"Old poets studied rules of verse and those ladies, they rolled their eyes": Setlist 10/10/05

This week's guest on FU:EL was PlaybackSTL's own music reviewer Mary Beth Hascall. The theme of the week (not that most week's have themes, but this one did) was bands from the British Isles, i.e. England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. (How little my Irish countrymen appreciate being lumped in with Britain geographically is another matter entirely...) Be that as it may, we played all kinds of great British and Irish bands, which I think featured a pretty nice blend of the mainstream (U2, The Cure, Rolling Stones) and the not-so-mainstream (Supergrass, Gomez, the Beta Band).

Anyone who looks at the setlist and gets confused, a couple notes...
- BRMC isn't "technically" a British band, as 2/3 of the band is from San Francisco. But drummer Nick Jago is British. Also, the Little Barrie song Mary Beth picked out put me in the mood to hear the new BRMC which, oddly enough, has already disappeared from the new release stacks. Rats....

- The love for Britain wrapped up after the Rolling Stones, since I needed to get some new releases on the air. We had a few British new releases (Franz Ferdinand, for example), but not enough to fulfill the 6 NR's I needed to play.

- I'm personally a big fan of the way we wrapped the show: with one great British band (Leatherface) covering another great British band (The Police). Good stuff!

And don't forget to tune in next week, when Jim Campbell will rock yer effin' face off!

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U2 “I Will Follow” Boy
Stereophonics “A Thousand Trees” Word Gets Around
Supergrass “Pumping On Your Stereo” Supergrass
The Clash “Lost in the Supermarket” London Calling
Gang of Four “Sweet Jane (live)” Entertainment! (remastered)
Gang of Four “Natural’s Not In It” Return the Gift
The Yardbirds “You’re a Better Man Than I” Heart Full of Soul & Other Hits
Little Barrie “Long Hair” We Are Little Barrie
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Whatever Happened To My Rock n’ Roll?” BRMC
Gomez “Bring It On” Liquid Skin
The Beta Band “Dry the Rain” The Three EPs
Travis “…Baby One More Time (live from VH1’s Storytellers” Turn single
James “Laid” Laid
Belle & Sebastian “The Boy With the Arab Strap” The Boy With the Arab Strap
Radiohead “Palo Alto” Airbag/How Am I Driving?
U2 “Staring at the Sun” Pop
The Cure “A Letter To Elise”
U2 “Bad (live)” Wide Awake In America
Ride “Twisterella” Going Blank Again
Badly Drawn Boy “Something To Talk About” About A Boy
Franz Ferdinand “This Boy” You Could Have It So Much Better
Rolling Stones “Under My Thumb” Aftermath
The Stooges “No Fun” The Stooges
Big Star “Lady Sweet” In Space
Teenage Fanclub “Time Stops” Man-made
Fiona Apple “O’ Sailor” Extraordinary Machine
Leatherface “Message in a Bottle” Mush