Playlist 438 - Mar 14 2017

A bunch of great British music on the show this week, in two main camps.

In the folk department
The Nightjar, stirring haunted atmospherics
The Bevis Frond, enduring drones with sitar
Alasdair Roberts & Gordon Ferries, from the wonderful Shakespeare songs Food of Love project, getting courtly.

And more of a post punk buzz
Shaking Chains, compelling spoken word delivery
Animals That Swim, fierce guitar tune with brilliant narrative drive
Warm Digits feat. Field Music on vocals, banging electro.

And Francois & the Atlas Mountains, slippery woozy psych pop from France.

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Playlist 438
Tues Mar 14 2017
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
Warm Digits feat Field Music – End times (playing Safe as Milk Festival, Apr 21- 23)
Blue Orchids – Work before the moon falls (playing The Magnet, Liverpool, Apr 28)
Shaking Chains – Drunk no more
Animals That Swim – How to make a chandelier
Foxygen – On Lankershim
Girl Ray – Stupid things (playing End of the Road Festival, Aug 31-Sept 3)
Alasdair Roberts & Gordon Ferries – Calenore custure me (The Food of Love Project) (Alasdair Roberts playing Green Man Festival, Aug 19)
The Bevis Frond – This corner of England (playing London Fields Brewhouse, May 28)
Alexis Taylor & Rupert Clervaux – Lonely vagabond
The Nightjar – Black waters (playing Cube Cinema, Bristol, Mar 17)
Valerie June – Astral plane
Lucy Rose feat The Staves – Floral dresses
Harry Nilsson – All I think about is you
John Hynes – Caroline, I’m yours (playing Workman's Club, Dublin, May 20)
Francois & the Atlas Mountains – 100 000 000
The Dears – I used to pray for the heavens to fall

*next week's show features music from The Kinks, Those Unfortunates & Frontier Ruckus, among others

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