Tuesday 26 March 2013

Show 17 - w/c 19th March 2013

Here are the tracks that were played during the week starting Tuesday 19th March 2013.

1.  The Zombies - Time Of The Season
2.  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Let The Day Begin
3.  Harper Simon - Bonnie Brae
4.  Robert Vincent - The Passage
5.  The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
6.  Chris Rainbow - Dear Brian
7.  Moon Safari - Heartland
8.  The Roseville Band - Sister Sylvia
9.  Matthews Southern Comfort - Something In The Way She Moves
10.  James Taylor - You Can Close Your Eyes
11.  Boz Scaggs - Gone Baby Gone
12.  Phantom Limb - The Pines

Here is the link to this show:  http://tbcpods.radica.com/RadioClwydPods/Kathy_Barham_Radio_Clwyd_EP17.mp3

If you are a new band or musician and you would like to be featured in The Music Truffler show, please get in touch with me via this blog or through the Radio Clwyd website, Facebook or Twitter page.

And keep watching the website for details of our Radio Clwyd LIVELounge Sessions - bringing live music to your area. 

Also, I interviewed Andrew Davie from Bear's Den this week - take a listen here:

http://tbcpods.radica.com/RadioClwydPods/Bears_Den_Interview_TO_AIR.mp3

Saturday 23 March 2013

The Reads - Galaxy Egg

OK so this track isn't exactly new - it has been around since 2011 - but it's new to me.  I sometimes wonder how some bands completely pass me by, especially when they live relatively locally, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

The Reads are a Welsh alternative rock band whose debut album, Stories From The Border, was released in 2011.  This song, Galaxy Egg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4nAsW_ncQc comes from that album and is also rather appropriate as we get ever nearer to Easter. 

The band have played local venues all over Wales and the North West and in 2010 were approached by a generous friend who offered to fund the cost of recording their first studio album.   Music Producer Jim Spencer, known for his work with Oasis, Doves and The Charlatans, was enlisted to record and mix the album. The project was later joined by Joe Duddell who took time out from working with Elbow to come up with string and brass arrangements for five of the 12 songs.  The album was mastered by Frank Arkwright who has worked with bands such as Arcade Fire, The Smiths and Gomez and the album was played live for the first time at a music venue in Chester to a sell out crowd.

They are currently working on a new album (again produced by Spencer) and can be found performing at local venues such as Telford's Warehouse, and were recently named Artists of the Week on BBC Radio Wales.   Worth watching. 


http://thereads.tumblr.com/

Tuesday 19 March 2013

James Skelly & The Intenders - Do It Again

The Coral's James Skelly has just recorded his debut album with his band The Intenders.  Called Love Undercover it contains the single, Do It Againhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0aVBjvAupUs  released on 12th March. 

The album was was self-produced and recorded in Parr Street Studios, Liverpool with fellow Coral members and also members of The Sundowners and Tramp Attack.  It will be released on 3rd June via Skeleton Key Records. 

The group have announced that they will tour, starting in Leeds on 6th June and will also play Sheffield, Liverpool, Birmingham, London, Bristol and finishing at Manchester's Gorilla on 15th June. 

Do It Again is available as a free download via their website and the album was recorded quickly, often in one or two live takes.  This shows a more direct and immediate approach, says Skelly, rather than the more abstract stuff The Coral did.  But it is very much a band effort and Skelly is keen to point out that Love Undercover isn’t merely an aside to his previous ‘day job’.

“The name is about letting people know it’s not just me and an acoustic guitar,” Skelly says. “I had the songs, but it became a proper group thing very quickly with everyone involved having a big input. It’s that Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers idea.”


www.jamesskellyandtheintenders.com 

Show 16 - w/c 12th March 2013

Here are the tracks that were played during the week starting Tuesday 12th March 2013.

1.  Elvis Costello - Radio Radio
2.  AM & Shawn Lee - Two Times
3.  Do The Pump - Colorama
4.  To Kill A  King - Funeral
5.  Grateful Dead - Box of Rain
6.  The Jayhawks - Tiny Arrows
7.  Golden Fable - Blueprints
8.  David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
9.  John Grant - Ernest Borgnine
10.  Erland & The Carnival - Trouble In Mind
11.  Beardfish - Tightrope

 http://tbcpods.radica.com/RadioClwydPods/Kathy_Barham_Radio_Clwyd_EP16.mp3


If you are a new band or musician and you would like to be featured in The Music Truffler show, please get in touch with me via this blog or through the Radio Clwyd website, Facebook or Twitter page.

And keep watching the website for details of our Radio Clwyd LIVELounge Sessions - bringing live music to your area. 

Monday 18 March 2013

Show 15 - w/c 5 March 2012

Here are the tracks that were played during the week starting Tuesday 5th March 2013.

1.  The Cramps - You've Got Good Taste
2.  David Bowie - The Next Day
3.  Alabama Shakes - I Aint The Same
4.  Devon Allman - There's No Time
5.  Villagers - Judgement Call
6.  Foy Vance - Be The Song
7.  Belle & Sebastian - I Want The World To Stop
8.  Masters In France - Flexin'
9.  Gary Clark Jr - Bright Lights
10.  Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad
11.  Chris Rainbow - Give Me What I Cry For
12.  Blitzen Trapper - Girl In The Coat
13.  Buffalo Tom - Arise, Watch
14.  Cousteau - She Don't Hear Your Prayer

And here is the link to this show...

http://tbcpods.radica.com/RadioClwydPods/Kathy_Barham_Radio_Clwyd_EP15.mp3

If you are a new band or musician and you would like to be featured in The Music Truffler show, please get in touch with me via this blog or through the Radio Clwyd website, Facebook or Twitter page.

And keep watching the website for details of our Radio Clwyd LIVELounge Sessions - bringing live music to your area.

Sunday 10 March 2013

Jesse Will - Mama Say

Jesse Will is an unsigned singer-songwriter from Aukland, New Zealand and describes his style as indie-folk, folk, blues and acoustic.  One of his latest songs Mama Say can be found here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jVntB-93UM4  

Says Jesse on his Facebook page "I can't express how excited I am to share this with you all. It's a brand new song, my first music video, and a ridiculous amount of hard work and help from many talented friends went into producing & recording it, and I'm so eternally grateful."

The song itself is part of an ep released on 1st March called Hold Your Cards.  Last year he was named Roundhead Studios' Songwriter of the year and yesterday he set off to Dublin and from there he will head to London with plans to secure a record deal.  He realises it's a risk to choose music as a career and agrees that anyone who does so must be a little crazy.  With no guarantee of any kind of financial stability, he says the good thing about the folk scene is that it's really accessible.  "Everyone's really friendly and they're keen to hear fresh stuff.  You're not going to jeopardise anything because it's just little old you with your guitar." 








Wednesday 6 March 2013

Show 14 - 26 February 2013

Here are the tracks that were played during the week starting Tuesday 26th February 2013.

1.  Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sweet Hitch-Hiker
2.  Tom Odell - Can't Pretend
3.  John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
4.  Hem - Walking Past The Graveyard, Not Breathing
5.  The Smiths - I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
6.  Tin Sparrow - The Beast
7.  The Thrills - Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)
8.  Average White Band - Queen Of My Soul
9.  The Isley Brothers - That Lady (Part 1 & 2)
10.  Andy Hay - Rain
11.  Pale Seas - Bodies
12.  Sparrowhawks - The Castle Path
13.  Electric Light Orchestra - Dreaming of 4000

And here is the link to this show...

http://tbcpods.radica.com/RadioClwydPods/Kathy_Barham_Radio_Clwyd_EP14.mp3

If you are a new band or musician and you would like to be featured in The Music Truffler show, please get in touch with me via this blog or through the Radio Clwyd website, Facebook or Twitter page.

And keep watching the website for details of our Radio Clwyd LIVELounge Sessions - bringing live music to your area.

Friday 1 March 2013

Temples - Shelter Song

Ever have one of those bands you hear on the radio and think "Hmm, they sound interesting.  Must check them out."  And you never do and you then completely forget about them?  Sadly it happens to me frequently, but in the case of Temples, I was lucky to get a second chance because their track Shelter Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4i41cOv0s  turned up again on a free cd I received with a music magazine.  So with a track and a full page article, I wasn't likely to forget again.  And they are currently working on an album which is great news as I definitely want to hear more.

Temples call their sound "neo-psych" rather than psychedelia and have fans in high places (Robert Wyatt, Johnny Marr and Suede).  I've just had a look through their Facebook page and their musical selection is good - Can, Flamin' Groovies, Kevin Ayers, Pink Floyd, Love, John's Children - no surprise, listening to them of course.  It's all in there.  Actually I'm still scrolling because.... ah!  Found it!!!  The Zombies and A Butchers Tale.  Knew it would be in there!

Speaking of The Zombies, listen to the B side to Shelter Song,  Prisms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOPB5dXgrPA  See what I mean?