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When Big Joan Sets Up 27/5/10 – I always wanted a Little Brother …

…and tonight I got one as, the esteemed Dean of The Open Mind University joined us to play some tunes and read some poems. Ivor Cutler once called him a “a very rude young man” and Ted Chippington slept on his sofa you know. That, I have no hesitation in saying, impresses the shit out of me.

Atari Teenage Riot – “Activate” (download single) (Digital Hardcore)
Paul White – “Anchor Records” (EP – “My Guitar Whales”) (One Handed Music)
Macy Skipper – “Goofin’ Off” (LP – “Stax Complete Singles 1959-1968 Volume 1”) (Atlantic)
Omar Souleyman – “Ala Il Hash Madgouga (The Bedouin Tattoo)” – (LP- “Jazeera Nights”) (Sublime Frequencies)
The Melvins – “Hospital Up” (LP – “The Bride Screamed Murder”) (Ipecac)
Little Brother – “Don’t Be A Decade All Your Life”
DJ Hammond – “Rotten To The Core” (V/A EP – “Rotten To The Core”) (Elementz)
Crystal Castles – “Fainting Spells” (LP- “Crystal Castles”) (Fiction)
Lord Buckley – “God’s Own Drunk” (LP – “Buckley’s Best 2”) (Liberty)
Prince Jammy – “42nd Street Dub” (LP – “Strictly Dub”) (Pressure Sounds)
Puffy Areolas – “1981” (LP- “In The Army 1981”) (Siltbreeze)
Old Man Luedeke – “Foreign Tounge” (LP – “My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs”) (Black Hen)
Ed Rush and Optical – “Get Ill (Prolix Remix)” (12″) (Virus)
Little Brother – “Paint Chart Never Won Fair Maiden”
The Johnny Burnette Trio – “Tear It Up” (LP – one of Little Brother’s that I forgot to write down the title of or the label)
Benga – “Baltimore Clap” (EP – “Phaze One”) (Tempa)

When Big Joan Sets Up – 1987, What The Fuck is Going On?

Last week’s tracks all came from 1987 for reasons that are too dull to go into here. This is a fairly accurate representation of what my bedroom sounded like when I was 16. You don’t want to know what it smelled like.

Public Enemy – Bring The Noise (12”) (Def Jam)
The Sewer Zombies – “They Died With Their Willie Nelson T Shirts On” (12”) (Ron Johnson)
Bhundu Boys – “Tvimbodzemoto” (LP- “Tvimbodzemoto”) (Disque Afrique)
LL Cool J – “Go, Cut Creator, Go” (LP – Bigger And Deffer”) (Def Jam)
Prince – “Sign O The Times” (7”) (Warner Bros)
The Smiths – “Sheila Take A Bow” (7”) (Rough Trade)
Rhythm Is Rhythm – “Nude Photo” (12”) (Transmat)
Napalm Death – “Success?” (LP- “Scum”) (Earache)
The Sea Urchins – “Pristine Christine” (7”) (Sarah)
Lieutennant Stitchie – “Wear Yuh Size” (v/a LP – “Superstar Hit Parade Vol 2”) (Teepee)
Beastie Boys – “No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn” (7”) (Def Jam )
The Butthole Surfers – “22 Going On 23” (LP – “Locust Abortion Technician”) (Touch and Go)
Laugh – “Paul McCartney” (v/a LP – “CD86”) (Sanctuary)
Joe Smooth – “Promised Land” (v/a LP – “Original Chicago House Classics”) (Music Club)
Cud – “You Sexy Thing” (EP – “Peel Sessions”) (Strange Fruit)
The Fall – “Hit The North” (12”) (Beggar’s Banquet)

When Big Joan Sets Up – Vote Sutch!

screaminglsWell, if he wasn’t dead you could. Last night’s When Big Joan Sets Up rode a big fat coach and horses through the Ofcom guidlines by playing a record by the 20th Century’s longest serving leader of a politcal party (I haven’t checked this, so don’t pull me up on it – I’m printing the legend), Screaming Lord Sutch which was plucked from the corners of my dad’s records collection , plus, and equally bonkers, in it’s way an epic peice from the mighty Can recorded in 1973. Oh and seeing as though we’re supposed to be a new music prgramme some new tunes too. Oh, and Annie Nightingale is a national treasure.

The Tunes:
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When Big Joan Sets Up 29/4/10 – Loudon Proud

Into this pitch darkness, we’re hurled
Where there’s not a glimmer of light
It’s not the end of the world
It’s just the middle of the night

And the blackest of flags is unfurled
In all this absence of light
It’s not the end of the world, good people
Merely, the middle of the night

The middle of the night
That’s what this is
If death is the real test
This is just a quiz

When grey creeps through your window
It will be daylight
The end of this darkness
Is almost in sight

Loudon Wainwright III – “The Middle of the Night”

Follow that with the feather boas, Rufus

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When Big Joan Sets Up 22/4/10 – “That’s not music, that’s just noise”

This is, of course, one of the cries of the common, or garden Dad alongside the evergreen “You’re not going out like that, are you?”,”You can’t tell if it’s a man or a woman (normally uttered whilst watching the latest pop sensations) and the rather parochial, but deathless “He wouldn’t get through t’pit gates dressed like that”

But as those of us who are of a certain vintage are only too aware , as the gnarled hands of impending gifferdom close around our hitherto youthful and vibrant souls , we too will eventually cheat at arguing by saying “Well when you’ve lived as long as I have, son you find that that’s just not true” and piss ourselves laughing at our own jokes.

The point (yes, unusually for these missives ,there is one), is that our dads,despite their gravy stained cardigans with football buttons and inexplicable affection for the work of David Jason, were once cool, impressively coiffured young bucks who jived/twisted/pogoed to the latest tunes with the same kind of abandon as Albert Freeman in a greengrocers, and mine was no exception.

Which is why my dad came into the studio this week to introduce a new feature “Bri’s Revived 45” where I play things that I have nicked from his impressive record collection. ( and he did say “that’s just noise” during the Hair Police track but that’s because er…it is)

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Cope, Arrowsmith & McLaren: Selection Box Shows 128, 129 & 130

After a false start a little while ago, Brigadeer Phillip Agnostin D’Argtanian Tannoy Gargle Pissflap Cope III plonked his posterior into the guest chair for Selection Box 128.  I continually say that I am not going to keep noting the number of the show we’re on, as its something I only mark out for my own probably-autistic filing purposes.  And yet I continue to announce how many of these by-the-seat-of-the-pants produced pillock presented programmes we’re up to now.  Still, worth noting that in around four months we’ll (and that’s very much the royal “we”) be up to 147 shows.  Perhaps I’ll have a snooker-themed special to celebrate.  Chas & Dave have retired now, so that’s them out the window as potential session guests, but no doubt referee Len Ganley knows how to tap a triangle on cue, so that’s a part of the rhythm section sorted.  Actually, he’s probably dead now I think about it.  I do know that Steve Davis is a prog rock aficianado, so perhaps this isn’t as daft an idea as it first seemed.  The only problem I foresee is that personally I find the majority of prog a bit too, well, shit to play on air.

Yours truly (right) and Phil Cope clearly have nothing in common.

Yours truly (right) and Phil Cope clearly have nothing in common.

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When Big Joan Sets Up 15.04.10 – Callaghanarama

What up, love monkeys. This week, we smiled bravely through the tears as our beloved Laura Rawlings left the BCB Office (but not our airwaves you’ll be relived to hear) and luxuriated in the exquisite melancholy of the new live Bill Callaghan LP amongst other top tunage. We shall never see her like again etc etc…

Tarheel Slim – “Number 9 Train” (v/a LP – “I Smell A Rat – Early Black Rock and Roll, Number 2 1949-1959”)
Holy Fuck – “P.I.G.S” (LP – “Latin”) (XL)
Rt. Hon Derek Enwright MP -“Yellow Submarine” (v/a LP – “The Exotic Beatles”) (Exotica)
The Lodger – “Have A Little Faith in People” (7″) (This is Fake D.I.Y)
Diet Cokeheads – “High Country” (7″) (Drugged Conscience)
Jah Prawn – “Everybody Shuffle” (LP – “Everybody”) (from www.vostros.com)
Martha Tilston – “Rockpools” (LP- “Lucy and The Wolves”) (Squiggly)
Kry$tal – “Instru Logobi Decal Coupe” (hosted on www.skyrock.com)
Chukki Star – “Praise the Creator” (LP – “Most Wanted”) (Greensleeves)
Viva L’American Death Ray Music – “One Hour” (EP – “Behold! A Pale Horse”) (Mexican Summer)
Closure – “Whorehouse” (7″) (Thirty Days of Night)
Bill Callaghan – “Anniversary”
Bill Callaghan – “Diamond Dancer”
Bill Callaghan – “Bathysphere” (all from LP – “Rough Travel for a Rare Thing”) (Drag City)
The Babies – “Hey Caroline” (7″) (Wild World)
The Vivian Girls – “My Love Will Follow Me” (7″) (Wild World)
Dub Gabriel feat U Roy – “Luv and Live” (download EP) (Destroy All Concepts)

When Big Joan Sets Up 8.4.10 – Hans, You’re Playing Catch Up

A phrase that will be familar to all late 80’s layabouts such as myself as being from the epic “Going For Gold” which featured Classic FM (Slogan:Without us Beethoven wouldn’t have been nothing) DJ , Henry Kelly presiding over a titanic quiz show battle whiuch featured a plethora of Europeans, all of whom had English as second language, beating the arse of the English and Irish contestants every week. Althouigh some of the English ones were from Liverpool so that’s probably why.

Anybloodyway, I’m catching up as a combination of televised football , a social calender which would stretch a minor member of the Royal Family,and the evil efforts of the dread can’t be arsed monster, meant I didn’t post a tracklisting last week.

So,for anyone who gives a flying one , here it is

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When Big Joan Sets Up 25/3/10 – A Reading from The Book of M.E.S.

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Mark E Smith

And for two years they did wander in the wilderness without any new Fall records until there came to pass a new single – and lo’ it was ace. And the children of Bradford came forth saying “Where hast thou been , O grumpy Mancunian bard of non sequiturs?” and he did say unto them “I’ve got milk on my elbow – ah!” – and they did understand that he was a genius and a bit bonkers as well.

And they saw that this was good and went off to beseech the almighty Domino Records to bestow upon them a copy of the new LP and they did so in a nice way because they did get loads of free records and they did not want to looketh a gift horse in the mouth. And as they went they sayeth unto themselves “That’s what happens when you get your biblical references off Wikipedia”

And there came forth a great howling and gnashing of teeth (from those who had teeth to gnash) and it sounded like this.

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When Big Joan Sets Up – Bloody Microsoft!

Hello chums, due to my PC being out of action AGAIN, this is a quick resume of what was played in last night’s calvacade of jolity.

Anglo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets – “Shivers” (LP-“Anglo Spencer et Les Hautes Sommets”) (K)
Tymon and Waldhaus – “Void” (EP – “Menage A Trois”) (Industrial Strength)
Gorillaz feat Mark E Smith – “Glitter Freeze” (LP- “Plastic Beach”) (Parlophone)
Serena Maneesh -“I Just Want to See Your Face” (7″) (4AD)
To Roccoco Rot – “Forwardness (Traversable Wormhole Mix) (EP – “Forwardness Friday”) (Domino)
B Dolan – “Fifty Ways” (LP- “Fallen House , Sunken City”) (Strange Famous)
The Ballad of Mable Wong – “Bob’s Yer Uncle” (download EP – “See Dea Are”) (Winning Sperm)
Toumani Dibate and Ali Farka Toure – “Sabu Yerkoy” (LP- “Toumani Dibate and Ali Farka Toure”) (World Circuit)
The Teeners – “Nazi’s on Film” (v/a LP – “Casual Victim Pile – Austin 2010”)(Matador)
NC and Nusence – “Just Heroes” (12″) (Viper)
Ivor Cutler – “Ivor Cutler and the Paper Seller” (LP- “Prince Ivor”) (Rough Trade)
Taper Jinx – “Dopperling Light” (EP – “The Apnea EP”) (Self Released)
Capelton – “Lip,Lip,Lip” (7″) (Truck Back)
White Mystery – “Power Glove” (7″) (HoZac)
Japanther – “LA U R A Mystery”(LP- “Rock n’ Roll Ice Cream”) (Menlo Park Recordings)
The Fantastic Mr.Fox – “Sketches” (EP – “Keep Your Teeth Sharp”) (Black Acre)
So Cow -“International Waters” (LP-“Meaningless Friendly”) (Tic Tac Totally)