Who’d have thought seeing an 80 year old man hit in the face with a custard pie would be funny?

Tonight’s flan flinging tunes (tune in from midnight):
Audio Warfare – “Residential Terrorist” (download) (Trackmaster)
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band – “Grow Fins” (LP – “John Peel’s Nan True’s Hole Beefheart Tapes Volume 2” (Ozit/Dandelion)
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks – “Senator” (download from Pitchfork.com)
J-Rocc – “Play This (Also)” (LP – “Some Cold Rock Stuff”) (Stone’s Throw)
The Damned – “Melody Lee” (LP – “Machine Gun Etiquette”) (Chiswick)
Delly Ranx – “Ole Clothes Government” (7″)
(Q45)
The White Stripes – “Death Letter” (LP – “Live In Mississippi”) (Third Man)
DJ Balli – “Skateboard Is Not Skateboard – Valpelice Live Mix 2011” (v/a CD “Wire Tapper 26”)
Billy Bragg – “Never Buy The Sun” (www.billybragg.co.uk/sun.php) – see also dontbuythesun.co.uk
Apache Droput – “Shot Down” (7″) (Trouble In Mind)
SSS – “Painting By Numbers” (LP – “Problems To The Answer”) (Earache)
Raiden – “Genie Civil” (LP – “Beton Arme”) (Offkey)
The Melvins – “Nude With Boots” (LP – “Sugar Daddy Live”) (Ipecac)
Estrogen Highs – “For All I Know” (EP – “For All I Know”) (Florida’s Dying)
The Orioles – “For All We Know” (LP – “The Orioles 1947-1955”)_ (Acrobat)
King Tubby – “St.Thomas Dub” (LP – “King Tubby’s Classics -The Lost Midnight Rock Dubs Chapter 2) (Roots)

Why do people keep asking me if they can have a “shout out” on the programme? It’s not bloody Viking FM you know.

Anyway, some records

Total Science and S.P.Y. – “While You Were Sleeping” (EP -“Ghost Rider”) (CIA Recordings)
Black Pus – “Hole In The Ground” (LP -“Primordial Pus”) (Load)
Comet Gain – “Thee Ecstatic Library” (LP -“Howl Of The Lonely Crowd”) (Fortuna Pop)
People Like Us – “What Will I Do?” (LP – “Welcome Abroad”) (Illegal Art)
Fats Domino – “Walking To New Orleans” (LP -“The Imperial Singles Volume 4”) (Ace)
Sleeparchive – “Ronan Point 2″ (12”) (Tresor)
Earl Sixteen feat. U Roy – “This Yah Business (12″ Rockers Version)” (LP – “The Fittest”) (Jah Rocksolid)
Boris – “Les Paul Custom ’86” (LP -“Attention Please”) (Sargeant House)
Swing Republic – “The Honeydripper” (Download LP – “Electro Swing Republic”)
Eliza Carthy – “Thursday” (LP – “Neptune”)(Hem Hem)
Martin Carthy – “The Bedmaking” (LP-“The Essential Martin Carthy”) (Topic)
The 5678’s – “Sho Jo Ji (The Hungry Racoon)” (7″) (Third Man)
DJ Paul feat Lenny D – “All Of Us Are One People” (download) (Round One)
Atari Teenage Riot – “Codebreaker” (LP- “Is This Hyperreal?”) (Digital Hardcore)
The Keys – “I Tried To Find It In Books” (LP -“Bitten By Wolves”) (See Monkey Do Monkey)
Akasha – “One Drop” (v/a LP – “The Next Mission”) (Dubmission)

In this week’s thrilling episode we paid tribute to Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound records, arguably the most consistently brilliant British record label of the last thirty years and the reason I had to get a weekend job in the roughest pub in Ponty when I was 17 so that I could afford to buy pretty much every single one of their releases that Crash records stocked.

Adrian, if you’re reading this I got a fruit machine thrown at me in 1988 for you – and it was worth it (although I may not be saying that if it’d hit me).

The tunes
Kill Baby Kill – “Hunting For The Dead” (EP – “Sometimes, They Come Back”) (Self Released)
Jeff Mills – “Transformation Complete” (LP – “The Power”) (Axis)
Gallhammer – “Aberration” (LP – “The End”) (Peaceville)
Loudon Wainright III – “Screaming Issue” (Box Set – “40 Odd Years”) (Shout Factory)
Pleasure and Origin – “Dub After Dub” (12″) (Philles Blunt)
Girls’ Names – “Seance On A Wet Afternoon” (LP – “Dead To Me”) (Tough Love)
Johnny Pluse – “Blind Tap Dancer” (LP – “Lasers, Lasers, We Need More Lasers”) (Bulabeats)

On-U-Sound Mix

Prince Far-I/Singers And Players – “Virgin”(10”) (On-U-Sounds)
African Headcharge and Professor Stretch – “Brother Of Reality” (LP – “Drums Of Defiance”) (On-U-Sound)
New Age Steppers – “Some Love” (v/a LP – “Pay It All Back Volume 1”) (On-U-Sound)
Mark Stewart And The Maffia – “Jerusalem” (12″)
Tackhead – “Ticking Timebomb” (LP – “Friendly As A Hand Grenade”) (On-U-Sound)
The Barmy Army – “Billy Bonds M.B.E.” (v/a LP – “Pay It All Back Volume 2”) (On-U-Sound)

Creem – “Good Riddance” (7″) (Katorga Works)

Last weekend me, Albert “Did You By Any Chance See Waterloo Road Last Wednesday?” Freeman and our friends Jim and Simon went to the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Minehead, ate too much candy floss, got terrorised by killer Nazi geese, won the F.A. Cup,  saw some ace bands and avoided some rubbish ones (hello, Animal Collective).

Once we have washed our underpants and had a nice sit down, we’ll tell you all about it, but for now, tonight’s When Big Joan Sets Up featured some of the records that we spent far too much money on while we were there as well as three tracks from the masterful new P.S. Eliot LP “Sadie” and to start the programme the team up that we’ve all been waiting for…

Cher vs. Joy Division – “Transbelieve” (download LP “Divas Of Joy Division”) (get from http://www.gybo5.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4487 )
Lee Perry – “Inakaya (Japanese Food)” (LP – “Rise Again”) (M.O.D Technologies)
The Oh Sees – “I Need Seed” (LP – “Castlemania”) (In The Red)
Tommy Bruce and The Bruisers – “Got The Water Bolin'” (LP – “That’s Rock N’ Roll”) (RPM)
Floating Points – “K & G Beats” (12″) (Planet Mu)
Group Doueh – “Zaya Khoum” (LP – “Zayna Jumma”) (Sublime Frequencies)
Micachu and The Shapes – “Lips” (7″) (Rough Trade)
George Harrison – “In The Park” (LP – “Wonderwall Music”) (Apple)
Eric Copeland – “Beatlemania” (LP – “Waco Taco Combo”) (Escho)
Prince Rama – “Satt Nam” (LP – “Shadow Temple”) (Paw Tracks)
P.S.Eliot – “Talk” (LP – “Sadie”) (Salinas)
P.S.Eliot – “Jesus Christ” (LP – “Sadie”) (Salinas)
P.S.Eliot – “Watch On Mute” (LP – “Sadie”) (Salinas)
Dirashe Tribe – ‘Dirashe Drum Song” (accompanying CD from “Staring Into The Sun” book by Olivia Wyatt) (Sublime Frequencies)
Oneohtrix Point Never – “Pelham Island Road” (LP – “Returnal”) (Editions Mego)
Robert Johnson – “If I Had Possesion Over Judgement Day” (LP – “The Centennial Collection”) (Sony Legacy)
Khaira Arby – “Waidio” (LP – “Timbuktu Tarab”) (Popcorn Lab)

What up dawgs, as the Middleton family say (note:check is this is right). This week’s bag of spicy nick nacks featured a banging mix (them Middletons again) from Illinois based sonic adventurer Lake Radio who despite the ball achingly annoying triangle in his name which I’ve failed to reproduce here, is in point of fact ace.

Whompf there it is! as they say at Party Pieces.

Loudon Wainwright III - “Natural Disaster” (4CD Set – “40 Odd Years”) (Shout Factory)
Hype Williams – “Traccia 1” (CDR – “S.E.A.L. III”) (Self Released)
Ralph – “Death Of A Delivery Man” (7″) (Scavenger Of Death)
The Beastie Boys – “Crazy Ass Shit” (LP – “Hot Sauce Comittee Part 2”) (EMI)
Bad Banana – “Leanna” (7″ EP “Cry About It”) (Puzzle Pieces)
Bim Sherman – “Revolution” (LP – “Across The Red Sea”) (On-U-Sound)

Lake Radio Mix
Boards Of Canada – “Dawn Chorus”
Moby – “Porcelain”
Balam Acab – “Sea Birds”
Jay-Z – “December 4th”
The Beach Boys – “All I Wanna Do”
The Sky Operator – “Od Annaaw Od”
Spider Webs – “Ambient”
Boards Of Canada – “Julie and Candy” (Remix)
Fever Ray – “When I Grow Up” (Remix)
The Beatles – “Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You” (Remix)

Anaal Nathrakh – “Post Traumatic Stress Euphoria” (LP – “Passion”) (Candlelight)
Fred Van Epps – “Maple Leaf Rag” (from the University Of California Wax Cylinder Digitisation Project http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/) – also listen to Karl Dallas’ “Swing Easy” Ragtime programme
Chris Unknown and Technikore with DJ Sy – “Black Wednesday” (Download) (Quosh)
Elvis Presley – “Blue Moon Of Kentucky” (LP – “The Sun Sessions”) (RCA)

The Greatest Record Ever Made - although er.. it's not a record

“Brevity is the soul of  wit” said Uncle Bill’s Polonius  in “Hamlet”  his famous tale of  cigar manufacturing in the Kingdom of Denmark .

Little did he know it in 1602 but he was summing up the appeal of  “25 Great Rock N Roll Hits” by Beaverbag , an ensemble of whom I know nothing other than their name refers to a disgusting sexual act, apparently.

This download LP contains 25 cover versions of what people who own purple satin bomber jackets with “Elton Across America ’76″  emblazoned across the back  refer to as “Classic Rock”. These are rendered in bursts of betwwen 7 and 10 seconds in bowel shaking grunts with little regard to the orginals and by this token, massively improve upon them.

I mean , who really wants to devote 8 plus minutes of their lives to listening to Ray Manzarek’s interminable tinking on The Doors’ “Riders On The Storm” when the ‘Bag (as I have elected to call them)  get the whole thing over in seconds thus leaving valuble time for more noble pursuits such as eating fig rolls , watching “Celebrity Juice” and scratching?

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Hey popkids . The big noise on this week’s prgramme came from Autechre who have realsed a collosall 11:40 track called “6852” as a free gift for everyone who buys ticket for ATP’s Made in Japan benefit, which is hopefully sold out by now, but you could try www.atpfestival.com/newsview/1103241000.php if you like.

Battles – “Futura” (LP – “Gloss Drop”) (Warp)
Elmore James – “Dust My Broom” (LP – “The Sky Is Crying”) (Sony)
Low – “Done” (LP – “C’Mon”) (Sub Pop)
Sun Araw – “Bump Up” (7″ “Houston Abstros”) (Monofonous Press)
Fresh – “The Gatekeeper” (EP – “Future Jungle”) (Ram)
Holy Cobras – “Night Fighter Part 1” (LP – “Forever”) (Telephone Explosion)
Prince Jammy – “Get Ready For Dub” (4 CD Box -“The EvolUtuon Of Dub Volume 6: Was Prince Jammy An Astronaut?”)
Robot Koch and John Robinson – “The Future” (LP – ‘Robot Robinson”) (Project Mooncircle)
Bill Callahan – “Drover” (LP – “Apocalypse”) (Drag City)
The Fall – “Zagreb Movements 1, 11, 111” (EP – “The Dredger EP”) (Fontana)
Autechre – “6852” (download free with ticket bought for ATP’s “Made in Japan” Benefit. Go here  – for details)
Unkle feat Nick Cave – “Money and Run” (EP – “Only The Lonley”) (Surrender All)