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When Big Joan Sets Up 9.12.10 – Lumley Clones Terrorise City

Who Will Save Us From This Menace?

Yes, having got stuck in the snow last week, your humble DJ faced a new challenge in trying to get across town while dodging massed battalions of upper middle class women in pashminas, who evidently have decided that instead of getting the presents delivered this year , it’d be be a wizzard wheeze to go out Christmas shopping with the proles and mill about in narrow streets like with a mixture of indignation and amusement saying things like “Margaret, Margaret, I simply must find a cashpoint!” at the pitch of their lungs.

There’s millions of ’em. Personally I blame Joanna Lumley.

DJ Marc Smith – “Pump Up The Noise” (12″) (Notorious Vinyl)
Mogwai – “Rano Pano” (download single) (Rock Action)
Terry Edwards – “Pickin The Blues” (LP – “Cliches”) (Sartorial)
Tommy McCook and the Aggrovators – “Duke Of Dubs” (LP – “Brass Rockers”) (Jamaican)
The Fall – “M5” (LP – “50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong”) (Sanctuary)
Untold – “Stereo Freeze” (12″) (R&S)
LA Vampires and Matrix Metals – “Berlin Baby” (LP – “So Unreal”) (Not Not Fun)
Phobia – “Total Kollapse” (EP – “Unrelenting”) (Relapse)
M1dlet – “Mundian To Bach Speedcore” (EP – “No Title”) (Headache Rekords)
Kate Rusby – “Not Me” (LP -“Make The Light”) (Pure)
The Good Ones – “Umanahano” (LP – “Kigali Y’Izahabu”) (Dead Oceans)
Deerhoof – “Super Duper Rescue Heads” (download single) (Polyvinyl)
Spragga Benz – “Real News” (LP – “Shotta Culture”) (Boomtunes)
Fist City – “Debbie Get Yr Boa” (LP – “Hunting You”) (Deadbeat)
Joy Orbison – “BB” (12″) (Doldrums)

When Big Joan Sets Up 25/11/10 – An Apology

NOT "an arse"

I am very sorry, I got carried away.

Having had time to reflect, I appreciate now that I shoudn’t have been so mean about the nation’s beloved Radio 1 DJ Zane “The Indie Tony Blackburn” Lowe.

It was entirely wrong of me to intimate on the programme that he was “an arse”. Thank you to the many listeners who have called and emailed to point out to me that he is, of course, a twat.

Apologies for any offense caused.

The Emporer and Chromatic – “Cracid” (EP -“Lost and Found”) (Hardplastic)
The Fall – “Copped It – Live at The Pandora Box Music Festival” (4CD Set “The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall”) (Beggars Banquet)
The Fall – “Lay Of The Land – Live at The Pandora Box Music Festival” (4CD Set “The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall”) (Beggars Banquet)
The Vaccines – “Blow It Up” (b-side of 7″ single “Wrecking Ball (Ra Ra Ra)”) (Marshall Teller)
oOOoO – “Burnout Eyes” (EP – “oOOoO”) (Tri- Angle)
Beenie Man and D’Angel – “Time of My Life” (download single) (Mainstreet)
DJ Rashad – “Feel Da Sound” (download EP -“Footwork Essentials) (Ghettophiles)
Allo Darlin – “My Heart Is As Strong As A Drummer” (7″) (Fortuna Pop)
Kasai All Stars and Deerhoof – “Travel Broadens The Mind” (v/a LP – “Tradi-Mods vs.Rockers”) (Crammed Discs)
Konono No.1 and Mark Ernestus – “Masikulu Dub” ( v/a LP – “Tradi-Mods vs.Rockers”) (Crammed Discs)
Konono No.1 and EYE – “Konono Wa Wa” ( v/a LP – “Tradi-Mods vs.Rockers”) (Crammed Discs)
Rum Shebeen – “I’m An Old Punk” (b-side of 7″ single “Tropical”) (Gutrot)
Conan O’Brien – “And They Call Me Mad?” (7″) (Third Man)
Bukkha and Dread Fox – “Jah Bless The Jobless” (download) (Airtight)

When Big Joan Sets Up – 18th and 11th November – Twos Up

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I could, of course claim that I have a rich and fulfilled life, which is so brimming with exciting invites to top soirees full of movers and shakers, wherein we drape ourselves langourously across luxuriosly appointed chaise longues while sharing unimaginably witty bon mots ( too much French?) about the affairs of the day while being fed grapes by impossbibly beautiful Bolivian supermodels that I simply couldn’t find the time to update this blog – but the truth is, I’m a bit lazy – so here are the last two weeks’ tracks

18th Nov:
Weekend – “All American” (10″) (Mexican Summer)
65 Days of Static – “Tiger Girl – The Wishful Thinking Edit” (EP – “Heavy Sky”) (Hassle)
Vybz Cartel – “Dancehall Hero” (Promo)
Mordant Music – “Inn Ohm The Lake” (7″ – “Study Series 003 – Welcome to Godalming”) (GhostBox)
Dads – “Sex Theft” (EP – “Hat Creek”) (Katorga Works)
Merchandise – “Loss” (LP – “Strange Songs In The Dark”) (Katorga Works)
Ray Keith – “Something Out There Blade Runner Dub Mix” (download EP “Digital Dread Volume 2”) (Dread)
Laura Marling – “Blues Run The Game” (7″) (Third Man )
Jackson C. Frank -“You Never Wanted Me” (LP – “Jackson C. Frank”) (Columbia)
Autopsy – “The Tomb Within” (EP – “The Tomb Within”) (Peaceville)
The Fall – “Latch Key Kid” (LP – “Imperial Wax Solvent”) (Sanctuary)
Mincemeat or Tenspeed – “Points and Lines” (LP – “Strange Gods”) (ZUM)
Milky Wimpshake – “Itchy Feet on a Tuesday Night” (LP – “My Funny Social Crime”) (Fortuna Pop)
Marika Papagka – “Galata Manes” (LP – “The Further The Flame The Worse It Burns Me”) (Mississippi)
Muddy Waters – “Trouble No More” (LP – “The Anthology 1947-1972”) (Chess)
Lake Radio – “Heaven’s Gate” (download EP – “Planet Earth About To Be Recycled” (Bandcamp)

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When Big Joan Sets Up 4/11/10 – A Huge Evergrowing Fat Bloke That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld

Hey popkids, tonight’s prgramme featured the whole second side of the Orb’s collaboration with Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour plus the requisite collections of howls, thumps, beats and twangs that have caused it to be ignored by the people of Bradford for four years now. Onward…

The Cut In The Hill Gang – “Let’s Get Funky/Black to Comm” (LP – “Mean Black Cat”) (Stag O Lee)
Aidan John Moffat -“Number On My Hand” (7″ EP – “Ten Short Songs For Modern Lovers”) (Chemikal Underground)
J Rocc – “Party (Boogie Man Remix) (12”) (Stones Throw)
Gregory Isaacs – “Stop Taking” (LP – “Gregory Isaacs Meets Roy Francis At The Mixing Lab”) (Mixing Lab Production)
Gunslingers – “Condor’s Radiant Spaw” (LP – “Manifesto Zero”) (Acquarius)
Bo Diddley – “Gunslinger” (LP – “Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger”) (Chess)
Helmet – “Miserable” (LP – “Seeing Eye Dog”) (Work Song)
The Fall – “Jawbone and The Air Rifle” (Box Set “Peel Sessions”) (Strange Fruit)
Capone – “Back To Detriot” (12″) (Test)
iShitRobots – “Black Transgender Cripple Midgets on Nazi Unicorns” (EP – “Doom”) (Independent)
The Orb feat. David Gilmour – “Spheres Side: Es Vedra / Hymns to the Sun (reprise) / Olympic / Chicago Dub / Bold Knife Trophy” (LP – “Metallic Spheres”) (Columbia)
Bunji Garlin – “Zoom Zoom (Promo)

Where the hell have you been? – When Big Joan Sets Up 20/10/10

Well, after a few weeks of enforced absence from Untitled Noise (you didin’t notice, did you?) here’s the tracklist for last Wednesday and what fun we had!

Al Holmes and the Hackney Empre – “Fraudian Slip” (download ) (Ghetto Bassquake)
Duane Eddy – “Three 30 Blues” (LP -“Twang Thang – The Duane Eddy Anthology”) (Rhino)
Four Eyes – “Anchor Home” (7″ EP) (Self Released)
Luigi Madonna – “Tropical Banana” (12″) (MKT)
Bad Banana – “Word Buzz” (LP – “Crushfield”) (Self Released)
Jah Mason – “Tuff Down A Yard” (LP – “Keep Yah Head Up”) (Rastar)
The London Snorkelling Team – “Norman Bates” (LP – “Audio Recording and Map”) (Brains and Hunch)
Solomon Burke – “Cry To Me” (LP – “The Very Best of Solomon Burke”) (Rhino Flashback)
The Shipping News – “Bad Eve” (LP – “One Less Heartless To Fear”) (Karate Body)
Alix Perez – “Behind Time” (12″ EP – “Dark Days”) (Shogun Audio)
Godstomper – “Frozen Kidney Harvest” (v/a LP – “17 Counts of Grevious Bodily Harm”) (Exilherate)
Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephens – “What A Wonderful World” (LP – “Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephens”) (Domino)
Zola Jesus – “Sea Talk” (EP – “Valusia”) (Sacred Bones)
DJ Rashad – “Teknitian” (EP -“Itz Not Rite”) (Planet Mu)
Flippa Maffia – “Road Again” (7″) (Young Vibez)
Black Time – “Mallory Park” (EP – “More Songs About Motorcycles and Death”) (Wrench)
Hype Williams – “Untitled” (7″ -“Do ‘Roids and Kill Ev’rything) (White label)

When Big Joan Sets Up 26/8/10 – Adventures in Lo Fi

Venetian Snares

On this week’s hour of self improvement, three tracks from Venetian Snares‘ headspinning new LP “My So Called Life” , three versions of Skip James, “I’m So Glad” and our A-Z of The Fall stumbles on towards the letter B. And they said it wouldn’t last..

DJ Clent – “My Feet” (download EP – “That Trunk”) (JukeOnline)
Lou Barlow and The Missingmen -“I’m So Glad” (LP – “Sentridoh III”) (Merge)
Cream – “I’m So Glad” (LP – “Fresh Cream”) (Reaction)
Skip James – “I’m So Glad” (LP – “Illinois Blues) (Universe)
Altered Natives – “Mother” (download LP – “Serial Vendetta”) (Eye4Eye)
Hurray for the Riff Raff – “Slow Walk” (LP – “Young Blood Blues”) (Self Released)
Grouper – “Hold” (7″) (Room 40)
Venetian Snares – “Aaron 2” (LP – “My So-Called Life”) (Timesig)
Venetian Snares – “Ultraviolent Junglist” (LP – “My So-Called Life”) (Timesig)
Venetian Snares – “Sound Burglar” (LP – “My So-Called Life”) (Timesig)

A-Z of The Fall – B
“Bingo Master’s Break Out” (LP – “Early Fall 1977-1979”) (Cog Sinister)

Citizens of The Empire – “Insurrection Is Our Only Weapon Against The Machine Of Alienation” (LP – “Citizens of The Empire”) (bandcamp.com)
Mikey Dread – “Dread At The Controls” (v/a LP – “Sipple Out Deh – The Black Ark Years”) (Trojan)
Lee Scratch Perry – “Let There Be Light” (LP – “Revalation”) (Megawave”)

When Big Joan Sets Up 19/8/10 – Now Reduced to Stealing Ideas From Radio 2

We’re not above the petty theft of intellectual property on When Big Joan Sets Up and so we’ve nicked an idea from Brian Matthew’s Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2. A fine programme, if only for the fact that for every cracking Small Faces album track and Northern Soul stomper that he plays,there’s a shit Petula Clark b-side which provides excellent ammunition against the “they don’t write them like they used to” brigade. (The answer to this question, by the way is “Yes they do, you just stopped listening and started buying fucking Jamie Cullum CD’s from Asda”)

Anyway, Bri does an unending A-Z of The Beatles, so I thought we’d do an A-Z of The Fall which started this week with the fine “Australians In Europe”.

Next week, snooker on the radio. Quack quack oops.

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When Big Joan Sets Up – 12/8/10 – Doris Day on the Kop

Epic tunes passing the 8 minute mark from Endless Boogie and Un, new stuff from Peverelist and Marnie Stern , the chillwave revolution continues with Teen Daze and yet another new Lee Perry LP – All this and Doris Day’s tribute to Liverpool F.C. – You missed it again, didn’t you?

Mr Oizo and Garpard Auge – “Rubber” (12″) (Ed Banger)
Endless Boogie – “Top Dollar Speaks His Mind” (LP- “Full House Head”) (No Quarter)
Dave Bartholomew – “The Monkey Speaks His Mind” (LP – “The Big Beat of Dave Bartholomew”) (Crescent City Soul)
X- Tension – “Dynamite Sounds” (EP – “Dynamite Sounds”) (Destruction)
Marnie Stern – “For Ash” (download)
Teen Daze – “Neon ” (EP – “Four More Years”) (Arcade Sound)
Lee Perry – “Used To Drive A Tractor in Negrile” (LP – “Revelation”) (Megawave)
The Muleskinners – “Backdoor Man ” (EP- “Knockout R&B”) (Acid Jazz)
Knife Fight – “Mass Hysteria” (EP – “Isolated”) (Painkiller)
Astral Planes – “Doris Day” (EP- “Sit Still Child”) (Lucky Number Nine)
Doris Day – “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (LP – “You’ll Never Walk Alone”) (Columbia)
DJ Nate – “We Can Work This Out” (EP – “Hatas Our Motivation”) (Planet Mu)
Un – “Can of Beans” (Download LP – “Honest Strings – A Tribute to The Life and Work of Jack Rose”) (Jack Rose LLC)
Peverelist – “Better Ways of Living” (12″) (Punch Drunk)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lonnie Donegan

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I have a theory which, like most of my theories, probably doesn’t stand up to close inspection, that those of us born in the early seventies were the first generation whose parents had cool record collections. My early years, like many of my contemporaries, were soundtracked by Elvis, Jerry Lee, Eddie, Gene, Fats, Chuck and countless twangy guitar expositions from the likes of Link Wray and Duane Eddy.

Because of this, I retain a dedicated affection for the music of the late fifties to this day, but there was always one name that baffled me.

My dad and his mates would speak in hushed and reverent tones about the first time they heard Lonnie Donegan. Added to this, when I later began to nurture a youthful obsession with the music of the 1960’s, I read that my fave raves (Beatles, Stones, Animals and so on) were all inspired to take their first tentative steps into the world of music by this diminutive Glasgow Irish Cockney with the curiously whiny voice.

I mean, I liked “Rock Island Line” but what kind of hunched,self loathing carapace of humanity doesn’t like that? Continue reading →

When Big Joan Sets Up 5.8.10 – Somebody Skream!

This week’s programme featued the world’s most criminally underated band, Cleethorpes’ Orphan Boy, new stuff from Skream, Autechre, Laura Cantrell and Luciano, TWO (count ’em) Bo Diddley cover versions, the latest solid sender from Canada’s Telephone Explosion records and the sweariest record in all the kingdom from Liverpool’s potty mouthed popstrels Town Bike. All this and an exclusive poem from Bradford’s own Little Brother That, my friends, is entertainment.

Orphan Boy – “The Promise” (LP – “Passion, Pain and Loyalty”) (Concrete)
RDX – “Movement” (download single) (No Label)
Filtheater – “Ceremonial Desecration” (EP – “Calignosity”) (Self Released)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – “Diddy Wah Diddy” (v/a LP – “Bo Diddley is a Songwriter”) (Ace)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “Who Do You Love?” (LP – “Barbed Wire Kisses”)
Norvagr – “Leedskalnin” (LP – “Resignation 2”) (205 Recordings)
Town Bike – “Bastard Heart” (7″) (Where It’s At Is Where You Are)
Autechre – “y7” (LP – “Move Of Ten”) (Warp)
Little Brother – “Excrement, Excrement, Read All About It” (BCB recording)
Luciano – “A No We No Like Them” (LP – “United States of Africa”) (VP)
Holy Cobras – “Feed Yr Head” (7″) (Telephone Explosion)
Skream feat. Freckles – “How Real” (LP – “Outside The Box”) (Tempa)
Skream – “Wibbler” (LP – “Outside The Box”)(Tempa)
Skream feat La Roux – “Finally” (LP – “Outside The Box”)(Tempa)
Laura Cantrell – “Kitty Wells’Dresses” (from radiofreesongclub.com)
Kitty Wells – “Paying For That Back Street Affair” (v/a LP – “Back Street Affair – Country Cheatin’ Songs) (Castle)