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Eclectic Mainline 19th September 2012

Andy O’Brien, who used to follow me at 9pm on BCB, would be delighted to learn of the return of Tilly And The Wall.  I started tonight’s show with their new single:

Tilly & the Wall – Love Riot by Team Love Records

If you want to listen back to tonight’s show, you’ll find it on the BCB Listen Again service.  Here’s what I played:

Tilly And The Wall – “Love Riot” (EP – “Love Riot”) (Team Love)
Efterklang – “Apples” (4AD)
Jesse Boykins & MeLo-X – “The Perfect Blues” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Palma Violets – “Best Of Friends”
A.R. Kane – “Sea Like A Child” (2CD – “Complete Singles Collection”) (One Little Indian)
Illum Sphere – “Birthday”
The Touré-Raichel Collective – “Kfar” (LP – “The Tel Aviv Sessions”) (Cumbancha)
Purity Ring – “Fineshrine”
Spring Break – “Baby, You’re Better” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Grimes – “Genehsis” (single) (4AD)
Ty Segall – “The Hill” (single) (Drag City)
Howler – “Told You Once”
Kid Koala – “6 Bit Blues” (LP – “12 Bit Blues”) (Ninja Tune)
Why? – “Sod in the Seed” (EP – “Sod In The Seed”) (City Slang)
Sone Institute – “Fear And Happiness” (LP – “A Model Life”) (Front & Follow)

Buffet’s Midnight Filth

We often feel frustrated by how many records can’t be played on our regular show because they’re loaded with F-Bombs. So BCB kindly gave us a midnight slot to unleash this filth, broadcast on 11th Sept at midnight. There is no ‘listen again’ feature – it was just too rude.

But you may be interested to know just what we played and how the swear box fills up, so here’s our tracklist:

1. BIKINI KILL – New Radio
2. KORN –  Y’all Wanna Single
3. MARTHA WAINRIGHT – Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
4. CSS – Fuck Everything
5. THE BIRD AND THE BEE – Fucking Boyfriend
6. PJ HARVEY – Who the Fuck?
7. FATIMA MANSIONS – Shiny Happy People
8. DEATH GRIPS – Get Got
9. SHELLAC – Prayer to God
10. PLAN B – Lost My Way
11. tUnE-yArDs – Es-So
12. ELO – Oh No, Not Susan
13. ANTLERED MAN – Platoono of Uno
14. HOLY FUCK – SHTMTN
15. THE MOTHERFUCKERS – Sick and Wrong
16. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – The Man Don’t Give a Fuck

We have not had time to put together the planned pie-chart of sweardom, but can confirm there were over 200 fucks (and variants) and at least 4 shits.

Get in touch if you’d like to hear it…

Love Team Buffet

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Eclectic Mainline 12th September 2012

After last week’s excitement, I have only the routine task of telling you how amazing the tunes in tonight’s show were. Why? are back, and this pleases me no end. I played the lead track from their new ‘Sod In The Seed’ EP tonight. Hear the whole EP though, as it’s mighty good:
WHY? – ‘Sod in the Seed’ EP by City Slang

I strongly advise you to seek out “Nothin But Time” from the new Cat Power album too. If you’ve been a Cat Power fan for as long as I have, you will remember when she played pretty much everything herself, and in those early days, that was often just her and a guitar, or her and a piano.  Well, although her sound as evolved greatly since those early albums, a similar principle applies; she plays the majority of the instruments herself.  She’s a modern day Stevie Wonder.

Here’s the full playlist from tonight’s show, which you can hear again over on this page.

Alt-J – “Something Good” (single and LP – “An Awesome Wave”) (Infectious)
Husky – “Tidal Wave” (single and LP – “Forever So”) (Sub Pop)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Live It Up” (LP – “Mature Themes”) (4AD)
The Touré-Raichel Collective – “Alkataou” (LP – “The Tel Aviv Sessions”) (Cumbancha)
Dinosaur Jr. – “Pierce The Morning Rain” (LP – “I Bet On Sky”) (PIAS)
Rollo Jean – “St Tropez” (double A-side single with “Cellar Of Love”) (Memphis Industries)
Cat Power – “NothingBut Time” (LP – “Sun”) (Matador)
Rustie – “After Light feat. AlunaGeorge” (single) (Warp)
Call The Doctor – “Here To Haunt” (b-side to “Wrecking Ball” single) (Glasstone)
Why? – “Sod in the Seed” (EP – “Sod In The Seed”) (City Slang)
Sonic Boom Six – “Virus” (single) (Xtra Mile)
Frank Zappa – “Bobby Brown Goes Down” (LP re-issue – “Sheik Yerbouti”)
Babe, Terror – “Lifantastic I” (“Knights EP”) (Phantasy Sound)

Minor correction from last week’s show – I played the following but forgot to include it in my playlist:

Dinosaur Jr. – “Rude” (LP – “I Bet On Sky”) (PIAS)

Buffet #40 (with added Betty action)

We welcomed the gorgeous Bet Lynch Mob to the studio this week (well, two thirds of them). They are delightful young ladies, if somewhat cheeky. They not only danced about in the studio, but Betty Bird half-mooned us through the BCB studio glass partition. No photographic evidence I’m afraid, but here they are having a boogie in trademark gold hotpants:

You can listen again if you click this link – it starts about 5 minutes in after some sport gubbins: http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=8413

And this is what we played:

1. THE STRANGLERS – No More Heroes
2. DOPE BODY – Enemy Outta Me
3. DIRTY PROJECTORS – Offspring Are Blank
4. DEERHOOF – Break Up Song
5. BONNIE TYLER – Total Eclipse of the Heart
6. CAT POWER – Ruin
7. TEN KENS – Mousetrap
8. SPARKS – Amateur Hour
9. NENEH CHERRY – Too Tough To Die
10. SPARKLEHORSE – Saturday
11. CALIFORNIAN WIVES – Purple
12. SUZI QUATRO – Devil Gate Drive
13. MICACHU AND THE SHAPES – Easy
14. WYE OAK – Spiral

 

 

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)

Eclectic Mainline 5th September 2012 – Africa Express come to town

On Monday Bradford was treated to a visit by Africa Express, and it was truly amazing.    What they are doing, touring the country, and stopping off for pop-up performances along the way, is terrific.  Some of the musicians (I say ‘some’, for there are approximately 80 musicians involved in Africa Express) stopped in Bradford on Monday morning between their London and Middlesbrough dates.

Jupiter & Okwess International

Jupiter & Okwess International in City Park. Click for more photos.

I was lucky enough to be allowed a few hours off work to experience Jupiter & Okwess International in City Park, and to be able to cover it live for BCB. Elsewhere in the city, there were performances at Culture Fusion, the University of Bradford and BRI.  More about what happened is in this Wild West Yorkshire video:

I am so pleased that Africa Express have done this.  To be able to give so many people up and down the country chance to see and hear these talented musicians for free, and to give the musicians themselves the chance to visit places they otherwise might not have done, is utterly brilliant.  Oh, and although he wasn’t performing in Bradford, Amadou Bagayoko was among the party, and what an honour it was to be introduced to him as he reboarded the coach.

In any other week, seeing Midlake and Perfume Genius in Leeds would have been the highlight.  But, such was the nature of the Africa Express experience, that double gig at the Brudenell Social Club is merely a passing comment before I tell you what I played in tonight’s show.  As ever, if you wish to listen back to the show, you will find it on here.  Just look for the 8pm slot.  This is what I played: Continue reading →

Eclectic Mainline 29th August 2012

Thanks to those of you who got in touch during tonight’s show.  I hope you all enjoyed the music as much as I did.  Here is the show’s opener, the new single by Call The Doctor:

And here’s the Rollo Jean single I played:

Cellar of Love by Rollo Jean

If you wish to listen back to the show, you’ll find it right here.  This is what you would hear if you were to do so:

Call The Doctor – “Wrecking Ball” (single) (Glasstone)
Kid Koala – “7 Bit Blues” (LP – “12 Bit Blues”) (Ninja Tune)
King Creosote – “Ankle Shackles” (EP – “To Deal With Things”) (Domino)
Jeff Carey – “Step” (LP – “Interupt-Decay”) (Cwnil)
Rollo Jean – “Cellar Of Love” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Dinosaur Jr. – “Watch The Corners” (single and LP – “I Bet On Sky”) (PIAS)
Yeasayer – “Henrietta” (LP – “Fragrant World”) (Mute)
Micah P Hinson – “Beneath The Rose” (BCB Session)
Babe, Terror – “War” (“Knights EP”) (Phantasy Sound)
A.R. Kane – “Sado-masochism Is A Must” (2CD – “Complete Singles Collection”) (One Little Indian)
Animal Collective – “Wide Eyed” (LP – “Centipede Hz”) (Domino)
Sone Institute – “Tradition and Dream” (LP – “A Model Life”) (Front & Follow)
Bob Mould – “The Descent” (single and LP – “Silver Age”) (Demon)

Enjoy a mix of Yorkshire artists this Bank Holiday Monday on Going North from Nashville, 10-11pm!

A Yorkshire connection is our theme for this show & what a lot of talent we have for your enjoyment!

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

The Rock Show.

Greetings earthlings……..

People like to call me Alex (cos that’s my name) and I host the monthly rock show here on BCB.  Basically if I like it I’ll play it which is lucky for you because I like a wide range of guitar music.  From long-haired, chest-beating, village pillagers to nerdy, shoe-gazing  mummy’s boys.  I don’t discriminate (and neither should you).  My show’s on a Thursday from 9-10 pm and don’t worry, I’ll give you plenty of warning when it’s coming up!  You can listen to my last show here and below is the playlist.  The next show goes out on the 13th September and it’s gonna be black-belt.  Til then……………..

1.  The Horrors – Sheena Is A Parasite
2. Arctic Monkeys – R U Mine?
3. Garbage – Vow
4. Talking Heads – Memories Can’t Wait
5. Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone
6. The Boogs – Palomino’s Dream
7. Grandaddy – A.M. 180
8. Belly – Now They’ll Sleep
9. Jeff Buckley – Eternal Life (Road Version)
10. Deftones – Back To School
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Rockers To Swallow
12. Rocket From The Crypt – On A Rope
13. Syd Barrett – No Man’s Land
14. Dead Skeletons – Dead Mantra

 

 

Eclectic Mainline 22nd August 2012

The Jesse Boykins III & MeLo-X album, ‘Zulu Guru’, is released in the autumn. The single that precedes the album, “The Perfect Blues” is coupled with this gem, “Black Orpheus”:

Jesse Boykins III & MeLo-X – ‘Black Orpheus’ (produced by Afta-1) by Ninja Tune

You can download “Black Orpheus” for free from ninjatune.net/zuluguru.  “Black Orpheus” is one of the tunes I played in Eclectic Mainline on BCB tonight. Another, the opening tune in the show, was this gorgeous acapella piece by The Cornshed Sisters, taken from their ‘Tell Tales‘ album:

The Cornshed Sisters – Tommy by memphisindustries

If you missed the show, you can catch the whole thing again here. This is what I played:

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