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A Nightmare Before Christmas

When Jenny Jet and I ventured to Pontins to experience Shellac’s Nightmare Before Christmas (an All tomorrow’s Parties festival) we did not anticipate that Pontins itself would be a real nightmare. So much so it actually makes Butlins look classy. Anyroad, we are rocking middle aged Mums and enjoyed a fabtastic weekend of rock and roll despite the severely lacking facilities, accommodation and blood stained duvets.

This month’s Buffet (broadcast on 1st December) was a combination of ATP tribute and twisted Christmas tunes, for it is that time of year. You can listen to the show here

And this is what we played:

1. Theme from Ski Sunday
2. RED FANG – Number 13
3. WIRE – Ex Lion Tamer
4. GRUFF RHYS – Slashed Wrists This Christmas
5. NINA NASTASIA – Ugly Face
6. GAY WITCH ABORTION – Prison Charm
7. MELT BANANA – White Christmas
8. SUFJAN STEVENS – Christmas Woman
9. PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL – You are The Space Invader
10. MONO – Follow The Map
11. MY BLOODY VALENTINE – Map Ref 41 North 93 West
12. SHANNON WRIGHT – With Closed Eyes
13. BONNIE PRINCE BILLY with DAWN McCARTHY- Christmas Eve Can Kill You
14.  MISSON OF BURMA – Second Television
15. TEITUR – Happy Christmas (War Is Over)

We’re back on 29th December.

Stay warm!

x

Eclectic Mainline 5th December 2012

The Julia Holter album, Ekstasis, which was released this week on Domino Records, includes this beauty, which I have sung along with and jigged to in the kitchen (take my word for it):

Also available this week, now that pre-orders are being taken for the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, is this:

You can listen back to this week’s show if you wish.  This is what I played:

King Creosote – “On The Night Of The Bonfire” (EP – “It Turned Out For The Best”) (Domino)
Wild Nothing – “Only Heather” (single and LP – “Nocturne”) (Bella Union)
Jesse Boyskins III & MeLo-X – (“Schwaza” ft. JoeKenneth) (LP – “Julu Guru”) (Ninja Tune)
Snow Palms – “Snow Light” (LP – “Intervals”) (Village Green)
Yeasayer – “Reagan’s Skeleton” (single and LP – “Fragrant World”) (Mute)
Bee Mask – “Scanops” (LP – “Vaporware / “Scanops”) (Room40)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “We No Who U R” (LP – “Push The Sky Away”) (Nick Cave Ltd)
Sticky – “Pedal Riddim” (single) (Big Dada)
Julia Holter – “Goddess Eyes II” (single and LP – “Ekstasis”) (Domino)
Elmore James – “Rollin’ & Tumblin'” (MOJO magazine CD December 2012)
Joshua James – “So Did I” (LP – “From The Top Of The Willamette Mountain”) (Free The Sun)
Father John Misty – “Only Son Of The Ladiesman” (single and LP – “Fear Fun”) (Bella Union)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – “I Follow You” (LP – “Melody’s Echo Chamber”) (Weird World)

Going North from Nashville presents ‘same name’ songs. Monday 3rd December 10-11pm

We start with a couple of ‘Jolenes’,  but no sign of Dolly Parton………

1.Bob Dylan: Jolene – (Together Through Life) 

2. Ray Lamontagne: Jolene – (Trouble) 

A few more Dylan links later in the programme, but next, a Yorkshire lad who sounds remarkably like Ray La Montagne…………..

3. Ben Ottewell: Blackbird – (Shapes & Shadows)

4. Beatles: Blackbird – (White Album)

Another Ray La Montagne link, a bit of Trouble from…….

5. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Trouble – (Sunday at Devil Dirt) 

6. Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions: Trouble

From a spot of trouble to an Avalanche……..

7. Leonard Cohen: Avalanche – (Songs of Love & Hate)  

8. Foreign Slipper: Avalanche – (Farewell to the Old Ghosts)

Next, we’re going Coast to Coast with Elliot Smith………

9. Elloit Smith: Coast to Coast – (A Basement on a Hill)

10. Blue Roses: Coast – Blue Roses

For any listeners who have a birthday on the horizon ‘ happy birthday’ -twice!………

11. Sufjan Stevens: Happy Birthday 

12. The Innocence Mission: Happy Birthday

Back to Dylan for the next two tracks……..

13. She & Him: Don’t Look Back – (She & Him Volume 2)

14. Lloyd Cole: Don’t Look Back

 Don’t look back, but look forward to the next GNfN in 2 weeks’ time………..!

Eclectic Mainline 28th November 2012

An excellent Roll The Dice / Pole remix 12″ came out last week. I played “The Skull Is Built Into The Version” tonight, and here is another track from it:

 

I also played one of the queerest cover versions I’ve ever heard.  I have Phil Cope to thank for this, seeing as he brought it to my attention when he played it in his show last week.   See what you think of this:

 

Here is where you will find the BCB Listen Again option for tonight’s show. And this is what I played:

Dead Can Dance – “Opium” (single and LP – “Anastasis”) (PIAS)
Tilly and the Wall – “Defenders” (single and LP – “Heavy Mood”) (Team Love)
Dobie – “I-Anomaly” (EP – “…But Fear Itself”) (Big Dada)
James Yorkston – “Just As Scared” (single and LP – “I Was A Cat From A Book”) (Domino)
Dinosaur Jr. – “Piercing The Morning Rain” (single and LP – “I Bet On Sky”) (Play It Again Sam)
Jamie Lidell – “What A Shame” (single and LP – “Jamie Lidell”) (Warp)
The Cryin’ Shames – “Please Stay” (single) (Decca)
Beach House – “Wild” (single and LP – “Bloom”) (Bella Union)
Cheval Sombre – “Someplace Else” (single and LP – “Mad Love”) (Sonic Cathedral)
Chapterhouse – “Pearl” (single and LP – “Whirlpool”) (Dedicated)
Roll The Dice meets Pole – “The Skull Is Built Into The Version” (12″ – “In Dubs”) (Leaf)
DJ T Ty featuring Sarah – “You Are The One That I Want” (self-released download)

Eclectic Mainline 21st November 2012

Do our brains act like virtual jukeboxes, storing a copy of every song we have ever enjoyed, and calling up any given song when prompted to do so by an outside stimulus? I ask this because every once in a while a song will end up going round in my head simply because somebody has said something that brings to mind its lyrics, or a conversation reminds me of a specific event that my brain links to a given piece of music.

This happened to me last week. I was speaking to a good friend about some of our favourite music from 20 years ago.  The next day when I awoke, ‘Fishes Eyes‘ by New Fast Automatic Daffodils was in my head, and there it stayed for several hours.  Despite not having heard it for several years, my brain was giving a pretty faithful rendition, and it sounded very much like this:

How this happens, I would love to know.  If anybody wants to sponsor me to write a book on the topic, I would certainly take up the challenge.

Anyway, as a result I decided to play a bit of New FADS in tonight’s show.  I also played this excellent Four Tet and Burial collaboration, that I picked on on 12″ at Jumbo Records earlier this year:

Another tune I played tonight was this from the Snow Palms album:

If you have a desire to listen back to the full show, you will find it on the BCB Listen Again site.  These are the tunes I played: Continue reading →

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!

Eclectic Mainline 14th November 2012

The new Efterklang album is a thing of carefully constructed beauty.  To get a glimpse of the lengths the band went to to get the right sounds they wanted, watch this:

If you are inclined to listen back to tonight’s show, you’ll find it somewhere on this page.  Here is what I played:

Efterklang – “The Ghost” (LP – “Piramida”) (4AD)
Pulled Apart By Horses – “Epic Myth”
Offshore – “Slip” (LP – “Bake Haus”) (Big Dada)
Serafina Steer – “Night Before Mutiny”
Clinic – “Miss You” (single and LP – “Free Reign”) (Domino)
Tindersticks – “This Fire Of Autumn” (single and LP – “The Something Rain”) (Lucky Dog)
Emanuele De Raymondi – “BV_3” (LP – “Buyukberber Variations”) (ZerOKilled Music)
Chains Of Love – “He’s Leaving (With Me)” (single)
Hope & Social – “Shake Your Gimli” (LP – “All Our Dancing Days”)
Pianonegro – “La Cascada” (2CD – “Diablos Del Ritmo – The Colombian Melting Pot 1960 – 1965”) (Analog Africa)
Locrian & Christoph Heemann – “Loath The Light” (LP – “S/T”) (Handmade Birds)
Poliça – “Form” (single and LP – “Give You The Ghost”) (Memphis Industries)
Annie & Baby Dee – “State Of Grace (w/ Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy)” (LP – “State Of Grace”) (Tin Angel)
Rozi Plain – “See My Boat (Alexis Taylor Remix)” (single) (Fence Records / NeedNoWater Records)

Eclectic Mainline 7th November 2012

There were a couple of tunes tonight that I had to cut short due to their length.  My heart told me to let them play out, but my head told me it would have been at the expense of other tunes getting a look in at all. But such is the wonder of the Internet, that you can hear one if the long-uns in full now.  This is by Fimber Bravo, the first steel pan player to feature in my show:

Fimber Bravo – Life After Doomsday (with Zongamin) by moshi moshi music

Alas I couldn’t find the Nick Edwards tune online, so you’ll have to take my word for how good the full 16 minutes of that one is.  I can, however, show you this delightful tune by Akira Kosemura, the title track from the It’s On Everything album which is being re-issued by Raster Noton:

If you wish to listen back to the full show, you’ll find it here.

Here is a full list of the tunes I played:
The Magnetic North – “Bay Of Skaill”
Grischa Lichtenberger – “1110_01_Iv_1b” ” (LP – “And IV Inertia”) (Raster Noton)
Errors – “Relics”
Pollens – “Helping Hand” (single and LP – “Brighten & Break”) (Tapete)
Merz – “Eudaimonia” (LP – “No Compass Will Find Home”)
Akira Kosemura – “It’s On Everything” (LP - “It’s On Everything”) (Someone Good)
Fimber Bravo – “Life After Doomsday (with Zongamin)” (Moshi Moshi)
Nick Edwards – “Part 3: Inside The Analog Continuum” (LP – “Plekzationz”) (Editions Mego)
Grizzly Bear – “Half Gate” (LP – “Shields”) (Warp)
Sonora Dinamita – “Eco en Stereo” (2CD – “Diablos Del Ritmo – The Colombian Melting Pot 1960 – 1965”) (Analog Africa)
Pure Bathing Culture – “Ivory Coast” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Offshore – “Downer” (LP – “Bake Haus”) (Big Dada)
Patrick Watson – “Black Wind” (single and LP “) (Domino)

Buffet #43

Hello there! Miss our radio show? Well you can hear it here: http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=9262 (it starts 5 mins 30 seconds in)
We’re back on Saturday 1st December serving up a Nightmare Before Christmas, but in the meantime here’s what we played this month:
1. WE’VE GOT A FUZZBOX AND WE’RE GONNA USE IT – XX Sex
2. PAVEMENT – Embassy Row
3. SINKANE – Runnin’
4. FLYING LOTUS – Until the Quiet Comes
5. PARQUET COURTS – Borrowed Time
6. JIM O’ROURKE – Ghost Ship in a Storm
7. SANTIGOLD with KAREN O – Go!
8. HOOKWORMS – Form and Function
9. ALICE COLTRANE – Stopover Bombay
10. MULATU ASTATKE – The Way to Nice
11. DEUS – Instant Street
12. RITES OF SPRING – By Design
13. JOHNNY CASH – Ghost Riders in the Sky
14. HENRY MANCINI – Shaft

Going North from Nashville, Monday 5th November 10-11pm – Yorkshire Mix revisited!

After all, Guy Fawkes came from this fair county!

Top of the programme, Bradford’s own……

1.Wilful Missing : I am Clay …………….next a couple more locals, take us from Shipley to Ilkley

2.Blue Roses : I am Leaving

3.Ben Otwell : Step Right Back ………… we’re going live in Leeds, but not with the Who!

4. John Martin: The Man In the Station

5. Neil Mc Sweeny: London Road…………..on to a couple more artists who can be found live on the Leeds circuit……

6.Michael Rossiter: Jack Went A- Sailing

7.A Free Soul Poetic : I Whistled Up the Devil ………. let’s go to the Yorkshire coast , courtesy of a folk dynasty…

8. Martin Carthy : Scarborough Fair

9. Eliza Carthy: Train Song……….more folk royalty, this time from Barnsley….

10.Kate Rusby: Green Fields……….then, Live at York Minster….

11. Laura Marling: I Was Just a Card…………back to Leeds…

 12. Fossil Collective: Let it Go

13. Patsy Matheson: Ulverston Gypsy ……… another Yorkshireman ends the show………

14. Des Horfall’s Kushty Rye: Random Acts of Kindness