The Listening Club - 15th September 2019

Greetings folks,

Well, that late bit of sun seems to have appeared as hoped, so making the most of it picnic-style and "sunniest spot outside a bar we can find"-style has been the order of the days, alongside grabbing tickets for autumn/winter giggage, and starting to seriously look forward to Autumn's saving grace aka Le Guess Who Festival in November already...

Last week here in #LC land, the returning @Jonny_Pigg was in compilation mode presaging the Big Beat revival with his pick of "Dope On Plastic 4" from 1997, to which the assembled jigged and bopped and bantered, as would be expected. Thanks to Jonny for the pick and for sailing the frisb down to London, where @SimonLandmine is waiting with tonight's intro...

"This week, I managed to avoid drastically overthinking my selection (at least at time of writing this), and simply picked an album from my 'Listening Club Shortlist.txt' file. Hopefully people will enjoy it.

I first encountered this band when at university, and house-sitting for a mate over the summer holidays. He gave me leave to listen to his vinyl while there, and it introduced me to a number of acts I'd not previously encountered (including Neurosis, which some of you will probably be glad this is not).

And there was a live album by these chaps, who had, I have since discovered, named themselves after someone else's EP, and who have also covered the work of another artist previously featured on
Listening Club. Some of you may well be familiar with some of their oeuvre, but a few years ago (well, OK, over ten), they decided to have another go at some of it, and recorded and released this, which I am rather fond of as well. I finally got to see them live a couple of years ago, when they were doing one of those anniversary tours which have become popular."

Okaydoke. Direct download's here, and the stream is below:


See you at 8pm BST (GMT+1) tonight.