Every week TOW plays two songs for the brilliant Tom Robinson on his BBC 6 Music Introducing show… here are our picks from this week’s show:
The Just Joans – Your Pain Is A Joke Next To Mines
Major props to the brilliant Leg Guitar blog, the source of this pick for Tom’s show. TOW has signed up to the mailing list and are thoroughly enjoying their mail outs. Check out the latest one about band’s covering Madonna’s True Blue… fabulous. Anywho, The Just Joans are based in Glasgow, originally from North Lanarkshire and have been around for ages! Plenty of back catalogue loveliness to get busy with then. They’re signed to WeePop! Records and released their mini-album Your Pain Is A Joke Next To Mines recently. The name is in tribute to Scottish Daily Record’s agony aunt of the same name… and their songs sort of have that bent to them – tortured love, wry but not too clever-and-smug songwriting and to top it all off a sensitive and beautiful approach to songwriting. Sit back… and enjoy.
| Anguish Sandwich – Leave My Brain Alone
Catherine, John and Chris make up this 3 pieces from Northampton. It’s so lo-fi it’s practically off the meter… so lo-fi can sometimes be off-putting, you need catchy melodies too and Anguish Sandwich have them in spades. The EP No More Cows is available for free a their bandcamp page and you MUST download it immediately. With songs like Leave My Brain Alone which we played for Tom and the one accompanying this video (one of our best of 2011) it’s such fun and has such ‘tude! We love it. Also check out Chris East’s blog, he’s the brains behind the band and it’s quite read. |
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