The New Cue #366 March 15: Vampire Weekend, Orbital, Bodega, Clothing, The Black Crowes, Cola, Villagers, Baby Rose, Soft Play

"We would clear dancefloors the length and breadth of the UK"

Good morning!

Welcome to your weekly Recommender edition of The New Cue. Because we can’t help ourselves, today is another bumper edition. But only bumper if you’re a paying subscriber, which you can be by pressing Subscribe Now and paying £5 a month for full access to every edition. No subscription? No bumper.

Today we’ve got Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll telling us about the making of the band’s classic Satan, Bodega pick a mind-blower, and Ted, Niall and Chris get down to the hard graft of picking some new music for you to enjoy. Here’s a playlist of this week’s selections:

And here it is for the Apple Music crowd.

Before we crack on, don’t forget that next week we’re hosting a very exciting event with Jah Wobble at The Social. It takes place on Friday March 22^nd, from 6.30 to 8:00, where he’ll be reading from his book and Ted will interview him. Even better, the brilliant Liverpudlian spoken word artist ROY will be supporting. It will be unmissable. A few tickets remain for sale here, at thenewcue.co.uk

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Enjoy the edition,

Ted, Niall and Chris

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The Story Behind The Song

How we birthed a classic

Satan by Orbital (1991)

Next month, techno dons Orbital will reissue their classic 1991 self-titled debut aka The Green Album. Bolstered to a mighty four-disc set, it now includes their pioneering breakthrough tracks Chime, Belfast and Satan. Here, the band’s Paul Hartnoll gave Niall the lowdown on the making of Satan and how the song has continually shapeshifted through the duo’s career.

Hello Paul. We’re doing a Story Behind The Song today but we haven’t agreed on a track yet. I’d like to do Satan if that’s OK with you?
Oh, do you know what, that’s brilliant because I wanted to do Satan as well because the stories behind Chime and Belfast have been trotted out so much. It’s been 33 years, fair enough, but it’s been told so many times whereas Satan has its own little story. Brilliant, perfect.

I wanted to do it because when I was a teenager, we used to go to an indie night at The Y Club in Chelmsford and me and my mates used to chant “Satan! Satan! Satan!” at the scary doorman.
Haha! Brilliant…

That’s my first memory of it but the song has got so many incarnations, it’s almost like a reflection of wherever Orbital are at that point in their career.
Absolutely and we do that on purpose because of the fun nature of the track and its mischievous reasoning for being. It’s like The Master in Doctor Who or something, you never know when it’s gonna turn up and who it’s gonna be, the many faces and incarnations of Satan. It’s a bit of a game and an in-joke. The gloves are off with that track, you’re allowed to do whatever you like to it.