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This week’s ATTN:Playlist is brought to you through the medium of songs related to current affairs. Well, most of them are, the others are just shameless plugs for our content.

As always, enjoy!

1. Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle – Be Your Own Pet

There was/still is some kind of bike race going on across La Manche. Not that I care, It’s just an excuse to play some Be Your Own Pet.

2. Bonnie & Clyde – Serge Gainsbourg & Bridgette Bardot

French graphic-novelist (that’s a posh word for someone who makes comics) Joann Sfar has made a film about France’s louchest lothario Serge Gainsbourg. Tragically, the film has been overshadowed by the recent suicide of Lucy Gordon, who stars as Gainsbourg’s lover and muse, Jane Birkin. We can just hope that the final product does her memory justice.

3. Hey! Student – The Fall

Business Secretary and Chancellor Idol runner-up Vince Cable (AKA Vincey Babes here at ATTN:Towers) has announced a radical rethink of the way young people drown in debt for the rest of their working lives. Sorry, pay for University. So here’s some mumbling from Mark E. Smith.

4. Killing An Arab – The Cure

This track covers two important international stories this week (we could have used two separate songs, but this is the age of austerity and all that). Firstly, France have passed a landmark ruling which outlaws the wearing of the Burka by practicing Muslim women. Secondly, splashed all over the front page of today’s Indy on Sunday is the news that 2014 is the agreed year to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. I would like to point out that this song is based on the Albert Camus book, The Outsider, and is not a love letter from Robert Smith to Nick Griffin.

5. Sky – The Dead C

No real reason to include this song except I was told to check out The Dead C by three different people this week, and Jesus H. Christ was it a good recommendation.

6. Mexican Seafood – Nirvana

Psychic cephalopod ‘Paul The Octopus’ will remain in Germany, after rumours that he was linked with a high-profile transfer to a number of Spanish sides. When asked to comment, the eight-legged oracle merely shimmied to a box labeled ‘leave me the fuck alone’ and withdrew a muscle.

7. Sol – Solar Fields

Well well, Music Ed. Jack has been busy hasn’t he? Part one of his ligging trip around the world begins with this interview with Magnus Birgersson AKA Solar Fields.

8. Ned Kelly – Johnny Cash

Quietus scribe John Tatlock this week made the most succinct and intelligent comment on the ‘Folk Hero’ status of child-abusing, wife-beating, murdering meat-head Raoul Moat. There are too many songs charting lives of Folk Heroes to pick just one, but a) Johnny Cash is the man and b) you all expected me to pick Stagger Lee, didn’t you?

9. Celestica – Crystal Castles

Dark times are a-foot at Latitude Festival, with two reported rapes, countless thefts and “…gangs of scousers roaming aimlessly around the site.” In slightly radder news, Crystal Castles front woman and all round badass Alice Glass twatted someone who had the nerve to grope her tits. Right on, sister.

10. Under The Water It Glowed – Eluvium

Part two of Jack Chuter’s interview tour-de-force this week comes in the form of a chat with Matthew Cooper, AKA Eluvium, AKA creator of some of the most beautiful and soothing music known to humanity. It really is like wrapping your brain in cotton wool.

So here is your mix. Live long, and fight the cuts.