Here’s the playlist for Chris T-T’s Midnight Campfire episode #33, first broadcast Wed 15 Apr 2015. You can listen online HERE. One of my favourites; the second hour is themed on whales and whaling, plus the show has a more conventionally folkie vibe than usual. Still some curveballs though. Loved it. Boomtown Rats are this week’s Campfire Songbook entry…
Villagers – Everything I Am Is Yours (Darling Arithmetic, Domino)
Benjamin Booker – Wicked Waters (S/T, Rough Trade)
Foghorn String Band – Henry Lee (Devil In The Seat, self-release)
The Albion Band – Roll Over Vaughan Williams (The Vice Of The People, Powered Flight)
Rura – The Smasher (Despite The Dark, self-release)
Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath (Aqualung, Chrysalis)
Mechanical Owl – Snowdonia (Winter Songs, Drum With Our Hands)
Samantha Whates – Fences (single, self-release)
Jimmy Somerville – Smalltown Boy Reprise (2014) (single, Jess E Musique)
Louis Barabbas – Faith In Myths (Unplugged EP, self-release)
Citizen Helene – Stephen Fry (S/T, self-release)
* The Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays (The Fine Art Of Surfacing, UMC)
Second hour – songs about whales and whaling
Nic Jones – The Humpback Whale (Penguin Eggs, Topic)
Kings Of The South Seas – Weary Whaling Grounds (S/T, D Wink)
The Decemberists – The Mariner’s Revenge Song (Picaresque, Capitol)
West My Friend – Baleen Whale (When The Ink Dries, Grammar Fight)
Mychael Danaa – The Whale (Life Of Pi, Sony Classical)
A.L. Lloyd – The Coast Of Peru (Leviathan!, Topic)
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman – 52 Hertz (Tomorrow Will Follow Today, I Scream)
The Familiars – 52 Hertz Whale (Fatea Showcase Sessions Spring 2015 comp)
The Pogues – Greenland Whale Fisheries (Red Roses For Me, Rhino)
Thirty Pounds Of Bone – In Search Of Oil (Drift Collective compilation)
Ewan MacColl – Desolation (Whaler Out Of New Bedford And Other Songs, Folkways)
Brian Keane – Stove By A Whale (Into the Deep Soundtrack, Valley Entertainment)
Humpback Whale Song (Songs Of The Humpback Whale, Living Music)
* this week’s Campfire Songbook entry, suggested by Peter and Alice in Sheffield. Also thanks Andy Waller for (as usual) loads of great theme track suggestions on our Facebook page.
