Hi Campers!

Here's Harry - and I couldn't be bothered to queue for ever to get in so I'll review Harry Plodder and the Half-Baked Potato next week.

So that leaves NOTP, as usual, in a small heap by the door. So what were we up to, then? Planetary connections supplied Three in a Row - Mercury Rev's Opus 40, Venus in Furs by the Velvet Underground and Last Night on Earth by U2. Kitsch'n'Sink was by Spiritualized - 'Do It All Over Again' - no instrument or effect spared! Jimi Hendrix was live doing 'Voodoo Chile' as the Long Song - no longer live, sadly...

Charity shop corner? Punk songs free with the Sunday Times? Whatever next? Still, not exactly punk, but 'Roadrunner' by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers does very nicely - and I promise to find the live version of 'Ice Cream Man' for the Long Song one day soon.

A rather noisy Jarvis Cocker gave us a featured album in 'Further Complications'. Not a happy bunny isn't our Jarvis - must be all those baguettes and pastis.

Filling in the gaps were Dizzee Rascal, HMHB, OMD, Television, Lene Lovich, Be Bop Deluxe, Mike Nesmith, Bowie, Florence and the Machine, Stackridge, The Searchers (honest!), Donna Summer, Belle and Sebastian, The Pretenders and 10000 Maniacs.

Hope to feature Florence and the Machine shortly so keep your wireless Tudno-tuned!

Have a jolly week

Glyn

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No Scene this week, so straight on to NOTP!

Three in a Row was a bit personal - a tribute to m mother's dog Rufus who died this week - Rufus and Chaka Khan, Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs', and bringing both together 'Walkin' The Dog' by Rufus Thomas.

The Long Song was fron Jarvis Cocker's new album 'Further Complications' and was 'You're in My Eyes (Discosong)'. Kitsch'n'Sink was from The Pet Shop Boys - 'Jealousy'.

Jimi Hendrix gave us Charity Shop Corner and a live performance of Little Wing.

At long last my featured album was the debut from The Leisure Society - 'The Sleeper'. Laid back - a little reminiscent of the Fleet Foxes but in a British way. Well worth a listen.

Various other bits and pieces were from Radiohead, Bat for Lashes, Bob Dylan, Talk Talk, Beck, Tori Amos's wonderful version of 'I Don't Like Mondays', Babyshambles, Amy McDonald, Klaatu, The Raspberries, Sarah McLachlan, Erasure, The Magic Numbers and, again, God Help The Girl.

Mail me if there's anything else you'd like to hear.

Bye for now

Glyn

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Oh look - a decent film! Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp in Public Enemies - long, but a good biopic of Mr. Dillinger. Otherwise stay in and listen to the wireless....

NOTP? Lurching from one tune to the next as usual; those tunes included songs by Florence and the Machine, Buggles, Deaf School, Jarvis Cocker, The Coral, The Bees, Basement Jaxx, Genesis (with PG, of course!), Tracey Ullman, Mouse and the Traps, Tom Waits and Polly Scattergood.

Three in a Row were all to do with centuries - Sale of the C (Sleeper), Crime of the C (Supertramp) and End of the C (Ramones). Promise I won't do it again, but the normal version of Jacko's 'Earthsong' was the Kitsch'n'Sink, and nice to hear a syndrum on Marshall Hain's 'Dancing in the City' in Charity Shop Corner. Hard to believe, but I haven't featured Blue Monday by New Order as the long Song. Not till now, that is.

Now I'm always happy to hear a new album that takes me by surprise and this week it's 'God Help the Girl' - the new project by Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian fame. So I played a few tracks from it - one featuring vocals by Neil Hannon, but I love the voice of Catherine Ireton. And following in the footsteps of Isobel Campbell is difficult. A quirky story put to quirky music. Great.

Next week I'll be looking at The Leisure Society's new(ish) album and revisiting Jarvis Cocker's Further Complications.

Keep on keeping on!

Glyn

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Well, Jacko's dead! Sorry to break it like that, but I assume only those on Mars for the last week would have missed out on that one - though you can probably still get Tudno FM on Mars. Much said, many albums bought (if you liked him that much why didn't you have them already?). Still, anyone who has had a hand in defining modern music deserves attention, and Jackson certainly must have had a very big hand. In his earlier days he helped bring black musicians to everyone's attention which can only be a good thing. Later on he defined a certain type of dance music that you know from the very first note. Hopefully he will be remembered for his music and not for any other reasons, made up, misunderstood or otherwise.

NOTP this week didn't concentrate on MJ as I think you've heard quite a lot this week already. Instead we had Three in a Row of namecheckers - Song for Bob Dylan (Bowie), Brian Wilson (Barenaked Ladies) and Lloyd - I'm Ready to be Heartbroken (Camera Obscura), the last being about Lloyd Cole, who might not normally be in such exalted company!
Long Song was Jacko's extended version of Earth Song - well, we had to, didn't we? Hazel O'Connor's 'Will You' was in the Kitsch'n'Sink this week, and the old Charity Shop gave us 'Lydia' by Dean Friedman.

Other notables were Vampire Weekend, Sam Cooke, God Help The Girl, Emmy the Great, The Noisettes, Curved Air, Florence and the Machine, HMHB, Duffy, Jefferson Airplane, Idle Race, Talk Talk, Gossip, Jarvis Cocker... the list is endless. Well, no it isn't, obviously, but it does go on a bit. Like me, really.

Hope to feature Florence and the Machine and God Help the Girl (Stuart Murdoch's new project) in the next couple of weeks - so keep listening.

Keep on wearing the suncream!

Glyn

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Totally forgot to do my blog last week cos I'm rubbish, so here's a longer one, possiblly. Films are hopeless at the moment so let's get on with the music.

Three in a row featured three lots of three initials - ELO, REM and ABC. The splendidly over-produced Arcade Fire supplied Kitsch'n'sink, and Barnardos supplied Cafe Cubana as Charity Shop Corner. Rufus Wainwright's 'An Old W***e's Diet' with the help of Antony without his Johnsons.

The featured (triple) album this week was 'Consequences' by Godley and Creme - an expansive - and expensive - 1977 concept album - just what we needed when punk was occupying everyone's imagination. A couple of tunes and a chunk of the humour of the sadly missed Peter Cook. Wonderful.

Among the other music we heard from China Crisis, Vampire Weekend, Half Man Half Biscuit, Blur, Sleeper, New Order, Bowie, Television, King Creosote, Les Rythmes Digitales, The Purple Gang, Massive Attack and Lene Lovich.

See you next week!
Glyn

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Studio got all hot'n'bothered last week, so no NOTP or The Scene! Still, you can't keep a good thing down (or an indifferent one, it seems) so here I am, back!

Recommended viewing isn't Terminator, but the rather charming Lst Chance Harvey with Dustin Hoffman and the wonderful Emma Thompson. Slight, but written for adults with superb acting, and virtually no special effects. Remember films like that?

NOTP's Three in a Row featured the brief summer we had last week - 'Here Comes the Sun', Sun King and 'Ra' - the last by Barclay James Harvest

Kitsch'n'Sink was the sublime 'Geneve' by John Otway in an orchestral version I'd never heard before. It's one of those songs that make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Brilliant - if you don't know it do yourself a favour and find it.

Charity Shop Corner revealed a dilemma - which track do I play from this bizarre Sunday Miror compilation? Toss a coin and....oh dear - heads - Chicory Tip. Sorry.

Other suspects were The White Stripes, Pulp, Bowie, Pendulum, Mike Nesmith, Dukes Jetty, Tiny Dancers, Natalie Merchant and Nick Drake.

Oh - the long song was a remix by Siritual Lines of Central Reservation by Beth Orton. And Kate Bush's 'The Kick Inside' was the featured album - some very scary lyrics, especially by a (then) 16-year old.

See you next week - hopefully my piggy bank will find some new albums - maybe eels, Lightning Seeds, Moby - who knows?

Night night

Glyn

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Nothing memorable on the film front, so straight on to NOTP.

The featured album this week was 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' by Genesis (while they were good) - a self-indulgent double gatefold (as I played it from vinyl, obviously) concept album about - well, it matters little, really - or should I say Raelly?!

Wonderful Kitsch'n'sink today - 'Sebastian' by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - choir, phasing, organs, manual double-tracking, primitive vocoders and an orchestra - what's not to like?

Long song's a bit special as it's Stevie Wonder's 'Isn't She Lovely' to welcome NOTP's youngest listener - Sophie Alice Duggan who was born on Monday - many congratulations Andrew and Karen.

Three in a row? Female drummers - The Honeycombs, Glasvegas and White Stripes, and a quick posthumous hello from Karen Carpenter.

Charity Shop Corner let me down with a duff illegal copy of the Beatles' No 1s, so I ended up playing Underworld's 'Push Upstairs'- so no bad thing in the end....

Don't forget you can always nominate Three in a Row, The Long song or Kitsch'n'sink - or even suggest a more reliable charity shop! Just mail me - glyn.james@tudnofm.co.uk.

Other songs were by Rufus Wainwright, Dizzee Rascal (singing the Ting Tings) Alex Harvey, Sparks, Ramones, Syd Barrett, Green Day, Amy McDonald, The Cleftones, Prefab Sprout and The Blue Nile.

See you next week!

Glyn