Includes all tracks selected for the weekly Eclectic Picks Playlist on Freshonthenet in 2022.  

Part 1 - https://soundcloud.com/signalcommittee/sets/new-641413272
Part 2 - https://soundcloud.com/signalcommittee/sets/eclectic-picks-2022-part-2-of

ECLECTIC PICKS - 2022 (Part 1) (Freshonthenet)

Lyrics: 

I brush my teeth for the first time
In who knows how many days
We’ve been living like wild animals
Eat, sleep, sustain

This life that I created
Takes all I have to survive
If only we lived as long
as the things we make to keep us alive

Why do we make things from plastic
When they’ll ever be is replaced
I should have made you from plastic
What else can I do to keep you safe
Who would make something just to throw it away
It’s all such a beautiful waste
It’s all such a beautiful waste

I’ve been counting your eyelashes
While time melts away
How to soak up each second of every day
Without being washed away
And when those waves come crashing in
There’s just no way we’ll survive
If only we could be built to last
Instead of born to die

I should have made you from plastic
What else can I do to keep you safe
Why do we make things from plastic
When all they’ll ever be is replaced
Who would make something just to throw it away
It’s all such a beautiful waste
It’s all such a beautiful waste

It’s a fearful thing to love what death can touch
Tell me why on earth would I make something I love so much

I should have made you from plastic
What else can I do to keep you safe
Why do we make things from plastic
When all they’ll ever be is replaced
I should have made you….

Toothbrush

i remember meeting lauren
i remember meeting ivy
i remember meeting amy, then tara
i remember the first show i saw here
and war pigs in the lecture hall
play that champagne supernova solo again
i'll kill you

all in the wrong order
i remember cleaning up glass
smashing it too
no good mornings
and a reading of this tao lin poem
bring me my wine

i left myself in the river
i left myself in the river

i'm in a good place

i'm thinking of a colour
i'm thinking of the nice things
in the river

'Tower of Babel' was born of humming birds and the three years of viscous river ooze dripping from our mouths. a boschian tale of queer fertility, a line under everything, a nervous glimpse of something scurrying under the bed. all this and more explored throughout its monumental twenty minute runtime. this album stumbles naked from noise rock to hyperfolk, always completely delirious, vomiting darkwave and a kind of minimalism onto your lawn.

the first single is called 'manta ray'. something horrible has washed up on the shore, in your room, at the club, in this dream. in this dream i am running towards some glimmer of moonlight, hollow and completely out of my mind.

i am trying to break through to you, the listener; i want nothing more than to be the swirling vortex of feedback and pop sensibilities that you need me to be. this album is a part of that, i think. i hope there is something for you, no matter how brief. thank you.

in the river

The Shun

Inertia

Touch

6e titre de l'album à paraître en septembre 2022 
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The Tropicanas are kicking off their summer with the release of  two catchy Jangle pop tracks in the form of a double A-side single:

              The Way She Goes   /   Stinking Ship

Release date - 24th June 2022

Recorded, mixed and Mastered by Cool Guy Bruce Davidson @ Orphic Sound Studios

Stinking Ship

The Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Driving Without Contact Lenses

Wild being
You have life and love
And everything is free
Wild being
You don't have to prove
That you're allowed to breathe
Shiny bits of metal
Singing 'let me eat'
Tiny little numbers
In their electronic pockets

Wild being
You are born from soil
And that's where you return
Wild being
You are made of earth
And now we watch it burn
Shiny bits of metal
Singing 'let me eat'
Tiny little numbers
In their electronic pockets

There are so many of us
There are so many of us
There are so many of us
So so so so so so so so so so so

Many of us

Wild Being

Junkyard Sweetheart Number 13 featuring The Junkyard of Silenced Poets

I Need You To Understand

From my concept album 'bed': https://linktr.ee/owenduff

Owen Duff - Our Bed Is A Graveyard

JUMPED BY THE JAMES EARL
SUBTLE VOICE OF VADER CHOICE
MOSITURE CAPTURE
LOITER LIKE THE FRESH
UN OPENEED PACKET STAYING MOIST
BOOSTER PACK JUMP JET
GEORGE IN THE FORM
BUT NOT YET
I GUESS THE FUTURE'S
ROUND THE CORNER NEXT
AND PERPLEX
AS I PAUSE
I'M NOT MOVING
ASSUMING A LONG
HUMAN BE MORE IN THE MAKING
THAN EVOLUTION
FORCING NEXT STEPS
PULLING LIKE MORE DEBT
STRETCHING POCKETS
TO DEPTH THE FINGERS 
NEVER FATHOMED
SO WHILE I TRY
TO BIDE FOR TIME
I IMAGINE
NOT HAVING
BUT MONEY NOT MEANING MUCH
JUST SOMETHING YOU GATHER
WHEN
 AND SUCH 
NEEDED
TO HELP GROW
THOUGHTS SEEDED
LIKE FEEDING
COINS IN PARKING METERS
BUYING THE TIME
'TIL I COME BACK
WITH BAGS FULL AND ALL THAT
THAT INSPIRATIONAL
NOT NECESSARY PHYSICAL
IMPLEMENT OF INSTRUMENT
THAT'S TOOTS
THE RIGHT NOTE
AND THEN I KNOW
I CAN GET BACK
AND BE FINE WHERE I AM
WITHOUT HOPE
CAUSE IT'S NOT NEEDED
SUCCEEDED
LIKE LEAD LEADER
WHEN ALLS STOPPED
NOT FORGOT
BUT BUILT UPON
LIKE SHIPWRECKS AND HIDDEN ROCKS
OR LAST NIGHTS FEET
FEELING FRESH
ROCKING NEW SOCKS
KNOCK UPON MY DOOR
I'M OPENING LOCKS

OPENING LOCKS

lost souls prod by Vicky G

flower: underscored.

Spend My Time With You

Men In Black_ Electronic/ Punk

'A tonic for the times' Chris Hawkins BBC 6 Music 

So here's a story that you may need to grab a cup of tea and the biscuit barrel for, are you sitting comfortably? Then, let us begin...

Gorstey Lea AKA 'The Gorstey Lea Street Choir' formed one cold winters night in 2016. Two friends on a life long journey. 

Michael first met Russ in 1985, Michael was 15, Russ was 19. Russ played in 'the' up and coming local band ‘Soul Exit’. Michael admired his musical craft and ended up following the band around the country. A gig in Manchester was planned. Michael needed to go and went to Russ’s house (on Gorstey Lea) with a gift, a tape in hand. On one side The Pale Fountains ‘… From Across the Kitchen Table’ on the other Dexys Midnight Runners ‘Don’t Stand Me Down’. Russ welcomed Michael in and he attended the gig travelling in the bands van. 

The future was cast... the following year Michael formed his first band ‘The Great Divide’ inspired by what he had seen and the world of endless possibilities and free expression.

Fast forward some 31 years to August 2016 and a big birthday bash for Russ. Michael attends Russ's party. Talk turns to days gone by and Russ pops the question... “It’s about time we got together and did some music Michael, what do you reckon? No pressure. I have converted my garage into a recording studio, you should come round and we’ll have a play”. 

Michael was not sure, for 15 plus years he has not played an instrument, not sung a song, not written down his thoughts. The conversation was left. A mutual friend then messages Michael 4 months later to tell him that Russ is doing a gig and he thinks it would be good if they did a couple of their favourite cover versions together. 

Messages are exchanged and the meeting is arranged at Russ's new house in Gorstey Lea, 4 houses up the road and 31 years since that first knock on the door. Without any rehearsal the two friends agree to play together for the first time on that Friday evening… 

The reaction from the crowd and the landlord is overwhelming 2 songs turn to 2 hours and at the end of the evening the landlord books the duo to play the following month. ‘What’s your band name boys? ‘The Gorstey Lea Street Choir’ is quickly retorted an amalgam of that first meeting point and Van Morrison’s LP ‘His Band And The Street Choir’ … a door is unlocked, a journey is born.

So, to the ‘here and now’. The duo release their first track in October 2019 'The British Isles' which picks up national radio play from 6 Music, BBC Introducing and great digital stations such as Brum Radio, with the wind in their sails a double A side limited vinyl 'Lions' and 'Somedays' follows in January 2020 and in December 2020 their debut EP snazzily titled 'extended play one' hits the digital shops... 

Summer 2021 - the boys release an 8 track mini LP ''...from Prince's Park to Farsley (Volume I)' a tale of new found collaborations and two towns... aided and abetted by Gavin Monaghan, George Shilling, Choque (Black Star Liner) and Mark Gardener... Volume II will be a long before you know it!!!!

Well it should have been... Covid came and went, then Russ and Michael regrouped and decided to put the 5 piece 'live version' together. 
Joining Russ and Michael are:

Martin Betts on Bass
Sean Bradnick on Drums
Swiss Harris on all manner of musical gadgets

New songs are been written and recorded sporadically. Live dates are just  been announced (see Bands In Town Link) 

The first fruits of this new harvest are now available in their latest release '(My Heart Belongs To...) The Beaches'... just like buses there will be more along very soon

Stay safe, be well

The Flat White Kid

Alternative | Psychedelic | Dancey

From Bury UK, Signal Committee carve out their own sound somewhere between New Order, Radiohead and Arcade Fire.

Played on BBC6 Music once or twice, otherwise undiscovered.  

Don't read, listen...

Junkyard Sweetheart Number 13 featuring The Junkyard of Silenced Poets

Gorstey Lea AKA

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