shows // Support Your Local Poet
indie // twee // shoegaze // pop // poetry
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Welcome to your musical past, present and future.
Support Your Local Poet is a show celebrating all bands and artists hailing from Scotland. Featuring shiny new up-and-comers to the good old faithfuls that fill our ears with sunshine on dreary days.
Featuring poetry readings, gig reviews and interviews with local artists thrown in for good measure.
Contact: supportyourlocalpoet@live.co.uk
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snow and lights
Support Your Local Poet // 02.12.10
Glasgow is covered in snow and no-one can leave their houses for work and uni. Somehow I managed to make the trek to the Subcity studio to bring you some cosy Scottish sounds to listen to while sipping a hot chocolate and watching the snow fall. Romantic! Either that or to calm you whilst your sipping a red bull and frantically studying for your upcoming exams... Probably the latter.
Here are some awesome links for some awesome bands:
http://www.myspace.com/rememberremember Remember Remember are also supporting the mighty Belle & Sebastian in Glasgow Barrowlands on 19th, 20th and 21st December.
http://www.myspace.com/thescottishenlightenment
Posted at 12:39, 8th December 2010
elizabeth fraser, you're cool.
Support Your Local Poet // 18.11.10
This fortnights show featured a bit of a tribute to the voice of Cocteau Twins, Elizabeth Fraser. Listen again to hear me proclaim my love her and play some of her finest songs.
If you want to read the interview with her in the Guardian that sparked this feature then you can, here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/26/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-interview
If you also want to check out some of the bands/artists I played today then here are some useful links:
http://www.myspace.com/johnbmckenna John B's, Monoganon - "Elephant Pregnancy" album is available for free download from http://www.winningspermparty.com
You are welcome.
Lesley ♥
Posted at 19:03, 19th November 2010
la la la
Support Your Local Poet // 04.11.10
In todays episode of Support Your Local Poet I will introduce you to some new blood in the form of Futuristic Retro Champions, The Barent Sea and Jesus H. Foxx.
Winning Sperm Party are offering 'Snowbird' by The Japanese War Effort as a free download, here: http://www.winningspermparty.com/jwe 'Snowbird' is the originally self released debut album from The Japanese War Effort and is full of ambient and experimental pop from Martin Moog and co. It's well worth checking out.
Also featured on todays show are psychedelic pop lovelies from Glasgow: Haight-Asbury. Their new album 'Here In The Golden Rays' is available to purchase from Itunes from 8th November and they will be playing in King Tut's on the 25th November. You can hear more from them here: www.myspace.com/haightashburyuk and i'm sure you'll be just as besotted with them as I am after a wee listen.
Todays Poetry Corner feature is from Camera Obscura with 'Red, Red Rose' which was the B-Side on the single 'I Love My Jean'. Camera Obscura recorded this single after their third Peel Session where John Peel asked them to put music to the works of Robert Burns and this is the result!
See you in a fortnight,
Lesley x
Posted at 12:01, 9th November 2010