I didn’t have a new show last week, Wednesday 16th November.  A pre-record, including a few gems from recent years, was broadcast instead. If you wish to listen again, you can do so here.  This is what went out:

Peter Broderick – “Games” (LP – “Home”) (Bella Union)
Battles – “Atlas” (LP – “Mirrored”) (Warp)
James Yorkston – “5 a.m.” (BCB session)
Teenage Fanclub – “It’s All In My Mind” (LP – “Manmade”) (Pema)
Slow Club – “When I Go” (BCB session)
The Knife – “Heartbeats (live)”
Camera Obscura – “French Navy” (LP – “My Maudlin Career”) (4AD)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “Irk The Purists” (LP – “Trouble Over Bridgewater”) (Probe Plus)
Frightened Rabbit – “Fast Blood” (BCB session)
The Low Lows – “Five Ways I Didn’t Die” (BCB session)
Brakes – “Consumer, Producer, A Chicken Or An Egg” (BCB session)
Boards Of Canada – “Roygbiv” (LP – “Music Has The Right To Children”) (Warp)
Neil McSweeney – “Remember To Smile” (BCB session)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Emily Jean Stock” (LP – “Some Loud Thunder”) (Wichita)
Micah P. Hinson – “Beneath The Rose” (BCB session)
Fleet Foxes – “Your Protector” (LP – “Fleet Foxes”) (Bella Union)
Nina Nastasia – “Stormy Weather” (BCB session)
The Broken Family Band – “Give And Take” (BCB session)
Trashcan Sinatras – “Weightlifting” (LP – “Weightlifting”) (Spin Art Records)

I did, however, do a new show tonight.  If you wish to listen again, you will find the show on this page of the BCB Listen again service.  Here’s one of the tunes I played:

Forest Fire – Future Shadows (FatCat Single ds7fat107) by Fat Cat Records

And this is the full show’s tracklist:

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Tonight I dedicated a Billy Bragg song to the group of people who have been camped out in Centenary Square in Bradford for the past week, under the name Occupy Bradford. I think it’s highly admirable that people up and down the country, across the western world in fact,  are saying “We are the 99 per cent“.  This has restored some of my faith that we’re not all doomed.  People do have power.  Billy Bragg would no doubt have a great to say on this, and may well do when he brings his Left Field In Motion tour to Yorkshire.

Politics aside, my favourite tune in tonight’s show was this one by Simian Ghost:
Simian Ghost – Free Agent by Heist Or Hit

You can listen again to the whole show, by looking down this page for Eclectic Mainline.  Here is a full list of what I played:

The War On Drugs – “Come To The City” (single and LP – “Slave Ambient”) (Secretly Canadian)
Mika Vainio – “Mining” (LP – “Life (…it eats you up)” (Editions Mego)
Big Deal – “With The World At My Feet” (LP – “Lights Out”) (Mute)
Container – “Rattler” (LP – “LP”) (Spectrum Spools/Editions Mego)
Frank Turner – “Wessex Boy” (single and LP – “England Keep My Bones”) (Xtra Mile)
Hooray For Earth – “True Loves” (single and LP – “True Loves”) (Memphis Industries)
Byetone – “Helix” (LP – “Symeta”) (Raster Noton)
Simian Ghost – “Free Agent” (single with “Bicycle Theme”) (Heist)
Pharoah Chromium – “Tim Pan Alley” (LP – “Electric Cremation”) (Grautag)
Pharoah Chromium – “The Embryo Hunts In Secret” (LP – “Electric Cremation”) (Grautag)
Billy Bragg – “Old Clash Fan Fight Song” (LP – “Fight Songs”) (Bragg Central)
DJ Food feat. JG Thirlwell – “Prey”) (EP – “Magpies, Maps and Moons”) (Ninja Tune)
Starkey – “Open The Pod Bay Doors (Part One)” (EP – “Open The Pod Bay Doors”) (Ninja Tune)

There were several tunes tonight that I thought were amazing.  Here’s one of them:

Container – Application by coracle

You can listen again to the whole show until mid-November.

Here is a full list of what I played tonight:

The Phoenix Foundation – “Bright Grey” (single and LP – “Buffalo”) (Memphis Industries)
Mark McGuire – “Get Lost” (LP – “Get Lost”) (Editions Mego)
Piney Gir – “Friends and Neighbours” (LP – “Geronimo!”) (Damaged Goods)
Starkey – “Villagers Tester” (EP – “Open The Bay Doors”) (Ninja Tune)
Broken.Heart.Collector – “Get The Dog” (LP – “Broken.Heart.Collector”) (Discorporate)
Low Bias – “La Mosca” (LP – “The Ash And The Oak”) (Trace)
Amadou Ballaké et l’Orchestre Super Volta- “Sali” (Various Artists LP – “Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979”) (Analog Africa)
Container – “Application” (LP – “LP”) (Spectrum Spools)
R. Stevie Moore – “Food & War” (single) (Care In The Community Recordings)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Pear Tree” (LP – “In The Pit Of The Stomach”) (Fat Cat)
Gardens & Villa – “Spacetime” (LP – “Gardens & Villas”) (Secretly Canadian)
Mr Scruff – “Feel It!” (single) (Ninja Tune)

I was unable to get into BCB to do a new show this week, so instead a previous show was repeated.  I thought a ‘timeless special’ show was going to be broadcast, but in fact it was my show from 14th September that was repeated.  Thanks to Phil Cope for alerting me to which show it was.  This is what I played:

PJ Harvey – “The Glorious Land” (LP – “Let England Shake”) (Island)
Mister Heavenly – “I Am A Hologram” (single and LP – “Out Of Love”) (Sub Pop)
Cindytalk – “I See You Uncovered” (LP – “Hold Everything Dear”) (Editions Mego)
Emika – “FM Attention” (LP – “Emika”) (Ninja Tune)
Loudon Wainwright III – “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry” (LP – “Album III / Attempted Mustache / Unrequited”) (T-Bird)
Abdoulaye Cissé – “Kodjougou” (Various Artists LP – “Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979”) (Analog Africa)
Slow Club – “You, Earth or Ash” (LP – “Paradise”) (Moshi Moshi)
Josh T. Pearson – “Sorry With A Song” (single and LP – “Last Of The Country Gentlemen”) (Mute)
Martyn – “Love And Machines (ft Spaceape” (LP – “Ghost People”) (Brainfeeder)
Fruit Bats – “Picture Of A Bird” (LP – “Tripper”) (Sub Pop)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Medicine” (single) (Fat Cat)
Ergo Phizmiz – “The Music Man” (download from www.careinthe.com) (Care In The Community Recordings)
Hanni El Khatib – “I Got A Thing” (single) (Innovative Leisure)
TEETH – “Care Bear (Extreme Animals Remix)”
Shabazz Palaces – “Recollections Of The Wraith” (single and LP – “Black Up”) (Sub Pop)
Ganglians – “Drop The Act”

Here’s the Hanni El Khatib tune I played tonight:

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. – Hanni El Khatib by Redeye Distribution

If you missed any of the show, you can catch up on the BCB Listen Again service.

Here is a full list of tonight’s tunes:

Roll The Dice – “The Suck” (LP – “In Dust”) (Leaf)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Sore Thumb” (LP – “In The Pit Of The Stomach”) (Fat Cat)
Ergo Phizmiz – “Food & War” (single) (Care In The Community Recordings)
Arctic Monkeys – “Suck It And See” (single and LP – “Suck It And See”) (Domino)
Slugabed – “Sun Too Bright Turn It Off” (EP – “Sun Too Bright Turn It Off”) (Ninja Tune)
Tim Kasher – “Trees Keep Growing” (LP – “Bigamy: More Songs From The Monogamy Sessions”) (Affairs Of The Heart)
Piney Gir – “Say Goodbye” (LP – “Geronimo!”) (Damaged Goods)
dEUS – “Twice (We Survive)” (LP – “Keep You Close”) (Play It Again Sam)
Mangue Konde et Le Super Mandé – “Kabendo” (Various Artists LP – “Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979”) (Analog Africa)
Hanni El Khatib – “Build. Destroy. Rebuild.” (Lp -“Will The Guns Come Out”) (Innovative Leisure)
Loudon Wainwright III – “Come A Long Way” (LP – “Album III / Attempted Mustache / Unrequited”) (T-Bird)
Starkey – “Beta Tester” (EP – “Open The Bay Doors”) (Ninja Tune)
Josh T. Pearson – “Country Dumb (Live At The Union Chapel)” (LP – “The King Is Dead – Live At The Union Chapel”) (Mute)