This week on BCB we are giving away God Bless The Pretty Things, the 2009 album by Boo Hewerdine.
Boo Hewerdine - God Bless The Pretty Things
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is email us with the answer to this simple question:
The Pretty Things are a rock band. When were they formed?
a. 1941
b. 1963
c. 2010
Email your answers to studio [at] bcbradio.co.uk by midnight on Sunday 24th January. Please put Boo competition in the subject line of the email.
The new album by Autechre is worthy of note for more reasons than one. Firstly, the deluxe vinyl edition looks really..really nice and I will be very tempted to buy it when it’s released on 22nd March. But what I think is especially interesting about this release is what you get as a download with the album.
Autechre - Oversteps
Here’s the list from last night’s show:
This week on BCB we are giving away Rough Trade Indiepop 09, a compilation of outstanding quality.
Rough Trade Indiepop 09
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is email us with the answer to this simple question:
Which of the following is a type of pop?
A) milk
B) lemonade
C) tea
Email your answers to studio [at] bcbradio.co.uk by midnight on Sunday 17th January. Please put Indiepop competition in the subject line of the email.
The following is a list of some of the new releases played recently on BCB that aren’t included in other posts here on the blog. This isn’t everything else, because I don’t know what every presenter plays. It’s just everyhing else that I know of.
Yes, I know, I’m dead late with this one. So late in fact that as I write it’s less than 3 hours til this week’s show! In which, dear reader/listener, you can win the fantastic Rough Trade Shops Indie Pop 09 compilation.
Anyway, that’s the future, and this is the past:
Charlotte Gainsbough feat. Beck – Heaven Can Wait
Good Shoes – Under Control
Lou Rhodes – There for the taking
Nice Nice – See Waves
Yeasayer – Ambling Alps
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Journey (The Road OST)
Beach House – Norway
Tamikrest – Tamiditin
The Notwist – Boneless (Grizzly Bear remix)
Aphex Twin – Acrid Avid Jam Shred
Iron And Wine – Such Great Heights
Mus̩e M̩caniques РLike Home
White Rabbits – Percussion Gun
Low – Taking Down The Tree
Lawrence Arabia – Dream Teacher
The following is a list of some of the new releases played recently on BCB that aren’t included in other posts here on the blog. This isn’t everything else, because I don’t know what every presenter plays. It’s just Everyhing Else That I Know Of. There is a slight overlap with the last Miscellaneous Plays blog, as I found out about a couple more tunes played at the start of December.
8th December:
Fever Ray – When I Grow Up
White Antelope – Wild Mountain Thyme
9th December:
SPIRITUALIZED – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Can’t Help Falling In Love)
This week on BCB we are giving away Around The Well, the 2009 compilation by Iron And Wine.
Iron & Wine - Around The Well
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is email us with the answer to this simple question:
What are you most likely to find at the bottom of a well?
A) water
B) parsnips
C) elephants
Email your answers to studio [at] bcbradio.co.uk by midnight on Sunday 10th January. Please put Iron and Wine competition in the subject line of the email.
Strauss and Swann as England won the Ashes, 23rd August
I know, I know, who needs another look back at the musical year that will forever be remembered as 2009? Well, I for one need to jot down a few notes about the year’s music, if only for myself to look back on in my dotage. If anybody else is interested by what I write here too, then that’s a bonus. I’ll try and make that the only clichéd sentence though..!
So, dear listeners, it is now 2010, and it seems awfully old fashioned of me to talk about last year, but you see, the thing is, I haven’t yet told you what I played in my last show of the year on 30th December. Â This was part of our Warp Records night on BCB, so sandwiched in the middle of my show was a Warp20 (Minutes) mix of tunes on said record label, celebrating their 20th anniversary. Â This is what I played:
APSE – 3.1
Phosphorescent – Can I Sleep In Your Arms
Magnetic Fields – We Are Having A Hootenanny
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
Vic Chesnutt – Like A Monkey In A Zoo [RIP Vic Chessnutt]
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Warp20 (Minutes) mix:
Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Autechre – Rale
Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others
Aphex Twin – Girl/Boy Song
Gonjasufi – Kowboyz&Indians
Sqarepusher/AFX – Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid
Battles – Atlas
Bibio – Kaini Industries
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Flight Of The Conchords – Hurt Feelings
Big Star – Blue Moon [played because 31st December was indeed a blue moon]
Camera Obscura – French Navy
Antoine Dougb̩ & Orcheste Poly-Rythmo РYa Mi Ton Gbo (Legends Of Benin compilation)
Phil Cope and Laura Rawlings also devoted a third of their shows that night to Warp20 (minutes) mixes.
And, if it doesn’t seem ludicrously old fashioned, I would still like to write a bit of a blog looking back at 2009, so I may yet still do that.