Some considerable time ago on this blog I promised to post the full interview with Brighton-based songstrel Kate Walsh which appeared on Selection Box 110 back in October.  It seems needless to delve too deeply into the who, why and wherefore of Walsh’s career thus far as I’ve already posted three blogs of fairly lengthy detail on these pages (one already linked to at the start of this post, another  here and the final one – a review of her last long player Light & Dark – can be found here), so probably best to press on without retreading old ground.

Since October, however, Walsh has been busying herself with further live dates across Europe – most recently opening for 1980s sports headband wearing Dire Straiter Mark Knopfler at the Royal Albert Hall – and recording a series of EPs featuring cover versions of some of her favourite songs.  Her website revealed recently that these EPs are set to be compiled into a covers album which will be released in September.

If you want to save the interview as an mp3 for posterity – so you can listen to my dulcet tones on your fancy iGramophone at all times of the day or night; perhaps to excite and inflame your senses with an uncontrollable passion during lonely moments – click on the small arrow at the right hand side of the player below and download the content of your heart and indeed other organs.  Alternatively, just press the big orange button to listen NOW (yes, NOW) as a stream.  You lucky things you.

Patrick Thornton talks to Kate Walsh 19.10.09 by PatrickSelectionBox

As I was writing this post, the splendid news came in that the BBC Trust have determined that the closure of the DAB station 6Music is not in the interest of the licence payers.  This is not only fabulous news to those of us who love 6Music and believe that a diverse station which celebrates music in myriad forms is of vital artistic and cultural importance, but it is also immensely heartening to see that the BBC Trust is an organisation which is prepared to stand up to BBC management over questionable strategies, rather than a meaningless board of Yes men who only exist to pay lip service to licence fee payers’ concerns.  The proposal to close 6Music was something I blogged about on these pages back in March, and obviously it was my words at the time which swung it, so hooray for me. Disclaimer: Obviously if you are listening to 6Music, you should always have BCB 106.6fmon alongside it.

Here’s the postscript, as I continue the catch-up on playlists of the stuff what I gone done spun on them thar wireless shows what I present.

 

Selection Box Show 135

Transmitted 31/5/2010

1.  Rose Elinor Dougall – Fallen Over
from: 7″ single

2.  Anibal Velasquez – Mambo Loco
from: Mambo Loco

3.  Billy Briggs – Chew Tobacco Rag #2
from: Got A Light, Mac? Vintage Songs About Smoking 1926-1954 (various artists)

4.  Pere Ubu – Non-Allignment Pact
from: The Modern Dance

5.  Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – Money
from: I Learned The Hard Way

6.  Avi Buffalo – Remember Last Time
from: Avi Buffalo

7.  Zora & The Hometowners – I’ll Be Hanged If They’re Gonna Hang Me
from: http://westernswing78.blogspot.com/

8.  Wu Tan Clan – Gravel Pit
from: The W

9.  Davy Graham – Majuun
from: Playing In Traffic

10.  Sarah Blasko – Lost & Defeated
from: As Day Follows Night

11.  Melotone Sisters with Amaqola Band – I Sivenhoe
from: Next Stop Soweto: Township Sounds of The Golden Age of Mbaqanga (various artists)

12.  The Jades – I’m Where It’s At
from:  The Northern Soul Story Vol 4: Wigan Casino (various artists)

13.  The Divine Comedy – When A Man Cries
from: Bang Goes The Knighthood

14.  Crawling Chaos – Breaking Down
from: The Gas Chair

Selection Box Show 136

Transmitted 7/6/2010

1.  Elvis Costello – Tramp The Dirt Down
from: Spike

2.  The Charmaines – Eternity
from: The Northern Soul Story Vol 4: Wigan Casino (various artists)

3.  The Parenthetical Girls – Doughnut
from: The Scottish Play

4.  Salsa Celtica – An Cailleach
from: En Vivo El Norte

5.  Caribou – Odessa
from: Swim

6.  Kate Bush – Aerial
from: Aerial

7.  Del Shannon – (See I Hear) That Lonesome Whistle
from: Del Shannon Sings Hank Williams

8.  Midlake – Winter Dies
from: The Courage Of Others

9.  Five Blobs – The Blob
from: Burt Bacharach – The Best Of The Early Years (various artists)

10.  Cypress Hill – When The Shit Goes Down
from: Black Sunday

11.  Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves – Come And Get It
from: Come And Get It

12.  Cactus Prior – Cry Of A Dying Duck In A Thunder Storm
from: 4 Star 1459

13.  Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work
from: Tourist History

14.  P.J. Harvey – Ecstasy
from: Rid Of Me

Selection Box Show 137

Transmitted 21/6/2010

1.  Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers – Why Do Fools Fall In Love
from: Why Do Fools Fall In Love

2.  Phil Manzenera – Green Spiky Cactus
from: 6PM

3.  The Felice Brothers – Helen Fry
from: The Felice Brothers

4.  Callahan Brothers – My Blue-Eyed Jane
from: More Memories of the Callahan Brothers

5.  Cherry Ghost – Kissing Strangers
from: Beneath This Burning Shoreline

6.  Faithless – Tweak Your Nipple
from: The Dance

7.  Joanna Newsom – You & Me, Bess
from: Have One On Me

8.  Bird Blobs – Billy
from: Bird Blobs

9.  Tiny Bradshaw & His Orchestra – Well, Oh Well
from: The Birth of Rock & Roll (various artists)

10.  Alvo Noto – U_08-1
from: Unitxt

11.  The Wave Pictures – Kittens
from: Sweetheart EP

12.  Susan Barrett – What’s It Gonna Be
from: The Northern Soul Story Vol 3: Blackpool Mecca (various artists)