Welcome to the RPM Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 11th July 2025...and this week, as we were off on our hols at the Folk in a Field festival last week, it's a belated 13th birthday edition for the RPM Record Club which met for the first time on the 3rd July 2012. So, happy birthday to ya and let's see what tunes we're going to celebrate with...over to...
"Hi RPMers, hope you are keeping cool. Here’s my 3 this week..."
The Ballard Of The Little Man by World Party -
Northern Lites by Super Furry Animals -
Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash (live at Folsom prison) -
When You Walk in The Room by The Searchers - "What are the BBC playing at? Ignored this final show from an iconic and long-lived british group at Glasto but decided to broadcast the shameful Knee Cap and Villan."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S6bo_Eup_0
"This video has been disabled to play on other websites, so to catch the Glasto performance, click the link to take you to Youtube" - Tim
Morning Glory by Harry Nilsson -
Somebody Out There by Colin Blunstone - "From the Alan Parson Project album Vulture Culture."
"A friend who was travelling in South Africa recently caught a show by Alice Phoebe Lou and on his advice I checked her vids…. She has a kind of natural energy that I haven’t noticed in music for a while."
She by Alice Phoebe Lou -
Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper -
"And this was my favourite band from the recent Folk in a Field Festival, I thought that they had a kind of natural energy that I haven’t noticed in m…. Oh, done that line! Maybe, something a little more vibrant is being generated in the musical undertow once again? I do hope so."
Summink Fab (Piers' description) by The Carrivick Sisters & Kieran Towers -
"Heard lots of Boogie Woogie and 50s Rock n Roll at the Dereham Blues Festival opening concert last Wednesday- here's a taster of those times. "
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie performed by Matthew Ball -
Boogie Woogie Be With Me performed by Ladyva -
Reelin' and Rockin' by Chuck Berry -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=eTnoSsaeOn0&list=PLCC09FDAD2ADF849E&index=4
"Keep well everyone. Don't get heat stroke! "
"Thanks again for your tunes, which widen my musical horizons. Driving down to Bristol for a Bill Callahan concert the week before last I gave an extensive listen to the new James McMurtry here is the title track."
James McMurty with The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy -
"On a sweltering Wednesday evening in The Old Duke, I came across a band who called themselves Jackson Station after a song of the same name. I'm not sure if it was this one."
Band of Heathens with Jackson Station -
"Finally here is the man himself Bill Callahan."
Bill Callahan with Last One At The Party -
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yAtaQy-exak&si=9C3AO90a_zVLGBZa
"That's All Folks."
"Hi RPMers. Good to meet up with some of you at Folk In A Field. Here are my three choices..."
"My first choice is from I band I saw twice at Folk In A Field; Malcura from Melbourne, Australia. I don't know the title of this piece (and the person who posted the clip doesn't know it either!!) but what a great tune."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=083r8EkgytM&list=RD083r8EkgytM&start_radio=1
"Secondly, this caught my ear recently and I realised what an underated number this Beatles song is. Baby You're A Rich Man was the 'B' Side to All You Need Is Love from July 1967. Should have been the 'A' Side...."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4EcTLoeR-g&list=RDs4EcTLoeR-g&start_radio=1
"Sorry, only time for two... Best wishes to all as always."
"Lovely weekend at FIAF enhanced by seeing Tim and John of this parish on stage with Anto’s Big Band Experience. My favourite time was Saturday afternoon/early evening with the following (and also the Carrivick Sisters with Kieran Towers) — almost a reprise of Tim’s place-holding tracks last week!"
Romeo and Juliet performed by Steve Knightly -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foRVHdJkDzI&list=RDfoRVHdJkDzI&start_radio=1
Promise by Project Smok -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cnvPfWwex4&list=RD8cnvPfWwex4&start_radio=1
Haunt You by Baskery -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9xA_2OF-Bs&list=RDI9xA_2OF-Bs&start_radio=1
"Hey, it's a bunch of new stuff this week..."
Everything by Skinny Lister - "Just caught up with the new Skinnys LP, Songs From The Yonder, out recently...here's a little something from it."
Seanamhac Tube Station / Mouse in the Kitchen / The Lisnagun performed by Michael McGoldrick and Tim Edey - "Michael and Tim played a duo gig recently in York to promote their new recording entitled Jamland. Here they are live from a few year ago as nothing from the new album is on Youtube yet..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k95iXfZ7O0A&list=PL51O_8DRqS0FrW5i0oJ14QC3Fq6_kbJuU&index=7
Traffic Jam by Aartwork - "The band I enjoyed the most last weekend at Folk in a Field were Aartwork who closed the festival with their psychedelic ceilidh. Band instrument line up included electric spoons which pretty much blew the minds of all the stage crew, as it went through various FX including that favourite of Hendrix, the Wah-wah. Here's a track from their Going With The Flow CD."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF9erBeqF38&list=OLAK5uy_mg7CewZaGEv6RQf-j1qqTKUd5EX00XVGw
'Til Next Time...