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Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Welcome to Vapour Trails episode 58
Everything for Someone……
Vapour Trails is produced by Mark Herbert
Playlist
Raymond Scott – K2r
Varetta Dillard – So Many Ways
The Dandy Warhols -The Summer of Hate
IDLES & LCD Soundsystem – Dancer
MGMT – Mother Nature
Junodream – Kitchen Sink Drama
Kurt Vile – This Time of Night (feat. Chastity Belt)
Ginnel – Is Real
Fun Boy Three – The Tunnel of Love
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army – Me, I Disconnect from You
David Bowie – Shapes of Things
Anita Lane, Barry Adamson & The Thought System of Love – These Boots Are Made for Walking
Kirsty MacColl – In These Shoes?
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Queens of Sorrow
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening – Long for Light
Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billy Joe
Sunny War – No Reason
Gaz Coombes – Dance On
ABBA – The Day Before You Came
Courtney Barnett – Depreston
Heaven 17 – Party Fears Two
The Beatles – Now And Then
Paul McCartney – That Would Be Something
Joni Mitchell – Urge for Going
Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #2
Glen Campbell – The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress
Scott Walker – Duchess
Vangelis – Rachel’s Song
Courtney Barnett & Stella Mozgawa – Start Somewhere
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Welcome to Vapour Trails episode 57
'Mark Herbert's 57th favourite show!'
Vapour Trails is produced by Mark Herbert
Playlist
John Cooper Clarke – Twat
Bar Italia – My Little Tony
Marika Hackman – No Caffeine
Two Door Cinema Club – Sure Enough
Bombay Bicycle Club – Diving (feat. Holly Humberstone)
75 Dollar Bill – Tetuzi Akiyama
New Model Army – Better Than Them
Super Furry Animals – Golden Retriever (2023 re-master)
Gruff Rhys – Celestial Candyfloss
A Flock of Seagulls – Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
Joyeria – Performance Review
Holy Fuck – Lovely Allen
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – The Night
The Pretenders – Back on the Chain Gang
Liz Lawrence – I Was There (feat. Steve Mason)
Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Indian Summer
The National – The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift)
The Monkees – Pleasant Valley Sunday
Wire – Feeling Called Love
Julian Cope – Me Singing
Mark Lanegan – I’ll Take Care of You
PJ Harvey & Tim Phillips – Who by Fire
Ichabod Wolf – Painted Horses
The Walker Brothers – In My Room
Jacques Brel – Le Moribund
Japan – My New Career
Craven Faults – Deipkier
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Welcome to Vapour Trails episode 56
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar……English proverb
Vapour Trails is produced by Mark Herbert
Playlist
Gloria Jones – Tainted Love
Al Wilson – The Snake
Sparklehorse – Evening Star Supercharger
JOHN – Riddley Scott Walker
Echo & The Bunnymen – My Kingdom
The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
Black Box Recorder – Lord Lucan is Missing
Office Dog – Big Air
Scaler-Loam
The Brackish – J Und J
L’objectif – ITSA
The Rolling Stones – Angry
Bill Ryder-Jones – This Can’t Go On
Melin Melyn – Nefoedd Yr Adar
Rogue Jones – Englynion Angylion
The Gentle Good – Nid wyf yn llon
Kristin Hersh - Ms Haha
XTC – Respectable Street
Ann Magnuson – I’maman
Scott Lavene – The Ballad of Lynsey
Anni Hogan – My Career (feat. Kid Congo Powers)
Finn Andrews – Wide Winged Bird
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Waiting for You
Brian Eno – By This River
Alabaster Deplume – Don’t Forget You’re Precious
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Welcome to Vapour Trails episode 55
The mind wanders and, occasionally, it leaves the room completely….
Vapour Trails produced by Mark Herbert
Playlist
David Allyn & Big Band Jazz Terassa – I Never Had the Blues
Julian Cope – World Shut Your Mouth
Bauhaus – The Passion of Lovers
Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Love is a Battlefield
Black Box Recorder – Hated Sunday
Lola Young – Don’t Hate Me
Sleaford Mods – So Trendy
Green Man 2023 Special
Young Fathers – Toy
Amyl and The Sniffers – Got You
Bob Vylan – Northern Line
Horace Andy – You Are My Angel
julie – Flutter
Sudan Archives – Selfish Soul
mary in the junkyard – Nightshade
Warmduscher – Disco Peanuts (feat. Nuha Ruby Ra)
Say She She – Don’t You Dare Stop
Goat – Run To Your Mama
Rufus Wainwright – Going to a Town (feat. Anohni)
The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project – Mother of Earth (feat. Dave Gahan)
Camper Van Beethoven – Take the Skinheads Bowling
Crime & the City Solution – Peace in my Time
Wet Leg – Being in Love
Blur – The Ballad
Shinichi Mori – Ofukuro San
Tame Impala – Journey To The Real World
Lankum – Newcastle (Green Man 2023)
Sinead O’Connor – Queen of Denmark
Sinead O’Connor – Trouble of the World (A Cappella)
David Sylvian – I Should Not Dare (for N.O.)
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Welcome to ep. 54 of Vapour Trails
It’s a high life in the gutter!
Vapour Trails is produced by Mark Herbert
Photo copyright: Ute Mahler/OSTKREUZ from the cover of Stasiland by Anna Funder
Cover design by Luke Bird.
Playlist
Blur – Out of Time
Half Japanese – The Answer is Yes
David Bowie – Always Crashing in the Same Car
Nick Cave & Debbie Harry – On the Other Side
Suede – Animal Nitrate
The Molotovs – Come To Grief
Duran Duran – Planet Earth
ABC – Date Stamp
Blondie – Atomic
Big Audio Dynamite – E=MC2
Billy Nomates – blue bones (deathwish)
The Beach Boys – Little Bird
Joyeria – Wild Joy
The Last Dinner Party – Nothing Matters
TEKE::TEKE – Doppelganger
Fyfe Dangerfield – SFJ
First Aid Kit – Everybody’s Got to Learn
Buck Meek – Paradise
Ian McCulloch – Baby Hold On
Pulp – Joyriders
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
Art School Girlfriend – Real Life
Radiohead – High and Dry
Purple Mountains – That’s Just the Way I Feel
Si Connelly – Hold Me
Lou Reed & John Cale – Smalltown
Bill Callahan – Riding for the Feeling
Serge Gainsbourg – 69 annee erotique (feat. Jane Birkin)
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Welcome to Vapour Trails ep.53
Newest Flying Battle
Pause Verge Angel
Tools Files Movies
Playlist
Brix Smith – California Smile
Mick Karn – Bestial Cluster
The Flaming Stars – Like Trash
Squid – Swing (In a Dream)
Marc Almond, Annie Hogan & Foetus – Burning Boats
PVA – Not (BBC R1 session)
Eric Cantona – The Friends We Lost
Christine & The Queens – Angels Crying in My Bed (feat: Madonna)
Galen & Paul – Lonely Town
Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea – Peaks and Valleys
Pulp – Mis-Shapes
Rosie Tee – Anchors
The Orielles – Darkened Corners
REM – Airportman
James Last – Silver Machine
Arctic Monkeys – I Wanna Be Yours
The Divine Comedy – A Lady of a Certain Age
The Stranglers – (Get a) Grip (On Yourself)
Chic – Le Freak
The Avonden – Stu Sutcliff
King Krule – That Is My Life, That Is Yours
Kierst – How to Be
Stella Donnelly – Underwater
The National – Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver)
bennytheghost – Electricity
Co-Pilot – Murmuration
Dionysus & Eric Cantona – Epilogue
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Welcome to episode 52 of Vapour Trails
We are crying in our tea…
Produced by Mark Herbert
Photograph: Tony Ray-Jones
Playlist
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood – Taq ou-Dub (feat. Nour Freteikh)
The Smiths – Barbarism Begins at Home
Morissey – Yes I Am Blind
Alison Goldfrapp – So Hard So Hot
Blur – The Narcissist
Sparks – The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
Galen & Paul – Room at the Top
Gogol Bordello – 60 Revolutions
The Avalanches – Reflecting Light (feat. Sananda Maitreya & Vashti Bunyan)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Bananas
Grian Chatten – Fairlies
Ike & Tina Turner – Sexy Ida pt. 1
Gaz Coombes – Long Live The Strange (Acoustic)
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Spellbound
Marc Almond – The Stars We Are
John Grant & Creep Show – Bungalow
Flatt & Scruggs – Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
Mark Eric – Night of the Lions
John Parish & Aldous Harding – Three Hours
Eliades Ochoa – Creo en la Naturaleza (feat. Joan As Police Woman)
The La’s – Way Out
Scott Walker – The Living End
La Dusseldorf – Viva
Karim Sulayman & Sean Shibe – La Prima Vez (Traditional Sephardic song)
The Bathers – Fancy Dress
Andy Rourke – isolated bassline from Barbarism Begins at Home (excerpt)
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Welcome to Vapour Trails ep.51
Pardon??
Produced by Mark Herbert
Playlist
Patheticist International – The Patheticist Manifesto (excerpt)
Seatbelts – Tank!
Acid Klaus – You’re a Freak (feat. Philly Piper)
The Pop Group – She is Beyond Good and Evil
The National – Your Mind is Not Your Friend (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
Dry Cleaning – Swampy
Electrelane – To the East
MEMORIALS – Tramps!
PJ Harvey – A Child’s Question, August
Ane Brun & Vince Clarke – Fly On the Windscreen
Ute Lemper – The Part You Throw Away
Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
The Smiths – How Soon is Now?
Eurythmics – Never Gonna Cry Again
Gorillaz – Possession Island (feat. Beck)
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Dead To the World
Anthony Reynolds – Country Girl (feat. Vashti Bunyan)
Temples – Cicada
This is the Kit – Inside Outside
Pale Blue Eyes – Little Gem
Aretha Franklin & The Southern Californian Community Choir – Old Landmark (Live)
Rufus Wainwright – Trouble In Paradise
Mark Lanegan – You Only Live Twice
John Prine – Caravan of Fools
Antony & The Johnsons – Hope There’s Someone
The Beatles – In My Life
Volta Jazz – Djougou Toro
Popol Vuh – Agape-Agape
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Welcome to Episode 50 of Vapour Trails!
Vapour Trails: Proudly emptying dance floors for 100 hours +
Produced by Mark Herbert
Original photograph: Sally Burford
Thanks to Laila Bishay for the additional design work
Playlist
The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
The Ruts – Staring at the Rude Boys
Matt Berry – Summer Sun
Black Belt Eagle Scout – My Blood Runs Through This Land
Echo & The Bunnymen – Pictures on My Wall
The Magnetic Fields – The Book of Love
Sage Motel – Monophonics & Kelly Finnigan
Magazine – The Light Pours Out of Me
PJ Harvey – 50 ft Queenie
The Birthday Party – Kiss Me Black
The Grass Roots – Midnight Confession
Petunia – Runaway Freight Train Heart
Jim White – Handcuffed to a Fence in Mississippi
This is The Kit – Hotter Colder
Robert Forster – Don’t Touch Anything
Scott Walker – Montague Terrace (in Blue)
BC Camplight – The Last Rotation of Earth
The Fall – Theme from Sparta F.C.
Fever Ray – Even it Out
The Fatima Mansions – Bertie’s Brochures
Finn Andrews – My Lotus Flower & Me
Unschooling – Nye
Baxter Dury – Aylesbury Boy (feat. JGrrey)
Way of the West – Don’t Say That’s Just for White Boys
Aldous Harding – Blend
Scott Lavene – Say Hello to Zeus
The Smile – Free in the Knowledge
Si Connelly – By the Hour
Damon Albarn – Hollow Ponds
Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler – Footnotes On the Map
Craig Finn – God in Chicago
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
Baz Luhrmann – Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Joy Division – Transmission
Joan As Policewoman – Out of Time
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Welcome to Vapour Trails ep. 49
Riding on the bobsleigh to better hair….
Produced by Mark Herbert
Playlist
Bruno Mars, Anderson Paak & Silk Sonic – 777
Decius, Douglas Lucas & Lias Saoudi – Roberto’s Tumescence
Hamish Hawk - The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion 1973
The Orielles – I Only Bought if for the Bottle
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Mr Medicine
Stony Sugarskull - Princess
Blue Orchids – The Adventure Thus Embarked Upon
Gilded Forest – 94 Revolution
Clara Engel – Golden Egg
The William Loveday Intention – A Library to You and the Self
Daniel Johnston – Some Things Last a Long Time
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Burning
Motel Radio – Stress
Raquel Welch – I’m Ready to Groove
Dear Nora – scrolls of doom
Gorillaz – Silent Running (feat. Adeleye Omotayo)
Aircooled – Hyperproduktiv!
Japanese Breakfast – Be Sweet
Father John Misty – Q4
David Bowie – Afraid
Scott Walker – Windows of the World
Plains – Line of Sight
The Smile – Skrting On the Surface
Pulp – David’s Last Summer
H. Hawkline – Empty Room