Plaid (live), Clark (live), Tim Exile (live), Bibio (Laptop/ DJ) and DJ N>E>D.
Sunday 25th October – The Button Factory, Dublin.
Tickets €25 From Road, Sound Cellar, Spindizzy, City Discs & online at www.tickets.ie/umack
Plaid set will be a Classics set taken from the best of their back catalogue including tracks that have not been played for ten years – pretty excited about this. Both Clark and Bibio have released great albums this year: Clark’s Totems Flare (listen to his bonkers Friendly Fires remix here) and Bibio’s magically schizophrenic Ambivalence Avenue. I haven’t listened to Tim Exile much recently apart from ‘Don’t Think We’re One’ from Listening Tree, his album also released this year. This is going to be a hell of a show.
Video for one of my favourite Plaid tracks – ‘Eyen’.
Remember those archaic days when you picked up a magazine or a weekly music paper in your grubby music-hungry hands and read a playlist of what the publication’s writers were playing in the office that week? There is power in those recommendation charts. Here is my version. No great fanfare or descriptions just ten of the best song around right now you should know or you might already know.
It’s July 1st, the mid-point of the year, a good time to reflect on what we’ve been offered musically so far in 2009. There’s been some stonkers like Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Fever Ray but you know about them already. I’ve listed my ten obvious favourite records of the year so far and then fifteen overlooked ones (with MP3s) you should definitely check out. Obviously “overlooked” is not exact science but generally, these are records you would like to see get more attention in the remaining six months of the year.
