This week Chris Jones joined Rigsy and Stu to talk new music including:
Gemma Hayes – Let A Good Thing Go
Chris: “I’ve always loved this song … I just happened to be in the pub waiting for a football match to start last weekend and it came on. I thought, ‘I haven’t heard this in years!”
Chris Hanna – Broken Knuckles In The Bunatee
Chris: “A no-nonsense banger! This is Chris’ tribute to the Bunatee Bar in Queen’s Student Union which is well known for its house and techno night Twitch, and also very often Shine. This tune is on a brand new compilation from the Belfast label Extended Play … called Statement Of Intent … which celebrates its 50th release.”
Rachael Boyd – Esoteric (Oaks Rmx)
Stu: “Rachael has done a lot of work with people like Joshua Burnside and Ciaran Lavery … and every now and again you get to see her step out and do her own thing. It’s amazing… she is capable of so many great things and hopefully we will hear a lot more.”
Girls Names – Reticence
Chris: “[Girls Names] have been added to the Out To Lunch line up, which takes place around the Cathedral Quarter in Belfast, in January. As far as music is concerned you’ve got Two Bears, The Stripes, Saint Sister, Jealous Of The Birds, and Girls Names playing at The Dockers Club on the 29th January.”
Chrisy McCullagh– The Nights Are Too Short
Chris: “[Chrisy] is a new name to me, and I really like this track. There’s a real exoticism to the rhythm, to the percussion, even the horns in the background add a dreamlike quality to it which is quite nice.”
Rich Wilson – A Crash Into A Sandbank
Stu: “It’s a bit of that street-corner-soul, early Bruce Springsteen romance, twanginess … possibly a girl coming round the corner wiggling in the right way… it’s that kind of thing isn’t it!”
Via: Barvikha – Pearl
Chris: “This is Chris Lecky, who is also the bassist and vocalist in Pigs As People, who are a post-hard core band. It’s a very different side to his song writing and vocal style. I think it’s really, really well done. It’s his debut single … really beautiful produced … xylophone in the verses and a swelling coda.”
