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About Albert

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

Untitled Noise 1 year on

Since Untitled Noise (SUN) started in August 2009, there have been almost 400 blog entries, which I think is a terrific acheivement in just a year.  This blog has done wonders for bringing together information about BCB music shows in one place.    Before Untitled Noise (BUN) we were a rather dispersed set of islands.  But now we have come together as an archipelago I feel we all communicate with each other, and also with you the listeners/readers better.  I do still wish that all BCB music presenters contributed to this blog in the SUN era, because it has the potential to be ever better , but I appreciate that not everybody has time.   I find it hard enough keeping up with it myself, but I feel it’s really important, so I make the time to do at least one blog a week.

A big thanks to those presenters who do contribute, it’s hard to think how we ever got by in the BUN era.  A huge thanks must go also to Adam Wells who set this blog up for us, and continues to offer his support despite moving to The Big Smoke about 6 months ago.

Eclectic Mainline 25th August

I tried to make this show a beard-free zone.  I’m not sure I totally succeeded, but I gave it a good shot..!

Surfer Blood – “Floating Vibes” (single and LP – “Astro Coast”) (Kanine)
!!! – “Steady As The Sidewalk Cracks” (LP – “Strange Weather, Isn’t It?”) (Warp)
Efterklang – “Antitech” (LP – “Tripper + Springer”) (Leaf)
Aberfeldy – “Lisa-Marie” (LP – “Somewhere To Jump From”) (Tenement)
Disclosure – “Offline Dexternity” (single) (Moshi Moshi)
Mala – “Conengitetis (Jug mix)” (single) (Zaman)
No Age – “Glitter” (single) (Sub Pop)
Max Richter – Sarajevo” (LP – “Memoryhouse”) (Fat Cat)
Summer Camp – “Round The Moon” (single)
Andreya Trianna – “X” (LP – “Lost Where I Belong”) (Ninja Tune)
The Vaselines – “Sex With An X” (single) (Sub Pop)
The Hundred In The Hands – “Pigeons” (single) (Warp)
Burning Spear – “Brain Food” (LP – “Marcus Garvey/Garvey’s Ghost”) (Island)
M.I.A. – “It Takes A Muscle” (single and LP – LP – “/\/\/\Y/\”) (XL)
Magic Kids – “Phone” (single and LP – “Memphis”) (True Panther Sounds)

SXSW AND MIDEM BRIEFING EVENT COMING TO YORKSHIRE!

2010-SXSW-MIDEM-Yorkshire-briefing

Wednesday 1st September 2010. 7.00 pm. Brudenell Social Club,
33 Queen’s Rd, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 1NY.

REGISTRATION FREE!  Go to www.musicyorkshire.com for more details.

GUEST SPEAKERS include Una Johnston (SXSW), Javier Lopez (MIDEM), Phil Patterson (UKT&I Music Industry Specialist)
   
+ MIDDLEMAN + Serious Sam Barrett (live) from 10 pm + Poster Art
Exhibition!

Want to showcase at SXSW and / or MIDEM 2011?
Hoping to attend SXSW or MIDEM 2011?

Following on from our activities at SXSW Music and Media Conference, Austin, Texas, we are delighted to announce we have booked SXSW and MIDEM to come to talk to you! Don’t miss Yorkshire’s SXSW briefing event. Come and talk to the experts to find out: – how to apply for a showcase – more about the events and whether it is right for you – how to get there – how to make the most of your time at the events – find out about financial assistance and other support available.

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Plugged In Yorkshire – Digital Music and Retail

Info below from a press release about an interesting event in September, that’s all from me for this blog, now over to them..

Venue:
The Carriageworks
3 Millenium Square
Leeds
LS2 3AD

Time: 6.00PM – 8.00PM
Date: Wednesday 22 September 2010


Digital distribution has changed the structure of the music business and had a significant impact on record labels, retailers and distributors. These challenges for the music industry also present opportunities for new music businesses and DIY artists. This panel will discuss the range of services available from digital retail to streaming services and how too generate revenue from your music.

Our panellist’s experience spans from online retail, label management to digital distribution and marketing.

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Miscellaneous Plays 21st July to 18th August 2010

The following is a brief list of  some of the other new releases played recently on BCB. 

When I say some I mean I don’t know all the new releases played on BCB, so this is just what I know about at the time of writing. 

When I say other I mean that this list does not include tunes that have appeared in other playlists here on the BCB Music Blog. 

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Eclectic Mainline 11th August 2010

I’ve just read that on 1st November Domino are releasing compilation entitled An Introduction to Elliott Smith.  Regular listeners to Eclectic Mainline will know, that introducing Elliott Smith to the world is never something I would shy away from.  So, this release is welcome news.  One of the tunes on it will be “Between The Bars”, a most beautiful song, from one of my personal favourite albums of the 1990s, Either/Or.  If you haven’t got any of his albums, I can highly recommend you start your Christmas list now, and put An Introduction to Elliott Smith at the top.

Elliott Smith – Between The Bars by DominoRecordCo
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Eclectic Mainline 4th August 2010

What a muppet, I totally forgot to play something off the new album by Ass and I also forgot to play the new single by The Fresh and Onlys.  I only mention this because I also forgot both last week too!  Guess what’s going to be in next week’s show listeners..?

This is what was in tonight’s show:

Menomena – “Queen Black Acid” (LP – “Mines”) (City Slang)
Flying Lotus – “MmmHmm” ft. Thundercat (LP – “Cosmogramma”) (Warp)
The Soft Pack – “More Or Less” (single) (Heavenly)
Steve Mason – “Am I Just A Man” (single and LP – “Boys Outside”) (Double Six)
Apagya Show Band – “Ma Nserew Me” (LP – Various Artists – “Afro-Beat Airwaves”) (Analog Africa)
School Of Seven Bells – “Bye Bye Bye” (LP – “Disconnect From Desire”) (Full Time Hobby)
Dangermouse, Sparklehorse & Vic Chestnutt – “Grim Augury” (LP – “Dark Night Of The Soul”) (Parlophone)
Frank Turner – “Try This At Home” (single and LP – “Poetry Of The Deed”) (Xtra Mile)
Timber Timbre – “Demon Host” (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Mint Julep – “Cherry Radio” (Explorers Club single) (Arctic Circle / Loaf)
American Men – “Ccccool World” (EP – “Cool World”) (LuckyMe)
Camera Obscura – “The Nights Are Cold” (single) (4AD)
Black Mountain – “Old Fangs” (single) (Jagjaguwar)
Yeasayer – “Madder Red” (single and LP – “Odd Blood”) (Mute)
Toddla T ft Wayne Marshall – “Sky Surfing” (single) (Ninja Tune)

Eclectic Mainline 28th July 2010

I had an operation today, but no you don’t now have to call me Alberta.  It was only a minor operation.  That said, I will never be able to listen to Windstorm by School Of Seven Bells the same way again.  That was the tune in my head when I went into theatre, and I tried oh so very hard to just focus on singing that song over and over in my head, rather than thinking about what the surgeon was doing….“focus on the song, Albert, focus on the song!!!” I told myself.

Remind me to tell you Phil Cope’s joke about the snail in the pub some time.

This is what I played tonight:

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Miscellaneous plays 13th to 19th July 2010

The following is a very brief list of a few of the new releases played recently on BCB that aren’t included in other posts here on the blog. This isn’t everything else mind, by any stretch of the imagination.  But I’ve been rather busy, and because I don’t know what every presenter plays. It’s just the others I know of at the time of writing.

13th July
THE DEAD WEATHER – Blue Blood Blues

14th July
THE DEAD WEATHER – Blue Blood Blues
JOHN GRANT- Chicken Bones

16th July
THE BLACK KEYS – Everlasting Light

19th July
FAITHLESS – Tweak Your Nipple
THE DEAD WEATHER – Blue Blood Blues