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Matters relating to Phil Cope’s show, When Big Joan Sets Up, at midnight as Wednesday morphs into Thursday (UK time)

When Big Joan Sets Up 26/8/10 – Adventures in Lo Fi

Snares

Venetian Snares

On this week’s hour of self improvement, three tracks from Venetian Snares‘ headspinning new LP “My So Called Life” , three versions of Skip James, “I’m So Glad” and our A-Z of The Fall stumbles on towards the letter B. And they said it wouldn’t last..

DJ Clent – “My Feet” (download EP – “That Trunk”) (JukeOnline)
Lou Barlow and The Missingmen -“I’m So Glad” (LP – “Sentridoh III”) (Merge)
Cream – “I’m So Glad” (LP – “Fresh Cream”) (Reaction)
Skip James – “I’m So Glad” (LP – “Illinois Blues) (Universe)
Altered Natives – “Mother” (download LP – “Serial Vendetta”) (Eye4Eye)
Hurray for the Riff Raff – “Slow Walk” (LP – “Young Blood Blues”) (Self Released)
Grouper – “Hold” (7″) (Room 40)
Venetian Snares – “Aaron 2” (LP – “My So-Called Life”) (Timesig)
Venetian Snares – “Ultraviolent Junglist” (LP – “My So-Called Life”) (Timesig)
Venetian Snares – “Sound Burglar” (LP – “My So-Called Life”) (Timesig)

A-Z of The Fall – B
“Bingo Master’s Break Out” (LP – “Early Fall 1977-1979”) (Cog Sinister)

Citizens of The Empire – “Insurrection Is Our Only Weapon Against The Machine Of Alienation” (LP – “Citizens of The Empire”) (bandcamp.com)
Mikey Dread – “Dread At The Controls” (v/a LP – “Sipple Out Deh – The Black Ark Years”) (Trojan)
Lee Scratch Perry – “Let There Be Light” (LP – “Revalation”) (Megawave”)

When Big Joan Sets Up – 12/8/10 – Doris Day on the Kop

Epic tunes passing the 8 minute mark from Endless Boogie and Un, new stuff from Peverelist and Marnie Stern , the chillwave revolution continues with Teen Daze and yet another new Lee Perry LP – All this and Doris Day’s tribute to Liverpool F.C. – You missed it again, didn’t you?

Mr Oizo and Garpard Auge – “Rubber” (12″) (Ed Banger)
Endless Boogie – “Top Dollar Speaks His Mind” (LP- “Full House Head”) (No Quarter)
Dave Bartholomew – “The Monkey Speaks His Mind” (LP – “The Big Beat of Dave Bartholomew”) (Crescent City Soul)
X- Tension – “Dynamite Sounds” (EP – “Dynamite Sounds”) (Destruction)
Marnie Stern – “For Ash” (download)
Teen Daze – “Neon ” (EP – “Four More Years”) (Arcade Sound)
Lee Perry – “Used To Drive A Tractor in Negrile” (LP – “Revelation”) (Megawave)
The Muleskinners – “Backdoor Man ” (EP- “Knockout R&B”) (Acid Jazz)
Knife Fight – “Mass Hysteria” (EP – “Isolated”) (Painkiller)
Astral Planes – “Doris Day” (EP- “Sit Still Child”) (Lucky Number Nine)
Doris Day – “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (LP – “You’ll Never Walk Alone”) (Columbia)
DJ Nate – “We Can Work This Out” (EP – “Hatas Our Motivation”) (Planet Mu)
Un – “Can of Beans” (Download LP – “Honest Strings – A Tribute to The Life and Work of Jack Rose”) (Jack Rose LLC)
Peverelist – “Better Ways of Living” (12″) (Punch Drunk)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lonnie Donegan

Lonnie Donegan

I have a theory which, like most of my theories, probably doesn’t stand up to close inspection, that those of us born in the early seventies were the first generation whose parents had cool record collections. My early years, like many of my contemporaries, were soundtracked by Elvis, Jerry Lee, Eddie, Gene, Fats, Chuck and countless twangy guitar expositions from the likes of Link Wray and Duane Eddy.

Because of this, I retain a dedicated affection for the music of the late fifties to this day, but there was always one name that baffled me.

My dad and his mates would speak in hushed and reverent tones about the first time they heard Lonnie Donegan. Added to this, when I later began to nurture a youthful obsession with the music of the 1960’s, I read that my fave raves (Beatles, Stones, Animals and so on) were all inspired to take their first tentative steps into the world of music by this diminutive Glasgow Irish Cockney with the curiously whiny voice.

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When Big Joan Sets Up 5.8.10 – Somebody Skream!

This week’s programme featued the world’s most criminally underated band, Cleethorpes’ Orphan Boy, new stuff from Skream, Autechre, Laura Cantrell and Luciano, TWO (count ’em) Bo Diddley cover versions, the latest solid sender from Canada’s Telephone Explosion records and the sweariest record in all the kingdom from Liverpool’s potty mouthed popstrels Town Bike. All this and an exclusive poem from Bradford’s own Little Brother That, my friends, is entertainment.

Orphan Boy – “The Promise” (LP – “Passion, Pain and Loyalty”) (Concrete)
RDX – “Movement” (download single) (No Label)
Filtheater – “Ceremonial Desecration” (EP – “Calignosity”) (Self Released)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – “Diddy Wah Diddy” (v/a LP – “Bo Diddley is a Songwriter”) (Ace)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “Who Do You Love?” (LP – “Barbed Wire Kisses”)
Norvagr – “Leedskalnin” (LP – “Resignation 2”) (205 Recordings)
Town Bike – “Bastard Heart” (7″) (Where It’s At Is Where You Are)
Autechre – “y7” (LP – “Move Of Ten”) (Warp)
Little Brother – “Excrement, Excrement, Read All About It” (BCB recording)
Luciano – “A No We No Like Them” (LP – “United States of Africa”) (VP)
Holy Cobras – “Feed Yr Head” (7″) (Telephone Explosion)
Skream feat. Freckles – “How Real” (LP – “Outside The Box”) (Tempa)
Skream – “Wibbler” (LP – “Outside The Box”)(Tempa)
Skream feat La Roux – “Finally” (LP – “Outside The Box”)(Tempa)
Laura Cantrell – “Kitty Wells’Dresses” (from radiofreesongclub.com)
Kitty Wells – “Paying For That Back Street Affair” (v/a LP – “Back Street Affair – Country Cheatin’ Songs) (Castle)

Jelly & Ice Cream: Selection Box 142

In keeping with advancing years, the party for Selection Box’s third birthday turned out to be a rather more low-key affair than the wild cake, balloon and full studio of previous years.  Although your host was able to treat himself to a tasty off-cut of a choccy caterpillar cake this was actually provided by someone else for celebratory purposes the nature of which I am not aware.  It was just a coincidence that it happened to be sat there on the same day as my show’s anniversary, but as it was sat there waiting to be sliced asunder by all comers I helped myself to one of the last pieces before heading into the studio.

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When Big Joan Sets Up 29/7/10 – Parasympathomimetic Thrombophlebitis

The above mentioned were one of the top showbiz turns that featured on the programme this week and their record (which incidentally takes longer to say than it does to actually play) was a thrilling 33 seconds comprising of 10 seconds of an Brazilian game show host singing Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were The Days” followed by a man ( I think it was a man) going URRRRGHHHHH in a bowel shakingly deep voice. I’m tipping it for next year’s Eurovison.

Cyanide Pills – “Interrogation Room” (LP- “Cyanide Pills”) (Damaged Goods)
Digital Mystik – “Eyez” (LP- “Return II Space”) (DMZ)
Ivor Cutler – “Irk” (LP – “Jammy Smears”) (Virgin)
Patrick Andy – “You’ve Lost That Soundclash Feeling” (7″) (Run Things)
Piskie Sits – “Sweet Little Weasel” (v/a LP – “Under The Bus Station Clock”) (Philophobia)
Severe Torture – “Defective Fornication” (LP – “Slaughter”) (Season Of Mist)
Sasha Orbital – “Euphoria” (Download) (Sanex)
The Ted Heath Orchestra – “Euphoria” (LP – “Euphoria”) (Jasmine)
The Sandwitches – “Rock Gibraltar” (EP – “Duck, Duck , Goose”) (Secret Seven)
Horace Andy – “Sodom and Gomorrah” (LP – “The King Tubby Tapes”) (Charm)
Royal Headaches – “Eloise” (7″) (RIP Society)
DJ Hazard – “Against The Clock” (EP – “Platinum Shadows”) (Playaz)
Best Coast – “The End” (LP – “Crazy For You”) (Witchita)
Best Coast – “Bratty B” (LP – “Crazy For You”) (Witchita)
Best Coast – “Happy” (LP – “Crazy For You”) (Witchita)
Parasympathomimetic Thrombophlebitis – “Caluoros” (EP – “Senor Abravanel”) (Self Released)
Laura Cantrell – “Can’t Wait” (donwload from Radiofreesongclub.com)
Dem Hunger – “Nah Teeth” (Cassette – “Caveman Smack”) (Leaving)
Lichtenstien – “Passion For Water” (7″) (Fraction Discs)

When Big Joan Sets Up 22/7/10 – Do You Love Your Hardcore?

…of course you do.

Counterstrike and Cooh – “Fission” (12″) (Mentally Disturbed)
Bugs and Rats – “I Don’t Think You Know Distance (LP – “Adidas”) (Self Released)
Run DMC – “My Adidas” (LP – “Raising Hell” ) (Def Jam)
Orphan Boy – “Popsong” (download single) (Concrete Recordings)
Bob Marley and the Wailers – “Crazy Baldhead Dub” (LP -“In Dub – Volume 1”)(Island)
Jeff Mills – “Reviewing The Incident” (LP- “The Occurence”) (Axis)
The Vaselines – “Overweight But Over You” (LP – “Sex With An X”) (Sub Pop)
The Vaselines – “Molly’s Lips” (EP – “Dying For It”) (53rd and a 3rd)
Sy And Al Storm – “Do You Love Your Hardcore?” (12″) (Quosh)
The Palermo Surf Experience – “Evil Desert Ghost Train From Hell (With Death )” (LP – “Far From Famous”) (Big Foot)
DJ Nate – “Make ‘Em Run” (forthcoming on Planet Mu – this came from RCRDLBL.COM)
Eliza Carthy – “Prairie Lullaby” (LP – “Gift”) (Topic)
Proceedure Club – “Jupiter” (LP – “Doomed Forever”) (Slumberland)
The Hives – “Civilisation’s Dying” (EP – “Tarred and Feathered”) (No Fun AB)
Regal Warrior – “Reel Rockers” (promo)
Meg Baird – “Moving Up A Ways” (v/a LP – “We Are All One In The Sun – Tribute To Robbie Basho”) (Important)
Robbie Basho – “Dravidian Sunday” (LP – “The Seal Of The Blue Lotus”) (Takoma)

When Big Joan Sets Up 15.7.10 – Hola!

Of course I’m one thirteenth Spanish on my uncle’s side, you know ….

Bla – “Le Mejor Enfermedad” (EP – “Le Mejor Enfermedad”) (Elefant)
The Cortinas – “Fascist Dictator” (LP – “MK1”) (Bristol Archive)
Tortioise – “Rubiyat” (EP -“Why Waste Time?”) (Thrill Jockey)
Sky Larkin – “Still Windmills” (7″) (Witchita)
Horace Andy – “Skylarking” (LP – “Skylarking”) (Studio One)
Oval – “Grrr” (LP – “Oh”) (Thrill Jockey)
Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy – “Ukelele Lady/ If Paradise is Half as Nice” (LP -“Gift”) (Topic)
Spencer Wiggins – “Holding On To A Dying Love” (LP – “Feed The Flame – The Fame and XL Recordings”) (Kent)
Sugar Minott and Lutan Fyah – “No Bother Pretend” (Promo)
Betty and The Werewolves – “Purple Eyes” (LP – “Teatime Favourites”) (Damaged Goods)
Africa Hi Tech – “Lash Out” (EP – “Hitecherous”) (Warp)
Duran Duran Duran – “Homicidal Drug Rage” (LP – “Over Hard”) (Cock Rock Disco)
Puttin’ On The Ritz – “Lady Godiva’s Operation” (LP – “White Light, White Heat”) (Hot Cup)
Fred Astaire – “Puttin’ On The Ritz” (LP – “The Astaire Story”) (Universal)
The Leif Ericsson – “Music 2000″ (split 7” with Southport) (Roadkill)
Temper D – “Level Checking” (12″) (Temper D Productions)

When Big Joan Sets Up 08/7 – Lou Reed is a Pillock.Official!

Proof of this rather contentious statement can be found on the reverse of his 1989 LP “New York” which bears the following (probabaly misquoted) text. “This LP should be listened to as a whole as you would a play or a film”. Berk.

On a lighter note jazz ensemble Putting On The Ritz (crap name , good band) have re recorded the Velvet Underground’s sophomore LP “White Light, White Heat” in a free jazz style and the title track featured on this week’s programme along with …

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When Big Joan Sets Up 17/6/10 – More Confusing than a Capello Team Selection

No time to make joke this week. Am man, Must watch other men kick ball in net.

Mindo Purshottam – “Long Dha Lishkara” (v/a LP – “Pure Desi Vol 3”) (VIP)
Enduser – “1\3” (EP – “1/3”) (Ad Noiseam)
The Men – “Oh Yoko” (LP – “Immaculada”) (Self Released)
Crystal Castles – “Celestica (Thurston Moore Remix”) (Download)
Jim O’Rourke feat Thurston Moore – “Always Something There To Remind Me” (LP -“All Kinds Of People Love Burt Bacharach”) (Zoom Japan)
The Barmy Army – “Sharp As A Needle” (12″) (On-U-Sound)
Extreme Noise Terror – “Cage Paralysis/Think Outside The Box” (split EP with Slang – “Hardcore Attack Of The Lowlife Dogs” (Farewell)
Chet Atkins – “Teensville” (Bri’s Revived 45) (RCA)
Gammer and Whizzkid – “We Are The Vampires (Klubfiller Remix)” (Download) (Muffin Music)
Lightnin’ Hopkins – “Give Me Central 209” (LP – “His Blues”) (Ace)
Pablo Moses – “More Than You Can Chew” (LP -“The Rebirth”) (House of Mose)
Imran Aziz Mian – “Bullia” (LP – “Aaj Rung Hey”) (Fire)
Ty Seagal – “Imaginary Person” (LP – “Melted”) (Goner)
Robben Hill – “Suffer” (v/a EP – “Volume 1”) (Startech)
22-20’s – “Talk To Me” (LP -“Shake, Shiver, Moan”) (Yoshimoto R and C)