So, having acquired a tape to CD converter, courtesy of Jenny Jet, I played a fair few tracks from 20+ year old mix tapes made by my friend the late, great, Jas Toomer. You’ll notice the sudden drop in volume and sound quality, which of course only adds to the nostalgia!
We also dedicated our show in part to the 400,000+ people who marched for an alternative to public spending cuts. We were there – here’s a kazoo solo, from Emma Bob III!
And this is what we played:
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On episode 20 of Buffet, Jenny Jet asked the question “Coldplay – why?”. We don’t like them, they are very beige. But we did play some music we like very very much, including a snapshot from a re-issue of Spunkle’s 2003 soundscape Music for DXing (on First Fold records). Here’s a video link: http://www.youtube.com/firstfoldmusic#p/u/3/Tt1PdFDmgAs
And here’s a complete list of what we played, which you can, of course, hear on BCB’s new listen again feature:
1. Theme from Tales of the Unexpected
2. MOGWAI – George Square Thatcher Death Party
3. CAROLINE – Gone
4. THE COUNT AND SINDEN – Elelphant 1234
5.GLASSER – Mirrorage
6. JOHN BARRY – Midnight Cowboy
7. LCD Soundsystem – Disco Infiltrator
8. SPUNKLE – Interlocking Groove
9. TERAMELOS – Manar the Magic
10. TALL SHIPS – Chemistry
11. PATSY GALLANT – From New York to LA
12. PETER, BJORN AND JOHN – Breaker Breaker
13. NEU – Super
14. DEERHOOF – Super Duper Rescue Heads
15. PJ HARVEY – Words That Maketh Murder
We’re back on March 26th!
Big snogs,
Team Buffet
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I have nothing witty or interesting to say. Here’s what we played on our show:
Asteroid (Pearl and Dean theme)
We Rock Like Girls Don’t – Queen of Heavy Metal
Chrome Hoof – Crystalline
Teardrop Explodes – Sleeping Gas
Deerhunter – Helicopter
The Muppets – Mahna Mahna
Silver Columns – Cavalier
Ariel Pink’ Haunted Graffiti – Flight Night
Roy Ayers – Coffy is the Colour
Jesus Lizard – Mouth Breather
Suuns – Arena
Stereolab – Delugeoisie
Quack Quack – Jack of None
Kraftwerk – Robots
We are next on the BCB wireless on Saturday 26th Feburary.
Buffet’s New Year Review wasn’t much of a revue as there were less of us contributing to the show than we’d anticipated. This was due to seasonal poorliness. So we shall resolve to get more guests on the show during 2011!
In 2010 we saw lots of ace bands, listened to great music, but people died and we don’t like the emerging political landscape, so on the whole we gave it the finger. We also played some records:
Kinks – You Really Got Me
Duchess Says – Black Flag
Field Music – Let’s Write a Book
Joanna Newsome – In California
LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls
Portable Pony – And the Morning Came in Shouting
Captain Beefheart – Lo Yo Yo Stuff
The Slits – Instant Hit
Spice Girls – Spice Up Your Life
Solex – The Cutter
Liars – Scarecrows on a Killer Slant
Pavement – Spit on a Stranger
Grinderman – Worm Tamer
Roxy Music – Re-Make/Re-Model
Big thanks to everyone who’s contributed or listened to the show in 2010, it’s been real!
We’re back on Sat 29th January at 5pm.
Hope you enjoyed the Buffet Christmas special, which had nothing to do with Christmas whatsoever. Instead we dedicated a whole hour to our recent All Tomorrow’s Parties road-trip to Bowlie 2, curated by Belle and Sebastian. We saw bands we love and have featured before on our show, as well as loads of new (to us) music. Here’s what we played:
The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic
School of Language – Rockist part 4 (as performed by Field Music)
The Vaselines – Son of a Gun
Silver Columns – Always On
The Beatles – Helter Skelter (as not performed by Them Beatles)
Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the Move
Foals – Spanish Sahara
Jenny and Johnny – Big Wave
Phenomenal Handclap Band – 15 to 20
Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu
P J Harvey – 50ft Queenie (Jenny’s fantasy-festival curator)
Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
Franz Ferdinand – Jaqueline
Our next ‘normal’ Buffet is on New Year’s Day at 5pm. Join us for a 2010 review (of sorts).
So the Buffet Belles had a fabulous time at All Tomorrow’s Parties’ Bowlie 2, curated by Belle and Sebastian; but we are far too busy to write up a proper blog – so here are our tweets from the event instead.
(And please tune in for our next show on New Year’s Day at 5pm, and listen out for a buffet special over the holiday period!)
Field Music at ATP, pic by EmmaBob3
BUFFET TWEE(T) LOG:
We at Team Buffet are not happy. And tonight we had a little moan about Dave and George and their savage spending cuts. We also played the most bizarre selection of Christmas music you may ever hear, peppered with top pop and punk tunes.
My highlight was a track chosen by Emma Bob 3 – Charles Spearin’s ‘Mrs Morris (Reprise)’ which forms part of The Happiness Project. He takes his neighbour’s words about love, turns them into music, then adds her voice back in. It’s beautiful.
Happy Cliffmas
Here’s what we played:
I was 15 when I attended my first festival – U2 at Milton Keynes Bowl, with support from The Ramones, REM, Spear of Destiny and Billy Bragg (who performed at pretty much every festival in the mid to late 1980s). Bono was less pompous then, I was in love with Larry Mullen Jnr, and I’d never seen 50,000 people in one space before – it was quite a big deal for little teenage me. I also got hideously sun-burned and learned my first festival lesson – sun-block.
I haven’t been to that many festivals since, as I decided I actually don’t enjoy them that much. I’ll get excited by a line-up, pay a huge sum of money for maybe three or four bands, then feel disappointed because I can’t see a thing, the sound quality is rubbish, and there are too many drunk people invading my personal space. I’ve often come away from a festival saying “(insert band) were great, but I’d love to see them properly…â€
Then I had my first All Tomorrow’s Parties experience. No tents. No portaloos. No sun-block. Amazing bands, decent stages and sound quality – a festival that gives you a proper, intimate gig experience for each band you choose to see. And do you know what else I like? Seats. Standing around all day takes it’s toll, and I am officially middle aged, you know.
We’ve been putting on a nice spread for a year now, which is why we shared a glass of Babycham with our lovely special guests the Bet Lynch Mob (along with regular guests Jenny Jet and Elias AKA Little Spads). We had a very nice curry afterwards, too.
The thing Em and I probably struggle with most of all making our radio show is doing the maths. We don’t do maths as a rule. So having to work out how much time you’ve got left, and how long your remaining tracks are is quite beyond us, and sometimes results in us introducing a final song only to hear the first 30s seconds of it (which reminds me – Em, we still need to play that Dam Mantle record). Today was slightly different, as we introduced our last track, only to realise we had time to play another. So think of this as a secret track at the end of our mix tape.
Here’s our party playlist:
Geoff Love and his Orchestra – Theme From Star Wars
The Beatles – Birthday
Sleigh Bells – Infinity Guitars
Deerhoof – Basketball Get Your Groove Back
Lifescreen – Opting Out (Betty Boobs’ choice)
The Ruby Suns – Birthday On Mars
Turbo Fruits – Volcano (Betty Bird’s choice)
Blondie – Call me (Betty Bottom’s choice)
McFly – Party Girl
Shirley Bassey – Get The Party Started
Marnie Stern – For Ash
Electric 6 – Gay Bar
Matt Monro – The Party’s Over
Birds and Brass – Chim Chim Cheree
Two thirds of the Bet Lynch Mob (sometimes we can do maths)
Bloody Nora, Emma Bob 3 left me with a major earworm when we recorded this show – Starship perforated my brain for a couple of days, and it wasn’t pleasant, as that bass sound is particularly offensive to me. Hope you weren’t left with the same problem.
Plus I would like to apologise for my totally inaccurate description of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, as it’s seven deadly exes, not ex-boyfriends. Huge blunder, sorry.
And soz for running out of time and playing a mere millisecond of Dam Mantle’s Rebong – next month, listeners! But enough of apologies as there was also plenty of aceness! So here’s what we did play…
Theme from Crossroads
Colourmusic – Yes
Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
Marnie Stern – For Ash
Sky Larkin – Still Windmills
ELO – Mr Blue Sky
Crash and the Boys – I’m So Sad, So Very, Very Sad
Crash and the Boys – We Hate You Please Die
Rufus Thomas – Itch and Scratch
The Crayonettes – Hopscotch
Sailor – Girls Girls Girls
Sweet Baboo – Wish I Was Made Out of Steel
Beck – Ramona
The Selecter – On My Radio
50FootWave – Clara Bow
Starship – We Built This City
NEXT MONTH! Radio Buffet is one year old, plus it’s Emma Bob 3’s birthday, so we are celebrating! Jenny Jet, Little Spads and The Bet Lynch Mob will be joining us in the studio – so flippin exciting! Join us on Saturday 6th November.
We love you.
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