Threadfest preview

The next edition of Bradford Beat on Thursday 22 May will be taking a look ahead to Threadfest 2014.

The festival takes place from 23 –  25 May.

Meanwhile, you can listen again to last week’s show by clicking here.

Here’s what we played:

Embrace – Quarters
Real Estate – Talking Backwards
Elizabeth – New Year
Brody Dalle – Don’t Mess With Me
The Negatives – We Are England
Glass Animals – Gooey
Gerrard Bell-Fife – The One Place
Superfood – Melting
Billy Delines – Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?
The Clash – Tommy Gun
Pixies – Blues and Greens
Terrorvision – Celebrity Hit List
Embrace – I Run

Buffet #63 – Bobby is Back!

Hello hello!

If you tuned in to Buffet on Sunday 18th May – thanks! If you’re here to have a listen – click this bit!

Emma 2Emma made a triumphant return, which was marvellous, as she can only pop in sporadically to share her ace musical choices. And she really served up a treat with our Bastardised Beatles track of the month. Goodbye Beatles is a very special tribute album! If Emma’s track choice doesn’t make you chuckle when you hear it, there’s something seriously wrong with you…

And you also have a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Swans at the Cockpit, Leeds on Sunday 1st June. We want you to Tweet or Facebook us your pictures of swans using the hashtag #uptheswanny They can be any kind of picture and any kind of Swan! The deadline is midnight on Tuesday 20th May. And for inspiration, here’s a picture Emma drew. It documents a real-life situation where a giant swan attacked her girlfriend:

swan attack!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyroad, this is what we played on the show!

1. The theme from Welcome Back Kotter
2. Liars – Pro Anti Anti
3. Round Window – Gelato Fragola
4. tUnE-yArDs – Water Fountain
5. The Johnny Dunne Singers – Hello Goodbye/Get Back
6. Yann Tiersen – Midsummer
7. Vincent Gallo – When
8. Field Music & Warm Digits – Snow Watch
9. Swans – Oxygen (To Be Kind)
10. Sisyphus – I Won’t Be Afraid
11. Cowtown – (Kim) Deal Breaker
12. Kim Deal & Morgan Nagler – The Root
13. Oh No Ono – Helplessly Young
13. Jack White – Lanzaretto
15. Gruff Rhys – American Interior

No idea which members of Team Buffet will be presenting the next show on 15th of June, but we can assure you the music will be well good, so please join us!

Team Buffet x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Big Joan Sets Up 16th May – Palpitation for the Nation

One for the Daily Mail readers this week, as we unleashed three tracks from “Fuck Off” the debut LP from Good Throb whose alternately hilarious and terrifying single “Bag” brightened our 2013 and whose LP looks set to do the same for 2014.

When Big Joan Sets Up 16th May – Good Throb by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Honeyblood – “Killer Bangs” (Download single) (Fatcat)
Kyoka – “Moonboots” (LP – “Is (Is Superpowered)”) (Raster-Noton)
Black Prarie – “If I Knew You Then” (LP – “Fortune”) (Sugarhill)
Ward 21 – “Get and Nuh Chat” (Download single) (Wiletunes)
Good Throb – “Acid House” (LP – “Fuck Off”) (Super-Fi)
808 State – “Headhunters” (LP – “Newbuild”) (Creed)
Neil Young – “Intro/Changes” (LP – “A Letter Home”) (Third Man)
Beat Detectives – “Summer In The City” (LP -“ASSCOP”) (108p)
Sly and Robbie – “Forward March” (LP – “Underwater Dub”) (Groove Attack)
Good Throb – “Crab Walk” (LP – “Fuck Off”) (Super-Fi)
Wander – “Oblivion” (LP – “Mourning”) (Self Released)
Wanda Jackson – “I Gotta Know” (LP – “Queen Of Rockabilly”) (Ace)
Riko – “Roll The Drumz” (Download) (Contagious)
Aborted – “Excremental Veracity” (LP – “The Necrotic Manifesto”) (Century Media)
The Delines – “Witchita Ain’t So Far Away” (LP – “Colfax”) (Decor)
Good Throb – “Double White Denim” (LP – “Fuck Off”) (Super-Fi)
The Upbeats – “Def Crescent” (EP – “Rituals”) (Blackout)

When Big Joan Sets Up 9th May – Copeland in Cope Land

Hmmm – it’s not brilliant that title,is it? However copeland‘s new LP “Because You’re Worth It” is a brilliant,innovative mildly unsettling work of art that – in stark contrast to the majority of music made (and played) in 2014 – sounds like it was made in 2014.

When Big Joan Sets Up 9th May – Copeland by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

The Lord – “The Night Is But A Tender Courgette” (LP – “Getting’ Off The Meths”) (Exotic Pylon)
Shonen Knife – “Shopping” (LP – “Overdrive”) (Tomato Head)
Matrixxman – “Simulation” (V/A EP – “Metaphysix: II Rhythm”) (Ultramajic)
Muyei Power – “Yamba Sowe” (LP – “Sierra Leone in 1970’s USA”) (Soundway)
Sleaford Mods – “Tiswas” (LP – Divide And Exit”) (Harbinger Sound)
Hobocop – “Stench Of Death” (LP – “Half Man,Half Cop”) (Slovenly)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess” (LP – “C.S.I. Ambleside”) (Probe Plus)
DJ Taye – “Cherokee” (EP – “Radikal”) (Bandcamp)
copeland – “Advice To Young Girls” (LP – “Because You’re Worth It”) (Self Released)
copeland – “Inga” (LP – “Because You’re Worth It”) (Self Released)
copeland – “l’oreal” (LP – “Because You’re Worth It”) (Self Released)
Nitty Kutchie – “Dem Flipping” (V/A LP – “Ba Ba Bum Riddim”) (Mr.G)
Autopsy – “Savagery” (LP – “Tourniquets,Hacksaws and Graves”) (Peaceville)
Savages – “Fuckers” (Download Single) (Matador)

Eclectic Mainline bonus programme – I’m not done!

If you listened to last week’s programme, the final ever episode of Eclectic Mainline, you may have heard me say there will be a bonus programme online.  You will be familiar with the rather tired idea of a bonus track at the end of an album. Well, I thought I would do a bonus radio programme at the end of my tenure on the airwaves.

Albert presenting Eclectic Mainlineropped

When I recently did a special programme celebrating my 10th anniversary on BCB, Phil Cope asked me if that programme tracked the evolution of Eclectic Mainline over the 10 years I had been doing the programme.  It didn’t really do that, but I liked the idea, and that is what I tried to go for with this extra programme.  You can listen to it at your leisure on my Mixcloud page, or simply clickety click below to listen now.

These are the tunes that featured in this extra edition of Eclectic Mainline:

Continue reading →

Final ever Eclectic Mainline – 30th April 2014

After 10 years, and approximately (maybe even exactly) 500 shows, I presented the final Eclectic Mainline live on Wednesday evening this week. Thanks to everyone who tuned in to help make this last episode feel special.  Having so many people getting in touch during the show was wonderful.

Albert presenting final Eclectic Mainline

Choosing what I was going to play in this final show was by no means easy. I decided a few weeks ago what I was going to end with. That was easy. But, apart from that, I just wanted to play as much new music as I could, knowing that it was my final chance.  And I had at least 2 shows’ worth of music in my pile of CDs as I entered the studio. I’m kicking myself for forgetting something, however. Back in February the Tweet below alerted me to something amazing.  You can actually listen to Wikipedia edits in real time – the actual sound of the internet breathing!

 

I thought that was absolutely stunning, and so very now.  Well done to the people who developed that.  I’ve wanted to play an extract if it on the radio ever since, and planned to do so in my final show. But… like a muppet, I forgot. Hey ho, there’s always next wee… Oh no, there’s no next week, is there. Continue reading →

Selection Box Show 300

300

Like some sort of wireless Don Bradman I strode to the radio crease a few weeks ago and edged my way past 300. This means that if you listened to all editions of Selection Box in a row without any interruption you’d be aurally imbibing me talking in between records for over 12 days without sleep. In other words, you’d be a ruddy idiot.

Selection Box Show 300 (Listen Again here)

Transmitted 16/04/2014

1. Billy Butler – I Can’t Wait No Longer
from: Kent’s Cellar of Soul (various artists)

2. Factory Floor – Turn It Up
from: Factory Floor

3. Cody Chestnutt – I’ve Been There
from: Landing On A Hundred

4. The Goldheart Assembly – Oh Really
from: www.goldheartassembly.com/free-single-oh-really/

5. The Dark Sky Singers – One Hundred Years
from: Like No English

6. Music Love & Funk – Stone Lover
from: Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound (various artists)

7. The Don Ezekiel Combination – Amalinja
from: Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife Afro Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6 (various artists)

8. The Centurians – Bullwinkle Pt2
from: Surfers’ Pyjama Party

9. Rocky & The Riddlers – Flash & Crash
from: 7″ single

10. Khamoro – Lingara / Csavorgok
from: Lingara, Wanderers

11. Albert Hammond Jnr – Bargain of the Century
from: Como Te Llama?

12. Underworld – Mo Move
from: A Hundred Days Off

13. Lucius – Turn It Around
from: Wildewoman

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

When Big Joan Sets Up 2nd May – Let There Be Light

Three from the long awaited new LP from the magnificent Horrors “Luminous” this week plus a tune from the late DJ Rashad who in a musical climate welded ever more desperately to the forms of the last century made records that brought us things that we’d never heard before and therefore belongs in the same company as the Beefhearts,Mark E Smiths and King Tubbys of the world. He’ll be missed. RIP.

When Big Joan Sets Up 2nd May – The Horrors by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Broncho – “It’s On” (7″) (CQ)
Canadian Winter – “Get The Show On The Road” (LP – “The Snowball Effect”) (Urbnet)
Don Fe – “Jericho” (12″) (Steppas)
The Horrors – “In and Out Of Sight” (LP – “Luminous”) (XL)
DJ Rashad – “Rollin’ (EP – “Rollin’) (Hyperdub)
Limewax – “Various Castrations” (12″) (Yellow Stripe)
Phil Cockerham – “I’m So Happy I’m A Banker” (LP – “Waiting For The Age Of Reason”) (Self Released)
Chain and The Gang – “Devitalize” (LP – “Minimum Rock’N’Roll”) (Fortuna Pop)
Santo and Johnny – “Sleepwalk” (LP – “Santo and Johnny”) (Canadian-American)
The Horrors – “Sleepwalk” (LP – “Luminous”) (XL)
Sleaford Mods – “A Little Ditty” (LP – “Divide And Exit”) (Harbinger Sound)
IZC – “Zig Zag” (12″) (disko404)
Girl One and The Greaseguns – “Veronica” (EP – “No Longer Spellbound”) (Squirrel)
Soul Syndicate – “Prepare Jah Man Version” (7″) (Wackies)
The Horrors – “Falling Star” (LP – “Luminous”) (XL)
Defrag – “Stilt Walkers” (LP – “Drown”) (Hymen)

Return of the McNamara boys

Embrace’s new album finally hit the shops this week – so we gave a repeat airing to our recent show dedicated to the band. Here’s what we played:

Embrace – Butter Wouldn’t Melt
Embrace – Refugees
Embrace – Higher Sights
Embrace – All You Good Good People (orchestral mix)
Embrace – Save Me
Embrace – Fireworks
Embrace – Free Ride
Talk To Angels – Enemies Closer
Embrace – It’s Gonna Take Time
Embrace – How Come (live)
Embrace – Gravity
Embrace – Come Back To What You Know
Embrace – Follow You Home (instrumental)