MEMORY TAPES: 14TH JANUARY 2011

This week's Memory Tapes is a special one, as it's provided by none other than Andrew Collins who's been filling in for Huey this week. Best let him explain what "The Red Light Bulb Tape" is all about, then...

"I was an art student, living in halls in Battersea, South London, 60 miles from my home town Northampton. Aged 20, I liked to imagine that I was a tortured artist, living in a garrett, eating cheese from mousetraps and nobody understood me, which is why I didn't have a girlfriend, because I was too deep and philosophically impenetrable. In fact, I lived in a subsidised, centrally heated tower block exclusively populated by other art students which provided hot meals twice a day.

"It was - I accept now - the life of Riley, but that didn't really fit with my overwrought, operatic, solipsistic sense of existential gloom, so I fitted a red light bulb to my bedside anglepoise lamp and sat in my study bedroom, alone, and played this cassette over and over again, specifically filled with sad songs that perfectly captured my artificially created mood. Others may have classed it a "seduction tape", but frankly, it suited me better to consider actual contact with the opposite sex a remote and unachievable fantasy."

Here's the full tracklisting:

1. THE SMITHS Meat Is Murder

2. THE CURE Drowning Man

3. KATE BUSH Under Ice (from Hounds Of Love)

4. COCTEAU TWINS Ivo

5. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Each And Every One

6. COCTEAU TWINS Wax and Wane

7. THE ROSE OF AVALANCHE LA Rain (12" version)

8. THE CURE A Hundred Years

9. THIS MORTAL COIL Song To The Siren

10. CLOCK DVA Four Hours

Tune in to the show from 10.30am to find out which tracks Andrew plays, and if you want to email Huey your Memory Tape, then do it; don't be shy.

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