Playlist 352 - Apr 21 2015

We started this week with something wonderful from the new Tandem Felix EP, a Dublin band probing the space between Sufjan Stevens & Lambchop. Aldous Harding, also wondrous and touring Europe soon.

Noveller is one woman Sarah Lipstate with an electric guitar making epic soundscapes. And some classic Ryuichi Sakamoto is always welcome.

It's blubbery Burberry baby, big bottom swing big bottom, how much is the fish does the fish have chips - take your pick, a Stump refrain is the best refrain.

Death & Vanilla play an intriguing brand of psych pop, Bjork in intense hyperballad mode and Kathryn Williams with something great based on the work of Sylvia Plath.

Plus Robert Pollard x 2, any time's a good time for a double dose.

More on these pages.

Apr 21 2015 w/ Tandem Felix,Aldous HArding,Noveller,Ryuichi Sakamoto,Death & Vanilla,Bork,Stump++ by The Underground Of Happiness on Mixcloud



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Playlist 352
Tues Apr 21 2015
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm
*listen back to this show here
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Playlist
Tandem Felix - Union St Blues (playing Mother Jones Market, Cork, May 9, w/ Brigid Power-Ryce)
Aldous Harding - Stop your tears (playing Power Lunches, London, May 12)
Noveller – Concrete dreams (playing Le Poisson Rouge, New York, May 7)
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Dharma Theme
Lazarus Clamp – Latch
Stump – Buffalo
Death & Vanilla – Time travel (playing The Basement, Brighton, May 16)
Bjork – Lionsong (radio edit)
Kathryn Williams – Cuckoo (edit) (playing St Pancras Old Church, London, June 8)
Firestations – Cold sweaty palms
REW<< – The lights in the sands of Katumpkale
Gaz Coombes – Detroit (edit) (playing Black Box, Belfast, May 9)
Princess – Black window
Ricked Wicky – Well suited
Robert Pollard – Up and up and up
Skelocrats – Lyin eyes

*the next show will feature music from Screaming Parent, Circuit des Yeux & Jean Jacques Perrey & David Chazam, 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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