New Mogwai video for Batcat taken from the album 'The Hawk Is Howling' directed by Dominic Hailstone

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This weeks Hangover mix comes from Birmingham 4 piece Blakfish. I was lucky enough to catch them in Eammon Dorans a few months back and was totally blown away by them and how tight they are, they will be back on theses shores in August (dates in the read more)
(tracklisting and download link in the read more)


Tracklisting
01 Sawdust and Diamonds - Joanna Newsom
02 Let go - Frou Frou
03 Playing Possom for a Peek - Owen
04 Love Gun - KISS
05 Moses I Amn't - Mogwai
06 Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson
07 Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd
08 Feathers and Fur - No Knife
09 Roads - Portishead
10 Here come the Sirens - On the Might of Princes

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As i said Blakfish will be playing ireland in August dates are as follows

21 Aug 2008 Eamonn Doran’s W/Tubelord Dublin,
22 Aug 2008 TBC W/Tubelord
23 Aug 2008 The Whiskey W/Tubelord Cork
24 Aug 2008 tbc W/Tubelord + We Are Knives Londonderry, Northern Ireland
25 Aug 2008 tbc W/Tubelord + We Are Knives Belfast, Northern Ireland
(if you think you can help them out with either of the TBC dates contact them on there myspace)

They have also just released "See You In Another City" their first on Big Scary Monsters. It is a lovely 5 track mini-album you can buy it here

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With the re-issue of Young Team already in shops now, the Scottish noise mungers Mogwai have released the detail for there next album called The Hawk Is Howling (album cover above) they also have a new EP called Batcat out soon as well

tracklisting for both in the read more , as well as a live video for Batcat and a really good old Mogwai video


The Hawk Is Howling traclisting

01 I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
02 Batcat
03 Daphne and the Brain
04 Local Authority
05 The Sun Smells Too Loud
06 Kings Meadow
07 I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
08 Scotland's Shame
09 Thank You Space Expert
10 The Precipice

Batcat Ep traclisting
01 Batcat
02 Stupid Prick Gets Chased by the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend
03 Devil Rides (ft. Roky Erickson)

The Hawk Is Howling comes out September 22 on PIAS/Wall of Sound,and Batcat EP is out on September 8.

Mogwai - Batcat (live @ Queen Elizabeth Hall 12 May 2008)


MOGWAI - Friend Of The Night

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No special guest this week I'm afraid intrepid reader, so you're stuck with me (but worry not- we're working on some extra special guests, so keep your optical implants peeled). I hope this mix has the same rejuvenating powers as Mr. T

tracklisting download link and more in the read more


Tracklisting
1. I Beer - Reaching Quiet
2. The Singing Tree - Jeffrey Lewis
3. I'm Not Seventeen - Owen
4. Fuzzy Sun - Jim O'Rourke
5. Fall and Raise It On - Rian Murphy and Will Oldham
6. New Paths to Helicon (Pt.2) - Mogwai
7. Too Late Or Too Dead - 90 Day Men
8. superman on ice - 13 + god
9. The Sleeparound - Ris Paul Ric
10. Little Eyes - Yo La Tengo
11. Go (Daniel Johnston cover) - Sparklehorse(feat. The Flaming Lips)

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If your looking for a hangover tonight, i recommend Richter Collective Launch Tonight in the lower deck with Ten Past Seven, Bats, Los Langeros and Discarded Retarded

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Over the past couple of weeks by chance I've been listing to a few different cover versions.Sometimes they can remind you of a song you’ve forgotten about. Sometimes they can take a mediocre track and actually improve on it. And sometimes they can be downright hilarious.

the first is Thee More Shallows version of "I Can't Get Next to You" originally by The Temptations

Thee More Shallows myspace

Next is Mogwai's version of "Gouge Away" by PIXIES , its of "Dig For Fire - A Tribute To PIXIES"


Mogwai myspace

Something a little different off "Dynamite With A Laserbeam: Queen As Heard Through The Meat Grinder Of Three One G" which is bands signed to Three One G playing Queen songs. The one im gonna play is Melt Banana playing "We Will Rock You" its very different to the orginal

Melt Banana myspace
Three One G myspace

This is taken of The Brave and the Bold by Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy which is an album of cover versions . it Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy covering Daniel by Elton John


Bonnie 'Prince' Billy myspace
tortise myspace

And finaly we have Dump (Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew solo project) doing a cover of Yoyo Bye Bye by the amazing Why?

Dump also has an album called That Skinny Motherfucker With the High Voice? which is an album of prince covers and if anyone has it i would love to hear it.
couldnt find a myspace for dump so heres Yo La Tengo myspace

so as you can see we got our streaming music problem sorted thanks to nialler9 for sending me the info on it cheers again.

All that said not all cover versions are good just off the top of my head scissor sisters covering Comfortably numb awful,American Pie by Madonna awful , The Tide Is High by Atomic Kitten awful.
(got any other cover versions you think are good leave a comment , think what i wrote is utter shite leave a comment ..........and if you think what i wrote is alright leave a comment ......indifferent leave a comment)

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