The Guardian has a new interview with Liz Fraser – wow! It’s a really interesting, raw and honest interview with her – am impressed with both the interviewer asking those questions and her being willing to answer them. Fraser is still furious with herself for staying in the band for two years (and another album,…

Sorry that this blog post is a week late! Proof that I need to write up these playlists every Wednesday night or they’ll get swallowed up by work in the following week…anyway, this week’s show started off Irish and loud, went a bit shoegazey in the middle and ended on a beautiful note. As always,…

Hey all! If you want to keep up to date with Sweet Oblivion the radio show, you might want to become a ‘fan’ (tragic, I know…) of it on Facebook here. At the moment I’m interested in compiling a ‘listeners’ favourites’ show for late December, so you can let me know your choices on the…

Here’s the playlist for the third Sweet Oblivion on 2XM…thanks to everyone who listened in tonight at 8pm! It’s repeated on Sunday at 10am. Midlake – Roscoe – ‘The Trials of Van Occupanther‘ Ah, by now ye’re probably sick of me going on about Midlake…if you don’t have this album, please, please buy it. Can’t…

If I had to pick my top five favourite albums of, well, ever, one of them would most definitely have to be Midlake’s second album, The Trials of Van Occupanther. I know I’m most certainly not alone in thinking this is one of the most fantastic albums of the noughties and certainly one of the best…

The second Sweet Oblivion radio show went out on 2XM tonight at 8pm – it’s repeated on Sunday at 10am if you missed it! It was a bit of a country-ish show tonight, hope people enjoyed it! Here’s the playlist: Neko Case – ‘Deep Red Bells’ – Blacklisted Neko Case is an alt-country stalwart who…

Belfast band Yakuza have a  new video out for their track ‘West of the Best’. In the video they sign a deal with the evil boss  of record label Jeff Damn Records (geddit?) and need to be rescued after being trapped in cardboard boxes. Nice to see a band with a real sense of humour about their…

Can I just have a moment to…squee! Thanks. So, the first Sweet Oblivion radio show was on 2XM at 8pm tonight, and in order to quell my nerves while listening to it online here , I compiled this playlist for the show. Here are videos for most of the tracks/artists, or links to myspace sites etc. During the show I…