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The Blowin Weekly Extra – Petals

More tunes than time…

Blowin 8-10pm, Sunday 3 January 2010
Repeated around 1 am on Tuesday

BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk everywhere else..

Playlist below…

Petals

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Petals

Petals

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R.I.P James Gurley 1939-2009

‘Big Brother and the Holding Company’s guitarist James Gurley, seen by his peers as one of the groundbreaking developers of what came to be called “psychedelic rock”, died of a heart attack Dec 20 in Palm Desert, two days shy of his 70th birthday.’

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Eclectic Mainline 30th December 2009

So, dear listeners, it is now 2010, and it seems awfully old fashioned of me to talk about last year, but you see, the thing is, I haven’t yet told you what I played in my last show of the year on 30th December.  This was part of our Warp Records night on BCB, so sandwiched in the middle of my show was a Warp20 (Minutes) mix of tunes on said record label, celebrating their 20th anniversary.  This is what I played:

APSE – 3.1
Phosphorescent – Can I Sleep In Your Arms
Magnetic Fields – We Are Having A Hootenanny
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
Vic Chesnutt – Like A Monkey In A Zoo [RIP Vic Chessnutt]
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Warp20 (Minutes) mix:
Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Autechre – Rale
Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others
Aphex Twin – Girl/Boy Song
Gonjasufi – Kowboyz&Indians
Sqarepusher/AFX – Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid
Battles – Atlas
Bibio – Kaini Industries
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Flight Of The Conchords – Hurt Feelings
Big Star – Blue Moon [played because 31st December was indeed a blue moon]
Camera Obscura – French Navy
Antoine Dougb̩ & Orcheste Poly-Rythmo РYa Mi Ton Gbo (Legends Of Benin compilation)

Phil Cope and Laura Rawlings also devoted a third of their shows that night to Warp20 (minutes) mixes.

And, if it doesn’t seem ludicrously old fashioned, I would still like to write a bit of a blog looking back at 2009, so I may yet still do that.

Too Much Too Young 30th December 2009

So… the noughties are almost over. Time for a review show!

Tonight we paid homage to some of the best artists of the year with songs from the likes of The Wave Pictures, Julian Casablancas and Blue Roses.  We also played one of the My Latest Novel tunes form their 2009 BCB session.  Plus KC’s films of the year and of the decade (number 1 was My Sassy Girl).

We also looked a bit further back and played a track from one of the classic albums of the past decade (A Postcard to Nina from Jens Lekman’s “Night Falls Over Kortedala”) and played an even older song (Why Bother? by Weezer) which sort of looks to the future as there is a Weezer tribute act called Stinkerton playing at the 1 in 12 club on new years eve. Though there is competition for NYE party of the year as at the playhouse there is also a “Decade Dance” event which looks ace. And there’s loads of great stuff happening in Bradford in the near future.

Bring on the tenties!

Christmas Countdown 2009

Here it is – the full list of Bradford Beat’s Christmas Countdown, our favourite 20 tracks of 2009:

1 Super Furry Animals – Inagural Trams
2 Depeche Mode – Peace
3 Rev Chunky/Jam Sponge – Wednesday Downers
4 Crystal Stilts – Shattered Shine
5 Ben and Steve (ex-The Turn) – Our Sounds (demo)
6 Tricky – Puppy Toy
7 Tiny Masters of Today – Pop Chart
8 Sky Larkin – Beeline
9 Lord Auch – Maredo
10 Secret Machines – Last Believer, Drop Dead
11 Grizzly Bear – While We Wait For The Others
12 Roger Davies – Brighouse On A Saturday Night
13 Frank Turner – Poetry of the Deed
14 Blue Roses – I Am Leaving
15 Benjy Ferree – Blown Out (Gold Doubloons and PCs of 8 )
16 The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa
17 Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
18 Prom Knight – Counter Intelligence
19 Scaramanga Six – Misadventure
20 New Model Army – Autumn

To hear our choice of the best albums of the decade so far, tune in on New Year’s Eve!

Bradford Beat is on BCB 106.6FM on Thursdays from 8pm-9pm and repeated Sunday 7pm-8pm.

Yo Ho Ho!

Yo Ho Ho!

Hope you’re all good…& Santa’s sweet to you.

Here’s the tracklisting for Wed 23rd Dec – pick of my favourite sessions:

The Lodger – I Can’t Stop
The Peppermint Lounge – Snow Falls Down
Redwire – Take Me Away
Wilful Missing – Escher Flight
The Research – Anytime Babe
iLiKETRAiNS – Sirens
Everything Everything – Suffragette Suffragette
Maggie8 – Carry On
Meursault – Red Candle Bulb
King Creosote – Coast on Bye
White Light Parade – Turning All The Lights Down
Stephanie Dosen – Only Getting Better
Yimino – Q-Bit
The Luminaries – OCD
Freyed Knot – Wild West Yorkshire

On next week’s show (30th Dec) – I’m celebrating 20 years of Warp with Alb (Eclectic Mainline) & Phil (When Big Joan…) plus playing my favourite releases from 2009.

Have a good one!

Laura x

When Big Joan Sets Up 24/12 – A big fat man with a beard – how festive!

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit,
He must be a communist.
And a beard and long hair,
Must be a pacifist.
What’s in that pipe that he’s smoking?
Arlo Guthrie

Happy Christmas bloggers, Here are the tracks from Wednesday:

Rage Against The Machine – “Killing In The Name Of” (LP -“Rage Against The Machine”) (Epic)
Lucky Soul – “Lonely This Christmas” (EP -“Ruffa Round The Christmas Tree”) (available free from www.ruffalane.com)
Sizzla – “Res A Dem” (LP- “Stand Tall”) (Yes)
Africa Hi Tech – “Blen” (CD – “Warp Sampler 2010”) (Warp)
Deiphago – “Subliminal Satan” (v/a CD – “Fear Candy 75”) (Terrorizer)
The Twerps – “Good Advice” (CDR – “The Twerps”) (Night People)
T-Model Ford – “Two Trains” (LP – “The Ladies Man”) (Alive)
Flore – “Feel Me” (12″) (Botchit & Scarper)
Morecambe & Wise – “Bring Me Sunshine” (LP – “EMI Comedy Classics”) (EMI)
The Fall – “We Wish You A Protein Christmas” (EP- “We Wish You A Protein Christmas”) (Action)
Sy and Unknown – “Move It” (12″) (Quosh)
Cliff Richard and The Drifters – “Move It” (7″) (Columbia)
The Soft Pack – “C’mon” (Download from Pitchfork.com)
Black Tusk Sound – “Sound Killin'” (12″) (Frozen O’s)
Bonny Billy and The Picket Line -“Ramblin’ Fever” (LP- “Funtown Comedown”) (Drag City)
Lee Perry and Adrian Sherwood – “His Master’s Voice” (LP – “Dubsetter”) (Beatnik/On U Sound)
The Shurfine Singers – “Silent Night/11 O’Clock News” (7″) (Josie)

Dizzy Comes Back To Bradford

This week’s programme is another super special Crossroads programme. I recently contacted that great piano player, Diz Watson of Diz and the Doormen fame to a) let him know that his LP BLUECOAT MAN, continues to thrill 27 years after it was made, and b) to ask if he had any new music – and guess what – he has. TONKY HONK, a CD on the Ace label.

I suggested that Diz may like to come into the studio and chat, play some of his music and play some records by people he liked. To my amazement not only did I get a reply, but it arrived on a postcard from Ilkley. Diz was visiting his sister, who lives there and he came into the studio to record the programme – joy of joys. During the interview it transpired that he lived in Bradford as a lad although he was born in South Africa. His music is a “potent gumbo of Barrelhouse, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll and Boogie Woogie”, although if you ask me that doesn’t quite cover it. It’s full of energy and displays a musicianship that is outstanding. He makes it sound so easy but he claims he is still learning – it takes 50 years to be really good at the piano. he said. It is clear he loves this music and this infectious enthusiasm shines through all his stories.

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Blowin Extra – Move it on over

The Blowin Weekly Extra
More tunes than time…

Blowin 8-10pm, Sunday 20 December 2009
Repeated around 1 am on Tuesday

BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk everywhere else..

Playlist below…

Shwe in Bin Kyaung Teak Monastery

Mandalay, Myanmar, 3 November 2008,  Photo by Irene Young

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Shwe in Bin Kyaung Teak Monastery

Shwe in Bin Kyaung Teak Monastery

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This week’s programme has a track recorded in Belgium, possibly the only such we have in the vaults.

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