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When Big Joan Sets Up 21st April – The Return of The Wrinkled Retainer

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Every year since When Big Joan Sets Up came screeching into a hostile world back in 2006, for one week a year we have put aside our commitment to new music (why I’m referring to myself as “we” as if the progamme is put together by an assemblage of like minded enthusiasts, when in actuality, it is created by me hunched quasimodally over a virus ridden computer in a foul smelling back bedroom festooned with Everest like piles of 7″ singles, yellowing back issues of the NME and curiously, a ukelele which I don’t remeber having bought , I don’t know) to bring you an installment of the “Rawlinson End” saga as recorded periodically for John Peel’s peerless Radio 1 programmes between 1977 and 1990 by the late great Vivian Stanshall.

This is done for two reasons. Firstly because these grotesquely surreal vignettes are among the greatest radio broadcasts of our age, and, more pertinently, because I can’t hear Sir Henry Rawlinson’s butler Old Scrotum described as “the wrinkled retainer” without snorting like a Swallow Bellied Mangalitsa with rabies.

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If you too have a favourite breed of pig, please feel free to add a comment.

Monkey Maffia – “Yo Baby Yo” (v/a LP – “Kompakt Benefit Compilation for Japan”) (Kompakt Japan) availble from http://kompakt-japan-benefit.bandcamp.com/
Meat Curtains – “I Hate Rock n Roll” (Cassette – “Eden Disorder”) (Scotch Tapes)
The Germs – “Sugar Sugar” (LP – “Germicide”) (Bomp)
cp – “Smoke Crack With Whitney (Long Love Version)” (download EP “I’ve Been Really Trying, Baby”) (Self Released)
Trap Them – “St. Peelers” (LP -“Darker Handcraft”) (Prosthetic)
Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight – “Curse The Day” (LP – “The Days That Shaped Me”) (One Little Indian)
African Headcharge – “Undulating” (LP – “Voodoo Of The Godsent”) (On-U-Sound)
Vivian Stanshall – “An Absence of Whelks (Part 34)” (John Peel Session)
FFF – “Acceler8” (LP – 20,000 Hardcore Members Can’t Be Wrong) (Murder Channel)
A Grave With No Name – “Streams” (7″) (No Pain In Pop)
Orchestre Poly – Rhythmo De Cotonou – “Ma Vie” (LP -“Cotonou Club”) (Strut)
Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Stompers – “Carnival In Caroline” (LP – ‘Duke Ellington At The Cotton Club”) (Storyville)

The blowin Weekly Extra – 6852

Blowin Weekly Extra

9-10pm Sunday 24 April 2011

Blowin online http://blowin.podomatic.com

BCB 106.6 FM and www.bcbradio.co.uk

Near Wycoller

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for Steve

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We were talking about what we did on the last royal parasite wedding day, in 1981. I vaguely remembered the pubs being open all day, an extraordinary event then. We trotted round Manningham via a series of pints in pubs that no longer exist or have become sari shops or halal butchers. Elsewhere, Jon was twitting around on his mateâ€™s motorbike and Chris was in Sudan blissfully unaware.

Ben had a different tale:

“The Wednesday of 29 July 1981 is etched on my memory because it was the night my brother and sister were arrested for civil disobedience during the notorious South African Springbok Rugby Tour of New Zealand.

A group of students, including my brother and sister, broke into the New Zealand Rugby Football Union’s Wellington HQ and tossed the upcoming Wellington Test tickets out the window before barricading themselves in. They were then arrested.

Meanwhile on the streets of the capital riot police were unleashed on non-violent protestors attempting to march on Parliament, which was debating the already divisive SA tour. After pushing the police lines back the â€˜Redâ€™ and â€˜Blueâ€™ riot squads were set on the unarmed and peaceful demonstrators. They proceeded to indiscriminately smash the front few rows of the march in the head with their new PR24 US batons*.

Men, women, children were beaten. Blood on the street. Nice. I was on the edge of the demo that night, but it was too heavy for me so I went home for my tea. I was 16 years old.

Oh yes, the wedding was on TV, at about 11pm NZ time, but after I took the call from the Central Police Station saying my siblings had been arrested we weren’t paying much attention. To this day Iâ€™m afraid I so dislike the Afrikaans/Boers. It’s an irrational racist part of me.

After 29 July â€œthe Tourâ€ (as it was known) got really nasty. Attempts to disrupt the games were met with a solid line of police brutality and barbed wire. We used to spend our Saturdays playing cat and mouse with the police, practicing mass disobedience by blocking motorways and roads in advance of the 2nd Test.

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Humour on the radio! Going North from Nashville Monday 25th April 10-11pm

You’ll be rolling in the aisles listening to our selection of songs with a humourous theme!

Johnny Flynn: Tickle Me PinkÂ , gets us off to an appropriate start, then a a sideways look at romance………..

Josh Ritter: Next to the Last Romantic

AÂ taste of 60’s humour……..

Tom Paxton: Talking Pop Art

Janice Joplin: Mercedes Benz

Travelling Wilburyâ€™s 3: Wilbury TwistÂ – supergroup laughs, followed by a touch of irony………

Alanis Morrisette : Ironic

Humour at the expense of the 60’s………..

Luke Powers: Mr Yeah Yeah Yeah

Mike Scott: Beatles Reunion Blues

The comedy duo that is…………….

Bob Dylan: Po Boy

Leonard Cohen: Jazz Police

Loudon Wainright 111: High Wide & HandsomeÂ ………..the funny one of the family?

Jim Clements & the Right to Die: St Christopherâ€™s BluesÂ – inspired by a papal edict!

Judee Sill: The Lamb Ran Away with the CrownÂ – she laughed so hard she cried……….followed by a riddle……….

Billy Bragg & Wilco: I Was Born

Frank Turner: Try this at Home – humour at the expense of the noble art of songwriting!

Seasick Steve: Happy ManÂ – say no more!

Eclectic Mainline 20th April 2011

I somehow managed to get a lot into tonight’s show, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.Â I hope you did too.Â Here’s a video for one of the two Retina.It tunes I played.Â I’m not entirely sure how official this video is, but it gives you a good idea of the tune if you missed the show. If you want to hear the show again, there’s a link at the bottom of this blog where you can do just that.

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

Arctic Monkeys – “Don’t Sit Down, ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair” (single) (Domino)
Retina.It – “Gravitational Collapse” (LP – “Randomicon”) (FlatMate)
Retina.It – “These Attractors (Toten)” (LP – “Randomicon”) (FlatMate)
Let’s Wrestle – “In Dreams Part II” (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Beat Connection – “Wildheart” (LP – “Surf Noir”) (Tender Age)
Sarabeth Tucek – “Get Well Soon” (LP – “Get Well Soon”) (Sonic Cathedral)
Cloud Control – “This Is What I Said” (single) (Ivy League)
Mouvement Situationniste – “Mouvement Situationniste” (Various Archives LP – “Historische Aufnahmen / Historical Records 1”) (Gagarin)
Gagarin – “KEDR” (single) (Geo Records)
EMA – “Milkman” (single) (Souterrain Transmissions)
Paris Suit Yourself – “Sometimes (M.E.S.H. Remix)” (single) (Big Dada)
The High Llamas – “The Ring Of Gold” (LP – “Talahomi Way”) (Drag City)
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX – “I’ve Been Me [Interlude]” (LP – “We’re New Here”) (Young Turks / XL)
Josh T. Pearson – “Woman When I’ve Raised Hell” (single and LP – “Last Of The Country Gentlemen”) (Mute)
Matthewdavid – “Today, Same Way” (LP – “Outmind”) (Brainfeeder)
The Go! Team – “Apollo Throwndown” (single and LP – “Rolling Blackouts”) (Memphis Industries)
Emika – “Count Backwards (Marcel Dettmann Vocal Edit)” (single) (Ninja Tune)

And if you did miss the show, you can catch up again on the BCB Listen Again service for the next 28 days.

World Waves, Tuesday 12th April 2011

PLAYLIST FOR 12/04/2011

listen again HERE

Zia – “Helelyos”
(from Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk and Psyche of the 60s and 70s, Finders Keepers)

Toaca – Evening at a Moldavian Monastery

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When Big Joan Sets Up 14th April – Made in Japan

Hey popkids . The big noise on this week’s prgramme came from Autechre who have realsed a collosall 11:40 track called “6852” as a free gift for everyone who buys ticket for ATP’s Made in Japan benefit, which is hopefully sold out by now, but you could try www.atpfestival.com/newsview/1103241000.php if you like.

Battles – “Futura” (LP – “Gloss Drop”) (Warp)
Elmore James – “Dust My Broom” (LP – “The Sky Is Crying”) (Sony)
Low – “Done” (LP – “C’Mon”) (Sub Pop)
Sun Araw – “Bump Up” (7″ “Houston Abstros”) (Monofonous Press)
Fresh – “The Gatekeeper” (EP – “Future Jungle”) (Ram)
Holy Cobras – “Night Fighter Part 1” (LP – “Forever”) (Telephone Explosion)
Prince Jammy – “Get Ready For Dub” (4 CD Box -“The EvolUtuon Of Dub Volume 6: Was Prince Jammy An Astronaut?”)
Robot Koch and John Robinson – “The Future” (LP – ‘Robot Robinson”) (Project Mooncircle)
Bill Callahan – “Drover” (LP – “Apocalypse”) (Drag City)
The Fall – “Zagreb Movements 1, 11, 111” (EP – “The Dredger EP”) (Fontana)
Autechre – “6852” (download free with ticket bought for ATP’s “Made in Japan” Benefit. Go hereÂ – for details)
Unkle feat Nick Cave – “Money and Run” (EP – “Only The Lonley”) (Surrender All)

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Space

Blowin Weekly Extra

9-10pm Sunday 17 AprilÂ 2011

Blowin online http://blowin.podomatic.com

BCB 106.6 FM and www.bcbradio.co.uk

Staring into space

Tuneyards – aka Merrill Garbus – has a new album, Whokill, being streamed at

www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/apr/11/tune-yards-whokill-album-stream

and www.npr.org/2011/04/10/135175577/first-listen-tune-yards-w-h-o-k-i-l-l

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Tariq Ali visits Leeds

Tariq Ali: Eight Meditations on War and Peace Thu 21 April 7.30pm Â£12.50 Howard Assembly Room

“One of the countryâ€™s most vocal cultural analysts and author, Tariq Ali comes to Leeds to speak about the impacts of war on literature and music. Followed by a live performance of composer Oliver Messiaenâ€™s masterwork,Quartet for the End of Time, written for fellow inmates in a German prisoner of war camp in 1941, played by members of the Orchestra of Opera North.”

www.operanorth.co.uk/events/talk-tariq-ali-eight-meditations-on-war-peace

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Free bandstand concerts in Roberts Park, Saltaire, start on 22 May

Sundays and Bank Holiday MondaysÂ 2-4.15pm, free,Â donations welcome.

http://www.saltairevillage.info/forum/view_topic.php?id=714&forum_id=17

Including 29 May, Tim Moon/Marcus Green.

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Eclectic Mainline 13th April 2011

record-store-day-2011 It only seems like 364 days since I previewed Record Store Day 2010.Â Little did I realise at the time, as I planned my trip into Leeds, that I would be approximately the 100th person to be queuing outside Crash Records when I got there at approximately 08:20 on the day itself.Â And little did I realise that it would be over 2 hours before I actually got into the shop.Â Oh the enthusiasm of youth.

This year I’m delaying my trip into Leeds untilÂ the afternoon of Record Store Day, and will simply accept the fact that I won’t even be close to beating the donkey-raping shit-eaters* who buy things simply to make a profit from them on eBay.

There are a few things I’m hoping won’t have sold out, but I’m not telling you what in case I tempt fate, and I don’t end up getting them.Â I’m particularly interested by the line-up of artists performing at Jumbo Records on Record Store Day.Â I will probably be there at about the time when The Singing Adams are perfoming.Â It will be nice to say hello to Steve Adams again, as his former band, The Broken Family Band, are the only band who I have had the pleasure of recording sessions with twice here at BCB.

Owiny Sigoma Band are a band who I played in my show tonight, because ‘Wires’ is coming out as a 12″ single on Record Store Day.Â Here’s an introduction to the band:

In other news, you might have recently heard me playing some songs from the excellent new 3CD set The Bullet Records Story.Â Our Phil Cope has written an excellent review of the set which I would like to suggest you read.Â And it seems a mutual back-slapping is the order of the day, as he has just told me he is enjoying my show more than he has ever done before.

Speaking of me playing songs, here’s whatÂ I played tonight:

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When Big Joan Sets Up – Lazy DJ gives Two for one

Once again I’ve fallen behind in my blog up dating duties due to the killer mix of work, decorating and idleness.
So here’s the last two weeks

7th April
Anne James Chaton – “Vendredi, 26 Juin 2009” (LP – “Evenements 09”) (Raster- Norton)
Sonic Youth – “Chez Yves (Alice et Clara)” (LP -“Simon Werner a Disparu”) (SYR)
Cliff Richard and The Shadows – “I Cannot Find a True Love” (LP “Me and My Shadows”) (Columbia)
Fourward – “Excessive Use” (v/a LP -“Bad Taste Volume 4”) (Bad Taste)
Tyvek – “Time Change” (7″) (Les Disques Steak)
Laura Cantrell – “Letters She Sent” (available from http://radiofreesongclub.com/songs)
Cornell Campbell – “Fight Against Corruption” (Split download LP with Barry Brown – “Head 2 Head Volume 1”) (Culture Town)
The Eternals – “Symmetric Children” (LP- “Approaching The Energy Field”) (Addenda/Submarine)
The Kinks – “Cadillac – Live on Saturday Club” (LP – ‘The Kinks – Deluxe Edition”) (Sanctuary)
The Fall – “You’re Not Up To Much” (LP – “Middle Class Revolt”) (Permanent)
Alert – “Fracture” (download) (Oblivion Fringe)
The Vivian Girls – “Sixteen Ways” (LP – “Share The Joy”) (Polyvinyl)
The Vivian Girls – “Death” (LP – “Share The Joy”) (Polyvinyl)
The Vivian Girls – “Light In Your Eyes” (LP – “Share The Joy”) (Polyvinyl)
DJ Format – “Here Comes the Dope Pusher – B-Boy Version” (EP – “Mr. DJ”) (Project Blue Book)
Beenie Man – “Tell a Gall” (no label)

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