LIST 189 - 12/02/16

Hello again,

Further mixed offerings again this time and, sad to say, another in loving memory moment following the passing earlier this week of Des Stanley aka Wild Planet, founder of and guitarist with early-mid 1980s punk revellers !Action Pact!.  The Heathrow Touchdown EP, in particular, will be familiar to John Peel fans of the period, and the later track included at the end of this week's List gives no less accurate an indication of the tremendous amount of fun they were at their peak.  Rest easy, Des.

Ex-Standard Farer Emma Kupa and ex-Stereolabber Tim Gane make an appearance this time around with new produce from their respective Mammoth Penguins and Cavern Of Anti-Matter projects; ditto The High Llamas, the longstanding vehicle of course for another Stereolab alumnus (and Microdisney before that) in the shape of Sean O'Hagan.

Curios old and new include the most Sheffield track ever to reach the UK top 10 singles chart; Bjork doing a spot of jazz all of 26 years ago; and an all too pertinent, biting Smiths cover...

J xx


MAMMOTH PENGUINS – Strength in My Legs (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Sk-ITID20

CAVERN OF ANTI-MATTER - Phototones (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0cR-PGKdE

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - Focus Pocus / Debiel (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az00dyUbJmY

CALEXICO – Falling from the Sky (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_gfQ9CssLA

CRUMPLEHORNS – On Off (2014)
https://soundcloud.com/crumplehorns/on-off

BRIAN ENO - From the Same Hill (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixF6OsJfOME

KAKI KING – Great Round Burn (2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVG8DJLOs5U

MBONGWANA STAR - Kala (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZxMZBZ628

TONY CAPSTICK – The Sheffield Grinder (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTXjp2bf1vo

THE HIGH LLAMAS - Here Come The Rattling Trees (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-7h9cfoDlw

THE HIGH LLAMAS – Campers in Control (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFGEy2yAM48

JOY AGAIN – Looking Out For You (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx-4NuzjA1Y

THE STRANGLERS – Thrown Away (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmYHEH1P8w

HONG KONG IN THE 60s – Patricia (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqJuhfpwsg

SARAH CRACKNELL ft THE RAILS – Take the Silver (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-MTg5103c

BJÖRK GUðMUNDSDÓTTIR & TRÍÓ GUðMUNDAR INGÓLFSSONAR – Pabbi Minn (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWExAM2ZSYU

ELVIS PERKINS – Hogus Pogus (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqRb8JdWkY

LOW – Spanish Translation (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0TJrlemmVQ

THE BOO RADLEYS – Reaching Out From Here (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQSgSpnNghQ

THE IAIN DUNCAN SMITHS – Girlfriend in a Coma (She’s Fit for Work) (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So5fszZjvMs

!ACTION PACT! – Johnny Fontaine (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5elt4ajvIc