Katie is back live in the studio after a couple of weeks of pre-recorded shows, and boy, is she happy to be there! This hour features a sneeze, lovely messages from listeners, and ruminations on how one could kiss someone like a Catherine wheel – and, if course, beautiful new music. Here is the playlist:

Everybody Wants to Rule the World – This Way North & Parlour Panther

Lately – Cassidy-Rae

Catherine Wheel – The Whitlams

Treading Water (acoustic) – Charm of Finches

Wanderlust – Vancouver Sleep Clinic

Gravity – Montaigne with David Byrne 

Same Side of the Bed – Stephen Grady

Home Song – Joan & The Giants

Hallucinating – Stu Larsen

Above: Vancouver Sleep Clinic’s Fallen Paradise album cover photo by Olof Grind