Plentycast #28

It's lucky we don't broadcast this live as you would have heard a couple of snafu's in this latest programme. Yes, let's speak into the microphone when the switch on the microphone is in the "off" position. That makes sense doesn't it...?

So, history is edited out, it's as if it never happened and we move on with nobody getting hurt. I think this edition is the perfect mix of loud, quiet and everything in between and it flows quite nicely. Us being us, we got distracted a couple of times and ended up digressing off the subject but hey where's the fun in sticking to the topic?

Well, we got to grips with the technology in the end and I hope the songs speak for themselves. Not quite the amount of new stuff as in the previous show but as John's fond of saying from time to time "a song could be new to somebody somewhere".

Let's do this thing...

Plentycast #28 by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. Ligament - Theme From Ligament
2. David Dondero - South Of The South
3. Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train
4. American Music Club - Nightwatchman
5. Dinosaur Jr - Severed Lips
6. Torche - Across The Shields
7. Entombed - Eyemaster
8. High On Fire - Speedwolf
9. Ian Humberstone - House On The Hill
10. Lee Hazlewood - Cold Hard Times
11. Rob St John - Sargasso Sea
12. eagleowl - Sorry I Spoke

Plentycast #27

Ah, the perils of technology listeners...

We first tried to record this on Monday night (the 10th) but we had a total 'mare with the mic so all the vocal bits sounded like the production of Carcass's Reek Of Putrefaction LP (i.e. not good). That meant a re-record as I didn't want to put something out that sounded pretty bad so we come to tonight instead. The mic issue was resolved, we used a new bit of software that meant we could record it totally live (instead of in a cut & paste stylee as before) so that cut down a lot on editing and post-production so here we are publishing the podcast on the same night it was recorded! Riches indeed...

Including FIVE songs from 2011! A feat that may never be repeated in all likelihood! Unprecedented scenes at PS Towers this evening. Jocky got so excited that he nearly left his council flat in Smeaton to have a game of arrows. Nearly...

On you go...

Plentycast #27 by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. Done Lying Down - Just A Misdemeanor
2. Nirvana - Aneurysm
3. Bert Jansch - It Don't Bother Me
4. Yo La Tengo - Needle Of Death
5. R.E.M. - Country Feedback
6. Wild Flag - Racehorse
7. Fotheringay - The Sea
8. Emily Scott - I Saw You
9. Oxes - Crunchy Zest
10. The Jesus Lizard - Nub
11. Helms Alee - Pretty As Pie
12. Wolves In The Throne Room - Subterranean Initiation

Plentycast #26

And so we're back after an unplanned break (mainly due to me not being well and not really having the energy to put everything into a podcast). I'm still not feeling 100% so the majority of the songs are John's choices but you have to say that he's come up trumps with what we have for you this time around. Mind you, any chance we have of including a Withered Hand song or a Superchunk song is going to be taken! They are good 'uns as well so that doesn't hurt!

Apologies once more for coughing a lot (an annoying consequence of this was me missing a couple of weekend festivals I was looking forward to and which probably would have been featured on this particular edition of PC). Such is the life of an old man...

Aye, the nights are fair drawing in...

Plentycast #26 by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. Bedhead - More Than Ever
2. Silverfish - Fat Painted Carcass
3. Lemonheads - Mallo Cup
4. Withered Hand - No Cigarettes
5. Joy Division - Failures
6. Cranes - Inescapable
7. Eggs - Roll Away The Stone
8. Syd Barrett - No Good Trying
9. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Taste The Floor
10. Ian Dury - Plaistow Patricia
11. Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times
12. Stereolab - Super-Electric
13. Superchunk - The First Part

Plentycast #25

And so we reach a quarter century! Riches indeed.

We celebrate it by swearing a lot. You can take the boys out of Fife etc... So yes, podcast #25 features some words that you may find objectionable but it also contains some songs that you may find quite palatable. I hope it's obvious that it's the music which is the star of these podcasts, we try and put together playlists that flow quite nicely and feature songs that are complementary - you just have to put up with us two talking pish in between them!

So, listen on for hipsters and Eska, choruses that end too soon, Ian Svenonius and Kevin Rowland and the curious tale of John Stanier's trousers...

Away you go!

Plentycast #25 by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. The Flaming Lips - Watching The Planets
2. Eska - Aristotle
3. The Grifters - She Blows Blasts Of Static
4. Loop - Afterglow
5. Madness - One Better Day
6. Shudder To Think - X-French Tee Shirt
7. Sea Birds - Clipper Ships
8. Shelagh McDonald - Stargazer
9. Nation of Ulysses - Diptheria
10. The New Year - Gasoline
11. Lady North - It's All About Gettin' That Claude Monet

Plentycast #24

Well, we return to our previously advertised schedule with a range of songs from 1956 right up to the present day. As I say at the start of the show, pretty much everything we do is with a nod in the direction of the much missed John Peel so I hope he'd approve of playing one of his favourite acts along with a track from one of his sessions. Because of him, I always refer to records as "LPs" and if there's a slight inflection in my voice then that's the effect he's had on me. Here's to you sir. And here's to our podcast #24 -

Hit it!

Plentycast #24 by Plentyside on Mixcloud

Tracklisting -

1. Lonnie Donegan - Frankie And Johnny
2. The Japanese War Effort - Summer Sun Skateboard
3. Rocket From The Crypt - My Arrow's Aim
4. Judee Sill - There's A Rugged Road
5. Sebadoh - Not Too Amused
6. Owls - Anyone Can Have A Good Time
7. New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Working For Him
8. Part Chimp - Dark Entries
9. Rodan - Gauge
10. Neko Case - Deep Red Bells