shows // This is Vanity
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| 30th May 2010 vanity and pride before a fall listen | |
| 23rd May 2010 Vanity is... Koalas not Kangaroos listen | |
| 2nd May 2010 Vanity is a sin, but also fair listen | |
| 25th April 2010 The Birthday Present, oh Vanity listen | |
| 21st March 2010 Effiencey: Be Damned listen | |
| 28th February 2010 self indulgent vanity listen | |
| older This is Vanity episodes | |
This is Vanity is not a vainity project. Its aim is to rip all that away, no bands being played because of style but because of substance, happiness and the sense of glee they bring just by hearing them.
The chat coming from Subcity veteran The Monolith keeping it simple while doling out the things you need to know as your hangover gently subsides
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a 2 hour series finale - no purgatory involved
This is Vanity // 06.06.10 // Vanity is fleeting, beauty is timeless
So this 2 hour special?
Hmm, just lengthening a show doesn't make it special does it?
What if I book the creators of one of the finest indie disco night in Glasgow?
Ok, then I shall!
Confirmed Star Guests: Carol Byrne & Karen O'Hare of Ibop!
Summer songs all day long, no hold on from 6-8 Sunday and throughout the summer, autumn and winters that shall pass. Be prepared this will be the final This is Vanity.
Never fear a new show with a new show title is but seconds round the corner, but lets not jump ahead of ourselves, like my favourite time travellers always do, lets go back to around 1am Friday night in an ex-servicemens' club in deepest South Glasgow ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhNS6MsCEpc
Posted at 20:57, 5th June 2010
in your arms - an update
This is Vanity // 30.05.10 // vanity and pride before a fall
Well, my little play about love is delayed until the final show of the series for 3 very good reasons:
1) There is going to be a Solar Island reunion for the General Election, which I would be delighted if you listen to. For more info: http://www.subcity.org/shows/solarisland
2) i have a co-star & co-writer joining the project who is going to make it so much better and well heartfelt
3) I like to create an element of antici...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enr4W6FsSpk pation to this very special episode.
So this week is back to your usual This is Vanity, with some wonderful curated choices by me. Please join in
Posted at 22:16, 28th April 2010
this is a vanity re-post
This is Vanity // 25.04.10 // The Birthday Present, oh Vanity
Well, as we get nested into our new surroundings it looks like the next This is Vanity will be the 25th April. Not only shall it be a joyous night, but also a joyous day as it's my birthday. So here's what I'm going to do. Invite some of my favourite djs to play a tune if they want or just ask me to play one for them. Then join me as I head to Optimo for the final optimo of the present era.
So that is the future and the present(s) sorted, how about a little recent past: Why not listen to these shows already recorded for your pleasure?:
21st March: Efficiency: be damned- where your host tells you why he loves Subcity so http://www.subcity.org/shows/thisisvanity/d83ed
14th February: Phonomancers at workwhere all is explained and music is played incorrectly http://www.subcity.org/shows/thisisvanity/68dfb
The love special is now on the 2nd May and will be a treat : http://www.subcity.org/shows/thisisvanity/1a6ad/
Posted at 22:57, 15th April 2010
back in your arms - soon
This is Vanity // 02.05.10 // Vanity is a sin, but also fair
As you'll be aware Subcity has shifted itself off to it's summer home by the swimming pool and garden. While the studio is being primed into a delightful enough hovel for your genial host to present to you, I'm building up a little show for your pleasure.
I've been thinking about music. Music as a form, as a concept in our lives. Maybe I'm influenced by the wonderful Phonogram comic which reignited my love for what rhythm and sonic shifts can do to our hearts and heads. As can be easily guessed I boiled down my thoughts to this:
Music is Illusion.
The art of great music is to take us to the place it paints or the place we paint it into. From Pulp's song 'David's Last Summer' taking us to a never visited stream on the suburbs of Sheffield in the early 80's to the feeling of near universally appreciated beautiful agony of wanting to show that new person how much you want them in Gorky's Zygotic Mynci 'Patio Song', it creates the scene, helping you to move in or on from what had came before those 3 minutes of escape..
So what does this have to do with This is Vanity? Well, the May 2nd show will not be the usual show. It in fact will be set within a story, a story of what music has and can do to one person.
Posted at 18:12, 4th April 2010
effiency: be damned
This is Vanity // 21.03.10 // Effiencey: Be Damned
When creativity runs free, wonderful things happen. This is how Subcity started and that is why it has grew in to the many faceted beauty it currently is.
This is merely an hour amongst thousands, but it does feature some great music, so listen. Or go listen to other great shows on this station.
Posted at 21:26, 21st March 2010