Playlist 07.11.11

Rainy Boy Sleep was a busy guy last week, playing the all-ages gig at the Ulster Hall and then getting active in the shipyard drawing offices, welcoming the international journalists to Belfast for the MTV bash. Rainy Boy (aka Stevie Martin) is a troubadour with attitude who cites Foy Vance as an inspiration. And certainly it's about the voice, the emotion sweetly released and the unique perspective on life. Somewhere in the confection there must also be some Beck, who liberated a generation of acoustic strummers and showed them how to be wayward, funky and free. Rainy Boy is only starting to realise the enthralling promise of it all.

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Mondays, ten - midnight

Paul Simon - Getting Ready For Christmas Day (Universal)

Ryan Adams - Ashes And Fire (Columbia)

Lisa Hannigan - Home (Hoop)

Bon Iver - Towers (4ad)

Rainy Boy Sleep - Shopping Centre Song (white)

Stone Roses - Don't Stop (Silvertone)

Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard (Bella Union)

The Henry Girls - December Moon (Henry Girls)

Tom Waits - New Year's Eve (Anti)

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Ink Slowly Dries (Fat Cat)

Gareth Dunlop - Find Your Way Back Home (Moraine)

Echo And The Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses (WEA)

William Elliott Whitmore - Don't Need It (Anti)

Piney Gir - Stay Sweet (Damaged Goods)

John Hiatt - All The Way Under (New West)

The Duke Spirit - Don't Wait (Fiction)

Gillian Welch - Scarlet Town (Acony)

Tom Waits - Kiss Me (Anti)

Mint Julep -Why Don't We (Village Green)

Ry Cooder - No Hard Feelings (Nonesuch)

Nick Cave - Rainy Night In Soho (Mute)