Workin’ to the beat of this broken rhythm…

If Ben Whishaw as Paddington Bear is or isn’t your bag then perhaps you might or might not like Ben Whishaw narrating “George” – a story about the final days in the life of a man aged around 65 – a man called George.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 4 February 2023

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • FRENCH CONCESSION 法國租界 – Future Life
  • DEEPSTATE – Butterfly
  • SHYGIRL – Poison
  • MICHAEL AISURU – Closer (with Melissa Hibbert)
  • LADYTRON – Time’s Arrow
  • M83 – Oceans Niagara
  • BLAIR PARKES – how much further ?
  • MITRA MITRA – Memories for Company
  • BILLY NOMATES – apathy is wild
  • MEDAL – Beyond
  • THE DREAM MACHINE – Children, My England
  • MOTTE – Visceral Feelings
  • EFTHIMIS FILIPPOU, BEN WHISHAW, PANAGIOTIS MELIDIS – George: Side A
  • CRUISIC – Pacific 707 (Jazzbeat Version)
  • GIRAFFI DOG & GF RICH – A New Home In The Jungle
  • LEONARD CHARLES – Nine Lives (feat. Leroy Burgess)
  • RED AXES – The Phone Call
  • PERMANENT//ZEIMP – さくらソウル
  • CAURAL – Cynkill
  • PAUL HUMPHREY & HIS COOL AID CHEMISTS – Cool Aid
  • KOKOROKO – Ewà Inú
  • BUDDY PEACE – Cub Stringer
  • AZIFM – Say Enough (feat. Tusekah)
  • EBB – Cryogenic Anthem
  • SCARLETTS FALL – Get In My Trumpet

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

You’re getting older. And you don’t know why. And you don’t know what to do…

RIP Hamish Kilgour. 1957-2022.

Hamish Kilgour – The last beatnik
by Roger Shepherd (Flying Nun)

Life story: Musician Hamish Kilgour ’emanated generosity, possibility’ 
by Philip Matthews (The Press)

‘An understated power’: Hamish Kilgour of the Clean remembered as a restless innovator
by Matthew Goody (The Guardian)

“He was the yin and the yang, the sturm and the drang, the bucket, the glue, the whole shebang.” – Robert Scott

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 10 December 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • THE CLEAN – Getting Older *
  • JUST ANOTHER JUNE – Driving
  • ANNUAL LEAF – Racing Heart
  • HISS EXPLOSION – Blue wave
  • THE CHATS – THE PRICE OF SMOKES
  • DR HITCHCOCK – Disco Brutus (F.L.O.)
  • WILLEM WOLFE – Tobiko Bubblebath (Tour De Tokyo)
  • AKIO NAGASE – Mongol 303
  • HELENA HAUFF – Your Turn To Fly
  • DAVID SHRIGLEY – Rock Festival
  • ERNY BELLE – Nuclear Bombs
  • SHIT AND SHINE – Miami
  • R.A.P. FERREIRA – sittlichkeit (prod. Basico & ZOCHI)
  • ROME STREETZ – Ugly Balenciagas
  • PAUL HUMPHREY & HIS COOL AID CHEMISTS – Baby Rice
  • EBB & ILL FIGS – C Beams
  • PAIGE JULIA – Ease Your Mind
  • YOUNG GHO$T – JUNGLE HOLIDAY
  • PRIZEFIGHT – Maintenance (nickname & No Name Nath’s Old Skool Mix)
  • FRIKARDO – When Up Is Down
  • KATE BOLLINGER – Running
  • WEYES BLOOD – It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody
  • BREANNA BARBARA – You Got Me High
  • KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – Is it Me or is it You?
  • GRAND RIVER – Human
  • MITRA MITRA – Gappy Spheres
  • ASTROLOOP – Drape
  • KHOTIN – Fountain, Growth (feat. Tess Roby)

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.