Category Archives: Playlists

Tasty – Wed 23rd Feb, 9pm

Greetings to you!

Yet another tricky selection business this week….I’m juggling loads of great tunes. Here’s what came top of the list and made it onto the show:

Mazes – Most days
Dorian Concept – Her tears taste like pears
Anna Calvi – Blackout
Joan as Policewoman – Kiss the specifics
The Kills – Satellite
Cherbourg (BCB Session track from the archive) – Never love again
Gabby Young & Other Animals – Whose house (this band are originally from my neck of the woods in Wiltshire…saw them at WOMAD and loved them.)
Disco Machine Gun – The sirens (this is the b-side to their new single. They’re having a party on 9th April to launch the single – your name’s on the list).
Yimino (BCB Session track from the archives) – Q-bit
The Memory Band – A new skin
Olaf Arnalds – Surrender (feat. Bjork)
Malachai – Let em fall
East Park Reggae Collective – The Frontline (from Leeds, fans of La La and the Boo Ya will like this!)

Next week on the show we’ve got Duane Simon doing a bit of beat boxing and moon dancing – it’s gonna be great so tune in Wed 2nd March from 9pm on 106.6fm in Bradford or online at www.bcbradio.co.uk

Final word, if you like what we’ve been playing but you’ve missed the show then fear not! We’ve got a new listen again service – you can listen to your favourite programmes up to four weeks after they were broadcast. Click on this link: http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Eyes Wide Open

Blowin Weekly Extra

9-10pm Sunday 20 February 2011

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I know we haven’t yet converted all of you to the good Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band – perhaps we should have started with the accessible stuff, and held back the early groundbreaking tracks?

Anyroad, this week we have a great video to bring home to you the sheer CRAZY JOY they put out, short of seeing them in person on this fantastic tour following the Clear Spot and Spotlight Kid albums.

Ladeez, gennulmen, persons, live in Paris in 1973 – Click Clack! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ZMOKLsiuY

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Special delivery – The BCB Sessions, Wed 16th Feb

Hello you,

Thanks for checking into The BCB Sessions. I’m back from my travels and have got loads of new music to play you…hooray! Here’s what made the show on Wed 16th Feb:

Beardyman – Where does your mind go? (great one to get you going)
Gruff Rhys – Honey all over
Jesca Hoop – City bird (she’s coming to Leeds in March – check out leedsgigs.co.uk for date)
The Death Set – Slap slap slap pound up down snap (total blow out with this one!)
Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou (BCB Session) – Allotment song (from the archives. Get in touch if you’d like to come in and do a session – email me laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk and we’ll get you on the show).
Thomas Truax – February, what ya doing to me? (quirky monthly installment from TT – top talent)
Stateless – Song for the outsider
Gossip – Heavy cross
Disco Machine Gun – Weekend friends (DMG’s new single – launch on 9th April at Bradford Playhouse, be there).
Lia Ices – Love is won
Flats – Never again
Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern – Winter makes you want more
The Lodger (BCB Session) – I can’t stop
Suuns – Arena (in Leeds on Monday…should be fab).

Get in touch if you’re in a band and you’ve got a tune you’d like to get on the radio. Also, if you’ve got a gig you’d like us to plug – get in touch! laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

Eclectic Mainline 16th February 2011

The bad news is that if you missed tonight’s show, you missed what I think was the best all round selection of music I’ve played this year so far.

The good news is that BCB now has a listen again feature, so you can catch up any time! From our current BCB Listen Again feature you will need to select the ‘Specialist music’ category on the right. Then, all being well, you will be able to see my show, Eclectic Mainline, in the list and hey presto, as if by magic it’s 8pm on Wednesday all over again..!

As with last week, I playe a tune from the brilliant Modified Toy Orchestra album, Plastic Planet.  Here’s a video of them performing the song I played tonight:

Up above the world so high from Modified Toy Orchestra on Vimeo.

And here is the full list of tunes from tonight’s show:

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Selection Box Shows 159 & 160

I was informed this week of the exciting news that BCB has gone live with a Listen Again feature, which should make things a bit easier in terms of blogging, and it will now mean yet another way that you can decide not to listen to my programme.

However, due to a slight teething problem, Selection Box is currently missing form the Listen Again list, and as they only remain for a month and I am still over a month behind on playlists I’ll not use a link to the Listen Again feature just yet as I continue the catch up.

Courtesy of these lovely Soundcloud players you can listen to these shows again for a limited period (probably about the length of time it will take to stop vomiting after watching that Paul Whitehouse as a ghost advert). Sadly due to copyright and such blah the show cannot be made available as a downloadable file.

Selection Box Show 159 by PatrickSelectionBox

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The Blowin Weekly Extra – Those dogs know how to throw a party

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 13th February 2011
More tunes than time…
Blowin now online at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen to BCB on 106.6 FM or www.bcbradio.co.uk

Hands and feet, photo by Janine Gaunt

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Songs of Love & Hate’ on Going North from Nashville – a sideways glance at a Valentine’s theme. 10-11pm Monday 14th February.

To kick us off, some Hot Talk from Chuck Prophet

Then a tongue tied love song from Theo Gilmour: I Want to Tell You ( courtesy of Geroge Harrison)

Two love songs for Emmas – Dylan Le Blanc:  Emma Hartley

Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

Followed by one for an Echoe – M. Ward, Conor Oberst & Jim James:  Girl From the North Country

A couple of twisted songs of love – Josh Ritter : The Curse

Jim Clements & the Right to Die: Coming up Roses

Then Lucinda Williams, who wants to  Steal Your Love

A song from the love & hate man himself – Leonard Cohen:  Dance Me to the End of Love

A marriage proposal from Robert Plant & the Band of Joy:  Cindy, I’ll Marry You Someday

And some wise words from Neil Young: Only Love Can Break Your Heart

An optimistic love song – Sonnenberg :  Another Mile

Local lass, Blue Roses asks: Does Anyone love Me Now?

And a dark love song from The National : Conversation 16

DIY or Die goes LIVE!

diyordieBCB has a whole new show! From the the minds of Katie and Jen, former presenters of The Show, comes DIY or Die – a monthly look into the world of DIY music and culture in Bradford and beyond.

We have our own extra-special blog at network23.org/diyordie because we have so much stuff we want to tell people about – there’s also a zine in production that will be available for you look at online and in hard copy.

On our first ever show, we spoke to Jeffrey Lewis about the wonder of Crass, discussed the upcoming EqualFest happening at the 1 in 12 Club and found out about food foraging…

These are the musical selections we made –

MEN – Who Am I? (new single, featuring Anthony from Anthony and the Johnsons)

Jeffrey Lewis – ‘End Result’

Crass – ‘End Result’

Joe Tilston – ‘A Song For Old Friends’

Random Hand – ‘I, Human’ (from 2009 album Inhale/Exhale)

Autonomads – ‘Dubbin’ Up The Downfall’

Etai Keshaki – ‘Propaganda of the Deed’ (new exclusive track!)

Trash Kit – ‘Cadets’

Family Elan – misc live track.

Amanda Palmer – ‘Map of Tazmania’

DIY or Die goes out once a month on Saturdays at 5pm, and is repeated the following Monday at 10am and Tuesday at midnight. Thanks to the magic of the BCB website, you can also listen again. So no excuses.

Eclectic Mainline 9th February 2011

For me, personally, the most interesting records in my show last night were those by EVOL, Modified Toy Orchestra and Sven Kacirek.

I played 2 (or 1-and-a-bit, depending on how you look at it) tunes from the new Evol 12″.  And Evol’s record label, Alku have the most fantastic website URL: alkualkualkualkualkualkualkualkualkualku.org.

Modified Toy Orchestra produce the most amazing music as a result of instruments made by circuit bending. I’ll probably say more about them next week, when I shall also play a tune of theirs.

Sven Kacirek‘s new album, The Kenya Sessions, is a quite astonishing blend of field recordings made with musicians in Kenya, coulpled with his own added percussion.  “Turkey Dance” is one of my favourite tunes of 2011 so far:

Turkey Dance by Sven Kacirek

Here is a full list of last night’s tunes:

Benjamin Francis Leftwich – “Pictures” (“Pictures EP) (Dirty Hit)
The Walkmen – “Juveniles (Jacknife Lee Radio Mix)” (single) (Bella Union)
Austin Peralta – “The Underwater Mountain Odyssey” (LP – “Endless Planets”) (Brainfeeder)
EVOL – “Rave Slime” (12″ single, side A) (Alku)
Hannah Peel – “Don’t Kiss The Broken One” (LP – “The Broken Wave”) (Static Caravan)
Gregory Isaacs – “Cream Of The Crop” (2CD – “Night Nurse: The Best Of”) (Trojan)
EVOL – locked groove from side A of “Rave Slime” 12″ single (Alku)
Phosphorescent – “A Picture Of Torn Up Praise” (CD  – “Live/Ghost Lights”) (Dead Oceans)
Sven Kacirek – “Turkey Dance” (LP – “The Kenya Sessions”) (Pingipung)
Wye Oak – “The Alter” (single) (City Slang)
Modified Toy Orchestra – “Electric Rapture Because Of You” (LP – “Plastic Planet”) (Warm Circuit)
The Decemberists – “JUne Hymn” (LP – “The King Is Dead”) (Rough Trade)

Too Much, Too Young – 9th February

After several weeks of tardiness this is the first TMTY blog in the year of the rabbit.

The show returned to its usual format after last week’s Lunar New Year special although the original track listing had to be somewhat altered. Having attempted to attend a Japanther gig earlier this week, which was ultimately called off due to the drummer getting in a fight with a resident of Halifax, I sifted through their back catalogue looking for an appropriate song to play on the TMTY. Sadly it transpired the entire ouevre of the New York two piece is littered with the most taboo of language. Here, instead, is the more acceptable set list I plumped for:

Cut Copy – “Need You Now”
 The opening track of Zonoscope – the third album from Melbourne’s finest (released February 8th on Modular Recordings).

Foster the People – “Houdini”
Taken from their eponymous E.P. Foster The People. Catchy party anthem reminiscent of MGMT’s earlier material.

Chapel Club – “Surfacing“
The latest single to be taken from their album Palace. Originally set to be released as a single in 2009 but the song’s use of lyrics from Dream a Little Dream of Me caused a legal copyright wrangle.

Yang Jung-seung and Kim Ha-neul featuring Pepper – “Stars In The Night Sky”
Kim Ha-neul, the impossibly talented star of South Korean films such as My Girlfriend Is An Agent and Too Beautiful To Lie, turns her hand to singing and turns out to have an impossibly sweet vocal timbre. Released as a single on February 8th.

British Sea Power – “Heavy Water”
The final track on British Sea Power’s latest LP Valhalla Dancehall. One of the album’s stadout compositions.

Futurist – “Anti Hero”
From the Brooklyn based band’s forthcoming album “War is Yesterday” due out in May. The song’s music video, which can be found by clicking the above hyperlink, is as warm and as enjoyable as the song itself.

Motive – “Nobody Eats My Dinner”
Available as a free, and more importantly legal, download here as one of six songs which make up the Brooklyn band’s self titled EP. Features some amusingly overly self indulgent lyrics sung with total po faced piety.

Smith Westerns – “All Die Young”
As melancholic as the title would suggest. The grandiose composition, which bears similarity to some of Chris Bell’s more yearning numbers, can be found on the band’s second album Dye It Blonde.