Portastudio Playlist...Friday Nights Live Weekly*10

FRIDAY NIGHTS
+Live WEEKLY

EDITION 10

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SPECIAL 'BEST OF' EDITION *NIGHTS
WITH
'GOD HELP THE GIRL'



To conclude the Friday Night +Live Weekly
we bring you this special 'best of' edition. For Your holiday to hear
this picks from the edition 10.
God Help The Girl
featuring the musical highlights from Debut album
this weeks this the perfect way to round off your summer.

Sweet Friday13th Night*

We hear from our 8 fantastic music including Scottish indie pop,
Nordic jazz and the energetic Immigrant's Bossa-pop.
This quiet friday nights live weekly for a city blocks
in early autumn twilight.
our panel which also includes selected by the Portastylistic
every Friday afternoon.


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ARTISTS

THIS WEEK IN PLAYLIST

God Help The Girl

God Help The Girl’ is a story set to music, which Stuart Murdoch has been working on intermittently for the last five years, its origin in some songs that were written while Belle and Sebastian were touring ‘Dear Catastrophe Waitress’ in 2004. Stuart explains:

"I was out for a run and I got this tune in my head and it occurred to me that it wasn't a Belle & Sebastian song. I could hear female voices and strings, I could hear the whole thing, but I just couldn’t envisage myself singing it with the group.”

As more songs emerged, a shape and theme began to develop, before the music was actually recorded, or the vocalists found to take on the parts.

“All the time I was touring with Belle and Sebastian, I was putting aside songs for certain characters,” he says, “and at one point I realised, that it would make sense to string them together to form the backbone of a musical narrative.”

The hunt was then on to find some great new voices to put to use during the recordings. A competition where singers could add their vocals to the demo recordings of ‘Funny Little Frog’ and ‘The Psychiatrist Is In’ was posted on the iMeem social networking site and attracted around 400 entries. From these, Brittany Stallings (Olympia, Washington) and Dina Bankole (Jackson, Michigan) came to Glasgow in February 2008 to rehearse and record some parts, Brittany making the lead vocal part on ‘Funny Little Frog’ her own.

Among those who auditioned early in the process was Catherine Ireton, who had moved from Limerick to Glasgow, a friend of a friend, who had previously appeared on the sleeve of Belle and Sebastian’s last single, ‘The White Collar Boy.’ She took on the lead vocals for the majority of the songs on the record.

The recording continued during 2008, with a total of nine different singers (including Neil Hannon from the Divine Comedy and Asya from American teen trio, Smoosh) joining the members of Belle and Sebastian over the course of a few months. During this, Mick Cooke’s orchestral arrangements were recorded in London with the orchestra before the finishing touches were applied in Glasgow.

The result is a breathtaking record from one of pop’s most singular voices, combining the strengths and feel of the early Belle and Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, which draws equally on musicals, sixties’ girl groups, eighties’ indie and, most of all, classic pop records. And, in Catherine, Stuart has found a rare talent - her clear, lilting vocals bringing to life the characters in Stuart’s imagination and making for an ambitious and engrossing musical journey

God Help The Girl (2008)

Band Members
Celia Garcia | Catherine Ireton | Alex Klobouk

Band Members
Brittany Stallings | Dina Bankole | Asya

Songlist This Week

Come Monday Night (Catherine Ireton)

God Help The Girl (Catherine Ireton)

Sarah Collins (Catherine Ireton)

I Just Want Your Jeans (Asya)

I'll Have To Dance With Cassie (Catherine Ireton)

Faye Schmid (Catherine Ireton)

Funny Little Frog (Brittany Stallings)

Musicians, Please Take Heed (Catherine Ireton)

Stuart Murdoch
God Help the Girl, is a musical film due to be shot in 2010
written by Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch

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“ EVERYDAY HAS A SOUNDTRACK! ”

-the portastylistic