Paris Shed: Dave Carroll and Marjolaine

It’s back to the Shed in Paris and one of our favourite ever live sessions from the days of Paris Link magazine – Dave Carroll and Marjolaine.

Jonny Sly is in the hotseat, joined by Gareth Cartman for two sessions of chat and live music with two of Paris’ leading lights. Dave Carroll has his arm twisted and is eventually forced to play ‘The Guest’ for his audience.

Marjolaine brings her low-fi cabaret-rock into the Shed and leaves her hosts dumbfounded and even gobsmacked at one point.

Check out our playlist and make sure you tune in when Dave Carroll and Marjolaine’s podcasts are on – parts one and two are now on rotation!

30 minutes – rock/pop… introducing Next To Beluga

Back in the Paris Shed, Jonny Sly picked Next To Beluga out as his entry for 2007’s EuroVirtual competition, and while the Danes might not have won the competition overall, they won the hearts of many of our regular listeners.

Copenhagen’s finest are back, now on shed.fm, with the pop-tastic Love Composer, and remain the band that the Cardigans could – and should – have become instead of going off into out and out rock. Proper sugar-coated pop songs. Their latest album, Out of Place, is available through Digivision, and you can buy it here on iTunes - we recommend that you do.

Next To Beluga are: Sara Futtrup Lund (lead + backing vocals + songwriter),
Sidsel Storm: (backing vocals + glockenspiel),
Karen Bach: (Keys + backing vocals),
Ole Lindholm: (drums),
Thomas Marcussen: (bass)

Also in this 30 minutes, you’ll find the brilliant, but sadly no longer with us, Kimlico, along with Major Major, Drunksouls, Marie Tueje and the brilliant accapella of Ruby Wood.

• Kimlico – Superhero
• Next to Beluga – Love Composer
• Drunksouls – No More Fighting
• Major Major – No Rhyme
• Amelie – Do It Over
• Marie Tueje – Killer in the Road
• Ruby Wood – The Fact is I Need You

30 minutes: rock/pop… introducing Headphone

If you’ve ever been to Ghent, then you probably wouldn’t associate the city with rock music. With its canals, cafes and Flemish architecture, Ghent is a thriving student town, and home to the brilliant Headphone, whose latest single Yesmen kicks off our latest 30 Minutes.

Debut album Ghostwriter caught the imaginination locally, with Headphone topping the Studio Brussels charts for several weeks. A heady blend of pop, rock, electronica, Headphone’s music has been likened to Radiohead without the overdose.

Headphone are: Ian Marien (Lead Vocal / Guitar / Piano), Nico Steenkiste (Drums), Gerd Van Mulders (Keyboard / Guitar), Tom Barbier (Guitar / Keyboard) and Jan Goossens (Bass) and if they tickle your fancy, visit their official site and their myspace site.

Also in this 30 minutes, we’ve got the Balkan brilliance of the Penny Black Remedy, and a Paris-based singer-songwriter calling himself the Dada Weatherman whose latest album, The Green Waltz has been on our turntable all week. Links are available to all artists if you’re interested in finding out more about them or hearing more of their music. Ace or what?

• Headphone – Yesmen
• Show Without Punch – Wax and Coxcomb
• The Dada Weatherman – Song to Paris
• The Penny Black Remedy – 95 Charing Cross Road
• Moot – Dancing Nowhere
• Hedgehog Dilemma – Solitude
• Lea Velours – Want U
• A Jigsaw – Red Pony