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Playlist from Moogie Wonderland 24 June

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7 months ago
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Last night was our second DJing experience, and it was rather a contrast to the first time around.  It was all rather last minute, meaning I didn’t have five weeks to fret about song choices.  It was in a coffee shop instead of a bar with a dance floor, and given the rain and other factors, there wasn’t exactly a big turnout.  Didn’t matter though as I still ended up enjoying myself immensely.  Here’s what I played:

1. – Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

2. Belle & Sebastian – Your Cover’s Blown

3. – The Mild Mannered Army

4. – Banned at the Troxy

5. – Carve a Pattern

6. – Lost Weekend

7. – Hopelessly Wasted

8. – You Can Hide Your Love Forever

9. – C Is The Option

10. – Perfection As A Hipster

11. – True Love/Youth

12. – Your Feelings Don’t Show

13. – My Terrible Friend

14. – Higher Grounds

15. – I Love You Like A Madman

16. – Dinner Party

17. Allo Darlin’ – Let’s Go Swimming

18. – Cross the Line

Indietracks Compilation 2011

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8 months ago
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It’s June, so it must mean it’s time for the obligatory Indietracks compilation album. Sadly this year it won’t be released on CD in an attempt to reduce costs, meaning you’ll have to burn your own discs for the long drive up. On the other hand, as it’s a download only, you can pay whatever you like for it with all proceeds going to the lovely Midland Railway Centre. Every year they put up with us descending on them, so it’s nice to be able to give them a little something back.

The release comes with some spectacularly good music for your money as well. Tracks from headliners Herman Dune, , and are all well and good, but there’s a treasure trove of lesser known bands here too. There’s new songs from , and , and some rare songs from likes of and . Then you’ve got all of the bands that you’re suddenly a fan of by the time you’ve finished the release. Looking at you Wendy Darlings, and !

There’s so much good stuff here that it’s almost criminal that you can have the release from whatever price you want. That even includes nothing, but that would make you WORSE THAN HITLER, so you won’t be doing that, will you? You can stream the entire thing below, and you can buy it from the Make Do and Mend Records Bandcamp page.

New Moustache of Insanity EP out now for free

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2 years ago
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Moustache of Insanity

I love my Amazon wishlist. It’s my one holding bay for all of those lovely things I want to buy, from books to DVDs to games (and even the odd album). In fact, I’m so reliant on it at this point that I don’t know how I’d organise my entertainment purchasing without it. Sure, I don’t always buy from Amazon (I’ll go somewhere else to save 2p) but as a useful resource, it’s hard to top.

Which begs the question of why no one has written a song about it before. Far more trivial things have had songs written about them (like sex, love and war), but not one verse about our trusty online retailing organisation system? It’s madness I tell you. Which makes it all the more apt that have gone and done it. Like all of their songs, it’s incredibly haphazard, but it possesses such a ramshackle charm that it’s impossible not to enjoy.

You can download the entire Postcards to Strangers EP from the band’s website. For limited time only apparently. Though that limited time is already a month, so who knows?

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Moustache of Insanity

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2 years ago
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Moustache of Insanity

A few years ago I probably would have been defensive about liking something this. Perhaps I’d even think it was childish. Times change though, and are right along the lines of the things I tend to listen to at this point. All of this goes hand in hand with my gradual slide further and further into indiepop. I’m not really sure when it began in earnest, sometime during the earlier years of this blog I would suspect. If you’d told me five years ago though that I’d be going to indiepop festivals on steam railways, or the kind of club night where everyone swaps a mix CD, I’d have probably laughed at you. Still, the joy of music is the constant evolution of taste. I wonder what I’ll be listening to in another five years.

So, Moustache of Insanity then. This is the kind of music that doesn’t really allow for middle ground. People will either find this a ton of fun or insufferably twee. Clocking it at barely a minute, Imagine is a joyful romp about imaginary friends, puppets, kittens, llamas and a whole lot more. With no time for any of that bullshit about world peace either.

Moustache of Insanity’s self-titled album is available now from WeePop!

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