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iLiKETRAiNS, Laura Gibson and Camera Obscura on The BCB Sessions!

Hello!

I’ve gone Bandcamp mad, finding local bands and splashing the cash – this is what happens when plans change at the last minute and you end up with a free night on your hands!

Hey ho – it’s a sign of all the good stuff that’s out there… and the fruits of my ‘buy now’ happy clicking can be found on the show (Wed 23rd Nov, 9pm and available for the next month via http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/)

Cue the music!

Craig Finn – Honolulu blues

Horizon – Tiny wings

Laura Gibson – La grande

Our Albert – The honey dance (From the man who brought you the 11xEleven album, Bradford’s Our Albert released this single in the summer – yours from bandcamp)

The Rosie Taylor Project – Sleep (Leeds lovely, out now from bandcamp)

Electric Guest – American daydream

Camera Obscura – Honey in the sun

Owiny Sigoma Band – Hello skinny (hear the new single ‘here on the line’: http://soundcloud.com/brownswood/sets/osb-here-on-the-line Rel. 5th Dec 2011)

iLiKETRAiNS – We were matadors (fab Leeds band, previous session guests…this track’s from their three track EP – available from bandcamp)

The Wooden Machine – What terrible luck (they’ve got the Bradford tag…hooray, not terrible luck! Track’s from ‘Small Town Psychosis’ and is out now and you can download it for free: http://thewoodenmachine1.bandcamp.com/album/small-town-psychosis

Fireworks Night – Settle down

Diagrams – Hill (Olugbenga edit)

Zola Jesus – Vessels

I’m back Wednesday night at 9pm on 106.6fm (in Bradford) and http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/ (all over the place).

Get in touch if you’ve got tunes you’d like me to play or if you’d like to come and do a session: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk or tweet me @laurarawlings

Lx

Going North from Nashville keeps it in the Family! Monday 21st November 10-11pm

Parents & children from the Americana scene feature in tonights show, with a father & daughter getting us off to a good start:

Johnny Cash: The Time of the Preacher

Rosanne Cash: Tenessee Flat Top Box

Next, a mother & son:

Carly Simon: Mocking Bird

Ben Taylor: Nothing I Can Do

Followed by two legendary dynasties:

Adam Cohen: Like a Man

Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man

Jakob Dylan: Up on the Mountain

Emmylou Harris: When I Paint My Masterpiece

A late father, followed by his son:

Townes Van Zandt: My Proud Mountains

John T Van Zandt: My Proud Mountains

Next, two more late greats:

Geof Buckley: Dream Brother

Tim Buckley: Once I Was

Back to a father & daughter:

Louden Wainright 111: Pretty Good Day

Martha Wainwright: Bleeding All Over You

And to end – son of Steve……….

Justin Townes Earle: Harlem River Blues

Justice, The Horn The Hunt and Other Lives on The BCB Sessions!

Howdy y’all,

Don’t hunker down in the dark nights – tune into the show! So much good stuff to get your lug holes around….take a look at the list then listen in, Wed 16th Nov at 9pm on 106.6fm or online at www.bcbradio.co.uk If you can’t catch it then, listen at your leisure via BCB’s listen again link www.bcbradio.co.uk

And while you’re on BCB’s website, look out for DIY or DIE radio, Buffet, When Big Joan Sets Up and Eclectic Mainline….because if you like the sessions you’ll also love these chaps & chapesses.

Dum Dum Girls – Always looking

St Etienne – Love can break your heart (pure self indulgence, I admit it…)

Dear Reader – Bear (young’s done in)

Thomas Truax – November in Berlin

Our Albert – If I’ve told you once I’ve told you 11 times (Local, vocal and doing exciting musical things…http://ouralbert.net/)

Justice – Audio, video, disco

Our Albert – Eleventy

Blood Orange – Champagne coast

The Horn The Hunt – Animal magic (Shok remix) http://thehornthehunt.com/

Our Albert – Eleven8

Forest Fire – Future shadows

Other Lives – Old  statues

Our Albert – Eleven is a place on earth

Pitch Twit – Treatment (Take a look – you can also download tracks for free! http://www.pitchtwit.com/)

Baris Manco – Ben Bilirim

Right, off t’Sparrow….drop me a line if you’ve got tunes to play: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

Until next Wednesday night,

Lxx

 

Get set for the Christmas Countdown

We’re gearing up for this year’s Christmas Countdown – our favourite 20 tracks of the year.

We’ll be playing them over four weeks starting on Thursday, 1 December.

Meanwhile our latest playlist was:

The Go! Team – Rolling Blackouts
State of Error  – The Story of our Lives
Half Man Half Biscuit – RSVP
Our Albert – Honey Dance
Wire – Heartbeat
Billy DeLines – You”re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
Wild Beasts – Reach A Bit Futher
Kingheadlock – Lifeless Life
Grandaddy – Chartsengrafs
Thershold Shift – Superclash Dub
Billy Bragg – Waiting For The Great Leap Forward
Alt-J – Hand-Made
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Box of Stones
Felice Brothers – Fire At The Pageant

Remember to listen again here:

http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=3965

World Waves, 8th November 2011

PLAYLIST FOR 8/11/11

LISTEN AGAIN HERE

Alim Qasimov – “Nazli Yar”
(from Azerbaïdjan, Ocora)

Various artists – “Kaba preceding a dance”
(from Albania: Vocal & instrumental polyphonies, Ocora)

Groupe Koma Zozan – “Em Kurdin”
(from Songs and Dances of Kurdistan, Arion)

Mohammad Rahim Khushnawaz – “Chaharbeiti Siahmu Wa Jalali”
(from Afghanistan: the Rubab of Herat, Ocora)

film by John Baily:

Various artists – “Kafkas Oyun Havasi”
(from Musiquies Villageois d’Anatolie, Ocora)

Various artists – “Legend of the Walled-In Woman”
(from Albania: Vocal & instrumental polyphonies, Ocora)

Groupe Koma Zozan – “Hey Gule Gulenim”
(from Songs and Dances of Kurdistan, Arion)

Ghedalia Tazartes – “Piste 01”
(from Checkpoint Charlie, Musea)

Local music for local people

Local acts we’re enjoying at the moment on Bradford Beat are dub punks Threshold Shift,  Leeds-based one-man harmonica blues explosion Billy DeLines and Bradford band Kingheadlock – all of whom feature on this week’s show.

Coming up soon in the next few weeks we also have new tracks by State of Error,  Alt-J and Our Albert.

This week’s full tracklisting:

Embrace – Fireworks
Kasabian – Let’s Just Roll Like We Used To
Billy DeLines – I’m A Blues Man
The Damned – Looking At You
Threshold Shift – Hang In There
Wild Beasts – All The King’s Men
Paul Curtis – Drinking Gin, Smoking Fags and Feeling Lonely
Half Man Half Biscuit – Something’s Rotten In The Back of Iceland
Pete and the Pirates – Blood Gets Thin
Kingheadlock – Bad Lands
Empire Safari – I Think We Drove Too Far
The National – Terrible Love
Pavement – Killing Moon

Eclectic Mainline 9th November 2011

One of my favourite tunes in tonight’s show was this one by Fujako:
1- FUJAKO Sulphur-Goat (feat. Sensational) by Fujako

If you fancy a week off from listening to Eclectic Mainline next Wednesday, I can recommend you go and see Anna Calvi at The Cockpit in Leeds.

If you wish to listen again to this show, you will find the link on the BCB Listen again page for today.

Loka – “The Sound Stars Make” (LP – “Passing Place”) (Ninja Tune)
Gary War – “Zontag” (single) (Care In The Community)
The Go! Team – “Rolling Blackouts” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Angel – “Dark Matter Leak” (LP – “26000”) (Editions Mego)
Billy Bragg – “Constitution Hill” (LP – “Fight Songs”) (Bragg Central)
Simian Ghost – “Bicycle Theme” (single) (Heist)
The Twilight Sad – “Sick” (single) (Fat Cat)
Fujako – “Sulfur Goat w/ Sensational” (LP – “Landform”) (Angstrom)
Mint Julep – “Why Don’t We” (single) (Village Green)
Mickey Moonlight – “A Big Ship Passing” (LP – “And The Time Axis Manipulation Corporation”) (Because)
Gruff Rhys – “Space Dust #2” (double a-side single with “Whale Trail”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
Group Niob – “Nexus” (“Nexus EP”) (Phlox)
Hanni El Khatib – “Dead Wrong” (single and LP -“Will The Guns Come Out”) (Innovative Leisure)
Nettle – “Khalid’s Song” (LP – “El Resplandor: The Shining In Dubai”) (Sub Rosa)
Anna Calvi – “Suzanne & I” (LP – “Anna Calvi”) (Domino)

Buffet #29 Buffet in Flames

So this month on Buffet Emma Bob 3 celebrated a birthday with cake and noise and Jenny Jet insulted my hair (only, in reality, I am not offended by comparisons to Barbara Dickson, she is a National Treasure after all). We also played fabulous music. You can, of course, listen to all of this here:  http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=3894

Our track list for this month:

1. Theme from JIM’LL FIX IT
2. THE RATTLES – The Witch
3. CSS – City Grrrl (Teeth Remix)
4. TEETH – Care Bear
5. KATE BUSH – Wild Man
6. BORIS – Spoon
7. AL GREEN – Here I Am
8. FIELD MUSIC – (I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing
9. CASPIAN – Further In
10. YAMASUKI – Yamasuki’s
11. TOUCH PEOPLE – Depth of Width Part 1
12. THE BULGARIAN STATE  TV FEMALE VOCAL CHOIR – Strati Na Angelati Donmascho
13. WILD FLAG – Short Version
14. JIMI HENDRIX – Fire

We are back on Saturday 3rd December with Christmas treats!

Big Love,

Team Buffet

x

A Going North selection of great music Monday 7th November 10-11pm

Going North from Nashville brings a selection of new music + a look back at some of the excellent bands who played Greenbelt 2011

Daniel Pearson: Wishing Well – a catchy single from this Leeds based artist’s debut album, Sattelites

Blue Flint: Missed the Boat – from their brilliant new album, Maudy Tree

Adam Cohen: What Other Guy – single from much plaudited 4th album, Like a Man…………followed by his Dad………..

Leonard Cohen – Hey, that’s no way to say Goodbye ( sigh from Sue!)

Maria Taylor: In a Bad Way – nice fragile, bluesy feel

Ahab: Wish You – country rock band who played this year’s Greenbelt, as did……

Idlewild: ( The Night Will) Bring You Back to Life

Gill Sandell: Fingers & Toes

Andy Doonan: The Woman that You Are – thoughtful song from York based singer’s debut album Lights & Mirrors

Paul Curereri: Nothing’s Changed, followed by two more Greenbelt artists……………..

Kate Rusby: Four Stars (sigh from John!)

Foriegn Slippers: Old Ghosts – Farewell to the Old Ghosts – a band well worth checking out

Ben Ottwell: No Obstacle – from Gomez main man’s solo debut Shapes & Shadows

Levi Weaver: Goodbye Vivian  – from fantastic new album The Letters of Kurt Goedel

When Big Joan Sets Up 27/10/11 – Get Bent, You Creep!

This week’s title is taken from ” The Creep” by Thee Cormans (note the extra “e” in the accepted garage rock stylee) which comes from their eexceelleent seasonal LP ‘Halloweeen with Sound EEffeects” on thee eeternally marvellous In Thee Red records. (Yeah , I’m bored of this joke now, too)

The remainder of this fine tune sounds like The Surfaris fighting off an unexpected crocodile attack and is as such , manna from heaven for your humble DJ – added to this three tracks from the excellent new LP from Dub masters Zion Train and the usual mixture of beeps, squeches and parps.

Vibezin – “Mad Sick” (EP – “From The Crates”) (Keysound)
Post War Glamour Girls – “Ode To Harry Dean” (7″) (Sturdy)
John Cooper-Clarke – “Post War Glamour Girl” (LP – “Disguise In Love”) (CBS)
Zion Train – “Great Leap Forward” (LP – “State Of Mind”) (Universal Egg)
Bonny Prince Billy – “There Will Be Spring” (LP -“Wolfroy Goes To Town”) (Drag City)
Bill Orcutt – “‘Til I Get Satisfied” (LP – “How The Thing Sings”) (Editions Mego)
Pascuale Massen – “Syntax Error 01” – (v/a download LP -“Hardtechno Destroyer Volume 5”) (Technosforza)
Zion Train – “State Of Mind” ( LP – “State Of Mind”) (Universal Egg)
Thee Cormans – “The Creep” (LP – “Halloween Record with Sound Effects”) (In The Red)
Brutal Truth – “Echo Friendly Discharge” (LP – “End Time”) (Relapse)
Lee Noble – “Crypticism” (LP – “Horrorism”) (Bathetic)
Fleetwood Mac – “Shake Your Money Maker” (LP – “Fleetwood Mac”) (Blue Horizon)
Lydia Loveless – “Crazy” (LP – “Indestructable Machine”) (Bloodshot)
Endsuer – “Distance” (LP – “Even Weight”) (Ad Noiseam)
Zion Train – “Share The Flame” (LP – “State Of Mind”) (Universal Egg)
Billy Childish and The Musicians of The British Empire – “Mommy Rolling Stone” (7″)( Damaged Goods)