I had the great pleasure of spending a lot of time with the UK’s Belleruche when they were in Los Angeles for an extended period during their first tour of the USA. 
This was almost a session that didn’t happen. Our usual producer for performances was not able to be here due to a medical emergency and his stand-in was unable to find some highly necessary cords. In the end, everything worked out (Thank you Tamika Zoghi for the last minute production magic!) just in the nick of time and so you get to hear all 3 songs (“Gold Rush” “Clockwatching” and “Cat in a Dog Suit”, all from 270 Stories) that the band performed live in our studios.
We had a number of conversations during the 3+ hours the band was at the station, about the differences between “winter” in the UK vs. what we perceive as uncharacteristically cold weather in LA (“time to breakout the shorts” was pretty much how Ricky from the group described his impression of our “blisteringly cold” weather in LA) to recommendations (in terms of venues and record stores) in the Bay Area, which the band hopes to visit in the near future. The interview covers how the band got together and their thoughts on how to characterize their sound and a certain freedom that comes from not having a label easily placed on you.
Though the band made their way to KEXP and NPR’s World Cafe, it’s nice to know that the first place they stopped by was our very humble space at KPFK. There’s a very good chance they’ll be swinging back through the States in March around the time of SXSW and hopefully they’ll be able to spend more time in LA. For the time being you have the tracks from this session in addition to their latest album on Tru Thoughts, 270 Stories.
Belleruche on KPFK’s Melting Pot: Recorded 11-29-2010
One final bonus, my very first bit of video, featuring the band performing their song “Gold Rush” at KPFK:
This is such a good album, I really liked this version of Gold Rush, but I can't get the video to work and you can't skip through the interview using this player so I didn't get to hear the other songs 🙁
Simon, you might want to download the interview, right click and "Save Target As" then you can skip forward to your heart's content. On the video, it might depend on the internet connection you have, but when you press play, it should start bufferring and eventually start playing.
Okay, I actually had a little problem with the code, video should be totally fixed at this point. If anyone has trouble checking it out, just let me know.