Pet Sounds Weekly Playlist – Sub Pop

“We’re not the best, but we’re pretty good” So runs the strap-line on the Seattle label’s homepage. From being instrumental in the beginnings of grunge, putting out early records by Mudhoney, Soundgarden and of course Nirvana, to signing American Indie successes The Shins, Sebadoh and Hot Hot Heat to a forward looking roster including Fleet Foxes, Avi Buffalo and Beach House, there’s certainly plenty of evidence to support the second part of that self-effacing mission statement. This is just a sample of what the much loved label has had to offer so far. Check it out on Spotify HERE and grab all the other Pet Sounds Weekly Playlists HERE.

01 About A Girl – Nirvana
02 Bandages – Hot Hot Heat
03 Your Protector – Fleet Foxes
04 Smokey Taboo – CocoRosie
05 I Am John – Loney, Dear
06 Turn On Me – The Shins
07 The Distance – Dntel
08 Soul And Fire – Sebadoh
09 Rolling Sea – Vetiver
10 Grip Like A Vice – The Go! Team
11 Cue The Strings – Low
12 Used To Be – Beach House
13 By Your Side – Beachwood Sparks
14 Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car – Iron & Wine
15 Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) – Postal Service

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Pet Sounds Weekly Playlist – Instrumentals Vol. 1

Something a little different from the Pet Sounds boys this week. Charlie explains. “I started compiling an instrumental playlist a couple of weeks ago and ended up amassing more than 50 tracks, when Tim and I tried it at the Dog we did all night. Probably far too many to digest in one go so I thought I’d do one for now and maybe follow it up in a couple of weeks with Vol. 2

Some absolute banging staples in here, Green Onions, possibly the most complete and perfect song ever written, the origin of Bittersweet Symphony, The Beastie Boys flexing their chops, a soulful cover of a Mamas and Papas tune, arguably the Small Faces finest moment and a guaranteed floor-filler from RJD2, still remember Bren dropping that on me years back, plus a fucking mean groove from Young-Holt Unlimited that defies you to stay still. Not least, the very song that represents our chosen path, the wonderful and odd Pet Sounds by Brian, where we borrowed our name from.”

Head over to Spotify to listen to this weeks offering and check out the past playlists HERE.

01 Intro – The XX
02 Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
03 Green Onions – Booker T & The MGs
04 The Fly – David Axelrod
05 69 Police – David Holmes
06 Wah Wah Man – Young-Holt Unlimited
07 Glad – Traffic
08 California Dreamin’ – Baby Huey & The Babysitters
09 Spandex Man – Mr Scruff
10 Coffee In The Pot – Supergrass
11 Ghostwriter – RJD2
12 G.B.H. – Death In Vegas
13 Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake – The Small Faces
14 Sabrosa – The Beastie Boys
15 The Last Time – The Andrew Oldham Orchestra

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COR’s Mark Persaud plays out Sunday

Well known Southsea man about town and top chap Mark Persaud will be helping bring the Bank Holiday to it’s inevitable close this Sunday 29th from 9.30pm at Drift Bar. With some underground disco and house entertainment to ease the pain, all you need is a few drinks and your dancing feet. To give you an idea of what’s in store, check out this mix that Mark did for COR a while back over HERE.

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Miss Cufuffle Presents this Friday

You are invited to a brand new free night, brought to you by well known and undiscovered talent of local artists. All in the name of having a giggle and a lot of fun. Expect an eclectic electronic mix of music styles, covering Nu-Funk, French House, Disco, Swing, Electro, Samba, Salsa, Tech-House, Jazz, Big Beat and everything else in between that’s a little bit different! For its first outing Miss Cufuffle Presents Silas Greenback, UDY, Mayzee, Illustrious, Miss Funky Fox. For more information on these Artists and DJ’s keep an eye on the Miss Cufuffle Presents Facebook Group.

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LJR Summer Party with We Are Scientists DJ Set

Club Tropicana drinks are free! Unfortunately not at the annual LJR Summer Party though. This year brings to you an appearance from American rockers We Are Scientists for a DJ set. This is a party not to be missed with lots of decorations and a club tropicana fancy dress theme. Updates are over on Facebook.

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Southsea Fest’s Full Listing Feast

Josie and her band of Southsea Pirates are getting all set to shiver our timbers once again this September 18th with Southsea Fest, One Day, One City, One Street!

Southsea Fest is an independent music festival, which came about to help a young artist (The Unknown Soldiers) with lymphoma to produce and record a studio album, as well as raising treasure for the Ellen McArthur Trust, a charity dedicated to enriching the lives of children with cancer. Formed in 2007 (originally as a two venue event) Southsea Fest has transformed into a project encompassing Albert Road, showcasing unsigned and newly established musical talent (both local and regional), with poets, DJs and artists.

The good ship Southsea Fest is now sailed by a scurvy crew of enthusiastic individuals incorporating promoters from across the south coast including Josie Curtis / David Ball / Chris Whitear / Kate Griffiths / Lora Kirk / Sarah Parham / Ally Wolf / Nick Courtney / Abby Walker / Gentle Bren / Abbie Eales / Simon Pykett / El Morgan / Lara Lovatt & Vicky Halliday.

Tickets are available now from The Wedgewood Rooms Box Office, Albert Road : 02392 293301 and www.wegottickets.com at £15 adult, £8 child and under 12′s go free (entry subject to individual venue rules).

Plenty more acts are to follow so make sure you keep yourself up to date over at www.southseafest.com, Facebook and also Twitter. Click the Poster for the full size version.

LJR Summer Party with We Are Scientists DJ Set

Club Tropicana drinks are free! Unfortunately not at the annual LJR Summer Party though. This year brings to you an appearance from American rockers We Are Scientists for a DJ set. This is a party not to be missed with lots of decorations and a club tropicana fancy dress theme. Updates are over on Facebook.

Scratch Practice with Theory 77

The consistently prolific Theory 77 has been a well known face and character in Southsea for many, many years and although he’s now living down the road in Brighton, he still holds strong connections to the island. Rather than wax lyrical about Mike I’ll let his work do the talking so to say. Those that know him are aware, and those that don’t should take five and check him out.

Head over to www.nofrillsrecords.co.uk for all you need to know including FREE MP3s. Hook up on Facebook, check out the Theory 77 Podcasts and watch more videos over at YouTube. More than enough to keep you from doing any work for a while.

“Theory 77 is a Turntablist/battle DJ, Producer and MC/poet based in Brighton, East Sussex. Described by John Peel as “Astonishing”, Theory 77’s musical style is inspired by lo-fi Folk, Delta Blues, ‘60’s Pysch and the original elements of old school hiphop. Theory 77 formally known as “Theory” In 2009, after working under the name “Theory” since 1994, Theory 77 decided to change his name due to the amount of other artists working under the same alias.”

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Pet Sounds Weekly Playlist – The Producers

This weeks Pet Sounds Playlist is a salute to the record producer, who frequently goes unnoticed by the public, and who is often the primary creative force behind a record. Many great moments in pop can be attributed to the people behind the scenes as much as, if not more than, those in the spotlight. Listen on Spotify HERE.

Sam Phillips seeing something special in Elvis, Phil Spector and his formidable wall of sound, Brian Wilson ignoring the rest of the Beach Boys to follow his own vision, John Leckie convincing Ian Brown to stop trying so hard and do what came naturally, Rick Rubin bringing Johnny Cash to a whole new audience through inspired cover choices, Dr Dre presenting us with the new Elvis, Brian Eno introducing Talking Heads to Fela Kuti and Andrew Weatherall converting Primal Scream from foppish Byrds copyists into saucer-eyed futurists. Here’s to the grease in the cogs…

01 That’s Alright – Elvis Presley (Sam Phillips)
02 My Name Is… – Eminem (Dr Dre)
03 Billie Jean – Michael Jackson (Quincy Jones)
04 Be My Baby – The Ronettes (Phil Spector)
05 Once In A Lifetime – Talking Heads (Brian Eno)
06 Sound And Vision – David Bowie (Tony Visconti)
07 Where Is My Mind? – The Pixies (Steve Albini)
08 Pump It Up – Elvis Costello (Nick Lowe)
09 What’d I Say – Ray Charles (Jerry Wexler)
10 Til The End Of The Day – The Kinks (Shel Talmy)
11 Telstar – The Tornados (Joe Meek)
12 C.R.E.A.M. – Wu-Tang Clan (RZA)
13 Holy Are You – The Electric Prunes (David Axelrod)
14 You Got The Silver – The Rolling Stones (Jimmy Miller)
15 I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times – The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson)
16 This Is Hardcore – Pulp (Chris Thomas)
17 Bye Bye Badman – The Stone Roses (John Leckie)
18 Disarm – Smashing Pumpkins (Butch Vig)
19 Loaded – Primal Scream (Andrew Weatherall)
20 Hurt – Johnny Cash (Rick Rubin)

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Harvest Hoedown Folk Festival

Harvest Hoedown Folk Festival is a FREE, 11 hour music event @ Edge of The Wedge in Southsea from midday on 26th September featuring the musical like of Danni Nicholls, Champ of The Day, Hometown Show, Day of The Rabblement, Kevin Brewer, Alex Denham, James Tippins, Paddy Taylor, Caz Batten, Cat Mclean, The Boy I Used To Be, Dirty Sky Jones, Kelly Kemp, Chris Ricketts & Mark Willshire, LKV, May Day, and many, many more….

Not only will there be live music but the day will also include competitions with opportunities to win some fantastic prizes, stalls with band-merch and more. More information soon. Keep checking Facebook for details.

Poster Design : Spencer McIntosh

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LJR Summer Party with We Are Scientists DJ Set

Club Tropicana drinks are free! Unfortunately not at the annual LJR Summer Party though. This year brings to you an appearance from American rockers We Are Scientists for a DJ set. This is a party not to be missed with lots of decorations and a club tropicana fancy dress theme. Updates are over on Facebook.

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Science 1st Birthday Party

This Saturday 21st The Royal Albert & The Loft on Albert Road will be hosting The Science 1st Birthday Party. A full day of underground house music spread over two venues. Come join the fun from 1pm till 8pm at The Royal Albert free garden party with BBQ and then on to The Loft, above The kings from 8pm till 1am.

Music and entertainment provided by local artists Rich Jones, Tommy Mundell, Laurence Reed, Stu Bryan, Kelly Wainwright, Arron Binstead, Rich Archaic and Simon Heartfield. Check out Laurence on Soundcloud HERE and view any further information over at Facebook.

Gloo Live @ The Bandstand. Get Involved.

Kill Kasper…Will McNicol…Colour Masks…The Caravan Gallery…Live Graffiti…DJs…Exhibitions…

Any of those sound good to you? Of course they do! So head down to the Bandstand for a day of artistic tomfoolery and cracking music. We’ve got everything from exhibitions in caravans to live graffiti. Here’s the line up:

Streetlight in The Caravan Gallery. Students from the second Streetlight Photography Course show their work in the Nation’s favourite mobile gallery.

Visual Vibration: Charlie Khalsi will be there all day making a 40ft graffiti wall. Get involved and have a go with the spray cans and have a stencil made of your own face (for just £3)!

ImaGen: We’ll be showing off the project – displaying the photos and stories that we’ve got so far and recruiting new participants.

Rite/Rote: Lilian Tula will be bustling around the Bandstand doing research for an art project about the way the internet’s affected the way we communicate. Look out for her quick fire questions about smileys and abbreviations!

There’ll be DJs, MCs and all sorts of other things there… watch THIS space for updates!

If you would like to get involved in any way please get in contact with Steve Bomford at steve@nebweb.co.uk and he’ll give you some more information.

The Cellars Takeover The Bandstand

Tomorrow sees The Cellars at Eastney take over the Saturday bandstand with the following acts:

The Rivers Of Sound
…The Luke Ferre Band
Dirty Sky Jones
Eden

The fun starts at 1pm. Fingers crossed for sunshine!

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Hot Ears at The Kings Theatre

Hot Ears will be showcasing some of Portsmouth’s finest acts at a charitable event at the Kings Theatre on 13th August. Performances will include The Rubicon, Leigh Mary Stokes, Luke Ferre, one of the ‘Musicroom acoustic showcase’ finalists and DJ Phillip Harvey to entertain you at the after party. This event will be compared by Express FM’s favourite Joel Ransom’, alongside one of Portsmouth’s youngest talented musicians Master Huw Oleska.

The event is in association with ‘Solent Youth Action’, a charity that empowers young people to develop as individuals, enjoy new challenges and make a positive contribution to the community through volunteering. Proceeds made will be contributed to this charity. Tickets are available at ‘The Kings Theatre’, Southsea and ‘Musicroom’ in Commercial Road. £5 early bird, £6 on the door.

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Pet Sounds Weekly Playlist – Bloody Foreigners

This weeks Pet Sounds Playlist comes in the form of songs sung by those what don’t speak English…and Bill Wyman. 6 of them are French, but there is a bit of Iceland, Germany and even a little Japanese. Grab it from Spotify HERE and check out all the past playlists HERE.

01 La Bamba – Ritchie Valens
02 Joe Le Taxi – Vanessa Paradis
03 Ysbeidiau Heulog – Super Furry Animals
04 Panda – Dungen
05 Nouveau Western – MC Solaar
06 A Minha Menina – Os Mutantes
07 Ne Dans Un Ice-Cream – Michel Polnareff
08 Foux Du Fafa – Flight Of The Conchords
09 Hoppipola – Sigur Ros
10 Sexy Boy – Air
11 99 Luftballons – Nena
12 Melody – Serge Gainsbourg
13 Rock Me Amadeus – Falco
14 Sukiyaki – Kyu Sakamoto
15 (Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star – Bill Wyman

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Hawks & Doves (Chicago, USA) 12th of August @ The Fat Fox plus support

Joe Vipers presents and describes:

Hawks & Doves is Gared from Planes Mistaken For Stars solo project, this will be just him and an acoustic guitar and only one of a handful of UK dates. Now based in Chicago and a full length is due out on No Idea sometime this year, this is not too be missed, check out some jams here …

Support comes from:

The Owl Gene – First Portsmouth outing for Basingstokes The Owl Gene. Having played in Driveway Speeding and Servo, Jez is now playing beautiful acoustic tunes on his lonesome.

Kelly Kemp – One of Portsmouths/Plymouths finest! If you haven’t witness Kelly’s solo show or as part of Livers & Lungs you’ve missed out!

The Buildings, they are sleeping now – Another visitor from Basingstoke and also part of the awesome Black Heart Orchestra, self descibed as
“A boy who cant sing, cant play guitar and cant write songs but is trying. Ripping off the likes of Woods, Two Gallants, Neutral Milk Hotel and such along the way, because they are good.”
I disagree, get there early for his set.

Doors are at 8, and its £3 in, this is gonna be a great night, turn up, get boozed and spread the word!

Acoustic Performers Wanted

A quick message from our good friends at The Little Johnny Russells.

“LJRs is currently on the lookout for more Acoustic performers (solo/bands) to play at Batteries Not Included on a Tuesday night in 2010. We already have a fine roster of performers, but we need more!!!

If you’re interested in playing, please message me back or send an email to info@littlejohnnyrussells.com . Please include your myspace address (so i can hear your tunes) and a little bit about what you do (for promo use).

There is no fee for performing on these nights, however we do lay on a couple of drinks for each performer and the evening is used as a great way to perform to friends and family and also to promote yourself to any others in attendance. Pass it on!”

Vote For The Strange Death of Liberal England

BBC 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq puts up a public vote for songs to be included in his Rebel Playlist and this week one of the songs up for vote is ‘Rising Sea’ by our own The Strange Death of Liberal England. Have a listen to a clip of the song below and then vote (and listen to the clips of the other two songs) here. Voting closes at 2359 on Sunday.

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Southsea Fest launch their new Website

The motley crew lead by Captain Josie have just launched their new Southsea Fest Website at www.southseafest.com. A great way to help you keep up to date on all things Fest for this coming September 18th. Also, I you have a bit of hangover on Sunday the 19th a few of us might go for a Bike Ride…interested?

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