Tuesday July 21st

Apropos of nothing and everything, here’s the tracklisting of a tape I made for Fiona McCarthy, who works at the excellent Magpie Bookshop in Shoreditch. If you’re ever in the area, pop in and visit the “Keen City” exhibition of comic art upstairs, featuring amongst others Oscar Zarate, Hunt Emerson and Brian Edwards (relation).

It was raining as I made this tape. I was thinking of dusty second hand bookshops, of Highgate Wood and Waterlow Park and long walks in North London, and of e.e. cummings quotes scrawled on satchels. You should really take this into account.

Side one:
MONO slimcea girl, high life, life in mono
VELOCETTE get yourself together
WOULD-BE-GOODS bayswater blues, marvellous boy, velasquez and I
SPIRITUALIZED broken heart
NORTHERN PICTURE LIBRARY here to stay
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN put the book back on the shelf, if you’re feeling sinister

Side two:
STEREOLAB stomach worm, peng! 33, french disko
BROADCAST the book lovers
VELVET UNDERGROUND what goes on (from “live 1969”)
HEAVENLY three star compartment
CARPENTERS i need to be in love
SUPREMES stoned love
SHIRLEY BASSEY spinning wheel
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD the look of love