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07/10/2009

Marc plays classic and cutting-edge tracks, plus there's live music from multi-instrumentalist Sam Jones' project The Balky Mule.

Live in session this evening currently living down under in Melbourne is ex-pat Sam Jones' The Balky Mule. The current album is called The Length Of The Rail.

A highly talented, self-taught multi-instrumentalist, who over the past decade or more has been a key figure in Bristol's vibrant post-rock scene, playing alongside his brother Matt in both Crescent (guitar / drums) and Movietone (guitar), as well as in Flying Saucer Attack (guitar), Minotaur Shock (bass / marimba), and Third Eye Foundation (echoes / samples).

Whilst also active as The Balky Mule throughout this time, Sam's home-recorded material (almost entirely instrumental) had been confined to just one self-released album (an eponymous debut in a small edition on Sam and Matt's Archipelago label in 2000), small runs of CDRs pressed on request and tapes swapped amongst friends, plus a handful of remixes (for Pram and Vase) and tracks for compilations, including a very early track appearing on FatCat's 2001 compilation of demos, 'No watches. No maps'.

2 hours

Last on

Wed 7 Oct 2009 19:00

Music Played

  • Euros Childs

    Shithaussen

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Love In A Void

  • Wetdog

    Lower Leg

  • Frightened Rabbit

    Swim Until You Can't Seel Land

  • Emily Loizeau

    Sister

  • Live Band

    • The Balky Mule

      Wireless

  • Peel Session

    • The Slits

      Vindictive

  • Lori McCann

    No

  • Propaganda

    Duel

  • Rose Elinor Dougall

    Fallen Over

  • Cate Le Bon

    Hollow Trees house Hounds

  • Live Band

    • The Balky Mule

      Jisaboke

  • Beeb By Behest

    • 10,000 Maniacs

      Don't Talk

  • The Kinks

    Picture Book

  • Kurt Vile

    Freak Train

  • First Aid Kit

    Hard Believer

  • Live Band

    • The Balky Mule

      Dustbath Birds

  • Peel By Request

    • The Aislers Set

      Walked In Line

  • Fleet Foxes

    White Winter Hymnal

  • J. Tillman

    A Year In The Kingdom

  • Air

    Do The Joy

  • Clive & Naomi

    You Are Mine

  • Beeb By Behest

    • Madder Rose

      Bring It Down

  • The Broken Family Band

    Cinema Vs House

Broadcast

  • Wed 7 Oct 2009 19:00

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