UKNY for March 12
Mandy, Indiana (photo by Harry Steel, PR)
Tonight's "UKNY" at 11 p.m. casts an eye on the chaos descending upon Austin, Texas this week — the SXSW music festival with hundreds of international bands playing innumerable official (and unofficial) showcases and gigs while wolfing down burritos between sets.
I wish I could be there this year — I can't, sadly — but if I were, I wouldn't miss Manchester's Mandy, Indiana — with the dynamic Valentine Caulfield on vocals. The group releases their debut album, I've Seen a Way, on May 19.
Also on my shortlist, the terrific Tommy Lefroy, Leeds' brilliant English Teacher, the British-American duo Prima Queen, Cape Town's Beatenberg, Montréal's Chiiild and Le Couleur, Ireland's Lemonade Shoelace, Iceland's Arny Margret, Brooklyn's Hello Mary, and Obongjayar, the Nigerian-born, London-based musician who released his gorgeous debut album, Some Nights I Dream of Doors, last year.
And in just an mere hour, I'll fit in Portsmouth's Dutch Criminal Record, Cardiff's Panic Shack and N'Famady Kouyaté, Malmö's Death and Vanilla, and London's divine mui zyu too.
Just a fraction of the outstanding artists and bands headed to SXSW this year on "UKNY," Sunday nights from 11p.m.-midnight on 90.7 FM, streaming online, and in the Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Panic Shack, “Meal Deal,” single
2. English Teacher, “Song About Love,” single
3. (UK-US) Prima Queen, “Back Row,” Not the Baby EP
4. (CA-US) Tommy Lefroy, “Dog Eat Dog,” Rivals EP
5. (Capetown, SA) Beatenberg, “Le Pain Quotidien,” On the way to Beatenberg EP
6. Mandy, Indiana, “Pinking Shears,” I’ve seen a way
7. (Montréal, CA) Le Couleur, “Sentiments nouveaux,” single
8. (Montréal, CA) Chiiild, “Bon Voyage,” Better Luck in the Next Life
9. (Malmö, SE) Death and Vanilla, “Looking Glass,” Flicker
10. (Conakry, GN-Cardiff, UK) N’Famady Kouyaté, “Balafô Douma,” Aros I Fi Yna EP
11. Dutch Criminal Record, “Hey Charlie,” It’s Gonna Be Okay EP
12. Lemonade Shoelace, “Hopscotch in the Sky,” Do Whatever Makes You Happy EP
13. mui zyu, “Talk to Death,” Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century
14. (Calabar, NG-London, UK) Obongjayar feat. Nubya Garcia, “Wrong for It,” Some Nights I Dream of Doors
15. (Ísafjörður, IS) Arny Margret, “the world is between us,” they only talk about the weather
16. (Brooklyn, NY) Hello Mary, “Spiral,” Hello Mary
