Millwright Street

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 10 October 2010
More tunes than time…
Blowin now online at http://blowin.podomatic.com
Listen to BCB on 106.6 FM or www.bcbradio.co.uk

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This week’s Blowin is broadcast on 10.10.10, a fact which gives me great irrational pleasure.

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Tabu Ley Rochereau – The Voice Of Lightness Vol. 2

Released by Sterns 8 November 2010

A sample here – http://snd.sc/c1GpQ0

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Tom Tom Club do a Tiny Desk Concert – worth it for Genius Of Love, starting at about 4.20 http://nightofthepurplemoon.blogspot.com/2010/10/tom-tom-club-tiny-desk-concert-2010.html

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Lee Scratch Perry

Stylus, Leeds, Thursday, 14 October 2010

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This week I have mostly been..listening to Miles Davis live in Tokyo in 1973 - an excellent live recording of a powerhouse band – do yourself a favour and download tracks 104 and 201, Funk and Ife – http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=585

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Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 3 October 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin now online at http://blowin.podomatic.com

Listen to BCB on 106.6 FM or www.bcbradio.co.uk

Amanita muscaria, aka fly agaric, yesterday at Meal Bridge

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This week is your last chance to download our two hour African music Blowin special at http://blowin.podomatic.com/ – before Friday.

Also… due to technical problems last week’s Blowin didn’t go out on air or online. The programme is available to stream or download for the next month at  http://blowin.podomatic.com/entry/2010-09-26T09_01_39-07_00

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Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 19 September 2010

More tunes than time…

“..listening with continuous eager anticipation to all podcasts back to August!!” Andy H

Blowin now online at http://blowin.podomatic.com
Listen to BCB on 106.6 FM or www.bcbradio.co.uk

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Thorns and flowers (again)

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Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 15th August 2010
More tunes than time…

Blowin now online at http://blowin.podomatic.com
Listen to BCB on 106.6 FM or www.bcbradio.co.uk

Curled

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Island to Island: Dominica, Barbados & Britain

Photographs with stories of migration and return, an exhibition by Tim Smith.

21 August – 31 October 2010, Bradford Industrial Museum, Moorside Road, Bradford

www.timsmithphotos.com

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Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 1st August 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin now online at http://blowin.podomatic.com

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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The Blowin Weekly Extra

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 4 July 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin now online at http://blowin.podomatic.com

Listen to BCB on 106.6 FM or www.bcbradio.co.uk

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Man In A Pub Garden

Dancehall Science, Friday 16 July

The Wire, 2A Call Lane, Leeds LS1 6DN

£6 / £4 for girls – 10pm to 4am

Rootsman feat. D Bo General – www.myspace.com/rootsmansoundsystem

Reggae Roast feat. Ramon Judah www.reggaeroast.co.uk/

Exodus feat. Urban Vox www.myspace.com/exodusuk

B-Dawg (Big Toes Hi-Fi) www.myspace.com/bigtoeshifi

0113 2433414 / 07764 208202

www.dubstepforum.com/leeds-16-july-dancehall-science-rootsman-exodus-t148897.html

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Also Rootsman Sound System

The Playhouse, Chapel Street, Bradford

Saturday 17 July 10pm to 4am

www.myspace.com/therootsman

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Lightnin’ Hopkins playing the blues imperiously and righteously, despite a curious hair day…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dUUEehVDMM

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Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 27 June 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin now online at http://blowin.podomatic.com

Listen to BCB on 106.6 FM or www.bcbradio.co.uk

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Hope Road

This week I have mostly been..

• anticipating the arrival of bottles of Saltaire Brewery’s new Triple Chocoholic beer, remarkable on draught – research continues
• touring Manchester’s northern quarter with the Notorious Wig, encountering Shrek-a-likes and tasting something wonderful called Marble Decadence, an imperial stout, at the Marble Arch a pub with cunningly designed sloping floors… www.reluctantscooper.co.uk/2010/05/bottled-up-marble-decadence.html
• crouching near the letterbox daily at post time, hoping for an advance copy of Sound System Scratch, a collection of previously unreleased Lee Perry dub plate mixes from the redoubtable Pressure Sounds – see www.pressure.co.uk/news/-/194/ – nothing so far…

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Belated RIP for Bradford’s Loveapple cafe venue, who were kind enough to let me dj a few times

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8206351.Nightclub_cafe_bar_shuts_after_13_years/

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