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16/02/2010

Marc has a live session from Woodenbox And A Fistfull Of Fivers, a folk-rock-soul sextet who offer up an appreciation of Ennio Morricone's classic spaghetti Western scores.

Cast your mind back to snowy Britain when we had to cancel some of our bands ... well tonight, eventually, we have that live session from Woodenbox and a Fistfull of Fivers.

Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers are a folk-rock-soul sextet of pan-Scottish provenance. Singer and guitarist Ali Downer assumed the moniker 'Woodenbox' , in a nod to influences such as King Creosote and 'Bonnie' Prince Billy and the addition of The Fistful of Fivers reflects a collective appreciation of Ennio Morricone's scores for the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone.

The band's debut album, set to be released on Electric Honey (Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol, Biffy Clyro) in April 2010 is entitled '成人快手 and the Wildhunt', a reference to the Germano-Celtic legend of 'The Wild Hunt'. A phantasmal group of huntsmen, often led by the god Wodan, would appear in the sky replete with horses and hounds. The hunters may have been dead souls or faeries and the hunt was thought to presage catastrophe.
In the Peterborough Chronicle of 1132, an anonymous monk testifies to the appearance of the hunt: "Then soon afterwards many people saw and heard many hunters hunting. The hunters were big and black and terrible, and their hounds were all black and wide-eyed and loathsome, and they rode on black horses and black goats".

All that plus we've Roberto "slap my thighs and ding my warbles" Hughes with his pick of this week's twisted Americana Folk Music.

2 hours

Last on

Tue 16 Feb 2010 19:00

Music Played

  • Public Image Ltd

    Lowlife

  • Vermin Poets

    Spartan Dreg

  • Filthy Pedro

    Get Your Beak On

  • The Middle East

    Blood

  • Woodenbox With a Fistful of Fivers

    Draw a Line

  • Pulp

    She's A Lady

  • The Beatlettes

    Only 17

  • Thomas White

    The Last Blast

  • Tunng

    Hustle

  • Woodenbox With a Fistful of Fivers

    Twisted Mile

  • Euros Childs

    Spin That Girl Around

  • Race Horses

    Man In My Mind

  • Jah Wobble

    Visions of You

  • The Helmholtz Resonators

    Bombs

  • The Raincoats

    Adventures Close to 成人快手

  • The Seal Cub Clubbing Club

    Made of Magic

  • Woodenbox With a Fistful of Fivers

    My Mule

  • Johnny Cash

    Ring Of Fire

  • The Who

    Anyway Anyhow Anywhere

  • Willie Kendrick

    Change Your Ways

  • Tim Buckley

    Sing a Song For You

  • Ernest V Stoneman & the Stoneman Family

    Orange Blossom

  • John Hiatt

    What Kind of Man

  • Glass Torpedos

    Something New

Broadcast

  • Tue 16 Feb 2010 19:00

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