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SnC 324 – Coney Island
Suddenly early spring has turned into full-on summer here on this part of the east coast of England. I think this may be reflected in this week’s choices of music. Throw your cold drinks and towel in the back of the car, flip the roof down and let’s head for the coast. Well, Coney Island…
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SnC 323 – Fruit de Mer
Fresh back from The Great Escape festival in Brighton this week’s show is a tasty selection of of the many and varied dishes available across some 30 venues in that buzzy city by the sea. It was my first full TGE and as a convention delegate. Some of the convention sessions were actually pretty relevant.…
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SnC 322 – Your Free Tu-tu
The halfway point in a frantically busy week. As you’ll hear I’ve been over to Southwold a couple of times since last week’s show and as soon as the red light goes off on SnC 322 I’m off to Brighton, on the south coast of England, for an intensive three days of music, panel sessions…
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SnC 321 – Stormin
News of the first release of the John Peel record collection coming online together with a selection of interesting tracks from artists around the world. “Maude” spent the day under a brooding grey sky and ended the day in torrential rain while the show was put together. Say Sayonara – JOANovArc(London, UK) Inspired by Saint…
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AOTM April 2012 – Kim Edwards
Kim studied classical piano starting at age four and for a short while was a piano performance major in college. Her grounding in music theory, orchestration, and arrangement is clearly evident on Wanderlust. Kim credits moving from her snug Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania hometown for much of Wanderlust’s lyrical inspiration. “I moved across the country 3…
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SnC 320 – Contrasts
This week’s show contains possibly one of the “quietest” tracks I’ve played and one of the “noisiest”. A week or so ago Suffolk was declared to be an official drought area. Today, warnings of flooding and the rain kept on falling. Such a lot of contrast. Also this week is a time for reflection on…
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SnC 319 – Blackbird “singing”
Oh, the joy of living with nature. A confused and very angry blackbird has a mate nesting in the end of the barn. He insists on picking fights with everyone else and the noise, quite frankly, annoys. Never mind, I hope you’ll find this weeks mix interesting, we’ve tracks from Spain, Iceland, Hungary, Italy and…
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SnC 318 – Kite flying
Music from Glasgow, London, Northampton MA, Seattle and Paris this week with a couple of specials including the result of the Adnams Artist of the Month. It was for the AOTM interview that I went over to Southwold this morning. A fabulous day of dramatic clouds, sudden showers and bright sunshine. The beach was awash…
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SnC 317 – Spring?
Well, it seemed like spring for a couple of days there. Hey ho. I suppose it will be back. A decent geographical and stylistic spread of music floated to the top again this week with tracks from The USA, Iceland, Germany and Canada. News of The Great Escape Festival in Brighton next month too. Come…
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AOTM March 2012 – Darlingside
Under one roof in New England’s Pioneer Valley, Darlingside came together with five songwriters, a mandolin, a cello and violin, guitars and drums, a chorus of voices, and a van named Chauncey. Holed up in their home between a cornfield and the Connecticut River, they forged a seamless, exhilarating sound at the intersection of rock,…
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SnC 316 – a bit retro
This week marks the conclusion of a project I’ve been working on at home here for the past year. A somewhat confused and frail older relative faced the prospect of being shipped out into a care home or staying on in her own home 80 miles away. Consequently we did the daft thing and set…
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SnC 315 – a many splendored thing
A bit of a late start this week with the record button being pressed at almost midnight. Actually, it is only just at the point where the environment is quiet enough to focus. There have been helicopters, builders and carpet-fitters around the place all day and then at dusk the frogs took over. This seems…