Eclectic Mainline 20th November 2013

If a single lands in my post pile by a band called September Girls, that single is pretty likely to get played in my programme. That’s how malleable I am. Any band named after a Big Star song is alright by me.

It was also a delight to find a new compilation on Analog Africa awaiting my attention. This week’s programme included this by Quim Manuel O Espírito Santo from Angolia Soundtrack 2:

Also in this week’s programme was this new single by Young Fathers:

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

September Girls – ‘Heartbeats’ (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
F.S. Blumm – ‘Goldblein’ (LP – Up Up And Astray) (Pingipung)
Young Fathers – ‘Low’ (single) (Big Dada)
Autechre – ‘tac Lacora’ (EP – L-Event) (Warp)
Lyla Fox – ‘Easy’ (single) (Sub Pop)
Mathew Sawyer – ‘Death Is Like A Dream We’ll Have’ (LP – Sleep Dreamt A Brother) (Fire)
Quim Manuel O Espírito Santo – ‘Senhor Doutor’ (Various Artists LP – Angolia Soundtrack 2) (Analog Africa)
Femme – ‘Fever Boy’ (single) (Tape)
Sergio Sorrentino & Machinefabriek – ‘Nebbia Fitta / Dichte Mist’ (LP – Vignettes) (Frattonove)
Ballet School – ‘Ghost’ (Boys Again EP) (Bella Union)
Tom Brosseau – ‘Cradle Your Device’ (single) (Tin Angel)
Ulrich Troyer – ‘Shake Your Knobs’ (LP – Songs For William 2) (4Bit)
Hospitality – ‘Rockets and Jets’ (single) (Fire)
Future Of The Left – ‘Donny Of The Decks’ (LP – How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident) (Prescription)
Tetuzi Akiyama/Tom Carter/Christian Kiefer – ‘Grandmother’s Body’ (LP – The Darkened Mirror) (Monotype)
Keel Her – ‘Don’t Look At Me’ (single) (Critical Heights)

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

Chocolate and cats

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Here’s the full list of tracks played:

Billy Bragg – No One Knows Nothing Any More
The Seven inches – Hannah Barbera
Nadine Shah – Aching Bones
Middle Wickets – Test Match Winner
Polyphonic Spree – You Don’t Know Me
Vessels – Come Out Of the Sky And Fight This
Oliver Wilde – Stomach Full of Cats
Embrace – Target
Electric Soft Parade – The Sun Never Set Around Here
Junk Dealers – Religion
Beady Eye – Iz Rite
Threshold Shift – Hang In There
The 1975 – Chocolate

A Pick n’ Mix of New & Nearly New Music on Going North from Nashville – Monday 18th November, 10 -11pm

John & Sue present a selection of fine songs; most are from albums released this year.

We start local with a Leeds band……….

Fossil Collective: On & On…………..next a couple of other worldly tracks………

Emily Barker: Ghost Narrative

Agnes Obel: The Curse…………..followed by two GNfN favourites……………..

The Handsome Family: Octopus

Midlake: Antiphon…………..next, a new-comer to the programme…….

Lily & Madeleine: Things I’ll Later Lose

Rachel Sermani: Black Current………….title track of her new album.  Another new one from…..

The National: Fireproof………….followed by classic songs from 2012 albums ……..

Bob Dylan: Long & Wasted Years

Leonard Cohen: Darkness…………two more new-comers, on the Communion label……

Daughter: Peter

Kyla Le Grange: Walk Through Walls………..and finally, from his 2013 album ……..

Josh Ritter: Joy to You Baby

 

 

 

 

When Big Joan Sets Up 14th Nov. – Have You Met Lydia?

This week’s selection of boss tunage featured the new EP from the majestic Lydia Loveless.

Gunslingers – “Massacre Rock Deviant Inquisitors Part II” (12″) (Riot Season)
Lydia Loveless – “Boy Crazy” (EP – “Boy Crazy”) (Bloodshot)
Arovane – “Gaed Ventr” (LP – “Ve Palor”) (n5MD)
Beenie Man – “Dance Wah Cork Up” (download single) (King Sturrige)
Le Grand Kallé – “Table Ronde” (LP – “His Life,His Music”) (Sterns)
Bikini Kill – “Suck My Left One” (EP – “Bikini Kill”) (Kill Rock Stars)
The Julie Ruin – “Right Home” (LP – “Run Fast”) (Discord/TJR)
Lydia Loveless – “Lovers Spat” (EP – “Boy Crazy”) (Bloodshot)
Misty Conditions – “Demonoid” (LP – “D’zzzz”) (Planet Mu)
Linval Thomson and the Revolutionaries – “Morning Dub” (LP – “Boss Man’s Dub – The Lost 1979 Dub Album”) (Hot Milk)
DJ Format and Phil Most Chill – “Get Busy Music” (LP – “The Foremost”) (Project Blue Book)
No – “Perpective Helps” (LP – “The Great Space”) (Static Shock)
Bent Shapes – “What Do You Get?” (LP – “Feels Weird”) (Father/Daughter)
Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?” (7″) (United Artists)
Lydia Loveless – “All I Know” (EP – “Boy Crazy”)
Ø (Phase) – “Misaligned” (LP – “Frames Of Reference’) (Token/N.E.W.S.)

Eclectic Mainline 13th November 2013

New music in this week’s programme included Clas Tuuth:

And The Gentle Good:

Not in the programme, but available for a free download, and worthy of your attention, is this Afriquoi remix of ‘Nouhoume Maiga’ by Vieux Farka Touré:

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

Clas Tuuth – ‘Legion’ (EP – 002) (NeedNo2Water)
Dum Dum Girls – ‘Lost Boys and Girls Club’ (single) (Sub Pop)
Money – ‘Who’s Going To Love You Now’ (single and LP – The Shadow Of Heaven) (Bella Union)
Garden City Movement – ‘Move On’ (single) (BLDG5)
Blank Realm – ‘Falling Down The Stairs’ (single and LP – Grassed Inn) (Fire)
Bonobo – ‘Get Thy Bearings’ (single) (Warp)
Beaty Heart – ‘Lekka Freakout’ (single) (Nusic Sounds)
Bleached – ‘Dreaming Without You’ (LP – Ride Your Heart) (Dead Oceans)
Omar Souleyman – ‘Yagbuni’ (LP – Wenu Wenu) (Ribbon)
Future Of The Left – ‘Singing Of The Bonesaws’ (LP – How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident) (Prescription)
Elephant – ‘Shapeshifter’ (single) (Memphis Industries)
American Werewolf Academy – ‘This Thing’ (LP – Out Of Place All The Time) (Damnably)
Midlake – ‘Aurora Gone’ (LP – Antiphon) (Bella Union)
The Gentle Good – ‘Brwydr An Lùshan’ (LP – Y Bardd Anfarwol) (Bubble Wrap)

Guitar stands are well Clapton (Buffet #54)

Hello Hello!

If you tuned in on Sunday – THANKS! If not, but you want to check out some ace music, you can click on the listen again thingy.

This is what we played:

1. VELVET UNDERGROUND – Venus in Furs
2. LA LUZ – Brainwash
3. CHRIS TT &THE HOODRATS – The Bear
4. PIXIES – Indy Cindy
5. VELVET UNDERGROUND – Satellite of Love
6. ARUN GHOSH – Journey South
7. LOU REED & JOHN CALE – Small Town
8. COURTNEY BARNETT – Avant Gardener
9. SKY LARKIN – Carve It Out
10. JAMES CARR – You Got My Mind Messed Up
11. JUNE TABOR & OYSTERBAND – All Tomorrow’s Parties
12. MOON HOOCH – Megatubes
13. VELVET UNDERGROUND – Here She comes Now
14. BOOKER T & THE MJs – Beatles Medley

Back in December – cheers!

Maria & Jenny Jet

Still remembering Lou Reed

Bradford Beat continued to pay tribute to Lou Reed this week.
Here’s the full list of tacks played on November 7:

Velvet Underground – Stephanie Says
Rodina – Mr Lee
Vessels – Blue Clouds
Anna Calvi – Carry Me Over
Eagulls – Nerve Endings
Supergrass – Richard III
John Parkes – Just For Now (Baby Song)
Chris T-T – The Bear
The Seven Inches – A Letter
Electric Soft Parade – The Sun Never Sets Around Here
EVerything But The Girl – Missing
Steve Mason – Fire
The 1975 – Heart Out

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When Big Joan Sets Up 7th November – Yippee I Yo

This weeks litany of loveliness included classic songs of the old west reinterpreted by psychedelic country adventurers Spindrift from their new LP “Ghost Of The West” and a host of other belters that would leave the cloth-eared Mercury Music Prize judges even more bewildered and confused than they already are.

Gesaffelstein – “Pursuit” (LP – “Aleph”) (Parlophone)
Mutation feat Mark E Smith – “Relentless Conviction” (LP – “Error 500”) (Ipecac)
The Fall – “Leave The Capitol” (LP – “13 Killers”) (Secret)
Special Request – “Soundboy Killer” (LP – “Soul Music”) (Houndstooth)
Mad Professor – “Deliverance Dub” (download single) (Ariwa Japan)
Swearin’ – “Echo Locate” (LP – “Surfing Strange”) (Witchita)
Fold feat Mr Gee – “Passing Strangers” (EP – “Salvation”) (Seth Mowshowitz)
Spindrift – “Blood On The Saddle” (LP – “Ghost Of The West”) (TeePee)
Spindrift – “Navajo Trail” (LP – “Ghost Of The West”) (TeePee)
Spindrift – “Ghost Riders In The Sky” (LP – “Ghost Of The West”) (TeePee)
Cern feat Receptor – “Formless” (EP – “Nostromo”) (Renagade Hardware)
Lightnin’ Hopkins – “Bottle Up And Go” (4CD Set – “The Acoustic Years 1959-1960”) (JSP)
Gunslingers – “Massacre Rock Deviant Inquisitors – Part 1″ (12”) (Riot Season)

Skulls, skeletons, banshees and ghosts

We had some fun with Hallowe’en on the latest edition of Bradford Beat.
As well as playing some spooky tunes, we paid tribute to Lou Reed.
Here’s the full list of tracks played:

Velvet Underground – I Can’t Stand It
The Villagers – Earthly Pleasure
John Parkes – Sleep With Me
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Halloween
B-Movie – Scare Some Life Into Me
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Vessels – Myopic Biopic
Frankie Laine – Ghost Riders in The Sky
TV Smith – Your Haunted Heart
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Skeleton Makes Good
Hoodoogurus – Death Ship
R Dean Taylor – There’s A Ghost In My House
Drenge – Face Like A Skull
Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting For The Man

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Eclectic Mainline 6th November 2013

Tunes in this week’s show included this from Daughn Gibson’s Me Moan album:

I also played another two tunes from Clark’s Feast/Beast remix album, including this remix of ‘Mr Bad News’ by Milanese:

And finally, this by Kid606, the longest-titled track I’ve played all year:

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

Nathan Fake – ‘Fentiger (Clark remix)’ (Clark remix LP – Feast/Beast) (Warp)
The National – ‘Graceless’ (single and LP – Trouble Will Find Me) (4AD)
Cate Le Bon – ‘I Can’t Help You’ (LP – Mug Museum) (Turnstile)
Daughn Gibson – ‘You Don’t Fade’ (LP – Me Moan) (Sub Pop)
Oneohtrix Point Never – ‘Chrome Country’ (LP – R Plus Seven) (Warp)
Delorean – ‘Dominion’ (single) (Matador)
Emptyset – ‘Limit’ (LP – Recur) (Raster Noton)
Mark Pritchard – ‘Fabulous Fred’ (EP – Make a Livin’) (Warp)
Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – ‘Jackie Boy’ (single and LP – Any Port in a Storm) (Fire)
Machinedrum – ‘Center Your Love’ (LP – Vapor City) (Ninja Tune)
Milanese – ‘Mr Bad News (Clark remix)’ (Clark remix LP – Feast/Beast) (Warp)
Bear vs Manero – ‘Fluoride Frustration Face’ (The Bifacial EP) (self-released)
Clara Hill – ‘Lost Winter’ (single) (Tapete)
Kid606 – ‘If I am only allowed one song on this album with cut up female vocals then this song is it’ (LP – Happiness) (Tigerbeat6)