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Yep, it’s Shrove Tuesday, aka pancake day, aka ‘so what if you didn’t get any valentines cards, have some pancakes’ day.
Today’s Sunshinecast has absolutely nothing to do with pancakes.
It has music in it.
You could listen to the music while you eat your pancakes, if you like.
Happy Tuesday.
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Yep, it’s Shrove Tuesday, aka pancake day, aka ‘so what if you didn’t get any valentines cards, have some pancakes’ day.
Today’s Sunshinecast has absolutely nothing to do with pancakes.
It has music in it.
You could listen to the music while you eat your pancakes, if you like.
Happy Tuesday.
PS: 
Got some new Americana in today’s show, also some pop and some rock, including the song ‘Pure Confessions’ by Taking Down Titans, which is Gig-X-Change‘s Song of The Week.
It’s love Jim, but not as we know it
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 7th February and Saturday 11th February 2012
You can subscribe to the rss feed for the show, grab it with a bunch of podcatchers, you can
It’s love Jim, but not as we know it
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 7th February and Saturday 11th February 2012
You can subscribe to the rss feed for the show, grab it with a bunch of podcatchers, you can get it with iTunes, or from right here, right now.
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For this Valentines Day Special show, I had a plan.
I knew exactly how it was going to go, and it went perfectly started off well.
I’d collected buckets full of love songs and songs about love by UK independent artists, none of the same tired old tat the mainstream stations have been playing to death for you, my dear and lovely radio-listening friends.
There was going to be an hour of happy romantic love songs and an hour of songs about love for the anti-valentines crowd, remember me saying that? Yeah. That didn’t happen.
What did happen was that I played two hours of love songs and songs about love in no particular order. Some were exquisitely lovely and sweetly romantic, some rather disturbingly dark, some triumphant “Thank you for the pain” anthems, and some sad and sorry tales of betrayal and broken hearts.
In conclusion, Valentines Day is a schmaltz-fest invented to sell cards; flowers and pink-plastic-red-fluffy-chocolate-covered-heart-shaped-whatever; UK Independent artists write s0me great songs about lurrrve; and I am a rrrubbish radio presenter. Good songs though. Enjoy.
With love, but perhaps not so much sunshine as you might like,
Kate.
Well, and chocolate, obviously. And maybe wine… and you could get some beers in, and some crisps (they go so well with beer, don’t you think), and (oh, crisps are ‘potato chips’ if you’re from that side of the pond) maybe some ice cream.
That’s me sorted for the average Tuesday, then. Of course, this isn’t just ‘the average Tuesday’ for some; for some, this is ‘Valentine’s Day’, a one day non-religious festival during which people who are getting some like to blatantly flaunt their relationships so as to destroy the souls of those who are getting none. As an added bonus, festival goers are encouraged to spend money on cheap tasteless tat such as pink plastic wineglasses and heart-shaped, gooey, soft pink fondant #whateverwecansellasvalentinemerc (and all of the items listed above). Participants who fail to purchase the right pink plastic tat in the right quantities face incurring the wrath of their partner and thus joining the ranks of those who are definitely not getting any until at least Christmas.
Oh, and the songs are all mushy and annoying and full of lyrics like “Ooh, baby, I love yooooou, ooh, doo bee doo, yeah”, right?
Wrong.
This show has an hour of fresh, new romantic love songs from UK independent artists that we guarantee will not make you reach for that paper bag.
Then in the second hour of the show, we’ve got songs about love that might not be so cheerful. If you ever wanted a soundtrack to a bitter breakup or a long, lonely, loveless winter, tune in after 7pm, you’ll find it here.
Anti-Valentiners should definitely stay away from the first hour of the show, because there will be huge quantities of lovey-dovey-ness. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
And – here’s a picture of a heart (I almost forgot – phew!)
See you at 1pm Eastern/ 6pm UK today for the Kate’s Sunshinecast Valentines Day Special. Bring chocolate…and wine…
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 7th February and Saturday 11th February 2012
You can subscribe to the rss feed for the show, grab it with a bunch of podcatchers, you can get it with iTunes, or from right here, right [...]
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 7th February and Saturday 11th February 2012
You can subscribe to the rss feed for the show, grab it with a bunch of podcatchers, you can get it with iTunes, or from right here, right now.
Download (right-click & save as)
This week, my plans for the show changed suddenly, so I asked the good people of Facebook what they thought I should play this week. However, the good people of Facebook were all out having a dirty weekend in Google+ so the only person who answered me was Robert Halcrow from the band Picturebox. He said that I should play a bit of everything and (this part shocked me) “especially some Picturebox. They’re so groovy”. I’d already decided not to play acoustic stuff this week, because I’ve played a lot of that lately, so there you have it then. An eclectic electric playlist, with added Picturebox.
Picturebox describe their sound as lo-fi pop, melodic music from the cathedral city of Canterbury. They have songs about hedgehogs, football, French pop, tennis, girls, tennis girls, cakes and tea parties. I don’t know why.
As an extra treat, here’s Picturebox’s latest EP ‘YouSay No’, to brighten up your day.
You can download it for the bargain price of £2 ($3.16) from the band’s Bandcamp page>> Picturebox on Bandcamp
Mr Ian Button, producer extraodinaire and musical hoe won’t be able to make it along to the Sunshine studio today after all, because he’s busy working on a mix of a vinyl mastering for Go Kart Mozart. He’ll be back sometime in April, we reckon. Here’s a lil’ bit of Go Kart [...]
Mr Ian Button, producer extraodinaire and musical hoe won’t be able to make it along to the Sunshine studio today after all, because he’s busy working on a mix of a vinyl mastering for Go Kart Mozart. He’ll be back sometime in April, we reckon. Here’s a lil’ bit of Go Kart Mozart for you to enjoy.
So I wondered, what to do with the show in Ian’s absence? Jazz? Pop? Rock? Electronica? Bouncy? Sad? Mellow? Whatever I play, there won’t be much acoustic stuff this week, because I’ve played a lot of that lately, so it’s all got to be electric. I asked the good people of Facebook what they thought I should play this week, but the good people of Facebook were all out having a dirty weekend in Google+ so the only person who answered me was Robert Halcrow from the band Picturebox. He said that I should play a bit of everything and (this part shocked me) “especially some Picturebox. They’re so groovy”.
There you have it then. An eclectic, electric playlist, with added Picturebox.
Picturebox describe their sound as lo-fi pop, melodic music from the cathedral city of Canterbury. They have songs about hedgehogs, football, French pop, tennis, girls, tennis girls, cakes and tea parties. I don’t know why.
Tune in at 1pm Eastern/6pm UK today to hear your new favourite UK independent bands on Kate’s Sunshinecast.
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