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So, its started again..

X-factor is Christmas number one, or is it Matt cardle.. Although it could be Simon Cowell.

I like it to think Biffy Clyro won.

Fuck it.


Now for something completely different...

You may remember this track being played on The Morning Fader not too long ago, but it's time for a Gold revival;

'Gold' is a promising demo by Loose Talk Cost Lives which solders elements of Foals, Maccabees and Franky and the Heartstrings, to create and exciting single which could top any indie chart. Chantable choruses, simple yet carefully constructed guitar riffs cycle over progressive and often attacking drums. Yes sure, the record quality is far from polished, but the bare bones are definitely worth polishing! The New Year is coming, so we can only hope we hear more soon. 

Gold (DEMO) by Loose Talk Costs Lives

(Christmas)-Factor

From today you'll be contribute to the race for Christmas Number One. This year we have two options, 'Cage Against The Machine' with 4"33 and Matt Cardle with 'When We Collide' a cover of Biffy Clyro's 'Many Of Horror'. But what should we make of this annual contest, or the latest Christmas tradition to oust Simon Cowell's Christmas bonus, is it damaging to music? What, if anything, is special about this year?

'Cage Against The Machine' is a magical effort to get John Cage's 4"33 Seconds to be played out on Radio 1 for Christmas Number One, the point? 'to stick it up Simon Cowell'. The argument is that Cowell's dominance of the Christmas charts is not out of love for music,but purely creating a horizontal internationalist view of the music industry, and rinsing money from every single sector, from finding 'artists' or singers, to promoting, to distribution, to sales. I don't think we need a proof to see why this is wrong, it just feels monopolistic and dirty.

'So what, it makes people happy, leave them to it'. Fair game, the x-factor final receives the most views from any TV program in the UK, and with the same product being exported to the US next year, its going to make even more people happy. Is that what we want though? One man deciding for us? No one can deny the power of advertising, and that's what X-factor is, week after week, you compare the least worst singer next to the worst, until you are left with someone that you've supported all the way through. Its a fantastic way of getting mediocre talent to sound familiar and inviting. Admittedly this year's final was a good competition, and each 'artist' was excellent at singing and preforming, but is it not time for something a bit more than pure performance, do we not want originality and creativity, rather an over-advertised singer? Don't we want a down to earth, new song, which is heart felt, something that's going to make us appreciate life just a little bit more during this festive time, a song like 'Many of Horror'

Perfect, so that's what Simon Cowell did. Fighting fire with fire, the evil genius put a perfectly good track up for competition. But now, what I ask is, does Matt Cardle improve Biffy Clyro's song at all? The production is flat, Matt's voice holds no warmth, no emotional interrogatory, not at least to any degree that Simon Neil's voice commands. Should we not just repurchase Biffy Clyro's original version of the song, why buy an inferior copy for the same price?

I believe in the spirit of 4"33, its a 'nice' idea, but what I want from Christmas Number One is a warming, sensitive song that makes you feel good. I think its frankly pathetic to rename the song so that you cannot see Biffy Clyro original underneath on iTunes. Biffy Clyro wrote a heart felt, sensitive song, but this year, 'Wham', they gave it away.

Biffy Clyro - Many Of Horror


Matt Cardle - When We Collide

Secret Santa

You know difficult it is when you've got a secret, and you want to tell the world but you know how much more exciting itd be if you just said it? Yeah I got that BIG time. All I can say, is keep a beady eye on the blog for something exciting! In the mean time:

Flying Lotus - Zodiac Shit



... chill

Final Show

Thanks for tuning in to all of you around the world, friends and family! We hope you enjoyed our round up of 2010! Remember the blog will always be here, so you can always get your bitesized fix here!

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Sneak Peek

So you're wondering whether to listen to the show, you need a bit of an incentive to run out of bed, grab your laptop and then snuggle back in? The final shows playlist, each track is taken from our favourite albums of 2010, so tune in to here all the reviews, and text in to tell us yours!

The Morning Fader on lsrfm.com from 11 till 1

Music To Watch Snow To:

At The Morning Fader (11-1 Sunday Mornings LSRFM.com) we've found the most perfect song to watch snow fall to (which is all I'm doing at the moment!)


Its the Gorillaz cover of the XX's Crystalised




Hannah x

Message of Guilt

I feel awful, although I'm very happy with the Top 10 albums of 2010, I wish I had made it bigger. 2 albums are missing, and the most ridiculous thing is that they are my favourite albums of 2010.

I know it sounds like I'm digging a hole but I promise, these albums sank in so deep into my life that they already immortal, so their year of creation in obsolete! I really thought these had been in my life for much longer than just a year! Do you get me?

Foals - Total Life Forever


These New Puritans - Hidden

Top 10 Albums of 2010 from the Morning Fader

1. MIA - M A Y A
2. Caribou - Swim
3. Maps and Atlases - Perch Patchwork
4. Warpaint - The Fool
5. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
6. James Blake - CMYK
7. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
8. Vampire Weekend - Contra
9. Foals - Total Life Forever
10. Four Tet - There Is Love In You

Top 10 (Spotify Link)

Reviews to come...

Get the F*** out of bed track

Shows on in T-68 minutes, i'm in bed, there's snow, ice and frozen cats outside. Its time for the one off part of the show, which is before the show starts, its called,

'The Get The F*** Out of Bed Track'
 Part Chimp - 30 Billion People 

Rumors have been flying about Part Chimp, apparently their not going to be around by the end of the year as they are thinking of splitting. This track is the biggest reason why they shouldnt. Boom it hits you, part sledge hammer, part pure energy. I would set it as an alarm tone, but  think that could end in tears one day. YES i am up, time to ski to the Union, and get the decks spinning.

Talk to you soon,
Morning Fader, 11am-1pm

Circles

Hitting the stage these likely lads were having no luck handed to them tonight. Soon after ripping though the intro to the first song, the first spanner got lodged in the works as the bass guitar technical difficulties, nevertheless still finishing the song successfully, albeit without the power that the song need from the low-end.

'Breath To Choke', bass working, guitar.. Not working, storming off stage with granted frustration. Sometimes things can't get fixed, which is when you have to make do.

If nothing else the nights set was exciting, and interesting, and showed a lot of potential. With immediate similarities to The Cribs, and influences from Joy Division and predominantly The Pixies, a lot could be to come for Circles if they put their energy into it... And if luck was on their side next time.

Fader Recommends:
Breath To Choke

Bigger Than Us

Bigger Than Us seems an apt title for White Lies new single, the title applies to Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain as the reply to the budget manager of the video.

"Your budget is Bigger Than Us put together" - PIGS

Across between ET and an episode of ER, White Lies have busted out with their biggest track and most developed screen play since  the hit us with their debut 'To Lose My Life...' in 2009. High production, and giant chocolate bar who's price could offset the debt of most European countries, White Lies seem to be stepping up to an arena tour band to the likes of Interpol, Editors and The Killers. With the new album, 'Ritual' out in 2011, will have to wait till then find their fate.

The Only Place

University has to be about the only place where you get left with situations where you have to decide which country you are going to live in for the next year, in 12 hours. In a shorted version of 24, my life went in locked-down as I used a magnetic dart to pick which country to move to. I chose Mannhiem, Germany. So whats the most important thing for the process of deciding? A bloody good soundtrack.

Maps & Atlases - Perch Patchwork

From the wholesome folk tones from 'Solid Ground', to this years best guitar riff on 'Pigeon', Perch Patchwork has it all. With the most exciting album I have heard in too long Maps & Atlases manage to weave all the great things that have been happening in music this new decade, and create something that creative, exciting, but heart-warningly familiar. This Chicago 4-piece and has got legs to go far. When everything seems to be up in the air, don't fear, because there's Solid Ground.

Fader Recommends:
Solid Ground
Pigeon

Producer Hannah's Debut

Thanks for listening today, it was a big show as hannah took to the mixer like Take That to an All Saints sale! Keep sending emails of tracks that we should be listening to, and if you're in a band/record company/ or just a fan, send us what you love! For now, you can check out all the songs we brought to you think week, enjoy
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Sleigh Bells Rock

Sleigh Bells dance-pop-punk-noise thingy has certainly won many fans, after Mine
was bursting with people despite Broken Social Scene playing just a few doors
down. Lights and sound found their way into literally every crevice of the room as the
brash electronics were complimented by both Derek Miller’s simple guitar strokes
and Alexis Krauss’ voice.

Krauss began with the usual chit-chat to the crowd, who were appropriately fit
to burst in excitement before being relieved and given permission to move to
the hard hitting sounds of ‘Tell Em’. Other hits from their album ‘Treats’, such
as ‘Kids’ and ‘Infinity Guitars’ caused equal mayhem. Krauss, who strongly stirred
comparisons with Crystal Castles’ loony front woman Alice Glass, displayed
tremendous on stage presence and with controlled screams throughout she had the
crowd’s frontline frantically roaring and stretching to grab at her.

It really was a dynamite live show that closed the Constellations Festival with a bang.

Words from Josh.

George Lenton

Sometimes its just too much. You sit down at the computer, open up Word, open up Firefox, facebook tab, close Firefox, close Word, Start > Shutdown.

Start again, Pen out, Paper out, book open, desks full, cup of coffee falls off the table. fuck it
Pick up paper, rip it. fuck it

Its time to relax, leave the coffee to stain the floor, and put on San Angel by George Lenton. With reggae samples, paper ripping and heartbeat of blue whale this song transforms you into the ideal of tranquility. A self-help specialist would say "Imagine writing down all your problems; aches and pains, and listen as you rip them in half". Thanks for that, i need that...

back to life, back to reality with George Lenton

Rock and Roll Circus

After an evening with Fakeblood, and some dubious mixing by Bowski today was purely set for R&R. Things were looking up after Englands victory, and the hair of the dog took effect. The best was yet to come, popping into the Brudenell Social Club for a game of pool I found this little gem.

A presentation of local bands, it makes you proud to be living in Leeds! We've got a Beep-off from Tim Hardy and he's chosen a track from the CD so tune in tomorrow at 11am on LSRfm.com to listen.
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A Brief Introduction to the Morning Fader:

A little taster for those who have not managed to listen to the show yet. To listen to the show, make sure you have iTunes loaded on your computer, and go to LSRfm.com and click listen.

Unlikely End

Wednesday night Fav is a standard. Ending with these two songs made the night, the definition of a mix bag, especially when it was followed by The Drums, a little bizarre, but never mind!

Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says

and then, I swear this track had been selected just for me, the only thing that there was left to do was to thank the DJ, grab my coat and face the cold.

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo

New Albums

List of albums in Music Library, nuff said
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We Do Requests: Stornoway

The mode is not anti-folk, new-folk, electro-folk.. its 'Wholesome music'. Adverts for wholegrain brown bread have had an effect on this generation of musicians, as they write their chords to the crunch of pumpkin seeds. We played Stornoway on our show on Sunday, and I have had so many requests about it from listeners that it'd be rude not to make an extra point about it!

Made by a singer who can sing, a guitarist who doesn't worry about the odd sustaining note, and a drummer who owns a snare. Introducing Stornoway with 'Zorbing' (Define: the art of rolling down a hill in a human-sized hamster ball)

Morning Fader Recommended

So we thought we'd make things easy for you, so we put together a quick collection of songs that we've used on the show in the past couple of weeks. Might be good music to listen to while you read the article in the blog too.. maybe!

Morning Fader Recommends Spotify Playlist

Playlist created by Hannah Stott for Morning Fader.

On Air!

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What's your flavour?

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Playlist 31/10/10

Ohhh yes this was a good show, please check out the list if you missed the show!
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MEN Review: ZERO stars

“You should always enter a gig with no expectations” a Lesson learned by Matthew Hardy.
MEN @ Brudenell Social Club 03/11/2010

MEN consists of that usual line up for an electro-pop band, Short curly haired innocent looking boy, long haired guitar holding boy, and girl holding a mock Gibson Flying V with a variety pedal by her pretty white pumps. The only thing that gives credibility to the line up is that the singer is from Le Tigre, that’s right! The energy filled explosive electro-punk band whose songs spring back in your head like popping-candy-crack. This is where I went wrong, I entered the gig with expectations.

The stage was empty, oh yes it would be far too convenient to have the band on the stage, instead they opted for playing on the dance floor. There must have been only 2 reasons for this:

1) To make it seem like there wasn’t just 50 people in the room
2) To show off their back drop which their “friend so kindly made for us to share”

Apart from nearly puking at that statement, mural that he was referring to seemingly depicted a Carboot-clothes-sale-sponsored-semi-naked-swingers-picnic party. And while they were inaccurately tuning up, we were invited to play a game of “spot the butt-pug”. The tone was set as they tumbled into their first song 'Life Is Half Price (When You're In Love)', with lyrical mediocrity and backing track that would fit over an advert for Vauxhall's new car.

Dressed in costumes from a Kids TV show which never got made, they must have put effort into make their music in the same thread. Using an Apple laptop as CD player for your crap backing track drumbeat doesn’t count as a legitimate instrument, its just lazy, and just plain embarrassing. The final icing on the cake baked by Big Cook Little Cook was the lyrics “If you're dance standing up tall, if you’re dancing you don't fall”. MEN teach lessons that don’t need to be taught, because people that go to gigs are not four and half years old.

Never go into a gig with any expectations, because there is a malicious demon who will ruin your night if you do. Mistakes are made to be learned from, so learn from mine.

Mitchell Museum: 4 Star Review

Mitchell Museum

The Peter’s Port Memorial Service

Electra French

Mitchell Museum have a gift, and its for us to enjoy. The alchemy in the Mitchell Museum camp combines a kaleidoscopic twist on psychedelic pop, floating keyboard riffs and the reverb drenched rhythms as if they've escaped from the nearest carnival.

Walking through the park on an Autumn evening, with the sun impossibly low, resting its golden beams on top of the trees. In the acute delirium of walking into the sun, time disappears as leaves cover your tracks. That is this very aptly timed album. Organic Keys drifting from singer Cammy MacFlarlane, vocals that bounce back and forth in the disengaged area between your ears. Dougie Kennedy's guitar is an artists stroke that knows when less is more, guitar riffs that can rip through the mix on songs like 'Mission 1', all the way to delay ridden chords as if they were played on distant church bells, found on 'Cut Lantern'. Kris Ferguson and Raindeer create a bass and drum landscape, serving as the heart to every song on the album.

This is an album for escape, for 43 minutes you can disappear into a world with dimensions pushing and swelling, distorted images of how things should be, but with enough tip-offs to reality that you know this isn’t a dream. There's nothing more relaxing than letting go, which is sometimes the hardest thing to do. Mitchell Museum say, “Let go, its going to be okay, hell, you might even enjoy it!”

If you hear no other song this week, hear Tiger Heartbeat.

Mitchell Museum: 'Tiger Heartbeat' ADHD Edit from mitchell museum on Vimeo.

No Edit: Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip Interview

Dan le Sac vs Scroobious Pip Interview, Leeds Union, 20/10/10, by Matthew Hardy

Pip: We stayed in Bristol last night, I think, yeah but it was Cardiff last night..

Matt: Was it good?

Pip: Yeah it was good, nice bunch..

Dan: ..Bloody welsh..

Pip: We've been to the venue that we played in last night, but we don’t have a clue when, or why..

Dan: we've been racking brains why...

Pip: It wasn’t on that tour, it wasn’t on any of our tours. For some reason we went for one show at that venue in Cardiff, I drove

Dan: ..and I was like are show, we were headlining..

Pip: wasn't just a freshers type thing..

Dan: We remember the dressing room... we remember everything

Pip: But we don’t know when or why, its a mystery, something happened that night that we've (in unison) blocked out.. We've killed someone..

Matt: It must have been something bad then

Pip: yeah, we’ve been out murdering..

Dan: Again..

Pip: we're going to have to cut that down

Matt: 'The Scroobious Pip' is a nonsense verse poem left unfinished by Edward Lear, does this imply that you defy genre or classification?

Pip: Yeah I mean that’s why I choose it I liked that poem because it was about that not, not necessarily consciously trying to defy classification or genre, but realising that its OK to not fit in one area or whatever. So

Dan: ...That’s like the first time that anyone’s ever actually just got it with out making you [pip] making you explain it.. Well done! Its a really irritating question What does your name mean? GOOGLE, it means google.

Pip: Yeah, its now that [the reason behind his name] that I’m the worlds fastest telling, cos i've got in the habit of.. (says actually incredibly fast!!) The Scroobious Pip' is a nonsense verse poem left unfinished by Edward Lear blah blahhh and then just streak through it, cos yeah, good work, that’s exactly it, I could have just asked that question.. yeah.. and it would have been a testament to your research! Thank you!

Matt: Cheers! .. Well do you think that you're living up to that?

Pip: uuughhh haha, ish, yeah that’ssss a tough one, were not conscouisly trying to fit in to one. The stuff that me and dad have done its not ever been a lets try not to make this song that genre, we've just made the songs that we make, it seems to sit there.

Matt: (to Dan) When you’re making the music, do you ever do it the opposite way round, and aim towards a specific style, to try it out?

Dan: That’s how I learn, whether that’s for something that we are actually going to release or not, I love learning how to make music by parroting what styles that I don’t understand. Like there was a track I was working on the other day that was just me trying to work out Flying Lotus' thought process, because it is kinda of bizarre in places. But yeah, you listen to it, you pick certain ideas from it and then you forget about that and then six months down the line, you’ll be writing and it’ll be indirectly influenced by what you worked out. When I started out as a kid it was just like getting house records and working out how to program a house beat.

Pip: yeah its a good way to do it, I remember early on when I heard Dan's stuff, I really liked was it didn’t just sound like any in particular anything else but it had bits in there, but, again its that thing where, I assume not setting out to make a Dubstep part of the beat, its learning how to make your own beat and then naturally we’ve learnt these things, if something fits it’ll be able to be exploited.

Matt: Do you think that's the approach that a lot of electronic artists take?

Dan: Well i'm not sure, but I suppose that’s what all musicians do, Our sound man plays the bass and he walks round the dressing room and he'll be playing Michael Jackson, and he'll play this, and he'll be like, this bit of slap bass is like Rage Against The Machine, its how all musicians develop. When you have traditional lessons, the first thing you get taught on the piano is 'Amazing Grace'. When ever you take part in music, you’re constantly taking certain styles in the education of it. But I do get the feeling when I sound happen, with Dubstep, well, commercial Dubstep, the 'Skream', when those noises first came through there were like hundreds of produce going, what did he do there?! Is that a band-passed filter? Or I don’t know... And spent the money, and then you get the sort of carbon-copied stuff, but it happens all the time.

Matt: Excellent, so when you are writing songs, is it a case of Dan makes a track and sends it Pip?

Dan: Any which way, so sometimes it'll be his lyrics

Pip: If you went through our tracks, it could be where I wrote a new lyrics, or Dan was writing something that happened to fit...

Dan: I think that’s the most common way, we'll be both working on something and then it just..

Pip: Gels together.

Dan: But then yeah.. The more memorable tracks we actually put the effort in. We think about it..

Pip: Yeah its planned..

Matt: (to Pip) how often do you say, I want a sound like this, can you sort of change this?

Pip: It varies, I mean if we've started to put something together with a track, and put a lyric with a track, then there will be a bit of back and forth between the both of us. I mean if, I there me saying, it will be good if it drops here or this bit here, or, Dan saying that vocal will sound far better if we change this or changed that, so, that’s when it becomes more of a working together. On the first record it was more that Dan would send me a beat and I'd write to that and that was it, because, again, I was new to it, and that was a conformable way to work for me, it was alight, I'd already have a vocal but id switch it, move it to fit it, and then, on the second record there was a bit more of, it would be good if we could change this here and change this there, and there was more back an forth, rather than it be me getting over excited “I like this beat! I've finished the song Dan! And then Dan would be like, “it was a demo beat I sent you...”

Dan: yeahh..

Pip: he'd have sent me a two and half minute idea for a track, and id be like, well that’s that finished, shall we do another one? Dan would be like “Nooo that was only meant to be a rough idea!”

Dan: Yeah I learnt not to give you any more demo’s after that, I give you fairly developed tracks now.

Pip: 'Back from Hell' was the prime example, id kind of had that vocal written in sorts in the past and never got to use it right, and Dan gave me a beat, and then just in that van I kind of just went over this vocal and went yep, that finished and that was meant to just be an idea.

Matt: That’s amazing! Is there going to be another album, are you writing?

Pip: not immediately, but there will be one further down the line, its weird how it all works, I dunno you kind of, a year after an album it kind of feels old like for the public, but we've not finished touring that record yet, so we've not really started working..

Dan: To a certain extent we've not even finished writing it..

Pip: yeah you're right, stuff developing live all the time.

Dan: yeah there’s so many bit where we're like if we just move that about because you start with having that audience they’re there without knowing it being like a focus group for you. Its obviously different in a gig environment, because there wanting to hear the tracks.

Pip: but this is our last tour of this record and like two nights ago, you [Dan] were changing something on 'Sick Tonight', a drum pattern, and I think that’s a good thing because otherwise you would spend too long just nursing a record, and its good to.. the way music is going, in the kind of disposable nature of it, its important to get it out there for starters, and then it the touring that kind of develops it, it could be kind of interesting to do it you know just tour it for a year and then record it. But then again I don think you’d get the same effect in that, you would get the right reactions to the songs if people are familiar with, so you need that slight familiarity with it..

Matt: I would be an exciting way of doing it though! I've seen you say that you are constantly writing 'bit and bobs', which maybe you never use them, is there ever a point when you both completely switch disengage?

Pip: yeah there are at times, I say, directly after finishing this record I couldn’t write at all, and was quite comfortable with that, cos it was just such that getting to the end of finishing a record is quite intense time, because you’ve got the demo version, and then you’re pulling them apart, and then Dan in particular having to spend hours on each drum pattern and everything like that and it can get quite taxing. Yeah its good to have that breather from it all.

Dan: (asking Rebecca) Do I ever completely disengage Rebecca?

Rebecca: yeah, I think you do.

Dan: I do, good. You never quite know.

Pip: and we've had different ones on the different records because after the first record I was writing again immediately, and had loads of stuff written and Dan..

Dan: I didn’t really have anything interesting..

Pip: yeah, and then with this record, Dan was almost as soon as it was finished [when we were finished with the first record] so yeah I just sat back a bit.

Matt: So what do you do when you're not being Scroobious Pip?

Pip: I just walk around and find new things for me to judge..and preach about

Dan: [laughs]

Pip: No, no, yeah is just enjoy, its weird things really I was thinking about this the other day, at the end of the festival season we had kind of two or three weeks before the tour was starting, and I went round and like I helped my mate decorate his house for a couple of days, and it was just nice to go back to, not go back to a normal life, but its just so, its generally just on the road, music related, and when i'm not working ill often be listening to music, its just nice to get that kind of step back into a normal world.

Dan: after the tour he gets three weeks off, after the tour [he meant festival] I go into the studio and rebuild everything for the tour... jammy little..

Pip: well I can start anything until Dan’s got his bit done, I just HAVE to sit and wait.

Matt: Well that leads me on, If you were 'Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip' what would you be doing?

Pip: I'd still be working HMV I reckon

Dan: yeahh, ahh nah i'd already left. Awh yeah I would have sold my soul to Microsoft. I was doing some image communication design work, graphic communication. Not long before 'Thou Shalt' came out they had offered me a studpidly well paid job, like rediculous. And I didnt take it. Because I got some idea that I could write music forever. So yeah I did that, weve not earned combined, in this four years, my first years salary yet.

Matt: Well which ones more enjoyable?

Dan: Errm well the money... nah nah..[ish]

Matt: What would you like to be able to say about yourselves in the future, say 20 years?

Pip: Anyone that gets to do this for 20 years is really lucky, like stay in music, a lot of acts dont make it that long, but yeah you don't know, it might not be nice to be doing this if we're tour solidly for 20 years, that might be the nightmare scenario. I could look back at it and go, yeahh ive not been home in 20 years.

Dan: or not have a home..

Pip: yeahh but no, I would be nice to still be doing something that’s creative, and that you’re passionate about, and still excites you.

Dan: yeah it depends if you turn out to be Leonard Cohen, or Bono, they've both been doing it for a long time, but yeah Bono seems to have gone wrrrrong!

Matt: Well I went to see S-club 7 (minus 4) last night..

Pip: How were they?

Matt: Different, to say the least, what am I saying? They were awful!

Pip: Who was left?

Matt: Bradley, Jo, and 'likes a pie' Paul

Pip: is Jo the racist one?

Matt: yeah I think so..

Dan: the Blonde girl, from our neck of the woods

Pip: yeah, she used to come into the HMV I used to work in Essex

Dan: yeah she was Romford..

Matt: Well thank you very much, you've been brilliant, and I’m sure you'll have a good show tonight!

Pip: Yeah man cheers, nice to meet you. Leeds was joint favourite of the tour last year, i'm not sure which was best, Manchester or Leeds.

Matt: Well I think you do really.

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip: 5 Star Review

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobious Pip

20/10/10 @ Mine, Leeds Union

Mine always feels like a hanger for miniature planes when ever I walk in, the idea of taking my coat off is always pose-pond as the Leeds October cold cuts through the thick concrete walls. Just as i'd given up my search for the thermostat Kid A arrived on stage. Now things were hotting up. With a voice that transports you back in time of Motown and Soul singers would brighten up a dimly lit bar, with vocals harmonise with the crackle and hiss from the vintage microphone. This voice of beauty is laid over the some of the fattest, most progressive Dubstep beats I’ve heard, nearly every song sounds like a Nero remix of Ella Fitzgerald. There was talk that Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip were on tonight, but at this point, I couldn’t have cared less. Finishing with 'So Choose', Kid A wrapped up succinctly with a sweet smile, “Thank you, thank you very very much”.

Misty's Big Adventure arrived on stage, then a couple more musicians, then a few more... and then a load more. 7 people crammed on stage, armed to the teeth with every instrument from saxophones, Keyboards, Drums and a man with a hat and a mic to impress. 'Crumpled Up Guy' set the tone for the evening. Misty's Big Adventure make you smile, pure and simple. Exploding into songs that have been constructed with time and care to not only give you an eclectic mix of jazz, post modern rock, pop punk, and funk, but combined with stories that make you giggle! Then, as if the septet wasn't enough, the eighth member hit the stage dressed like a dinosaur dipped in nuclear waste next to a glove shop, yes, seeing is the only way to believe it. The Chernobyl dinosaur acted as lead singer, Grandmaster Gareth 's inner-self, or almost devil on his shoulder, lifting the whole preformance. So if uni is getting you down or no one is sharing your concern of mobile phone masts on primary schools, listen to 'The Kids Are Radioactive' its all on Spotify, so you've got no excuse. As I said earlier, the support acts had a job to do today, the approximate -14 oC conditions had to be improved, and by the time Misty's Big Adventure had hit the road once more, the crowd had been successfully warmed up in every single way.

A chorus of electronic flutes arpeggiated there way over the club, this could only mean one thing, 'Sick Tonight'. An explosion went off as the track dropped, its hard to tell whether the crowd were jumping or whether Dan Le Sac subsonic reprogramming of the bass was moving the floor. Straight away everyone in the room new that this wasn’t going to be a run-of-the-mill gig. 'Looking For The Woman' turned the show from a club gig, to an arena where singing along was mandatory. Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobious Pip did not just turn up with a set list of songs that they've been playing for 3 years, these songs were new, reworked, not one sound had been ring fenced from a little tweaking, even going right back to 'Magicians Assistant'. A track that could evoke tears from a bull now had a pulsing beat behind it which shook your heart physically as Scroobious Pip's vocals shake your brain mentally. Kid A returned to the stage, and the familiarity of her voice clicked, say hello again to the “..girl from the city”. 'Cauliflower' not just some the best lyrics in the world, but filled to the brim with bouncing beats and a bass line made to dance, the room erupted once more for the catchiest Le Sac chorus in their repertoire. It was getting all too much for some of the crowd as Dan ran round his vast collection of DJ equipment to effortlessly pluck a girl from the crowd as the inevitable crush at any good gig set in, he sat her down on Pips brown leather chair, and ran back in time to administer the drop. But who can resist a dance when a track like 'Great Britain' comes on, so with a little help from Pip, she was returned to the fold.

You know when a gig is over, you cant say why, but you just know sometimes when an artist returns to the dressing room, they’re not coming back. This gig was not over.

“Go on Dan, mess the beat up”. Dan Le Sac has a gift of making each track sound like a remix of your favourite song and when someone is that good, you've got to show your appreciation, and the crowd did. Sweat dripping from the ceiling as Mines own weather system kicked in. Finally, the track that is actually a remix of your favourite song, 'A Letter From God To Man'. With one of the best performances of their career, that was Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip and their incredible friends.

Illness

Many things make me feel ill in this world; How pop music is just excepted, How people can be so easily marginalised, How generalisations can eliminate how populations of the world.

But today, a stomach virus has made me ill. Last weeks playlist will save me.

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Playlist 10.10.10

We are backkk! Despite the many technical issues we still delivered a cargo load of songs for your delight! So here is your second chance to check them out for yourselves!

Until next week, good bye, otherwise see you at barry ;)
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Friendly Fires and Azari & III

Ohhhh it was good to be back in Mint last night! Shy fx and breakage were amazing, needless to say! Great to see a few more familiar faces in the smoking area too, you know who you guys are!

But then we come to that familiar feeling, head pounding, ears ringing, door banging, and rather strangely nose bleeding... (wont go into detail, but it appears i fell out of bed!). So i was very happy to see this little baby pop into my inbox.

So what do we have, Friendly Fires and Azari & III. Its an interesting and successful blend of ambient synths, electronic samba drumming, and well laid vocals. Slow building, but rips into proper Friendly Fires chorus, which makes you want to dig out the debut right after. BUT at nearly 6 minutes, its hardly going to get much radio play, and its hardly going to be your first choice when you put your headphones on..

So think i can save my big love the next album, please?



Friendly Fires and Azari & III - Stay Here by salacioussound

We Are Back!

Oh yes, we are back, bigger and sicker than ever! Sunday 11am-1pm, bring you out of your metropolis/mint/mezz/subdub/everyfrickinggoodnightinleedsonaSaturdaynight(!) hangover! All the new music that you can handle xD

Sick.sick.sick!!

Ps start sending in your bands tracks again, if 2/3 of us like you, you're on the show!
Pss don't send them in if you're easily offended, or have a mic stand inserted in a bad place!
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Music is the best medicine!

Hannah here, checking into this crazy blackberry-to-blog-via-email technology. Forget matts 'music blogging from the top of a welsh mountain'. I'm ill in bed. Post- tonsilectomy. Who cares that it'll make me better in the long term blahblahblahh it HURTS. LOADS! I'm taking the opportunity to go through my Ipod getting rid of all the shit I've accumulated over the years from djing at the most random selection of events. On top of this I thought I'd spend my 2 week recovery period deciding what my desert island disks would be. But I've got a problem...HOW ON EARTH DO THEY DO IT? Its the hardest decision to ever make. 8 songs that define your life. Unlike the ancient Matthew who's just turned 21, I've only lived 19 years and I've still got about 10 times more than the rules allow! I don't even want to think about doing it in 20 years time. My dads got about 200, and that's just his all time favourites, I need to get cracking! And my luxury? My morphine and my painkillers...obviouslyy!
Watch this space!
H x
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The Knights of Lovalot

You've heard M.I.A. new record haven't you? Good because today's lesson is on Lovalot.

You don't have to read the Independent everyday to realise there are some fierce politics and ideologies being passed about these days. Some people take the view that 'you can never understand another culture, so you can never change or influence' and there's others that speak there mind, think out loud, sometimes if its done wrong, it can deeply offend. But if its done right, a middle ground, an understanding can be built.

I say all this at a time when US pastor, Terry Jones, is going to burn 200 Koran on the anniversary of 9/11. Small town US 'folk' have never ever tried to understand other cultures, as their culture seems to be to attack and criminalise those who are different. To kill a mocking bird ring a bell "you can't truly understand someone until you climb in to their skin".

Back to the music, this is what maya achieved, or at least tries to achieve with Lovalot, terrorism is probably one of the most used terms in the news since 2001. And the terrorists mind will probably be studied for centuries to come. The 'in the mind of a terrorist' lyrics are hard, and gritty, but simple in the idea of freedom, and the fight for it. The melody set in the dark, bass sounding out like a jungle war dance. The terrorist shuffle.

Sorry to get so deep today, but Maya has a good point here, and a better point for reflection than the flames from a relic that 1.57billion people turn to for guidance.

vodpod.com/watch/4240020-m-i-a-lovalot


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So I'm old..

21.. Those years went fast, like too fast, but nevertheless, I couldn't have had a better 21 years.

So party tonight? Well, I'm 21 so you have to think how you got here, that's what you should be celebrating, so who is that. Yess friends, and girlfriends have got me through many years, through some of the hardest, but there's something else for me, something that has made me happiest, and strongest.

Sum it up? Well in my life there's a song for every time, and every emotion. And for my 21st..

TV on the Radio - Family Tree

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Summer Days

Ahh the classic journey for me, chester - wirral line, to aarons house, drinks, smokes, film, bit of drawing and art ideas. But a band caught my ears on the tired drive home, The Dodos.

Where are they now? I'd love for a new album, can someone out there give me some news, pleaaase? In payment... Aarons dog, barney!


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Leeds fest

Ooooooh how good: PERFECT.
Me and Hannah managed to clock up 10 bands a day, £56 of alcohol, and a few other naughty bit and pieces too!

Highlights?
LCD soundsystem 10\10
Blink 182
Beardyman, always a show!

Would I go next year? probs not to be honest, think its time to give glasto a go :)


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Crystal Clear

If there is a word has to be involved with your musical aspirations to be popular in 2010, it is Crystal.

Whether its a wider reflection on these messy times, with legal highs, illegal expenses, and dirty fucking volcanoes, or just something that is intricately formed and beautiful I do not know however i do know the latter applies to Crystal Castles latest effort.



Celestica feels like a band returning from the underground, the track flourishes with a sense of naivety, ready to explore a new season on a new world. As the track grows it strengthens, flaunting a new sense of direction and maturity. Crystal Castles come across as a band with so much untamed energy, which is usually the down fall of their kind ( im think of the Death From Above.. and Test Icicles ect) where the band splits. However what we have here is a unique opportunity to see what comes next.

Celestica - Crystal Castles

Time Out

Phew, time has finally been called on my travels around the Great British island. Ive picked up some interesting things on my way, and this is what i am going to share with you today:

1) We've confirmed a Documentary with Crystal Antlers, with director and editor Spike Morris, very excited to get involved with another dimension of media! If by some crime of the century you have not heard of them, sort it out, yeah? A band unlike most others have the perfect balance of Pop and something new that could really put them in to the public eye. So get in their first!

Little Sister

2) More and more people have been telling me they are making the trip to Leeds Festival, a place were More The Merrier ring loud and true. The track to go with this is Phoenix, playing on the Sunday (in Leeds). This will be the track that without a doubt will be the sing-a-long track, and i can fully imagine driving home on that Monday morning humming along to the memory of the night before.

Lisztomania

and as Pip say "Love, it's a weird thing ain't it?" yeah it is, its beautiful, which brings me to a live recording of Phoenix.

Phoenix - 1901 - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

3)Finally, and the reason why I'm leaving this post here even though Ive got so much that i want tell you, Ive got tonsillitis, so off to the doctor now!

Morning Fader Secret Track

So yeah, its that time of the week again when we ( the morning fader team) find our secret tracks for you. Well, i know that's not strictly true... a) ive not told them im doing it b) the shows not on this week c) its not 9.40am on a Saturday. Despite these facts.. i think you want to hear a new track don't you?

This is what i have got for you. Zoey Van Goey - Sweetheats in Disguise, beautifully simple folk pop. The song evolves organically, lifting the spirit like a summer bloom, introducing the overdriven guitar that sits in the mix so beautifully. This was created not with the knowledge that certain chord progressions sound 'nice', this was tempered in the mind and soul of some truly talented musicians. Check out their MySpace for tour dates, and if not to buy their album, at least check out their banner art!

Southern Travels

Schools out, so what better to do that go see all the friends that you see at uni all the time? Chester + Manchester + Swindon + London = Goodtimes had by all!



I have had a little bit of a playlist following me however. Travelling down to Swindon had Hannah on the iPod responsibilities saw tracks from Marina and the Diamonds, Simon and Garfunkel, Dan Le Sac vs Scrooobious Pip, The Beatles and a sprinkling of Clew Lips too. But the minimal time i have had in connection with the interweb has brought the soundings of The Cults to attention, so i mean to bring them to yours.



The Cults - Go Outside



The perfect spring sunsetter (if it wasnt so frigging cold atm) The vocals spring up images of a baked Africa, yet a light and airy glockenspiel has removed itself from an nasty cliches, (much like Paul Simon mentioned before). The minimalism that is going on with music atm whether is be the deconstructed beats of The XX or new offerings from The Foals is definitely a welcomed rest that we need before the festival season.



SPEAKING OF:

More of this talk coming soon, but ill let you listen to The Cults first :)

Stats/Econ/Phil

Shit. Its still March and I'm already revising. Somethings wrong. Its not just the revision that's wrong, its frigging sunny outside, that's not meant to happen for 2 months...much like my revision now that i mention it.

Casual revision listening: The Foals have returned with their first poppy track off their new album "Total Life Forever". Whether its the spring air effecting me, this track gives a warm feeling inside as the backing vocal combined with the wet delayed guitar sinks into my ears. The "antidotes" sound has been tamed and tampered into something more accessible, but there still remains a nervous edge with poly rhythms. With all great music, it grows with every listen.

The Orient - The Foals

Top Track - Club

Two posts in one day, You just cant put the Morning Fader down. Esspecially with our extra long show today! but even with all that time we felt we were one track short. As you will have heard we did our top 3 of the year (so far)

So here is our top Club Track Of the Year (so far!)

Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix) by Schitz Popinov

Le Sac vs Pip @ Cockpit

So first off, Morning Fader has to apologies to Sound of Rum for turning up so lazily and missing most of their set, but the final song that we did hear blew us away. But we cannot comment on what we didn't see.

B.Dolan however we did! after sneaking in a quick beer we gt prime position to see the show. That's exactly what it was though, it was a full on show, captivated by his big beats and lyrics, that wasn't all. Bring up a guest on to the stage, he re-enacted Evel Knievel most daring stunt.. which a few tweaks to ensure it fitted on the cramp Cockpit stage. He did the exact job of a support act that many artists forget, to hype up the crowd, regardless. Here is a taster in the form of Fifty Ways To Bleed Your Customer however i think you are best just going out and buying the album.



An empty stage was slowly being filled, an 80 caramel office chair, table, bottle of rose, living room upright lamp and three easels, complete with Logic of Chance artwork. Dan Le Sac hummbly settles himself behind his decks, and lets the first sample loose (Beat That My Heart Skipped) as Scroobious Pip strides on with purpose... and a brief case. Again, I'm going to have to pull this word out again but the gig was nothing less than a show, characters and costume changes, and a fucking good dialogue. Magician Assistant literally had people in tears, a song that has so much power on the debut album Angles looses nothing on stage. But it wasn't all about the old tracks, The Beat, does exactly what it says on the tin. Sick Tonight hit just as hard as it did as the first listen on the album, in fact i would have loved to have been one of the ones to hear that for the first time there. The final surprise for us, by this point soaked in sweat, with grins from ear to ear and hands in the air, Scroobious Pip left the stage after their encore of Letter From God To Man, Yet Dan remained. Playing a 10minute jungle/electro influenced Dj set, i would have paid the ticket price to see that.




I hope this is not the last we hear from them, i want to see more singles, and more projects, please.

Monday Morning Delay

They say everyone hates Monday: the excitement of the weekend is a distant buzz in your ear, coffee stained teeth in a desperate attempt to raise yourself and blurry eyes in the sun..

But then you realise, that warm glow on your face is in fact the sun, not just an echo of yesterdays hangover. You look up, as you squint it pulls the corners of your mouth up. Smiling as the sun bursts through the skeletal trees. Just when you think a Monday morning could not be more perfect, explosions of green are filling out the from the boney fingers of the branch.

Fuck the Calendar, Spring is here.

Why? - This Blackest Purse

Why? Why not? A song that says everything is alright, and it always has been. Look at the trees, let yourself smile, get on your phone, meet a friend you've not seen in time, and tell them that you fucking love them.

Why not.

Mammox Review: Glitterbugs

Today we have a review of the up and coming Mammox signed to psychedelevator.com records

"Mammox formed in April 2009 when Mark C. Aylward (rapper), Nate Belasco (keyboards), James Staub (bass), and Zachary Zukowski (drums) fused together their limitless musical talents and various influences. The four members met at Northeastern University while studying Music Technology. Together they introduce a psychedelic collaged sound rooted in hip-hop, glitch, electronic, and world music."

What i like straight away about this band was the order in which they formed. Wrote an Album > Recorded it > Learned how to play it on traditional instruments > Then found a name. Genius. A similar technique for a few band such as These New Puritans, Pendulum and Metronomy. But a system that is working well!

And it appears to be working well for Mammox. The band has only been on Myspace.com for the last couple of months, but already seem to be making impact. Musically speaking they sound like SebastiAn crossed with Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip; a band couldnt make a better start in my eyes. Choppy samples and tempo that makes your head rock, Electro key rhythms that punch through the mix, make for a truely original arrangement. Its the emergence of these electro/Hip Hop acts that are making me excited about Hip Hop again, a genre that feels to me as if it has fallen in to a formula of 909 rhythms and rapping about sex. Its all been done and its all been said.

Thankfully, Mammox have something new to say. To hear for yourself, check out Glitterbugs

Post Show Review

Good Morning, hope you enjoyed the show, another brilliant play-list:

SparkleHorse- Its a wonderful life
Panda Bear - Ponytail
Panda Riot - Street and You and Me
Angus and Julia Stone - Bella
Crystal Stilts - Converging in the Quiet
Manchester Orchestra - Ive got friends

Liars - Scissor

Tims = Drake - Forever (Nero)
Matts = The Knife - Variance of Birds
Hannah = Miss Meradith - Kiss Kiss Kiss

And because we ran out of time, in a lecturer like style, here is what we couldn't fit in:

Crookers - Remedy ft (Miike Snow)


Thank you very much for joining us, and hope to see you next week.

The Neat

"Free gig at Brundenell Club, you in?"
"yeah go'ed"

And that's how this little adventure started. Start off with an obligatory game of pool, little did we realise that the guys next to us, playing snooker (rather badly ill add) were The Neat. But first we found 'We Were All Made In China'. An interesting band, some effort has obviously been taken to construct popular and easily accessible melodies, and had most of the attributes that you would expect from a more commercial band, like McFly. That's not a complete right off, but it just seems too obvious that they are really concerned about making it. However they are definitely worth a listen.

The Neat - Herd Of Animals


Then on to the Bear Mask, i was really impressed, excellent live, with power and a certain sincerity behind their music. With a sound not too dissimilar to The XX but defiantly not a copy, these have their own style, but i did think it would have benefited the music if the gain was turned down a little, and more attention to the details, and even silence.

Bearmask - Diary entry (its worth a watch just to see what they are like)




Finally, The Neat. Kaiser Chiefs recommended via Simon (who very kindly will be contributing to the show on 20th). With a sound that combines The Horrors, Foals and Fuck Buttons (possibly), Their sound hit mixed reviews in the club, personally, i did enjoy it, but their songs need a lot of work in arrangement. I am sure we will be hearing a little more from them in the not too distant future.

Call For Glastonbury Lovers

LSR.fm are doing a documentary on Glastonbury Festival to mark the 40 year aniversary of the festival.

But we want your help:

What was your favourite year?
Favorite line up?
Favorite song?
...
or even just your best memory!

So get in touch either in the comments, or get on twitter (located on the left handside)

In the mean time as always, I've got a track for you. Its been on repeat pretty much all day, its epic and worth the perseverance through the noise :) the album is brillant, but nothing like the days of Silent Shout, this is closest song to a single you will find on the LP (coming in at 6min 41sec)

The Knife - Variation of Birds

p.s. Check out the sunset in Leeds

12 Foot Snail

Three Things that made yesterday:

1. The Morning Fader Pool Team, played their first tournament, and won.


2. www.dubsiren.com/
For iPod and iPhone


3. Making a 12 Foot Snail with a ball of twine dropped stories


And one track to accompany a 12 Foot Snail:


Scissor - Liars