🎵Now Playing: Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger (2005)
6music had them on today to celebrate 20 (TWENTY) years since it’s release. With that and seeing The Maccabees tonight I’m absolutely delighted to be reliving my youth.
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🎵Now Playing: Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (2007)
I haven’t listened to Muse for ages, and normally I wouldn’t stray far from Origin of Symmetry or Absolution but they headlined my first ever festival (Benicassim, 2007) on this tour so I have a soft spot for it. Opening the set with Knights of Cydonia blew my teenage head clean off.
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🎵Now Playing: Santigold - Santogold (2008)
It’s Monday and I’m drinking a Lucozade (orange flavour obviously, I’m not a mentalist who drinks original). I clearly needed a pep in my step this afternoon so we’re back to the 00’s with Santigold’s fantastic debut.
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🎵Now Playing: Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future (2007)
It’s hot, sunny, and a Friday. 00’s nu-rave seems appropriate, and this is the 00’s nu-raviest of them all. Wall-to-wall bangers.
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🎵Now Playing: Yeasayer - Odd Blood (2010)
I totally forgot about Yeasayer. Yeasayer used to exist. I used to sing the ooh’s from Madder Red all the time. I will try not to forget about Yeasayer again.
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🎵Now Playing: Oasis - The Masterplan (1998)
If you didn’t know, Oasis are back. Everyone I know who got tickets say it was the best gig of their lives. Anyway, this collection of B-Sides is probably their second best album. Manchester vibes in the area.
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🎵Now Playing: Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose (2009)
Am I listening to brilliant 00’s indie again? Yes, I am listening to brilliant 00’s indie again.
“If only one of us had the guts tonight. What if one of us had the guts tonight?"
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🎵Now Playing: St. Vincent - St. Vincent (2014)
Annie Clark is a guitar hero, and just a hero in general.
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🎵Now Playing: Gwenno - Utopia (2025)
Saw her live twice this year, and both time she was unaccompanied on the piano. Great, but when you hear the songs in full production they soar in a different way. This new album is great.
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🎵Now Playing: Wet Leg - moisturizer (2025)
The new songs all sounded good when I saw them at Glasto, but I don’t think it quite hits the heights of their debut.
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🎵Now Playing: Fontaines D.C. @ Finsbury Park
Saw this gig with my own eyes, down in that there London. Top stuff all around, great support from Amyl & the Sniffers and politicians favourite Kneecap. A fun day out, good weather and even better company. Momentary bliss, indeed.
🎵Now Playing: Gwenno @ Glastonbury (2025)
Yes, I’m back from Glasto. I’ve just about recovered, my mind and body are about 75% but my soul is still flying free. I’m back at work and thought I would relive the first act I saw while I try to remember exactly what it is I do. This was on the beautiful tree stage in Woodsies on the Thursday. I was sat in the sun with my friends, and was a perfect way to ease into it.
🎵Now Playing: Foals @ Glastonbury (2022)
Glastonbury returned in 2022 after a two-year hiatus (for some reason?? I can’t remember why?) and Foals on the Other Stage was a great moment for the indie Millennials to dust off their dance moves. A great career-spanning set from one of the 00’s best bands.
🎵Now Playing: Tame Impala - Glastonbury (2019)
Another old setlist in the run up. This time from Australia’s Tame Impala who put on a brilliant performance on the Other Stage (we chose him instead of Stormzy’s Pyramid set). From what I can remember, a lot of smoke, a lot of lazers, a lot of dancing. Let it happen.
🎵Now Playing: Foo Fighters @ Glastonbury (2017)
2 weeks until Glastonbury! I haven’t packed! I need tent pegs! Argh!
As we head closer to my favourite place on earth, I’ll be listening back to some of my favourite sets from the festival, as well as catching up on the music of artists I’m planning to see. First up from my first ever Glasto in 2017 - it’s Mr Dave Grohl and his band.
🎵Now Playing: Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool (2015)
There’s a new album on the way, and they’re on my list to catch at Glastonbury so I’m going back through the old stuff. It’s good! I played a lot of this album when I was DJing in bars on a Friday afternoons. Sadly I am not in a bar and it is only Tuesday.
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🎵Now Playing: Wild Beasts - Present Tense (2014)
I miss Wild Beasts.
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🎵Now Playing: Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal (2024)
Have heard his name banded around a bit, and then saw this performance on Jools Holland and thought I’d give the album a shot. It’s a lovely, strange, folksy, poetic treat.
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🎵Now Playing: Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (2009)
Bat for Lashes, I’ve not heard that name in years. But this is a stunning album with a song called Daniel that I can pretend is about me. Natasha Khan’s soaring vocals really sell her theatrical indie pop landscape.
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🎵Now Playing: Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming (2025)
It’s always a good day when a new Tune-Yards record is released. Today is that day! (There’s quite a few good records out today)
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🎵Now Playing: Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston (1973)
Continuing with the reggae theme we move from one legend to another in Toots and his Maytals. I was lucky enough to see them play at midnight on the Truth Stage in Shangri-La at Glastonbury 2017 and they were still going strong. This is a classic.
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🎵Now Playing: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus (1977)
It is hot and ☀️ in the UK this week and so what else, but reggae. I thought I’d start with Bob and move onwards from there. I don’t think I’ve heard this album in it’s entirety before. Great.
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🎵Now Playing: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz! (2009)
I thought I didn’t know what I wanted to listen this afternoon, but yes yes yes it’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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🎵Now Playing: Snapped Ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing (2025)
The lead single Raoul was an instant hit for me. The rest of the new songs continue in that vein - weird, thumping, agitating- the album title speaks for itself.
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🎵Now Playing: Blondie @ Glastonbury (2023)
I make a playlist of most of the gigs I attend, to try and recapture those moments. With the sad news that Blondie’s drummer Clem Burke has passed away, I thought I’d listen to the set list from the only time I saw them live, a sunny Glastonbury Sunday in 2023. They still sounded great after all these years.
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🎵Now Playing: Tune-Yards - W H O K I L L (2011)
Tune-Yards have a new album coming out, and I wanted to revisit this album. I actually discovered them live, before I’d heard anything, at Manchester’s famous Deaf Institute back in 2011. They blew me away, sounded like no-one else, and this album is still a favourite. I hope she’s touring the new album and keeping some classics in the setlist, I want to hear Bizness live again.
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🎵Now Playing: Tom Vek - We Have Sound (2005)
This album is exactly the kind of sloppy indie/electronic music I need on a sunny Friday afternoon. Weekend ahoy!
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🎵Now Playing: SBTRKT - SBTRKT (2011)
I needed some momentum so I could fit all my work in this afternoon. This provided that momentum. Tunes.
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🎵Now Playing: Divorce - Drive to Goldenhammer (2025)
I assume I heard this band on 6Music sometime, but I saw this album in my “to-listen” pile and for this chilly, sunny, Salford day it was pretty perfect from the get-go. They play Manchester in April so I’ll definitely be getting a ticket to see how they are live.
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🎵Now Playing: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below (2009)
Their tiny desk concert found its way on one of my feeds and I remembered how great this album is. 2009 is frighteningly becoming ancient history.
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