Eclectic Mainline 12th February 2014

The excellent new single by Liars opened this evening’s programme:

I also played this from the new Bibio EP:

I’ve only recently bought last year’s LP by A Hawk and a Hacksaw and played the title track:

And I played this from the new LP by Stephen Malkmus:

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

Liars – Mess on a Mission (single and LP – Mess) (Mute) Soundcloud
Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – Clock Out and Leave (LP – Any Port in a Storm) (Fire) Soundcloud
Illum Sphere – Embryonic (LP – Ghost Of Then And Now) (Ninja Tune) Soundcloud
The New Mendicants – By the Time it gets Dark (LP – Into The Lime) (One Little Indian)
BABE – Aerialist Barbette (single) (Moshi Moshi) Soundcloud
Dirtmusic – Ballade de Ben Zabo (LP – Lion Music) (Glitterbeat)
Gabriel Saloman – Cold Haunt (LP – Soldier’s Requiem) (Miasmah) Soundcloud
Bibio – Dye the Water Green (The Green EP) (Warp) Soundcloud
Drenge – Fuckabout (single) (Infectious) YouTube
A Hawk and a Hacksaw – You Have Already Gone to the Other World (LP – You Have Already Gone to the Other World) (L.M. Dupli-cation) Soundcloud
Lee Bannon – Perfect/Division (LP – Alternate / Endings) (Ninja Tune) YouTube
Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams (single) (Full Time Hobby) Vimeo
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – ‘Cinnamon and Lesbians’ (LP – Wig Out At Jagbags) (Domino) YouTube
Goat – Det som aldrig forandras / Diarabi (LP – World Music) (Rocket) YouTube

Playing the Best in Alt Country & Americana – A Going North from Nashville Pick & Mix: Monday 10th February, 10-11pm

This week we play a great selection of songs, old & new!

1.Patterson Hood: Better Off Without
2.Secret sisters: Tennesee Me
3.Lily & Madeleine: The Devil we Know
4. Bob Dylan: Dirt Road Blues
5. Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
6. The Fratellis: Seven Nights & Seven Days
7.Basia Bulat: From Now On
8.Alela Diane: About Farewell
9.Lloyd Yates: Bring back the Life
10.Winter Villans: February
11.The Band of Heathens:Shot gun
12.Joe Pernice & Norman Blake: The New Mendicants
13. Kathryn Williams:Wanting & Waiting
14. Bright Eyes: Make War
15. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins: Happy

When Big Joan Sets Up 7th Feb – A Pattern of Righteousness

Funny thing a guitar innit?.Basically, a lump of wood with a hole and six strings stretched across it and yet over the past 90 years or so it’s been the pivot around which popular music revolves. I could list a couple of thousand people here who have taken said lump of wood and it’s electrically enhanced cousin and harnessed it’s intricacies in a myriad of approaches ranging from scholarly application to blatant disregard into epiphanies of sound that have the power to thrill and horrify successive generations. And it continues to do so, indeed as you are reading this,somewhere across the face of the world, a spotty herbert is making a noise using one of these devices that will likely as not, make you bounce up and down with joy sometime in the future.

Anyway, all this rumination is here because this week’s When Big Joan Sets Up featured five live tracks recorded last December in New York by Daniel Bachman the latest in a line of unassuming six string sorcerers to pick up the same instrument as our fathers and our fathers’ fathers (and our fathers’ fathers’ fathers.Yes alright Reg, don’t labour the point) and wrestle joyful flurries of magic out of it. He spends fucking ages tuning it up though.

When Big Joan Sets Up 7th February – Daniel Bachman live by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

The Courtneys – “Lost Boys” (Download Single) (Burger)
Disrupt – “Break Out” (EP – “Dub Matrix With Stereo Sound”) (Jahtari)
Prurient – “Doors Closed In Secrecy” (7″) (Handmade Birds)
Muffler – “Start Line” (V/A LP – “We Are 18”) (Hospital)
Swan Arcade – “The Battle of Sowerby Bridge” (LP – “Swan Arcade”) (Trailer)
Daniel Bachman – “Intro/Little Lady Blues” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Daniel Bachman – “Orange County Serenade” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Daniel Bachman – “And Now I Was Born To Die” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Daniel Bachman – “Pig Iron” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Daniel Bachman – “Blenheim/We Would Be Building” (Live Recording from http://www.nyctaper.com)
Strictly Sound Productions feat. Jah Screechy – “Think Me Did Gone” (7″) (Cubiculo)
Mark C – “Mindwarp” (Download single) (Kode 5)

Jam tomorrow

It was great to dig out an old tune by The Jam on this week’s show – still sounds stunning after three and a half decades!

Here’s the full list of what we played – and to find out why we played The Jam, listen again to the full show.

Wild Beasts – Wanderlust
Junk Dealers – Religion
Algiers – Mother
The Jam – All Around The World
Embrace – Refugees
Electric Soft Parade – Mr Mitchell
Monorail – Like I Do
Drenge – F***about
Eagulls – Tough Luck
Cate Le Bon – I Can’t Help You
Laura Groves – Coast
Beaty Heart – Kanute is Comin’ Round
Detrimental – Babylon

Eclectic Mainline 5th February 2014

The new Lee Bannon LP, Alternate/Endings, is one of my favourites of 2014 so far. Take a listen to the opening track:

Another new release I’m enjoying is this by The War On Drugs:

Both of these tunes were in this week’s Eclectic Mainline, which you can listen back to at your leisure. Here is the track list:

Keel Her – Go (LP – Keel Her) (Critical Heights)
Snowbird – All Wishes Are Ghosts (RX Gibbs remix) (LP – Luna) (Bella Union)
Lee Bannon – Resorectah (LP – Alternate / Endings) (Ninja Tune) YouTube
Mogwai – Tell Everybody That I Love Them (bonus 7″ with LP – Rave Tapes) (Rock Action)
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Sealed Scene (LP – Chambers) (Sonic Cathedral) Bandcamp
Au Revoir Simone – More Than (single and LP – Move In Spectrums) (Moshi Moshi)
To Die – Terhempas Luka / Jurang Nestapa (Various Artists 3CD – ‘An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / Seventh and Last A – Chronology Volume #7) (Sub Rosa)
Dum Dum Girls – Rimbaud Eyes (single and LP – Too True) (Sub Pop) Soundcloud
Run The Jewels – Pew Pew Pew (LP – Run The Jewels) (Big Dada)
The War On Drugs – Red Eyes (single) (Secretly Canadian) YouTube
Snow Ghosts – Secret Garden (single) (Houndstooth)
Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir – Pilentze Pee (LP –
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares) (4AD) YouTube
Real Estate – Talking Backwards (LP – Atlas) (Domino)
Keel Her – Women Lost In Thought (LP – Keel Her) (Critical Heights)
Jóhann Jóhannsson – Prisoners (OST – Prisoners) (NTOV)

Embrace are back

It’s been a long wait but the Embrace boys are finally back.
You might hear them called a Huddersfield band, a Brighouse band, even a (cough, splutter) Leeds band. But it was in Wyke where the band were first a twinkle in the McNamara brothers’  eyes. So we count them as a Bradford band!!

We played their new track Refugees on our latest show, along with a stack of other top new tunes. Here’s the full list:

Embrace – Refugees
Cate Le Bon – I Can’t Help You
Junk Dealers – Cruel
Maximo Park – Leave This Island
Kaiser Chiefs – Misery Company
Warpaint – Love Is To Die
Eagulls – Tough Luck
Samantha Crain – Somewhere All The Time
Egomania – Cool, Calm and Collected
Chris T-T and the Hoodrats – Bury Me With A Scarab
Franz Ferdinand – Bullet
Algiers – Mother
Vessels – Blue Clouds

You can listen again by clicking here

When Big Joan Sets Up 31st January – Four Dollars For A Glass Of Water

This week, in John Peel 1972 style, just over a third of the programme was given over to one side of Madlib’s new cut and scratch masterpiece “Rock Konducta Vol 1” plus returning hero Lydia Loveless has a new LP.

When Big Joan Sets Up 31st January – Madlib by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Paul Cronin – “Start The Rave” (EP – “We Are Visionaries From The Moon”) (San Fransisco Nights)
Girl Band – “Lawman” (7″) (Any Other City)
Little Anthony and The Imperials – “Two People In The World” (V/A LP “Starry Eyed Serenaders”) (Fantastic Voyage)
Simon Scott – “Für Betty” (V/A LP – “Ambient 2014”) (Kompakt)
Lydia Loveless – “Everything’s Gone” (LP – “Somewhere Else”) (Bloodshot)
Happy Diving – “Complacent” (EP – “Happy Diving”) (Father/Daughter)
Headland – “Halftide” (LP – “Sound/Track”) (Headland)
Ward 21 feat. Marcy Chinn and Deewun – “Mic Magician” (LP – “Still Disturbed”) (Germanica)
Madlib – “Rock Konducta Vol.1 LP – Side A” (Madlib Invazion)
London Electricity – “Snow Angels” (V/A LP – “We Are 18”) (Hospital)

A trip down memory lane

It’s been full-on nostalgia on Bradford Beat as we highlight tracks from the CD set accompanying the book Bradford’s Noise of the Valleys volume 2 1988-1998:

Embrace – All You Good Good People
Old Joe Zydeco – Zydeco Gris Gris
Rootsman – Old Pan Killer
Hardware – What Race Are You?
Primate – Break My Fall
Summum Bonum – Exploding Raindrops
Psycho Surgeons – Panic On
Natural Rhythm – Bluebeat and Ska
The Headmen – Reach The Sky
Chest – Angels
Scarlet Heights – Scarcity Prayer
Sansaar – Bind Us Together

You can listen again by clicking here

Eclectic Mainline 29th January 2014

Tunes in this week’s programme included this by Caitlin Rose:

…and this by Illum Sphere:

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

Ghostpoet – ‘Dial Tones’ (single and LP – Some Say I So I Say light) (Play It Again Sam)
Caitlin Rose – ‘I Was Cruel’ (LP – The Stand-In) (Names) Soundcloud
Keel Her – ‘Roswell’ (single and LP – Keel Her) (Critical Heights)
Xiu Xiu – ‘Stupid in The Dark’ (LP – Angel Guts) (Bella Union) YouTube
Faulty DL – ‘Danger’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Warpaint – ‘Love Is To Die’ (LP – Warpaint) (Rough Trade) YouTube
Jason Grier – ‘Baby I Don’t Know Right Now’ (LP – Unbekannte) (Human Ear Music) Soundcloud
Mogwai – ‘Heard About You Last Night’ (LP – Rave Tapes) (Rock Action)
Beans on Toast – ‘Keep You’ (LP – Giving Everything) (Xtra Mile)
Illum Sphere – ‘Embryonic’ (LP – Ghost Of Then And Now) (Ninja Tune) Soundcloud
The New Mendicants – ‘Lifelike Hair’ (LP – Into The Lime) (One Little Indian)
Bill Callahan – ‘Highs In The Mid-40s Dub’ (LP – Have Fun With God) (Drag City)
Younghusband – ‘Left Of The Rocks’ (LP – Dromes) (Sonic Cathedral) Soundcloud
Bibio – ‘Down To The Sound’ (The Green EP) (Warp)
Lyla Foy – ‘Feather Tongue’ (single and LP – Mirrors The Sky) (Sub Pop) Soundcloud
Tim Hecker – ‘Stab Variation’ (LP – Virgins) (Kranky)

When Big Joan Sets Up 24th January – Poemcore Rules!

This week three tracks from the debut LP by NYC post-hardcore lovelies Big Ups and Japanese Poemcore makes it’s BCB debut. And you’ll never guess what that Niles Niels has been up to..

When Big Joan Sets Up 24th January – Big Ups by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

Pirato Ketchup – “That’s Right” (V/A LP – “North Sea Surf Radio’s Best of 2013”) (Bandcamp)
Bramma – “Dancehall Burial” (V/A LP – “Road Pest Riddim”) (Black Sheep)
Young Fathers – “Mmmh Mmmh” (LP – “Dead”) (Anticon)
Big Ups – “Justice” (LP – “Eighteen Hours of Static”) (Tough Love/Dead Labour)
Dick Gaughan – “World Turned Upside Down” (LP – “Handful of Earth”) (Topic)
Les Cousins Dangereux – “CDX 96” (LP – “CDX”) (Suite 309)
Housewives – “Poppy” (Cassette – “Housewives”) (Faux Discs)
Midnite – “Lion Out of Zion” (LP – “Lion Out of Zion”) (Afrikan Roots Lab)
Big Ups – “Wool” (LP – “Eighteen Hours of Static”) (Tough Love/Dead Labour)
Lee Bannon – “Resorectah” (LP – “Alternate/Endings”) (Ninja Tune)
Otis Smith – “You’re So Good Looking” (V/A LP – “Rhythm and Bluesin’ on the Bayou: Rompin’ and Stompin'”) (Ace)
Warpaint – “Keep It Healthy” (LP – “Warpaint”) (Rough Trade)
Chainsaw Squid – “Niles Niels Steals Teal Tiles and Chickens” (Download EP – “Chainsaw Squid/LxDxT Split”) (Bandcamp)
Skullhand Jr. – “Belongings of the Current” (V/A Download LP – “GESPAK #7”) (Bandcamp)
DJ Monster Apart – “The Point of View of the Dog” (V/A Download LP – “GESPAK #7”) (Bandcamp)
Loretta Lynn – “Take Your Gun and Go,John” (V/A LP – “Divided and United:The Songs Of The Civil War”) (Ato)
Logos – “Surface Area” (LP – “Cold Mission”) (Keysound)
Big Ups – “Fine Line” (LP – “Eighteen Hours of Static”) (Tough Love/Dead Labour)
Cleric – “Delivery” (12″) (Coincidence)