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The next Indie Hour will now be on Tuesday 6th March 2012 with a returning DJ Stevlor. All at the usual time of 9-11pm on Sheffield Live (93.2FM).

The last show on Tuesday 21st February 2012 is currently available as a two-part MP3 downloadable podcast, along with prevous weeks, from the podcast archive.

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Thursday, 23 June 2011

Play list: Tuesday 21st June (Show no.267)

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - I let love in
2. Pisco Sour Hour - At the ranch house
3. Kaiser Chiefs - Caroline, yes
4. Godtherapy - Mainstream
5. Arctic Monkeys - Love is a laserquest
6. Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's hero
7. The Early Cartographers - Thread
8. Elephant Keys - I wanna be there
9. Pete & The Pirates - Cold Black Kitty
10. The Small Faces - Hey Girl
11. Mabel Love - Hardened face
12. Death Cab for Cutie - Some boys
13. The Black Lips - Mad dog
14. Tiny Dancers - Bonfire of the night
15. The Special Guest Stars - Snakes
16. Whispering Dolls - Play with fire
17. Deltasound - Probably
18. Toads - ECT
19. Cats:For:Peru - Duck in the over
20. The Only Ones - The Beast
21. The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
22. Circulus - Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
23. The Book Club - Perspex Princes
24. Dan Williamson - I Cooked her heart
25. Young Knives - Human again
26. Floating Death Picnic - Angst man
27. New Order - Temptation

Sheffield Index: 48%

Saturday, 18 June 2011

Play list: Tuesday 14th June (Show no.266)

1. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Astral Plane
2. Kimmy Yeah - Sticklebricks
3. Jack & The Beanstalks - Telephones, TVs and Computer Screens
4. Pulp - Mishapes
5. Miles Kane - Come Closer
6. Ian Britt - Run Lola Run (live session)
7. D4 - Party
8. Ian Britt - Me & My Friend Cupid (live session)
9. Gruff Rhys - Honey all over
10. Ian Britt - Boom Boom
11. Starlings - Sirens
12. Marmalade Sun - Monkey boy
13. Ian Britt - The way you make me feel (live session)
14. The Vaccines - Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)
15. Velodrome 2000 - Jetboystargirlpunk
16. The Nature Set - I am a planet
17. The Ridgeways - Yo Farabakish
18. The Soft Hearted Scientists - The trees don't seem to know it's September
19. Tiny Dancers - I will wait for you
20. Arctic Monkeys - Black Treacle
21. The Fall - Hit the North (live)
22. The Horrors - Still life
23. Glistening Pelt - La Plage
24. Dead Sons - City nights
25. Girl Spit - Blindfold
26. Coldplay - Every teardrop is a waterfall
27. Ghostlab - Half castle face
28. Everything Everything - Leave the engine room

Sheffield Index: 64%

Saturday, 11 June 2011

Arctic Monkeys/Miles Kane/The Vaccines Review

Arctic Monkeys/Miles Kane/The Vaccines

It’s Arctic Monkey’s first home show since May 2009 and the sense of anticipation in the specially erected big top at Don Valley Bowl is tangible. As always the band do things on their own terms opting for two nights under canvas where over  20,000 people will get to see them, across the way from the more conventional surroundings of the Don Valley Arena.

The hand-picked bill includes local lads and Arctic’s buddies Dead Sons, who sadly we miss. The tent swells for The Vaccines though as they deliver a sharp and direct set of post-new wave tunes, unsurprisingly revolving around their acclaimed debut “What did you expect from”.  Providing excellent bed-partners for the Monkeys with a same ‘all about the music’ ethos, front-man Justin Young looks equally at ease with or without his guitar slung around him.  Big cheers greet debut single “Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)” and the band’s signature tune, “Post-break-up sex”. The sentiments of their debut LP echo loud but that’s OK as the hanging base lines boom, surfeyscuzzing guitars slash in and out and Young’s 60’s inspired melodies float over the top. It’s hard to imagine that the London-based four piece embarked on their first tour as recently as September 2010.

Next up, main support Miles Kane cuts a familiar figure with his association with Alex Turner going right back to his Little Flames days and more recently Liverpool based trio The Rascals. He takes his band through a tight and compelling set that oozes confidence and makes it very clear just how much influence Kane has had on Alex Turner, their joint Last Shadow Puppets side project included. His retro-brand of 60s/psychedelic pop goes down a treat as he works the crowd well with his cheeky Scally swagger. Debut solo album “Colour of the trap” is given a good work-out; the garagey buzz of “Inhaler” gets the crowd moving, and “Quicksand” and it’s ‘ba ba ba's shows that retro doesn’t have to be about musical regression. “Kingcrawler” wouldn’t have been out of place on the aforementioned The Last Shadow Puppets album and the T-Rex-tinged stomp of “Come closer” also his the mark.

Tonight (and tomorrow), however, is all about the Monkeys. The intro tape hints that the band might be in playful mood: Hot Chocolate's “You Sexy Thing”, only tenuously linked to Sheffield via the “Full Monty” soundtrack.  Another, Turner’s donning of a T-shirt emblazoned with ‘Monkeys’ and the Sheffield council logo. They launch into a rip-roaring version of the frenetic and jerking “View From The Afternoon”, segwaying seamlessly into the circling guitar vortex of “Brainstorm”. It’s also clear that tonight Turner is going to take us for an almost nostalgic walk through the band’s whole back catalogue. So much so that it’s five tracks in before the acclaimed new album “Suck it and see” gets a look in in the shape of the double salvo of  “Don’t sit down cause I’ve moved your chair” and “Library pictures”. Based on the number of people shouting out the line “Going into business with a grizzly bear” on the former, the new LP has been doing brusque business since its release earlier in the week.

A taught and powerful version of “Teddy Picker” shows just why Matt Helders is touted as being one of the best drummers currently pounding the skins. “Crying Lightening” crawls out and raps itself round some of Turner’s finest and most opaque lyrics to date, belatedly giving that difficult third album a run out. A crowd assistedMardy Bum” (‘I've forgotten the words’ jokes Turner as emotional fans sing them back at him) and a crunching but compelling “I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor” whips the crowd into a frenzy.

Gone are the technical problems that dogged previous enormo-gigs (Reading/Leeds 2009) as the band despatch Monkey’s classic after classic. Jamie Cook and the still hairy Nick O’Malley attack their guitars with maximum efficiency and a minimum of fuss, as Turner effortlessly rides the wave of hometown goodwill. The organ-driven “Pretty visitors” briefly breaks the guitar monopoly before the band bring the set down to a gentle conclusion with “Do me a favour” and then “505”, Turner’s sparing partner Miles Kane joining the band to spread shards of psychedelic guitar over the song’s meandering atmospherics.

After nineteen songs Alex bids the crowd farewell, but of course there will be encores. And what encores they are. The final trio of “When the sun goes down”, “Fluorescent Adolescent” and the first performance of “A Certain Romance” since 2007 threatens to blow the roof off the tent. “Thank you ladies and gentlemen, it’s been a pleasure” coos Turner. The feeling's completely mutual and a fitting end to the almost fairytale rise of four local lads that used to practice down the road in their Neepsend rehearsal room to global stadium fillers.

Denzil RepoMen








Don Valley, Sheffield
Friday 10th June, 2011

Thursday, 9 June 2011

Play list: Tuesday 7th June 2011 (Show no.265)

1. Lori & The Chameleons - The Lonely Spy and Me
2. Jon Windle - Love her like a woman
3. Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie
4. Art Brut - Lost weekend
5. The Stranglers - Hangin' Around
6. The Ratells - Something more
7. Arctic Monkeys - Piledrive Waltz
8. Fang - The money will roll right in
9. Young Knives - Go to ground
10. Psychotic Youth - Love machine
11. The Monicans - Angeline
12. Big Dipper - You're not Patsy
13. Luke Haines - Peter Hammil
14. Bottleups - Ramblin Wreckless hobo
15. Flashman - Exiles
16. The Monday Club - Long time coming
17. Pete & The Pirates - Winter 1
18. Sonic Walthers - No lies
19. Arctic Monkeys - Library Pictures
20. Marmalade Sun - McQueen
21. Sort Sol - Holler high
22. Meat Puppets - Plateau
23. RepoMen - Tonight
24. Ian Britt - Middle
25. Cat's Eyes - I knew it was over
26. The Vaselines - Jesus wants me for a sunbeam
27. The Tivoli - The Messenger
28. Beat Happening - Bewitched

Sheffield Index: 39%

Thursday, 2 June 2011

Play list: Tuesday 31st May (Show no.264)

1. The The - Sweet bird of truth
2. Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
3. 747's - Fixing a hole
4. Wet  Nuns - Laura
5. Leather Nun - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
6. Harrisons - Loxley Bottoms
7. Sieben - A vision
8. Jeff Beck Group - All Shook up
9. The Vaccines - Out of the way
10. Eyes of Blue - Supermarket full of cans
11. The Violet May - TV
12. The Flamin Groovies - Milkcow blues
13. The Vibes - I'm in Pitsburgh and it's raining
14. Tiny Dancers - Hannah we know
15. Nat Johnson & The Figureheads - Margot
16. The M’s - Good morning good morning
17. Wire - Now was
18. Bloodbare - Beginning game
19. Mabel Love - Breaking it all
20. Dead Kennedays - Viva Las Vegas (live)
21. White Lies - Bad love
22. Pink Grease - Alien
23. Don't Sleep Dream - Grow
24. Ghostlab - 23 Rough stuff
25. Miles Kane - Inhaler
26. Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power - Lovely Rita
27. Don Valley & The Rotherhides - I'm so far in the red I'm blue
28. Lime Spiders - Lot to answer for

Sheffield Index: 46%