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Limetree special on The BCB Sessions!

We’re getting giddy about Limetree Festival on the show (9pm, 24th August) and to prove just how great the excitement is we’re rolling out top tunes from some of this year’s acts….feast your eyes (and ears via www.bcbradio.co.uk and 106.6fm in Bradford) on these babies:

This many boyfriends – Young lovers go pop! (fab Leeds indiepop to start the show…I wish every week could be like this)

Veronica Falls – Bad feeling

Thomas Truax – Midnight in August

M83 – Midnight city

Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra – Cross town traffic (Playing at Limetree)

Celtic Islam – Vision (Limetree talent)

Love Inks – Rock on

Planning to Rock – Going wrong

Glass Candy – Beatific (my minor indulgence this one…taking me back to 2am a few years ago, very happy at festival)

Fruit Bats – So long (best looking album of the week – beautiful thing)

Milk Maid – Dead wrong

Submotion Orchestra – Finest hour (Another Limetree lovely)

Mini Mansions – Monk

Zero 7 – Waiting line (great stuff – Limetree 2011)

Middleman – Chipping away (any excuse to play these bad boys – fellow Limetree-ers)

And on The BCB Sessions we’re continuing the festival love next week (Wed 31 Aug, 9pm) with songs from bands performing at Bingley Music Live: http://www.bingleymusiclive.com/

There’s tons of live music to be had – the week after that (if you’re still with me! Wed 7 Sept, 9pm) we’re previewing Saltaire Live Lounge: http://www.saltairefestival.co.uk/News.aspx?NewsID=38

As ever, get in touch if you’re in a band and you’ve got music you’d like me to play…or if you’d like to record an acoustic session at BCB: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

Until next week,

Lx

(listen live and again to any show broadcast on BCB – www.bcbradio.co.uk then click on listen again)

The BCB Sessions – Wednesday nights at 9pm online and on 106.6fm in Bradford

New tracks from Fool’s Gold, Cloud Control and She Keeps Bees!

On The BCB Sessions (Wed 27 July), we served up new tunes, archive sessions and west Yorkshire bands…hope it took your fancy.

If you missed the show – you can listen via BCB’s listen again service: www.bcbradio.co.uk

Fool’s Gold – Wild window
Belle and Sebastian – Write about love
Mini Mansions – Monk
She Keeps Bees – Vulture
Scars on 45 (BCB Session) – Heart on fire
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The body
Hannah Trigwell – Come home soon
Bibio – Take your shirt off
Warpaint – Undertow
Cloud Control – Gold canary (Cymbals remix)
Gui Boratto – The verdict
Pete and the Pirates – Half moon street
Cold Cave – Youth and lust
The Mexanines – Give you love

I’m back next Wednesday night at 9pm on 106.6fm in Bradford and www.bcbradio.co.uk (where you can listen live and listen again).

If you’re in a band or you’re a solo artist and you’d like to get your music on the show then get in touch: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

It doesn’t matter if it’s your first or fiftieth session we’d love to hear from you. You can also send tracks to: Laura Rawlings, The BCB Sessions, BCB Radio, 11 Rawson Road, Bradford BD1 3SH.

Lx

James Blake, Washed Out and Printed Circuit on The BCB Sessions!

Howdy folks,

Hope you’re in fine fettle. Loads of great songs on the show, including several ear worms, plus session tracks, oldies and newbies.

Voila le menu for Wednesday 20th July:

St Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Washed Out – Eyes To Be Closed
Zola Jesus – Vessel
Stave Mason & Dennis Bovell – Lost & Dub
Printed Circuit – Brick It
Grace Jones – Williams’ Blood (Aeroplane mix)
Fool’s Gold – Ha Dvash (BCB session track)
Darren Hayman – Drive Too Fast (BCB session track)
Eurythmics – Love Is A Stranger
James Blake – Limit To Your Love
Other Lives – Tamer Animals
Tricky (Fi Fi Rong mix) - Time To Dance

See you same time next week (Wed night at 9pm) on 106.6fm in Bradford and www.bcbradio.co.uk.

If you like the list but missed the show then you can also listen again via www.bcbradio.co.uk

Lx

Ulrich Schnauss, Grace Jones and Beirut on The BCB Sessions

Last night we continued the summery festival vibe….with songs from the special section of my music library (from the bedside shelves).

Ladyhawke – Paris is burning
Arab Strap – Dream sequence
Nightmares on Wax – Bleu my mind
Nuyorican Soul – I am the black gold of the sun (4 hero remix)
Teenage Fanclub – It’s all in my mind
Bent – Cylons in love
Kode 9 + The Spaceape – Victims
Grace Jones – I’ve seen that face before
Beirut – La Llorona
Ulrich Schnauss – On my own
Flying Lotus – Do the astral plane

If you missed the show, you can listen again.

I’ll be back next Wednesday night from 9pm.

Goldfrapp, Four Tet and Serge Gainsbourg on The BCB Sessions, 7th July

It’s an eclectic dolly mixture of sweet songs on the show…tuck in!

Joan As Police Woman – Magic
The Breeders – Canonball
Goldfrapp – Happiness
Mr Scruff – Get a move on
Four tet – A joy
Anika – Yang Yang
School of Seven Bells – Half asleep
Serge Gainsbourg – Melody
Beta Band – Dance o-er the border
Chilled by Nature – State of grace
The Smiths – There is a light that never goes out

And if you miss the show, listen again via www.bcbradio.co.uk

More from me next Wednesday night from 9pm with songs from the special section of the music library; Grace Jones, Ulrich Schnauss and Kode9 + the Spaceape.

Sinoptic Music on The BCB Sessions – Wednesday 8th June!

It was a big show this evening – we put the spotlight on the Yorkshire based Hip Hop collective Sinoptic Music including an interview with ExP from Sinoptic plus three tracks from Sinoptic artists (the ones with * below). Plus full details of this weekend’s Rock and Rail festival.

Hercules and Love Affair – Painted eyes
Fleet Foxes – Montezuma
Interview with ExP: http://sinopticmusic.com/
*Lunar C – StillSkint
Caged Animals – Girl on medication
Interview with Noel Hartley about Rock & Rail
Middleman – Chipping away (playing at Rock & Rail)
John Talebot – Families feat. Glasser
Eskmo – We got more (Throwing snow remix)
*Addverse – Out Of Space
Diagrams – Night all night
Jai Paul – BTSU
Barbara Panther – Unchained
*Illuzual – QVE

Next week we’re keeping the focus on Hip Hop with West Yorks Hip Hop acts Tapestry and F4 – Wednesday night from 9pm on 106.6fm in Bradford and www.bcbradio.co.uk

If you’ve got some music you’d like me to play or if you’re in a band and fancy coming in for a sessions then send me an email: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

23rd March – Jasmine Kennedy on The BCB Sessions!

Hello you,

Hope you enjoyed the show…Jasmine Kennedy’s session sounded great. She’s got such a soulful voice – listening back to the tracks made me really smile. If you missed the show, you can listen again via www.bcbradio.co.uk click on ‘listen again’ and scroll down for The BCB Sessions, 23rd March, 9pm. Thanks Jasmine for popping in. She’s got some gigs coming up so for the dates go to http://jasminekennedy.co.uk/home

If you’d like to get your music on the show – perhaps record a session – then get in touch. Just email me: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk and I’ll get my people to talk to your people and we’ll sort it. No, seriously, it’s not that complicated….

So this is what we served up:

Pete and the Pirates – United

The Death Set – We are going anywhere men

Love Inks – Black eye

Jasmine Kennedy interview

Jasmine Kennedy (BCB Session) – Good for each other

Smith Westerns – Weekend

Husky Rescue – Fast lane

Battles – Ice cream

Jasmine Kennedy (BCB Session) – Dinner for breakfast

About Group – Don’t worry

Maia (session track from the archives) – Sidelines (from Hudds. Ones to watch. They’re playing in Hebden Bridge in April so if you’re free go see http://www.myspace.com/maiatheband)

Clock opera – Let the lifeboats go

Jasmine Kennedy (BCB Session) – Cardigan sweater

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16 March – Joe Tilston on The BCB Sessions!

Hello,

Are things better late than never? Hmmmm….hope so! At least if you listen again to the The BCB Sessions (go to BCB’s www.bcbradio.co.uk) you can see the matching track listings! Shows last on the system for listen again purposes for four weeks after broadcast. So, on 16th March Joe Tilston was my featured artist. Joe and Luke performed a great session so it’s definitely worth going back to. He’s got a great radio voice and I love playing the little jingle he did for the show. Thanks for coming in chaps. Here’s where you find out more about Joe T: http://www.myspace.com/joetilston

This is what made the line up:

Joan As Policewoman – Magic

The Heavy – How you like me now?

Smiling Ivy – Life backwards (Like this band from Shef lots – Checkout www.smilingivy.co.uk)

Interview with Joe Tilston and Luke

Joe Tilston & Luke (BCB Session) – Liza and Henry

Bibio – K is for kelson

Ellen and the Escapades – Preying on your mind (acoustic version from Number 42 Records, new Hudds label http://www.facebook.com/thenumber42records)

Black Mountain – Rollercoaster

Joe Tilston (BCB Session) – Different Feet

Cloud Control – This is what I said

Handmadehands – Sunshine (great track from Bradford band)

Animal Collective – My girls

Joe Tilston (BCB Session) – Little Scars

Bye for now,

Lx

Celebrating the female of the species…Wed 9th March

Hello!

Really loved doing the show this week – chatting to BCB’s finest female DJs and playing some of their favourite songstresses. We celebrated International Women’s Day on The BCB Sessions – only broadcasting the voices of the fairer sex. It’s almost impossible condensing everything I’d like to play into an hour but here’s what made the mix:

Broadcast – Still Feels Like Tears
Gossip – Listen Up (live in Liverpool version)
Garbage – Only Happy When It Rains (Selected by Alissa Juvan, one half of BCB’s Fabric show)
Lush – Single Girl (back to 1996….)
Kaito – Should I (Chosen by Katie Jennings, one half of BCB’s DIY or Die show)
Anna Calvi – Blackout (atmospheric, immense…brilliant)
Blue Roses – Does Anyone Love Me (Acoustic BCB Session – shiny and gorgeous!)
Roisin Murphy – Ruby Blue (Selected by Sally Cooper, blogger, presenter/producer of many a BCB show)
Bat For Lashes – Horse and I (another one of mine…takes me right back to sitting on the carpet at the Brudenell Social Club being mesmerised along with many other people by N Khan in tight white jeans).
Nina Simone – Feeling Good (Chosen by Emma Adams, one half of BCB’s Buffet duo..we’re feeling good)
Peaches – Downtown (it was either this or suck on my ***** !@%&)
MIA – It Takes A Muscle (Had to play MIA…she’s ace)

Of course I’ve missed out loads of great female artists so I’d like to do it all over again with the women I missed  – who should be in the mix next time? Suggestions please….Joan as Policewoman, Cat Power?? Your thoughts please. You don’t have to be a lady to contribute. Thank the lord.

If you missed the show you can listen again….hopefully this link will take you to it

http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=413

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Le menu – Wed 28th Feb

Hello you,

Ok, have you seen the bit of paper I wrote the track listings on for last week’s show? It’s A4, white with scrawl on it, probably a bit crumpled by now?Are you hiding it? Help! I’ve looked everywhere AND unpacked every banana box in the flippin living room and it’s just not there. So, I start this post with an apology for bad filing and a promise that I’ll try really hard next week. On the upside, it’s better to listen to the show so put this addy in the bar at the top if you missed it…http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?page=16

and scroll down to click on The BCB Sessions

We’re sending out a big BCB Sessions bon chance to all the bands heading off to SXSW and playing at the Yorks & NE SXSW 2011 Showcase on Sat 19th. Thanks Pat (Timeless Music Project) for coming on the show and making us all jealous! Thanks also to Duane Simon – featured artist of the week…I had your track going round in my head for ages, a proper ear worm.

Now then onwards to this week’s show (Wed 9th March) and we’re doing a full on nod to International Women’s Day with female DJ’s from across BCB’s specialist music schedule and friends of the show talking about their favourite female artists and playing some of their songs. The show’s live from 9pm on 106.6fm and online at www.bcbradio.co.uk If you miss it then you can listen again by clicking on the pink highlights box on the BCB homepage. If there’s a particular female fronted band or artist you’d like to hear then get in touch: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk and we’ll put a quid in the BCB jukebox and see what happens.

Until Wed at 9,

Lx