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Old Ideas – a Leonard Cohen ‘special’ – Going North from Nashiville, Monday 2nd July, 10-11pm.

Tonight’s programme is a celebration of an iconic figure of 20thC music, who, in the 21stC, & in his seventies, has experienced an amazing return to form.

Alongside Bob Dylan, he’s been cited as an influence on just about everyone we’ve interviewed for GNfN .

In honour of the release of his 12th studio album, ‘Old Ideas’, tonight’s show is a Leonard Cohen ‘special’.

We’ll be dipping into the album, as well as referring back to some of his earlier work.

The man himself starts the show with a track from Old Ideas

1. Leonard Cohen: Darkness ………followed by a couple of covers of songs from his early albums………….

2. The Lemonheads: That’s No Way to Say Goodbye

 3. Marc Ribot & My Bright Diamond : Bird on a Wire………next, a dip back into Old Ideas…..

 4. Leonard Cohen: Going Home ……followed by another cover, with a bit of Cohenesque humour………

 5. Marianne Faithful :Tower of Song : …………back to the album……

 6.: Leonard Cohen: Show Me the Place …….next, a cover of one of the most covered songs of all time……………

 7. Susanna & the Magical Orchestra: Hallelujah …………now a contribution from son of Leonard…

 8. Adam Cohen:  Out of Bed …………followed by a couple of Cohen influenced artists….. 

9. Josh Ritter: Wings

 10. Laura Marling :Night After Night  …………back to Leonard for another sublime song from Old Ideas…………

 11. Leonard Cohen: Come Healing ……….next, another classic track covered…..

 12. Field Music: Suzanne  ………….finally, a feisty Leonard closes the show…..

 13. Leonard Cohen: Different Sides

Eclectic Mainline 27th June 2012

When I introduced “Entr’acte” by The Cinematic Orchestra tonight, I apologised in advance for the fact that I would innevitably have to fade it out.  I couldn’t possibly play all 20 minutes of it, could I..? To do so would mean leaving out several other excellent tunes, and how could I possibly justify that?   However, as it played, I felt the opposite, I couldn’t possibly justify fading out something of such beauty.

‘Entr’acte‘, is taken from In Motion #1, the new album curated by The Cinematic Orchestra, and acts as a new soundtrack to René Clair’s 1924 short film of the same name.  Watch it in full here:

And here is something else you should feast your ears on, the tune I opened tonight’s show with, from the new El-P album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrB2zUB6AiU

Here’s a full list of tonight’s tunes:

27th June:
El-P – “Request Denied” (LP – “Cancer4Cure”) (Turnstile)
Shonen Knife – “Mr. J” (LP – “Pop Tune”) (Damnably)
Slugabed – “Travel Sweets” (LP – “Time Team”) (Ninja Tune)
The Cinematic Orchestra – “Entr’acte” (LP – “In Motion #1”, curated by The Cinematic Orchestra) (Ninja Tune)
Future Of The Left – “Notes On Achieving Orbit” (LP – “The Plot Against Common Sense”) (Xtra Mile)
Fráncois & The Atlas Mountains – “Edge of Town” (single) (Domino)
My Bloody Valentine – “Angel” (LP – “EP’s 1988-1991”) (Sony)
Dobie – “Gillet Sq N16” (EP – “Nothing To Fear”) (Big Dada)
Alt-J – “Taro” (single and LP – “An Awesome Wave”) (Infectious)

Eclectic Mainline 20th June 2012

If I’d been a bit smarter tonight (i.e. planned what I was going to play, which I never do) I would have followed “True Story” (El-P) by “Myth” (Beach House). But I’m not that smart.

I absolutely adore “Near Star Pole Star” by King Creosote, so you’d better do the right thing and buy the I Learned From The Gaels EP.

Here are a three of the other splendid tunes featured in tonight’s show:

Allo Darlin’ – Wonderland

Wonderland by Slumberland Records

Wussy – Airborne

Peaking Lights – Beautiful Son

Peaking Lights – Beautiful Son by Weird World Record Co

And here’s the full list of tunes:

King Creosote – “Near Star Pole Star” (EP – “I Learned From The Gaels”) (Domino)
Silver Jews – “Jackson Nightz” (LP – “Early Times”) (Drag City)
El-P – “True Story” (LP – “Cancer4Cure”) (Turnstile)
Allo Darlin’ – “Wonderland” (LP – “Europe”) (Fortuna Pop!)
My Bloody Valentine – “Several Girls Galore” (LP – “Isn’t Anything”) (Sony)
Grasscut – “Pieces” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Beach House – “Myth” (LP – “Bloom”) (Beach House)
Wussy – “Airborne” (CD – “Buckeye”) (Damnably)
The Beach Boys – “This Whole World” (LP – “Sunflower”) (Capitol)
Peaking Lights – “Beautiful Son” (LP – “Lucifer”) (Weird World)
Alt-J – “Tessellate” (single and LP – “An Awesome Wave”) (Infectious)
Vladislav Delay – “Kolari” (12″ – “Espoo”) (Raster Noton)
Saint Etienne – “Over The Border” (LP – “Words and Music By Saint Etienne”) (Heavenly)

#36 Paint along with Buffet

If you listened to our show, we thank you! If not, and the playlist below appeals, you can listen here:

http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=7110

Here’s what we played on Saturday 16th June 2012:

1. Theme from PAINT ALONG WITH NANCY
2. BEASTIE BOYS – (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
3. LAETITIA SADIER – Find Me The Pulse Of The Universe
4. HUGH MASEKELA – Amo Sakesa-Baranta
5. LIARS – WIXIW
6. CHOIR OF YOUNG BELIEVERS – Hollow Talk
7. SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE – Waswasa
8. SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN story – The Man From the Future (part 1)
9. HOT CHIP – Night and Day
10. DONNA SUMMER – MacArthur Park
11. BEASTIE BOYS – Futterman’s Rule
12. R DEAN TAYLOR – There’s A Ghost In My House
13. BEE GEES – Stayin’ Alive

Also – we are DJing two silent discos in the Spiegeltent as part of Harrogate Festival on Saturday 7th July – it’ll be ace fun, so come along if you can make it! http://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/spiegeltent/

Our show is back on 14th July.

Big love! Team Buffet.

x

 

A Scintillating (there’s a big word for a Monday night!) Programme of New Music on Going North from Nashville – Monday 18th June, 10-11pm

Lots of great new stuff on GNfN tonight:

Tom Waits: Chicago - from his latest album, Bad as Me……..this veteran is definatley back on form.

Simone Felice: You & I Belong -  rousing track from first, eponymously named, solo album - with a little bit of help from Mumford & Sons, as had………

The Moulettes: Sing Unto Me – one of many excellent songs from Bear’s Revenge…………..followed by two singles…..

Liz Green: Bad Medicine

Tiny Ruins: Little Notes……………then, another album track that hits the spot………

Husky: Tidal Wave from Forever So………..great debut album from this Ozzy band.

Gillian Welch: Scarlet Town from her last album, The Harrow & the Harvest

Bon Iver: Perth from his eponymous, 2nd album, beautiful sound!

Pete Seeger with the Rivertown Kids: Forever Young - great 90+ year old’s contibution to Dylan covers album, Chimes of Freedom ( guess he forgave him for Newport 1965!)

Wilful Missing: Caught Between Seasons from Molehills out of Mountains – lovely………..catch them live at a venue near you!

Rachel Sermanni: Eggshells

Paul Curreri: Poor Little Motorbike

Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire – title track from his last album – a return to the understated beauty of his early solo work.

Beth Jeans Houghton & the Hooves of Destiny: Dodecahedron

Eclectic Mainline 13th June 2012

The Kilo tune I played tonight is from a CD+DVD set where each tune from the album has had a video made for it. I couldn’t find the video for Melody online, which is a shame, as it’s my favourite one. But if you can read German, you can see a still from the video here. In fact, you don’t need to read German to look at a photo do you? Silly me.  Anyway, my second favourite from the package, Masken, I could find, so here it is:

If you wish to listen back to the show, you’ll find it here for a month.  Here’s a list of what you would hear if you did so, or what you did hear if you heard the show tonight:

The Ladybug Transistor – “Light On The Narrow Guage” (LP – “Clutching Stems”) (Fortuna Pop!)

Jammer – “Big Man” (single) (Big Dada)
Blues Control – “Iron Pigs” (LP – “Valley Tangents”) (Drag City)
Peaking Lights – “Lo Hi” (LP – “Lucifer”) (Weird World)
Simon Scott – “_Sealevel.3” (CD – “Below Sea Level”) (12K)
Ergo Phizmiz – “It’s A Sin” (single) (Care In The Community)
Slugabed – “Grandma Paints Nice” (LP – “Time Team”) (Ninja Tune)
Wussy – “Maglite” (CD – “Buckeye”) (Damnably)
Poliça – “Amongster” (LP – “Give You The Ghost”) (Memphis Industries)
KILO – “Melody” (CD + DVD – “The Wildernis”) (Experimentalstudio Brigittenau)
Cinema Red And Blue – “Walkin’ To The Cemetery” (“Butterbean Crypt EP”) (Fortuna Pop!)
Future Of The Left – “I Am The Least Of Your Problems” (single and LP – “The Plot Against Common Sense”) (Xtra Mile)
Dorian Concept & Tom Chant – “Dream Work” (LP – “In Motion #1”, curated by The Cinematic Orchestra) (Ninja Tune)

Eclectic Mainline 6th June 2012

As you may have become aware, I’ve grown particularly fond of drone and ambient music over the past few years. I played the title track from the new En EP this evening. Here are 3 more from it:

En: “Already Gone” by Students of Decay

If you are inclined to listen back to the full show, you’ll find it here.  Here’s what I played:

Slugabed – “Travel Sweets” (LP – “Time Team”) (Ninja Tune)
Herman Dune – “Monument Park” (“Monument Park EP”) (Fortuna Pop!)
En – “Already Gone” (LP – “Already Gone”) (Students Of Decay)
Future Of The Left – “I Am The Least Of Your Problems” (single and LP – “The Plot Against Common Sense”) (Xtra Mile)
Dirty Projectors – “Gun Has No Trigger” (single and LP – “Swing Lo Magellan”) (Domino)
THEESatisfaction – “Deeper” (single and LP – “awE naturalE” (Sub Pop)
MJ Hibbert & The Validators – “The Battle Of Peterborough” (single and LP – “Dinosaur Planet”) (self-released)
El-P – “Drones Over Bklyn” (single and LP – “Cancer For Cure”) (Turnstile)
Shonen Knife – “Pop Tune” (LP – “Pop Tune”) (Damnably)
Heatsick – “Déviation” (12″ – “Déviation”) (PAN)
Liars – “No.1 Against The Rush” (single and LP – “WIXIW”) (Mute)
Dobie – “Hustle With Speed” (EP – “Nothing To Fear”) (Big Dada)
Ben Zabo – “Wari Vo” (LP – “Ben Zabo”) (Glitterhouse)
Grasscut – “Pieces” (single) (Ninja Tune)

Take a break from the Jubilee – listen to an hour of Murder Ballads with John & Sue! Going North from Nashville – Monday 4th June 10-11pm.

A GNfN  focus on the Murder Ballad in Americana music – a genre to be found in all forms of roots music & very much present in Americana.

We get off to a lively start with the Boss…………….

Bruce Springsteen & the Seeger Sessions Band, live in Dublin Pete Seeger’s tale of Jesse James  -sort of USA Robin Hood!

Two iconic songs from the pen of Bob Dylan…………….

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll was performed by Cage the Elephant & can be found on ‘Chimes of Freedom’ a compilation of Dylan covers, released in honour of 50 years of the work of Amnesty International………..

The sinister Tweeter the Monkey Man, was a Dylan contribution to Travelling Willburys Vol 1

 Mr Lovealie from Blueflint’s 2011 album, Maudy Tree -  character you wouldn’t want to meet on a dark night…………

Minus 5 introduced is to the Lurking Barrister, someone you wouldn’t want represent you if you were on a murder charge! It’s from their  Killingsworth album ( appropriate title…..) , also released in 2009 & with input from Decemberist, John Moen…………

Decemberists with a terrible tale of infanticide, The Rake’s Song, from their 2009 album The Hazards of Love

Simone Felice’s’ Ballad of Sharon Tate’ – from his 2012, self- titled, debut solo album.

 Now a couple of women who have no regrets…………..

Gillian Welch’s story of the timely death of Caleb Meyer from Hell Among the Yearlings, released in 1998……….

Or,the Whale’s murderous tale of Terrible Pain, to be found on their , self- titled second album from 2011.

Josh Ritter’s take on mayhem & murder – Folk Bloodbath – from 2010’s  So Runs the World Away.

 The Handsome Family’s tale of multiple murder After we Shot the Grozzley, from their Last Days of Wonder album was followed by……

 The eerie The Bottom Feeders, to be found on When the Saints Go from Jim Clements & the Right to Die

 Ray La Montagne, with Narrow Escape from his aptly named album of 2004, Trouble

 We end back where we started, with a classic tale of the untimely end of a good hearted outlaw from another founding father of American folk.

Woody Guthrie’s song, Pretty Boy Floydd, as performed by the Byrds, on their seminal album of Americana – Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Eclectic Mainline – 30th May 2012

I’ll cut to the chase (as I need to get outta here) and show you 3 songs that were in tonight’s show.  Firstly, the gorgeously simple ‘Tallulah’ by Allo Darlin’:
Tallulah by Slumberland Records

Now the spacious ‘Nova Anthem’ by Lower Dens:

And finally, the swarming ‘Locusts’ by Tunabunny:

Tunabunny – Locusts by HHBTM Records

If you are inclined to listen back to the full show, you’ll find it over here.

Here’s a full list of tunes featured in the show:

Graham Coxon – “Running For Your Life” (LP – “A+E”) (EMI)
King Creosote – “Near Star Pole Star” (EP – “I Learned From The Gaels”) (Domino)
Tunabunny – “Locusts” (split single with Shrag) (Fortuna Pop!)
ROM – “Fish Making Food” (LP – “Foot Signal”) (Pingipung)
Shonen Knife – “Psychedelic Life” (LP – “Pop Tune”) (Damnably)
Volcano – “So Many Lemons” (LP – “Piñata”) (Leaf)
Real Estate – “Exactly Nothing” (single) (Domino)
Liars – “No.1 Against The Rush” (single and LP – “WIXIW”) (Mute)
Japandroids – “The House That Heaven Built” (single) (Polyvinyl)
Allo Darlin’ – “Tallulah” (LP – “Europe”) (Fortuna Pop!)
Ben Zabo – “Cinquantenaire” (LP – “Ben Zabo”) (Glitterhouse)
Breton – “Foam” (double A-side single with “Jostle”) (Fat Cat)
Lower Dens – “Alphabet Song” (LP – “Nootropics”) (Ribbon)

Eclectic Mainline 23rd May 2012

Manic Street Preachers mug

I broke my Manic Street Preachers mug! :'-(

I was feeling rather glum first thing this morning, after breaking my Manic Street Preachers mug.  I’m sure Nicky Wire would just tell me to stop feeling so attached to material objects…while counting his money.

Had I broken it one day later, I would have had the mug for precisely 15 years.  I’m not sad enough to have known this, I might add.  I just looked up the date they played at the Nynex Arena in Manchester in 1997.

So, my Manic Street Preachers mug lasted quite a long time, and some things do indeed last a long time.  What a gorgeous Daniel Johnston cover version Füxa and Britta Phillips have made.  So gorgeous in fact that I have now played all 8 minutes of it twice in Eclectic Mainline this month.

If you wish to listen back to tonight’s show, you’ll find it here.  And if you want every song to be a surprise, don’t read the playlist below: Continue reading →