February 29, 2008

Theme: Bisextile Day On Air: Frank

I started a new Leap Day tradition with this show as I had two songs that I couldn't decide between for my top song of the week, so this week there are officially two top songs of the week. Both of the these (along with the third song) all came from the excellent Popcasting podcast ( www.geocities.com/popcastingpop ). There were also two sets of music from bands that had either just played or were about to play locally. I managed to see most of them, including a short but very fun set by Catriona Sturton, it was only afterward that I found out that she was once a member of the great Halifax indie-pop band from the the 90s called Plumtree. However, as it turns out she hadn't joined the band when the song by Plumtree was recorded. And can I tell you how much I am lovin' the way that I can now play songs live off the internet using the Wi-Fi capabilities at CKMS. For example on my European Capitals (well almost) set I remembered during the show that I have been meaning to play a song by Jens Lekman that I found on a blog once. I managed to find it again thanks to technorati and play it on the show. I ended with the only "Leap" song I could think of: a live (and updated) version of his song "Waiting For The Great Leap Forward". TALK-Theme Kings Have Long Arms F. - Big Umbrella Adele - Chasing Pavement The Duke Spririt - The Step and the Walk The Higher Elevations - Breaking The News The Heavenly States - Lost In The Light TALK (Owen's Birthday Party) Burning Hell - Grave Situation Part 1 (C) Wax Mannequin - The Price (C) Catriona Sturton - Digger (C) Plum Tree - Sodium Chloride (C) TALK (Playing Waterloo this week) D'Ubervilles - This Is The Life (C) Superfantastics - Lullaby Punches (C) Laura Barrett - Deception Island Optimists Club (C) Elbow Beach Surf Club - Its Not Working (C) Immaculate Machine - Secret Affliction (C) TALK (European Capitals Set - sort of) The Arcade Fire - All The Umbrellas In London The Last Party - Come Back To Stockholm Billie the Unison and the Dancers - A Beautiful Night In Oslo The Blue Seeds - Barcelona (C) Jens Lekman and The Silver Ages - Paris TALK Pinto - Iron and Rust Indurain - The Moment Le Futur Pompists - It's Not You My Darling You! - We Break Up On Friday TALK Miss T-Bones - Voodoo Doll Strip Squad - Damn You Foals - Balloon Santa Maria - Dogs Paper - To Her Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma TALK Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forward (live at Barbicon) (C) Denotes Canadian Content