Most featured artists on Polyvinyl Craftsmen shows in 2013

We like to do a year-end tot up what we've been playing on our shows during the year, it's interesting to see who's been the most popular. The same suspects seem to feature quite regularly but there are always some surprises too.

So here, in reverse order, with accompanying videos, is the list of what's been floating the PVC boat in 2013. 

Where you get (various) after an artist it's because there is a mixture of different bands, collaborations and solo stuff.

10. TV Personalities / Jon Spencer (various)

9. The Fat White Family / Sic Alps / Los Saicos / Edwyn Collins (various)

8. Parquay Courts / Black Lips

7. Greg Cartwright (various)

6. Lou Reed (various)

5. Ben Wallers (various)

4. The Fall

3. John Dwyer (various)

2. Ty Segall (various)

1. Billy Childish (various)

So there you have it, 2013's most played artists, hope you enjoyed it.

Join us on New Year's Day for our first show of the year.

Cheers, thee Pauls x

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 115 Festive-ish Special

Ho ho ho, merry Christmas people, many happy returns from thee PVC shed. We've got a few seasonal songs dotted in with the usual mix this week plus some festive banter and the jingling of Santa's bells.

We very nearly didn't have a show for you at all  due to a red wine and gin-inflicted power cut caused by a pissed Miggins hitting the off button on everything before we'd finished recording. We managed to salvage the majority of the show and tagged on a new ending, see if you can spot the join!

You can download the festivities here.

The Festive Collection

Get  A Buzz – The Pretty Things

The Sad Skinhead – Faust

Lower Leg – Wetdog

Catsuit Fruit – Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds

Use Me for Your Eggs- The Growlers

Drop Out – The Herms

Christmas in Baghdad – Black Lips

Blood on the Deck – Thee Oh Sees

The Remainderer – The Fall

A German Sleeps In My Bed – The Male Nurse

L’Idole - Jacques Dutronc

Let Me Put It In – Andre Williams

Sleepwalker (Zombie Zombie Remix) – Moon Duo

I Like L.A. – The Intelligence

Wanna Be In L.A. – Eagles of Death Metal

Merry Christmas Fritz – The Buff Medways

Take It or Leave It – The Barbarians

All I Want For Christmas Is the Dukla Prague Away Kit – Half Man Half Biscuit

Christmas Party – Brendan Hanlon & the Batmen

Don’t Believe the Hype – Public Enemy

Girls Want You – The Devil

True Blue – Dirty Beaches

Inside My Head – Kelley Stoltz

Last of the Summer Wine – Palma Violets

Conquest – Las Rayas Blancas

Your Happiness – Compulsive Gamblers

If Christmas Can’t Bring You Home – Reigning Sound

Auto Neutron – The Fat White Family

She Said – John Spencer Blues Explosion

City of Christmas Ghosts – Goldblade featuring Poly Styrene

Stille Nacht – The Buff Medways

Before our Xmas show tomorrow..................

...............may I suggest you watch this to put you in the mood?

Coming your way on Friday..........

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 114

It's caper time! This is our penultimate show before the Xmas break so pull up a pew, grab a brew and enjoy the aural stew. Poet Laureate eat your heart out.

Here be your downloadables.

This week's line-up

Shades of Blue - The Werps

Storms – Kelley Stoltz

It’s Raining In My Mouth – The Fat White Family

Neil Jung – Teenage Fanclub

The Spider and the Fly (Soundhog Edit) – The Dakotas

In the Pines – The Louvin Brothers

Pussy Pussy Pussy – Light Crust Doughboys

Good Country Girls – Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three

Take Me Away – Ween

Almost Ready – The Normals

Boys Are Boys and Girls Are Choice – Monks

King of the Bop – Nipple Erectors

The More It Works – Parquay Courts

Loretta’s Scars – Pavement

Turn Each Other Inside Out – Primal Scream

It’s Caper Time – Quincy Jones

My Beloved Girl – Edwyn Collins

I Love Your Many Ways – Lincoln Chase

Keys – White Denim

Hotwax – Beck

Volleyball – The Herms

Wade in the Water – Make Up

Moviehead – Sic Alps

East Hastings – Godspeed You Black Emperor

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 113

Come and listen to some records with Thee PVC, this week we have some rare Cliff Richard demos from his dynamic early '80s period along with a mega rare bedroom recording of Tina Turner's "Steamy Windows". If you shout loud enough we have a fantastic Chas and Dave session recorded at the Circus Tavern we can treat you to in a future show.

Download #113 here.

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 113

Tu En Fais Trop – Les Kitschenettes

Memphis Soul Stew – King Curtis

The Doors Of Then - I Am Yours, I Am You (Brain Jonestown Massacre Remix) – Tim Burgess

Assault On Precinct 13 – John Carpenter

Lump Sum – Bon Iver

Dirt Road Blues – Bob Dylan

Divide & Fall – Wolfhounds

Oxygen – Sebadoh

Down the Dip – Aztec Camera

Cream Puff War – Grateful Dead

Mr Driver – Black Lips

Sweets Helicopter – Thee Oh Sees

Cyclone – The Lords of Altamont

Dog in the Snow – Spider Bags

No Big Thing – The Booze

El Entierro De Los Gatos – Los Saicos

Need Me – The Moving Sidewalks

Tastee Freeze – Poother, Unlimited

I Love My Label – Wilco

Foot Stompin’ – The Flares

Little War Child – Oblivians

Bang Bang Die – Dedwardians

Fish To Fry – The Jim Jones Review

Fight Test – The Flaming Lips

I Still Miss Someone – International Submarine Band

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 112

Piles of good records for you to get your ears excited today whether you dig punk, blues, jazz, garage, indie, hip hop or some African sounds there should be something here for you. Unless you like Bon Jovi or Miley Cyrus, then you're shit out of luck and have found yourself in the wrong place.

Download it here unless you are Andy Weber who may prefer to do it here! Don't think you'll get this special treatment every week sir!

The songs: 

Nobody But Me – The Chosen Few

Down By the River – 13^th Floor Elevators

Collibosher – Small Faces

April Skies – The Jesus and Mary Chain

That Bitch Is Gonna End Up Dead – Coachwhips

She Cried – The Lords of Altamont

My Life Is Starting Over Again – Daniel Johnston

Love At Psychedelic Velocity – The Human Expression

Pacifics – Digable Planets

I Found My Way To Wine – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

Silver City Bound – Hi Tide Harris

Evil is Going On – Howlin’ Wolf

Good Gully – Les Drivers

Breaking Lines – The Pastels

Know Your Product – The Saints

Crack In Your Eye – Thee Oh Sees

Don’t Look At Me (I Don’t Like It) – The Lovely Eggs

Man V Cock – Country Teasers

Lord Bloodbathington – Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds

Tomboy – Acid Baby Jesus

Drop Dead Baby – Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin

Which Hi-Fi? – The Nightingales

I Will Dare – Imitation Life

Not Now No Way – The Pagans

Drinking For Two – Mudhoney

Introduction – W.I.T.C.H.

Canned Heat – Jimmy Smith

The Perfect Christmas Present

Having trouble with your Christmas shopping? Awkward Auntie, picky niece, vinyl addicted grandad with gaps in his garage punk collection? We may have the perfect solution - Wobbly Lamps records! £5 each or get both EPs at the knockdown-festive-discount price of £8. 

The singles are limited to 250 copies only and each record is hand-stamped and comes wrapped in a thick paper sleeve designed by PVC and Wobbly Lamps member Paul Lagden.

PVCR001 Wobbly Lamps EP, 3 tracks (only a few left) "The spirit of ‘66 meets ‘77 lives on here" - Shindig! Magazine

PVCR002 Wobbly Lamps "Drella" EP now available "Storming garage rock screaming with fuzz and attitude" - Rough Trade

You can stream all six songs at Soundcloud, what you waiting for?

The singles are £5.00 each or £8.00 for both + shipping. Please add shipping as follows: for 1 x 7" UK £1.75, Europe £3.50, Rest of the World £4.50, for 2 x 7" UK £2.25, Europe £4.00, Rest of the World £5.00. Sorry for high shipping costs but the UK post office is a money grabbing machine these days. Contact for wholesale or combined postage.

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Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 111

We're back to full strength this week with Laggers returning from his sabbatical. We've got a whole heap of stuff we've never played before so hopefully you'll find a gem or two that are new to you.

Click here to download.

The songs

I Wanna Be Your Favourite Pair of Pajamas – Andre Williams

Born in a Haunted Barn – The Dirtbombs

Look So Good Be So Good – The Shivas

Adderall – The Coathangers

Power Joystick – The Herms

Penny – Bazooka

Knoxville Girl – The Louvin Brothers

Bullshit Summer Song – The Lazy Cowgirls

I Can’t Help Myself (Long Version) – Orange Juice

Suzie Q – Gonja Sufi

Call Me in the Day – La Luz

Microminiature Love – Michael Yonkers Band

Ice Cream Baby – Frank Triolo & the Shipmates

Leroy – Jack Scott

Honey You Talk Too Much – Orville Fox and his Harmony Masters

PPL – Mickey Gloss

Earthquake Shake – The Skunks

Truck Train Tractor – The Pastels

Magic Touch – Clor

I Am Curious Orange – The Fall

I Wanna Lose Control – Gary Wilson

Forever Gone – NGC 4594

I Know You Got Soul – Eric B & Rakim

She’s the One – James Brown

She’s A Go-Go Girl – The Librettos

Be My Prism – Jacuzzi Boys

Cattle and Cane – The Go-Betweens

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 110

Hello, PVC people! Welcome to the weekend, here are a selection of songs to tickle your noise-buds while you are enjoying that eyeball in your Martini. 

Download the whole shebang here. 

If you want to subscribe/download via iTunes you can do it here.

Your songs this week are:

Mister Mental – The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

Take My Hand – Matt Berry

Only Man Alive – White Fence

Gold Ring – M.G. Boulter

Song For Turning – Jason Steele

I Make Windows – Forest Fire

Yellow Brick Road – Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

Midget Submarines – Swell Maps

Steel Ramparts – Fire Dept.

We Repel Each Other – Reigning Sound

Here We Are – The Herms

Descend (The Way) – Parkay Quarts

Ain’t That Always The Way – Edwyn Collins

Ocean – Sebadoh

I Need You Around – Smoking Popes

Shapes Of Things – Yardbirds

Ravening Trip – Bazooka

Ever Fallen In Love – Buzzcocks

I Wanna Be Your Man – The Milkshakes

Turn Your Damper Down – Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

I’d Much Rather Be With The Boys – Nervebreakers

This Is All – Screaming Jay Hawkins

Moanin’ For My Baby – Howlin’ Wolf

Talkin’ All That Jazz (Dominoes Remix) – Stetsasonic

Arbat Row – The Creatures of the Golden Dawn

Foxy Lady – Hammersmith Gorillas

Funky Like A Train – The Equals

You’re Starting Too Fast – Johnny Pate

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 109

We're back to regular transmissions after last week's Lou Reed tribute show, we hope you enjoyed our trawl through the music and influence of Lewis Reed.

We have all kinds of everything to titillate your lugs this week all presented in the regular booze-fuelled amateur way. Have fun folks, here is thee download.

Thee selection:

If I Can – Terry Dean & the Nitebeats

Are You My Love – Kelley Stoltz

This Damn Nation – The Godfathers

Sunglasses After Dark – The Cramps

Die! – The Mummies

Hey High School Baby – Tav Falco’s Panther Burns

Taking Care Of Business - The Trippers

La Punta De Mi Lengua – Los Yorks

Ozma – Shannon and the Clams

Safe European Home – The Clash

Simply Thrilled Honey – Orange Juice

Same Old Same Old – Coasting

Your English – Country Teasers

Egbe Natete – Sir Victor Uwaifo

Take Me Slow – Damp Banger

Visit Colonel – Thee Oh Sees

Mr Driver – The Black Lips

The Choice – Make Up

Kiddie A Go Go – The Males

The Right Kind Of Love – Mickey Gloss

Hot Burrito #1 – Belly

Smile – The Fall

Beatle Rap – The Qworymen

I Listen To Lyrics last – The Mallard

The Magic Piper Of Love – Edwyn Collins

Tighten Up – Archie Bell and the Drells

Night Train – Roy Head

Mickey Gloss - Astral Projections For The Kinetically Deranged

I was lucky enough to be sent a promo of the debut LP by Mickey Gloss which comes out on 18th November through H Badger Records. It's called 'Astral Projections For The Kinetically Deranged' and you'll be able to get it on vinyl and digital download.

I've had it on repeat since I first heard it and reckon it's one of the best LPs of the year so far. There's a definite late 70s post punk edge to proceedings mixed in with the contemporary Oz garagey sound that Eddy Current Suppression Ring and the UV Race do so well. It's the sort of thing I'd expect Goner Records to be releasing.

Australian frontman Daniel left the east coast of Australia for London in 2011 and arrived slap bang in the middle of the chaos and disorder of the riots that summer. The sound reflects  the anarchy and energy he suddenly found himself in, much like the UK bands who were mining a similar vein in the grey and grim late seventies. In tracks like the short, sharp, shock of 'Danny' you can even hear elements of early US hardcore.

I'll be featuring tracks over the next few weeks on PVC shows, check out show #108 to hear first single 'Are You Happy'.

The track 'Right Kind of Love' explores the notion of celebrity as something that needs to be explored, rather than accepted. The track is accompanied by a video posing as a documentary about Lindsay Lohan's life. It's pretty revealing....

I'm looking forward to seeing how much attention the LP picks up as I reckon it could make plenty of end of the year best-of lists if enough people get to hear it.

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Lou Reed Special

We thought that with the news of Lou Reed shuffling off this mortal coil on Sunday we'd dedicate this week's show to him. So what we've got is a mixture of Velvet Underground and solo stuff and some covers and a few bands who have been influenced by his work.

So much of what we regularly play on the show may not have sounded like it does had it not been for what Lou and the Velvet Underground put out. 

We hope you enjoy what we've put together, here's the download.

The songs

White Light/ White Heat – Velvet Underground

Blue Boy – Orange Juice

Heroin – Burnt Ones

Your Love – Lewis Reed Group

Femme Fatale – Big Star

You Trip Me Up – Jesus and Mary Chain

Train Round The Bend – Velvet Underground

Kingsmeet – Thee Oh Sees

Show Me The Coast – The War On Drugs

Sunday Morning – Velvet Underground

Caroline Says – Marc And The Mambas

You’re Just Too Dark To Care – Primal Scream

Andy’s Chest – Lou Reed

Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground

The Organisation – The Herms

The Ostrich – The Primitives

Buzz Buzz Buzz – The Primitives

Frankenstein – Subsonics

I’m Waiting For The Man – Warm Soda

The Modern Age – The Strokes

Inside My Head – Kelley Stoltz

Who Loves The Sun – Teenage Fanclub

Pale Blue Eyes – Paul Quinn and Edwyn Collins

Perfect Day – Lou Reed

What Goes On - Velvet Underground

Run Run Run - Velvet Underground

Vicious – Blitz

Sweet Jane – Cowboy Junkies

Goodnight Ladies – Lou Reed

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 108

Welcome to transmission 108, another trawl through the record boxes of three Pauls from Essex. As per usual we have a mix of old and new tracks for you to lend an ear to. If you feel inclined you can download it all here.

If you just want to listen while you work, do the washing up, worship the devil, cook dinner, give birth, whatever use this:

What you'll get this week

I Ain’t No Miracle Worker – The Brogues

H Bomb – Nightbeats

Wanna Be Used – Lost Sounds

You’re A Bore – Slaughter and the Dogs

Are You Happy – Mickey Gloss

Magic Potion – The Open Minds

All The Time – La Luz

Screaming Skull – Sonic Youth

Cunt Tease – Pussy Galore

Tire Shop Part 2 – King Lee featuring Quintron

Mary Jane – Slim Twig

Turn Tail – Young Knives

Come Back Jonee – Devo

You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now – Parkay Quarts

Love Is A Lie – Black Lizard

Aisha – Death In Vegas featuring Iggy Pop

Seagreen Serenades – Silver Apples

Greedy G – Brentford All-Stars

Monkey Tonight – Eddie Kirk

I Say, I love You – Johnny Watson

Double Eyed Wammy – Freddy King & his Orchestra

Don’t You Just Know It – Dr Feelgood

Steaming Train – Tallulah Gosh

Get Carter (Lionrock Remix) – Roy Budd

Dominican Girdles – Dana Bryant

Excursions – A Tribe Called Quest

Damaged Goods – Gang of Four

And here's a glimpse of what a night in the "shed" looks like!

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 107

Welcome to the weekend Polyvinylists, have some of this. 

Download.

The songs

Come Again – Au Pairs

9 ‘Til 5 – The Meters

Mr Adams – White Fence

Five Years Ahead of My Time – The Third Bardo

I Call My Baby Pussycat – Parliament

Five Long Years – The Yardbirds

Old Fangs – Black Mountain

Summer Round – The Belbury Poly

Inside My Head – Kelley Stoltz

Don’t Fit in My Head – The Beets

Los Angeles – Jacuzzi Boys

Let Me Show You – Glen Athens and the Trojans

We’ve Got A Long Way To Go – The Del-Vetts

Love Is All – The Rapture

The Gift – The Velvet Underground

Lift Up Your Hood – DMZ

Suffice To Say – Yachts

To the Ramones – Dustin’s Bar Mitzvah

I Get Hard – Country Teasers

Falling In Love Again – William S Burroughs

Help I’m A Rock – The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

Hamster In A Cage – Harlan T Bobo

There Ain’t No Other Baby For You (But Me) – Swampmeat

Lover Street – Heavy Trash

Blitz – Cult Maniax

Hammond Song – The Colourfield

Giant – The The

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 106

Welcome to the weekend PVC people, we've had a deep dig into the record boxes this week and have come up with a bunch of artists that have never featured in previous shows.

Download some ear food here.

The songs:

The Leper – Dinosaur Jr

Gloves – The Horrors

Straight Shooter – Reigning Sound

Some Fools Mess – Gallon Drunk

Blind Man with A Pistol – DM Bob & the Deficits

Girls Want You – The Devil

Keep in the Dark – Temples

Buffalo – Stump

Cream of the Crop – No Choice

Le Two-Step Du Motorcycle – Mama Rosin

Night of the Lotus Eaters – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

I Don’t Wanna Go Out – Graham Coxon

Strange – Wire

I Love Her – The Kubas

The Most Exalted Potentate of Love – The Cramps

Recorded By the Devil – The Dead Pirates

The Corner Man – Barrence Whitfield and the Savages

Sons of the Stage – World Of Twist

Pretty Suzanne – Monks

Last of the Buff Medways – The Buff Medways

Beaver Shot – The Periscopes

Upa Neguinho – United Future Organisation

Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordion? – The Lovely Eggs

Leroy Faster - Black Lips

I Am the Cosmos – Chris Bell

Black History Month – Death From Above 1979

Nothing Can Stop Us – Saint Etienne

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 105

Daily Mail readers, #105 is for you! Download it here.

This week's songs

Blew – Nirvana

Suicidal Flowers – Crystal Chandelier

Lady Godiva’s Operation – Velvet Underground

Southend Express – The Severed Limb

She’s Just Fifteen Years Old – The Milkshakes

Do You Remember Being A Roller? – Hunx

I Will – Sebadoh

Border Country – Swell Maps

Relentless Machines – Thomas Function

Human Fly – The Cramps

Ricky – Butthole Surfers

The Sun Don’t Shine – The Shivas

Contraption/ Soul Desert – Thee Oh Sees

Vertigo – The Libertines

The Upside Down Cross – Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard

Baby Baby Baby – Ty Segall

Unbelievable – Grass Widow

Summer Wine – Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood

Come Clean – Jeru the Damaja

Believe ESP – Deerhoof

I Don’t Need You – Coach Whips

Clear Spot – Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band

No Ideas – Parquet Courts

Heathen Child (Andrew Weatherall Remix) – Grinderman

Glitter and Gold – Cheap Talk

Egyptian Shumba – The Tammys

One For the Road – Ronnies Lane’s Slim Chance