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31/08/2009

Marc returns with a session from pyschedelic folkies The Witch And The Robot, plus archive tracks from Wreckless Eric, The Flaming Lips, The Drowning Craze and Girls At Our Best.

Marc returns with psychedelic folkies the Witch and the Robot in session. Plus there are classic 麻豆社 sessions from Wreckless Eric (at the behest of Eric himself), the Flaming Lips, the Drowning Craze and Girls at Our Best. The Witch And The Robot's debut album On Safari is released this month and was described by Drowned in Sound as "Some sort of freak-folk, pastoral, krautrock mindblow!" The band come from the Lake Districts and blend dark psychedelia, folk, shanties and spoken word ("Every album should have a War Of The Worlds bit" they say). Recorded in their home studio - The Robot Rooms in Ambleside - On Safari is the band's meditation on "safari, the stupidity of religion and 21st Century malaise." Comprising Dustin Goodnite (Andrew Tomlinson), Hen (Stuart Shingler), Venice (Sam Hunt) and DJ Aesthetic Heartbreak, the four members were born within three months of each other and have been friends for longer than they can remember. That other "nicely weird" Cumbrian band British Sea Power are fans of The Witch And The Robot - they've played together countless times and The Witch And The Robot were asked to open their festival at Tan Hill in north Yorkshire.

2 hours

Last on

Mon 31 Aug 2009 19:00

Music Played

  • The Witch and the Robot

    A Crocodile Song

  • The Velvet Underground

    Head Held High

  • Brakes

    Two Shocks

  • Cate Le Bon

    Out to Sea

  • Graham Coxon

    Brave the Storm

  • Wreckless Eric

    Whole Wide Song

  • Fantasions

    GI Joe We Love You

  • Howling Bells

    Into the Chaos

  • Curly Hair

    Blow the House Down

  • The Witch and the Robot

    The Best Free Show on Earth

  • The Hidden Cameras

    He Falls to Me

  • Flaming Tunes

    Life on Mars

  • Rufus Wainwright

    Beautiful child

  • Tap Tap

    She Doesn't Belong To Me

  • Laura Gibson

    Come by Storm

  • Beth Jeans Houghton

    I Will Return, I Promise

  • The Witch and the Robot

    the Beatification of St Thomas Aquinus

  • Girls at Our Best!

    Fast Boyfriends

  • Tindersticks

    Tiny Tears

  • Liam Frost - Held Tightly in Your Fist

  • The Whispertown 2000

    Done with Love

  • Stevie Wonder

    He's Mistra Knowitall

  • Drowning Craze

    In the Heat

Broadcast

  • Mon 31 Aug 2009 19:00

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