Firstly, I’ve left this show until the last minute and I should also be preparing for a festival gig this weekend, so I’m sort of combining the last couple of weeks of my life, and thinking about what I might play out.

Phew, glad I got that out the way. I guess its the thing I always do of setting your expectations low, and then you can only blame yourself if you think it’s shit. I did warn you.

Enough of that though, far too deep for a simple 2 hours of music.

The overwhelming theme, looking at the tracklisting, is that I’m thinking about this festival and trying to work out, in my head, what I think is the best pitch. The problem is, the stage I’m playing has a noise reduction curfew at 11pm, my set is at midnight. Don’t overthink it, is what I get told, but you don’t inhabit my brain, which has turned overthinking into an art form (did you not listen to my first mixtape, starting with a rather grandiose opner from Dylan Thomas?) So, is it going to be empty, with ravers all heading to the noisier parts? Is it going to be mellow, so I play a set accordingly? Do I go esoteric and play weird stuff that no-one knows to try and be ‘that guy’? Do I try and represent what I’m all about, get a few people interested and hoopefully follow me on Substack? Fucking hell, I’m really overtinking this.

Back to the show.

I’m really enjoying sharing music with my kids, my eldest is really engaged and likes electronica, so I played him the opener Chem Bros track to gauge his reaction. He was into it. Perfect. So that spawned a few tracks which seem to fit together. I particularly love the Sexwitch track, the repetitive build makes me want to dance on a clifftop at sunrise.

That album was produced by Dan Carey, so that led me onto a little DC tip, with Kae Tempest (I’ll be posting an interview I did with them from a few years back soon) and onto new music from Wet Leg.

Swerving from that into some Gorillaz. I took the family to their House of Kong exhibition last week, which is fucking brilliant and well worth the trip. I love how things like that now have to have a bit more about them, immersive and well put together. I’d love to get involved in those sort of projects, it fascinates me. It reminded me how good and how consistent Gorillaz have been, so I tried, in three tracks, to cover that. I might do an episode solely devoted to them soon too.

I locked into some bangers, testing them out for the weekend, was happy wuth that arc, so pulled the rip cord on that and dived into some oddments from second hand shops and random 7”s taking in James Last, Andy Williams, Art Garfunkel doing the saddest song from the saddest movie, before another second hand find, the ong version of White Lines (Don’t Do It) which took me down a bit of an electro(ic) avenue.

Phew (again)

So, thats the story of this weeks show, I hope you enjoy it. If you can, please share to your mates and I’ll see you soon. Cx

Tracklist:

The Chemical Brothers - The Sunshine Underground

The Gaslamp Killer - Listen for my Whistle

The Spellbinder Project - Dark Is The Light

Sexwitch -

Kae Tempest - Tunnel Vision

Wet Leg - Mange Tout

Gorillaz - Momentary Bliss feat Slowthai and Slaves

Gorillaz - Don’t Get Lost in Heaven/Demon Days

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (Refix)

Malcolm Mclaren - Double Dutch

Raz and Afla - Voodoo Eze (Esa Remix)

Jamie XX - All You Children

Sofia Kourtesis - Nitzah and Aminaa

Weval - Open Up The Door

Floating Points - Birth4000

Andy Williams - Up, Up and Away

James Last - Here Comes The Sun

5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In

The New Freedom Singers - The Whole World In HIs Hands

Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes

Adrian Celetano - Prisencolinensinainclusol

Grandmaster Flash and Belle Mel - White Lines (US Remix)

Le Fox - French Kiss

Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You

The Rocksteady Crew - She’s Fresh

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