Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Last Call set list 23 Feb 2011

Time - Supergrass
Emily's heart - Jamie T
It's my own cheating heart that makes me cry - Glasvegas
Modern worksong - Broken Records
My little empire - Manic Street Preachers
Cebe and me - Cold Cave
Marine Fields glow - Esben & The Witch
Light streams - Esben & The Witch
Surfacing - Chapel Club
Always where I need to be - The Kooks
Who's got the crack? - The Moldy Peaches
Far from home - The Levellers
Night boat to Cairo - Madness (twice)
Out of this world - The Cure
I want the world to stop - Belle & Sebastian
Limassol - Maximo Park
You're so great - Blur
Golden platitudes - Manic Street Preachers
Postcards from Italy - Beirut
Face-in - Dutch Uncles
I didn't see it coming - Belle & Sebastian
Night boat to Cairo - Madness (yes again!)
Tramp the dirt down - Elvis Costello

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Big news all of the time

I keep trying to tell myself that big news stories happen all the time. It's impossible to not forget that my home countries of Canada and the UK are still knee deep in war in Afghanistan. Then there's Iraq. Not forgetting the Tsunami of 2004, Hurricane Katrina. And here's the but.

But there is something really incredible happening right now in the Middle East and North Africa which makes it feel like these stories are bigger than others. Perhaps it really is the fact that the mainstream media can't get enough of the stories due to the fact that these stories are new stories. Not forgetting the strategic necessity of The West's involvement in that region - oil.

Kind of makes you proud to ride a push bike doesn't it. I'm not gloating. I need that oil as much, well maybe not as much as the idiots in their Hummvies.
We have a quake in New Zealand, with deaths, a quick look at the tectonic plates, yes, could it happen here in Vancouver?
Gadafi might hang on to power he might not. It really looks like things are in the balance. The danger though is that many many people will perish. Many more than have died in the revolutionary momentum that has taken place in Tunisia and Egypt. One European journalist commented that the situation right now in Libya reminded him of the fall of Caucescu in Romania.

Big news all of the time.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Less is more, old is new

Okay first off have to say a big thank you to Oasis. It appears that I have lost an Oasis CD. I never lose CDs. To make matters worse this cd belongs to Vancouver Public Library. Did I mention that I work there too? I can't get off the hook, no special favours for me.

So I've lost this CD for the time being and the only thing that I can think that I must have done with it is put in the wrong case. So the hunt for the CD began on Saturday. I'm hunting mostly in my kitchen. I even checked inside the freezer and the fridge because sometimes when I open them CDs fly in from their vantage point. Thanks to Oasis I have decided to move the CD player. It now rests on a chair. At that chair's foot is the Panasonic cassette deck that I rediscovered while looking for the CD. There's some real gems in this cardboard box. Some real retro stuff that I sorting for use, for the give away box etc.

Losing this CD and the hunt that has begun for it and the finding of stuff and the using of this stuff feels a little like Spring. Easy Gary it's February 21 still. Okay okay but you get the point. Right now I am listening to a cassette that was once a yoga exercise workout tape but I dubbed over at some point in the last five years and is now some late night recording of CBC Canada en francais. The music is great. This cassette is a keeper.

Back to the hunt....

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Last Call set list 16 feb 2011

Time - Supergrass
Sound of music - Joy Division
She's lost control - Joy Division
Swans - Esben & The Witch
Clamour - Glasser
It could be sweet - Portishead
Crystallised - The XX
Postcards from Italy - Beirut
I didn't see it coming - Belle & Sebastian
Alone - Seething Akira
Miss Europa - Manic Street Preachers
A leaving song - Broken Records
Wet cement - Morning Benders
Zorbing - Stornoway
I want the world to stop - Belle & Sebastian
Golden platitudes - Manic Street Preachers
If you tolerate this then your children will be next - Manic Street Preachers
Hey Jude - The Beatles
For the glory - Ian Brown
Sticks n stones - Jamie T
Enemy - Seething Akira
Someday soon - Harlem
Got the shakes - James

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Last Call set list 9 Feb 2011

Time - Supergrass
Sofa - Supergrass
Someday soon - Harlem
For the glory - Ian Brown
Emily's heart - Jamie T
Assessment - The Beta Band
Crystallised - The XX
Islands - The XX
Marine Fields glow - Esben & The Witch
Hearts skipped a beat - The XX
Frisk - The Big Pink
Write about love - Belle & Sebastian
I used to dream - Broken Records
The end of the movie - Stornoway
Everybody please relax - The 1990s
Hexagons IV - Esben & The Witch
Clamour - Glasser
Lord, help the poor & the needy - Cat Power
Don't think twice, it's alright - Bob Dylan
This joke sport severed - Manic Street Preachers
I want the world to stop - Belle & Sebastian
Morning drift - Efterklang
A leaving song - Broken Records
Ten below - James
Crowning of the poor - Ian Brown
Fight the power - Public Enemy
Just like you - Ian Brown

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Last Call set list 2 February 2011

Time - Supergrass
Sound of music - Joy Division
Fake plastic trees - Radiohead
Hardtrack saloon - The Pack A.D
A leaving song - Broken Records
She bathed herself in a bath of bleach - Manic Street Preachers
Hazelton Avenue - Manic Street Preachers
No kind words - The Maccabees
Salome - Pete Doherty
For the glory - Ian Brown
Emily's heart - Jamie T
Learning lines - Jack Penate
(It's not war) just the end of love - Manic Street Preachers
Zorbing - Stornoway
Auto-intoxication - Manic Street Preachers
Lookaway - James
I didn't see it coming - Belle & Sebastian
Fear - James