Friendly Atmosphere Newcastle Music Scene Podcast

FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE NEWCASTLE MUSIC SCENE PODCAST SERIES 2 EPISODE 6 BROADCAST/RELEASE DATE: 13TH JULY 2014 Martin wants to let you all know you can follow him/abuse him on Twitter: @MusicByMeiosis Alex and Martin conclude this series with some old “in” jokes adapted from series 1 that nobody apart from Alex and I will enjoy. We hear the answers to some Probing Questions posed to Andrew Proud of Captain Trips, a little poem Alex and Martin wrote when they were 15 year old school children and a live version of ‘Blith’ by that Brilliant Mind. We also take lots of drugs and start “tripping” or “flying” just like the cool kidz and end up bumping to an old nemesis. Will he kill us both? Yes he does. Also we play some awesome music by: BLANK MAPS – Lucky Dip E.P. Lucky Dip http://www.tinylights.bandcamp.com FUN CITY SHILLS – Animals Album: Fop Out http://www.skronk1.bandbamp.com STORYTIME SKETCH #3 – Poem Time CAPTAIN TRIPS – An Alternative http://www.captaintrips.co.uk Twitter @CaptainTripsUK PROBING QUESTIONS – Andrew Proud From Captain Trips GAMESHOW SKETCH #4 – Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game BRILLIANT MIND – Blyth (Live at The Head Of Steam) E.P: The Blyth E.P. Live Recording by Martin Thompson http://www.tinylights.bandcamp.com HERBIE TREEHEAD – Happy Song Album: Sleepy Songs And Not Very Sleepy Songs http://www.herbietreehead.info/Site/Herbie_Treeheads_Experimental_Disaster_Band.html

FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE NEWCASTLE MUSIC SCENE PODCAST SERIES 2 EPISODE 5: BROADCAST/RELEASE DATE: 6TH JULY 2014 Here we are with Episode 5! There’s some lovely music on this episode plus a little interview with a lady we suspect is not local. Alex & Martin’s friendship comes under strain as we get more tired and grumpy with each other’s presence. It all turns a bit sour after our localness is found to be intercepted but remember kids… it’s just a joke! It all goes a bit weird (but not as weird as episode 6!). Look at the awesome music we’ve got on our lovely little podcast this week: VINYL JACKET – Jupiter E.P. Safari http://www.thecalicoprint.bandcamp.com DEATH MASKS – Memory http://Deathmasks.bandcamp.com SIMPLE SWAN - Black Shapes Album: The Summerhouse http://simple-swan.bandcamp.com EMMA DUNCAN – Smile :) E.P.: Say Nice Things http://emmaduncan.bandcamp.com PROBING QUESTIONS – Emma Duncan RICK FURY – I’m Mint Album: Fist Of Fury http://www.furymusic.bandcamp.com LOST STATE OF DANCE – The Ripper http://www.soundclound.com/lost-state-of-dance http://www.musicbymeiosis.com

FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE NEWCASTLE MUSIC SCENE PODCAST SERIES 2 EPISODE 4: BROADCAST/RELEASE DATE: 29TH JUNE 2014 Alex & Martin return with Episode 4! FOUR? of the Friendly Atmosphere Newcastle Music Scene Podcast. Here we have the following musical acts, an argument about how Martin pronounces his words and a trip down memory lane, revolving around a Northern Transport Company Timetable (1970-1971). Loads of nice things happen on this podcast. I bet you can wait to hear it. PECULIAR DISCO MOVES – Lost For Words (Please Don’t tell Me Please Don’t Say) http://www.peculardiscomoves.com EUAN LYNN – No Waves Album: Euan Lynn/Belafonte/xGetxRealx http://www.euanlynn.bandcamp.com ALBION ROW – Runaround (acoustic) http://www.soundcloud.com/albionrow THE AGENCY – Child So Careless Album: Of Ghosts Info: http://www.solarbearrecords.com/artists/aaa/ Music: http://theagency1.bandcamp.com TISSUE CULTURE – Newbiggin By The Sea https://www.facebook.com/tissueculture MEIOSIS - Humans http://www.musicbymeiosis.com ORPHEAN SOUNDS - Boom! http://www.opheansound.co.uk

FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE NEWCASTLE MUSIC SCENE PODCAST SERIES 2 EPISODE 3: BROADCAST/RELEASE DATE: 22ND JUNE 2014 Hurray! It’s time for episode 3 of the second series of The Friendly Atmosphere Newcastle Music Scene Podcast! This week Martin & Alex discover the sinister side of playing the spoons, some dipping into the Holy Bible takes place and £9 is attempted to be raised to pay for the podcast by an appearance on The Crystal Maze. Some surprises along the way but here are all the details of the music we have played on this week’s friendly but ultimately confusing and cheap podcast: S.D.F – DanceFloor Baby https://www.facebook.com/SDFcollective BRILLIANT MIND – The Room Upstairs E.P.: The Blyth E.P. http://www.tinylights.bandcamp.com MILK AND BISCUITS – White Noise Album: Balcony Times http://www.bigsaladrecords.com/artists#milkandbiscuits MICHEAL LEGGE Vs MEIOSIS – Jesus On A Bus Samples taken from Micheal Legge’s ‘Blogging For The Blind’ http://michaelleggesblog.blogspot.co.uk Twitter @Micheallegge GAMESHOW SKETCH #3 – The Crystal Maze

FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE NEWCASTLE MUSIC SCENE PODCAST SERIES 2 EPISODE 2: BROADCAST/RELEASE DATE 15TH JUNE 2014 Alex and Martin contemplate racism and masturbation within the same podcast. Alex funds the podcast by being asked to go on the popular 1990s light entertainment gameshow, Big Break and Martin tries to describe salty stuff and Alex discussed the names you might give to an elephant. He also picks Martin up on his strange accent and how he pronounces his words. We also play these lovely, lovely tunes by….: TOXIC MELONS – Disco Balls Album: Bus Therapy – CD/LP/Downlaod https://www.facebook.com/TheeToxicMelons 3 AT SEA – On the Run Debut Single Release http://www.Facebook.com/3atSea http://www.3atSea.bandcamp.com PROBING QUESTIONS – Jonjo & Ade From The Jesus Nukes ROB HERON & THE TEA PAD OCHESTRA – The Great Fire Of Byker Teepy Eepy E.P. http://www.teapadorchestra.bandcamp.com http://www.teapadorchestra.com GAMESHOW SKETCH #2 – Big Break YOUR CASKET OR MINE? – Death http://www.yourcasketormine.co.uk WARM DIGITS – Terminal Interchange is Warm Digits' experimental film and album of music inspired by photography and illustrations drawn from the Tyne and Wear Archives, of the 1970s' biggest civil engineering project on Tyneside – the construction of Metro. Invited to investigate the archives to find inspiration to make some new music, Warm Digits found a selection photographs documenting the transitions between the crumbling, decommissioned British Rail stations of Tyneside and the new, futuristic Metro stations. Album: Interchange CD/Downlaoad/DVD http://distractionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/interchange http://www.warmdigits.co.uk

FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE NEWCASTLE MUSIC SCENE PODCAST SERIES 2 EPISODE 1: BROADCAST/RELEASE DATE: 8TH JUNE 2014 PODCAST TAB: http://www.musicbymeiosis.com/podcast.html Available to listen now at: Listen on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/friendly-atmosphere-newcastle/id589045333?mt=2 Listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/musicbymeiosis/sets/friendly-atmosphere-newcastle Listen on Podomatic.com: http://musicbymeiosis.podomatic.com Listen RSS feed: http://musicbymeiosis.podomatic.com/rss2.xml Friendly Atmosphere Facebook Group: http://facebook.com/groups/356505254462135 Alex & Martin are back by unpopular demand with a seconded series of the not so acclaimed ‘Friendly Atmosphere Newcastle Music Scene Podcast’. The podcast features some local music by local musicians from Tyne & Wear, some not so local music by some not so local musicians from beyond Tyne & Wear and also some silliness, shenanigans and sometimes terrible rudeness in between. In this week’s episode we bring you the following acts as well as a beautiful bedtime story featuring a pig, how Noel Edmonds became responsible for financing the episode via means of Martin’s appearance on Deal Or No Deal and a short argument about deleting previous podcast recordings and trying to talk about ‘Breaking Bad’. POLARSETS – Just Don’t Open Your Eyes Yet Produced by Unicorn Kid. Available on iTunes/CD – visit http://www.polarsets.com THINMAN – Last Pistol Shot Album: Out Of Orbit http://www.thinmansbandcamp.com GAMESHOW SKETCH #1 – Deal Or No Deal BY TOUTATIS – Rebecca Album: The Songs We Sang To Death http://www.tinylights .bandcamp.com http://www.bytoutatis.com STORYTIME SKETCH #1 – Nazi Pig Lands In Milton Keynes NEV CLAY – Your Dad Sells Lighters Album: Pearshaped http://www.nevclay.bandcamp.com Yep - folks can listen to (almost) all of my songs on nevclay.bandcamp.com. They can download "leaving do" for free too - it's track 3 on "the wedding singers". Ta - Nev MEIOSIS – Alice in Wonderland Syndrome Martin Thompson. Download – visit http://www.musicbymeiosis.com

Wednesday 3rd April 2013. Podcast #5. Alex & Martin attempt another local scene podcast with no cover versions involved whatsoever. To avoid Sony or EMI or Simon of the Cows ruining our little gig we have made a ‘Not Cover Versions’ special. We have also not opened the podcast by doing impressions of 1990s comedy characters (again). That’s the legal stuff out of the way, here is what we played: Ian Courtney - Interview Tracks played: Small Town Hero, from Ian's previous album Militant. Acoustic. Suicide. Pop. Beauty In Bleakness Crooked Bones A Shakespearian Tragedy All found on Ian’s brand new album, Slings & Arrows, available now at http://www.iancourtney.com Euan Lynn – I’m A Believer http://www.EuanLynn.bandcamp.com Agerskow – This Train Terminates Taken from their new single – This Train Terminates/Fast Hands (double A side) out now for £3.49 with CD + download at http://www.cottageindustries.bandcamp.com https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/this-train-terminates-fast/id621324752 The Union Choir – Your Melodica http://www.facebook.com/theunionchoir Ciao! – Meiosis http://www.musicbymeiosis.com Albion Row – Do It Again taken from A Fistful of Demos Facebook: Albion Row Official David McCann – Let It Be Taken from the album And I Sang to a Small Guitar, available at http://www.davidMcCann.Bandcamp.com Glory Box – Eddie Rivers http://www.soundcloud.com/eddieriversproject

Tuesday 1st January 2013. Podcast #2. Featured in this podcast: Polarsets – Tropics http://www.polarsets.com Fallen Phoenix – But You Remain On research, Psy ‘Psy Of The Dead Psy Static Whoosh Simon’ Chester tells me this band are from Middlesbrough and not Manchester. If nothing else, we have discovered yet another place outside of Newcastle. Here is the link to some stuff by them: http://uk.myspace.com/fallenphoenixmusic Moira Stewart – Mr. Men Groove http://distractionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sweetness-yes Toxic Melons – The Dole http://www.toxicmelons.bandcamp.com Psy Of The Dead – Brains http://www.soundcloud.com/psystatic Deltasound – Attachment (live at The Central, Gateshead) http://www.deltasound.gb.net

Sunday 9th December 2012. Podcast #1. Martin Thompson chats with Alex Sommersett in this first instalment of Martin Thompson’s Friendly Atmosphere Newcastle Music Scene Podcast. Actually, the second instalment but the first was unbroadcastable! Bernaccia – Sobering Thoughts Bernaccia, formally The Out Of Towners, have made a warm crevice in our hearts as they were the first band Alex and I ever put on. On the Podcast I say we are playing this because Alex was drunk on our first ‘try out’ podcast. ‘Tis not true. I was the one who was drunk! It seems apt that we can start off with opposing views but the same band. You can find Bernaccia at http://www.facebook.com/bernacciamusic The Colt/The Colt 45s We love the music of Keith Colt. We thought we had lost him but this podcast brought us to the man – he has a band in operation & a Facebook page. From the electronic vibes of The Colt 45s to The Colt(s) – still not sure if we need to add the ‘s’ – he appears to do nothing by halves. Thumping, pumping, catchy tunes that WILL WAKE YOU UP!!! http://www.facebook.com/TheColtsnewBand http://soundcloud.com/the-colts-new-band Your Casket Or Mine – Drop Me like A Toy If Pabs is not already a local hero, then let’s find a space and erect an image of him for all to see. Such amazing song writing technique from a man who we definitely love, & we will love his music forever. http://www.yourcasketormine.co.uk Deltasound Deltasound are the race, the human race and catching up with any other race of rock, oh… you just tripped over… music is real in front of Deltasound. We edited the Deltasound interview down to 20 minutes – I think that’s how you’d like it. http://www.deltasound.gb.net Toxic Melons Is it Fredde Gredde or Freddie Greddie? I guess it does not matter. Paul from Toxic Melons is a piece of evidence that if you have no money, no budget and no job – you can still create something great and wonderful, thoughtful & musically apt. This is one of the few Facebook pages I will recommend. Very funny, honest & entertaining: http://www.facebook.com/TheeToxicMelons Captain Trips Captain Trips was formed by a group of friends in 2006 and has evolved to capture a strong local following at gigs around the North East, playing an eclectic mix of indie rock, punk and blues. Previously managed by Martin Thompson himself, it is only fitting that they feature in his first friendly podcast. Twitter: @Captaintripsuk Meiosis Well what can we say? Not much. So let's just recap what others have said: "Meiosis is actually Newcastle based Martin Thompson, a talented so-and-so who certainly knows his way around a wonky tune with added Scott Walker style flavours." "Martin Thompson has more than enough charisma to pull off the solo act – as amply demonstrated by the between-song chat which is every bit as enjoyable as the music. And as for the music… hints of Bowie, Scott Walker and Jarvis combine with Martin’s inimitable style to produce a sound that is simply unique – with the brilliant backing track providing an awesome backdrop to live music." http://www.musicbymeiosis.com http://www.meiosis.bandcamp.com Thank you for listening and looking.

Saturday 2nd February 2013. Podcast #3. Alex & Martin bring you a fatter dosage of undoubtedly confident talk about nothing important and some of the best unsigned music acts in Newcastle upon Tyne. This month we also chuck in a couple of tracks by the Belfast artists who will be playing with Martin's Meiosis when he does his gig there in March. We also have an interview with Andrew Proud from Captain Trips and he plays us a couple of his lovely new songs on his newly restrung acoustic guitar. Tracks Played: Captain Trips - Make The Most Of Now/Circling/Beer Talking captaintrips.co.uk Twitter: @CaptainTripsuk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Captain-Trips Pale Man Made - Started In 1966 palemanmade.com and http://palemanmade.bandcamp.com/ Andy Train - Good Weather Riots http://mrandytrain.bandcamp.com/ David McCann - Belfast Town http://davidmccann.bandcamp.com/ Interview: Exclusive tracks from Andrew Proud (Under Ten/Captain Trips): The Sound Of Sirens I Don't Walk Straight The Cartel Youth Movement - My Devotion Can't find this band on the internet. Contact us! Modern Colours - Pheonix http://www.myspace.com/moderncoloursltd

Friday 1st March 2013. Podcast #4. Windy Pops Martin and Alex 'the Golden Swan' return for episode 4 of the renowned, unbeatably childish Friendly Atmosphere Newcastle Music Scene Podcast. This month we have a wonderful interview with Calum Lynn of Brilliant Mind fame, recorded at The Tyneside Cinema in that Newcastle, and the usual mix of awesome Newcastle-based music and buggery (“fuck-a-way, fuck-a-way”) . Tracks played: Razmataz Lorry Excitement – If It Takes Me All Night Long Taken from the Album If It Takes Me All Night Long available at: www.razmatazlorryexcitement.co.uk Grandfather Birds – Higher Bridges Taken from the E.P., Now That’s What I Call… Grandfather Birds! Available at: www.grandfatherbirds.bandcamp.com Brilliant Mind – Blyth Taken from The Blyth E.P. Available to stream at: www.soundcloud.com/brilliantmind Other tracks available to download at: www.brilliantmind.bandcamp.com Tracks played: during Calum Lynn’s interview: The Room Upstairs – From The Blyth E.P. Leave Your Friends Behind – From Leave Your Friends Behind (bandcamp, as above) Twitter: @Calumlynn or @BrilliantMindd Nick Gladdish – Sticks and Stones www.nickgladdish.com Coalition Against Crime - www.thecoalition.org.uk My Attorney – John, You Saved My Life Taken from the album From Our Own Correspondent, found at: www.myattorney.bandcamp.com Ian Courtney – Small Town Hero Available at: www.smalltownhero.co.uk Purple Shards – Reality First Last FM: Search ‘Purple Shards’ Mike Gatto – The Phone Box Taken from Floating Through Reality. Available at: www.mikegatto.co.uk

Saturday 13th April 2013. Podcast #6. Series Finale. We decided to play you some music by some of our favourite local acts. This decision has nothing to do with the fact we have no money to download new music. Highlights include a compilation of hilarious outakes, Martin plays the recorder, a special professional interview from Michael Parkinson and surprise 'guest appearances' from DLT and Bobby Ball. Here is the music we played: Deltasound - Our Machines The Union Choir - Your Melodica Brilliant Mind - Don't Give Me That, Rob Captain Trips - Start Again Toxic Melons - Diffidence Your Casket or Mine - Drop Me Like A Toy Meiosis - On A Mission Thanks very much for listening to the series and we hope it hasn't had any long term side effects. More information can be found at http://www.musicbymeiosis.com/podcast.html