A brief musical preview/ highlights show focusing on th 8th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast. Music from Conway Savage, Camera Obscura, Desert Hearts, Three Tales, Marcos Valle, The Sadies, Low, Death Vessel, Melvins, Danielson Familie, Aaron Spectre.

tracklist….

Quickie for Duckie - Conway Savage [Quickie for Duckie, Beheaded2007] also on myspace.com/conwaysavage Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura [Let’s Get Out Of This Country, Merge 2006] New Kings - Desert Hearts  [Hotsy Totsy Nagasaki, Gargleblast/ No Dancing 2006] Variation - Three Tales [myspace.com/threetales] Crickets sing for anamaria Marcos Valle    [Samba ‘68, Verve 1968] Why would anybody live here - The Sadies    [Favourite Colours 1998] Murderer - Low [Drums and Guns, Sub Pop 2007] Dancers All - Death Vessel [The Sound the Hare Heard, Kill Rock Stars 2006] You’ve Never Been Right - Melvins    [(A) Senile Animal, Ipecac, 2006] Rubbernecker - Danielson Famile    Tri-Danielson (Alpha) [Secretly Canadian, 2000] Say Yeh feat. Prodigy - Aaron Spectre [myspace.com/aaronspectre]

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As it is polling day in Northern Ireland I have put together a podcast of tentatively political music. Tracklisting:-

Blaise Bailey Finnegan III (excerpt) - Godspeed You! Black Emperor [Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP] How to disrespect authority in style.

Black Steel - Tricky [Maxinquaye] A cover of the Public Enemy tune, a tale of a black man who organises a prison riot to protest against the draft notice.

By the Time I Get to Arizona - Public Enemy [Apocalypse ‘91: The Enemy Strikes Back] Enraged by Arizona’s decision not to hold a holiday in honour of Martin Luther King.

Night Of The Hunter - Piano Magic [Disaffected] Piano Magic not sounding like themselves at all on this, but it’s still a good anti-bloodsports song.

At Home He’s A Tourist -Gang Of Four [Entertainment] I couldn’t have a political mix without Gang of Four really could I?

Who Makes The Nazis? - The Fall [The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004] “Longhorn, longhorn breed”. This song always puzzles me, this is the Peel session version which is maybe even stranger than the album version.

Reuters - Wire [Pink Flag] 1977, but it could have been written yesterday.

All these Governors - The Evens [The Evens] The lyrics remind me of our legistlative assembly, sadly.

Unfair - Pavement [Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain] Not 100% political but a tale of Northern California vs Southern California, I think.

Women Of The World - Jim O’Rourke [Eureka] A simple message beautifully done.

Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke [The Eraser] Thom’s reaction to the suspicious death of weapons investigator David Kelly.

Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt Written by Elvis Costello at the time of the Falklands War, this is a very heartfelt rendition from Robert Wyatt.

War - Bob Marley [Rastaman Vibration] The words aren’t Bob’s, but are instead the text of the address to the UN by Hailie Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia. Wise man.

Northern Industrial Town - Billy Bragg [William Bloke] The only song in the list about Belfast, written just after the 1994 ceasefires.

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Slow Thrills Podcast vol 02, 2007 I would like to make this more regular than every 3 weeks but that’s just the way it is at the moment. A new podcast is ready, this time themed around collaborations between artists. I could have made it twice as long but I didn’t have the time I’m afraid.

TRACKLISTING: Near To You - Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair [Words Of Wisdom And Hope (2002)] Nice n cheap here

Local Man Ruins Everything - William Campbell and Kevin MacNeil (2005) Hard to find, officially sold out, although it’s on their myspace

Beast For Thee - Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Matt Sweeney [Superwolf (2005)] Buy here

Herculean - The Good, The Bad & The Queen [The Good, The Bad & The Queen (2007)] Buy here

Prospect Hummer - Animal Collective with Vashti Bunyan [Prospect Hummer EP (2005)] Buy here

No II pt. 1- Sonic Youth With Yamatsuka Eye [TV Shit (1994)] Hard to find - try this link

Dead City Radio - Sonic Youth & William Burroughs [Dead City Radio (1990)] Still available, try here

Taut - John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey [Dance Hall At Louse Point (1996)] Available here

Style It Takes - Lou Reed & John Cale [Songs For Drella (1990)] Absolute steal here

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PLAYLIST - Yo La Tengo - Blitzkrieg Bop [1993] originally issued with an unknown Japanese fanzine this popped up on the album: Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo [Matador 1996] Buy it here.

Deerhoof - +81 [2007] from the new album ‘Friend Opportunity’ released in the UK on ATP recordings, in the USA on Kill Rock Stars Buy it here (UK) or here (USA)

Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star [1994] tracks played in part: In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader, Starfield Road, Winner’s Blues. Buy it here

The Raincoats - In Love [1979] from the debut album ‘The Raincoats’ (Rough Trade) Buy it here

Big Stick - Drag Racing [1986] 7″ single, also available on this fine compliation!

Burial - Broken Home [2006] from the debut album ‘Burial’, available here

Sol Seppy - 1 2 [2006] from the album ‘The Bells of 1 2′, available here

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I’ve finally compiled a seasonal mix of music masquerading as a podcast. No prattling from me, that will return in the new year! Tracks: El Vez - Feliz Navi-Nada Captain Beefheart - There Aint No Santa Claus on the Evening Stage The Fall - Hark the Herald Angels Sing Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis The Sonics- Dont Believe in Christmas The Wedding Present - Step into Christmas Big Star - Jesus Christ Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Cold White Christmas Cocteau Twins - Frosty the Snowman Shonen Knife - Space Christmas

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I created a basic podcast this week, just to see if I could really! Anyway, here it is, please leave feedback - all comments gratefully received. Sorry the opening music is too long, that’s a teething problem which will be sorted next time. Tracks: Yo La Tengo - Blitzkrieg Bop Asobi Seksu - Thursday Flying Saucer Attack - Outdoor Miner Six Organs of Admittance - Bless Your Blood Current 93 - Then Kill Caesar MC5 - Skunk (Sonically Speaking) The Users - Sick of You Ramones - Bonzo Goes to Bitburg

More punk stuff than I was planning, but it was all quite random, and it was aseembled very quickly.

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