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The Mirrored Hammer Threadfest Preview Pt 1

Tonight at 9pm is part one of a special edition of The Mirrored Hammer previewing this year’s Bradford Threadfest; a free cross-city live music event 24 – 26th May. See www.bradfordthreadfest.com for details.

Deviating from the usual format of The Mirrored Hammer, this episode features studio tracks (not live bootlegs!) by some of the acts that will be performing including Hawk Eyes, Blacklisters, Ruby Tombs, Cam Deas, Rivals, Dean McPhee, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, The Family Elan, Koala and many more.

A mixture of rock, jazz, folk, experimental and Bollywood brass underground goodness.

Selection Box Show 253: Rodent Touch That Dial

Not only do rats spread disease, they also saved TVam, which was far worse.

Having avoided fully referring to BCB’s Studio 4 as a sea-faring vessel I now find that the metaphor would be rather useful not in only that, as a committed land-lubber (again in not in literal terms, though I can’t pretend I’m especially taken with sailing), I’m set to leg it from the aforementioned craft but also because a water rodent theme briefly developed on this week’s Selection Box. Whilst I am not a rat, and indeed Studio 4 is presumably built upon sound foundations and therefore I’m unlikely to disappear into a sink hole like that poor fellow in America, there does seem to be a varmint of a metaphor just sat there waiting to be smacked by my rolled-up newspaper.

 

Anyway, I appear to be drowning in metaphors. Metaphorically. As featured on this week’s programme, here’s some actual Rats, but not actual rats, courtesy of that there YouTube what all the kids are talking about now whilst they play with their yo-yos and trade Garbage Pail Kids cards.

 

Selection Box Show 253 (Listen again HERE)

Transmitted 27/02/2013

1. Gogol Bordello – Sally
from: Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike

2. The Glens – I Feel Great
from: Doo Wop From Rome Records 1960 – 61 (various artists)

3. Yumuri Y Sus Hermanos – Acaramelao
from: Tiene Bilongo

4. Balthazar – Sinking Ship
from: Rats

5. The Rats – Rats Revenge
from: Back From The Grave Volume 1 (various artists)

6. Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart – Road To Palios
from: Road To Palios

7. ME – Vampire!! Vampire!!
from: Even The Odd Ones Out

8. Gary Numan – M.E.
from: The Pleasure Principle

9. Maclaine Coulson & Saul Rose – The Lazy Farmer
from: Sand & Soil

10. Submotion Orchestra – Thinking
from: Fragments

11. Tindersticks – A Night So Still
from: The Something Rain

12. Debroy Somers & His Band – You And The Night And The Music
from: Great British Bands Volume 2: Debroy Somers & His Band

13. The Bush – To Die Alone
from: Impossible True – The Kim Fowley Story

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Selection Box Show 250: Tube Wave Harm Me

As many a dull, spawn-of-their-loins-obsessed parent will tell you, having a child can present a different perspective on the ways in which the World works from time to time. This has a peculiar way of manifesting itself now and again, such as, just for example, discovering that those irritating adverts on YouTube can serve a genuinely beneficial sociological function.

Of course it serves us ruddy well right for trying to watch something for nothing that we have to sit through up to a whole five seconds of an advertisement before we can view whatever 5-minute load of pelt we’re wanting to stream, but this does not stop us finding the 8%-of-a-minute commercial for arse hair removal something of an irritant. However, when your choice of viewing is an episode of Fireman Sam, selected by your 3 year old son, and the advert is for the new album by Villagers there is clearly something of a benefit to them. This is particularly true when 24 hours later said child expects to see the same advert again and asks for it, and then spends much of the week singing Villagers around the house.

Thus it was that we added Villagers to the list of Good Things that he has now shown a genuine postive interest in, which includes Talking Heads, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, Spirit of Eden period Talk Talk and Diana Rigg-era episodes of The Avengers. Parenting isn’t a competition, but I’ve definitely won.

Enough of this Look At Me I Procreated guff, here’s what I went and gone done played this week:

 

Selection Box Show 250 (listen again HERE)

Transmitted 6/2/2013

 

1. Villagers – The Waves
from: {Awayland}

2. The Lightcrust Doughboys – Pussy, Pussy, Pussy
from: Hillybilly Fever! Volume 1 Legends of Western Swing (various artists)

3. Submotion Orchestra – Thinking
from: Fragments

4. Max Roach – Motherless Child
from: Lift Every Voice & Sing

5. Carmen González & Koral Y Esmerelda – Andarele
from: Anderele

6. Ian Skelly – Nickel And A Dime
from: Cut From A Star

7. Wilko Johnson – Down By The Waterside
from: The Best of Wilko Johnson Volume 2

8. T. Power – Kool & Deadly
from: Y3K Deep Progressive Beats (various artists)

9. Izzi Dunn – Visions
from: Visions EP

10. Johnny Macrae – Betty Boop
from: It Came From The Suburbs: Rare Teen Rock From The Kennedy Era (various artists)

11. Liars – No. 1 Against The Rush
from: WIXIW

12. Naomi Adams – Woman of Samaria
from: Rough Guide to Ska (various artists)

13. Parquet Courts – Borrowed Time
from: Light Up Gold

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

A Going North fom Nashville pick n’ mix – the best of recently music – Monday 19th November – 10-11pm.

1.Lucinda Williams : Buttercup – Lucinda is currently touring her 2011 studio album, Blessed……….next, a of couple of singles from recently released albums…………..

2.The Wooden Sky: Take Me Out –  from Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun

3.The Late Call:Look at You Now – from Pale Morning Light

4.Benjamin Frances Leftwitch: Pictures – title track of his 2011 EP………..followed by two more artists with a Yorkshire connection………..

5.Fran Smith: We Will Have No More Marriages – from eponymous 2012 album

6.Mickie Lavender: Wild Flowers from When the Nightingale Calls (a shout to the Wednesday Open Mic at the Victoria Public House, Leeds!)

7. Bob Dylan:Long & Wasted Years – haunting track from new studio album, Tempest………. next, two more singles…………

8. Blue Flint: Take Your Shoes Off – from 2011’s Maudy Tree

9.Correatown: Shine Right Through – from Pleides……………….. now, the return of a GNfN favourite…………

10. Ryan Adams:Kindness – from 2011’s Ashes & Fire

11.Rachel Semanni:Waltz – from Under Mountains, released 2010

12.The Moulettes:Uca’s Dance – single from debut album The Bear’s Revenge……….followed by the welcome return of………….

113.Diana Derby: Buttercup  – from her new album – IV ………… neatly tying in with our first track!

The Return Of The King(s), Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Manchester Club Academy 29/10/12.

I bloody love these guys.  When I first heard their debut Horse Of The Dog on it’s release 10 years ago, *feels old*,  I could NOT stop listening to it.  Clocking in at just over 25 minutes it grabs you by the scruff of the neck, screams in your face and lacerates you with Cramps/Birthday Party-style guitars that momentarily made me think I should perhaps listen to a nice safe band like Travis……but that didn’t last.

Fast-forward 10 years, only two more albums, an almost Spinal Tap-esque rotation of guitarists and the re-release of their single ‘Chicken’ (which was used in a recent Nike advert) and suddenly all feels right in the world.  Re-forming after splitting up in March 2010 with ALMOST the original lineup, (no Tom on drums?) there’s a real sense of excitement in the academy tonight. Andy Huxley who left in 2005 due to that old chestnut ‘musical differences’ is back on lead guitar and they sound EXACTLY as brilliant as they did back in the day, (during Huxley’s feedback-drowned solo on ‘Pyschosis Safari’ it sounded like the Kraken had been released).

Opening with the creepy ‘Freud’s Black Muck’ from 2005’s ‘The Royal Society’, it’s just a non-stop assault on the ears (in a good way you understand).  They only play songs from their first two albums, (leaving out 2010’s ‘Blood and Fire’) and a couple of b-sides but to be honest the omission of their last long player was no big loss bar a couple of decent tunes.  The crowd sang/screamed along to most of the words and there seemed to be a genuine feeling of relief to have ’em back.

And then there’s Guy.  Mr. Guy McKnight Mr. Mental himself.  What a bloody frontman, he never disappoints.  Sounding like Elvis being molested by Kurt (enduring image) with his forays into the crowd to scream lyrics into their ecstatic  faces you just can’t take your eyes off him……he won’t let you.  You just feel this is a band that gives you their all and the appreciation from the crowd is more than obvious.

So what happens now?  They play Camden’s Electric Ballroom on Halloween and then………..who knows.  HOPEFULLY another album, (please x10) but if not………well at least I’ve seen ’em tear the academy a new one.  Oh and I got a couple of cool t-shirts from the merch stall.

Here’s the setlist if you care

  1. Freud’s Black Muck
  2. Celebrate Your Mother
  3. Alex
  4. Whack Of Shit
  5. Chicken
  6. Torrential Abuse
  7. I Rejection
  8. Puppy Dog Snails
  9. Giant Bones
  10. Charge The Guns
  11. Team Meat
  12. Temple Music
  13. Morning Has Broken
  14. Rise Of The Eagles
  15. Psychosis Safari
  16. Fishfingers
  17. Presidential Wave
  18. The Way Of The Men Of The Stuff


World Waves, 4th September 2012

PLAYLIST FOR 4/9/12

LISTEN AGAIN HERE

Various artists (including sheep) – “Sheep Bells and Kaval”
(from The Living Tradition: Music from Turkey, Argo)

Sister Nancy – “Bam Bam”
(from 300% Dynamite: Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk & Dub, Soul Jazz)

Messouad Bellemou – “Andi Probleme”
(from Bellemou Messaoud presents Cheb Ourrad Houarri, World Circuit)

The Who – “Out in the Street”
(from My Generation, Virgin)

Hassan Kassa’i – “Tshahamezrab – delkash et feili”
(from Le Ney, Playasound)

Captain Beefheart – “Tropical Hot Dog Night”
(from Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), Virgin)

Muhacir Ibrahim – “Gum Gum Teke”
(from the 45 rpm single b/w “Zilli Maridudu”, Seviler Plak)

Alam Lohar – “Saif ul Maluk”
(from YouTube)

Various artists – “Supurkesi Yoncadan”
(from The Living Tradition: Music from Turkey, Argo)

The Radiants – “Voice Your Choice”
(from Keepin’ the Faith, PRT Records)

Stella Haskil – “Bir Allah”
(from Bed of Pain, Mississippi/Canary)

Leib Glantz – “Sh’ma Visro’el”
(from Mysteries of the Sabbath, Secret Museum of Mankind/Yazoo)

Selda Bagcan – “Bulbul”
(from 45 rpm single b/w “Bolemedim terek ile kozumu”, Yavuz Plak)

Trio Odemira – “Jay Jay Jay”
(from Requests from Mexico, Request Records)

Getting into the Olympic spirit

It might have been held down in that there London but we still thought it worth nodding to the Olympics.

Our London 2012 themed show featured these tracks:

Super Furry Animals – Golden Retriever
Ooberman – Running Girl
Echo and the Bunnymen – Silver
Embrace – I’ve Been Running
Great Lake Swimmers – I Am Part Of A Large Family
Monty Casino – Put Me Back On My Bike
The Mixtures – Pushbike Song
The Jam – Eton Rifles
Rodina and the Wolf – All Because
Field ~Music – Who’ll pay the Bills?
Bill Nelson – Furniture Music
Mara Carlyle – The Devil and Me (Plaid remix)
Kaiser Chiefs – Listen To Your Head
The Chevin – Champion

Buffet #34 March 2012

Dear readers – if you tuned into Buffet you will have heard an interesting mix of sunshine and post-budget angst. We normally broadcast at tea time, but being moved to the breakfast slot (to make way for coverage of Bradford City Park) made Jenny come over all Wogan. She was even inclined to interpret the Fugazi song Target as an ode to chocolate, so I’ve posted the lyrics below to prove that it is not. Emma delighted us with her latest discovery – the fantastic Nadine Shah, and there is debate about the cowbell – is it the backbone of rock and roll?  (In my opinion, yes! – and I’ve highlighted tracks listed below that feature cowbell, only one of which was chosen deliberately for its presence).

Here’s what we played:

1. THE MIKE SAMMES SINGERS – another marvellous vintage advert
2. THE MONKEES – (Look Out) Here Comes Tomorrow
3. STEREOLAB – Cellulose Sunshine
4. NADINE SHAH – Aching Bones
5. THE EVENS – No Money
6. SHIRLEY BASSEY – Spinning Wheel*
7. MAGIK MARKERS – Body Rot
8. THE FATIMA MANSIONS – Look What I Stole For Us, Darling
9. HUGH MASEKELA – Grazing In The Grass*
10. AC/DC – Back In Black
11. GORILLAZ Ft. ANDRE 3000 & JAMES MURPHY – Do Ya Thing
12. THE VASELINES – Son Of A Gun
13. NEIL DIAMOND – America
14. FUGAZI – Target
15. METRONOMY – Everything Goes My Way*
16. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – God! Show Me Magic
17. THE BEATLES – Tax Man*

*Features cowbell, and is better for it

As per usual, you can listen again via this link: http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=5908

Laters!

x

Target by Fugazi

It’s cold outside and my hands are dry
Skin is cracked and I realize
That I hate the sound of guitars
A thousand grudging young millionaires
Forcing silence sucking sound
Forced into this conversation

So I say shine let their planets collide
This is the darkening down of my mind
We could be making it oiling like crime
We could be making it staking last dimes
If you want to seize the sound
You don’t need a reservation

The torch is passed it’s yours to return
Lay at their feet now use it to burn
For marketing the use of the word generation
A false alliance of money persuading
Forcing silence sound sucking
Forced into this conversation
Now if you want to seize the sound
You don’t need a reservation
So open so young so target
I can smell your heart you’re a target

 

Found at BCB – a fine collection of music on Going North from Nashville – Monday 12th March 10-11pm

This week we’d hoped to bring you a GNfN Leonard Cohen ‘ special’ – technical problems have delayed us so we’ve dipped back into our archive & found this fantastic collection of tunes, first broadcast in the autumn. Watch out for a focus on songs about songs! Leonard will be featured very soon!

1. Peter Lawrie : Fell into the River ( from album A Little Brighter)

2.Young Rebel Set : If I Was ( one of several tracks we could have chose from the excellent Curse Our Love)

3.Frank Turner : Trythis at Home

4.Ben Marwood : Singalong………..a bit of a theme with those last three, continued with…

5. Joni Mitchel : Chinese Cafe/ Unchained Melody

6. Levi Weaver : Iam Certain I am a Train ( from Levi’s 2nd album, The Letters of Kurt Godel) …Levi is a man not to miss……www.leviweaver.com

7. The Pheonix Foundation : Buffalo

8. King Creosote: Bats in the Attic

9. Hymn: Papertrail(from their gem of an album Inthe Depths)

10. Benjamin Francis Leftwich : Atlas Hands………beautiful, dreamy music, followed bt the equally beautiful & dreamy…..

11. Iain Morrison & Daibhidh Martin: The Sky Throws You

12. Kate Rusby: Greenfields ( John went all wobbly when we saw her at Greenbelt last year! )

14. Diagram 8 : Night all Night

Eclectic Mainline 22 February 2012 & 29 February 2012

 

Phil Cope has yet to follow the example of Richard Herring vis-a-vis facial hair.

When Albert Freeman proferred his chair to myself and Phil Cope (one sat on the other’s knee since you ask) he did so with the promise that we would ensure that his commitment to a weekly blog about his show would also follow.  What Albert foolishly failed to check was whether myself and The Mod Oliver Hardy were in fact hiding cross keys behind our backs, which as everyone knows is the legally-binding get-out clause for any promise made publically or privately and is sadly a manouevre often abused at weddings by men intent from the start on being serial adulterers.

 

So, I have welched on this agreement made betwixt Freeman, Hardy & wally and thus have to use one blog entry to catch up on two editions of Eclectic Mainline.  The first saw Cope & I playing catch with such political hot potatoes as Adele’s sac of living tissue in which she nurtures her young Brit Award eggs, the appropraicy of Paul Weller’s tie knot and the manner in which a radio wireless show can disobey the rules of the space/time continuum.  In summary: we titted about again.

Ding dong Dingle, where chair?

Sadly, such titting was reduced to a solo practice for last week’s show and Mod Laurel was forced to go it alone as, due to the constraints of that there time that they have these days, Phil was unable to join me.  You may think that recording an hour of radio together per week is not that restrictive in terms of the ticky tick tock of clocks, but if you are thinking this it just goes to show what a wretched and naive specimen you are.  You are clearly failing to take into account the work that goes into ensuring that our voices are being pushed out of radios, computer speakers, iPods, phones and various other devices accross the World simultaneously.  Everyone says that Father Christmas is amazing for managing to get around every household in the World in a single night once a year, and yet we manage to be inside thousands of radio machines all at the same time, wittering nonsense about hair dos and Cain Dingle off of out of Emmerdale Farm.  You don’t get that without at least half an hour’s preparation time, I’ll tell you now.

Anyway, here’s the track-listing, brought to you via the twin media of the written word and contemporary dance, although only one is visible here:

Jagwar Pirates' Full Total Complete Bronzage

 

Eclectic Mainline 22 February 2012 (listen again here)

1.  Adele / Prophet Arise Riddim – Dubbin In The Deep

from: unreleased

2.  Steinvord – Maelstrom

from: Steinvord

3.  Alex Chilton – Come On Honey

from: Free Again: The “1970” Sessions

4.  Field Music – A Prelude To Pilgrim Street

from: Plumb

5.  Paul Weller – That Dangerous Age

from: Sonic Kicks

6.  New Age Steppers – Conquer

from: Love Forever

7.  Liechtenstein – No Idealists Left

from: Fast Forward

8.  Jagwar Pirates – Rocket Surf

from: Full Total Complete Bronzage

9.  Chairlift – Sidewalk Safari

from: Something

10.  Soap&Skin – Wonder

from: Narrow

11. Twin Sister – Gene Ciampi

from: In Heaven

12.  Tesfay Taye – Selame

from: Ilita!: New Ethiopian Dance Music (various artists)

Those Darlins: what's not to like?

 

Eclectic Mainline 29 February 2012 (listen again here)

1.  Liz Green – Hey Joe

from: O, Devotion!

2.  Afro Beat Bariba – Abakpe

from: Le Super Borgou de Parakou (various artists)

3.  Tom Waits – Raised Right Men

from: Bad As Me

4.  Emporium – Mindbender

from: Another Planet: The Best of Emporium

5.  Crybaby – When The Lights Go Out

from: Crybaby

6.  Those Darlins – Your Bro

from: Screws Get Loose

7.  Dave Davies – Do You Wish To Be A Man

from: Hidden Treasures

8.  Amadou & Miriam featuring Santi Gold – Dougou Badia

from: Folia

9.  Leonard Cohen – Amen

from: Old Ideas

10.  Grinderman – Palaces of Montezuma (Barry Adamson Remix)

from: Grinderman 2 RMX

11. Bowerbirds – Death Wish

from: The Clearing

12.  Saint Etienne – Tonight

from: Words & Music

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight

Phil Cope presents When Big Joan Sets Up every Wednesday at Midnight