Playlist from Half My Heart Beats August 2012

Here's what we played last night at The 78:

The Rosie Taylor Project - For Esme
The Smittens - Sapphire
The Clientele - Losing Haringey
Withered Hand - Saint Elmo
Minisnap - Crooked Mile
King Creosote - Locked Together
The Aislers Set - Last Match
Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard - If Life Exists?
Saturday Looks Good To Me - We Can't Work It Out
Arab Strap - Loch Leven
Hospitality - Betty Wang
Butcher Boy - Russian Dolls
The Hidden Cameras - Golden Streams
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Scattered Pearls
Eux Autres - When I'm Up
The Field Mice - Anoint
Kids on a Crime Spree - Sweet Tooth
The Guild League - Cornflakes
Northern Portrait - In an Empty Hotel
The Magnetic Fields - The Book of Love
Pipas - Windswept Room
Ringo Deathstarr - Down on You
Shrag - Their Stats
The Smiths - Stretch Out and Wait
The Lucksmiths - There Is a Boy That Never Goes Out
Sourpatch - Cynthia Ann
Standard Fare - I Know It's Hard
Tullycraft - Stowaway
Cocoanut Groove - A Dream of Two Summers
Beat Happening - Teenage Cavemen
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Belle & Sebastian - I Know Where the Summer Goes
Heavenly - I'm Not Scared of You
The Concretes - Chico
Camera Obscura - Lemon Juice and Paper Cuts
Crystal Stilts - Graveyard Orbit

Lightships - Fear and Doubt
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
Allo Darlin'  - Still Young
Liechtenstein - Fast Forward
Beat Happening - Midnight a Go-Go
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Rent a Wreck
Cats on Fire - Tears in Your Cup
The Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up
The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee
Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind
Slow Down Tallahassee - Baby Don't Cry
The Lucksmiths - Midweek Midmorning
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Body
Orange Juice - I Can't Help Myself
Girls Names - When You Cry
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ghost in the Graveyard
Frankie Rose - Thee Only One
Go Sailor - Last Year
Math and Physics Club - Graduation Day
The Go! Team - Fake ID
The Go-Betweens - Spring Rain
The Ronettes - Baby, I Love You
The Fascinations - Girls are Out to Get You
Ballboy - Where do the Nights of Sleep Go to When They Do Not Come to Me
Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Split Infinitives
Slow Club - It Doesn't Always Have to be Beautiful
Wild Nothing - Your Rabbit Feet
Withered Hand - Joy
Ride - Vapour Trail
Malcolm Middleton - We're All Going to Die
Kenickie - Millionaire Sweeper
The Raveonettes - Blitzed
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love

Half My Heart Beats this Saturday

Half My Heart Beats returns to The 78 on Saturday for a night of heavenly pop hits from all our usual suspects.

We'll be on from 9pm til late and there are drinks offers on all night.

Check back early next week for a Spotify playlist of what we played!

Playlist from Half My Heart Beats (July 2012)

We're trying something new this month - we've put together a Spotify playlist featuring almost everything played at this month's Half My Heart Beats. Let us know what you think!

Here's what we played in full (sadly, not everything was available on Spotify).

Monkey Swallows the Universe - When the Work is Done
Willie Mason - Oxygen
The Magnetic Fields - How to Say Goodbye
Pipas - Mental
Cats on Fire - If You Must Tell Him
Ballboy - Olympic Cyclist
Jens Lekman - A Sweet Summer Night on Hammer Hill
RM Hubbert - Hanging Pointers
Pocketbooks - Five Day Forecast
Malcolm Middleton - Loneliness Shines
Taken by Trees - Lost and Found
Arab Strap - Amante De Una Noche
God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night
Withered Hand - A New Case
Pants Yell - Magenta and Green
Sea Lions - Tell You
The Halo Benders - Do That Thing
Bubblegum Lemonade - Hit the Ground Running
Camera Obscura - Swimming Pool

Beat Happening - Noise
The Shins - Strange Powers
Trembling Blue Stars - November Starlings
Withered Hand - For the Maudlin
Au Revoir Simone - Anywhere You Looked
Butcher Boy - Helping Hands
Comet Gain - An Arcade from the Warm Rain that Falls
Ringo Deathstarr - Starrsha
Crystal Stilts - The SinKing
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Anne With an E
The Magnetic Fields - When You're Old and Lonely
Dum Dum Girls - Mercury Mary
King Creosote - Home in a Sentence
Eux Autres - The City All to Himself
Lightships - Sunlight to the Dawn
Belle & Sebastian - Come on Sister
Pastels/Tenniscoats - About You
Tennis - South Carolina
McCarthy - Get a Knife Between Your Teeth
Girls Names - I Lose

The Field Mice - This Love Is Not Wrong
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Tenure Itch
The Smiths - Rubber Ring
Standard Fare - Crystal Palatial
Tender Trap - Do You Want A Boyfriend?
Allo Darlin' - Still Young
Felt - Penelope Tree
The Go-Betweens - That Way
Orange Juice - Consolation Prize
Veronica Falls - The Fountain
Belle & Sebastian - The Stars of Track and Field
The Raveonettes - Hallucinations
Kids on a Crime Spree - Dead Ripe

Playlist from Half My Heart Beats June 2012

Colin
The Magnetic Fields - The Flowers She Sent and the Flowers She Said She Sent
Tiger Trap - Supreme Nothing
Heavenly - Wrap My Arms Around Him
The Clientele - K
Colour Me Wednesday - Holiday from Your Life
Butcher Boy - Bluebells
The Boo Radleys - Wish I Was Skinny
Yo La Tengo - Beanbag Chair
Swimsuit - Evaporation
Tennis - Marathon
The Legends - Trouble Loves Me
Kriss Anderson - He's My Boyfriend
Dorotea - The Days Are Short When You Work

Lynsey
The Middle Ones - A Year Without Regret
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
Mountain Goats - This Year
Milky Wimpshake - Do What I Have To
The Babies - Breaking the Law
Orca Team - Night Moves
Girls Names - Bury Me
Neverever - Coconut Shampoo
Summer Camp - Welcome to Condale
Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Record Shop
The School - Some Day My Heart Will Beat Again
Allo Darlin' - Northern Lights
Tender Trap - Do You Want a Boyfriend?

Colin
The Magnetic Fields - All the Umbrellas In London
Teenage Fanclub - Can't Feel My Soul
Loveninjas - Keep Your Love
Tender Trap - Counting the Hours
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday
Withered Hand - Heart Heart
Summer Cats - In June
Dolly Mixture - Miss Candy Twist
Orange Juice - Dying Day
Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube
Teenage Fanclub - Got Knows It's True
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Best Coast - Crazy for You
Allo Darlin' - Still Young
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - This Love is Fucking Right!
Shop Assistant - The Train from Kansas City

Lynsey
Kids on a Crime Spree - Sweet Tooth
Hidden Cameras - Ban Marriage
Best Coast - Each and Everyday
Evans the Death - I'm So Unclean
POBPAH - Heart In Your Heartbreak
Ride - Twisterella
Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream
Veronica Falls - Wedding Day
Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul Pt 1
The Smiths - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Lindy Lane & the Sinners - Low Grades and High Fevers
The Shangri-Las - Great Big Kiss
The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love
Saint Etienne - He's On The Phone

Playlist from Half My Heart Beats May 2012

Lynsey
Trembling Blue Stars - She Just Couldn't Stay
Stealing Sheep - Secrets
Frankie Rose - Pair of Wings
La Sera - Dove Into Love
Netherfriends - Omaha, NE
Martin John Henry - First Light
Grouplove - Cruel and Beautiful World
Tigercats - Nude With Dogs
Jeffrey Lewis - The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song

Colin
Isobel Campbell - Walk Away
The Middle Ones - Young Explorer
The Aislers Set - Catherine Says
Felt - The Spanish House
Slow Club - Come On Youth
McCarthy - I Worked My Way Up From Nothing
Boyracer - In Love
Magnetic Fields - All The Umbrellas In London
Eux Autres - Right Again
Irene - Out Of Tune
Jens Lekman - Farewell Song to Rocky Dennis
The Smittens - Doomed, Lo-fi and In Love
POBPAH - Girl of 1000 Dreams
SLGTM - Dialtone
Girls Names - Kiss Goodbye

Lynsey & Rodti
Allo Darlin - Tallulah
The Smittens - The Garden
The Radio Dept - Always a Relief
Violens - Totally True
Orca Team - Take My Hand
Neverever - Baby Oil and Iodine
Roommates - Kelly I'm Not a Creep/1st Floor Blues
Joanna Gruesome - Lemonade Grrl
The Diskettes - Get Together
Tullycraft - Fangs On Bats
The Ballet - In My Head
Kid Canaveral - And Another Thing
Heavenly - PUNK Girl
Cats on Fire - My Sense of Pride
The Go-Betweens - Head Full of Steam
The School - Never Thought I'd See The Day
The Pastels - Nothing To Be Done
Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves
The Ramones - Boyfriend
Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
The Chiffons - A Love So Fine
Kenickie - Millionaire Sweeper
Jacqueline Taieb - 7 Heures du Matin
The Shop Assistants - The Train From Kansas City
Kirsty McColl - A New England
The Smiths - Girlfriend In A Coma

Half My Heart Beats is earlier than usual this month!

If you follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook you may already know that Half My Heart Beats is a week earlier than usual this month, on Saturday 19th May.

We'll be playing the sweetest indiepop, 60s girl groups and more from 9pm til midnight. As ever, entry is free and drinks are cheap!

This is a one-time-only change of timeslot so we'll be back to our usual fourth Saturday berth in June.

Playlist from Half My Heart Beats (April 2012)

Colin
The Lucksmiths - Camera Shy
One Happy Island - Earth's Circumference
Sourpatch - Things You Say
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy Done Wrong Again
Pipas - Rock and/or Roll
Yo La Tengo - Let's Save Tony Orlando's House
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Stumble Over My
Monkey Swallows the Universe - When the Work is Done

Lynsey
Richard Hawley - Valentine
Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat - The Copper Top
The Aislers Set - Mary's Song
Frankie Rose - Interstellar
Pictish Trail - Going Down to the Water
Lightships - Sunlight to the Dawn
The Magnetic Fields - Drive On, Driver
Kimya Dawson - My Rollercoaster

Colin
The Drums - How it Ended
The Lucksmiths - Snug
Jens Lekman - An Argument With Myself
The Go-Betweens - Spring Rain
Slow Club - Where I'm Waking
Girls Names - Dead to Me
Ballboy - Donald in the Bushes With A Bag of Glue
The Royal We - Willy
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Parakit


Lynsey
The School - I Wouldn't Know What to Do
The Delgados - The Arcane Model
Eux Autres - Right Again
Allo Darlin' - Northern Lights
Withered Hand - Oldsmobile Car
Lord Cut-Glass - Even Jesus Couldn't Love You
Stealing Sheep - The Mountain Dogs
Orca Team - Fight Song
Beat Happening - Let's Kiss
The Modern Lovers - Dignified and Old
Girls Names - Cut Up

Colin
Lightships - Two Lines
Brown Recluse - Hobble to Your Tomb
Veronica Falls - Misery
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Noodles
Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles
Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
The Shins - Kissing the Lipless
The Vaselines - Dying for It
Allo Darlin' - Wonderland
Teenage Fanclub - Speed of Light

Lynsey
Gold-Bears - East Station Attendant
Helen Love - MC5
Evans the Death - Wet Blanket
Veronica Falls - My Heart Beats
Kids on a Crime Spree - Sweet Tooth
Standard Fare - Call Me Up
The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma
Language of Flowers - If It's Not You