Pholk Tape #3

I've travelled back home to the South-East this week in plenty of time for Christmas, and as a result my days have been busy. But there's been plenty of time for me to listen to music, I mean, I had a 7 hour train journey to get through with only the aid of sausage rolls, 7up, and whatever I could convince people to text me. On a side note I challenge anyone to make a pair of earphones/headphones that remain comfortable for that long. Seriously, if you do make some or know of any, I will buy them, or put them on a Christmas list for next year...

Anyway that is all by-the-by and this is not by-the-by, it is now - although it won't be 'now' when you read this, it'll be your 'now' - but again this is besides the point. There has still been plenty of music old and new filling my ears this week, some of the names on here you'll probably be starting to recognise if you heard my first two mixes (Ellie Goulding in particular). Some may be of course new to these mixes but not to your greedy ears which are constantly scanning the acoustosphere (yes I made that word up) for traces of anything which pleases you. And some will, I hope, be new to both these mixes and your hearing-buds (I should stop doing this), because currently there's no chance of me 'buying' you a gift for Christmas.

There are some deliberately Christmassy songs on this tape but I resisted the temptation to bang together some Slade, Band-Aid, Chris Rea etc... as you'll probably get this anyway at a work or school Christmas party. And, in all honesty the DJ would probably do a better job of putting them together than me as well, and that's really saying something.

So what I've opted for instead is a hour long mixture of songs that to me at least have a christmassy sound. As with the last tape, there's still a cold feel to the mix, but this one has a softer more pituresque post card feel (barring the first two and last two tracks). I've thrown in a few tracks with sleigh bells on in case you fail to get the full effect of my hour and a half's hard labour.

But regardless of however it is put together, whether there is a theme or not, and whether I have back ache or not from sitting at aan awkward position for ages, it is obivous that there has been, is and continues to be good music being made every day. That's what tiny tim really wanted for Christmas, so "God bless 'im" and "God bless us, Every One"

Pholk Tape #3 - Christmas

01: LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Prince Language Remix)
02: Paul Kalkbrenner - Aaron (Dominik von Werdt Remix)
03: Two Door Cinema Club - Do You Want It All?
04: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (acoustic/strings version)
05: The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin
06: Scala & Kolcany Brothers - Heartbeats
07: The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York
08: The Low Anthem - To Ohio
09: Eddie Hinton - I Can't Be Me
10: Half Man Half Biscuit - It's Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas
11: Wilco - You & I (feat. Feist)
12: Jose Vanders - For Now
13: Ellie Goulding - The End
14: Prince Zimboo - Santa Flaws
15: Andrew - It's Christmas


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p.s. RATM for Xmas #1 - Get amongst it!