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Presenter of Eclectic Mainline on BCB 106.6FM, bassist in Wilful Missing, solo musician under the name Our Albert, and photographer.

Eclectic Mainline 26th October 2011

I was unsure whether to end tonight’s show with Alva Noto’s “Uni Syc” or “Uni Deform”.  The fact that I had 5 minutes left, not 3, meant the former was chosen.  So, here for your consideration is the latter:

If you with to hear “Uni Syc”, and all the other tunes from tonight’s show, you can do so via today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service.  My favourite of tonight’s tunes was “Luminal” by Fennesz, which you can hear as the first munite of this Seven Stars preview:

fennesz – seven stars (album preview) by experimedia

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The Stone Roses reunion

I’ve been having difficulty formulating, and understanding, my own thoughts on The Stone Roses’ reunion. It’s a unique feeling: One of my favourite ever bands announces a reunion, and I wish it wasn’t happening.

The Stone Roses reunion

In the press conference Ian Brown said they have no intention of destroying the legacy, but I worry that’s precisely what will happen. History does not suggest anything different (I’m thinking Sex Pistols and Happy Mondays among others). I suppose the Pixies reunion was well-greated though.

The same press conference reminded me of one of the things I love(d) about the band: their gobbiness, and they’re political views. I love the way Ian Brown laid into this Daily Mail reporter.

The fact that the 2 initial dates at Heaton Park, priced at £55 a ticket, with 75,000 capacity each day, would gross £8.25m in gate receipts doesn’t bother me. I genuinely believe they’re not in it for the money.

Wondering whether to get a ticket, I thought “I really shouldn’t but…”.  I never got to see them first time around. However, from the live recordings and first hand accounts I’ve heard, they were never much cop live. Having said all that, at the end of the day, it is the blinking Stone Roses, one of the bands who (thanks largely to the persistence of my brother Phil) stopped me just listening to the charts.

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Jumbo Records 40th anniversary

This Saturday Jumbo Records in Leeds celebrate their 40th anniversary.  An awful lot has changed in the music industry over the past 40 years.  But one thing that hasn’t changed, is that Jumbo have remained brilliant.   If you heard The BCB Sessions with Laura Rawlings on Wednesday, you will have heard her talking to Adam from Jumbo about their big four-oh.

And if you have been into The Sparrow Bier Cafe in Bradford you might have sampled the special anniversary beer brewed by the Revolutions Brewing Company.

Numerous musical luminaries have wished Jumbo a happy anniversary, including former BCB session guest, Simone Felice of The Duke And The King:

If you go into Jumbo on Saturday, there are various special offers on, as well as in-store performances from Corinne Bailey Rae, Ellen & The Escapades, Lanterns On The Lake and Serious Sam Barrett. Get ye down…

Eclectic Mainline – 19th October 2011

There were several tunes tonight that I thought were amazing.  Here’s one of them:

Container – Application by coracle

You can listen again to the whole show until mid-November.

Here is a full list of what I played tonight:

The Phoenix Foundation – “Bright Grey” (single and LP – “Buffalo”) (Memphis Industries)
Mark McGuire – “Get Lost” (LP – “Get Lost”) (Editions Mego)
Piney Gir – “Friends and Neighbours” (LP – “Geronimo!”) (Damaged Goods)
Starkey – “Villagers Tester” (EP – “Open The Bay Doors”) (Ninja Tune)
Broken.Heart.Collector – “Get The Dog” (LP – “Broken.Heart.Collector”) (Discorporate)
Low Bias – “La Mosca” (LP – “The Ash And The Oak”) (Trace)
Amadou Ballaké et l’Orchestre Super Volta- “Sali” (Various Artists LP – “Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979”) (Analog Africa)
Container – “Application” (LP – “LP”) (Spectrum Spools)
R. Stevie Moore – “Food & War” (single) (Care In The Community Recordings)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Pear Tree” (LP – “In The Pit Of The Stomach”) (Fat Cat)
Gardens & Villa – “Spacetime” (LP – “Gardens & Villas”) (Secretly Canadian)
Mr Scruff – “Feel It!” (single) (Ninja Tune)

Eclectic Mainline 12th October 2011

I was unable to get into BCB to do a new show this week, so instead a previous show was repeated.  I thought a ‘timeless special’ show was going to be broadcast, but in fact it was my show from 14th September that was repeated.  Thanks to Phil Cope for alerting me to which show it was.  This is what I played:

PJ Harvey – “The Glorious Land” (LP – “Let England Shake”) (Island)
Mister Heavenly – “I Am A Hologram” (single and LP – “Out Of Love”) (Sub Pop)
Cindytalk – “I See You Uncovered” (LP – “Hold Everything Dear”) (Editions Mego)
Emika – “FM Attention” (LP – “Emika”) (Ninja Tune)
Loudon Wainwright III – “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry” (LP – “Album III / Attempted Mustache / Unrequited”) (T-Bird)
Abdoulaye Cissé – “Kodjougou” (Various Artists LP – “Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979”) (Analog Africa)
Slow Club – “You, Earth or Ash” (LP – “Paradise”) (Moshi Moshi)
Josh T. Pearson – “Sorry With A Song” (single and LP – “Last Of The Country Gentlemen”) (Mute)
Martyn – “Love And Machines (ft Spaceape” (LP – “Ghost People”) (Brainfeeder)
Fruit Bats – “Picture Of A Bird” (LP – “Tripper”) (Sub Pop)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Medicine” (single) (Fat Cat)
Ergo Phizmiz – “The Music Man” (download from www.careinthe.com) (Care In The Community Recordings)
Hanni El Khatib – “I Got A Thing” (single) (Innovative Leisure)
TEETH – “Care Bear (Extreme Animals Remix)”
Shabazz Palaces – “Recollections Of The Wraith” (single and LP – “Black Up”) (Sub Pop)
Ganglians – “Drop The Act”

Eclectic Mainline 5th October 2011

Here’s the Hanni El Khatib tune I played tonight:

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. – Hanni El Khatib by Redeye Distribution

If you missed any of the show, you can catch up on the BCB Listen Again service.

Here is a full list of tonight’s tunes:

Roll The Dice – “The Suck” (LP – “In Dust”) (Leaf)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Sore Thumb” (LP – “In The Pit Of The Stomach”) (Fat Cat)
Ergo Phizmiz – “Food & War” (single) (Care In The Community Recordings)
Arctic Monkeys – “Suck It And See” (single and LP – “Suck It And See”) (Domino)
Slugabed – “Sun Too Bright Turn It Off” (EP – “Sun Too Bright Turn It Off”) (Ninja Tune)
Tim Kasher – “Trees Keep Growing” (LP – “Bigamy: More Songs From The Monogamy Sessions”) (Affairs Of The Heart)
Piney Gir – “Say Goodbye” (LP – “Geronimo!”) (Damaged Goods)
dEUS – “Twice (We Survive)” (LP – “Keep You Close”) (Play It Again Sam)
Mangue Konde et Le Super Mandé – “Kabendo” (Various Artists LP – “Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979”) (Analog Africa)
Hanni El Khatib – “Build. Destroy. Rebuild.” (Lp -“Will The Guns Come Out”) (Innovative Leisure)
Loudon Wainwright III – “Come A Long Way” (LP – “Album III / Attempted Mustache / Unrequited”) (T-Bird)
Starkey – “Beta Tester” (EP – “Open The Bay Doors”) (Ninja Tune)
Josh T. Pearson – “Country Dumb (Live At The Union Chapel)” (LP – “The King Is Dead – Live At The Union Chapel”) (Mute)

Eclectic Mainline 28th September 2011

If you missed any of tonight’s show, you can catch up on the BCB Listen Again service.

Here is a full list of what I played tonight:

Hanni El Khatib – “Will The Guns Come Out” (Lp -“Will The Guns Come Out”) (Innovative Leisure)
Andreya Triana – “Perfect Darkness” (from Fink single – “Perfect Darkness / Berlin Sunrise”) (Ninja Tune)
Mister Heavenly – “Wise Men” (single and LP – “Out Of Love”) (Sub Pop)
Mamo Lagbema – “Zambo Zambo” (Various Artists LP – “Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979”) (Analog Africa)
S.C.U.M – “Whitechapel” (single) (Mute)
Piney Gir – “Funeral Home” (b-side to “”Oh Lies” single) (Damaged Goods)
Martyn – “Ghost People” (LP – “Ghost People”) (Brainfeeder)
Roll The Dice – “Way Out” (LP – “In Dust”) (Leaf)
Emika – “Common Exchange” (LP – “Emika”) (Ninja Tune)
WU LYF – “We Bros” (single) (LYF Recordings)
Mint Julep – “Days Gone By (Helios remix)” (single) (Village Green)
Loudon Wainwright III – “Kick In The Head” (LP – “Album III / Attempted Mustache / Unrequited”) (T-Bird)
Metronomy – “Everything Goes My Way” (single and LP – “The English Riviera”) (Because)
The Computers – “Surfin’ Bird” (b-side to “Rhythm Revue” single) (One Little Indian)
The Advisory Circle – “Now Ends The Beginning” (LP – “As The Crow Flies”) (Ghost Box)

Eclectic Mainline 21st September 2011

You would be forgiven if you didn’t listen live this week, but instead were watching Waterloo Road on BBC1 so you could hear Wilful Missing.  If you did that, or if you missed Eclectic Mainline for any other reason, you can listen again, and you’ll find my show on this page.

Here’s one of the tunes I played tonight:

Maelstrom by Roll the Dice

And here is a list of the full show:

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Eclectic Mainline 14th September 2011

Here’s the We Were Promised Jetpacks video for the new single I played in tonight’s show:

If you wish to hear tonight’s show but missed it, you can use the BCB Listen Again service.

Here’s a full list of the tunes I played tonight:

PJ Harvey – “The Glorious Land” (LP – “Let England Shake”) (Island)
Mister Heavenly – “I Am A Hologram” (single and LP – “Out Of Love”) (Sub Pop)
Cindytalk – “I See You Uncovered” (LP – “Hold Everything Dear”) (Editions Mego)
Emika – “FM Attention” (LP – “Emika”) (Ninja Tune)
Loudon Wainwright III – “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry” (LP – “Album III / Attempted Mustache / Unrequited”) (T-Bird)
Abdoulaye Cissé – “Kodjougou” (Various Artists LP – “Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979”) (Analog Africa)
Slow Club – “You, Earth or Ash” (LP – “Paradise”) (Moshi Moshi)
Josh T. Pearson – “Sorry With A Song” (single and LP – “Last Of The Country Gentlemen”) (Mute)
Martyn – “Love And Machines (ft Spaceape” (LP – “Ghost People”) (Brainfeeder)
Fruit Bats – “Picture Of A Bird” (LP – “Tripper”) (Sub Pop)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Medicine” (single) (Fat Cat)
Ergo Phizmiz – “The Music Man” (download from www.careinthe.com) (Care In The Community Recordings)
Hanni El Khatib – “I Got A Thing” (single) (Innovative Leisure)
TEETH – “Care Bear (Extreme Animals Remix)”
Shabazz Palaces – “Recollections Of The Wraith” (single and LP – “Black Up”) (Sub Pop)
Ganglians – “Drop The Act”

 

Eclectic Mainline 7th September 2011

If you missed any of tonight’s show, but would like to catch up, you can use the BCB listen again feature.

Here’s the video to one of tonight’s tunes, by The War On Drugs:

Like a muppet, I completely forgot to play something from PJ Harvey‘s Mercury Prize winning album Let England Shake.  I’ve not heard all the other shortlisted albums, so I can’t comment on its relative merits, but in its own right, it is an astonishingly good album, as I have said several times since it came out.

Anyway, this is what I did play:

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