Thu 25 Sep – The Futureheads, Timid Tiger
beloved songs

die ganze stadt ist voller oktoberfest. man kann keinen schritt vor die tür gehen ohne nicht über einen in trachten gewickelten trottel zu stolpern. da braucht es ein kontrastprogramm – konzertbesuch!

manchmal ist man schon monate vor einem konzert total aufgeregt, voll nervöser vorsapnnung und kann es kaum erwarten. ein anderes mal schleppt man sich so ein bisschen zu einem konzert. man denkt, wird vielleicht ganz nett, die wollte ich vor ein paar jahren gerne mal sehen, kann ja nicht schaden. genau so war es bei den The Futureheads. ein bisschen wie zum friseur gehen, unaufgeregt normal aber durchaus sinnvoll. ja, da muss ich auch mal wieder hin.

das gute daran: man hat keine überhöhten erwartungen und nimmt unerwartete rahmenbedingungen positiv auf. Timid Tiger als vorband sind so eine unerwartete und sehr positive begleiterscheinung. (ah, die frisöse trägt eine tief ausgeschnittene bluse, um bei dem hinkenden vergleich zu bleiben.)

zweites positives element: es gab damit an diesem abend die möglichkeit zwei alte lieblingslieder live zu hören:
Hounds of Love, das brilliante Kate Bush-cover der futureheads und Miss Murray, der kleine indie-hit der schüchternen tiger.

das wars dann aber auch schon fast mit den gemeinsamkeiten. während die show der tiger gespickt war von kostümwechel (affen, indianer, engelflügel, etc.) war der auftritt der futureheads reduziert auf das wesentliche: enge schwarze hosen. keine bühnendeko - nur instrumente und musiker. kein schnickschnak – etwas das ja auch ihre musik auszeichnet: puristisch, straight, ein klarer beat zu scharfen ska-riffs.

der preis für die beste männliche nebenrolle des abends geht eindeutig an den rowdy. er trug ein t-shirt in erinnerung an den 3:1 sieg von aberdeen gegen den fc bayern. scheinbar hat er sich professionell vorbereitet auf den gig. auch sonst war er gut vorbereitet und professionell. als Barry Hyde eine gitarrenseite riss, dauerte es nur sekunden bis er seine ersatzgitarre in händen hielt und sofort wurde die seite vom rowdy am bühnenrand gewechselt. reifenwechsel in der formel ein dauert auch nicht länger. er hatte dazu ein reparaturköfferchen auf das man, wenn man es auskappte, die gitarre legen konnte. außerdem war er verdammt textsicher. auf seinen einsatz im halbdunkeln wartend sang er die meisten lieder kopfnickend mit.

der preis für die beste weibliche nebenrolle geht an das mädchen in der ersten reihe, das beim tanzen immer die box gefickt hat.

alles in allem ein überraschend schöner abend, der sich im grunde mehr vorfreude verdient hätte. ich komme also vom friseur und bin total zufrieden mit meinem neuen haarschnitt! if you know what i mean...

So I've noticed a lot of other people doing this and figured I'd give it a try. The Afternoon Fix is my internet radio show, broadcast on WCUA, the internet radio station for Catholic University in Washington, DC. The show, which is on Fridays, 4-6 PM focuses primarily on art punk, although really I'm liable to play anything. I ran this show all last semester, and this was the first one for this semester. A more detailed version of the playlist is available at the show's blog.

The Futureheads-“Radio Heart”
Metal Urbain-“Hysterie Connective”
Bloc Party-“Halo”
Fugazi-"Bed For The Scraping"
At the Drive-In-"Ursa Major"
Ponytail-"Celebrate the Body Electric (It Sings For Thee)"
Les Savy Fav-"Raise Buildings"
Blondie-"Hanging on the Telephone"
Pylon-"Working is no Problem"
Everyone to the Anderson-"West? West! West?"
What Price, Wonderland?-"Monitor"
Cain's Mark-"Each Edge"
Joni Mitchell-"Tin Angel"
Sufjan Stevens-"Holland"
Moss Icon-"Hate in Me"
Grey March-"Forced By Pressure"
Reptile House-"Talons and Claws"
You Say Party! We Say Die!-"The Gap"
The Nation of Ulysses-"Ulythium"
SUBS-"Drew The Line"
P.K. 14-"What Kind of Wind is Blowing?"
Roxy Music-"Virginia Plain"
Hawkwind-"Master of the Universe"
Ringo Deathstarr-"Sweet Girl"

The Afternoon Fix:

Broadcast Fridays 4-6 PM Eastern Standard (New York) Time at http://wcua.cua.edu. Requires Windows Media Player.

More detailed playlists and additional content available at http://afternoonfix.blogspot.com.

1.How did you get into 29? (Franz Ferdinand)
Q music channel, I didn't really like them, but my sister did so I kept the channel on.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? KT Tunstall
The (at that time) omnipresent Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? Bic Runga
.... ermmm..... 'As rain pours from concrete coloured sky, no sound don't speak' Drive

4. How did you get into 49? Thirteen Senses
I can't really remember... probably off music television... I got their album on a school tour to england, so listening to it always reminds me of that time.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Bloc Party
2, which is all of them.... I think.... I'm not a fan of their second, or newer stuff :(

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Feeder
Feeling a Moment... or Buck Rogers

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Radiohead
Not particularly... I don't listen to much of their stuff... Just is alright.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? The Rakes
Work Work Work (Pub, Club, Sleep), Retreat or Strasbourg.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Maximo Park
My Life In Reverse, A Fortnight's Time.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? The Futureheads
Meantime, Decent Days & Nights

11. What is the worst song by 40? John Mayer
Probably a good proportion of them... Daughters gets my goat more than most though.

12. What is your favourite song by 10? The Ordinary Boys
Talk Talk Talk and Little Bubble.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Kaiser Chiefs
Listening to the album in Manchester just after I bought it. This was the first album... not the bollocks new stuff.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? The Libertines
Horror Show

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Editors
Bullets. I don't know why though, since it's not exactly upbeat.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? Oasis
Nope, it's just Oasis.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? Nizlopi
The JCB Song, like everyone else! But their albums and other work is completely different and amazing.

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? The Smiths
"Punctured bicycle on a hillside, desolate
will nature make a man of me yet?
When in this charming town, this charming man
why pamper life's comlexities
when the leather run smooth on the passenger seat?"

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? Travis
Uhmmm probably Dougie, cos he's so funny.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? Keane
Everybody's Changing, just for the memories.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? David Kitt
.... none really....

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Maximo Park
My Life In Reverse, A Fortnight's Time, [track artist=maximo park]Apply Some Pressure[track].

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Paddy Casey
Saints & Sinners.

24. What is your favourite album by 18? Morrissey
Viva Hate, cos it's the only one I have :)

25. What is your favourite song by 21? Snow Patrol
Run, or Chocolate.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Roddy Woomble
I knew of his album because of Idlewild, so it was the entire album really...

27. What is your favorite album by 3? New Order
All of them. There's too many to choose from, it'd be like trying to chose your favourite child :P

28. What is you favorite song by 2? Idlewild
Everyone Says You're So Fragile, In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction, El Capitan, When I Argue I See Shapes.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Frightened Rabbit
I can't remember exactly which one, but I remember 'Good Arms vs Bad Arms' being my first (of many) favourites.

30. What is you favourite song by 8? Elbow
Snooks (Progress Report), Station Approach One Day Like This, Grace Under Pressure, Fallen Angel... too many to choose from...

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Jeff Buckley
He died when I was 10.... so never.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Bell X1
Alphabet Soup! 'what's that you're saying to me, tomato coated spaghetti'

33. How did you get into 12? Joy Division
I'd seen 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' on telly heaps, but never paid attention, then I read a Q article about Ian Curtis's 25th anniversary, and finally started listening properly.

34. What is the worst song by 45? Guillemots
None, I don't think there's bad songs, just songs I don't like as much.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Athlete
'You Got the Style' in 2002 it must have been... or early 2003....

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? Bromheads Jacket
What If's & Maybe's on Radio 1.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? The Strokes
Never, I don't feel the urge to either.

38. What is you favourite song by 36? Arctic Monkey's
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor. Their only bearable song. The rest are so samey and boring.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Kings of Leon
King of the Rodeo

40. What is you favourite album by 7? Juno Falls
Starlight Drive

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Nick Drake
River Man... even though it shouldn't... it's just so beautiful I can't help but feel better.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Razorlight
Up All Night.. not really a fan of their new stuff...

43. What is your favorite song by 24? The Streets
Fit But You Know It [Feat. The Futureheads], When You Wasn't Famous, Don't Mug Yourself, The Escapist.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? The Twilight Sad
Nothing in particular... listening to the album while wandering around Edinburgh.

45. What is your favourite song by 35? The Killers
All These Things That I've Done, Mr Brightside.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Malcolm Middleton haha... hmmmm A Brighter Beat?

47. What is your favourite album by 4? Hanson
Oh dear... ummm probably The Walk.

48. Who is a favourite member of 37? The Maccabees
Orlando.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? Coldplay
Yellow, way back when... I don't remember the band very well... but I definitely remember that video from when I was little.

50. What is your favorite song by 20? Blur
Country House, Parklife, Song 2, Coffee & TV.

On the show...

Maupa stop by the BBC open centre to talk about their latest activities. The band - who take their name from the Polish word for 'monkey' - also discuss their involvement on Jamie Holman's course at Blackburn Media College. Jamie, head of the college's media department, is also in the studio tonight to give us info about the college record label On Song records and the opportunities they provide to aspiring musicians.

Terry from 10 X Better music is another man with experience and huge insight into the music industry. He joins the discussion and puts forward his thoughts, especially with regard to band promotion and plugging. All in all, there's a lot of good advice for fledgling musical talents to listen to tonight.

We play a package of Leeds and Reading live tracks from the BBC Introducing stage including The Maybes?, The Joy Formidable, We Are Scientists, Attack! Attack!, Biffy Clyro and Tripwires.


What's Top of the Pops?

Lady GaGa feat. Akon & Colby O'Donis - Just Dance



Katy Perry still reigns supreme at number one on the UK chart, so it’s over to Canada this week where Perry capitulated after nine weeks at the top of the Hot 100 to Lady GaGa. Lady GaGa’s real name is Stefani Gabriella Germanotta and she’s decided to put on some lightning-bolt eye makeup and make her own career after serving time as a songwriter for the likes of Pussycat Dolls and Britney Spears. Her mantra? Just Dance. Does it matter that you can’t remember how your shirt got inside out, that you can’t remember the name of the club you’re in and that you can’t control your “playboy mouth”? Not if you’re body-popping along to the mechanoid beat it doesn’t.

Even though she claims she “can’t see straight anymore”, things are alright now that Lady GaGa is bustin’ her moves to this electronica bilge. The video features the Lady laying into the grooves at a lo-fi robo-disco houseparty with a bunch of other bedraggled ravers and wasters. Amongst the guests is producer Akon and upcoming R&B smoothie Colby O’Donis, though the most interesting of these strung-out synth freaks has got to be the dude crashed out on the toilet wearing a fluffy wolf head. This looks like a real drag of a party; it needs a giant mascot to shake things up.

There also appears to be someone who’s got a toy drum on their shoulders where their face should be. Should we be concerned? Hey, relax... “just dance”. Lady GaGa clearly isn’t interested in her guests and gets on with roughing up an inflatable whale in the backyard paddling pool. Interestingly enough, GaGa recently performed this track at this year’s Miss Universe finals in Vietnam. Who the hell decided that having the plastic humpback-humping Lady blast out her “half-psychotic synth-hypnotic” sounds would be the ideal half-time entertainment at a South East Asian beauty pageant?

We knew that Canadians liked fetishistic action and giant-headed fluffy things, but who knew that the way to score a hit on their charts was to blend ‘em all together in a bad video for a tech-heavy dance track? Ah well, I guess they can only take so much Rush and Bryan Adams. In the absence of a new number one in the UK, looking across the Atlantic it’s Lady GaGa, Colby O’Donis and her fellow anti-social anthropomorphic freaks who are Top of the Pops...


The Bryan Awards...

This week, legendary pop icon Neil Diamond picks up the "The Bryan Award for Being Diamond by Name and Diamond by Nature" after offering fans in Columbus, Ohio a full refund and a heartfelt personalised apology when laryngitis interfered with the concert.


This Week's Playlist...


High Contrast - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Elbow - The Bones of You
The Futureheads - Walking Backwards
The Young Knives - Up All Night
Beth Ditto's Big Christmas Dinner Party - The Gallows Are Too Angry In My Opinion
Gallows - In the Belly of a Shark
Goldblade - Jukebox Generation
Weezer - Troublemaker
Maupa - Big Pig
We Are Scientists - Impatience
Maupa- What A Mess
The Joy Formidable - Austere
Maupa - Toy Trains
Blood Red Shoes - This Is Not For You
The Maybes? -
The Joy Formidable -
We Are Scientists -
Attack! Attack! -
Biffy Clyro -
Tripwires -
Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning
Gone til Winter - Nameless Cry

A much slower rise from 40,000 to 60,000 than from 20,000 to 40,000 - blame the ipod and the lack of sproggling on it (my fault, I think it is available).

So my top 10 now looks like this:

10. (down from 7=) Green Day

9. (new entry) 4hero

8. (up from 9) The Libertines

7. (unchanged) The Beatles

6. (down from 5) Sandy Denny

5. (down from 3) The Go! Team

4. (down from 2) Yann Tiersen

3. (up from 4) Lush

2. (down from 1) Zero 7

1. (up from 6) The Futureheads

So no big changes, though the Futureheads have continued their inexorable rise to the top of my playlist on the back of their latest great album. Good to see 4Hero in the list, have been listening to them for years now.

Bubbling under and possibly to make an appearance in the 80,000 tracks top 10:

High Contrast
Camel
Hole

You are only, from this point, on allowed to listen to one artist for each letter of the alphabet. Choose

A- Arcade Fire
B- Be Your Own Pet
C- The Cat Empire
D- The Darkness
E- Eagles of Death Metal
F- The Futureheads
G- Gallows
H- Hilltop Hoods
I- Interpol
J- Jimi Hendrix
K- Kasabian
L- Liars
M- The Matches
N- Nick Cave
O- OutKast
P- People in Planes
Q- Queens of the Stone Age
R- Red Hot Chili Peppers
S- Spoon
T- Tom Waits
U- The Used
V- The Vines
W- Wolfmother
X- Xavier Rudd
Y- Yves Klein Blue
Z- The Zutons

So., 14. Sep. – The Futureheads, Timid Tiger

Nach dem Interview gibt es nun auch unseren Bericht bei WhiteTapes.de - the indie zine

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The Futureheads
Timid Tiger

So., 14. Sep. – The Futureheads, Timid Tiger

Wir haben uns hier schon häufig über die Ungerechtigkeit der Musikbranche aufgeregt, daüber, daß Bands, die den großen Erfolg verdient hätten, um jede Platte kämpfen müssen, während die Mikas oder Anastacias dieser Welt mit jedem noch so schlechten Lied im Radio hoch- und runtergedudelt werden. Ginge es gerechter zu, wären die Futureheads Superstars, die große Hallen füllten. In dieser Pfui-Bah-Welt reicht es leider an einem Sonntagabend nur für ein paar Handvoll Zuschauer, obwohl sich eigentlich rumgesprochen haben sollte, wie exzellent die Livequalitäten der Nordengländer sind.

Auch das Rahmenprogramm war top. Mit Timid Tiger hatten die Veranstalter eine aufregende Vorgruppe verpflichtet. Leider, leider wurde das aber eben nicht richtig honoriert. Immerhin sah es dann mit Beginn des Programms nicht mehr ganz kläglich aus, wie das eine Viertelstunde vor dem Start noch zu befürchten war.

Timid Tiger hatte ich noch nie gesehen, wohl aber ihren Sänger Keshav PuruShotham, der als John Goldtrain schon das Vorprogramm des wundervollen Los Campesinos! Konzerts ("Lukas Podolski never meant anything to me") im Frühjahr im Luxor bestritten hatte. Damals hatte mir die Musik des Supports gut gefallen, die Outfits waren allerdings ein wenig ungewöhnlich.

Jetzt trugen die Timid Tiger Mitglieder dunkle Kleidung, die mit rotem und grünem Klebeband dekoriert war - ach, und Stirnbänder mit Federn.

Obwohl ich das Album der Kölner Band besitze, kannte ich nicht viele Lieder, das machte aber auch überhaupt nichts, denn die Musik ist quasi selbsterklärend. Timid Tiger spielen tollen Indie-Pop, abwechslungsreiche Stücke, eines klang zum Beispiel nach einem Hauch Ska, und verbreiten alleine so schon richtig viel gute Laune. Aber dabei muß es ja nicht bleiben...

Fortsetzung und Setlisten hier!