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Jon Hillcock

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Xfm New Noise - A Journey
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Jon Hillcock's Best Of 2008
Albums
1. Pete and The Pirates 'Little Death' (Stolen)
2. Late of The Pier 'Fantasy Black Channel' (Parlophone)
3. No Age 'Nouns' (Sub Pop)
4. Metronomy 'Nights Out' (Because)
5. Deastro 'Keepers' (Ghostly International)
 
Tracks
1. Wave Machines 'Punk Spirit' (demo)
2. Passion Pit 'Sleepyhead' (Frenchkiss)
3. Joker 'Gully Brook Lane' (Terrorrhythm)
4. Micachu 'Golden Phone' (Accidental)
5. Dananananaykroyd 'Pink Sabbath' (Best Before)
 
Gigs
1. Elbow / Fleet Foxes @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (16.06.08)
2. Antony & The Johnsons w/London Symphony Orchestra @ The Barbican, London (30.10.08)
3. White Denim @ Buffalo Bar, London (01.04.08)
 
TV Programme
Mad Men
 
Film
Wall-E
 
10 Musical Things to be Excited About For 2009 (but which necessarily be 'massive'..)
1. Dananananaykroyd album
2. Bombay Bicycle club album
3. Passion Pit album
4. more Wavves
5. Wave Machines album
6. Toddla T album
7. new Pete and the Pirates album
8. more from Everything Everything
9. more from Joker
10.  Golden Silvers album

Book
Kill Your Friends, by John Niven

 Jon On Air

Jon plays out loads of new music from wherever he can find it, from beats to guitars, rare gems to party bangers with the odd hidden classic chucked in for good measure, every Saturday from 21:00 - 01:00 on Xfm London and Manchester

Want to know what musical treats Jon blessed our ears with on last week's show? What about info on anything New Noise-related? It's all here in the New Noise Blog.

 

To get Jon's full Xfm New Noise tracklist beamed directly into your inbox each week, fill out your email address in this box. We won't send you any other gumph either, promise.

Perhaps you've found some sublime New Noise you think should be played on the radio?  Tell Jon about it via the link above (next to his face)

A full archive of tracklists can be found by twaddling over to Jon's MySpace

Jon on MySpace: www.myspace.com/jonhillcock

Jon's New Noise Website: www.jonhillcocknewnoise.com

The Great Xfm DJ Questionnaire

1. Your chief characteristic(s)
Honesty, perhaps due to an inability to lie convincingly

2. Your idea of happiness
A day/night/weekend spent laughing, drinking and discovering previously unheard music with those that know me best (Glastonbury, essentially)

3. Your idea of misery
 Being forcibly deprived of either music or those I am closest to

4. Your favourite virtue
Fortitude

5. Your biggest flaw
Musical snobbishness

6. For what fault have you most toleration?
Hedonism

7. What was your worst ever job?
A twelve-week internship at an investment bank: 11-hour days, countless spreadsheets and only half an enjoyable weekend overshadowed by the Fear of  Monday

8. What would your favourite occupation be?
Somewhat predictably, I’m already doing it.  If there is anything better than being paid to play music you love, then I don’t know about it

9. Where would you most like to live?
London is the place for me

10. Where do you live now? 
I live in South East London

11. Which characters in musical history do you most dislike?
Any figure that has stifled innovative musical progression in favour of cold hard cash

12. Which characters in musical history would you like to be?
Andrew Loog Oldham, Sam C. Phillips, Joe Meek, John Peel

13. Your favourite album ever (yes, I know it’s impossible, but try dammit)
This week, it’s Ramones’ ‘Ramones’

14. Who’s your favourite DJ?
In history: John Peel, right now: John Kennedy

15. What was the first single you bought? (and be honest about it)
The Bobby Brown Megamix.  Don’t laugh, it’s my prerogative, after all (Sorry)

16. …and your first gig? (ditto)
Iron Maiden, live at Pinewood Studios in 1993.  Bruce Dickinson’s LAST EVER SHOW!  Until he rejoined a few years later.

17. Your favourite qualities in a band/musician
Creative musical integrity alongside the ability to forge an entirely unique agenda.  And good hair.

18. Your favourite author
Alan Bennett

19. Your favourite film director
Michel Gondry

20. Your favourite hero or heroine in real life
Um, John Peel (again)

21. Your favourite hero or heroine in fiction
Frankenstein’s monster

22. Your favourite food and drink
Home made fajitas, or Sunday roast (beef, if possible)

24. Your pet aversion
The Daily Mail

25. What three songs would you have played at your wedding?
The Beatles ‘Something’, Etta James ‘Something’s Got A Hold On Me’ and The White Stripes ‘We’re Going To Be Friends’

26. What three songs would you have played at your funeral?
The White Stripes ‘I’m Bound To Pack It Up’, Neil Young ‘After The Gold Rush’ and Arcade Fire ‘In The Backseat’

27. What is your present state of mind
Content yet ambitious

28. Your favourite motto is?
Love is all

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