On today’s show I chat with music journalist, Tara Joshi about Girl Band‘s new album ‘Holding Hands with Jamie’.
1. The London Ear Intro
2. Janet Jackson feat. Missy Elliot: Burn It Up
3. Wyvern Lingo: Subside
4. New Portals: Groove Boy
5. Girl Band: Umbongo
6. Chat with music journalist, Tara Joshi, discussing Girl Band’s new album
7. Girl Band: Paul
8. Chat with music journalist, Tara Joshi, Part 2
9. Girl Band: Pears for Lunch
10. Owen Denver: Daydreamer
11. The Boob Project: Boob Spelled Backwards is Boob
12. Mercury Rev: Rainy Day Record
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On this week’s show I caught up with London based Irish artist, Jaq
Here’s what happened:
1. The London Ear Intro
2. Mercury Rev: For a Rainy Day
3. Guy Garvey: Angela’s Eyes
4. Yast: Together Forever
5. Playing House: New Haircut
6. O Emperor:Switchblade
7. Circuits of Heaven: Out of Air
8. Anderson: Things we have in common
9. Few Dollars More: Cosmic Noise
10. Jamie Lawson: Wasn’t Expecting That
11. Chat with Jaq
12. Jaq: Oh My Gosh
13. The Japanese House: Cool Blue
14. Shura: White Light
15. Only Rivals: Replace / Exchange
Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. REMINDER: The show has a new timeslot, every Saturday at 1300.
Cry Monster Cry were guests on today’s show, before their gig at the Islington here in London.
Here’s what happened:
1. The London Ear
2. They Might Be Giants: Music Jail PT 1 & 2
3. Bairbre Ann: It’s You
4. Girl Band: Pears For Lunch
5. MOANA: Elephant Bones
6. Orphan Boy: Money To Money
7. Young Natives: Pilot Light
8. Courtney Bartnett: Nobody Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party
9. Anderson: Things We Have in Common
10. Cry Monster Cry: The Fallen
11. Chat with Jamie from Cry Monster Cry
12. Cry Monster Cry: Postcards
13. Overhead, The Albatross: Big River Man
14. Alias Empire: Link
Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, UPC Channel 944, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. REMINDER: The show has a new timeslot, every Saturday at 1300.
Shura, Live at Electric, Brixton, September 17 2015
It’s been a little over three months since I headed to Brighton to see Shura. In that time, Aleksandra Denton and her band have been honing their set, with a never ending string of dates and festivals. In front of the 1400 punters at Electric Brixton, it’s paying dividends.
The night was opened by Roseau and Clean Cut Kid. If my information is correct, Roseau hasn’t done that many gigs, but her electronic soul vibes fit in beautifully and Roseau proves herself to be an artist to watch. Onstage, Roseau and her band are visually striking and her use on an old style Shure 55SH microphone, (like the one Elvis used) adds a timeless edge to her set. Check out her album, it’s out now.
Next up where Clean Cut Kid, known for ‘Vitamin C’. The Liverpool quartet play a solid set, with some great guitar work from the lead singer, who also possesses one of the finest beards I’ve seen this year. Clean Cut Kid are really good at what they do, they have a good rock grounding, layered with melodic instrumentation and vocal lines. At times, it does seem like it could be a slightly odd choice for an opener for the more electronic, Shura but they work well and your scribe would definitely go see them again.
Shura and her three piece band take to the stage and the growth in confidence is easily seen. Shura is now also playing guitar and seems to like rocking out a bit, duelling with her guitarist. She also seems like she’s now really enjoying what she’s doing and that’s rubbing off on the crowd. For these ears though, I’d cut back on the rubbling bass a little and bring Shura’s voice a little more to the fore in the front of house music mix.
For a hot sweaty crowd, a reworked down tempo 2Shy, provides a breather. All the tracks we know from Shura are included in tonight’s set, Kids n Stuff, Indecision, Touch, and an epic set ending ‘White Light’. It’s pretty awesome to see an artist grow in stature, and throughout the night, Shura reaffirms her importance on the music scene. The sold out Electric crowd also bear witness to rather awesome, sometimes blindly beautiful lighting.
Shura is obviously still working on different mixes and structure of songs, which versions make it to an album and which stay only in a live format remains to be seen. Shura, herself, is now playing guitar and dancing around the stage. Her set has grown at an immense rate since last time. This bodes extremely well for the future. I wonder what size venue she’ll play next?
Here’s what happened:
