Posts Tagged ‘mother mother

This month it’s an absolutely jam packed edition of Bitter Fingers Radio – frankly I’m surprised we’ve managed to get it onto the internet in one piece.
My special guest for the show is Tom Williams, bandleader of Tom Williams & the Boat who are one of my favourite new bands at the moment. Their new [...]

Dear reader, are you familiar with the musical stylings of the popular Canadian beat combo Mother Mother? Well, you should be on account of them being very good.
Depsite being released in 2008, their album O My Heart was one of my favourites of last year when it got a UK re-release. It mixed up the [...]

Here, slightly later than planned, is the third volume of my radio show for London Fields Radio. This one even made the sun come out in cloudy Hackney (which I am taking full credit for).
I’m still working out exactly what the show’s about, but as always you can expect some of the finest upbeat pop [...]

Mother Mother – Hayloft (Youtube)
A scorcher of a track for your Monday afternoon from Mother Mother. This was introduced to me by the lovely Lauren Laverne when I was working on her BBC 6 Music show (a station which you should all get involved in saving, by the by), and I was ashamed to say [...]


Welcome to Bitter Fingers - a blog about popular song. Written by the hand of Mark Higgins, it serves up the very finest in new music, radio shows, spurious comment and #1 jams.

  • anmari: I remember Cheggers Plays Pop, and 1984 - can't remember the 'biggest star of 1984' though? [...]
  • Gabi: Gosh, I loved this post. I t really made me LOL. Brilliant!!! (from a Wham!/GM fan!). [...]
  • Peter: My favourite is M.A.G.I.C. by The Sound of Arrow. Makes feel like a child again. http://www.youtube. [...]
  • Grace: What about Nick Drake?? [...]
  • Gareth: In fact there's so much magic involved I got the title a bit wrong. [...]
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Literally some tweets

  • Janice Long just said "noisy sex parties", so congratulations if you had 1:30-1:40 in the sweepstake. 9 minutes ago
  • Some cracking bird table patter on Pause For Thought this morning 13 minutes ago
  • I am eating a Kit Kat at the Light Programme. Tonight's show is prepared and I am feeling pretty happy about the whole affair. How are you? 50 minutes ago
  • I'm on a bus to work. Time has no meaning any more, so chances of Squeeze getting played on the radio are markedly higher. 3 hours ago

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