Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 1st August 2010
More tunes than time…
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Listen to BCB on 106.6 FM or www.bcbradio.co.uk
Holden Beck
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Buzzcocks, Dreadzone, and more – Bingley Music Live, free, Friday 3 September
www.bingleymusiclive.com/lineup.php
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RIP Walter Witter. Walter came to this country from Jamaica in 1968. He died recently, aged 70.
Many Bradfordians knew him when he ran the Britannia Social Club on Carlisle Road (aka the Sugar Cane after Walter’s earlier club on Salt Street). In the days when pubs shut at 10.30 or 11pm the Sugar Cane was an after-hours refuge, and Walter and his wife Nellie were always friendly, with a real mix of customers.
Walter did some great paintings of Jamaican life and people, and some of them were on show at the the Sugar Cane. I coveted them badly, especially after a few Red Stripes. Latterly he ran the Devonshire Arms on Thornton Road. His son, Junior Witter, is well-known in the boxing world and won a World Championship some years ago.
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8254229.Junior_pays_warm_tribute_to_late_father
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This month I have mostly been..
… ploughing on with James Joyce’s Ulysses, a book well ahead of its time and still groundbreaking almost a century later. The writing could easily be contemporary. He did like showing off though, did James, and there are many many diversions from both plot and style.
‘The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit’… is from a diversion late in the book, written in the style used by the Catholic catechism to teach the religion by rote repetition, as I remember from my Saturday morning sessions with some unhappy nuns: www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/ulysses/17/
… wrestling with a PC that froze. At first I thought it was Google’s Chrome browser, so I went back to Firefox. But the freezing continued, even unto the infamous bluescreen. After returning the PC to the factory defaults – what Jermaine from PC World called ‘full destructive reorganisation’ – I reinstalled Chrome. Which is good, as Firefox lumbers in comparison. Chrome rules (so far).
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Tony Allen, Sunday 3 October, Wardrobe, Leeds, £12 advance at Wardrobe and from www.lunatickets.co.uk
A founding father of Afrobeat, Nigerian drummer, composer and songwriter, most famous for his 15 year tenure as Fela Kuti’s drummer.
www.thewardrobe.co.uk/event-detail.asp?eventid=1940
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Catching up on playlists..
11 July
Lou Reed – There Is No Time – New York CD – RCA
Glen Brown & God’s Children Band – Assack Lawn No 1 Dub – South East Music 7″
Shaba Kahamba – Litiot – Shaba Kahamba & Les Esprits Saints CD – Karac/Sonodisc CD
Robert Johnson – Steady Rollin’ Man – King Of The Delta Blues Singers Vol 2 – slower version
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Long Time Gone – Crosby, Stills & Nash CD – Atlantic
Sons Of Negus – Give Love Dub – Rastafari In Dub LP – Top Ranking
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Coma Girl – Streetcore CD – Hellcat
Little Feat – Long Distance Love – The Last Record Album CD – Warners
Prince Tony’s All Stars – What Did You Say (Version) – Flashing Echo 2xCD – Trojan
Khalifa Ould Eide & Dimi Mint Abba – Independence (Yar Moritani Alek Mubarak Mauritan) – Moorish Music From Mauritania CD – World Circuit
Velvet Underground – Beginning To See The Light – The Velvet Underground CD – Verve
Charley Patton – Elder Greene Blues – Screamin’ And Hollerin’ The Blues 7xCD – Revenant
Marcia Aiken & Trinity – I’m Still In Love / Three Piece Suit – Trojan 12″ Box Set 3xCD – Trojan
18 July
Jefferson Airplane – Turn My Life Round – Volunteers CD – RCA
Sugar Minott – Love Gonna Pack Up – Live Loving LP – Studio One
Al Green – You Ought To Be With Me – Call Me CD – Hi
Sons Of Negus – Hallelujah Dub – Rastafari In Dub CD – Top Ranking
Robert Johnson – Travelling Riverside Blues – King Of The Delta Blues Singers – slower version
Sugar Minott & Papa Honey – You’ve Lost It – Black Roots 12″
Tom Verlaine – Kingdom Come – Tom Verlaine CD – Elektra
Glen Brown – Away With The Bad – Glen Brown & Friends: Rhythm Master Volume Oone CD – Hot Pot
Charley Patton – Some These Days I’ll Be Gone – Screamin’ & Hollerin’ The Blues 7xCD – Revenant
Dub Specialist – Banana Walk – The Studio One Story CD – Studio One/Soul Jazz
Lou Reed – Last Great American Whale – New York CD – Sire
Sugar Minott – Herbman Hustling – Herbman Hustling LP – Black Roots
Little Feat – Somebody’s Leavin’ – The Last Record Album CD – Warners
Nightmares On Wax – Les Nuits – Carboot Soul Cd – Warp
25 July
Velvet Underground – I Can’t Stand It – VU CD – Verve
The African Brothers – No Cup, No Brook – Collector’s Edition: Rare Reggae From The Vaults Of Studio One CD – Heartbeat
Lowell George – Find A River – Thanks I’ll Eat It Here CD – Warners
Lee Perry – Jucky Skank – Sound System Scratch CD – Pressure Sounds – www.pressure.co.uk
Richard Thompson & David Byrne – Dirty Old Town – An Acoustic Evening CD – Red Phantom
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Tery Bina (Nothing Without You) – Mustt Mustt LP – Real World
Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On – Let’s Get It On LP – Motown
Gregory Isaacs – One One Cocoa – Glen Brown & Friends: Rhythm Master Volume One CD – Hot Pot
Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band (live) – Workingman’s Dead CD
Brentford Road All Stars – Throw Me Corn – Studio One Story CD – Soul Jazz
Miles Davis – Miles Runs The Voodoo Down – Tanglewood 18 August 1970
Sons Of Negus – Glory Dawn Dub – Rastafari In Dub LP – Top Ranking
Wailing Souls – Fire House Rock  – Fire House Rock CD – Greensleeves
Scientist – The Mummy’s Shroud – Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of Vampires CD – Greensleeves
1 August
Sugabelly – Solder Bolt + Count Owen – Soldering – Studio One 12″
Rail Band w. Mory Kante – Wale Numa Lombaliya – Rail Band Mory Kante LP – thanks to Alastair
Son House – Walking Blues – Travelin’ Man: Complete Library Of Congress Recordings CD
Franco & TPOK Jazz – Sadou – Francophonic 2xCD – Sterns
Thelonious Monk – Well You Needn’t – Greatest Hits CD – Columbia
A Man Called Adam – Easter Song – Duende CD – Other Records
Nightmares On Wax – Les Nuits – Carboot Soul CD – Warp
More playlists at www.rob-walsh.co.uk
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Keep On Blowin
Rob
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