On this week’s Sunday Escape, Paul and Carolyn play music from brand new albums from Tennis and Yo La Tengo, plus new tracks from Lip Filler, STONE, abracadabra, and Dream Wife. That’s all accompanied by plenty of older tracks too including a song from at least one of this year’s Grammy winners. There’s a look back at a debut release from a legendary band which came out way back in 1984, along with a track from an enigmatic Nigerian electronic music pioneer. Plus a new Super Clever Music Mystery Quiz, plenty of chat, and of course biscuits.
The Sunday Escape returns, and it’s been another great week for new music. Join Paul and Carolyn as they play a deluge of new singles featuring artists including Babitha, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Cosmic Crooner, Jake Shears, and Free Range, plus music from newly-released albums from Young Fathers, Hamish Hawk, The Go! Team, and The Waeve. One of those will almost certainly be the Pop Fugitives’ album of the week, plus there’ll be some older music too, including the debut single from a legendary 1980s new romantic band and a track from an Irish band who produced beautiful music but never made it big.
That’s all joined by the usual features, including chat about being in a covers band, the curious desire to be on a tram, and of course a new Super Clever Music Mystery Quiz, this time devised by a listener. Also: biscuits! Hopefully decent ones, this week.
Tune in on Sunday from 9am to 1pm.
This week’s Sunday Escape comes live from the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens, which means that Paul and Carolyn will be at Hong Kong Stadium playing all the finest in new music, including singles from Yo La Tengo, Hemlock Springs, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Miss Grit as well as tracks from albums from Phoenix and First Aid Kit. Needless to say there’ll also be plenty of tunes to get you in the HK Sevens mood plus whatever else lurks in the Pop Fugitives’ records bag.
There’ll be rugby coverage and commentary amongst the music naturally, and hopefully by now Paul has mastered the rules of rugby so he may be more in-depth than in previous years. Plus there’ll be all the atmosphere of the stadium accompanying the usual features such as another Super Clever Music Mastery Quiz, another debut single from a band who this week didn’t do much else and of course biscuits.
Tune in on Sunday from 9am to 1pm.
This week brought with it some new albums by artists you may not be familiar with as well as some you most certainly will be, which means the Sunday Escape features music from LPs by Drugdealer, Martha, David John Morris, Junior Boys, and Aoife Nessa Frances, along with a new version of Revolver by the Beatles, and a brand new record from Lee Fields. There’s also music from Dig Me In, which is a Sleater-Kinney covers album, plus the best of the week’s singles.
It s almost Halloween, so Paul and Carolyn will make sure there are some spooky elements among all the usual features, which include a new Sweeping The Nation, and Super Clever Music Mystery Quiz. There’s also a debut single selected by a listener for Do You Remember The First Time , and Eli Bitan will be visiting the studio with as news of this year’s Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival (which features a Leonard Cohen documentary). Plus biscuits! Tune in from 9am to 1pm this and every Sunday - only on Radio 3
On this week’s Sunday Escape, Paul and Carolyn celebrate the Mercury Music Prize win by Little Simz, and as always play all of the week’s best new music. That includes some big album releases this week from Arctic Monkeys, Loyle Carner, Frankie Cosmos, and Dry Cleaning as well as new singles from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Royel Otis, Young Fathers, and The Queens Head. All that plus some of the songs that have been playing at Pop Fugitive HQ all week. Back on the show are all the usual features including an album of the week, a band to sweep the nation, and of course a new (and trickier) Super Clever Music Mystery Quiz. There’s also the debut of a brand new regular feature, a celebration of the return of live music in Hong Kong, and of course biscuits. Tune in from 9am to 1pm.