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It’s that time of year again

The Christmas Countdown is almost upon us!

Starting this week (Thurs 1 Dec) we’ll be running down our festive chart of the top 20 tracks of the year.

In the meantime here’s what we played last week:

Western Dance – Baby Boomers
Spring King – City
Glass Mountain – Over Thinking
Dan Le Sac v Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always kill
Primal Scream – Feeling Like A Demon
Mystery Jets – The World is Overtaking Me
Fabric of Fear – Blame
Her Name Is Calla – Kaleidoscoping
Primate – Liquid
Warpaint – New Song (Jono Jagwar Ma remix)
Daughter – The End

You can listen again here >

Busy Buffet

We have lots to tell you!

First of all, there’s the latest radio show, which inevitably contains a bit of Prince, but TBH there’s something in there for everyone as we veer from rock to electronica to grime to disco Beatles. Described as “Top quality light entertainment” by Phil Cope, which puts us up there with Eurovision, right?

Then there’s Front Room Disco at Kirkgate Centre on Saturday 21st May, hosted by us! Yes, Wil Oddsox has entrusted us with his baby, the daft bugger. Expect disco chaos. We haven’t had a good dance in ages, we’ll be like crazy monkeys let out of the cage.

Finally, we’re also hosting Record Club on Saturday 28th May, also at Kirkgate Centre. The event is 33 1/3 Revolutions, so rock up with your political music and social commentary on vinyl. Wonder how many versions of Two Tribes you all have?

Hope to see you at one or all of the above!

Team Buffet xxx

Wilful Missing are back

The latest edition of Bradford Beat looked ahead to the new Wilful Missing album.

We’ll be playing tracks from Unsinkable Sailor on Thursday 7 April from 9pm to 9pm.

Mystery Jets – Bubblegum
Wilful missing – I Am Clay
Iggy Pop – Break Into Your Heart
Too Many Chiefs – Road Trip
Lush – Out of Control
Uncle Wally and Uncle Steve – Doing Nothing
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop – Every Songbird Says
Animal Collective – Floridada
Spring King – Rectifier
Forever Cult – Graves
Steve Mason – Planet Sizes
The Delvaux – Strange Anatomies
Officers – Attack

You can listen again here

New Year, New Records

Did you get records for Christmas? We did! They are our very favourite kind of present. So this month on Buffet we play a mix of new releases and stuff we got so – as usual – it’s a spread. You can listen to the show here and here’s the track list:

M.I.A. – Warriors
The Twilight Singers – Teenage Wristband
Sauna Youth – The Bridge
Hinds – Bamboo
Ty Segall – Candy Sam
Tom Waits – Dog Treat
Erykah Badu – The Cell
Ben Folds Five – Sky High
Savages – Waiting For A Sign
Ulrika Spacek – Beta Male
The Drones – Cold and Sober
Yann Tiersen – Porz Goret
Archers of Loaf – White Trash Heroes

And if you fancy a quick flashback to 2015 our end of year review is also up on Mixcloud. We got to see some great bands and play brilliant music last year, how very lucky we are:

Monotony – Luxury Flats
Yo La Tengo – Friday I’m in Love
Julia Holter – Feel You
Young Fathers – Rain or Shine
Neko Case – Somebody Led Me Away
Gruff Rhys – All Weddellau All Weddol
Janelle Monae & Wondaland Records – Hell You Talmbout
The Drones – Taman Shud
Patti Smith – Frederick
Sleaford Mods – Bronx In A Six
John Grant – Down Here
Sufjan Stevens – Death With Dignity
Nina Simone – Lilac Wine
Algiers – Black Eunuch

Finally, our chums from The Record Club have just started broadcasting a monthly show which is worth a listen.

We’re back on Sunday 21st February – see you then!

Team Buffet
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Soak Eggs with Tequila and Beat. Lovely

Here’s the full list of what we played on our latest show:

Ghostpoet – Sorry Love It’s You Not Me
The Delvaux – Trouble Buried Deep
The Lovely Eggs – Don’t Look At Me (I Don’t Like It)
Frank Turner – The Next Storm
Terrorvision – Tequila
The Libertines – Gunga Din
The Beat – Can’t Get Used To Losing You
Stand Alone – Save You (live session)
Soak – Be A Nobody
Eaves – Pylons
Blur – I Broadcast
The Spills – A Film And a Frame
The Prettiots – Boys ( I Dated In High School)
Vessels – Vertical

You can listen again here

The one where we brag about going to Primavera Sound Festival (Buffet #80 14th June 2015)

If you tuned into Buffet on Sunday – thanks! Or if you want to hear the show, we’re over on MixCloud. Here’s the full track list followed by a few holiday snaps!

1. Death From Above 1979 – Going Steady
2. Tune-Yards – Killa
3. Thee Oh Sees – Withered Hand
4. Viet Cong – Continental Shelf
5. Patti Smith – Gloria
6. Sleaford Mods – No One’s Bothered
7. Shellac – Shoe Song
8. Perfume Genius – Dark Parts
9. Health – Before Tigers
10. Les Ambassadeurs – Kandja
11. Sleater-Kinney – No Anthems
12. The Julie Ruin – Oh Come On
13. Jambinai – Connection

Buffet #78

It’s a nice spread! And this month Jimmy May joins Maria to spin some of his current faves (and inject some much needed youthfulness). The podcast is available over on Mixcloud. This is what we played!

1. Monotony – Luxury Flats
2. SLUG – Running to Get Past Your Heart
3. US Girls – Damn That Valley
4. Sufjan Stevens – Drawn to the Blood
5. Drenge – We Can Do What We Want
6. FFS – Piss Off
7. Peace – I’m a Girl
8. Tanya Tagaq – Caribou
9. Handbook – Would I Lie to You
10. FKA Twigs – Glass & Patron
11. Fono – Real Joy
12. Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni
13. Rat Boy – Sportswear
14. Monotony – Human Troll
15. Big Hard Excellent Fish – And The Question Remains

The last track is in dedication to the late Josie Jones. The video is worth 8 minutes of your time.

We’re back on May 17th – laters!

Team Buffet
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Buffet #77 We let SXSW do all the work for us…

Obviously I’ve never been to South by South West (I live in hope) but each year I listen to the Austin 100, as compiled by Stephen Thompson, and pick a few tracks for our radio show. If you want to take advantage of the free downloads you have until April 2nd, so pull your finger out. It’s worth noting that SXSW has no problem booking female artists – Reading/Leeds really could learn a thing or two…

Here’s what we played on Buffet:

1. Summer Cannibals – Something New
2. Doomtree – Gray Duck
3. La Luz – Pink Slime
4. GABI – Fleece
5. Metz – Acetate
6. Terakaft – Tafouk Tele (The Sun is There)
7. Xetas – The Point
8. Tingle in the Netherlands – Housewife’s Lament
9. Mantar – Spit
10. Mama Cass and The Big Three – Young Girl’s Lament
11. Hinds – Bamboo
12. Aerial Pink – Dayzed Inn Daydreams
13. Swans – Screen Shot

We’re back on 19th April – hope you can join us!

Buffet #75 – The one where we missed six f-bombs

Funny story. Because we broadcast between 7-8pm we have to watch our language. The occasional small swear (a ‘shit’, for example) is acceptable , but ‘f***s’ and other swears are not, so we always fuzzy them up when there’s a record we really want to play. This means you know they’re there, but the sensibilities of the young and easily offended are somewhat protected.

However, for this week’s show, having already bleeped a track by Afghan Whigs and another by Sufjan Stevens (who hardly ever bloody swears) we somehow let six f-bombs through. SIX! And when I say somehow, what I actually mean is Boris didn’t notice them despite previewing the track several times. When I listened back later and heard the sweet soprano of FKA Twigs unleash a string of dirty f-bombs and, what’s more, in the context of singing about very graphic sex, I had no choice but to alert BCB and ask for guidance. Thank you to lovely Mary Dowson, Head Honcho and Goddess of Wonderfulness for stepping in. She took a decision to cut the track and stuck a lovely bit of Stevie Wonder on at the end (thankfully not Ebony and Ivory).

So, if you’re here to listen back to Buffet and want the sanitised version, you can listen here

But if you want to hear FKA Twigs mimicking early Prince, but without the humour (ie. singing about sex in a high-pitched voice and saying ‘Motherf***er’ a few times) you can listen to the show here

And here’s our full track list:

1. Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian at Best
2. Viet Cong – Bunker Buster
3. Bjork – Stonemilker
4. Novelist x Mumdance – 1 Sec
5. Afghan Whigs – Be Sweet
6. Ibeyi – Ghosts
7. Gruff Rhys – Liberty (Is Where We’ll Be)
8. FKA Twigs – Two Weeks (only on Mixcloud)
9. Tanya Tagaq – Uja
10. Thee Oh Sees – The Dream
11. Sufjan Stevens – No Shade In the Shadow of the Cross
12. Nadine Shah – Fool
13. Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba – Siran Fen
14. Stevie Wonder – Superstition (only on BCB listen again link)

Please join us for more japes on 22nd March! Or in the meantime follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Cheers! x

When Big Joan Sets Up 30th January – Pissing Trigger

On 13th January the great Ronnie Ronalde died aged 91. The man that John Peel described as “one of the great British entertainers” made his name through his uncanny ability to whistle like a bird – a somewhat archaic talent these days but still more impressive than anything Ed Sheeran has ever done. Roy Rogers once complained to him that his whistling made his horse,Trigger urinate involuntarily. The three tracks from his 2002 John Peel session included in this week’s When Big Joan Sets Up may well have the same effect on you.

When Big Joan Sets Up 30th January – J Rocc by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Napalm Death – “Metaphorically,Screw You” (LP – “Apex Predator: Easy Meat”) (Century Media)
Plastikman – “EXplore (Recondite Remix)” (EP – “EX Club Mixes”) (Mute)
The Twerps – “Stranger” (LP – “Range Anxiety”) (Merge)
Ronnie Ronalde – “Greensleeves” (John Peel Session 2002) (Download from http://lifehassurfacenoise.blogspot.co.uk)
Sorrow – “Munscroft” (EP – “Search of the Miraculous”) (Inspected)
The Merseys – “Sorrow” (7″) (Fontana)
J-Rocc -“The Rhythm or The Beat” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
J-Rocc -“Strings Turnt Up” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
J-Rocc -“You’ll Never” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
J-Rocc -“Fire Dancer” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
J-Rocc -“A High Sunrise” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
J-Rocc -“I Wonder” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
J-Rocc -“Jetsetting” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
J-Rocc -“Ya Whole Block” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
J-Rocc -“Dark Streets” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
J-Rocc -“In Converstions With Parts I & II” (LP – “Beats on Tap(e)”) (Stones Throw)
Ronnie Ronalde – “O Sole Mio” (John Peel Session 2002) (Download from http://lifehassurfacenoise.blogspot.co.uk)
Luciano – “Sounds of The Ghetto” (LP – “Dub Showcase Luciano at Ariwa Sounds”) (Ariwa)
Love Cuts – “Window of Opportunity” (Split Cassette s/w Burnt Palms) (Lost Sound Tapes)
Aphex Twin – “diskhat 1” (EP – “Computer Controlled Acoustic Sounds Pt 2”) (Warp)
Ronnie Ronalde – “Mockingbird Hill” (John Peel Session 2002) (Download from http://lifehassurfacenoise.blogspot.co.uk)
Skeptikal – “Playground Chat Back” (EP – “Imperial”) (Exit)