Band of the Week: She Makes War

A one-woman operation, She Makes War makes lush, moody pop music and is a mistress of multi-tasking, juggling guitar, loop pedal and uke. Her second album, Little Battles, is released on 9 April.

This video comes from her first album, Disarm, and was shot in sunny East London. Not enough vids on bicycles, IMHO.

Odd Girl Out: show 49

 

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Alas, She Makes War was not able to join us in the chilly studio for a live session, but we did chat about her upcoming Megabus tour of the UK and whether the ukulele is the instrument of 2010. Meanwhile, outside winter crept in and London once again failed to cope with a few flakes of snow.

Show 49; 2/12/10, repeated 5/12/10
The Amps—Tipp City
Amanda Palmer—Fake Plastic Trees
Lia Ices—Grown Unknown
She Makes War—No Fireworks
She Makes War—interview
Cat Power—You May Know Him
Natacha Atlas and David Arnold—One Brief Moment
Lissy Trullie—Boy Boy
The Creatures—Guillotine
Bearsuit—Please Don't Take Him Back
Bjork with Brodsky Quartet—Hyperballad
Shellshag—1984
Vivien Goldman—Launderette
Kisses—Kisses
AUSTRA—Beat and the Pulse
Phranc—interview
Phranc—Dress Code
Verbal—Cherry Bomb
Ovarian Trolley—Serenity
Marianne Lee—Working at My Pleasure
Sir Alice—Super Hero
Shunda K feat Shon B—I'm da Best (Les Gourmets mix)
Joan Jett—Love Is Pain
Plaided—I Say
Mignon—Demons of Love
Deluka—OMFG
Takako Minekawa—Turntable Tennis
Caroline—Swimmer
Flying Saucer Attack—Respect
Shit Robot ft. Nancy Whang—Take 'Em Up
Hanin Elias—Get It Back
The Shondes—Nothing Glows
AGF—Radio War

Coming up on Odd Girl Out 49

This week I am joined in the studio by the one-woman multimedia juggernaut that is She Makes War, about to take her bellicose melancholia on the road for a UK tour. She is bringing her ukulele and will be performing a couple of songs acoustically. Don't miss! Plus, an archive interview with everybody's favourite Jewish lesbian folksinger, Phranc.