Pure FM - Portsmouth University Radio Experience

So. 21 shows of New Slang, eh? to celebrate I got you a round of drinks...I mean songs!! This week we had FREE DOWNLOADS from... The National, Band of Horses, Health, School of Seven Bells AND Blur!! all the links are displayed below (so you can claim your freebies). Special thanks this week go to Melanie, Ian, Enbar, Scotty, Izzy, Ed, Roland, Mariam, Angie, Mary, Sruchika, Maisie and Melanie's Cat, thankyou for your messages, your requests and ofcourse your lovely lovely ears!! The playlist for New Slang's 21st (8th May)

Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Kindness - Swinging Party
We Have Band - Divisive
OK Go -This Too Shall Pass
Ellie Goulding - Wish I Stayed
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio (Freebie of the Week here)
Kate Nash - Foundations
Band of Horses - Factory (Freebie of the Week here)
Blood Red Shoes - Don't Ask
Health - USA Boys (Freebie of the Week here)
School of Seven Bells - Babelonia (Freebie of the Week here)
Blur - Fool's Day (Freebie of the Week here)
Foals - This Orient
Crystal Castles - Celestica
Regina Spektor - Fidelity
Mystery Jets - Flash A Hungry Smile
Interpol - Lights
Marina & The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot
Gramophonedzie - Why Don't You

Don't forget to tune in next week, where we'll have new music from LCD Soundsystem AND Pendulum, so be sure to tune in for that!

Thankyou again to all my listeners this week, another successful edition of New Slang! this week's special thanks go to Emily, Bar,  Melanie, Ian, Jason, Ed, Angie, Shelby and Simone! This week we had new music from We Have Band, Interpol, Mystery Jets and Marina & The Diamonds! My lovely playlist of stuff this week was as follows:

The Jam - Eton Rifles
Kindnesss - Swinging Party
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Kate Nash - Do-Wah-Doo
Just Jack - Writer's Block
We Have Band - Divisive
Blood Red Shoes - Don't Ask
Crystal Castles - Celestica
Tokyo Police Club - Breakneck Speed
Interpol - Lights (Freebie of the Week here)
Mystery Jets - Flash A Hungry Smile (Freebie of the Week here)
Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow
Gramophonedzie - Why Don't You
Washed Out - Belong
Chiddy Bang - Opposite of Adults
Darwin Deez - Radar Detector
Johnny Flynn - Kentucky Pill
Marina & The Diamonds - I'm Not A Robot
The Drums - Best Friend
The Futureheads - Heartbeat Song

next week we should have some new Foals to play for you amongst other stuff, so tune in at 3pm next Saturday for 2 hours of joy! :)

Another sunny afternoon in Portsmouth, another where people decided to spend it with me! Thankyou to everyone who listened in to this saturday's show, where we had new singles from Crystal Castles, Hot Chip, The Futureheads and Frightened Rabbit. Every special thanks to those who messaged in, so those go to Estomac, Emma, Ian, Abigail, Jen, Olivia, Maisie, Katie and Vicky! here is the playlist from the show:

The Beatles - Help!
Kate Nash - Do-Wah-Doo
Born Ruffians - Sole Brother
Late of the Pier - Blueberry
The Drums - Best Friend
Foals - Balloons
LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
M.I.A. - Boyz
Chiddy Bang - Opposite of Adults
Tokyo Police Club - Breakneck Speed
Johnny Flynn - Kentucky Pill
Crystal Castles - Celestica
Chase & Status - End Credits
The Futureheads - Heartbeat Song
Frightened Rabbit - Living In Colour
Hot Chip - I Feel Better
Holy Fuck - Latin America
Washed Out - Belong
Blood Red Shoes - Don't Ask

tune in again next Saturday, for some more new music, this time from Frankie & The Heartstrings, We Have Band and Marina & The Diamonds, as well as hopefully some other exciting first plays!

So. Yeah! Back from the Easter holidays, with some new songs and my first guest in a while in the form of Miss Katie Leaming. We had so many first plays for the show, I was exploding at the knees to cope with it, and apart from spending the first half hour of the show attempting to find out why a few tracks were missing from my playlist, it all went swimmingly! Thankyou to Bethany, Emily, Norm, Maisie, Jason, Simone, Alan Woods' Secret Admirer, Dan, Elliott, Aaron, Chloe, Max and ofcourse Katie for tuning in and messaging in!! Here is the playlist from 17th April:

The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night
Washed Out - Belong
The xx - Crystalised
Late of the Pier - Best In The Class
Born Ruffians - Sole Brother
Kate Nash - Do-Wah-Doo
Chiddy Bang - Opposite of Adults
Blood Red Shoes - Don't Ask
Darwin Deez - Radar Detector
Tokyo Police Club - Breakneck Speed (Freebie of the Week here)
Johnny Flynn - Kentucky Pill (Freebie of the Week here)
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Get Better
Fenech-Soler - Stop And Stare
The Drums - Best Friend
Silver Columns - Brow Beaten
We Are Scientists - Rules Don't Stop
Chew Lips - Slick

so again thankyou to all my lovely listeners, and don't forget to tune in next week for new music from The Futureheads, Crystal Castles, Hot Chip and Frightened Rabbit!!

This blog is going up a bit quicker than usual, because, well I can! Thank you to you lovely listeners for another (eventually) successful show, full of songs, noises, words and dan le sac vs scroobius pip. Special thank yous this week go to Noddy, Aaron, Stan, Ian, Rob, Josephine, Colin, James, Victoria, Camii, Donald and Dan, your ears were much appreicated today, and will always be much appreciated in the future. This is the playlist from 20th March:

The Cure - Close To Me
MGMT - Flash Delirium
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
Frank Turner - Long Live The Queen
Delphic - Halcyon
Late of the Pier - Best In The Class
New Young Pony Club - Chaos
The Joy Formidable - Popinjay
Empire of the Sun - We Are The People
Born Ruffians - Sole Brother (Freebie of the Week - download here)
Blood Red Shoes - Light It Up
Laura Marling - Devil's Spoke
The Golden Filter - Hide Me
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Get Better
Everything Everything - My Keys, Your Boyfriend
Teenagersintokyo - Peter Pan
Wild Beasts - We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues
The Horrors - Who Can Say

this is the last show (and thus blog) for 4 weeks, so hopefully you all lend me your ears whenever I return, and hopefully in 4 weeks time i'll have so much new music for you that the world will explode.

Righty tighty! I've done quite a few shows now, and they're slowly but surely merging into one gigantic blur of radio. I am currently recovering from the football tournament, in which Pure FM were denied being crowned champions by the harsh decider of a Penalty Shoot-out, which I was due to take the 5th penalty for (which I obviously would have buried perfectly), but was denied my chance after 2 misses for the Pure FM team. But enough about that, I did a radio show on Saturday and it was another successful one in the new studios (which I am enjoying VERY much), plenty of listeners and a great playlist of music (as always), so thankyou this time to Cara, Katie, Lottie, James, Barbara, Kealea, Ian, Chloe, Jay, Rachel, Sophia, Jeremy, Brendan, Lynn, Char, Victoria and Emma for listening, here is the playlist from Saturday 13th March 2010:

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Wild Beasts - We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues
Metronomy - A Thing For Me
New Young Pony Club - Chaos
Blood Red Shoes - Light It Up
Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun
The Golden Filter - Hide Me
MGMT - Flash Delirium (Freebie of the Week - download here)
Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You
The Joy Formidable - Popinjay
Yeasayer - O.N.E.
Kate Nash - I Just Love You More
Deadmau5 - Strobe
The xx - VCR
Gorillaz - Stylo
The Busman's Holiday - Mr Spaceman
Chew Lips - Slick
Gold Panda - Quitters Raga
22-20s - Such A Fool

Don't forget to tune in next week, where we'll have brand new music from Dan Le Sac vs Scroobis Pip and Laura Marling, as well as probably many many others. You can catch New Slang every Saturday from 3pm til 5pm!

Wooo! first show in the BRAND NEW Pure FM studios has been been done, dusted and ever so successfully. Nearly one of the largest listener figures i'm aware of having, had messages flying from all over the internet, and from all over the world! so thank you to Dan Richards, Emma, Charlotte, Cara, Chloe, Joey, Rob, Lauren, Alex, Brendan, 'Bob From Sweden', Steve, Matt, Gilly, Kealea, James, Dan and Wil, you made it a very enjoyable afternoon! and here is the playlist of songs that I played inbetween rambling:

Foals - Hummer
New Young Pony Club - Chaos
Slow Club - When I Go
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
UNKLE - Natural Selection
Blood Red Shoes - Light It Up
Everything Everything - My Keys, Your Boyfriend
Darwin Deez - Consellations
Hurts - Wonderful Life
Delphic - Halcyon
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
Kate Nash - I Just Love You More
The Golden Filter - Hide Me
Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Martyn
Wild Beasts - We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues
The xx - VCR
Chew Lips - Slick
The Drums - Submarine
These New Puritans - Orion
The Duke Spirit - The Step And The Walk
Biffy Clyro - Many Of Horror

As I said on the show, Darwin Deez, Everything Everything and Hurts are playing on the NME Radar Tour, which comes to Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms on 9th May, and i'll be looking to my ticket soon, so come on down and join me! Don't forget to tune in next week, as it'll be more of the same, and you know how much you crave it.

Heya Kids! Another week, another show. Thanks to everyone who listened in again or for the first time this week, it's always appreciated, especially the messages, they entertain me to no end. Well done to Liam who won himself a Freddo, unfortuantely for Crooked Radio's James, that means he still owes me one! New Slang won't be on next week due to the moving of the studio, so i'll be returning on 6th March with the 15th edition of the show. But here is a playlist of beauties from yesterday's show (20th February):

Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood
Telepathe - Chrome's On It (Gold Panda Remix)
The Drums - I Felt Stupid
Chew Lips - Slick
Slow Club - When I Go
The Maccabees - Empty Vessels (feat. Roots Manuva)
Kindness - Swinging Party
Ellie Goulding - Wish I Stayed
Local Natives - Airplanes
The Golden Filter - Hide Me (Freebie of the Week)
Florence + The Machine - You've Got The Love (The xx Remix)
Caribou - Odessa (Freebie)
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
UNKLE - Natural Selection (Freebie)
Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You
Editors - You Don't Know Love
Secret Machines - Like I Can (Freebie)

So thankyou again to you listeners, you make it all alot more fun! So tune in again in 2 weeks time for new music from Blood Red Shoes, New Young Pony Club, Two Door Cinema Club, Yeasayer, Teenagersintokyo and hopefully many many more!!

Right. So. Yeah. New time for New Slang, moving from Monday evenings to Saturday afternoons. It's a bit of a change, I especially have to get used to the fact daylight exists during my show now, something i've coped without for Semester 1. But I came back with prizes to celebrate, with the lucky winners this time being Chris and Katie, who will both receive easter eggs as promised. Was very tired this week, and me and the CD drive on my laptop aren't on the best of terms at the moment, so I had plenty of technical issues doing it all off a USB stick, which although not a hard thing to do, still confused the hell out of me! Anyway here is the playlist from 13th Feb 2010:

Gorillaz - Stylo
Kindness - Swinging Party
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
Portishead - Chase The Tear
Everything Everything - My Keys, Your Boyfriend
The Drums - I Felt Stupid
The Big Pink - Velvet
Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This
The Maccabees - Empty Vessels (feat. Roots Manuva)
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Gold Panda - Quitter's Raga
Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood
Good Shoes - Under Control
Dirty Projectors - Ascending Melody

So another big thankyou to everyone who messaged in and entered the competitions, it's all much appreciated. Tune in again next week where i'll have more new music, maybe some more prizes, hopefully some guests and probably alot of talking nonsense.

So. The last New Slang of Semester 1 has been and gone, but fear not, I will be back in Semester 2 (I think), and hopefully at the same time and day (I think, again). But thank you to everyone who tuned in this Monday for what was my 12th show under its current name (my show last year was called D.A.N.C.E. for anyone who wasn't around). There were plenty of new listeners this week, and I love every single one of them! a special thanks goes to Joel for being the only entrant in the 'free freddo' competition, which if you had tuned in for, you would have most likely have won to, and special thanks to Cara as well who sent in plenty of messages throughout the show! But here is the playlist from my last show:

Vampire Weekend - Cousins
White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
The Soft Pack - Answer To Yourself
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring (Album of the Week)
Washed Out - Feel It All Around
The Besnard Lakes - Albatross (Freebie of the Week #1 here)
Dirty Projectors - Ascending Melody (Freebie of the Week #2 here)
Gold Panda - Quitter's Raga
The Drums - I Felt Stupid
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
Blood Red Shoes - Colours Fade
Good Shoes - Under Control
Kickball - Sauvie Island (Request #1)
Brand New - Jesus Christ (Request #2)
The xx - VCR
The Sunshine Underground - In Your Arms
Beach House - Norway
Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
These New Puritans - Orion
Lightspeed Champion - Marlene
Gorillaz - Stylo (Track of the Week)

I'll send out Joel's free freddo soon enough, so tune in next week (hopefully at the same time) for YOUR chance to win a free freddo courtesy of my student loan. There will also be new music from Hot Chip, Four Tet and Massive Attack as well as more pointless talking.