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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.

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Breath To Choke

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.

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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On Air!

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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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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.

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.

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!

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 :)

Hello World 2.0

Welcome (again) to the Morning Fader Show with Hannah, Tim and Matthew (me) , here to wake you up on these beautiful Leeds morning!

After a brief period of re-evaluation (due to legal reasons) we have totally re-designed the concept of the blog. So here we are; bigger, better and more productive.

So this is going to be a long entry, we're going to take journey through time, bringing us back all the way to the 4th of November:

This is it our first show, we must admit, we were on a steep learning curve, but still the playlist is excellent (in our opinion, of course)

F.e.a.r - ian brown


First day of my life - bright eyes


Soul meets body - death cab




florence and the machine - you've got the love (xx remix)


something left to give -The starting line


Fader:- up in arms - foo fighter


Death - white lies


Basket case - green day


Great escape - w.a.s



I'm not your toy - la roux


Killing in the name of sebastiAn - sebastiAn







Two weeks, alot has changed. (it hasn't really i just wanted it to sound impressive!) but we've got a beautiful playlist that will get you excited to wake up in the morning, and will stick with you all through the day. So here it is:

Straight no chaser - mr hudson



Ambling alp - yeasayer





She's got you high- mumm-ra




Fader: Fader - temper trap*




Sirens - AVA




7 things - miley cyrus






Radio ladio - metronomy






Good morning - chamillionaire




fire - lupe fiasco




feeder- burn the bridges



When you were young - killers




End of the trial. We're here for our last show of the year, but really hoping that we will be back here next year (im pretty sure we will in some form or another). We've got out mini-feature, with our unknown tracks (filthy dukes being the best of course), but we'll let you decide...



Hide and seek - Imogen Heap




Sleepyhead (acoustic) - Passion Pit


Glass of champagne - Sailor






Little bit - Drake





Many of Horror - Biffy Clyro



Fader:
Telephone - Lady Gaga




Matts unknown:This rhythm -Filthy Dukes





Tims unknown:Percussion gun- White Rabbits




Hannnahs unknown: Charlotte - Air Traffic




Flashback (goldie remix) - Calvin Harris




Thank you very much for checking us out, and feel free to send us links (we <3 spotify links) to songs that we should be listening to, whether its your demo, or just a song that you love.

Big Love <3