Playlist 27.09.10

I met Edwyn Collins about ten years ago at an Aberdeen music festival. I had been in charge of a media workshop and he had played a gig. We were hanging out in a bar while a band called Bendy Toy were performing and for some reason we sniggered like kids. I met him again two years later in Belfast and the first thing he said to me was "Bendy Toy" and so we sniggered again. That night he played a fine show at The Limelight, where he revived some of the big Orange Juice tunes, climbed on top of a chair for a solo and then played his guitar behind his head. I loved it.

We all felt for the guy after his double brain haemorrhage in 2005, but the recovery has been heartening. And the new tunes on his comeback album, 'Losing Sleep' are remarkable.

BBC Radio Ulster, 92-95 FM

Online: www.bbc.co.uk/radioulster

Mondays, ten - midnight

Playlist 27.09.10

Neil Young - Old Country Waltz (Reprise)

Captain Kennedy - Roll Ramona (white)

Elvis Costello - I Lost You (Universal)

Colenso Parade - Find Your Mother (white)

Colenso Parade - Fall At Your Feet (white)

The Duke And The King - Hudson River (Loose)

Darren Heyman - Calling Out Your Name Again (Fortuna Pop)

Manic Street Preachers - Some Kind of Nothingness (Sony)

Owen Pallett - A Man With No Ankles (Domino)

Jonathan Richman - Harpo Played His Harp (Rounder)

Two Door Cinema Club - I Can Talk (Kitsune)

Kurt Wagner, Courtney Tidwell - Picking Wild Mountain Berries (City Slang)

Captain Kennedy - Sweetest Friend (white)

Warpaint - Undertow (Rough Trade)

Robert Plant - Harm's Sweet Way (Decca)

Mark Lanegan, Isobel Campbell - You Won't Let Me Down Again (V2)

Edwyn Collins - Searching For The Truth (Heavenly)

Donnie Fritts - Breakfast In Bed (Oh Boy)

Heliopause - With My Eyes Closed (white)

Midlake - Fortune (Bella Union)

Agnes Obel - Just So (PIAS)

Aaron Shanley - Julie Was An Old Friend (Love Gun)

Franz Nicolay - The Last Words Of Gene Autry (Décor)

The Charlatans - My Foolish Pride (Frinck)