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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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.

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)

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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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.

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!

The Logic Of Chance Review

After studying 'Angles', lyrically and musically, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip had set the bar high, and in the first 8 bars of the 'The Logic Of Chance' they'd broken the record once again. 'Sick Tonight' just made me happy; pure and simple.

If their first record sounded like they were working with each other, their second sounds like they were working together. But at the same time, each could so easily be individual pieces of art, working on the same theme. Both artists are in tune with modern culture: Dan Le Sac flips through electro, hip-hop, drum and bass to dub-step, while Pip's social commentary is spot on, holding a mirror to society. My flat mate commented, " its so easy to comment but never actually do anything", but its in talking about it, getting it on the radio, getting it on the stereo, people hear about it and talk about it, that the work gets done.

That's what this album does, 'Great Britain' teaches us complacency is not enough, with the company of a great electro-beat. 'Get Better' has the best lines I have heard in a long time. 'The Beat' shows that Le Sac is a true scholar of modern music, which just begs to be played on the biggest sound system you can find.

All in all, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip are the partnership that British music has been waiting for. (and the albums bloody brilliant)

For you for now


dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Get Better by Sunday Best

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.

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