Playlist // Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentines’ s Day! This time last year I was drunk in The Macbeth interviewing B’town indie pop band Swim Deep. This year, I will be drinking whisky and spinning some rock tunes. Here my friends is a playlist of the very best RAWK L<3ve songs. ENJOY. If you enjoyed this and live...
Leah’s Playlists // Albums of 2012 pt. 3
5) Japandroids- ‘Celebration Rock’ The Vancouver duo’s aptly-titled second release Celebration Rock saw them venturing into a much more radical style of reckless, expeditious guitar lines and reminiscent stories of out-lived youth landing itself as a record on many end of year best-of lists, this one obviously included. The sing-a-long qualities of ‘Fire’s Highway’ and...
Leah’s Playlists // Albums of 2012 pt.2
Beach House- ‘Bloom’ As I’ve mentioned many times in the past, I was more than just a little late at jumping on the Beach House bandwagon. Sure, there was the gorgeous articulations and delicately entrancing instrumentals on past releases but I just didn’t “get” it- well, until ‘Bloom’ came along, at least. Corralling the most...
Leah’s Playlists // Albums of 2012 pt.1
The Mayan apocalypse is one day away (If this actually happens, I’ll be most pissed off about missing Eminem live in 2013 and the fact you actually will never know who my Number 1 record of the year goes to- then again I suppose worse things have happened at sea!) so grab a can of...
Memory Playlists // Jade’s Playlist
Jade – ‘Don’t walk away.’ So for a while I was like ‘seeing’ this boy which basically means we would make out and stuff and he would buy me lunch and I thought everything was going really great and he wasn’t the player my friends and horoscopes suggested he was. In my mind...
Memory Playlists // Rachael’s Playlist
Meat Loaf – I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) This came on one of those horrendously put together ‘rock music’ compilation discs that come free in papers for dads to listen to. It was sandwiched between ‘Turn Back Time’ by Cher and ‘Walkin’ In Memphis’ and I used to...
Memory Playlists // Tim’s Playlist
The Strokes – ‘Last Nite’ This was the track that changed my life. I grew up listening to hip hop and R&B (see my final choice), but I remember hearing this track while on the way to my friend’s house one day. I loved it and it wasn’t long before my record collection was...
Memory Playlists // Eugenie’s Playlist
The Beatles – ‘Nowhere Man’ It’s probably sacrilege to say this but I’m not a massive Beatles fan. But ‘Nowhere Man’ just reminds me of driving around as a little girl – it used to be on this mix tape my dad had that he would play in the car. This song might be...
Memory Playlists // Katie’s playlist
So, this is a very sentimental thing to do but each week a Freedom Spark contributor will whizz up a little playlist for you and a brief explanation as to why each song is special to them. I’m getting the metaphorical ball rolling (insert sex / testicle joke here) with my playlist. Can you tell...
Playlist // The Cast of Cheers
The Cast of Cheers‘ John Higgins took a break from touring and promoting their new single ‘Trucks at Night’, to make us a mix tape of songs they listen to on the road. Enjoy the resulting fun! ‘Ping island/lightning strike rescue op’ – Mark Mothersbaugh The only song I’d ever want to storm...
Leah’s Playlists // November
Aloha! Talk about an irrelevant greeting, it’s reached that point of the year where I realise that Foreigner’s 1977 ‘Cold As Ice‘ hit was not named after some heart-breaking scoundrel but in fact, the temperature of where I reside, which has lead me to reaching for the textbooks (UGH, deadline Season come back another month)...
Leah’s Playlists // October
Settled back in to the daily life of hard graft yet? No, me neither! Despite avoiding freshers week with all my might and saving myself for this weekends UNREAL Warehouse Project line-up, I’ve still managed to get flu from all the newbies and spent all my hard-earned (COUGH, STUDENT FINANCE, COUGH) cash on inappropriate footwear, mittens and...
