Tonight’s rollercoaster ride through the popular beat combo’s of the day featured three tracks from “You’re Never Going Back” the debut LP from Brooklyn’s Coasting , a LP treasurable not only for it’s fine tunes but also for it’s excellent cover.

Dance Yrself Clean blog describes the LP as “delighful as fuck” and who am I to argue?

Kolsche – “Der Alte” (12″) (Kompakt)
Coasting – “Starts and Stays” (LP – “You’re Never Going Back”) (M’Ladys)
Solo Banton – “Kung Fu Master” (split EP with Disrupt “Music Addict”) (Jahtari)
Stare Case – “Don’t Get Caught” (LP – “Lose Today”) (De Stijl)
Atomâ„¢ – “Rhythmische Befreiung” -(LP – “Programmiert Den Scheiß Aus Sich Raus. (Eine Populärwissenschaftliche Stückesammlung)”) (Rather Intresting)
Chris Barber Jazz Band Featuring Lonnie Donegan – “Diggin’ My Potatoes” (LP – “The Early Years”) (Delta)
Human Dosage Facor – “Prone To Frequent Cranial Eruptions” (EP – ‘What A Horrible Way To Die”) (Chunk Blower)
Phace and Nosia – “Micro- Organism” (12″) (NeoSignal)
Coasting – “Same Old,Same Old” (LP – “You’re Never Going Back”) (M’Ladys)
John Fahey – “In Christ There Is No East or West” (5CD Set – “Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You – The Fonotone Years 1958-1965”) (Revenant/Dust To Digital)
East Park Reggae Collective – “Microscopic Dub” (dowload single) (First World)
Actress – “Rainy Dub” (12″) (Honest Jon’s)
Trailer Trash Traceys – “You Wish You Were Red” (7″) (Domino)
Coasting – “Pirates’ Cove”(LP – “You’re Never Going Back”) (M’Ladys)
Alex Bassjunkie with Sash Dee – “Dreams of Reality” (download) (Bassface)

Well, slap my legs and call me Wendy, it’s December already, which means that my lazy ass hasn’t posted any tracklsiting for three weeks. Here they are ..

1st December

Personal and The Pizzas – “Diet, Crime and Delinquency” (7″) (Oops Baby)
Lee Scratch Perry – “Jungle Youth – Congo Natty mix” (LP – “Nu Sound and Version”) (On-U-Sound)
The Senseless Things – “Homophobic Asshole” (7″) (Epic)
The Ketamines – “Line By Line” (7″) (Hozac)
Alasdair Roberts and Karine Polwart – “Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship” (7″) (Drag City)
Neil Landstrumm – “My Melody Hurts My Revelry” (EP – “Munich ’72”) (Snork)
Thin Lizzy – “Whisky In The Jar (John Peel Session 1972)” (LP – ‘At The BBC”) (Commercial Marketing)
RP Boo – “Heavy Heat” (v/a LP – “Bangs and Works Volume 2”) (Planet Mu)
Jlin – “Erotic Heat” (v/a LP – “Bangs and Works Volume 2”) (Planet Mu)
DJ MC – “Y Fall” (v/a LP – “Bangs and Works Volume 2”) (Planet Mu)
Tha Pope – “When You” (v/a LP – “Bangs and Works Volume 2”) (Planet Mu)
DJ Clent – “Clent #1” (v/a LP – “Bangs and Works Volume 2”) (Planet Mu)
DJ Metro – “Tekno Bangz” (v/a LP – “Bangs and Works Volume 2”) (Planet Mu)
The Babies – “Here Comes Trouble” (7″) (Teenage Teardrops)
The Black Dog – “The Black Maria” (LP – “Liber Dogma”) (Soma)

24th November

DJ Rashad and DJ Manny – “R House” (EP – “Ghettotechnitianz”) (Planet Mu)
The Lovely Eggs – “She’s Got The Wine” (b side of “Panic Plants” 7″) (Cherryade)
Kimya Dawson – “Year 10″ (LP – -‘Thunder Thighs”) (Great Crap Factory)
Boom One Sound System – “Kato” (download EP – “Japanese Translations In Dub”) (Terralogika)
Haunted House – “Thomas Paine” (LP – “Blue Ghost Blues”)(Northern Spy)
The Orb – “Battersea Bunches Orginal Soundtrack” (LP – ‘C Batter C”) (Malicious Damage)
Thee Oh Sees – “Dead Energy” (untitled split LP with Total Control) (Castleface)
Van Morrison – “Cyprus Avenue” (LP – “It’s Too Late To Stop Now”) (Warner Brothers)
Lee Scratch Perry – “Jungle Youth – Congo Natty mix” (LP – “Nu Sound and Version”) (On-U-Sound)

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This week’s title is taken from ” The Creep” by Thee Cormans (note the extra “e” in the accepted garage rock stylee) which comes from their eexceelleent seasonal LP ‘Halloweeen with Sound EEffeects” on thee eeternally marvellous In Thee Red records. (Yeah , I’m bored of this joke now, too)

The remainder of this fine tune sounds like The Surfaris fighting off an unexpected crocodile attack and is as such , manna from heaven for your humble DJ – added to this three tracks from the excellent new LP from Dub masters Zion Train and the usual mixture of beeps, squeches and parps.

Vibezin – “Mad Sick” (EP – “From The Crates”) (Keysound)
Post War Glamour Girls – “Ode To Harry Dean” (7″) (Sturdy)
John Cooper-Clarke – “Post War Glamour Girl” (LP – “Disguise In Love”) (CBS)
Zion Train – “Great Leap Forward” (LP – “State Of Mind”) (Universal Egg)
Bonny Prince Billy – “There Will Be Spring” (LP -“Wolfroy Goes To Town”) (Drag City)
Bill Orcutt – “‘Til I Get Satisfied” (LP – “How The Thing Sings”) (Editions Mego)
Pascuale Massen – “Syntax Error 01” – (v/a download LP -“Hardtechno Destroyer Volume 5”) (Technosforza)
Zion Train – “State Of Mind” ( LP – “State Of Mind”) (Universal Egg)
Thee Cormans – “The Creep” (LP – “Halloween Record with Sound Effects”) (In The Red)
Brutal Truth – “Echo Friendly Discharge” (LP – “End Time”) (Relapse)
Lee Noble – “Crypticism” (LP – “Horrorism”) (Bathetic)
Fleetwood Mac – “Shake Your Money Maker” (LP – “Fleetwood Mac”) (Blue Horizon)
Lydia Loveless – “Crazy” (LP – “Indestructable Machine”) (Bloodshot)
Endsuer – “Distance” (LP – “Even Weight”) (Ad Noiseam)
Zion Train – “Share The Flame” (LP – “State Of Mind”) (Universal Egg)
Billy Childish and The Musicians of The British Empire – “Mommy Rolling Stone” (7″)( Damaged Goods)

“If Elvis were around today, I think he’d really understand happy hardcore” – John Peel

This week , a tribute to the UK’s longest running happy hardcore label Evolution records and it’s founder Scott Brown, as it (and he) celebrates 100 releases with 4 EP’s featuring Scott’s greatest works remixed by a panoply of HH luminaries, by welding together a track from each in to a mind blowing, if inexpertly mixed 20 minute thunderstorm in the latter half of the programme.

Far be it from me to suggest that producing 100 scintillating 12″‘s since 1994, might be a greater signifier of excellence, than making a good LP 20 odd years ago, then dicking about for 5 years before coming back with a shite one and splitting up in a huff like certain recently ressurected Manchester bands.

Fool’s Gold indeed.

Omar Soulyeman – “Mendel” (LP -“Haflat Gharbia – The Western Concerts”) (Sublime Frequencies)
Polvo – “Heavy Detour” (7″) (Merge)
B.A Johnson – “Sesame Streetfight” (v/a 7″ “Bloodstains Across Ontario”) (Mammoth Recording Co.)
Oneohtrix Point Never – “Power Of Pursuasion” (LP – “Replica”) (Software)
David Kosky and Damien O’Kane – “Frolics: The Welcome Return/ Fi’s Frolics” (LP – ‘The Mystery Inch”) (Pure)
Grandfather – “Dancing Crow” (LP – “Stand In The Corner and Punch Yourself In The Face To Have A Good Time”) (grandfather.bandcamp.com)
DJ Pillsbuury – “Hornz” (download EP – “King Of The Cicero Beatdown Vol.3”) (Juke Trax Online)
Lydia Loveless – “How Many Women” (LP – “Indestructable Machine”) (Bloodshot)
Lea-Anna – “Sway” (download single) (Adde Productions)
Bert Jansch – Come and Sing Me A Happy Song To Prove That We Can All Get Along The Lumpy, Bumpy, Long And Dusty Road” (LP – “Birthday Blues”) (Transatlantic)
Scott Brown – “Turn Up The Music – Marc Smith and Al Storm’s Live Mix” (download EP – “Evolution 100”) (Evolution)
Scott Brown – “Now Is The Time – DJ Kurt Remix”(download EP – “Evolution 100 Vol.2”) (Evolution)
Scott Brown Feat. Lords Of Hardcore – “Go Bezerk – Lost Origin & Al Twisted & Rob Da Rhythm Remix ” (download EP – “Evolution 100 Vol.3”) (Evolution)
Scott Brown – “Don’t You Worry – Joey Riot and Kurt Remix” (download EP – “Evolution 100 Vol.4”) (Evolution)
William Shatner – “Bohemian Rhapsody” (LP – ‘Seeking Major Tom”) (Cleopatra)

Tonight , we had three tracks from the frankly spiffing new LP from Sydney’s Royal Headache, plus the re-emergence of the god among men that is Dick Dale – and of course another track from the LP by which all others must be judged – Lydia Loveless’ “Indestructable Machine”

Lanie Lane – “Ain’t Hungry” (7″) (Third Man)
Little Roy – “About A Girl” (LP – “Battle For Seattle”) (Ark)
Nirvana – “Endless,Nameless” (LP – ‘Nevermind – 20th Anniversary Remastered Edition) (UMC)
Gui Boratto – “Flying Practice” (LP -“III”) (Kompakt)
Royal Hedache – “Really In Love” (LP – “Royal Headache”) (RIP Society)
June Tabor and The Oysterband – “Dark End of The Street” (LP – “Ragged Kingdom”) (Topic)
Abortfacient – “Psycho Beach Party” (v/a download LP – “Dansband 3000”) (KMPLX)
Lantern – “I Don’t Know” (7″) (Mammoth Cave Recording Co.)
Glen Campbell – “In My Arms” (LP – Ghost On The Canvas”) (Surfdog)
Dick Dale and The Del-Tones – “Surf Beat” (LP – “Surfer’s Choice”) (Sundazed)
Clams Casino – “All I Need” (LP – “Instrumentals”) (Type)
Royal Headache – “Back and Forth” (LP – “Royal Headache”) (RIP Society)
Lydia Loveless – “Jesus Was A Wino” (LP – ‘Indestructable Machine”) (Bloodshot)
That Fucking Tank – “NWONWOBH” (V/A 10″) (Brew)
Judan Fyah – ‘What Brooklyn Can Do (7″) (King Fila)
Scott Brown – “Elysium (Comet’s Chiptune Remix)” (Download EP -“Evolution 100 – Volume 3”)(Evolution)
Royal Headache – “Honey Joy” (LP – “Royal Headache”) (RIP Society)

So think on, lad

Tonight’s tunes:
Lady Piss – “Maintenance” (EP -“Streaming”) (bandcamp.com)
Scar and Miss Special K – “Heavy” (download) (Raw Elements)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “Tommy Walsh’s Eco-House” (LP -“90 Bisodol (Crimond)”) (Probe Plus)
Harry Edwards – “Sadaraban” (v/a LP – “To What Strange Place – The Music of The Ottoman- American Diaspora 1916-1929”) (Thompkins Square)
DJ Shadow – “Let’s Get It (Bass Bass Bass)” (LP – “The Less You Know The Better”) (Rock A Fella)
Martyn Hare – “Hybrid” (12″) (Tremors)
Meg Baird – “Friends” (LP -“Seasons On Earth”) (Witchita)
The Impact All-Stars – “Cheating Dub” (LP – “Java Java Java Java”) (VP)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “Descent Of The Stiperstones” (LP -“90 Bisodol (Crimond)”) (Probe Plus)
The Pupils – “Destroy” (LP – “The Pupils”) (Les Disques Du Steak)
The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band – “The Floral Dance” (7″) (Transatlantic)
Horsepower Productions – “Boogaloo” (EP – “The Lost Tapes”) (Tempa)
Lydia Loveless – “Steve Earle” (LP – “Indestructable Machine”) (Bloodshot)
Royal Headache – “Eloise” (7″) (RIP Society)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “L’Enfer C’est Les Autres” (LP -“90 Bisodol (Crimond)”) (Probe Plus)

Time to brick up the cave until such time as the stars are correctly aligned again – but before we go…

Alex Bradford and The Bradford Singers – “Walk Through The Streets” (LP – “Too Close To Heaven”) (Charly)
The Dezurik Sisters – “Arizona Yodeller” (v/a LP – “American Yodelling 1911-1946”) (Trikont)
Al Bernard and Frank Kamplain – “Yodellin’ Bill” (http://www.archive.org/details/AlBernardFrankKamplain)
Professor Stanley Unwin – “The Pidey Pipeload of Hamling” (LP -“Rotatey Diskers with Unwin”) (Pye)
Eddie Fontaine – “Nothin Shakin’ (But The Leaves On The Trees) (7”) (London)
Cornell Campbell and The Eternals – “Let’s Start Again” (v/a LP – “Let Me Tell You,Boy – Harry Mudie And Friends 1970-71”) (Trojan)
Bob Crosby and His Bobcats – “South Rampart Street Parade” (LP – “Big Noise From Winnetka”) (Proper)
Frank Stranges – “Flying Saucers Unlimited Side 1 (excerpt)” (7″) (Strange Enterprises)
Bruce Forsyth – “It’s A Great Day For The Irish” (LP – “Mr. Entertainment”) (EMI Gold)
Sam and Dave – “I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down”) (7″) (Stax)
Dick Clark – “An Open Letter To The Older Generation” (http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/11/the_hyperpatrio.html)
Reginald Gardiner – “Trains – Side 1″ (7”) (Decca)
Johnny Burnette Trio – “The Train Kept A Rollin'” (LP -“Honey Hush”) (Complete Rock N Roll)
Reginald Dixon – “Blaze Away” (LP – “Dancing At The Tower”) (Bygone Days)
Wild Jimmy Spruill – “Kansas City Stomp” (LP -“Scratch ‘N’ Twist – Rare and Unissued New York Rhythm and Blues 1956-1962”)
Albert Whelan – “The Whistling Bowery Boy” (LP – ‘Gems Of The Music Hall”) (Flapper)
The Natural-ites – “Picture On The Wall” (7″) (CSA)
Dame Barbara Cartland – “The Desert Song” (LP – ‘Barbara Cartland’s Album of Love Songs”) (State)

The odd odyssey continues…

Prince Buster – “Madness” (LP – “FABulous Greatest Hits”) (Trojan)
Sol Hoopii and His Hawiians – “My Hawiian Queen” (LP – “Master of The Hawiian Guitar Volume 2”) (Rounder)
Hughie Green – “Stand Up and Be Counted” (7″) (Phillips)
Victor Borge – “Inflationary Language” (LP – “Unstarted Symphony 1942-1953) (Naxos)
Earl Bostic – “Special Delivery Stomp (LP -“Earl Blows A Fuse”) (Charly)
Noel Edmonds – Track 1 (LP – “Noel’s Funny Phone Calls Volume 1”) (BBC)
Protex – “Don’t Ring Me Up” (7″)(Good Vibrations)
Smokey Smothers – “I Ain’t Gonna Be No Monkey Man No More” (LP – ” …Sings The Back Porch Blues”) (Ace)
Gerrand Hoffnung with Charles Richardson – “The Moon” (LP – “A Last Encore”) (BBC Radio Collection)
The Miracles – “The Monkey Time”- (LP – “The Miracles Doin’ Mickey’s Monkey”) (Tamla)
Tony Capstick and Hedgehog Pie- “To Ramona” (LP – “His Round”) (Rubber)
Duane Eddy – “It Ain’t Me Babe” (LP – “Duane Does Dylan”) (Colpix)
Del Close and John Brent – “Basic Hip” (LP – ‘How To Speak Hip”) (Mercury)
The Vernon Elliot Basoon Ensemble – “Cruising Theme” (LP – “Ivor The Engine: Orginal Televison Music”) (Trunk)
Arthur Askey – “The Bee Song” (LP – ‘Hello Playmates – 25 Orginal Mono Recordings 1938-1949″) (Living Era)
Reverend J.M Gates -“Women Spend Too Much Money” (download from http://oldweirdamerica.wordpress.com)
Bobby Shannon – “Women’s Liberation’s For The Birds” ( http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/12/heres-to-the-womens-liberation-mp3s.html)
Loretta Lynn – “The Pill” (LP – ‘The Very Best Of Lorretta Lynn”) (Spectrum Audio)
Phil Ochs – ‘Draft Dodger Rag” (LP -“I Ain’t Marching Anymore”) (Elektra)
Victor Luneburg – “An Open Letter To My Teenage Son” (v/a LP – “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die”) (NME)
Ry Cooder – “Goodnight Irene” (LP – “Chicken Skin Music”) (Reprise)

As any of us broadcasting legends knows, the twin DJ disciplines of talking shite and pressing buttons (sometimes at the same time ) can be a draining experience. I mean you know I just give and I give. I guess I’m just one of life’s givers.

However , there has to be a limit to my even my  boundless generosity to you the listener and so I’ve decided to take three weeks off to go to the country and you know , get my head together, man.

But how to replace “When Big Joan Sets Up” the programe that has for years now delighted up to four listeners with the popular hip shaking tunes by the nice young people with the funny hair?

Rejected ideas included:

“Who The Bloody Hell Are You?” –  Popular disc jockey and legend Phil “The Giver” Cope traces his family tree back to the 1700’s and uncovers exciting tales of piracy on the high seas , bravery on the fields of Ypres, and sheep rustling.

Uncle Phil Gargles The Great American Songbook

A three- part drama for radio entitled “Jack’s Adventures in the Public Lavatories of  Newton Le Willows”

Albert Freeman’s History of Parsnips (abridged version)

The Wit and Wisdom of Dave Lee Travis (rejected for being 59 minutes and 47 seconds too short for broadcast)

The BBC Radio Leeds Story – The inspiring story of how a disparate band of individuals united only by a hatred of entertainment, managed against the odds, to create a radio station using only moronic phone in’s, travel updates and Leo Sayer records and realise their dream of portaying West Yorkshire as a land fit only for tone deaf dullards and Alan Titchmarsh

‘Outside Now” – a live debate on the pressing questions of the day – including episodes entiled “Should it Really Be That Shape?”  “Has anyone actually seen Katie Price and Colonel Gadaffi together at the same time? - Is there something we should be told?”  and “Internment Camps for anyone found in possesion of a book by Jereemy Clarkson  – Discuss”

Sadly, these ideas were all reluctantly discarded in the interest of work avoidance and instead over the next three weeks we’ll be plunging into the dark and terrifying recesses of my record collection.

Hey, you’re welcome.

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In anticipation of our increased listenership, due to the fact that everyone’s telly’s is screwed now When Big Joan Sets Up made like Nigel Ogsen this week and pulled out all the stops to bring you four tracks from Shonen Knife’s Ramones tribute LP “Osaka Ramones” (is this the first tribute LP made by a band who’ve had a tribute LP of their own ? – I don’t know , what are you asking me for? I can’t even work out how to get BBC2.) and also a16 track 7″ EP from Beartrap and a tribute to W.C Fields from Superfools which contains the immortal quote “I heard you buried your wife” to which he responds ” I had to, she died”

AGF and Ellen Alien - “Champagner 1-3” (LP – “Gedichterbe”) (AGF Produktions)
Divorce – “Wet Bandit” (7″) (Gravy)
Ruffstuff and Jayline – “Raduim Rays” (EP – “Radium Rays”) (Chronic)
Richard and Linda Thompson – “Dragging The River” (Box Set – “Live at The BBC”) (Universal)
Funghi Girls – “Doldrums” (LP -“Some Easy Magic”) (Hozac)
Beartrap – “Lack of Effort” (7″ EP – “Nailed Shut”) (To Live A Lie)
The Superfools – “All Kinds Of Gibberish Sounds” (download LP – “Aristophonics 1 – Sentimental Fields”) (from freemusicarchive.org)
Tuff Scout All-Stars – “A Battling Dub” (7″) (Tuff Scout)
Horrordactyl – “Dock Of The Bay” (download – “Horrordactyl Plays Everybody’s Songs”) (Sluggisha.blogspot.com)
Otis Redding – “That’s How Strong My Love Is ” (LP – ‘The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads”) (Stax)
Shonen Knife – “Blitzkreig Bop” (LP – “Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Shonen Knife – “Rockaway Beach” (LP “Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Shonen Knife – “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker” (LP – ‘Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Shonen Knife – “We’re A Happy Family” (LP – ‘Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Joy O – ‘Knock Knock” (12″) (Swamp)
The Fruit Tree Foundation – “I Forgot The Fall” (LP – “The Fruit Tree Foundation”) (Chemikal Underground)
The Fall – “Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul” (7″) (Kamera)
Mogwai – “Drunk and Crazy” (EP – “Earth Division”) (Rock Action)