Tag Archives: blowin

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Strictly Astral

The Blowin Weekly Extra 
Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 20 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 

Saturday afternoon, 5.45pm, going into town

Saturday afternoon, 5.45pm, going into town

“A new U.S. Senate bill would grant the president far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet.”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20007418-38.html

======

Michael Levin could almost convert me to monochrome
http://photographersgallery.com/by_artist.asp?id=175
thanks to Tigerlily for tip

======

Super! Extreme! Mega! History! Heroes!
For literary feminists everywhere
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NKXNThJ610&feature=player_embedded

Continue reading

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Rose

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 6th June 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

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

Battlo Rose

Battlo Rose - If you want to know what this week's attached photo is, first tell me what you think it looks like, and your reaction... we might even arrange a prize ... hit Reply and get typing.. the editor's decision is always 100% right, dang it.

======

Our Photos site at www.rob-walsh.net now has new pics, with older favourites revisited – all photos are organic home-grown produce, with zero manipulation or photo-shopping (ok, alright, I’ve cropped one…).


======

It’s the 40th anniversary of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, and there now seems to be a beer of the same name..

www.milesdavis.com/us/news/dogfish-head-craft-brewery-unveils-its-bitches-brew

Also, a short film of Miles playing Bitches Brew live in 1969 – http://bit.ly/aGATIo


Continue reading

Blowin – the African Special, and updated Photos

Hey up, now then


The Photos site has new pics, at www.rob-walsh.net plus older ones revisited – all our photos are organic home-grown produce, with zero manipulation or photo-shopping (oh, alright, I’ve cropped one…).


AND there’s a two hour Blowin wireless programme of rather wonderful african music at blowin.podomatic.com

I enjoyed recording it for BCB FM back in 2004 – hope you enjoy it too… playlist below – listen or download this and other Blowin broadcasts from the above site.

Continue reading

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Bowls?

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 6th June 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

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

 

Water falling on stone

Water falling on stone

======

 

  King Midas Sound – The Bug / Roger Robinson / Hitomi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mRasMttLfw&feature=player_embedded
www.myspace.com/kingmidassound
thanks to On The Wire – http://otwradio.blogspot.com

Continue reading

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Beyond

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 3oth May 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

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

 

Thornton Moor

Thornton Moor

======

 

Robert Johnson – King Of The Delta Blues Singers – slower, and better - IMHO

http://globalgroovers.blogspot.com/2010/05/robert-johnson-king-of-delta-blues.html

 

======

 

Johnny Clarke is playing the West Indian Centre, Leeds, Saturday June 5, with Iration Steppas and others – from 10pm.

 

======

 

MelaMatik Dub Day in Bradford @ Infirmary Fields opposite New Beehive

Saturday June 19 - 12 noon to 8pm

Inspirational Sound, Dr Huxtable’s Axis Reggae Sound System and Rootsman

www.myspace.com/melamatik

www.melamatik.co.uk  

 

Continue reading

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Scorchio

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 23rd May 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

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

 

Thursday, November

Thursday, November

======

 

 Botswana guitar – very unorthodox, very effective
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im_-1H_sI8w&feature=player_embedded
 ======

Continue reading

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Through

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 16th May 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

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

======

This week I have mainly been…  trying Google’s Chrome.
Firefox was getting a bit creaky, Chrome seems faster and handles my 37 tabbed pages of breakfast reading well.
I like Firefox’s multiple download manager though.

Go Through

Go Through

======

Africa Oyé
returns to Sefton Park, Liverpool, Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 June
12:30pm-9:30pm both days – Free

Including Michael Rose from Black Uhuru with his live band, the Gangbe Brass Band from Benin, and Youssou N’Dour’s protégé Carlou D from Senegal. www.africaoye.com

Pre-festival Party – Wailing Souls, Saturday 22 May, The Picket Venue, Liverpool L1 0BW £10 advance £15 on door. www.africaoye.com/tandt/wailingsouls.htm

Continue reading

The Blowin Weekly Extra – So fine

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 25th April 2010
More tunes than time…

BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u everywhere else..
Blowin podcasts – play or download at blowin.podomatic.com
======

Looking north from Baildon Moor

Looking north from Baildon Moor

It’s time to pop open a party bag of adrenal glands and start munching.”
Elections are tedious and change little, it’s the smartarse commentary that really gets us going.
Try Malcolm TuckerHunter S Thompson would have been jealous  
.. older columns here 
More on Malcolm Tucker here

Continue reading

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Stay Dread

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 11 April 2010
More tunes than time…

Blowin podcasts – play or download at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE  – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u
BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk everywhere else..

Stoodley Pike

Stoodley Pike

======

International Record Store Day is April 17.
Jumbo Records in Leeds has live acts instore, including Wilful Missing with BCB’s very own Albert Freemanwww.myspace.com/wilfulmissing and www.jumborecords.co.uk/jumbo-records-news.asp?news_id=165

Lots of very limited edition discs might also be available [check with Jumbo] – including:
Jesus & Mary Chain – Just Like Honey/Head 7 inch (Rhino Records 750 only)
Jesus & Mary Chain – You Trip Me Up/Just Out Of Reach 7 inch (Rhino Records 750 only)
Factory Records: Communications 1978 – 92 (10inch sampler – Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays & The Durutti Column) (Rhino Records 750 only)
Rolling Stones “Plundered My Soul” unreleased track from the ‘Exile On Main Street’ sessions (Polydor 1000 only)
The Fall “Bury / Cowboy Cowboy” 7 (Domino 750 only)
Jimi Hendrix 7″ UK exclusive ltd pressing, numbered & coloured (Sony 1000 only)

Continue reading