Vinyl, CDs and a brilliant DJ

If I was going to be a DJ, I would almost certainly want to be Gilles Peterson, his knowledge and love of music is incredible.

Peterson is a great proponent of vinyl as oppossed to CD's and MP3s. This is somwthing I really admire, using the old and tried and tested medium, which not only delivers an unmatched quality of music, but also a nostaligia which is unbeatable.

I've grown up in a CD generation and CD is definitely my favourite medium, but I remain incredibly jealous of Gilles' brownswood basement, which is filled to the brim with vinyl, vinyl and more vinyl.

Gilles' excuse for not liking CDs is that they are too hard to put away, annoying and he always loses them, despite the fact that he uses CD's when he DJ's, this is a bit of a stupid excuse. Of course we'll let him off if he continues to introduce us to great new music.

Check this video out, the music is kick arse aswell:



Tune in next week for more quality music from Escape From the Pigeon Hole, every Saturday 4-5pm www.xpressradio.co.uk

Cheers
G

Well hello....

It has been sometime since we posted on this blog, but we're back at last and with a brand new spot. Now broadcasting at 4-5pm on Saturday afternoons we wil be bringing you once again a load of quality music. We've had all summer to scout out some new music and we've come back with a sack load of aural treats. I've put up the last show for you to download if you missed it. and below is the tracklisting. And remember to get in touch with your musical tastes.

7/11/09

1. Me and You - Hoop Loop
2. Q-Tip - Manwoogieboogie feat Amanda Diva
3. Nuyorican Soul - I am the black gold of the sun
4. Kenneth Carr with John Smart's band - Don't hate, lets communicate
5. Toumani Diabete's Symetrica Orchestra - Tapha Niang
6. Mr Scruff - This Way
7. Cinematic Orchestra - To build a home
8. Cinematic Orchestra - That home
9. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - When the other foot drops, uncle
10. Daedelus - Fair Weather Friends

We will be back with more posts, hopefully more colourful and interesting than this in the next week, so check back soon.

G x

Alrighty then
On Tuesday we had the last show of the year so we made it a bumper edition with nearly 30 tracks. Fatigue & Cabin Fever was definitely kicking in by the end so beware it might not all make sense! Great music though

1. Bob Marley- Soul Shakedown Party
2. Jumbonics- Jezebel (Diesler Remix)
3. The Black Keys- 10am Automatic
4. Lanu feat. Kero One- It's Time
5. Funky Four Plus One- That's the Joint
6. Daedelus- Pursed Lips (with Sach)
7. Cody ChestnuTT- Look Good in Leather
8. King Creosote- Coast On By
9. Mozez- Venus Rise
10. Bonga- Mulemba Xangda
11. Jazz Liberatorz- Cooldown
12. Pilooski- Can't There Be Love
13. Bon Iver- Wolves parts I & II
14. Aim- Smile
15. The Herbaliser- You're Not All That
16. Skinnyman- Love's Gone From the Streets
17. Staff Benda Bilili- Staff Benda Bilili
18. Pheonix - Long Distance Call
19. Kelvin Brown- Live at the Soul Cellar Mix
20. Orlando Julius- My Girl
21. Biosis Now- Independent Bahamas
22. Lamb- I Cry
23. Dance Area- AA 24/7 (Diplo Remix)
24. Jazzanova- Let Me Show You (feat. Paul Randolph)
25. Fiery Furnaces- Untitled
26. Orchestra Afrisa- Muwoso Muwoso
27. Billie Holliday- Pennies from Heaven
28. Bob Dylan- One More Cup of Coffee
29. Feist- Now at Last

Lovely stuff.I implore you to check out Staff Benda Bilili- amazing music and I've just found out that what I thought were bikes were actually wheelchairs!
This is the trailer for a feature film coming out soon:



Impressive
So we'll be back next year with more shows, maybe the odd post in the meantime
Take it easy
Jonny

May 26th show

Apologies again for this late tracklisting update, i seem to be a little slow now that I have nothing to do. There's some new shows for you to download however, incuding the 26th show, which, if you don't mind me saying, I think is one of our better ones.

We will be on again on tuesday but it may well be our last, hopefully it will be an extra long show so tune in from 10ish and we should hopefully be on.

I've been enjoying lots of new music recently, such as Quantic and his Combo Barbaro, Tony Allen and The Juan Maclean.

Check out this review of last years worldwide festival, I keep watching it and it keeps getting me more and more excited about the festival. Have a little look anyway, its a pretty nice vid.

Worldwide festival 2008 "the aftermath" from Morzy on Vimeo.

Now...the tracklisting

1. Fat Freddies Drop - Roady
2. Soil and Pimp Sessions - Avalanche
3. Lykke Li - Knocked up (Carson Daly)
4. Lee MacDonald aka Clevland Parker - I'll do anything for you
5. Staff Benda Biliki - Sala Mosala
6. Sexual Healing - Hot 8 Brass Band
7. Jay Electronica - Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)
8. Eddie Roberts - Giorgio's Brother (Lack Of Afro remix)
9. Sufjan Stevens - Sofia's Song
10. King Creosote - You've No Clue Do You
11. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
12. Kurtis Blow - The Brakes
13. The National - Blood Buzz Ohio (live)
14. Royksopp - Remind Me
15. James Brown - Strangers In The Night
16. Badly Drawn Boy - Four Leaf Clover
17. Emilliana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime
18. NSM - Hype
19. Ray Charles It's Not Easy Being Green

A lovely selection I hope you'll agree.
G xx

McFerrin

Just stumbled across this guy Terry McFerrin cause he's playing the Singapore worldwide festival. It's deep. His dad isn't bad either-

Tonights show!!

Fresh from the show I thought I'd whack the ole tracklisting up asap so here it is...

May 19th:
1. Youngblood Brass Band - V.I.P
2. Blackalicous - 4000 Miles
3. Estelle - Pretty Please (Love Me) Feat Cee Lo
4. The Veils - Jesus for the Jugular
5. Animal Collective - My Girls
6. Kosheen - Resist
7. LSK - The Takeover
8. Shirati Jazz - Dr Binol
9. TY - This is Hear Music
10. Go! Team - Ladyflash (Simian Mobile Disco remix)
11. Five Du Tones - Shake Your Tail Feather
12. The Bar-keys - Shake Your Rump to the Funk
13. Jackson Sisters - I believe in Miracles
14. Boozo Bajai ft Oh No - Back Up
15. Natural Self - Solomon (Nostalgia 77 mix)
16. Beck - Go It Alone
17. Cornish Waters - Walking
18. Coldcut - Aid Dealer
19. Herbie Hancock feat Leonard Cohen -

A belated update

Ok so We've been a bit lame of late. Or should I say more specifically I have; i've only just got round to posting up these two tracklistings but finally they are here for your viewing pleasure

Sorry to everyone who tried to tune in last Tuesday and failed to hear us. For some unknown and stupid reason the whole radio was shut down and we didn't know any of the password to get it up and running again. Hopefully tonight it will run a wee bit smoother.

I hope everyone has been enjoying the music on the show. We've only got a few more till we leave for the summer but please have a little listen to some of our past shows and give us any feedback we always welcome your comments and suggesttions. I've got two past shows which I hope to post on the blog soon.

Right tracklistings....

1. Bamboos - Step it up
2. Arcade Fire - Black Mirror (Team 9 remix)
3. Idle Time (Lack Of Afro remix) - The New Mastersounds
4. Ella James - Payback
5. Delroy Wilson - I Want Justice
6. Kero One Feat Niamaj - The Vibe
7. DJ Format - You Hear That?
8. Hey Joe - Brazilias
9. Hey Joe - Yuyu Vchida & the flavers
10. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Paul Newman's Eyes
11. Orchestra African Fiesta - Runeme Mam
12. Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Back Again
13. Quasimoto - Real Eyes
14. Jon Kennedy - Tell Me How You Feel (Bonobo remix)
15. Idlewild - Remote Part pt.1 (Scottish fiction)
16. Tunng - Jenny Again
17. King Louis Collective - Leave This Town
18. Zero 7 - Look Up
19. Morcheeba - The Sea
20. Ryan Adams - Elizabeth you were born to play that part



28/04/09 (feat Mr 'Big Daddy' Faulkus)

1. Pharohe Monch - Welcome to the Terrordome
2. Johnathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
3. Final Solution - Brotherman
4. Four Tet - She Moves She
5. Skinny Man - I'll be Suprised
6. Camille - Au Port
7. Jazzanova - Let Me Show Ya (Feat Paul Randolph)
8. Jorge Ben - Porque E'Proibido
9. Lemon Jelly - Babu Battle Scratch
10. Sebastian Schuller - Willow
11. Youngblood Brass Band - Bone Refinery
12. Jamie Woon - Spirits
13. John Martyn - Over the Hill
14. Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman
15. The Four Brothers - Pasi Pano Pane Zviedo
16. Rhythm and Soul - Dem Never Know (feat John Cotton)
17. Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday

MC Xander

This is amazing. MC Xander is supporting Youngblood Brass Band when they play in Cardiff. Looks like quite a night, tickets available now at studentcardiff.com.
If you need proof, check this out:

MC XANDER IN THE GANTRY


Jonny

Whopper Virgins and Beat Mining!

I've come across a couple of really interesting things recently which I thought I'd share with you.



The first is something I saw on the brilliant Creative Review blog, a wicked blog which is twined with the expensive but similarly named magazine. Check out the blog here, there's loads of great stuff to check out.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/.



On Creative Review I saw this film (below) which made for strangely compelling but also pretty maddening and thought provoking viewing. It's basically about an advertising campaign taking the Burger King Whopper to some of the most obscure communities in the world, its quite interesting to see how these communiteis react to this strange food, especially looking at how they approach it, but it also left me with a srong distaste for how the film describes it, as a "cultural exchange", as if the Whopper burger was a ligitimate piece of western culture we should be inflicting on remote communities around the world or that the burger was the best cultural product America had to offer.

Ultimately why should any inuit from the tundra for example have to, or need to, taste a burger, surely there's a limit to the expansionist ideals of the fast food industry. Why should Burger King ever be allowed to infiltrate such pure and untouched communities as those featured in the film, in such an unabashed attempt to 'educate' people in the culture of fast food as if it was a lrgoitimate natural progression!!! This is cultural imperialsm at its most distasteful and Insidious. Check out the video and see what you think.







Now for something a little bit more heart warming. I heard this show on Radio 4 today and loved it, its basically a look at record collectors and beat mining, which is basically looking for tracks for specific, beats or riffs to use in the creation of new or reinvented music. Its a great documentary with some really interet people and tales from the record collecting world. It mentions Mr Scruff, DJ Shadow - who incedentally I found out has DJ'd with my manager at work - Cut Chemist and even Chas and Dave. If I ever have a life as interesting as these record junkies I'd be more than happy. Here's also a few tips to beat mining http://www.the-breaks.com/beats.php

Listen to the show here (there's only 7 days to listen to it)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hg8dq

Cheers
G x

March 25th Tracklisting and exciting news

Hello everyone,

Apologies for this being a wee bit late but below is the tracklisting for the last Escape From The Pigeon Hole show on the 25th, we've lost the weeks before, hence why the tracklistings have jumped from the 10th to the 25th. Lat weeks show was pretty scrappy with plenty of rambling from Jonny and me but the music was prety good and finally we worked out how to use the phone so we can now get people phoning in live on the show.

Also just a warning; the next show will be in about 3 weeks so don't both tuning in, as we are away from Cardiff for Easter. Also this week as mentioned in the show we found out to our suprise that the phenomenal Youngblood Brass Band are making their way to Cardiff of all places on May 7th, I'm so glad this is happening, its stunning news and is definitely something not to miss out on! If you can't make Cardiff check out some of their other dates.

They are playing the the Globe on Albany road and I'm pretty sure its going to be an in your face, full frontal, horny assault on the senses and definitely not something to miss.

Obviously they've been working on a new album for sometime now and I can't tell you how excited I am to see them play some new stuff. If you don't know Youngblood Brass Band, they are a 10 (ish)

brass band who play original, devestatingly infectious and mindblowing music, full of huge horn riffs and great lyrical hip hop style verse. Check out their website http://www.youngbloodbrassband.com/site/site_index.html to listen to their last album and download a few free tunes.

Here's the tracklisting for the March 25th show, and remember you can download the entire show, just look to the right of this page.

1. Tribe called Quest – The Hop
2. Midlake – Bandits
3. Tony Fox – (I got to) do it to it
4. Natural Self – The Crush
5. Patricia and Jimmy – Trust your Child
6. That Fucking Tank – Evening in Body Café
7. Leo Roy - Pound for Pound
8. Sigur ros - Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
9. Monkey Mafia – Make Jah Music
10. Quantic feat Spanky Wilson – Don’t Joke with the hungry Man
11. Jamie Woon – Wayfaring Stranger
12. Go! Team – Milk Crisis
13. Speedy J vs Grandmaster Flash
14. Gong Kibaya - Manuch Anguchi
15. Pierre bon Susan – Untitled
16. Beta Band – Lion Thief
17. Willie Hutch – Got to get over
18. Sufjan Stevens – Detroit lift up your weary head (rebuild, restore, reconsider)
19. Brakes – Comma, Comma, Full Stop
20. Mexican Institute of Sound – Escribeme Pronto
21. Brakes – Cheney
22. Black Umfolosi Choir – Bazali Bhetu
23. Beirut - Venice

Cheers guys

G xx

Summer...well almost

Evening campers

Another week gone, another week closer to a well deserved Easter break and it looks like the suns come out to play. It'll be time to head down the beach soon!

So hello to everyone reading this blog...thanks for coming. Do feel free to comment, or contact us in someway and let us know your thoughts about the show. You can get in contact with us over facebook of course, or the email address when we are on air is studio@xpressradio.co.uk so get involved.

Also check out this video for Fatboy Slim's 'Praise You'...



I hadn't seen it until the other day, but its pretty much genius, in fact Fatboy has a few cracking vids! I challenge you to tear your eyes away from this one, Definitely some moves I'll be taking to the Welsh Club floor.

Here's the tracklisting for March 17th
1. Mr Confuse - Lookout Weekend
2. Cat Power - Rockets
3. Gideon Conn - I want you around
4. DJ Shadow - Influx
5. Junior Walker and the Allstars - Shotgun
6. Jurassic 5 - Freedom
7. Toninho Horta - Aquelous Ooisas Todas
8. Blackalicous - The Sky is Falling
9. Jimmy Cliff - Wild World
10. Da Cruz - Sarah
11. Fionn Regan - Snowy Atlas Mountain
12. Flying Lotus - Camel
13. Peter Bjorn and John - Paris 2004
14. Cut Copy (Superdiscount remix) - Lights and Music
15. Tanya Winley - Vicous Rap
16. Eryka Badu - Certainly
17. This is the Kit - Come a Cropper
18. I cube feat Rza - Can You Deal With That?
19. Billie Holiday - I didn't know what time it was


Thanks to everyone who listened in!!
G xx

Last weeks show & Jon Kennedy

Hey guys
Can I recommend this guy Jon Kennedy. He's a DJ and producer from Stockport well worth looking up. He was playing in the basement in town last week and he put out a wicked set, hats off to him. He was previously on our old favorite Tru Thoughts Records, now on Grand Central with this excellent album Useless Wooden Toys.


Here's the music from the 10th march show, pretty late,
Good selection though:
1. Hocus Pocus- Onandon Part 2
2. Mr Ronz- Eskimo
3. Alice Russell- Seven Nation Army (Grant Phabao Remix)
4. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas- Heatwave
5. Pete Rock- We Good
6. Benjamin Zephaniah- Rong Radio Station
7. Souls of Mischief- 93 to Infinity
8. Life Without Buildings- The Leanover
9. Jazzanova- Bohemian Sunset
10. Beastie Boys- Shake Your Rump
11. Thom Yorke- Black Swan
12. Soul & Pimp Sessions- Suffocation
13. Yesterday's New Quintet- Sunrays
14. Gladys Knight & the Pips- It should've Been Me
15. Danca Do Daniel- Parabens
16. LCD Soundsystem- All My Friends
17. Ali Faka Toure with Ry Cooder- Soukora
18. Elbow- One Day Like This
19. Cinematic Orchestra feat. Roots Manuva- All Things to All Men

Great Selection. That last one's blinding.

Jonny

Aim & Herbaliser. What a Night

Listen Again, Worldwide Festival and Future Shorts

WOOOOO

Finally you can listen to our old shows whenever and wherever you like. Unfortunately they arn't in a snazzy little player (which is mainly why its taken me so long to get the shows up), I've given up on the player idea so now its just a simple link to the shows. Of course however the advantage now is that you can download the shows onto your computer and then listen to them whenever and wherever you like, perhaps on your mp3 player, on the bus, or in the car... Ideal!!

Simply move your mouse across to the right-hand panel and get downloading some of our past shows. It doesn't look snazzy but at least the shows are top quality *cough cough*. On the March the 3rd show make sure you skip the first 6 minutes, as we had a few technical troubles and I haven't had the chance to edit them out. So for now just skip forward 6 minutes.

Secondly: Giles Peterson is an amazing DJ and a encyclopedia of jazzy, funky, beats, breaks and hip hop.

Now if you've never heard of him or his radio 1 show I urge you to check out his show, you're sure to find loads of great music, I know I do. Its on 2am till 4am on wednesdays, but of course you can listen to it at more sociable hour via the listen again feature.

Now I'm talking about Giles Peterson because he has what looks like an absolutely sublime festival in Sete in the south of France, and its really quite cheap for a festival. Cheaper than glasto and with a lot better weather. Me and Jonny are considering hitching down there, going to the festival, then hitching back. If anyone fancies it do get in touch. Check out the website here...http://www.worldwidefestival.com/ and see what you think!

Lastly: I thought while I'm on a role I'd tell you about one of my favourite thursday night events; Future Shorts. Admittedly I haven't been for sometime now due to other commitments but I really, really love going. Its the last thursday of every month at the wonderful Chapter Arts Centre - undoubtedly the best place in Cardiff to watch cinema, both arthouse and commercial.

Future Shorts it's basically a short film label and they show loads of great shorts from around the world from music videos to really wierd documentaries about Sword fishing. Its really arty, playing loads of great little graphic and art films alongside mini stories and more. Its amazing and well worth checking out. They've released a DVD too which is well worth a look.

Below I've put a couple of videos just to whet your appetite, there's loads more to see on the Future Shorts YouTube page so take a look.

Last show and catch up on past and present events.

Evening All,

I haven't put a post on here for ages so I thought it about time I got my finger out and typed up a post. First of all i'd like to thank everyone who tuned in to our show on tuesday, we hope you enjoyed it.

It's thursday already, and this week seems to be rapidly slipping through my fingers. Tomorrow looks like its going to be a day chained to the library desk reading about the Cold War; should be fun. Jonny and I are heading to Mr Scruff on Saturday so a part of me is glad the week is rapidly disappearing.

Talking of gigs, Jonny and I, accompanied by Beth, Jake and Gosha (spelling questionable), went to GLAM on wednesday to catch Aim and The Herbaliser. They both played massive 2 hour sets, rammed with amazing tunes, beats, mixing and such like. Both Aim and The Herbaliser played some stonking tunes mixing up all sorts of funk and soul tunes with some heavy beats.

It was quality, quality show, but it would have been nice to have seen a few more people there to appreciate the music and have a good time.

Of course this didn't stop us from busting a groove. In fact I think it probably helped. I woke up today with extremely sore body parts from all the dancing. I honestly urge you to check Aim and The Herbaliser out, whether djing or playing their own stuff. Well worth it.

Anyway enough of my rambling here is tuesdays tracklisting

1. Willie Bobo (dorfmeister mix) - Spanish Grease
2. Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act 1 and 2)
3. DJ Format - We Know Something
4. Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina
5. Joe Tex - A Sweet Woman Like You
6. Aim - The Force Featuring Q n C
7. The Herbaliser - Mr. Holmes
8. The Isley's - Work To Do
9. TM Duke Feat Alice Russell - Knee Deep [Nostalgia 77 treatment]
10. Phoenix - (you can'tblame it on) Anybody
11. Lee Perry - Jungle Lion
12. Mr Scruff - Kalimba
13. Mr Scruff - Music Takes Me Up
14. Hot 8 Brass Band (Diesler remix) - Get Up
15. Kings Of Convenience - I'd rather dance with you
16. Chriss T-T - Preaching to the Converted
17. Pepe Camacho - La Tarara
18. Avalanches - Since I Left You
19. Fat Freddie's Drop - Pull The Catch
20. Midlake - Young Bride

Cheers guys, see you all next week
G x

Hello there

I'm about to jump on a minibus and head into deepest darkest Wales but thought I should get this up first.

Do have a listen to this amazing Camille album- Le Fil.

It's beautiful and very creative. Le Fil means The Thread and a sung note runs right through the album. Most of the sounds, including the percussion, are built up from layers of her voice and her French lyrics fly over the top. Fantastic sound.

Here's the tracklisting from the 24th:

1. Toumani Diabate- Toumani

2. Emiliana Torrini- Tuna Fish

3. The Black Keys- Strange Times

4. Mint Royale (feat. Lauren Laverne)- Don't Falter

5. Bulgarian Radio and Television Choir- Di-Li-Do

6. David Shrigley- Don'ts

7. Camille- La Jeune Filles aux Cheveau Blancs

8. The Rolling Stones- Wild Horses

9. Radiohead (DJ Shadow Remix)- The Gloaming

10. Westbound Train- Please Forgive Me

11. Blackalicious (feat. Gil Scott-Heron)- First in Flight

12. Lamb- I Cry

13. Simian Mobile Disco- Hustler

14. Katzenjammers- Cars

15. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson- We almost Lost Detroit

16. Le Tigre (LCD Soundsystem Remix)- Deceptacon

17. Lemon Jelly- 75' aka Stay With You

18. Willy Mason- Fear No Pain

19. Jarvis Cocker- Big Julie

20. Orchestre African Fiesta- I Got That Feelin'

21. John Martyn- May You Never

Aim & The Herbaliser playing in Cardiff!

This is big news.

Absolutely legendary music creators and DJs Aim and the Herbaliser are taking to the stage on the 4th March in Cardiff. That would be quite a starting line up at a decent festival never mind our little Glam nightclub! It's thanks to those guys at Cassette Quality who seem to be cropping up more and more. They brought us Ugly Duckling in January and DJ Yoda in February so they know what they're doing!

This could be the best yet though, if you're in the area, make it.

To prove it was just meant to be, I found this Aim EP where he is combining our pigeon and astronaut themes.

Excellent work.

See you there

Jonny

Soul Rebels

Alright there ladies & gentlemen, boys & girls.

I'm feeling pretty good right now; i've just booked my ticket for mr scruffs residency up in manchester. We're taking a pigeon hole road trip, hopefully via some record shops and some greasy food.

Happy Days.

Another extended show went out on fm and xpress last night.

Here's the tracklisting:

1. Bob Marley - Soul Rebel

2. Kings of Convenience - I Don't Know What I Can Save You From (Royksopp Remix)

3. Dave Pike - Mathar

4. Jazz Brothers - Beatitude

5. Fdel - Dusty Fingers

6. Al Green - You've Got The Love I Need Babe

7. Mos Def (RIGHT) - Quiet Dog

8. Barbara Lynn - You Make Me So Hot

9. Regina Spektor - Fidelity

10. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
11. The Quantic Soul Orchestra - Something That's Real

12. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (Beedle Remix)

13. Positive Force feat. Ade Olatunji - African In Winter

14. DJ Format feat. Abdominal - I'm Good

15. Joan as Policewoman - Christobel

16. Aaron Jerome - Dancing Girls

17. Badly Drawn Boy - Stockport

18. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy Pt.2

19. Common - The Corner

20. Norah Jones (RIGHT)- Cold Cold Heart

Another fantastic collection I'm sure you'll agree

We'll be back next week 11pm tuesday night

Return of the Welsh Kiddy

Last night made it two weeks in a row in the same slot, incredible stuff. Should mean we're staying there as well so Tuesday 11-12something is official.
Last night G and I were joined once again by the delightful company of Lloyd 'who's the welsh kiddy?' Griffiths, all the way from Curly Joe and Gingers Countdown Conundrums. We were enjoying it way too much to stop yesterday so we kept going til 1, meaning we got a fat load of great music in:

1. Roots Manuva- Dreamy Days
2. Plans & Apologies- Birthday (For G's elderly sister)
3. Zero 7- Warm Sound
4. Natural Self- Shake Down
5. Jose James- Blackeyed Susan
6. Belleruche- Anything You Want (Not That)

7. The Black Keys- So He Won't Break
8. Mr Confuse- Immovel
9. C-Drill, Juice & Mr Rhed- Mbaogu
10. The Go! Team- Bottle Rocket
11. The Bamboos- Can't Help Myself
12. Feist (left)- My Moon My Man (Boyz Noize Remix)
13. Unforscene- This is London
14. Wayne Gorbea Y Su Conjunto Salsa- Dejame Un Lado
15. Belle & Sebastian- The Blues Are Still Blue
16. DJ Shadow- Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
17. Herbie Hancock- A River (feat. Corinne Bailey Ray)

Thanks to the guys that voted in for that last track, it was a close run thing between 'A River' and 'Watermelon Man' in the feature we never intend to try again; Herbie-Hancock-Off

These tracklistings will make a lot more sense when we get the past shows up on here, maybe not long now...

Jonny

Cinematic Orchestra Film

G sent this film my way a while ago and I thought it should be shared again, its incredible.
It's a really original music video over two of cinematic orchestras bestest songs, To Build a Home and Breathe. do check it out.
This link also has an interview with the director to explain the deal in more detail

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/cr-blog-hosts-new-cinematic-orchestra-film/

The group involved, Up The Resolution, has also done a really cool video for Coldcuts 'Sound Mirrors', worth searching for

LATEST SHOW- after all the slot upheaval

Well we've seen some major drama this week. We turned up to do the show in our new slot on monday. Out of nowhere a rival crew of radio bandits turned up and claimed the slot was theirs! controversial. Things escalated very quickly. Before we knew what was happening we were battling with machetes and pikes. I lost an arm & G will never walk again.
It was about then that we realised not only were we pacifists but also they might actually have the moral highground, since they've had their show on monday since september.

So we took it to the negotiating table and found there was a free slot on tuesday 11pm-12+

Find us there from now on!

We had a good time on tuesday night anyway, the tracklisting looked like this:

1. Youngblood Brass Band- March

2. Freddie Cruger aka Red Astaire- Running from Love (feat. ADL)

3. Lemon Jelly- Elements

4. Flevans- Hey Mr. Bundle

5. The Whispers- Needle in a Haystack

6. Milez Benjamin- Hold Your Head High

7. Natural Self- In the Morning

8. Pete Rock- Can't Wait

9. Sia- Breathe Me

10. Sigur Ros- Saeglopur

11. Mr Scruff- Spandex Man

12. Simone- Tudo Que Voce Podia Seo

13. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings- Answer Me

14. Hope of the States- The Black Amnesias

15. All Good Funk Alliance- Top Brass

16. Ryan Adams- Oh My God, Whatever, etc.

G promises he will get this listen again thing working soon but neither of us have much of a clue. it shouldn't be long

Jonny

NEW listen again feature

Before I forget...Having shamelessly ripped off the BBC iplayer we've installed ourselves a nice little listen again feature which allows all our dedicated fans (mainly our parents) to tune in and listen to the show whenever suits you. We will be putting the show up each week so don't worry if you miss a show, you can always come back and listen to it another day.

If you look to the right side of the screen you will see the link to the listen again feature, simply click on the image or the text and you'll be able to listen to all our shows.

I will warn you however that there's only two shows on there at the moment, the first one being a bit dodgy due to technical difficulties we experienced. The second one is pretty good though!! Make sure you check back weekly for all the new shows we will be uploading.

Big love Gareth and Jonny xx

Tracklisting for 26/01/09

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the show on Monday we had a blast and look forward to more of the same this coming Monday. As I promised on the show we will be posting up our tracklistings from the show each week so that you can track down that cracking tune we played. Apologies it's taken me this long to do it but well...I'm lazy.


Monday 26/01/09
Track - Artist

1) Escape From The Pigeon Hole - Abdominal
2) Re: Stacks - Bon Iver
3) Makes Me Wanna Die - Tricky
4) Avalanche - Soil and "Pimp" Sessions
5) Do Right Woman - Aretha Franklin
6) Parisian Goldfish - Flying Lotus
7) Time to build - Herbaliser
8) Mishaps Happening [prins Thomas edit] - Quantic
9) Walk Around In My Shoes - Coldcut
10) There's None of That - King Creosote
11) All Years Leaving - The Stands
12) Them There Eyes - Billie Holliday

If you've got any questions or suggestions don't hesitate to ask. Get on our facebook page and post up your thoughts!!

Cheers
G xx

Welcome!!

Hello everyone and welcome to Escape From the Pigeon Hole's first ever blog. We've set this up so that you can all listen to any of the shows you've previously missed and check out the tracklistings from the shows. We will start putting tracklistings up asap and will get the shows up as soon as we work out how to do it.

Cheers everyone
G and Jonny