Here’s the list from last night’s show:
Category Archives: Eclectic Mainline
Eclectic Mainline 6th January 2010
Yes, I know, I’m dead late with this one. So late in fact that as I write it’s less than 3 hours til this week’s show! In which, dear reader/listener, you can win the fantastic Rough Trade Shops Indie Pop 09 compilation.
Anyway, that’s the future, and this is the past:
Charlotte Gainsbough feat. Beck – Heaven Can Wait
Good Shoes – Under Control
Lou Rhodes – There for the taking
Nice Nice – See Waves
Yeasayer – Ambling Alps
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Journey (The Road OST)
Beach House – Norway
Tamikrest – Tamiditin
The Notwist – Boneless (Grizzly Bear remix)
Aphex Twin – Acrid Avid Jam Shred
Iron And Wine – Such Great Heights
Mus̩e M̩caniques РLike Home
White Rabbits – Percussion Gun
Low – Taking Down The Tree
Lawrence Arabia – Dream Teacher
Iron And Wine album competition
This week on BCB we are giving away Around The Well, the 2009 compilation by Iron And Wine.
Iron & Wine - Around The Well
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is email us with the answer to this simple question:
What are you most likely to find at the bottom of a well?
A) water
B) parsnips
C) elephants
Email your answers to studio [at] bcbradio.co.uk by midnight on Sunday 10th January. Please put Iron and Wine competition in the subject line of the email.
2009: And thus Albert spake
Strauss and Swann as England won the Ashes, 23rd August
I know, I know, who needs another look back at the musical year that will forever be remembered as 2009? Well, I for one need to jot down a few notes about the year’s music, if only for myself to look back on in my dotage. If anybody else is interested by what I write here too, then that’s a bonus. I’ll try and make that the only clichéd sentence though..!
Eclectic Mainline 30th December 2009
So, dear listeners, it is now 2010, and it seems awfully old fashioned of me to talk about last year, but you see, the thing is, I haven’t yet told you what I played in my last show of the year on 30th December. Â This was part of our Warp Records night on BCB, so sandwiched in the middle of my show was a Warp20 (Minutes) mix of tunes on said record label, celebrating their 20th anniversary. Â This is what I played:
APSE – 3.1
Phosphorescent – Can I Sleep In Your Arms
Magnetic Fields – We Are Having A Hootenanny
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
Vic Chesnutt – Like A Monkey In A Zoo [RIP Vic Chessnutt]
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Warp20 (Minutes) mix:
Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Autechre – Rale
Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others
Aphex Twin – Girl/Boy Song
Gonjasufi – Kowboyz&Indians
Sqarepusher/AFX – Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid
Battles – Atlas
Bibio – Kaini Industries
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Flight Of The Conchords – Hurt Feelings
Big Star – Blue Moon [played because 31st December was indeed a blue moon]
Camera Obscura – French Navy
Antoine Dougb̩ & Orcheste Poly-Rythmo РYa Mi Ton Gbo (Legends Of Benin compilation)
Phil Cope and Laura Rawlings also devoted a third of their shows that night to Warp20 (minutes) mixes.
And, if it doesn’t seem ludicrously old fashioned, I would still like to write a bit of a blog looking back at 2009, so I may yet still do that.
Eclectic Mainline 23rd December 2009
There were three main aspects to last night’s show: new releases, some more of 2009’s highlights, and some Festive tunes. The list of tunes played is beneath this marvellous video for one of them:
Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar from ATP Recordings on Vimeo.
The Phantom Band album competition
This week on BCB we are giving away Checkmate Savage, the debut album by The Phantom Band.
The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savate
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is email us with the answer to this simple question:
In which of the following board games are you most likely to reach checkmate?
A) Ludo
B) Connect 4
C) Chess
Email your answers to studio [at] bcbradio.co.uk by midnight on Sunday 27th December. Please put The Phantom Band competition in the subject line of the email. The winner will be drawn next Wednesday in my show, between 8 and 9pm.
Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
I look back on (or listen back to?) 1997 rather fondly. In no particular order, the following artists released memorable albums in 1997: Elliott Smith, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Blur, Mogwai, Radiohead, Tindersticks, Super Furry Animals, Robert Wyatt, Cornershop, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream, The Verve and Spiritualized.  Top of my list though is Spiritualized‘s Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space.  Now, 12 years on, the album has been remastered and expanded.  This is the first occasion I can think of where an album has been given a makeover when I already thought it sounded as good as an album ever could.  So, unlike this year’s Big Star, The Stone  Roses, Neil Young and The Beatles remasters, the appeal here wasn’t for a better sound, but the inclusion of the rare original version of the title track, and a host of studio outtakes (on the two new expanded versions of the album)….and of course, an excuse to write about the album!
Ladies and Gentlemen... pill pack re-issue
Eclectic Mainline 16th December 2009
This show was a bit of a mixture between new releases and also a look back at some of 2009’s personal highlights for me (video for one of them below). More of those to come next week as well.
The full list of last night’s show:
The Antlers album competition
This week on BCB we are giving away Hospice, the debut album by The Antlers.
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is email us with the answer to this simple question:
Which of the following festive animals have antlers?
A) Turkeys
B) Reindeer
C) Elves
Email your answers to studio [at] bcbradio.co.uk by midnight on Sunday 20th December. Â The winner will be drawn next Wednesday in my show, between 8 and 9pm.
This week on BCB we are giving away Hospice, the debut album by The Antlers.
The Antlers - Hospice
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is email us with the answer to this simple question:
Which of the following festive animals have antlers?
A) Turkeys
B) Reindeer
C) Elves
Email your answers to studio [at] bcbradio.co.uk by midnight on Sunday 20th December.  Please put Antlers competition in the subject line of the email. The winner will be drawn next Wednesday in my show, between 8 and 9pm.