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When Big Joan Sets Up 31st January – Four Dollars For A Glass Of Water

This week, in John Peel 1972 style, just over a third of the programme was given over to one side of Madlib’s new cut and scratch masterpiece “Rock Konducta Vol 1” plus returning hero Lydia Loveless has a new LP.

When Big Joan Sets Up 31st January – Madlib by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Paul Cronin – “Start The Rave” (EP – “We Are Visionaries From The Moon”) (San Fransisco Nights)
Girl Band – “Lawman” (7″) (Any Other City)
Little Anthony and The Imperials – “Two People In The World” (V/A LP “Starry Eyed Serenaders”) (Fantastic Voyage)
Simon Scott – “Für Betty” (V/A LP – “Ambient 2014”) (Kompakt)
Lydia Loveless – “Everything’s Gone” (LP – “Somewhere Else”) (Bloodshot)
Happy Diving – “Complacent” (EP – “Happy Diving”) (Father/Daughter)
Headland – “Halftide” (LP – “Sound/Track”) (Headland)
Ward 21 feat. Marcy Chinn and Deewun – “Mic Magician” (LP – “Still Disturbed”) (Germanica)
Madlib – “Rock Konducta Vol.1 LP – Side A” (Madlib Invazion)
London Electricity – “Snow Angels” (V/A LP – “We Are 18”) (Hospital)

A trip down memory lane

It’s been full-on nostalgia on Bradford Beat as we highlight tracks from the CD set accompanying the book Bradford’s Noise of the Valleys volume 2 1988-1998:

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

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When Big Joan Sets Up 17th January- Best Actress in a Leading Role

Our third week in our shiny new Friday night home and all pretences of good behaviour have been abandoned and Big Joan is using all the milk and putting it’s fags out in the bog. Three from the complex but rewarding new LP from Actress this week, but we start with a bit of banjo action..

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Lee Sexton – “Fox Chase” (V/A LP – “Classic Banjo From Smithsonian Folkways”) (Smithsonian Folkways)
WSicko – “Unknown Destiny” (V/A LP “Themeless 6”) (breakcore.nl)
September Girls – “Another Love Song” (LP – “Cursing The Sea”) (Fortuna Pop)
Actress – “Street Corps.” (LP – “Ghettoville”) (Werk Discs/Ninja Tune)
Alpha Steppa feat Lee Perry – “Open The Door” (EP – “Alpha Steppa Meets Joe Ariwa feat Lee “Scratch” Perry”) (Steppas)
Doom – “Prey For Our Souls” (LP – “Corrupt Fucking System”) (Black Cloud)
Blank Banshee – “Anxiety Online!” (Download LP – “Blank Banshee 1”) (Bandcamp)
Siouxie and The Banshees – “Placebo Effect” (LP – “Join Hands”) (Polydor)
Actress – “Corner” (LP – “Ghettoville”) (Werk Discs/Ninja Tune)
Graz – “Jungle Mastiff” (Selecta Fuzz Mix) (Download LP – “Reformat”) (Bandcamp)
Kevin Morby – “Miles,Miles,Miles” (LP -“Harlem River”) (Woodsist)
Miles Davis – “Move” (LP – “Birth Of The Cool”) (Capitol)
Will Miles – “Target Practice” (V/A EP – “Savage”) (Machinist)
Leo Welch – “Somebody Touched Me” (LP – “Sabougla Voices”) (Fat Possum)
Actress – “Gaze” (LP – “Ghettoville”) (Werk Discs/Ninja Tune)
Supa John – “Love Dem Bad” (Download single) (Dirty Dubster Digital)

Buffet’s Cliff-Free Post Christmas Show (#56)

Ho ho ho!

If you tuned in – big thanks! If not, and you feel you can endure yet more Christmas music (but not the supermarket variety) you can listen here. It was rather like a real Christmas family gathering, as my sister, Emma from The Bet Lynch Mob,  joined me in the studio and I told her off a lot. And where else would you hear Wonder Women save Santa with a Tiara? Who needs TV soaps!

This here is what we played!

1. Geoff Love & His Orchestra – Sleigh Ride
2. Shonen Knife – Space Christmas
3. Gruff Rhys – Post Apocalypse Christmas
4. Yo La Tengo – It’s Christmas Time
5. Future of the Left – The Real Meaning of Christmas
6. Spinal Tap – Christmas With the Devil (scratch mix)
7. Wonder Woman in the Prisoner of Christmas Island (part 1)
8. 50 Sniffs – Credit Card Christmas
9. The Knife – Christmas Reindeer
10. Bert Kaempfert – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
11. Wonder Woman in The Prisoner of Christmas Island (part 2)
12. Sufjan Stevens – Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time!
13. The Kinks – Father Christmas

If you have nothing better to do on New Year’s Eve we’ve been handed the reigns by BCB to see in 2014 – a frightening prospect! Join us for chaos, f-bombs and lots of good music! 11pm-1am 31st December. We’ll be Tweeting as we go from @buffetdisco

Have a good one!

Team Buffet x

 

 

When Big Joan Sets Up – Top 10 LP’s and tracks of 2013

Well, everyone else is doing it..

To the casual observer, 2013 gave us much to be pessimistic about musically. Excitement was predictably hard to find amid the drab conservatism of the Later Live/6 Music/Uncut magazine pseudo alternative media. Adding to this the Barlowisation (noun:1.The arrangement of established musical forms in such a way as to suck every last drop of joy out of them leaving them all sounding like a house band at a Young Conservatives ball. 2.The description of the previous as “real talent”) of pop music and the efforts of the form over content worshipping vinyl revivalists (NB. You are not music fans. You are those kids from “Swap Shop” with the tank tops and nascent personality disorders who had 160 Smurfs and you can so fuck right off) to reduce music to the level of owning artefacts and it could be argued that this year was as dull as a Saturday afternoon in Homebase.

But digging a little deeper, there were cheap and dirty thrills to be had. Below is a list of things that came out in 2013 (and one that came out in late 2012 – bite me, pedants!) that made the soul soar with the righteous fever that comes from exposure to creativity,transgression and sheer don’tgiveashittedness.

Everyone on this list from 17-54 is a hero and I herby award you all imaginary medals in the war against mediocrity.

Special mentions go to LP list toppers Tingle In The Netherlands whose gleeful rudery and spot on electropop sounded like a neon -lit “Confessions” film directed by Luis Buñuel with Gary Numan in the Robin Asquith role and made me go all funny when I listened to it – and along the way raised the phrase “Shagging The Milkman” to the level of high art, and to the two tunes which crown the tracks list (try as I might I couldn’t pick a favourite) from the joyful to listen to but tedious to type Girl One and The Greaseguns whose “(Here Come The) Catastrophe Machines” is a life affirming fuzz dusted arseshaking romp of a tune that were it to take corporeal form would be out looking for Robbie Williams with a bag of stink bombs and an evil grin. In any other year it would have been number one hands down if it wasn’t for the fact that Footwork produced the all time classic that it’s threatened to for the past 4 years in DJ Rashad’s “Rollin” – which takes lines from Jagged Edge’s fairly unremarkable R&B (the modern rubbish kind not the old good kind) slopfest “Walked Outta Heaven” and twists them into a roiling stew of regret,self doubt and doomed optimism that summed up the feeling of a one in a lifetime love sundered by base desire and betrayal – and then it asks you if you’ve got any E’s – really.

You can find all these tunes on Youtube and you can,should you desire,hear me playing some (most) of them on BCB this Friday 20th December at 10pm and Wednesday 25th December at midnight.Happy Christmas and don’t let the Smurf collectors grind you down.

LP’s of the year

1.Tingle In The Netherlands – “Why Can’t You Write Something Nice For A Change?” (Nerve Echo)
2. The Fall – “Re-Mit” (Cherry Red)
3. Young Echo – “Nexus” (RAMP Recordings)
4. Dean Blunt – “The Redeemer” (Hippos In Tanks)
5. Luciano – “The Qabala Man” (AL.TA.FA.AN)
6. Melt Banana – “Fetch” (A-Zap)
7. Grandmaster Gareth – “Magical Sound Shower” (GM Sounds)
8. Body/Head – “Coming Apart” (Matador)
9. Neko Case – “The Worse Things Get,The Harder I Fight,The Harder I Fight,The More I Love You” (Anti)
10. Denis Callaci and Simon Joyner – “New Secrets” (Shrimper)

Tracks of the year

1= Girl One and the Greaseguns – “(Here Come The) Catastrophe Machines” (7″) (Squirrel)
1= DJ Rashad – “Rollin'” (EP – “Rollin’) (Hyperdub)
3 The Fall – “Sir William Wray” (7″) (Cherry Red)
3. Royal Headache – “Stand and Stare” (7″) (Matador)
4. Walls – “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” (12″) (Ecstatic)
5. Wolf Alice – “Fluffy” (7″) (Chess Club)
6. Good Throb – “Bag” (S/T EP) (SuperFi)
7. Kabaka Pyramid – “Liberal Opposer” (download EP “Rough Road – Green Lion Crew”) (Soul of the Lion)
8. Jackal – “Power Move” (no label – soundcloud)
9. Vampire Weekend – “Diane Young” (download) (XL)
10.Macka B – “Black Security” (7″) (Ariwa Japan)

RIP ATP (Buffet #55)

This month on Radio Buffet Jenny Jet says RIP ATP and Maria plays some shockingly bad bed music by Apple Jam. You can listen to the show here and this is what we played:

1. ESG – UFO
2. Quasi – The Poisoned Well
3. Angel Olsen – Forgiven/Forgotten
4. Slint – Breadcrumb Trail
5. Luscious Jackson – So Rock On
6. Julia Holter – Horns Surrounding Me
7. Ty Segall – Crazy
8. Shellac – Billiard Player Song
9. New Sound of Numbers – Invisible
10. Mariam the Believer – Invisible Giving
11. Sky Larkin – Motto
12. Oliver Coates – Another Day
13. Sufjan Stevens – Barcarola (You Must Be a Christmas Tree)

We’ll be back on Christmas Day (TBC) with a Twisted Christmas special, and a round up of the year on 29th December.

Laters!

Team Buffet

 

 

 

When Big Joan Sets Up 21st November – Ted Who?

A double header of featured LP’s on this week’s programme. Three from Luciano‘s new one and just over a third of our running time gratefully given up for a 23 and a half minute cascade of six stringed aceness from Cian Nugent and the Cosmos. But starting us off this week the undoubted single of this (or any other) year…

Girl One and The Grease Guns – “(Here Come The) Catastrophe Machines” (7″) (Squirrel)
The Reveliers – “Patch” (V/A LP – “Long Lost Honkers and Twangers”) (Ace)
Laurel Halo – “Thrax” (LP – “Chance of Rain”) (Hyperdub)
Mary Schneider – “Yodelling Overtures” (LP – “Yodelling The Classics”) (Koch)
Luciano – “Don’t Sell Out” (LP – “The Qabalah Man”) (AL.TA.FA.AN)
Luciano – “Weapons Of War” (LP – “The Qabalah Man”) (AL.TA.FA.AN)
Luciano feat U-Roy and Ziggi Ricardo – “Organize” (LP – “The Qabalah Man”) (AL.TA.FA.AN)
Cian Nugent and The Cosmos – “Houses of Parliament” (LP “Born with the Caul”) (No Quarter)
Ital Tek – “Jupiter Ascent” (EP – “Control”) (Planet Mu)

When Big Joan Sets Up 14th Nov. – Have You Met Lydia?

This week’s selection of boss tunage featured the new EP from the majestic Lydia Loveless.

Gunslingers – “Massacre Rock Deviant Inquisitors Part II” (12″) (Riot Season)
Lydia Loveless – “Boy Crazy” (EP – “Boy Crazy”) (Bloodshot)
Arovane – “Gaed Ventr” (LP – “Ve Palor”) (n5MD)
Beenie Man – “Dance Wah Cork Up” (download single) (King Sturrige)
Le Grand Kallé – “Table Ronde” (LP – “His Life,His Music”) (Sterns)
Bikini Kill – “Suck My Left One” (EP – “Bikini Kill”) (Kill Rock Stars)
The Julie Ruin – “Right Home” (LP – “Run Fast”) (Discord/TJR)
Lydia Loveless – “Lovers Spat” (EP – “Boy Crazy”) (Bloodshot)
Misty Conditions – “Demonoid” (LP – “D’zzzz”) (Planet Mu)
Linval Thomson and the Revolutionaries – “Morning Dub” (LP – “Boss Man’s Dub – The Lost 1979 Dub Album”) (Hot Milk)
DJ Format and Phil Most Chill – “Get Busy Music” (LP – “The Foremost”) (Project Blue Book)
No – “Perpective Helps” (LP – “The Great Space”) (Static Shock)
Bent Shapes – “What Do You Get?” (LP – “Feels Weird”) (Father/Daughter)
Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?” (7″) (United Artists)
Lydia Loveless – “All I Know” (EP – “Boy Crazy”)
Ø (Phase) – “Misaligned” (LP – “Frames Of Reference’) (Token/N.E.W.S.)

Guitar stands are well Clapton (Buffet #54)

Hello Hello!

If you tuned in on Sunday – THANKS! If not, but you want to check out some ace music, you can click on the listen again thingy.

This is what we played:

1. VELVET UNDERGROUND – Venus in Furs
2. LA LUZ – Brainwash
3. CHRIS TT &THE HOODRATS – The Bear
4. PIXIES – Indy Cindy
5. VELVET UNDERGROUND – Satellite of Love
6. ARUN GHOSH – Journey South
7. LOU REED & JOHN CALE – Small Town
8. COURTNEY BARNETT – Avant Gardener
9. SKY LARKIN – Carve It Out
10. JAMES CARR – You Got My Mind Messed Up
11. JUNE TABOR & OYSTERBAND – All Tomorrow’s Parties
12. MOON HOOCH – Megatubes
13. VELVET UNDERGROUND – Here She comes Now
14. BOOKER T & THE MJs – Beatles Medley

Back in December – cheers!

Maria & Jenny Jet