This week is show 54

Hmm. What is playing is actually show 54, the Australian special, which was meant to go out next week.

This week: show 53 repeat

This week's show is a repeat of show 53, featuring an archive interview with Archbishop Kebab.

Odd Girl Out: show 71

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Recorded on Monday to go out Thursday, because of the station holiday, this was a languid, spectral show. The next three weeks will be repeats from earlier in the year, so check back.

Show 71; 9/6/11; repeated 12/6
Throwing Muses—Finished
Sarah McLachlan—Building a Mystery (KBCO)
Bachelorette—Waveforms
TBA—Whatever Falls Is Sumptuous
Petra Schrenzer—interview
Petra und der Wolf—Priorities
Anni Rossi—Are You That Somebody?
The Pack A.D.—Everyone Looks Like Everyone
Odessa Chen—Houses Are Knowing (Don't Wake the Dawn)
gold-bears—Record Store
Lizzy Mercier Descloux—Hard-Boiled Babe
Pram—Sleepy Sweet
Rebecca Clamp—Here We Are
Pretty Girls Make Graves—Parade
Shunda K ft Tan—My Light
The Clutters—I'm Bitter
The Black Madonna—Stay
Gina Birch—interview
The Raincoats—Odyshape
Danielle Doyle—Seventeen
Scarlet Season—Something I Can Feel
Ciccone Youth—Into the Groove(y)
CREEP—Days (Azari & III mix)
Ruby—Pine
DJ Lobsterdust—Policy of Dance (Depeche Mode v. Lady GaGa)
Planningtorock—I Am Your Man
Jude Cowan—Post-Tsunami
Clara Luzia—Release the Sea
Kito and Reija Lee—This City (Asa and KOAN Sound mix)

Coming up on show 71

This show has been recorded and features interviews with Petra Schrenzer, of Petra und der Wolf, and Gina Birch, of The Raincoats. Plus, a super-duper Pop Princess mash-up and some unlikely covers. The following three weeks will be repeats, as Optical is on holiday.

Odd Girl Out: show 70

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The sun came out just in time for the station to go on its summer hols. Check out the blog for details of forthcoming shows.

Show 70; 2/6/11; repeated 5/6
Velocity Girl—There's Only One Thing Left to Say

Nicoline van Harskamp

Phantom Pregnancies—Ants in Your Pants II
Sleigh Bells—Run the Heart (Swingset Committee mix)
Laurel Halo—Aquifer
Nicoline van Harskamp—interview
Amanda Palmer—In My Mind
Meshell—Who Is He and What Is He to You?
Planningtorock—The Breaks
Malaria!—Eifersucht (Ellen Allien mix)
Sleepy Vikings—These Days
Lung Leg—Chop Chop
Scarlet Season—Counting Days
Julie Ruin—Stay Monkey
The Hundred in the Hands—Sleepwalkers
Gustav—At the River's Edge
Kreayshawn—Gucci Gucci
AUSTRA—Lose It
Sinead O'Connor—Jackie
Jesse Ruins—Sofija
Michie Nakatani—interview
Shonen Knife—Flying Jelly Attack
Pink Kross—Velocababy
Lizzy Mercier Descloux—L'Eclipse
Petra und der Wolf—Disco
Kyla La Grange—Been Better
The Tourettes—Confessions of a Café Girl
Thomas Tantrum—Hot Hot Summer (GWAIIU mix)
Babes in Toyland—Ariel
Thao and Mirah—Love Is a Battlefield
Beyoncé—Crazy in Love (Kastle mix; Jimi Needles Curveball edit)
Cloud Control—Ghost Story
Edith Frost—Follow
Alex Winston—Locomotive (Beach Fossil mix)

Coming up on show 70

This week's show features interviews with Dutch artist Nicoline van Harskamp and Shonen Knife bassist Michie Nakatani.

Here is an early live clip of Shonen Knife.

Odd Girl Out: show 69

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And then the rain came.... Never mind. The music was sunny, with a chance of melancholia.


Show 69; 26/5/11; repeated 29/5
Veruca Salt—Seether
Penetration—Lifeline
Planningtorock—Going Wrong
Liz Naylor—interview
Patti Smith—Redondo Beach
Beth Jeans Houghton—Dodecahedron
Lucinda Williams—Can't Let Go (KBCO)
Cults—Abducted
The Breeders—Freed Pig
The Dark Shadows—Written in the Snow
Sharon van Etten—Save Yourself
Clara Luzia—Love in Times of War
Telstar Ponies—Voices from the New Music
Haruko—Made of Paper
The Knife—Pass This On
Gang Gang Dance—Mind Killa
Echobelly—Venus Wheel
Beach House—Zebra (Ring Trick mix)
CH-BB—Nobody's Perfect
Beate Bartel—interview
Bird Call—Lost Cause
Team Dresch—Hand Grenade
Chelsea Wolfe—Advice and Vices
Kathryn Williams—Soul to Feet
The Primitives—Need All the Help I Can Get
Kylie Minogue—Wow (MSTRKRFT mix)
Bachelorette—Blanket
Golden Starlet—In Honour of Takahashi Rumiko San
Petra und der Wolf—Jeff
Shonen Knife—Wind Your Spring
Amanda Mair—House
A Book About Elephants—Eve
Oh Land—Son of a Gun (Jacob Plant mix)

Coming up on show 69

This week's interviews are with Beate Bartel and Liz Naylor, both veterans of the music industry, in varying ways. Beate was involved in the experimental music scene in West Berlin from the '80s onward, while Liz started out in Manchester playing in Gay Animals before working at various indie labels in London and releasing important Riot Grrrl records on her Catcall label.

Plus, there are new albums from Planningtorock and Bachelorette to explore.

Here is a clip of Beate in an early band, Mania D. She is mostly sitting on the left, when interviewed.

Odd Girl Out: show 68

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A veritable plethora of vinyl on this show. Plus, the odd technical flub.

Show 68; 19/5/11; repeated 22/5

Helene Granqvist

Mambo Taxi—Prom Queen
Teen Angels—Go Away
Eleanor Friedberger—My Mistakes
Cat Power—I Found a Reason
Scarlet Season—Rewind
Rastro!—Some Things
Kids on a Crime Spree—Sweet Tooth
The Smears—Moms Rock
Josephine ft. Copycat—Darkest Side of Me
Ellen Fullman / Sean Meehan—Untitled
Helene Granqvist—interview
Supersnazz—Black Cat
The Horn The Hunt—Paris
Drinking Woman—Dog Boy
EMA—The Grey Ship
Melleefresh—White, Trashy and Blonde
Cocknbull Kid—Asthma Attack (WAWA edit)
Inge Thomson / Martin Green—Tears of the Sun
Kamala and the Karnivores—Love Like Murder
Rebecca Clamp—Kallio
Arcade Fire—We Used to Wait
No Joy—Indigo Child (Stereolab mix)
Joan Osborne—Spooky (KBCO)
The Scissor Girls—Stills
Clara Luzia—Frame
Holly Miranda—Forest Green Oh Forest Green
Burial Hex ft. Zola Jesus—The Far
ChuCha Santamaria y Usted—Fiebre Tropical
Robyn—Call Your Girlfriend (Feed Me mix)
Giana Factory—Rainbow Girl (Glasvegas remake)
Freelance Whales—Hannah (Easy Does It mix)

Coming up on show 68

This week features an extended interview with film producer Helene Granqvist, currently at work on the transmedia production Granny's Dancing on the Table.

Here's a teaser:

Odd Girl Out: show 67

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No catastrophes to report. Even managed to drop in some vinyl!

Show 67; 12/5/11; repeated 15/5
Sidi Bou Said—Brittle
Allison Crowe—Going Home Tonight
Amor de Dias—Bunhill Fields
Nite Jewel—Another Horizon
Anna Duffield / Morag McKinnon—interview
The Clutters—Never Know My Name
Caitlin Rose—Feeling Blue
Odetta—The Foggy Dew
Seapony—Blue Star
The Slingbacks—Hot Rod
Muffin—Hedera
Quasi—The Poisoned Well
Laura Stevenson and The Cans—The Healthy One
Nerdy Girl—Cast Off
Juliana Luecking—Perfect Lesbian Bar
Thomas Tantrum—Sleep (RAC mix)
Woolf—Fishing with Alita
Dog Faced Hermans—Balloon Girl
Malvina Meinier—Hiver
Angela Motter—interview
Angela Motter—isitaboyisitagirl
Rachael Dadd—Sticking in Pins
Frumpies—What's His Name Hearts The Frumpies
Thao and Mirah—Folks
Portishead—Undenied
Cloud Control—Meditation Song #2
Siouxsie and the Banshees—The Passenger
Lykke Li—Sadness Is a Blessing (Gold Panda mix)
Donna Summer—Our Love (Peter Zohdy and Michael JT's Chicago rework)
8-Eyed Spy—Diddy Wah Diddy
Ginuwine / Timbaland / Missy Elliott—Get Involved
Solex—That's What You Get
MnMs—I'm Tired
Planningtorock—Doorway (CREEP mix)
Dreamed—Izumi

Coming up on show 67

This week's show features a chat with producer Anna Duffield and director Morag McKinnon from the film Donkeys, an archive interview with Angela "Bucky" Motter, plus a new installment of my ever-so-ironic feature, Pop Princess.