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So, this year I’m heading to both Conservative and Lib Dem conference (all part of ze new job) so it seems fitting to have slightly more tunes than usual to make the train journeys and hangovers pass quicker.

The Rub - Dutch Uncles

AKA…What a life! - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

Miss You - Foster the People

Love Cry  - Four Tet

Your Eyes - Bombay Bicycle Club

THe White Flash - Modeselektor

Yr City is a Sucker - LCD Soundsystem

NY Excuse - Soulwax

Jumbo - Underworld

Tonto (live) - Battles

This Orient - Foals

Fictional State - To Kill a King

Heart & Arrow - Danny and the Champions of the World

Blagdon Lake - Beak>

Kitchenette - Grinderman

A.P.O.L.O.G.Y. - Tom Vek

Hey Scenesters! - The Cribs

William Powers - The Maccabees

Babies - Pulp

Our Lady of Lourdes - Paul Smith

England (live) - The National

See You Soon - Coldplay

And it’s on Spotify too you know.

Last night I was lucky enough to be invited to the premier of the Libertine’s film “There will be no innocent bystanders” - directed by one of the nicest guys in photography, Roger Sargant.And now, I can safely say, a director of the highest order.

It really is a joy of a film, capturing the energy, tension and emotion of a few months in the life of one of the most influential bands of the past decade. More importantly, I left excited by the prospect of live music and festivals, with an enthusiasm that’s been in short supply overt the past year. Here’s a clip.

As tomorrow will see me wading round central london with my camera kit, trying desperately to figure out what the Queen of Denmark looks like and how I can get usable photos, I thought this week’s chart would be best drawn up from the tunes that will inevitably be on my iPod as I try wade through the masses, inspired by those bands that have shaped my love of live music

The Libertines - The ha ha wall

Battles - Ice Cream

Oasis -Talk Tonight

Radiohead - Lotus Flower

Sigur Ros - svefn-g-englar 

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Stop

The Cooper Temple Clause -Let’s Kill Music

Neil Young - Hey Hey, My My

The National  - Mistaken for Strangers

Primal Scream - Shoot Speed, Kill Light

Bjork - Hyperballad

four tet / burial / thom yorke - Ego

and you will know us by the trail of dead….. - Baudelaire (live)

Elbow - Jesus is a Rochdale girl

Cold War Kids - Rubidoux

The Young Knives - Vision in Rags

Bombay Bicycle Club - Magnet

Modeselektor -Kill Bill Vol_4

Arctic Monkeys - 505

REM - Überlin

LCD Soundsystem - Home

some of these songs are on spotify.

go forth and spotify.

Dananananaykroyd - Black Wax

Cold War Kids - Mine is Yours

Foals - Balloons (Kieran Hebden remix)

The Joy Formidable - The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade

Four Tet - Angel Echoes

Kubichek! - Start as we mean to

Radiohead - Palo Alto

The National - Lemonworld

Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning

New Order - Age of Consent

Last week St Vince took a swing at the evils of capitalism, in an hour of so labour will finally have a new leader, and next weekend I’m heading down to birmingham for conservative conference.

I’ll be covering the event with my camera and doing a few posts on the Blue Blog, as well as getting to some of the fringe meetings looking as at technology, young people’s issues and the creative industries.

In the mean time, here are some of the tune’s that I’ve had on while watching the Miliband show.

Sky Larkin - Kaleide

School of Language - Rockist Pt 1

Maximo Park - A19

Battles - Race:Out

Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush (The Field Late Night Essen Und Tricken remix)

Belle & Sebasitan - I’m a Cuckoo

Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait

The Libertines - Death on the Stairs

R.E.M - Radio Free Europe

Metronomy - My Heart Rate Rapid

Oh, and for you spotify users here’s a linky.