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uplifting pop music of every creed

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Playlist 166
Tues Mar 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/451561451/UOH_Podcast_Mar_8_2011.mp3



Playlist
Bernard Herrmann - Prelude and rooftop (from the soundtrack of the film Vertigo)
Erland & the Carnival - Emmeline
Treefight for Sunlight - Facing the sun
Essie Jain - Lay down (playing Union Chapel, London, Mar 12)
A Lazarus Soul - Truth recorder
Malachai - Let em fall
Grimes - Intor/Flowers
Radiohead - Lotus flower
Susumu Yokota - A ray of light (Oen sujet remix) (Fear of a tidy mind compilation)
Emphemetry - Four million silhouettes

Nils Frahm & Anne Muller - 7 fingers
Gruff Rhys - Follow the sunflower trail (Theme tune for a national strike)
Sin Fang - Because of the blood
Dark Dark Dark - Daydreaming






*next week's show features music from Thread Pulls, David Hope & the Henchmen, Gablé and Mi Ami 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 Mar 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 Thread Pulls, Efterklang, Rich Bennett, Grinderman, Extra Life, Gablé, School Tour and If By Yes among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

**recent blog entries include Chris Marker and Bernard Herrmann, Petula Clark (in more detail) and Tune-Yards (again)

 

[underground]

The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness

Playlist 167
Tues Mar 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/452658555/UOH_Podcast_Mar_15_2011.mp3



Playlist
Thread Pulls - Sink and swim (playing Terminal Convention Festival, Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, Mar 19)
d'load i'view from Sept 2010 here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/430980967/UOH_Thread_Pulls_Interview.mp3

David Hope & the Henchmen - Hell or high water (playing Terminal Convention Festival, Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, Mar 18)
Efterklang - Modern drift (playing Knust, Hamburg, Mar 16 + screening of An Island, see www.anisland.cc)
Rich Bennett - Wild ride
Grinderman - Palaces of Montezuma (Barry Adamson remix) (playing Marquee, Cork, June 20)
Extra Life - Elegy (Cartoon piano) (playing Point Ephemere, Paris, Apr 28)
d'load i'view from May 2009 here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/273048690/Extra_Life_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Gablé - Bunch (playing Great Escape Festival, Brighton, May 12)
Hotels - From the west
School Tour - The last exit west (playing Liquid Sky Weekender, Whelan's Upstairs, Mar 27, www.skinnywolves.com)
The Scaramanga Six - Autopsy of the mind
If By Yes feat. David Byrne - Eliza
Nils Frahm & Anne Muller - Teeth






*next week's show features music from Josh T. Pearson, Alela Diane and Wave Pictures 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 22nd 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 Grimes, Josh T Pearson, The Unthanks, Wave Pictures, Hauschka, Damon & Naomi and Alela Diane among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness

Playlist 168
Tues Mar 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/453838662/UOH_Podcast_Mar_22_2011.mp3



Playlist
Josh T. Pearson - Woman, when I've raised hell (alternate version) (playing Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, May 1)
Marques Toliver - Deep in my heart
The Unthanks - No one knows I'm gone (playing School of Music, Cork, Apr 10)
Robin Pecknold feat. Ed Droste - I'm losing myself
Eat Lights; Become Lights - They transmit
Damon & Naomi - Walking backwards (playing Cafe Oto, London, May 11)
The Raveonettes - Recharge and revolt
Grimes - Favriel (playing Great Escape Festival, Brighton, May 12)
Hauschka - Ping (playing Triskel Christchurch, Cork, May 15, live score to Carl Dreyer's Vampyr)
Bibio - K is for kelson
The Wave Pictures - Bye bye bubble belly (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Apr 29)
Alela Diane - To begin
*d'load i'view from July 2009 here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/273858265/Alela_Diane_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3

White Denim - Drug
Erland & the Carnival - I wish, I wish (playing La Fleche d'Or, Paris, May 13)






*next week's show features more music from Josh T. Pearson, also Crystal Stilts, Paper Crows, Toro y Moi and Tune-Yards among others

e-mail the show on [email protected]
or text +353 (0)86-7839800
please mark messages “uoh”

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 29th 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 Josh T Pearson, Timber Timbre, Bill Callahan, Crystal Stilts, Tune-Yards and Toro y Moi among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

*recent blog entries include Tune-Yards, Josh T. Pearson and Richard Hawley

 

[underground]

The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness

Playlist 169
Tues Mar 29th 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/454945950/UOH_Podcast_Mar_29_2011.mp3



Playlist
Josh T. Pearson - Woman, when I've raised hell (playing Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, May 1)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in your heartbreak
Crystal Stilts - Through the floor (playing School Cargo, London, Mar 29)
*d'load i'view from May 2009 here -
http://rapidshare.com/files/243401241/Crystal_Stilts_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Antonymes - Endlessly
Paper Crows - Fingertips
Timber Timbre - Black water (playing Rhythm & Roots Festival, Kilkenny, Apr 30+May 1)
Hurray for the Riff Raff - Too much of a good thing
Tune-Yards - Gangsta (radio edit) (playing Whelan's, Dublin, June 17)
*d'load i'view from Feb 2010 here -
http://rapidshare.com/files/354243779/Tune_Yards_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3


Transept - Antler song (playing The Bicycle Shop, Norwich, Mar 31)
Gablé - THe SToNe aND THe WoLF (playing Great Escape Festival, Brighton, May 12)
Breakbot - Shades of black
Toro y Moi - New beat
Bill Callahan - Baby's breath (playing Academy, Dublin, May 5)






*next week's show features music from Mi Ami, Left with Pictures, Sarabeth Tucek, Bibio and Emphemetry among others

e-mail the show on [email protected]
or text +353 (0)86-7839800
please mark messages “uoh”

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 Apr 5th 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 Cloud Control, Grimes, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Boa Morte, Bibio, Extra Life, Josh T. Pearson and Sarabeth Tucek among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

*Recent blog entries include Efterklang/Vincent Moon's An Island, Josh T. Pearson and Tune-Yards

 

[underground]

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
Greetings from the Underground of the known pop universe. We have a fair bit of time-travelling this month, taking in Texas, Derby, Montreal, New York, California, Berlin, Seattle, Dublin, North Wales and Cork. Time travel is good. Let the UOH be your travel agent...
All albums, unless otherwise noted.　
Josh T. Pearson - Woman, when I've raised hell (Mute, from the album Last of the country gentlemen)
Thoroughly outstanding centrepiece from the Texan's, ex-Lift to Experience frontman's, new album. From the gripping opening line, "Woman, when I've raised hell, you're gonna know it", you will be captivated by the wonderfully slurred delivery for the full 7 minutes. That's without mentioning the heartrending violin backing of Warren Ellis (and others) and the completely convincing dirty realist imagery - "Don't make me rule this home with the back of my hand", "Let me quietly drink myself to sleep". In a way, it's amazing how much drama can be wrought out of a sparse acoustic guitar, a vocal and some strings. I've listened to it about 20 times and it still sounds new every time. However you cut it, it's a compelling masterpiece.
Behind the scenes video: http://www.joshtpearson.co.uk/movin-pictures/
Playing Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, May 1st, and other dates.
Grimes - Halfaxa (Lo Recordings)
Meet Claire Boucher from Montreal, who has produced a fascinating, impossible-to-pigeonhole album. The constant features are haunting vocals - layered, filtered, and antique sounding, calling to mind Liz Frasier or Kate Bush in places - and sparse drum machine+synth backing. The overall effect is of a wide-ranging and completely "other" soundworld. From the de-constructed R 'n B ballad Heartbeats, to the ghostly-lament-masquerading-as-dance-pop of sagrad, the deliriously shoegazey Devon, and the ukulele stomp of Favriel. Be prepared for a trip. An album to treasure.
Grimes performing at SXSW 2011: http://player.vimeo.com/video/21480152
Playing Whelan's Upstairs, Dublin, May 15th.
Radiohead - Little by little (XL)
Stand-out track from the King of limbs album, joining the dots between two-step and post-rock. A shuffling, rattling rhythm sets about being unsettling, with math-rock guitars floating above it. Hard to know exactly what the song's about, although the line "I'm such a tease, you're such a flirt" suggests Thom Yorke has (re)discovered his sensual side. Intriguing.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in your heartbreak (Fortuna Pop, from the album Belong)
Perfect slice of sunshine, shoegaze pop (sungaze anyone?), from the New Yorkers' second album. The soundtrack of your summer, if you're lucky. 　
Tune-Yards - Gangsta (4AD, from the album whokill)
Another thumping tune from the upcoming second album (I believe "sophomore" is the term) from Merrill Garbus, complete with pounding jam-room drumming, sirens, distorted vocals, brass honking and the trademark Garbus wail. Essential. On release April 18th.
Interview with Merrill Garbus from Feb 2010 - http://rapidshare.com/files/354243779/Tune_Yards_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3
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Damon & Naomi - Walking backwards (Broken Horse, from the album False beats and true hearts)
Gorgeous return from the ex-Galaxie 500 rhythm section. A bank of acoustic guitars flank fuzz guitar, female "aws" and muted trumpet. Dreamy isn't the word. In other quite amazing news, the duo have unveiled a "video" for another track from their upcoming album, a single image provided by none other than Chris Marker (if this is a new name to you, there's some more info at this link - http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com/2011/03/damon-naomi-chris-marker.html). Check it out, right now.
Free d'load: http://www.damonandnaomi.com/
Video to And you are there: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/5946/　
Nils Frahm & Anne Muller - 7 fingers (Erased Tapes)
A triumphant collaboration between the pianist/composer and the fellow-German cellist. These are luminous soundscapes ranging from post-classical pieces with an ambient undertow (Teeth), to full-on electronic workouts with glitches and squiggles (7 fingers, sounding quite like something Radiohead might have had a hand in). Check also the emotional tug in the busy, Nymanesque strings of Let my key be C; the minimalist, and very German, electronica of Show your teeth, with violins adding synthesised swells; the cinematic chamber piece Because this must be/Augmentation (which includes Italian movie dialogue for good measure); and the haunting musique concrete of Journey for a traveller. Frahm's production is sublime the whole way through. Another gem on the Erased Tapes label.　
Emphemetry - A lullaby hum for tired streets (Time Travel Opps)
A beautiful album alternating between ambient instrumentals and heartfelt folk songs with avant-garde leanings, from Derby's Richard Birkin. He describes the album himself as a "time travel fancy" and it comes across a bit like a love poem to his home city. After Catalunya is a sleepy wash of rumbles and drones punctuated with guitar harmonics. The sound of traffic in the rain opens Every other second day, a drunken keyboard waltz with distorted vocal takes over, before a low-key trumpet duet to finish. Five fields has a gorgeous fingerpicked guitar pattern with string accompaniment. Emilelodie is an elegant and arresting piano instrumental eventually submerged under an intriguing wave of static (the piece fits easily into the post-classical camp and in fact Nils Frahm crops up here on production and mixing duties). The overall effect is to put a sense of wonder back into the everyday. Everybody needs time travel like this. Beguiling.
*By the way, you can name your price for the album on the link below. I suggest you do so; the eight-page, hand-sewn booklet is also a thing of beauty.
http://emphemetry.bandcamp.com/album/a-lullaby-hum-for-tired-streets　
Erland & the Carnival - I wish, I wish (Full Time Hobby, from the album Nightingale)
My favourite track on E&TC's fine second album. Circling sparkles of electronics give way to a bass-prominent arrangement not far from Burt Bacharach/Jimmy Webb territory (we like that), a self-deprecating vocal and some fantastic teeth-whistling to finish. A woozy, psychedelic, almost supernatural, atmosphere takes hold, which adds depth to the modern folk setting - "til apples grow on an orange tree".
*Check also Emmeline, track 3 on the album with its unexpected, and highly successful, use of the opening arpeggio pattern from Bernard Herrmann's main title from the soundtrack of the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Up with that kind of thing.
Hotels - On the casino floor (Hidden Shoal)
A concept album of sorts from the Seattle band with a madly ambitious premise, too good not to quote from the press blurb. The plot concerns a "secret agent, his former mentor and current arch-nemesis, and a nefarious prince's plan to destroy Earth during the grand opening of the universe's only outer space casino complex" (!). This would be good enough in itself but happily the musical chops match the scale of the ambition, with elements of surf-rock and post-punk, a dollop of film soundtracks, as well as a hint of decadent and very welcome lounge. You may already have had the great pleasure of hearing first single The bat watusi, a wonderful Dick Dale-style bassline strapped onto a louche vocal with ray-gun synths in pursuit. A shimmering suite of tunes overall, which eschew standard verse-chorus structures but still retain a firm grasp of pop dynamics (for example, the delirious crescendo of From the west, the glorious wall of sound of the title track, the John Barry-like uplift of Sleep in fame). And at the centre, Blake Madden's sonorous croon. Highly recommended.
*I have to mention also that the hummable bass intro of Trouble at the consulate reminds me very much of early Go-Betweens (I'm thinking Springhill Fair era) and my religion obliges me to show love to anything with a hint of Grant McLennan.
**Watch out for an interview with Blake Madden coming up soon - it turns out he prefers the term "soundtrack to an imaginary film" to "concept album". That works for me.

 

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Toro y Moi - Underneath the pine (Carpark)
Another triumph from the North Carolina wunderkind Chazwick Bundick, which does a great job of bridging the gap between R 'n B and indie (I wouldn't get sidetracked with "chillwave", personally). Among the highlights are the beautiful bouncy organ of Still sound; the soaring double vocal of How I know; the flanged guitar, handclaps (R 'n B could do with more of those if you ask me) and keytar riff of New beat; the soft samba of Before I'm done; and the lovely, reverbed "summer day" feel of Go with you which finishes with a fantastic "ooh-aw" vocal, Star Trek-style (plus the organ intro reminds me of the theme from The Odd Couple, which is also in its favour). Throughout, Bundick's dreamy vocals tie everything together. You'll get hooked.
Rich Bennett - Wild ride (Hidden Shoal, from the album On Holiday)
New single from Bennett's excellent 2010 album. A driving synth squiggle leads the way, with airy, male-female voices on top, until the wig-out ending. Sounds a bit like what might have happened if The Beach Boys had gone to visit Munich, instead of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Free d'load: http://hiddenshoal.com/promo/Rich_Bennett-Wild_Ride.mp3

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School Tour - The last exit west (Cass/Flick, from a split release cassette with Patrick Kelleher)
Fascinating goth-electro workout from the Dublin artist, culminating in a great distressed synth riff. The voice sounds a little bit like Gary Numan in a flotation tank. The track finishes with massed church organs. These things are good.
Robin Pecknold with Ed Droste - I'm losing myself (From an untitled free EP)
Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear frontmen duet on this straightforwardly beautiful tune, which has a distinct air of Simon & Garfunkel about it. Those Grizzly Foxes...
Get it free: http://stereogum.com/653402/download-a-free-robin-pecknold-ep-feat-ed-droste/mp3s/　
Antonymes - Endlessly (Hidden Shoal, single)
Sublime piece of abstract neo-classical music from north Wales, based around piano with rumbling atmospherics.
Free d'load: http://hiddenshoal.com/promo/Antonymes-Endlessly.mp3

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Sin Fang - Because of the blood (Morr Music, from the album Summer echoes)
Spectral folk music with a pop heart from the Icelander, which Belle & Sebastian fans will find plenty about to admire. Worth it for the "bom-bom-bom" backing vocals alone. (I must say I also have a soft spot for the home-made beards in the video.)

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Marques Toliver - Deep in my heart (Bella Union, from the Butterflies are not free EP)
Superior R 'n B vocal backed with plucked violins and an unexpected two-step rhythm (the old two-step is everywhere this month).
Free d'load: http://soundcloud.com/marquestoliver/deep-in-my-heart

Crystal Stilts - Through the floor (Fortuna Pop, from the upcoming album In love with oblivion)
First single from the New Yorkers' new album which seems like a bit of a departure from their first. There are handclaps, pumped-up piano chords and vocal oohs in the background, making for an unexpected 70's MOR atmosphere (not a bad thing, I'm saying). Still, there's enough of a garage rock heart with wonderful slacker vocals to sound like the special band they were on their debut.
Interview from May 2009 - http://rapidshare.com/files/243401241/Crystal_Stilts_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3
Colourmusic - You for leaving me (Memphis Industries, from the album My _____ is pink)
Gospel backing singers (brilliantly described in the blurb as "agnostic gospel"), a great art-rock lead vocal, the dirtiest fuzz guitars, pounding drums and a tender piano coda. A strange but highly successful cross between BRMC and the kosmische of Clinic. (By the way, the _____ is pronounced "blank" and you have to love that.)
The High Llamas - Fly baby, fly (Drag City, from the album Talahomi)
Beautifully warm, string and brass/reed-laden nostalgia from Sean O'Hagan (he's from Cork, you know) and friends. There are also vintage synths, tricky guitar shifts and dreamy melodies. Happy days all round.

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness

Playlist 170
Tues Apr 5th 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/455996827/UOH_Podcast_Apr_5_2011.mp3



Playlist
Cloud Control - Meditation song #2 (playing Academy, Dublin, Apr 7)
Grimes - Favriel (playing Whelan's Upstairs, Dublin, May 15)
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Bats in the attic
Boa Morte - Luminous plankton
Emphemetry - Emilelodie
Left with Pictures - This light (playing Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston, London, Apr 19)
Bibio - Wake up!
Hotels - The bat watusi
Eat Light; Become Lights - They transmit
Mi Ami- Hard up (playing Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, Apr 17, *6pm)
Extra Life - Elegy (Cartoon piano)
*d'load i'view with Charlie Looker from May 2009 here -
http://rapidshare.com/files/273048690/Extra_Life_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3


Josh T. Pearson - Thou art loosed (playing Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, May 1)
Sarabeth Tucek - State that I am in (playing Union Chapel, London, May 10)
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Ooo wee (playing Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, May 4)






*next week's show features music from High Llamas, Damon & Naomi, Agnes Obel, Connan Mockasin, The Phoenix Foundation and Steve Mason among others

e-mail the show on [email protected]
or text +353 (0)86-7839800
please mark messages “uoh”

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 Apr 12th 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 Agnes Obel, The Phoenix Foundation, Connan Mockasin, Warpaint, Land Lovers, Damon & Naomi and High Llamas among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

*Recent blog entries feature The Doomed Bird of Providence, Grimes and Future Islands

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness

Playlist 171
Tues Apr 12th 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/457071633/UOH_Podcast_Apr_12_2011.mp3



Playlist
Agnes Obel - Riverside (playing Sugar Club, Dublin, Apr 16)
The Phoenix Foundation - Flock of hearts (playing Forbidden Fruit Festival, Dublin, June 4)
Connan Mockasin - Forever dolphin love (radio edit) (playing Tripod, Dublin, May 15, w/ Warpaint)
Warpaint - Undertow (radio edit) (playing Tripod, Dublin, May 15, w/ Connan Mockasin)
The Go! Team - Apollo throwdown
Land Lovers - The conema bell (playing Crawdaddy, Dublin, Apr 30, w/ Wave Pictures)
Damon & Naomi - Shadow boxing (playing Cube Cinema, Bristol, May 14)

Steve mason - All come down (playing Button Factory, Dublin, Apr 16)
Deerhunter - Memory boy (playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 26-28)
The Doomed Bird of Providence - On a moonlit, ragged sea
Edward Williams - Japanese macaques: Warm baths in a snowscape (from the soundtrack of the tv series Life on Earth)
High Llamas - Fly baby, fly (playing Southbank Center, London, May 22)
Colourmusic - You for leaving me
Trumpets of Death - The press gang
Bill Callahan - Baby's breath (playing Academy, Dublin, May 5)






*next week's show features music from Tune-Yards, Left with Pictures, Low, Antonymesamong others, as well as an interview with Blake Madden from Seattle band Hotels

e-mail the show on [email protected]
or text +353 (0)86-7839800
please mark messages “uoh”

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 Apr 19th 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 Low, Antonymes, Tune-Yards, Left with Pictures, Toro y Moi, NLF3, Metronomy, Wires Under Tension among others, as well as an interview with Blake Madden from the band Hotels

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

*Recent blog entries feature Josh T. Pearson, Emphemetry, Nils Frahm & Anne Muller and Patrick Kelleher/School Tour

 

[underground]

The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness

Playlist 172
Tues Apr 19th 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
https://rapidshare.com/files/458199828/UOH_Podcast_Apr_19_2011.mp3



Playlist
Low - Try to sleep (playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 26-28)
Left with Pictures - Constantly (playing Two Thousand Trees Festival, July 16)
Antonymes - Endlessly
Tune-Yards - Doorstep (playing Whelan's, Dublin, June 17)
*d'load i'view with Merrill Garbus from Feb 2010 here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/354243779/Tune_Yards_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Toro y Moi - New beat
NLF3 - Shadows my friends (playing Great Escape Festival, Brighton, May 12)

Hotels Interview Part I
Hotels - From the west
Hotels Interview Part II
Hotels - The bat watusi
Hotels Interview Part III
The Ventures - Walk don't run

*d'load full i'view with Blake Madden (Hotels) here:
http://conorot.podomatic.com/entry/2011-04-18T05_46_26-07_00

Dutch Uncles - Dolli (playing Sound City Festival, Liverpool, May 19)

Crystal Stilts - Silver sun
*d'load i'view from May 2009 here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/243401241/Crystal_Stilts_UOH_Interview_Podcast.mp3

Metronomy - The look (playing Glastonbury Festival, June 24)






*next week's show features music from Connan Mockasin, Grimes, Thursten Moore and Wires Under Tensionamong others

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

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday Apr 26th 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 Metronomy, Friendly Fires, Wires Under Tension, Gablé, Connan Mockasin, Patrick Kelleher, Grimes and Josh T. Pearson among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

*Recent blog entries feature Fleet Foxes, World's End Girlfriend, Connan Mockasin, Tune-Yards and Hotels

 

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http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

The interview (phone) with Blake Madden from Seattle band Hotels is
available to download now in full (23m45s, 70MB approx) - we had played a
short extract on last week's show. The conversation ranged over film music,
casinos, manipulating mood in pop music, John Barry, being based in Seattle,
playing bass while singing, surf guitar, and of course the excellent new
Hotels album On the casino floor. These were my thoughts on that album, from
a few weeks ago.

Hotels - On the casino floor (Hidden Shoal)
A concept album of sorts from the Seattle band with a madly ambitious
premise, too good not to quote from the press blurb. The plot concerns a
"secret agent, his former mentor and current arch-nemesis, and a nefarious
prince's plan to destroy Earth during the grand opening of the universe's
only outer space casino complex" (!). This would be good enough in itself
but happily the musical chops match the scale of the ambition, with elements
of surf-rock and post-punk, a dollop of film soundtracks, as well as a hint
of decadent and very welcome lounge. You may already have had the great
pleasure of hearing first single The bat watusi, a wonderful Dick Dale-style
bassline strapped onto a louche vocal with ray-gun synths in pursuit. A
shimmering suite of tunes overall, which eschew standard verse-chorus
structures but still retain a firm grasp of pop dynamics (for example, the
delirious crescendo of From the west, the glorious wall of sound of the
title track, the John Barry-like uplift of Sleep in fame). And at the
centre, Blake Madden's sonorous croon. Highly recommended.

*I have to mention also that the hummable bass intro of Trouble at the
consulate reminds me very much of early Go-Betweens (I'm thinking Springhill
Fair era) and my religion obliges me to show love to anything with a hint of
Grant McLennan.

**Watch out for an interview with Blake Madden coming up soon - it turns out
he prefers the term "soundtrack to an imaginary film" to "concept album".
That works for me.

To be precise, he suggested we think of the album as a soundtrack to an
(imaginary) remake of Casino Royale - an intriguing prospect. Blake also
made a particularly interesting point about instrumental music, making a
case for its rehabilitation from the "niche" of film soundtracks or avant
garde fringes. He reminded of the time (not that long ago) when instrumental
music was all over the pop charts and the lack of a singer was not deemed a
major impediment, citing surf group The Ventures as a main example (we had
Walk don't run on the show in honour of the mention - the likes of The
Shadows and Dick Dale also spring to mind). I'll drink to that. So here's to
instrumental music and here's Blake, enjoy.

http://conorot.podomatic.com/entry/2011-04-18T05_46_26-07_00

 

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The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

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Playlist 173
Tues Apr 26th 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
https://rapidshare.com/files/459281930/UOH_Podcast_Apr_26_2011.mp3



Playlist
Wires Under Tension - Irreversible machines
Grimes - intor/flowers (playing Whelan's Upstairs, Dublin, Aug 3 w/ Catscars, re-scheduled from May 15)
Thursten Moore - Benediction
Patrick Kelleher - This sporting life
Justice - Civilization (radio edit)
Gable - Too fat to fart to fight (playing Great Escape Festival, Brighton, May 12)
Connan Mockasin - Megumi the Milkyway above (playing Tripod, Dublin, May 15, w/ Warpaint)
The Doomed Bird of Providence - The wild beast of Goat Island (playing Wilmington Arms, London, June 15)
Josh T. Pearson - Drive her out (playing Crane Lane Theatre, May 1 *6pm)

William D. Drake - Super altar
Ben Butler & Mousepad - Formed 4 fantasy
Friendly Fires - Live those days tonight (radio edit) (playing Oxegen Festival, July 8-10)
Metronomy - Everything goes my way (playing Oxegen Festival, July 8-10)
Kurt Vile - Baby's arms






*next week's show features music from Van Dyke Parks, Clare & the Reasons, Julia Kent and Owensieamong others

e-mail the show on [email protected]
or text +353 (0)86-7839800
please mark messages “uoh”

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

 

[underground]

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

The Underground of Happiness
Tuesday May 3rd 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 Julia Kent, Colourmusic, The Leisure Society, Van Dyke Parks, Clare & the Reasons, Crystal Stilts and Josh T. Pearson among others

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com

 

[underground]

The Underground of Happiness
uplifting pop music of every creed

www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness

Playlist 174
Tues May 3rd 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
https://rapidshare.com/files/460400274/UOH_Podcast_May_3_2011.mp3



Playlist
Josh T. Pearson - Thou art loosed (playing Barbican Theatre, London, Nov 26, w/ guests tba)
Owensie - Dark place (playing An Réalt Dearg, Cork, May 5, w/ Peter Delaney)
The Leisure Society - This phantom life (radio edit) (playing Band on the Wall, Manchester, May 9, w/ Sarabeth Tucek)
World's End Girlfriend - Les enfants du Paradis
Julia Kent - Acquario (playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, May 26-28)
Amiina - What are we waiting for

Crystal Stilts - Precarious stair (playing XOYO, London, June 20)
d'load i'view from May 2009 here:
http://conorot.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-29T07_21_59-07_00

Colourmusic (playing Forbidden Fruit Festival, Dublin, June 4)
Tune-Yards - My country (playing Whelan's, Dublin, June 17)
d'load i'view from Feb 2010 here:
http://conorot.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-02T05_45_42-08_00

Van Dyke Parks - Bing Crosby (playing Button Factory, Dublin, May 15, w/ Clare & the Reasons)
Clare & the Reasons - You getting me (playing Button Factory, Dublin, May 15, w/ VDP)
Left with Pictures - The Ides of March (playing 2000 Trees Festival, July 16)
Antonymes - Oradour-Sur-Glane
Bachelorette - Blanket (playing Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, May 25)







*next week's show features music from Gang Gang Dance, Damon & Naomi and The Doomed Bird of Providenceamong others, as well as an interview with Josh T. Pearson

e-mail the show on [email protected]
or text +353 (0)86-7839800
please mark messages “uoh”

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