over. Recommended.

Liam Singer - The brief encounter (Hidden Shoal, single)
Sublime cut from last year's great Dislocatia album. A rushing, tacked piano opens like silent film accompaniment, then a ghost story with a spectral female backing vocal (Wendy Allen of labelmates Boxharp) carries the plot, finishing with a flourish of violins, riding above a children's choir coda. One of many compelling mini-symphonies on Singer's current, classy album.

Free download: http://hiddenshoal.com/promo/Liam_Singer-The_Brief_Encounter.mp3

Interview with Liam from Oct 2010 (phone): http://rapidshare.com/files/433844759/UOH_Liam_Singer_Interview_Podcast.mp3
Thomas Truax - January egg race dream/February what ya doin to me (Psychoteddy/SL Records)
First instalments in the mad American genius' monthly journal project. "Psychobilly" doesn't come close, really. All available through Thomas' website here: http://soundcloud.com/thomas-truax

Interview with Thomas from May 2009: http://rapidshare.com/files/250738993/Thomas_Truax_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Gablé - Cute horse cut (LoAf)
French band make cut-and-paste, domestic pop classic with tunes you can hum, about trees where birds live and going to parties. The audacity of it. Laugh out loud at the dog barks in WHo TeLLS you (yes, those capitals are intentional), tap your foot to the garage rock of Day (is that a bicycle wheel in the background?), listen to a vacuum cleaner become an organ on 0000. THe SToNe aND THe WoLF pictures a scenario where an orchestra's instruments are broken, using samples that sound like just that, followed by a beautiful interlude with piano and cello, before changing direction to stage what sounds like a piece of spoken-word audio art undertaken by Samuel Beckett and John Cale. Too FaT To FaRT To FiGHT has an unpromising title but features a sublime melody to die for. These are just some of the pleasures to be had in one of the most pleasurable 38 minutes I've spent since the last album by The Chap. Get this now.

Some previous Gablé goings on: [video=dailymotion;x5d47s]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5d47s_gable-drunk-fox-in-london_creation[/video]

If By Yes feat. David Byrne - Eliza (Chimera Music, from the album Salt on sea glass)
Blissful melody from the latest project of Petra Haden and Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto, with added duetting skills from the former Talking Head. A Thomas Newman-esque opening gathers sparkles of percussion and eastern orchestration. Will sit well with Cornelius fans, and two members of that band are also involved here. As with Cornelius and Haden's previous a capella projects, combines the rush of pop music with the experimentation of the avant-garde.

Treefight for Sunlight - What became of you and I (Bella Union, from the album A collection of vibrations for your skull)
Copenhagen 4-piece who come across like the carefree kissing cousins of compatriots Oh No Ono. This tune opens with the kind of irrespressible piano pattern Elton John can only dream of. Soaring male falsettos banish any lingering doubt in the chorus, smiling through the heartbtreak. There's even room for a Sgt Pepper-style wonky fairground breakdown. Good to hear the Danes are still taking their surreal pop pills.

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The Unthanks - Last (Rabblerouser Music/EMI)
The Northumberland sisters and friends return with more plaintiff re-workings of English folk songs. Piano-led songs like Gan to the kye and Gallowgate lad are authentically foreboding and grim-up-North-ish but the unexpected twists in the arrangements throughout give everything a fresh feel. Like the beautiful brass drone in Queen of hearts, the orchestral string flutters of Last, the cinematic swells of No one knows I'm gone. (The presence of King Crimson - the sublime Starless with a distinct Morricone feel to it - and Tom Waits covers alone tells you this is not a standard folk album.) The recording is superb (a local village hall was involved) and the piano playing and arrangements of Adrian McNally are never less than excellent. In the end, this plainly beautiful music is as much chamber pop as anything. A triumph in my book.

Lucky Gilchrist on Later with Jools Holland from 2009:

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Playing School of Music, Cork, April 10th, and other dates

Tune Yards - bizness (4AD, from the upcoming album whokill)
Picking up where Merrill Garbus left off with her wonderful debut Bird Brains but with a less ramshackle feel (recorded in a studio as opposed to on a dictaphone). Fantastic, gymnastic vocal loops get things going, before a west African-style groove of staccato bass and a matrix of guitars locks in, with a bank of horns as the cherry on the cake. Wonderful foretaste of her upcoming new album.

Interview with Merrill from Feb 2010: http://rapidshare.com/files/354243779/Tune_Yards_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3
Playing Whelan's, Dublin, June 17

Grinderman - Palaces of Montezuma (Barry Adamson remix) (Mute)
Stripped back version of the stand-out song from Grinderman 2 by the ex-Bad Seed, with the addition of swirling, siren-like backing vocals. The effect is to remove the flippant undertone of the original, replacing it with first a sinister, then an uplifting, air. Also shows that Nick Cave backed with nothing but a tambourine works great.

Playing The Marquee, Cork, June 20 / Vicar Street, Dublin, June 18+19 / ATP's I'll be your mirror, Alexandra Palace, London, July 23-24

The Scaramanga Six - Autopsy of the mind (Wrath Records, single)
Top drawer power pop from the Ben Folds school by this Leeds 4-piece. A reflective piano intro gives way to a thudding backbeat, culminating in an acerbic chorus adorned by soaring backing vocals (they also make room to pay "fake brass" homage to Chicago's If you leave me now in the mid-section, a stand-out moment). Catchy as hell and they're giving it away for free.

Free download here: http://www.thescaramangasix.co.uk/　

The Luyas - Too beautiful to work (Dead Oceans)
A puzzle of shifting rhythm and melody, a maze of electric piano and high hat, the title track of the Montreal band's new album. Restless and invigorating, and basically the berries, as we say around here.

Some great Take-Away Shows here: http://www.blogotheque.net/The-Luyas,5349

 

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Feb 2011 Music Picks contd.

Gang Gang Dance - Glass jar (4AD, from the album Eye contact)
Brilliant, expansive, drifting 11 minute opus by the New Yorkers, which by the end still manages to make you want to shake your body around with a two-step workout. Innovative use of steel drum samples also stands out. A world music for the future.

Listen here: http://www.ganggangdance.com/

Playing ATP Festival, Minehead, May 13-15; http://www.atpfestival.com/

 

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Just a quick reminder of this week's show coming up tomorrow morning:

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Mar 8th 2011
11.00am-12.00pm GMT
(repeated Tuesdays 8.30pm)
Cork Campus Radio 98.3FM
*listen live on the web at
www.ucc.ie/ccr

*this week's show features new music from Bernard Herrmann, Erland & the Carnival, Essie Jain, Susumu Yokota, Malachai, Grimes and Radiohead among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

**recent blog entries include Damon & Naomi with Chris Marker, Petula Clark, Tune-Yards, Oh No Ono, Gang Gang Dance and Efterklang's feature film debut