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When Big Joan Sets Up 28th March -Tiddley iddley ighty

A mix from EQ Why‘s “ChiTokyo” mix tape this week along with a too long speech from me about why playing things on the radio that have a degree of artistic validity doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to support everything said within them.

You don’t get this problem with Florrie Ford.

When Big Joan Sets Up 28th March – EQ Why by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Perfect Pussy – “Bells (Live)” (LP – “Say Yes To Love – iTunes version”) (Captured Tracks)
Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs – “Don’t Shed Your Light” (LP – “All Her Fault”) (Damaged Goods)
Dub Spencer and Trance Hill – “The President (Western Lands)” (LP – “William S. Burroughs In Dub”) (Echo Beach)
Perc – “Dumpster” (LP – “The Power and The Glory”) (Perc Trax)

Records of The First World War – 1917
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band – “Tiger Rag”
Florrie Ford – “Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty”
Earl Fuller’s Famous Jazz Band – “Lil’ Liza Jane”

The Yolks – “Two Dollars Out The Door” (7″) (Randy’s)
EQ Why – “ChiTokyo Mixtape – Side B” (Orange Milk)
Subactive feat. Marina P – “They Can’t Catch We” (EP – “Pepper Dem”) (Scotch Bonnet)

When Big Joan Sets Up 21st March – Vivians’ Valedictory

On the day that people who tie their jumpers round their necks and have share portfolios rejoiced that indolent,caterwauling Radio 2 uber-bore Kate Bush has remembered what her job is, Big Joan wiped a tear from it’s metaphorical eye and bade farewell to the mighty Vivian Girls with highlights of their final live performance recorded at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, New York at the beginning of the month.

For those unaware the Vivs are (were) a three piece band who between 2008 and 2011 released three astonishing LP’s and seven equally astonishing 7″ singles that sounded like the Shangri La’s covering Nirvana’s “Bleach” whilst being force-fed Wonka Bars.

To leaven the emotional tension we also had a host of top tunes including three from that golden year 1916. Where were you?

NB: As nyctaper.com objected to the use of the Vivian Girls material I’ve taken it down. You can hear the full gig at their website.

When Big Joan Sets Up 21st March – The Vivian Girls’ Final Live Performance by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

DJ Rashad,Moondoctor,and Freshtildef – “Fresh On The Moon” (LP – “WTF”) (Freshmoon)
Righteous Foundation – “Back To Ethiopia” (V/A LP – “Island Records Presents: 37 Essential Roots Anthems 1974-1978) (Island)

The Vivian Girls – Recorded Live at Baby’s All Right – Williamsburg New York March 2,2014 (http://www.nyctaper.com)
“Walking Alone At Night”
“I Have No Fun”
“Wild Eyes”
“I Heard You Say”

Nochexxx – “Exholst” (LP – “Thrusters”) (Ramp)
Primitive Parts – “Signal” (7″) (Sex Beat)

Records of The First World War – 1916
George Formby Snr. – “My Grandfather’s Clock”
Murray Johnson – “Pack Up Your Troubles”
Vess L. Osman’s Banjo Orchestra – “Universal Foxtrot”

Little Feat – “Fat Man In The Bathtub” (Box Set – “Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Brothers Years 1971-1990”)

The Vivian Girls – Recorded Live at Baby’s All Right – Williamsburg New York March 2, 2014 (http://www.nyctaper.com)
“Out For The Sun”
“Tell The World”
“Telepathic Love”
“All The Time”
“No”

Liars – “Boyzone” (LP – “Mess”) (Mute)

When Big Joan Sets Up 7th March – Up and Under

What better way for disheartened Bulls fans to soothe their troubled souls immediately after BCB’s live coverage of their game against Hull FC than with this array of tuneage. Three tracks from the debut LP from Sydney-based drum and bass producer Royalston plus the start of a regular feature playing records from the first world war.

When Big Joan Sets Up 7th March – Royalston by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Cripple Bastards – “L’Apice Extremo” (LP – “Nero In Metastasi”) (Relapse)
Tides of Man – “Drift” (LP – “Young and Courageous”) (Self Released)
Pinchers – “Rude Boy Love” (V/A LP – “Rapid Burse Riddm”) (Mr G)
Royalston – “Stalking Stones” (LP – “OCD”) (Med School)

Records of The First World War – 1914
Arthur Collins and Byron G Harlan – “The Aba Daba Honeymoon”
The National Promenade Band – “Ballin’ The Jack”
John McCormack – “It’s A Long Way To Tipperary”

Damaged Bug – “Wasteland” (LP – “Hubba Bubba”) (Castleface)
Jeff Mills – “Transit Detections” (LP – “Chronicles Of Possible Worlds”) (Axis)
Royalston – “Modular Jam” (LP – “OCD”) (Med School)
Daggers – “Woolgatherer” (LP – “It’s Not Jazz,It’s Blues”) (Throatruiner)
Shirati Luo Voice Jazz – “Osewe Toyota” (Download) (51 Lex)
Eddie Noack – “Psycho” (LP – “The K-Art and All Star Recordings 1962-1969”) (Bear Family)
AxH – “I Feel Safe” (12″) (Tempa)
Real Estate – “Talking Backwards” (LP – “Atlas”) (Domino)
Royalston – “Arps Of Fury” (LP – “OCD”) (Med School)

They’re the Eagulls not the Eagles…

2014 is already shaping up to be a decent year for new bands.
We’re loving the likes of Eagulls and Beaty Heart here at Bradford Beat – they both featured on our latest show, as did a couple of blasts of nostalgia from the Cajun Aces and Terrorvision.
Here’s a full list of what we played:

Chvrches – Recover
Eagulls – Possessed
Junk Dealers – Bad Vibrations
Chris T-T and the Hoodrats – Bury Me With A Scarab
Superfood – TV
Sentimentalists – Apricots
Warpaint – Love Is to Die
Terrorvision – Perseverance
Cate Le Bon – I Can’t Help You
Embrace – Refugees
Franz Ferdinand – Bullet
Cajun Aces – Chere Joues Roses
Whiter Than – Trying Hard To Be Myself
Beaty Heart – Kanoute’s Coming Round

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When Big Joan Sets Up 28th February – Skank Williamz

Y’know like Hank Williams but he does reggae and he’s called Mr Williamz so, “skank” you know, like reggae …oh please yourselves.

When Big Joan Sets Up 28th February – Mr Williamz by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Burnside Eleven – “Obsession Song” (LP – “Cheap Diamonds”) (Retard)
Dowster and Vagabond – “Come On” (Download single) (Candy Crush)
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra – “Come On With The Come On” (LP – “The Hi-De-Ho Man”) (Revola)
Mr Williamz – “Babylon In Helicopter” (LP – “Set The Standard”) (Necessary Mayhem)
Ctrls – “Sweep” (EP – “Movements”) (Token)
Trick Mammoth – “Vesper II” (LP – “Floristry”) (Fishrider/Occultation)
Two Friends Crew – “Roughneck Dub” (V/A Box Set – “Evolution Of Dub Vol.8 -The Search For New Life”) (VP)
Myocardial Infarction – “Moldy Corrupt Genocider” (LP – “Revitalisation Of The Perniciousness”) (Bloodcurdling Enterprises)
Mr Williamz – “London” (LP – “Set The Standard”) (Necessary Mayhem)
Can Can Heads – “Breakdiscodance” (LP – “Butter Life”) (Karkia Mistika)
Sun Araw – “Solo Wallet Shuffle” (LP – “Belomancie”) (Drag City)
The Haden Triplets – “When I Stop Dreaming” (LP – “The Haden Triplets”) (Third Man)
Nasty Habits – “Shadow Boxing (Om Unit Remix)” (12″) (31 Recordings)
Mr Williamz – “Shout It Out” (LP – “Set The Standard”) (Necessary Mayhem)
Wayfarer – “Azuma” (EP – “Afterlight”) (Uprise Audio)

When Big Joan Sets Up 21st February – Bring Me Sunn0)))shine

A drone rock/black metal showdown tonight as we aired exactly one third of the superlative new collaboration between Sunn 0))) and Ulver “Terrestrials” and started the programme with a bunch of 11 year olds gleefully mauling the favourite song of call centre managers who wear rugby union tops on casual Friday and keep a spare squash racket in the boot.

That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away.

When Big Joan Sets Up 21st February – Sunn 0))) and Ulver by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

The Cuteyhearts – “We Will Rock You” (LP – “We Save The World”) (Bandcamp)
Nuerokontrol and Hielo – “Morning Wings” (V/A EP – “Graffiti Sonore Vol.6”) (AstroFonix)
Guided By Voices – “Difficult Outburst and Breakthrough” (LP – “Motivational Jumpsuit”) (Fire)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – “Take Away These Early Grave Blues” (LP – “Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything”) (Constellation)
Carlton and The Shoes – “Me and You” (V/A LP – “Studio One Rocksteady”) (Soul Jazz)
L-Vis 1990 feat Jammin’ Gerald – “Move It” (EP – “L-Vis 1990 presents Dance System”) (Jack For Daze)
Can Can Heads – “The Annoying and The Greedy” (LP – “Butter Life”) (Karkia Mistika)
Can Can Heads – “Spastomatiko” (LP – “Butter Life”) (Karkia Mistika)
Sunn 0))) and Ulver – “Eternal Return” (LP – “Terrestrials”) (Southern Lord)
Week of Wonders – “Piggybacks” (V/A LP – “Isaac Loves You,Especially You”) (BDLGs)
Cashmere Cat – “Wedding Bells” (EP – “Wedding Bells”) (LuckyMe)
Gene Vincent and The Bluecaps – “Wedding Bells” (LP -“Bluejean Bop!”) (Capitol)
Frank Fairfield – “Devil’s Dream Medley” (7″) (Third Man)
Sub Foundation – “Rational Anthem” (7″) (Eko Deck)

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Three this week from shouty Seattle supergroup Childbirth and their debut cassette “It’s A Girl” and we belatedly come to the unavoidable but disturbing conclusion that Chas and Dave have made a good record. “As for me, all that I know is that I know nothing” in the words of Mickey Mouse’s dog.

When Big Joan Sets Up 14th February – Childbirth by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Aldubb meets Uly E Neuens – “Ode An Die Freude” (V/A LP – “Audioart Presents Op’Ra Dub Style”) (One Drop)
Nausea – “Falsely Accused” – (LP – “Condemned To The System”) (Willowtip)
Duane Eddy and Dan Dugmore – “Mansion On The Hill” (V/A LP “The Big E – A Salute To Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons”) (Music Producers Inst.)
Mille and Andrea – “Stage 2″ (12”) (Daphne)
The Men – “Different Days” (Download Single) (Sacred Bones)
The Clique – “Superman” (7″) (White Whale)
Bonnie Prince Billy – “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” (Download Single) (Drag City)
Death Comet Crew – “Drag Racing” (LP – “Ghost Among The Crew”) (Diagonal)
Childbirth – “I Only Fucked You As A Joke” (LP – “It’s A Girl”) (Help Yourself)
Childbirth – “How Do Girls Even Do It?” (LP – “It’s A Girl”) (Help Yourself)
Childbirth – “Will You Be My Mom?” (LP – “It’s A Girl”) (Help Yourself)
Teksteppa – “China White” (12″) (Cymbalism)
Tinariwen – “Tamadrit In Sahara” (LP – “Emmaar”) (Wedge)
John Lee Hooker – “Union Station Blues” (LP – “House Of Blues”) (Pye International)
Chas and Dave – “San Fransisco Bay Blues” (LP – “That’s What Happens”) (Warners)
Asher Senator – “Mayhem” (V/A LP – “March of The Gremlins”) (Jahtari)
Can Can Heads – Alive With Fiery Breath (LP – “Butter Life”) (Karkia Mistika)
Bas Mooy – “Son Of Sins” (EP – “Rage,Remedy and The Lash”) (Mord)

More noise

There’s no live Bradford Beat next week (20 Feb) as BCB is covering the Bradford Bulls game.
But there will be a show available on our Listen Again service.
Meanwhile, last night was another chance to hear our special show dedicated to Bradford’s Noise of the Valleys volume 2 1988-1998.
Here was what we played:

Embrace – All You Good Good People
Old Joe Zydeco – Zydeco Gris Gris
Rootsman – Old Pan Killer
Hardware – What Race Are You?
Primate – Break My Fall
Summum Bonum – Exploding Raindrops
Psycho Surgeons – Panic On
Natural Rhythm – Bluebeat and Ska
The Headmen – Reach The Sky
Chest – Angels
Scarlet Heights – Scarcity Prayer
Sansaar – Bind Us Together

And you can listen again by clicking here.

When Big Joan Sets Up 7th Feb – A Pattern of Righteousness

Funny thing a guitar innit?.Basically, a lump of wood with a hole and six strings stretched across it and yet over the past 90 years or so it’s been the pivot around which popular music revolves. I could list a couple of thousand people here who have taken said lump of wood and it’s electrically enhanced cousin and harnessed it’s intricacies in a myriad of approaches ranging from scholarly application to blatant disregard into epiphanies of sound that have the power to thrill and horrify successive generations. And it continues to do so, indeed as you are reading this,somewhere across the face of the world, a spotty herbert is making a noise using one of these devices that will likely as not, make you bounce up and down with joy sometime in the future.

Anyway, all this rumination is here because this week’s When Big Joan Sets Up featured five live tracks recorded last December in New York by Daniel Bachman the latest in a line of unassuming six string sorcerers to pick up the same instrument as our fathers and our fathers’ fathers (and our fathers’ fathers’ fathers.Yes alright Reg, don’t labour the point) and wrestle joyful flurries of magic out of it. He spends fucking ages tuning it up though.

When Big Joan Sets Up 7th February – Daniel Bachman live by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

The Courtneys – “Lost Boys” (Download Single) (Burger)
Disrupt – “Break Out” (EP – “Dub Matrix With Stereo Sound”) (Jahtari)
Prurient – “Doors Closed In Secrecy” (7″) (Handmade Birds)
Muffler – “Start Line” (V/A LP – “We Are 18”) (Hospital)
Swan Arcade – “The Battle of Sowerby Bridge” (LP – “Swan Arcade”) (Trailer)
Daniel Bachman – “Intro/Little Lady Blues” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Daniel Bachman – “Orange County Serenade” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Daniel Bachman – “And Now I Was Born To Die” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Daniel Bachman – “Pig Iron” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Daniel Bachman – “Blenheim/We Would Be Building” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Strictly Sound Productions feat. Jah Screechy – “Think Me Did Gone” (7″) (Cubiculo)
Mark C – “Mindwarp” (Download single) (Kode 5)

Embrace are back

It’s been a long wait but the Embrace boys are finally back.
You might hear them called a Huddersfield band, a Brighouse band, even a (cough, splutter) Leeds band. But it was in Wyke where the band were first a twinkle in the McNamara brothers’ eyes. So we count them as a Bradford band!!

We played their new track Refugees on our latest show, along with a stack of other top new tunes. Here’s the full list:

Embrace – Refugees
Cate Le Bon – I Can’t Help You
Junk Dealers – Cruel
Maximo Park – Leave This Island
Kaiser Chiefs – Misery Company
Warpaint – Love Is To Die
Eagulls – Tough Luck
Samantha Crain – Somewhere All The Time
Egomania – Cool, Calm and Collected
Chris T-T and the Hoodrats – Bury Me With A Scarab
Franz Ferdinand – Bullet
Algiers – Mother
Vessels – Blue Clouds

You can listen again by clicking here