Playlist for Thursday 23 March 2015

RIPE – Hey sugar

THE APARTMENTS – Please don’t say remember

BLUE NILE – Tinseltown in the rain

NEIL HALSTEAD – Witless or wise

CHOOK RACE – Dentists

TREASURES OF MEXICO – Stars

SUDDEN DEATH OF STARS – The love substitute

DARREN HANLON – When you go

ABERDEEN – Fran

ABERDEEN – The boy has gone away

SANDIE SHAW – Jeane

ANNIE & BERN – Tiger, it’s you

MARINE GIRLS – A place in the sun

JON BRION – Hook, line and sinker

LLOYD COLE – Mr Wrong

ANDREW MORGAN – Disappearance

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE – Churches under the stairs

THE CHURCH – I’m almost with you

PJ HARVEY – The glorious land

MORRISSEY – Late night, Maudlin Street

LAST DINOSAURS – Honolulu

BEARHUG – Debris

BEARHUG – Fireworks

EMMA HEENEY – After the fireworks

SUFJAN STEVENS – Should have known better

CLÉMENCE FRESCHARD – And the rain

NEW ORDER – Temptation

OMD – Tesla girls

TAME IMPALA – Feels like we only go backwards

Playlist for Thursday 19 March 2015

ALVVAYS – Atop a cake

DOT DASH – Flowers

DOT DASH – Tatters

REM – So. Central rain

ZIG ZAG – Have I gone too far?

LAUGH – Paul McCartney

MY MORNING JACKET – Big decisions

DICK DIVER – Boomer class

DICK DIVER – Tearing the posters down

FREE TIME – Nothin’ but nice

LUNA – Indian summer

ALPACA SPORTS – (She’ll come back for) Indian summer

DREAM ACADEMY – Indian summer

BANANA & LOUIE – Hero of the Home Counties

SONNY & THE SUNSETS – Alice leaves for the mountains

LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS – Forest fire

MACHINE TRANSLATIONS – You can’t give it back

DEARLY – Only betweens

BLUEBOY – Clearer

HIGHTAILS – Maps

THE HOUSEMARTINS – Me and the farmer

RESERVE – The sun slid down behind the tower

BAG O SHELLS – Markers

GOOD MORNING –Warned you

14 ICED BEARS – Cut

SPLURGE – Kiss me

FREELOVE FENNER – All things break through

FREELOVE FENNER – Glad beneficiary

FREELOVE FENNER – In the sound

ANOTHER SUNNY DAY – What’s happened?

TOTALLY MILD – Take today

THE EARTHMEN – Personal history

Playlist for Thursday 12 March 2015

SONNY & THE SUNSETS – The application

THE TWERPS – I don’t mind

THE CURE – Catch

HAIRCUT – Shrappers

PALE LIGHTS – Boy of your dreams

PALE LIGHTS – Another broken heart

PALE LIGHTS – Four o’clock in the morning

DICK DIVER – Leftovers

DICK DIVER – Percentage points

DICK DIVER – Private number

BABYBIRD – You’re gorgeous

BIRDIE – Laugh

BIG STAR – I’m in love with a girl

ANOTHER SUNNY DAY – I’m in love with a girl who doesn’t know I exist

GRANDSTANDS – Forest Hill

BEN WATT – On Box Hill

GORILLAZ – On Melancholy Hill

BLUR – For tomorrow

THE BEATLES – Tomorrow never knows

EYELIDS – Forget about tomorrow

MALES – Lucky too

BAND OF HORSES – The funeral

WHITEST BOY ALIVE – Burning

TREASURES OF MEXICO – Stars

THE AUTEURS – Don’t trust the stars

ZEN MATRA – Fossils

LOCH NESS MOUSE – In the city in the morning

UNREST – Imperial

LARISSA TANDY – Atacama (with iamloveproof)

KHARTOMB – Cabbages and kings

PAPAS FRITAS – Way you walk

Playlist for Thursday 5 March 2015

ORANGE JUICE – Blue boy

ORANGE JUICE – Poor old soul

First reading from Simply Thrilled* p105–108, 109

ORANGE JUICE – Felicity

Second reading from Simply Thrilled* p111 – 114, 116–120, 121, 124, 126

GO-BETWEENS – I need two heads

Third reading from Simply Thrilled* p150–151, 170

AZTEC CAMERA – Just like gold

AZTEC CAMERA – Lost outside the tunnel

AZTEC CAMERA – Mattress of wire

Fourth reading from Simply Thrilled* p177–178

JOSEF K – Chance meeting

THE CREASES – I won’t wait

PAUL MACADAM – A new career in Newtown

FREE TIME – Nothin’ but nice

STEVE MALKMUS & THE JICKS – The janitor revealed

STEVE MALKMUS & THE JICKS – Cold son

THE OCEAN PARTY – Deluded

THE CHILLS – Rain (BBC version, 1987)

THE CLIENTELE – Rain

THE BEATLES – Rain

BLAKE BABIES – Kiss and make up

FIELD MICE – Kiss and make up

SAINT ETIENNE – Kiss and make up

TREASURES OF MEXICO – Stars

DELTA – Sugared up

LUXEMBOURG SIGNAL – We go on

HEAVENLY – C is the Heavenly option

FREELOVE FENNER – Shepherdess

MIDSTATE ORANGE – Sad is fine

NEIL HALSTEAD – Driving with Bert

* Simon Goddard, ‘Simply Thrilled: the preposterous story of Postcard Records’ (Ebury Press, 2014)