British Invasion 4/30: "I Was 21 Years When I Wrote This Song"

For this episode of "British Invasion," I decided to go old school. I played the bands that the artists I normally play are influenced by. It was fun to share all this old music, so hope you enjoyed.

Here's the playlist:

Zombies- She's Not There
The Animals- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
The Troggs- With A Girl Like You
The Pretty Things- Rosalyn
The Hollies- I'm Alive
Nick Lowe- Cruel To Be Kinds
Elvis Costello- Oliver's Army
The Killjoys- At Night
Billy Bragg- A New England
The Records- Starry Eyes
The Damned- New Rose
Cat Stevens- The Wind
The Kinks- Waterloo Sunsets
The Yardbirds- Over Under Sideways Down
The Clash- Police On My Back
Sex Pistols- Anarchy In The UK
The Move- Brontosaurus Rex

And here's the audio in case you missed the show. (starts about 2 minutes in)

British Invasion 4/16 : Pledge Drive Edition

This week was Pledge Drive!!  The audio of this week is posted at the bottom. Here's the playlist:

Over and Done With- The Proclaimers
Take A Chance- Magic Numbers
Bombast- The Fall
Step Out of The Car- Boxer Rebellion
Two Lines- Lightships
Munich- Editors
7th date- Spectrals
Pretty In Pink- Psychedelic Furs
Starlight- Muse
Little Pieces- Gomez
Ghost- Laura Marling
This Is Not A Love Song- Public Image Ltd.
Scarlet Fields- The Horrors
Wax- Theme Park
I'm On My Way- The Proclaimers

LISTEN HERE!!!!!

Show recordings!!

Hey! Did you miss my show last week and are now your whole week is ruined because you didn't get to hear my voice and an hour of music from the UK? It's okay, because now you can listen to my shows on-demand! Every week I will post a recording of that week's show that you can listen to over and over and over and over until the end of time! (Or until the website I posted them on disappears.) These first two have a couple of minutes of the show before mine on them (you can fast-forward) because I'm lazy about editing. I will get better though, promise.

Here are shows from 3/19 and 4/2:
British Invasion 3/19
British Invasion 4/2

British Invasion 4/2: "I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends"

All Beatles all hour. That was my theme for this show. But, because it's radio1190, there was a twist. Instead of providing the same version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" you've heard hundreds of times, I decided to scour the interwebs for the best covers I could find. I had a blast putting the show together so hopefully it was fun to listen to as well.

Here's the playlist:

Eleanor Rigby- The Patchyderm All-Stars
In My Life- Johnny Cash
Maxwell's Silver Hammer- Steve Martin
I've Just Seen A Face- Pistol Whippin All-Stars
Revolution- Total Babe
Across The Universe- Rufus Wainwright
I'm Looking Through You- The Wallflowers
She Said She Said- The Black Keys
I'm Only Sleeping- The Vines
What Goes On- Sufjan Stevens
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away- Eddie Vedder
Two Of Us- Guster
Dig A Pony- St. Vincent
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band- Jimi Hendrix
With A Little Help My Friends- Across the Universe soundtrack

Here's a video from I think my favorite song from the night "Two of Us" by Guster

British Invasion 3/19: "I Can't Love You Anymore Than This"

Cheers! This week's featured artist was The Fratellis. I said on air that I loved them, and I really meant that. They are such a fun band, and if you liked what you heard, checking out Costello Music their debut album is a MUST.

Here's the playlist for the week:

The Fratellis- For The Girl
Glen Hansard- Falling Slowly
Mogwai- San Pedro
The Cold One Hundred- Sixteen Inside
KT Tunstall- Hold On
Crybaby- I Cherish the Heartbreak
Doves- There Goes The Fear
The Thrills- Big Sur
The Pogues- Fairytale of New York
Starsailor- Four to the Floor
BIGKids- Drum In Your Chest
Travis- Love Will Come Through
Pigeon Detectives- Take Her Back
The Beta Band- Squares
The Fratellis- Chelsea Dagger

Here's a video of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova winning an Oscar for "Falling Slowly" 

British Invasion 2/27: "I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor"

Fun-fact: When I was going to see the Arctic Monkeys play this summer, I ended up jaywalking across the street to the venue with them. "I said, are you Alex Turner?" Alex said, "yeah." It was awesome.
Here is the playlist:

Arctic Monkeys- I bet that you look good on the dancefloor
Morrissey- Suedehead
Lilly Allen- LDN
Damien Rice- Coconut Skins
Prinzhorn Dance Club- I Want You
Klaxons- Golden Skans
PJ Harvey- The Words That Maketh Murder
The Darkness- Growing On Me
British Sea Power- Waving Flags
Pulp- Common People
Four Tet- Angel Echos
Thom Yorke- Analyse
The View- Same Jeans
The Rifles- Tangled Up In Love
Arctic Monkeys- Fluorescent Adolescent

Here is a video of Arctic Monkeys when they first started playing live:

British Invasion 2/20: 'God Save The Queen The Fascist Regime"

Hey!!!! This week's featured artist was punk pioneers Sex Pistols. Here are some lyrics Amanda Palmer wrote about Sid Viscious in her amazing "Ukelele Anthem"

sid vicious played a four-string fender bass guitar and couldn’t sing 
and everybody hated him except the ones who loved him 
a ukulele has four strings, but sid did did not play ukulele 
he did smack and probably killed his girlfriend nancy spungen 

if only sid had had a ukulele, maybe he could have been happy 
maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end 
he maybe would have not done all that heroin instead 
he maybe would’ve sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend


On that depressing note, Here's The Playlist! (and remember, drugs are bad)

Sex Pistols- Pretty Vacant
Gruff Rhys- I totally understand
IDRchtecture- Sign of The Fish
Joy Divison- Disorder
Big Deal- Swoon
BabyShambles- The Blinding
Billy Bragg and Wilco- California Stars
Dum Dum Girls- There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths cover)
Death Cab for Cutie- This Charming Man
Squarehead- Midnight Enchilada
Peace- BBlood
Towns- Heads off
Goldfrapp- Ohh La La
Sex Pistols- God Save The Queen