What do you get when you mix Franz Liszt, Bille Holiday, and the sound of a cornered drum machine fighting it’s way out of a blind alley. You get the new LP from Venetian Snares “My Love is A Bulldozer”. Three tracks on this week’s programme alongside a host of new tunes from such as Martin Carthy, Trans AM and The Pheremoans and the band with possibly the greatest name in the history of recorded time Disintrested Handjob who are unlikely to be appearing on Jools Holland anytime soon.There is no greater recommendation than that.

When Big Joan Sets Up 20th June – Venetian Snares by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Dabs featuring MC Kwality – “Stentah” (Download) (Horizons Music)
Martin and Eliza Carthy – “Queen Caraboo” (LP – “The Moral of the Elephant”) (Topic)
Mary Monday and Her Bitches – “Popgun” (7″) (Hozac)
Venetian Snares – “10th Circle of Winnipeg” (LP – “My Love Is A Bulldozer”) (Planet Mu)
Trans Am – “Backlash” (LP – “Volume X”) (Thrill Jockey)
Earl Sixteen – “Everybody Bawling” (LP – “Natty Farming”) (A-Lone)
U-Roy – “Everybody Bawling” (7″) (Treasure Isle)
M. Geddas Gengras – “Ishi” (LP – “Ishi”) (Leaving)
Venetian Snares – “1000 Years” (LP – “My Love Is A Bulldozer”) (Planet Mu)
Disinterested Handjob – “Blind Determinism Takes A Piss Through Your Window Of Opportunity” (LP – “Friday Night Is Porno Night”) (Bandcamp)
The Meridian Brothers – “De Mi Caballo Como Su Carne” (LP -“Salvadore Robot”) (Soundway)
Urbano – “Rexodus” (EP – “Rexodus”) (Nasty Temper)
The Pheromoans – “Duxford Air Show” (LP – “Hearts Of Gold”) (Upset The Rhythm)
Venetian Snares – “Shaky Sometimes” (LP – “My Love Is A Bulldozer”) (Planet Mu)
Lutan Fyah – “Get Rid A Di Wicked” (LP – “Get Rid A Di Wicked”) (Bread Back Productions)

More archive When Big Joan Sets Up.This week, the earliest surviving recording from 1959 presented by my great-uncle “Rockin'” Ted Troughton-Cope. A man whose DA haircut was so perfect that he was forced to retire from broadcasting just after this programme was broadcast due to the back of his head being sexually assaulted by a gang of amorous mallards thus leaving him with a morbid fear of ponds and thoughts of homicidal revenge which manifested themselves in his infamous attack on Keith Harris in the early 1980’s for which he got 30 years hard labour. Listen to him in happier times.

When Big Joan Sets Up – The Golden Hour Part 2 1959 by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Duane Eddy – “Peter Gunn” (7″) (Jamie)
Ray Charles – “(Night Time is) The Right Time” (LP – “The Genius Sings The Blues”) (Atlantic)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – “Blue Rondo A La Turk” (LP – “Time Out”) (Colombia)
Laurel Aitken and The Boogie Cats – “Boogie Rock” (LP “Boogie In My Bones”) (Pressure Drop)
Johnny Cash – “Five Feet High and Rising” (LP – “Songs of Our Soil”) (Columbia)
Jimmy Reed – “Take Out Some Insurance” (LP – “Rockin’ With Reed”) (Vee Jay)
Jack Kerouac with Steve Allen – “The Wheel of The Quivering Meat Conception” (LP – “Poetry For The Beat Generation”) (Hanover)
Lonnie Donegan – “House of The Rising Sun” (LP – “Lonnie Rides Again”) (Pye)
The Louvin Brothers – “Satan’s Jeweled Crown” (LP – “Satan Is Real”) (Capitol)
Barrett Strong – “Money (That’s What I Want)” (LP – The Complete Motown Collection) (Spectrum Audio)
Ornette Coleman – “Eventually” (LP – “The Shape of Jazz To Come”) (Atlantic)
Howlin’ Wolf – “Somebody In My Home” (LP – “Moanin’ In The Moonlight”) (Chess)
Lord Kitchener – “My Wife’s Nightie” (LP – “Some Spicy Delights”) (Radiophone Archives)
The Rock-A-Teens – “Woo Hoo” (V/A LP – “Teen Beat 3”) (Ace)
Conway Twitty – “Lonely Blue Boy” (LP – “Lonely Blue Boy”) (MGM)
Cliff Richard and The Drifters – “My Babe” (LP – “Cliff”) (Columbia)
The Flamingos – “I Only Have Eyes For You” (LP – “Dream of A Lifetime 1953-1959”) (Jasmine)
Spike Jones – “I Only Have Eyes For You” (LP – “A Spooktacular In Screaming Sound”) (Master Classics)
Charles Mingus – “Better Git It In Your Soul” (LP – “Mingus Ah Um”) (Columbia)

When Big Joan Sets Up has been on BCB for sixty years this year. Starting in 1954 broadcasting to Bradford her Empires and Territories and presented by my great-grandad Aubrey D’Ascogyne Cope the early episodes have been lost to the nation and in fact only two survive prior to 2006.

One of these is from 1992 presented by my maternal uncle “Ravin'” Dave Bonkers-Cope and was broadcast this week to mark his untimely death of a severely unblocked nose due to years of Vicks abuse.

Or I’m on holiday so I pre-recorded a programme full of old records.You choose.

“Top one, nice one, get sorted” as Ravin’ Dave used to say.

When Big Joan Sets Up 6th June – The Golden Hour Part 1 1992 by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

The Ragga Twins – “Shine Eye (12”) (Shut Up And Dance)
The Fall – “The Birmingham School of Business School (LP – “Code Selfish”) (Fontana)
Anthony Red Rose – “Tempo” (7″) (Firehouse)
Sonic Youth – “Drunken Butterfly” (LP – “Dirty”) (DSG)
Gas Huffer – “Beer Drinking Cavemen From Mars” (7″) (Sub Pop)
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – “Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury” (LP -“Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury”) (4th and Broadway)
Denim – “Middle Of The Road” (LP – “Back In Denim”) (Boy’s Own Recordings)
Urban Hype – “A Trip To Trumpton” (7″) (Faze 2)
The Wedding Present – “Cumberland Gap” (V/A LP – “Ruby Trax”) (NME)
Chaka Demus and Pliers – “Murder She Wrote” (12″) (5th Avenue South)
Pete Rock and CL Smooth – “Anger In The Nation” (LP – “Mecca and The Soul Brother”) (Elektra)
The Pharcyde – “Return Of The B-Boy” (LP – “Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde”) (Delicious Vinyl)
Huggy Bear – “Single Bullets” (EP – “Rubbing The Impossible To Burst”) (Wiiija)
S1000 – “Flatliners” (12″) (Guerilla)
The Boo Radleys – “Lazarus” (12″) (Creation)