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02/12/2009

WIth special guests Yo La Tengo who chat about their new album and give tips on surviving a British tour, including using hand dryers in public loos to sort out those sodden shoes.

Tonight's show features an hour-long interview with Ira and Georgia from lo-fi indie legends Yo La Tengo. The band discuss their history, give tips on surviving a British tour (including using hand dryers in public loos to sort out those sodden shoes) as well as playing an eclectic selection of their favourite records and tracks from their new album 'Popular Songs'. Plus... archive concert tracks from Bob Marley live in 1973 and That Petrol Emotion's 1990 concert at the Guildford Civic. Session artists include Bow Wow Wow offering some Burundi Beat in session for John Peel in 1980, The Weather Prophets, also in for Peel from 1986 and David Cornenberg's Wife's October session for Cerys.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 2 Dec 2009 21:00

Music Played

  • Super Eagles

    Love's A Real Thing

  • Yo La Tengo

    If It's True

  • The Chiffons

    Stop, Look And Listen

  • King Drummer

    I Am A Drummer

  • The Clean

    Tensile

  • Sun Ra

    Stuff Like That There

  • Spiders

    Gimme Some Lovin'

  • Holom Toe Swingsters

    Silver Pipe

  • Big Boy Pete

    Cold Turkey

  • Times New Viking

    Move To California

  • William Bell

    Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday

  • Karol Keyes

    Can't You Hear The Music

  • The Weather Prophets

    She Comes From The Rain (Radio 1 Session, 2 Jul 1986)

  • Big Sexy Noise

    Slydell

  • Beach House

    Norway

    • CD SINGLE.
    • BELLA UNION.
    • 1.
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Stir It Up

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Kinky Reggae

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Rastafarian Chant - Paris Theatre 1973

  • The Durutti Column

    Otis

    • THE BEST OF THE DURUTTI COLUMN.
    • WSM.
  • White Rainbow

    Pulses

  • Bow Wow Wow

    Uomosex - Al Apache

  • Press Plays

    Golden Ship

  • Schneider TM

    Indie Christmas Medley

  • Weather Prophets

    Faithful (Radio 1 Session, 2 Jul 1986)

  • Shrag

    Erratic Fictions

  • That Petrol Emotion

    Big Decision (Â鶹Éç Live Recording, Reading University, 16 Oct 1990)

  • That Petrol Emotion

    It's A Good Thing (Â鶹Éç Live Recording, Reading University, 16 Oct 1990)

  • That Petrol Emotion

    Genius Move (Â鶹Éç Live Recording, Reading University, 16 Oct 1990)

  • That Petrol Emotion

    Abandon - Reading University 1990

  • Th’ Faith Healers

    This Time

  • Nick Cave

    The Beach

  • Furnace Mountain

    Ooh belle

  • Yabby U

    Hungering Dub

    • BLOOD & FIRE.
    • 9.
  • Bow Wow Wow

    Go Wild In The Country

  • Made in Sweden

    Winter's A Bummer

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 Dec 2009 21:00