Plentycast #33 - The Jeff Mangum ATP Cast

Hello listeners, we're back after a couple of months of inactivity (slackness in the blackness!) and what a splendid show we have for our return.

Over the weekend, John and me were down at the Jeff Mangum curated ATP with a host of others and we decided to record a podcast while we were there. This was recorded yesterday lunchtime in the vast Skyline Pavilion space in Butlins in Minehead - there were no bands playing in there over the weekend so it became this huge hang-out place instead. It seemed like a nice place to do it so away we went.

We're joined by a plethora of special guests popping in and out of proceedings - you'll remember Thom Allott and Andy Cleary from the Fence Cast last year. Also joining us is Jonathan Greer from Slow Thrills zine, Will Fitzpatrick from The 255s who we played last year and last, but not least, our pal and chalet mate Lo-Fi Brian McKinnon.

Everybody picked a couple of songs by bands from the weekend, I put them in roughly date order as to when they played and since it was recorded on the Sunday we could only look forward to the bands playing that day. I can since confirm that Versus and Sebadoh were fucking awesome and John would say the same thing about the former and also Roscoe Mitchell too. Looking back the day after the weekend before, I can honestly say that I enjoyed this weekend very much even though at the time of writing I'm dead tired.

Anyway, I hope we are able to give you a flavour of what went on. Featuring some ATP hubbub in the background (or it could be a knitting machine...) and the interminable clack and clink of the air hockey machines. Enjoy!

Plentycast #33 - The Jeff Mangum ATP Cast by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
2. Joanna Newsom - Erin
3. Thurston Moore - Orchard Street
4. Minutemen - History Lesson, Part II
5. Robyn Hitchcock - Flavour Of Night
6. The Apples In Stereo - What's The #?
7. Retribution Gospel Choir - Breaker
8. Mount Eerie - Flaming Home
9. Scratch Acid - Moron's Moron
10. Boredoms - [Spiral]
11. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Upon The My-Oh-My
12. The Magnetic Fields - The Horrible Party
13. Versus - Shooting Star

Edited to add that there was a problem with the embedded player but it seems to have sorted itself out and it plays fine now. However, you can still download the 'cast direct from the following link.

Plentycast #32

Thae Christmas holidays, they dinnae fair take it oot o' ye... Or something...

And we're back, back, back after a small break, mainly caused by slackness in the blackness but there you go. It's another bumper edition (19 songs, 150 minutes!) so strap yourselves in for the latest and best, hip and happening new music. Or not...

I don't mind saying but recording a two and a half hour podcast in one sitting is a bit of a struggle, by the end of it I was flagging and ready for my bed! However, I managed to soldier on to the end, such is the dedication to the cause...

Aye, it's me and John playing songs and talking about them in between them. Plus ca change...

Hit it...

Plentycast#32 by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. Wounded Knee - Lowland Lullaby
2. Bitch Magnet - Dragoon
3. Archers Of Loaf - Audiowhore
4. Galaxie 500 - Isn't It A Pity
5. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
6. Loose Fur - You Were Wrong
7. Midlake - Roscoe
8. Albert Ayler - Summertime
9. The Leather Nun - No Rule
10. Autolux - Sugarless
11. Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors
12. Simon And Garfunkel - So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
13. Dead Meadow - Sleepy Silver Door
14. Pensioner - Big Trouble In Little Richard
15. Roy Harper - Commune
16. Robert Wyatt - Free Will And Testament
17. Throwing Muses - Furious
18. The Juliana Hatfield Three - I Got No Idols
19. Football, etc - Catch The Spirit

Plentycast #31

a.k.a The "Hinch" Cast...

Well, what goes on on tour normally stays on tour but this is a wee bit different. We found ourselves down in London to see Superchunk at the Scala in Kings Cross and were able to catch up with our pal Iain H, who if you don't know already, used to play in Sawyer with John and now plays in Part Chimp.

Iain very graciously put us up for the second night we were down and so we took the opportunity to record a 'cast with him. Iain picked the songs and we had a chat about them, such is the raison d'etre of this thing we do. I hope you've got a spare 138 (!) minutes to listen as there's some fine, fine choices (and fine, fine chat) on display.

Thanks again to Iain for doing this, it was a lot of fun and I hope that comes across.

Plentycast #31 by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. The Saints - This Perfect Day
2. The Afghan Whigs - Retarded
3. Rainbow - A Light In The Dark
4. Tar - Teetering
5. Helms Alee - Rogue's Yarn
6. Pink Fairies - Do It
7. Cat Power - Wild Is The Wind
8. Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Theme de Yoyo
9. True Widow - Night Witches
10. Jogger - Gorilla Meat
11. Laura Viers - July Flame
12. Kogumaza - Bells
13. American Football - I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional
14. Slayer - Dissident Aggressor
15. Judee Sill - The Kiss (demo)
16. Kyuss - Spaceship Landing
17. Versus - Double Suicide

Plentycast #30

a.k.a Here's One For The Teenagers...

We're nothing if not on the ball and hip to all the latest musical trends at PC Towers and so we present to you a special podcast of our favourite Creation / Sub Pop /Pacific North West tunes. There is nothing here beyond 1996 so if you're looking for something up-to-date then I'm afraid you're in the wrong place! However, if these songs are new to you then you're in the right place!

This 'cast was inspired by recent TV watching and book reading and cooked up over a Mosque Kitchen curry one Friday night so you have BBC4 to thank for showing the Creation Records doc, the Pearl Jam doc and No Nirvana repeat and me for reading Mark Yarm's Seattle music scene tome Everybody Loves Our Town. It's a whopping 1hr 53mins long so pull up a comfy chair and put the kettle on!

We'll return to our usual fare at a later date. Oh wait, this is quite like our usual fare...

Hmm...

Plentycast #30 by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike
2. Sugar - Tilted
3. The House Of Love - Destroy The Heart
4. Mudhoney - You Make Me Die
5. Ride - Perfect Time
6. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
7. Pond - Young Splendor
8. Screaming Trees - Dollar Bill
9. Slowdive - Slowdive
10. Swervedriver - Son Of Mustang Ford
11. The Afghan Whigs - Sister Brother
12. Tad - Behemoth
13. Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand
14. The Boo Radleys - Paradise

Plentyside #29

Photo: Jenny Stevens

...a.k.a. The Fence (and others) cast...

And so we decamp to Cellardyke in the East Neuk of Fife for a special edition of the podcast. We're joined by a myriad of characters along the way at the kitchen table (and thanks to Jen, Thom, Sarah, Kelly and Lynsey for chipping in along the way) but the main guest is Andy Cleary of Club Smart Patrol in London.

The main reason for this special show is the Fence Records Hott Loggz all-day gig that we were all attending so I thought it would be good to do a Fence themed podcast. Andy chose all of the songs we played and did a fine, fine job, there's 7 Fence, or Fence-affiliated acts and 3 songs off recent LPs that are tickling his fancy at this particular time.

Stay tuned too for 25 Things You Didn't Know About Zooey Deschanel and a list of our order from the Anstruther Fish Bar...

Hey ho, let's go...

Plentycast #29 by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. HMS Ginafore – Gregory's Girl
2. UNPOC – Avignon
3. Real Estate – Out Of Tune
4. Lone Pigeon – Seawalk
5. The Pictish Trail – All I Own
6. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – No One Is (As I Are Be)
7. James Yorkston – Someplace Simple
8. King Creosote – The Someone Else
9. Grouper – Alien Observer
10. Lone Pigeon – Boats