Playlist 461 - Sept 26 2017

There’s something about duets, and something extra about husband and wife duets.

This week we had the new song from The Saxophones, another gorgeous/unsettling dream pop number straight out of a David Lynch soundtrack.

Then later one of the classics of the genre, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin with the lesser known yang to the yin of 'Je t’aime'. And Dean & Britta with what is probably a homage to Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra/Suzi Jane Hokom and isn’t that just fine.

Other than that some sumptuous cuts from The Clientele, Hater and This is the Kit.

And wonderful Russian film music from 1975 from Mikael Tariverdiev.

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Playlist 461
Tues Sept 26 2017
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
Hater – Blushing
This Is The Kit – Hotter colder (playing Apollo, London, Sept 25-28)
St Vincent – New York (playing Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Oct 20)
David Bowie – Andy Warhol
The Saxophones – Aloha (playing Union Chapel, London, Sept 30 - Daylight Music)
The Clientele – Everyone you meet
Matthew Bourne – Isopleth (playing Kings Place London, Nov 10 - London Jazz Festival)
Mikael Tariverdiev – Reflection (from the soundtrack of the film Olga Sergeevna)
Anne Müller with guest Alex Stolze – Solo? Repeat! (Live) (playing Capstone Theatre, Liverpool, Nov 21)
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin – 69 Année Érotique
Dean & Britta – Night nurse
Miles Cooper Seaton – I am that (playing St Pancras Old Church, London, Oct 16)
Buttonhead – Robocop sunset

*next week's show features music from The Bonk, Fixity & Cool Ghouls, among others

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