These New Puritans... Don't ask what happened to those old puritans if you know what's good for you
Hello everyone. Well, last week's guests caused a bit of a stir on the blog, didn't they? Accusations were hurled, threats were made... OK, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but people did get rather worked up over the worth of power-indie quartet British Sea Power.
This week, we have These New Puritans on the show, a band we hope will have you frothing at the mouth, but only out of a sense of enjoyment. Somewhere between post-punk, dancehall and trance sits the music of this four-piece, and they spoke to us about whether there really was a Southend Underground, what it's like to write music for a fashion house and what Michael Barrymore was doing at a zoo.
Dongle wise, we sample what's on offer from Britpop rogues Supergrass, American singer-songwriter Cass McCombs and someone called Adele, who you may or may not have heard a bit about.
Rosie Swash is back from the Sahara, still emptying sand out of her pockets and with a new-found love for Tuareg group Tamikrest. She talks us though the experience of the Festival au Desert and we hear some of the weekend's musical highlights. And there's more from Rosie in Mali in Music Weekly Extra.
Without further ado:
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