Buffet’s Sunday Spread (show #48)

Now then! We chucked in a few film-themed tunes this month to tie in with Bradford International Film Festival (you may have spotted a few BCB DJs at BIFF By Night, too). If you want to hear the show you can listen again here

And this is what we played!

1. LA SERA – Will You Please Be My Third Eye
2. BEASTIE BOYS – Shake Your Rump
3. KISHORE KUMAR & ASHA BHOSLE – Typewriter Tip Tip Tip
4. MICE PARADE – Contessa
5. CEREMONY – Hysteria
6. COWTOWN – Monotone Face
7. FRANK SIDEBOTTOM – Frank Gordon
8. TURING MACHINE – Lazy Afternoon Of The Jaguar
9. THE SCARAMANGA SIX – The Bristol Butcher
10. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – God Is In The House
11. ZOLA JESUS – Vessel
12. RAZZY – I Hate Hate
13. THE DICKIES – Sound of Silence
14. ADEBISI SHANK – International Dreambeat
15. SERGE GAINSBOURG – Bonnie and Clyde

We’re back on 19th May.  Cheers!

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Festival season approaching

This week’s Bradford Beat included a look ahead to the line-up at Glastonbury and Bingley Music Live.

Don’t forget I’m one of the BCB presenters doing DJ sets at the Bradford International Film Festival. My stint has been moved to 8.15pm this Sunday (April 21).

Here’s the tracklisting in full:

Fratellis – Flathead
New Model Army – Bittersweet
Billy Bragg – There Will Be a Reckoning
Billy Delines – Will You Miss Me?
Steve Mason – Oh My Lord
Imani Hekima – Just Beneath The Dub
Swim Deep – The Sea
The Invaders – Girl’s In Action
Bastille – Pompeii
Chutzpah – Shine
Frank Turner – Wessex Boy
Pigeon Detectives – I Won’t Come Back
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – Holy Roller
Fossil Collective – Wolves

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Eclectic Mainline 17th April 2013 – Record Store Day preview

Record Store Day 2013This Saturday is Record Store Day.  Each year when I preview this event in my BCB show I notice the list of special, very limited, releases grow and grow.  Apparently this year there are 500 such releases.   Now, I love Record Store Day, and what it does for independent record shops.  However, I think there is a real danger that these limited edition releases may be starting to overshadow to real purpose of Record Store Day, and there are record shop owners who share my oncerns.   It is not Limited Edition Day, or Record Label Day.  The clue is in the title.   It is about the record shops.

This is why I think what shops like Jumbo Records in Leeds are doing is the right way to approach the day.  They have lined up a fabulous set of of instore performances throughout the day.  So, whether or not there is a limited release you want (and whether or not you get there in time for there to be any left) you can enjoy some wonderful music, have a browse round the shop, and acquaint yourself with the staff.  Last year a couple of young girls who are special to me saw The Staves at Jumbo, instantly became fans of the band, and want to go back to Jumbo again for Record Store Day this year.  The array of limited edition releases didn’t really matter to those little girls, but Record Store Day has done its job in drawing them into an independent record shop.  I for one hope that relationship lasts many years for them.  Their lives will be all the richer for it.

In my show this week you can hear Adam of Jumbo Records talking about what this day means to their shop.  If I were to make one recommendation, it would be that you are at Jumbo in the afternoon to see James Yorkston.  He came into BCB a few years ago to record one of my favourite sessions we’ve had.  Listen to the show here, and this is what you will hear:

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Eclectic Mainline 10th April 2013

Bradford International Film Festival starts tomorrow, celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema.  So, it seemed fitting that I play something by Asha Bhosle in tonight’s show.  Of the 12,000 songs she has reportedly recorded, I went for this one, from the 1970 film, Kati Patang:

BCB is involved in this year’s festival, curating some of the BIFF By Night music events.  I’ll be there most evenings, either DJing or overseeing proceedings, so if you’re around, come and say hello.

New music in tonight’s show included this by Rustie:

…and this by Bibio:

Listen back to the show at your leisure if you desire.  Here’s the full list of tunes I played: Continue reading →

The Mirrored Hammer Threadfest Preview Pt 1

Tonight at 9pm is part one of a special edition of The Mirrored Hammer previewing this year’s Bradford Threadfest; a free cross-city live music event 24 – 26th May. See www.bradfordthreadfest.com for details.

Deviating from the usual format of The Mirrored Hammer, this episode features studio tracks (not live bootlegs!) by some of the acts that will be performing including Hawk Eyes, Blacklisters, Ruby Tombs, Cam Deas, Rivals, Dean McPhee, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, The Family Elan, Koala and many more.

A mixture of rock, jazz, folk, experimental and Bollywood brass underground goodness.

Eclectic Mainline 3rd April 2013

In this week’s show, Bored Spies:

…Main:

…and Rachel Zeffira:

Here is the full playlist:

Villagers – ‘The Bell’ (single) (Domino)
Bored Spies – ‘Summer 720’ (single) (Damnably)
Alexandr Vatagin – ‘Mantova’ (LP – Serza) (Valeot)
Blur – ‘Song 2’ (LP – Blur) (Food) (This week’s Brief Candle)
Lower Plenty – ‘White Walls’ (LP – Hard Rubbish) (Fire)
Main – ‘IV’ (LP – Ablation) (Editions Mego)
Dirty Three – ‘Ashen Snow’ (LP – Toward The Low Sun) (Bella Union)
Yo La Tengo – ‘Paddle Forward’ (LP – Fade) (Matador)
To Live And Shave In LA & Sickboy Milkplus – ‘TLASILA THAF Remix’ (LP – The Grief That Shook To Multiply) (Monotype)
Rachel Zeffira – ‘Break The Spell’ (single and LP – The Deserters) (RAF)
Letherette – ‘Say The Sun’ (LP – Letherette) (Ninja Tune)

Eclectic Mainline 27th March 2013

New music in this week’s show included Reindeer:

… Yo La Tengo:

… and John Grant:

Here is the full playlist:

Spirit Oak – ‘The Answer’ (LP – Becoming Make Believe) (Fat Cat)
Karl Bartos – ‘Nachtfahrt’ (LP – Off The Record) (Bureau B)
Reindeer – ‘Tattoo’ (LP – Tattoo) (Fat Cat)
Mathias Delphanque – ‘Bu’ (LP – Chutes) (Baskaru)
Ralfe Band – ‘Come On Go Wild’ (single) (Highline)
Yo La Tengo – ‘Before We Run’ (LP – Fade) (Matador)
Atom TM – ‘My Generation’ (LP – HD) (Raster Noton)
Pieter Nooten – ‘The Waiting II’ (LP – Haven) (Rocket Girl)
Beth Orton – ‘Dawn Chorus’ (single and LP – Sugaring Season) (Anti)
Opossom – ‘Why Why’ (single) (Fire)
Emika – ‘Searching’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
The Beatles – ‘I’ll Follow The Sun’ (LP – Beatles For Sale) (Parlophone) (This week’s Brief Candle)
Sam Lee – ‘Goodbye My Darling’ (LP – Ground Of Its Own) (The Nest Collective)
Lapalux – ‘GUUURL’ (LP – Nostalchic) (Brainfeeder)
John Grant – ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ (LP – Pale Green Ghosts) (Bella Union)

Buffet’s Sunday Spread (show #47)

Hello, hello! This month’s show really is a bit of a spread, straddling decades and genres, and with great new songs from Suuns, Deathfix and The Knife. You can catch up with the show here

And this is what we played:

1. Theme from THE ROCKFORD FILES
2. SLEATER-KINNEY – You’re No Rock ‘n Roll Fun
3.  SUUNS – 2020
4. PORTABLE PONY – Festival
5. DEATHFIX – Better Than Bad
6. ESG – Dance
7. EGG HUNT – We All Fall Down
8. MAGNETIC FIELDS – Andrew In Drag
9. CHAKA KHAN – I Feel For You
10. TABLA BEAT SCIENCE – Big Brother
11. SUFJAN STEVENS – From The Mouth of Gabriel
12. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – Drunk Girls
13. HERB ALPERT AND TIJUANA BRASS – Cabaret
14. STEVIE WONDER  – Superstition
15. THE KNIFE – Full of Fire

We’re back on 21st April – Ciao!

Going North fom Nashville Goes Antipodaen! Monday 25th March – 10-11pm

A selection of songs from artists hailing from Australia & New Zealand grace this week’s show.  Listen up for an hour of most excellent music …………..

Howlin’ Bells : Cities Burnining Down

Nick Cave:  Burnin’ Hell

Angus Stone: Clouds Above 

The Pond : Circle Round a Tree

Husky : Forever So

Lawrence Arabia: The Crew of the Commodore

Roger McGuin with Crowded House: Eight Miles High

Bellowhead: 10,000 Miles Away

Emily Barker: Splinters in My Fingers

Sarah Blasko : All I Want

Devastations : Take You Home

Tiny Ruins: Old as The Hills

Kris Morris: Little Light

Julia Stone : Justine

Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue: Where the Wild Roses Grow

Billy DeLines in session

For breathtaking blues, don’t miss the latest edition of Bradford Beat.

West Yorkshire harmonica player Billy DeLines played three live session tracks and talked about his love for the blues with Simon Ashberry.

The full track listing for the show was:

The Selecter – On My Radio
Blues Beaten Redshaw – Prisoner’s Home
Billy DeLines – Walkin’ After Midnight (live in session)
Billy DeLines – Will You Miss Me? (live in session)
Billy DeLines – Everybody Gotta Make A Change (live in session)
The Clash – Wrong ‘Em Boyo

and you can listen again by clicking here