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Pick Three Chords - Episode 01 (2011)
My Alabama
The Mirror Trap /facebook/@themirrortrap
They have an album out: 'The Last Great Melodrama' - and areoff on tour with The View for the last half of December...
Heavy Heart
Tiny Dragons
Three-piece band from Brighton with an EP: 'You Need To Relax', their music is a funk-rock-soul mix, and this track makes me smile every time I hear it. It was brought to my attention back in June by an Oli Arditi review. Oli has a great way of expressing music in words, with regular valuable insights around the music grapevine.
No Tomorrow
Lost City Soul/facebook/@lostcitysoul
Band members from Dundee/Forfar/Invergordon, just launched single 'Ghost' and finished a tour: Dundee Muso live review. This track topped Andy G's favourite 30 tracks from the area on his weekly radio show 'The Sound'.
Walking on Eggshells
King Post Kitsch/facebook/@kingpostkitsch
From album 'The Party's Over'. This song got stuck in my head, I particularly enjoy the quirky fuzzy-lead-sound.
Label: Song, by Toad Records
Take It Or Leave It
One Weeks Notice/
Dundee band, been listening to this track for ages. They've just recorded a new single, available soon.
UPDATE: ONE WEEK after this episode aired, the band split: talk about one week's notice!?
Whale-Watching For Beginners
The Strangers Almanac/
Acoustic project with dreamy sounds and faraway lyrics. Have been playing the song on and off all year, finally saw them do it live last week with a variety of instruments in attendance. They say "It's not about watching whales..."
When Will The Children Learn?
Doyle & The Fourfathers/
Four-piece from the south coast, saw them play live in Dundee last week: very confident on-stage, reminds me of The Divine Comedy. Now touring UK supporting The Undertones
Dates:Dec 9 Leeds / 10 Brighton / 23 London
Apollo! Apollo!
Make Sparks/facebook/@makesparks
Hard-working Dundee band, just signed a record deal, will release new material in February. This track is bursting with energy. They have a new one 'Floored' available free next week.
Fear Of The Modern
People, Places, Maps/facebook/@PPM_online
Dunfermline band, album 'The Distance Tricked Us' launches 16 December. This track grabbed me since I first heard it.
My Tear Dissolved The View
Esperi/
Mixing acoustic sounds with loops and bells, Chris creates a magical soundscape with space and calm.
16 Becky Kidd / James Liandu / Lambda Miners / Nick Shane / Tomorrow Kid / Edenbank / Rhuari Campbell / Archie Dye / Mairi Sutherland
15 Neave Marr / Triple As / Black Wolf Club / Dave? / Do You Like Butter? / Mairi Sutherland / James Richard Ingle / Indica / Solar Sons
14 Little Anchors / Icerink / Anna Younger / Connor Liam Byrne / Midnight Alleys / Tiny Dragons / Gavin Forbes / Iain Macaulay / Gavin
13 Speedrunner / Howie / Echo Machine / Visiting Friends / Robert Miles Miller / Greenback / Andrew Baird / Katie Nicoll / holy snakes
12 The Strangers Almanac / Nicola Madill / Footloose Bruce / The Marx / Theo Bleak / Richard Gorman / The Soppy Romantics / Edenbank / Rhuari Campbell
11 Little Anchors / Copper Lungs / Michael Cassidy / Colour-Coded / The Mirror Trap / Devon Sproule / Be Like Pablo / Cancel The Astronauts / Model Aeroplanes / Fraser Ross
10 Darren Campbell / Wiredrawn / Dave? / Dead Sea Souls / Smoothiesforme / Blue Rose Code / Billy Mitchell / Rae Morris / Rachel Sermanni / Field Report
09 Amy Holmes / Mike Nisbet / Little Fire / Leonard Cohen / Page 6 / Juan Zelada / Jimmy Smith / Paul Rishell And Annie Raines / Richard Thompson / esperi
08 Johnny Cash / Darren Campbell / Sharks Took The Rest / Seams / Fatherson / The Shiverin' Sheiks / Pensioner / Calm As The Colour / Anderson McGinty Webster Ward and Fisher / Quickbeam
07 Anderson McGinty Webster Ward And Fisher / Happy Particles / Doyle And The Fourfathers / Alley Cats / New Town Triptych / Roddy Woomble / The Strangers Almanac / REO Speedwagon / The Souls of Blues Revival / Gerry Jablonski And The Electric Band
06 Tyler James / Colour-Coded / Brown Bear + The Bandits / Mum Wants A Mixtape / Giovanca / The Sixteen Tonnes / Van Morrison / Flight Of The Conchords / John Wean / Spiral TV
05 Whigs + Rakes / Spencer McGarry Season / The Hazey Janes / Iain Macaulay / Darren Hayman / The Romleys / Mass Consensus / Luva Anna / Shambles Miller / Railroad Earth
04 Kitty the Lion / Seams / Trampled By A Horse / Make Sparks / Donna Maciocia / The Mike Kearney Ka-tet / The Mashup Session / In Enso / Martyn Joseph / Rebecca Zapen / Pensioner / Johnny Cash
03 The Hazey Janes / Love, Susan / Linzi Murphy / endor / Yeah Detroit / Ed Sheeran / The Travelling Band / Alley Cats / The Spook School / The New Times / The Little Kicks / The Waitresses
02 The Trade / Millsyeck / New Town Triptych / The November Project / Bon Iver / Calm as the colour / Ed Muirhead / The Sixteen Tonnes / Beautiful By Design / Wounded Knee
01 The Mirror Trap / Tiny Dragons / Lost City Soul / King Post Kitsch / One Weeks Notice / The Strangers Almanac / Doyle And The Fourfathers / Make Sparks / People, Places, Maps / Esperi