The New Cue #508 July 11: Princess Nokia, Modern Nature, Oscar Farrell, Blood Orange, Ami Taf Ra, Brògeal, Oasis, Gwenno

"I was going to send it to Liam Gallagher but then Oasis reformed"

Good morning,

We’re back and fully stocked with Recommender shenanigans this week, so let’s get to it. Let’s put the playlist up top for a change, shall we?:

Ooh that feels strange. I’m not usually into change. My wife says it’s because I got uprooted in a big move when I was young and it has forever affected my psyche. All I said was that I didn’t think we should move a chair.

Here’s the playlist for you Apple Music users.

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Enjoy the edition, see you on Monday,

Ted and Niall

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Niall Doherty

I didn’t have any Oasis FOMO last weekend because I was having too much fun watching the best live band in the country Kneecap steal the show at Finsbury Park (hey, Oasis were out of the country). But, nursing a delicate hangover after the weekend’s shenanigans, FOMO paid me a visit reading Ted’s excellent report from the frontlines in Cardiff. I even suggested to Ted that maybe I could insert a paragraph pretending I was there. I don’t usually mind good times going on without me because I generally find other humans annoying and don’t really like to leave Essex, but that one smarted. It’s remedied by the live version of Slide Away they released from one of last week’s gigs. It’s a risky number at this stage in the game, a mid-tempo song performed by seasoned professionals that could easily become a bit too well-rounded and ploddy. But it sounds magical, totally alive, still wrapped up in its youthful yearning and makes me feel all warm and fuzzy in exactly the way that the photo of Noel and Liam walking onstage holding hands did. Can’t wait for Wembley.

I was hungover again on Thursday, please no judging, but the new single from Scottish rabble Brògeal sorted me out, a galloping Celtic folk tune that sounds like it’s late for an appointment. It’s called Tuesday Paper Club, and it’s about pubs. Love pubs. My top 5 pubs, in no order: Cross Keys in Endell St, particularly in the years 2011-2017, Hamlet Court in Westcliff-on-sea, my local, Peadar O Donnell’s in Derry, the Fisherman’s Return in Winterton-on-sea, Norfolk, the Golden Heart, Spitalfields. I reserve the right to change this list at any given time.