When Big Joan Sets Up 21st March – Vivians’ Valedictory

On the day that people who tie their jumpers round their necks and have share portfolios rejoiced that indolent,caterwauling Radio 2 uber-bore Kate Bush has remembered what her job is, Big Joan wiped a tear from it’s metaphorical eye and bade farewell to the mighty Vivian Girls with highlights of their final live performance recorded at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, New York at the beginning of the month.

For those unaware the Vivs are (were) a three piece band who between 2008 and 2011 released three astonishing LP’s and seven equally astonishing 7″ singles that sounded like the Shangri La’s covering Nirvana’s “Bleach” whilst being force-fed Wonka Bars.

To leaven the emotional tension we also had a host of top tunes including three from that golden year 1916. Where were you?

NB: As nyctaper.com objected to the use of the Vivian Girls material I’ve taken it down. You can hear the full gig at their website.

When Big Joan Sets Up 21st March – The Vivian Girls’ Final Live Performance by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

DJ Rashad,Moondoctor,and Freshtildef – “Fresh On The Moon” (LP – “WTF”) (Freshmoon)
Righteous Foundation – “Back To Ethiopia” (V/A LP – “Island Records Presents: 37 Essential Roots Anthems 1974-1978) (Island)

The Vivian Girls – Recorded Live at Baby’s All Right – Williamsburg New York March 2,2014 (http://www.nyctaper.com)
“Walking Alone At Night”
“I Have No Fun”
“Wild Eyes”
“I Heard You Say”

Nochexxx – “Exholst” (LP – “Thrusters”) (Ramp)
Primitive Parts – “Signal” (7″) (Sex Beat)

Records of The First World War – 1916
George Formby Snr. – “My Grandfather’s Clock”
Murray Johnson – “Pack Up Your Troubles”
Vess L. Osman’s Banjo Orchestra – “Universal Foxtrot”

Little Feat – “Fat Man In The Bathtub” (Box Set – “Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Brothers Years 1971-1990”)

The Vivian Girls – Recorded Live at Baby’s All Right – Williamsburg New York March 2, 2014 (http://www.nyctaper.com)
“Out For The Sun”
“Tell The World”
“Telepathic Love”
“All The Time”
“No”

Liars – “Boyzone” (LP – “Mess”) (Mute)

Embrace the now

Bradford Beat will mark the return of Embrace with a special episode next week looking back at the band’s career.

They release their new album on 28 April and will play at the Academy in Leeds on 14 May as part of their UK tour.

The hour-long show will also feature music by some of the other bands that the lads have been in other than Embrace. Tune in to hear it from 8pm to 9pm on Thursday 27 March on BCB 106.6FM.

This week’s show featured the following tracks:

Lisa Marie Glover – Cottage
The Bohicas – Swarm
Kaiser Chiefs – Coming Home
Wild Beasts – Nature Boy
Junk Dealers – The Chain of Command
The Selecter – On My Radio
Monty Casino – Gorbachev
Supergrass – Richard III
Shed Seven – Going For Gold
St Vincent – Digital Witness
Natural Rhythm – Bluebeat and Ska
The 1975 – Settle Down
Laura Groves – I Am Leaving

You can listen again by clicking here

Eclectic Mainline 19th March 2014

Hauschka – Abandoned City

I can’t help but feel that I have let you down. I promised to play three tracks from the new Hauschka LP in this weeks programme. But I lost track of time and only ended up playing two. If you can find it within yourself to give me another chance, I’ll play the third next week. Here is one of the two that I did play:

You will find the full programme on the BCB Listen Again service. Here is the track list:

Keel Her – I’d Be Your Slave (R. Stevie Moore Remix) (single) (Critical Heights)
Wild Beasts – Palace (LP – Present Tense) (Domino)
Can Can Heads – The Hour of (Your) Annihilation (LP – Butter Life) (Bandcamp)
T’ien Lai – Serca miast zatrzymuja sie (LP – Da’at) (Monotype)
Hauschka – Craco (LP – Abandoned City) (City Slang)
Throwing Snow – Caedis (Pathfinder EP) (Houndstooth)
Darren Hayman and Emma Kupa – Boy, Look At What You Can’t Have Now (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
Hokei – Tap (LP – Don’t Go) (Monotype)
Beck – Blue Moon (LP – Morning Phase) (Capitol)
Big Star – Blue Moon (LP – Sister Lovers/Big Star’s Third) (PVC)
Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo – Caboclincha Do Igapó (LP – Siriá) (Analog Africa)
Tycho – Awake (single) (Ghostly)
Dean Wareham – Love Is Not A Roof Against The Rain (LP – Dean Wareham) (Sonic Cathedral)
Peder Mannerfelt – Gulo Gulo Caesitas (LP – Lines Describing Circles) (Digitalis)
Hauschka – Barkerville (LP – Abandoned City) (City Slang)
Malachai – I Deserve To No (single and LP – Beyond Ugly) (Double Six)

When Big Joan Sets Up 14th March – “Nobody likes the records that you play”

So goes the lilting refrain of track one in tonight’s honking hootenanny, Minimal Allianz’s “Nobody”,thus providing a hefty dose of what admirers of Shergar faced 90’s irritant Alanis Morrisettte will recognise as irony.

On top of this we also had three tracks of filth-caked excellence from the new Black Lips LP “Underneath The Rainbow” and continued our look at the popular tunes of World War One with three tracks from 1915.

Like rain on your wedding day.

When Big Joan Sets Up 14th March – Black Lips by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Minimal Allianz – “Nobody” (Download) (Scandal Bizz)
The Oh Sees – “Penetrating Eye” (Download single) (Castleface)
Loudon Wainwright III – “Housework” (LP – “Grown Man”) (Virgin)
Black Lips – “Make You Mine” (LP – “Underneath The Rainbow”) (Vice)
Hi-Ba-Ri – “Hi-Ba-Ri” (Download single) (Terminal Explosion)
Bounty Killer – “What We Need” (V/A LP – “Internet Riddim”) (Sandra Carson Productions)
The Fall – “What You Need” (LP – “This Nation’s Saving Grace”) (Beggars Banquet)

Records of The First World War – 1915
The National Military Band – “Colonel Bogey March”
Morton Harvey – “I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier”
Marie Lloyd – “A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good”

Black Lips – “Justice After All” (LP – “Underneath The Rainbow”) (Vice)
DJ Earl and Heavee – “Good Life” (LP – “Audio Fixx 2”) (Self Released)
Bushman feat Chuck Fenda – “Tough Time” (EP – “Tough Time”) (Kingston Sounds)
Black Lips – “Dog Years” (LP – “Underneath The Rainbow”) (Vice)
Planetary Assault Systems – “Future Modular (Subtracted Mix) (EP – “Future Modular”) (Mote Evolver)

Insert amusing headline here

Some great new tunes on this week’s show including tracks by St Vincent, Electric Soft Parade and Brody Dalle.

Here’s the full list of what we played:

Whiter Than – Planning A Journey
St Vincent – Birth in Reverse
Chest – Furious Temper
Superfood – TV
Junk Dealers – Reality TV
Anna Calvi – Carry Me Over
Sentimentalists – Apricots
Electric Soft Parade – One Of Those Days
Embrace – Refugees
Brody Dalle – Meet The Foetus/Oh The Joy
Psycho Surgeons – Panic On
Eagulls – Possessed
Franz Ferdinand – Bullet
Bohicas – Swarm

And you can listen again by clicking here

Eclectic Mainline 12th March 2014

This week’s programme began with the sound of me opening an envelope to discover a new single by Mr Scruff. And so it continued. I hadn’t listened to anything in the programme before playing it. I don’t think the show suffered as a result. But if you disagree, let me know in the comments below. Here is that Mr Scruff single:

Also in the programme, we heard Donato Dozzy & Nuel:

and Marika Hackman:

You can listen back to the whole show on the BCB listen again service. Here is the track list:

Mr Scruff – Render Me (single and LP – Friendly Bacteria) (Ninja Tune) Soundcloud
Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks – Little Fang (single and LP – Enter The Slasher House) (Domino) Soundcloud
Donato Dozzy & Nuel – Aqua 1 (LP The Aquaplano Sessions) (Spectrum Spools / Editions Mego) YouTube
Peter Escott – My Heaven, My Rules (LP) (Fire / Bedroom Suck) Soundcloud
Clark – Superscope (single) (Warp) YouTube
Yoshio Machida – SYNTHI n°26 (LP – Music from the SYNTHI) (Baskaru)
Ellis Island Sound – So Much Water Close To Home (LP – Regions) (Village Green)
Janek Schaefer – Radio 109 FM (LP – Lay-by Lullaby) (12K)
Marika Hackman – Deep Green (EP – Deaf Heat) (Dirty Hit) Soundcloud
Ø – Neutronin (LP – Konstellaatio) (Sähkö)
Jamie Lenman – It’s Hard To Be A Gentleman (single) (Xtra Mile)
Islaja – Lay By My Side (LP – Suu) (Monika Enterprise)

International Ladies Day! Buffet do Radio Venus (#60)

Hello Hello!

We hope you had a fabulous International Women’s Day. I was joined in the studio by the marvellous Rachel Kaye, and together we played some of our current favourites – all fanny-powered, of course. You can catch up with the show here, if you missed it.

This is what we played:

1. Janelle Monae with Erykah Badu – Q.U.E.E.N.
2. The Julie Ruin – Oh Come On
3. Chest – Better Now
4. Savages – City’s Full
5. St Vincent – Digital Witness
6. Eve – Eve
7. Courtney Barnett – History Eraser
8. Angel Haze – Battle Cry
9. Ella Fitzgerald – Can’t Buy Me Love
10. Shopping – Long Way Home
11. Angel Olsen – Hi Five
12. Body/Head – Ain’t
13. Luscious Jackson – You and Me
14. RVIVR – LMD
15. Cate Le Bon – Are You With Me Now

We’ve uploaded a pic of our special guest to Flickr and you can follow us on Twitter @buffetdisco

Buffet is back on Sunday 23rd March – tune in!

Maria x

Going North from Nashville plays Gospel! Monday 10th March 10-11pm

Join John & Sue for a fine selection of gospel-themed songs, country style……….

The Soggy Bottom Boys : Man of Constant Sorrow

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan : Salvation

Gillian Welch : Rock of Ages

God’s Little Monkeys : Calgary Cross

Sixpence None the Richer : Field of Flowers

T Bone Burnett : Shut it Tight

Cerys Matthews : I Believe in You

Billy Bragg : Do Unto Others

Kevin Prosch & Bryn Haworth : Finer Things in Life

Lucinda Williams : Blessed

Derri Daugherty : All to Jesus

Emmylou Harris : So You’ll Aim Towards the Sky

When Big Joan Sets Up 7th March – Up and Under

What better way for disheartened Bulls fans to soothe their troubled souls immediately after BCB’s live coverage of their game against Hull FC than with this array of tuneage. Three tracks from the debut LP from Sydney-based drum and bass producer Royalston plus the start of a regular feature playing records from the first world war.

When Big Joan Sets Up 7th March – Royalston by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Cripple Bastards – “L’Apice Extremo” (LP – “Nero In Metastasi”) (Relapse)
Tides of Man – “Drift” (LP – “Young and Courageous”) (Self Released)
Pinchers – “Rude Boy Love” (V/A LP – “Rapid Burse Riddm”) (Mr G)
Royalston – “Stalking Stones” (LP – “OCD”) (Med School)

Records of The First World War – 1914
Arthur Collins and Byron G Harlan – “The Aba Daba Honeymoon”
The National Promenade Band – “Ballin’ The Jack”
John McCormack – “It’s A Long Way To Tipperary”

Damaged Bug – “Wasteland” (LP – “Hubba Bubba”) (Castleface)
Jeff Mills – “Transit Detections” (LP – “Chronicles Of Possible Worlds”) (Axis)
Royalston – “Modular Jam” (LP – “OCD”) (Med School)
Daggers – “Woolgatherer” (LP – “It’s Not Jazz,It’s Blues”) (Throatruiner)
Shirati Luo Voice Jazz – “Osewe Toyota” (Download) (51 Lex)
Eddie Noack – “Psycho” (LP – “The K-Art and All Star Recordings 1962-1969”) (Bear Family)
AxH – “I Feel Safe” (12″) (Tempa)
Real Estate – “Talking Backwards” (LP – “Atlas”) (Domino)
Royalston – “Arps Of Fury” (LP – “OCD”) (Med School)

Surviving studio 4

Bradford Beat managed to keep its head above water this week – despite the idiosyncratic ways of BCB’s notorious studio 4.

Here’s a full list of the tracks new and old which we played:

The Bohicas – Swarm
Eagulls – Possessed
Wild Beasts – Wanderlust
Kaiser Chiefs – Coming Home
Marika Hackman – Deep Green
Embrace – Refugees
Franz Ferdinand – Fresh Strawberries
Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite
Red Paintings – Streets Fell Into My Window
Junk Dealers – Hometown Blues
Anna Calvi – Piece By Piece
handmadehands – Daring Me Not To
Samantha Crain – Somewhere All The Time
Rootsman – Old Pan Killer

You can listen again by clicking here.