Category Archives: The BCB Sessions

Matters relating to Laura Rawlings’ BCB show, entitled The BCB Session, broadcast on Wednesdays at 9pm (UK time).

Wed 18th – The BCB Sessions show

Greetings one & all,

Loads to report so here goes…

Competitions for bands / musicians and chance to be a singer!
You can win Andrew Bird‘s latest album – check out Eclectic Mainline (Wed, 8pm & DJ Alb’s blog)!
Your chance to win money, slot on stage, kit, endorsements….worldwide fame and fortune (well, maybe):
Check out www.surfaceunsigned.co.uk for details & online applications.

Create the soundtrack for Yorkshire County Cricket Club…
YCCC is looking for talented unsigned Yorkshire bands to send their music and become part of the Club’s official soundtrack to the 2010 season. They’re looking for music of all genres to reflect the highs and lows of a Yorkshire cricket season.
Contact James Butler: comps@yorkshireccc.com

Meet Me In Vegas are currently auditioning for a new singer (can be male or female)…
If you’d like to give it a shot contact chrisdabass@hotmail.com (07974 317 284)

I love this band & we’ve got session arranged once they’ve got a new singer so get a move on and help them out.

Good luck!

I’ve sorted the playlist for the show and it reads a little something like this: Continue reading →

The BCB Sessions playlist for Wed 11th Nov

friska viljor – old man
Asobi Seksu – Layers
Jaga Jazzist – one armed bandit
Black Feathered Feet (BCB Session) – Desert
We Fell To Earth – Deaf
Blockhead – The Music Scene
Wilful Missing – Escher Flight
Serious Sam Barrett – Heather
Black Feathered Feet (BCB Session) – Grain & Astpertame
Miike Snow – A Horse is not a home
Passionpit – Little Secrets
Beniton the menace – Star is born (pot luck track…never heard of the artist before & haven’t listened to the tune – all about viagra, ho ho).
Black Feathered Feet (BCB Session) – She

If you’d like to get your songs played on t’radio, send me a message and I’ll be in touch – hopefully with a yaya.

Lx

The BCB Sessions 4th November 2009

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance the way I Feel (Armand Van Helden Radio Edit)
We Were Promised Jet Packs – It’s Thunder and It’s Lightening
iLiKETRAiNS interview
iLiKETRAiNS (BCB SESSION) – Siren
Laura Gibson – Spirited
Royal Bangs – Gorilla King
Blue Roses interview
Blue Roses – Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
Maggie8 – Carry On
iLiKETRAiNS (BCB SESSION) – Untitled
Gig guide
Cold Cave – Cebe Me
iLiKETRAiNS – Sea of Regrets

Selection Box Show 110 – Kate Walsh interview special

As previewed in my last blog entry, this week’s show featured an interview with the frankly lovely Kate Walsh, recorded a few hours prior to her show at the Brudenell Social Club in That There Fancy Leeds.

The scarf isn't hiding lovebites, y'know.

The scarf isn't hiding lovebites, y'know.

Walsh’s current album Light & Dark – which I reviewed here – is the follow-up to the iTunes # 1 album Tim’s House (although a disgracefully low 75 in the proper charts), released in 2007.  Since that time she’s flirted with a major label who obviously sniffed a star in the making, only for her to decide that this was not the way she wanted to take her work forward, preferring to release on her own label Blueberry Pie.

It’s probably a wise move, as its tempting to think that the pressures from the suits in the corporate boardroom would try to push Kate Walsh into swooning songbird frippery which is not her idiom.  To steal a phrase from my own previous blog entry, the strength of Walsh’s alarmingly candid and beautifully stark songwriting is that she realises that true art lies in reigning in the excesses of the emotional.

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The BCB Sessions 28th October 2009

Big Pink – Velvet
The Very Best Of – Julia
Wavves – Mickey Mouse
Neil McSweeney (BCB Session) – Remember to smile
Girls – Morning Light
Soulsavers – Unbalanced pieces
Eagles of Death Metal – Now I’m a fool
Neil McSweeney (BCB Session) – Flowers
Shamanix (Northern Glory) – Smiling Coasts
Black Diamond Bay (Northern Glory) – Peace
Neil McSweeney (BCB Session) – Sunrise
Jaga Jazzist – One Armed Bandit
Neil McSweeney (BCB Session) – London Road

The Twilight Sad album competition

Here at BCB we are giving away two copies of Forget The Night Ahead, the new album by The Twilight Sad.  We have given you the chance to win in my Eclectic Mainline show and also in Laura’s  show, The BCB Sessions.  Now you can also enter the competition here on Untitled Noise…read on!

The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead

The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead

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The BCB Sessions playlist 21st October 2009

Amazing Baby – Kankra
Tender Trap – Fireworks
Stained Glass Heroes – Insects
Bookworms interview (BCB Session)
Bookworms (BCB Session) – You Happy Puppet
Cate le bon – Hollow Trees House Hounds
The ‘A’ Train – Come Hell or High Water
Bilge Pump – Thank you very much
Just Handshakes (we’re British) – Paper Cranes
Bookworms (BCB Session) – Cassenova Years
PASSIONPIT – Little Secrets
Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t see Land
Bookworms (BCB Session) – This Old Town

The BCB Sessions 14th October 2009

Tilly & The Wall – Falling Without Knowing (Skibunny Remix)
Love Is All – Wishing Well
Royal Bangs – Conquest II
Fink – See It All
Maggie8 Interview (BCB Session)
Maggie8 (BCB Session) – Panther
Cold Cave – Death Comes Close
friska viljor – old man
Black Diamond Bay (Northern Glory) – Peace
Maggie8 (BCB Session) – Happy Underground
Meet Me In Vegas (Northern Glory) – Or Maybe Later
The Bloody Beetroots feat. Cool Kids – Awesome
The Miserable Rich – Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics Cover)
Maggie8 (BCB Session) – Carry On

The BCB Sessions with Willard Grant Conspiracy

CHEW LiPS – Salt Air
The Rakes – The Light From Your Mac
The Big Pink – Velvet
Willard Grant Conspiracy interview
Willard Grant Conspiracy (BCB Session) – Drunkard’s Prayer
Joan as Policewoman – Britney Spears’ cover, Protected
Devandra Banhard – Baby
Bonobo – The Keeper Ft. Andreya Triana
Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension
So Shush – Sixties Planet
Willard Grant Conspiracy (BCB Session) – Paint her Blue

The BCB Sessions playlist – 23rd September 2009

12 Stone Toddler – Under the Weather
Alice Russell – Two Steps
Brigada Mercy interview
Brigada Mercy (BCB Session) – Recovering Catholic
Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown
Micachu – Turn Me Well
Tilly and the Wall – Falling Without Knowing (Skibunny Remix)
Tender Trap – Fireworks
Ann Drury – Loving You
Daybreakers – Beautiful Machine
Brigada Mercy (BCB Session) – Where I Ponder
The XX – Islands
Emily Loizeau – Tell Me That You Don’t Cry
Atlas Sound feat. Noah Lennox – Walkabout
Brigada Mercy ( BCB Session) – Roto Chico