New music in tonight’s show included The Leisure Society:
…Serph:
…and Autumns:
You can listen back to the whole show if you desire, and here be the full playlist:
The Leisure Society – ‘Fight For Everyone’ (single)
Autechre – ‘spl9’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Wolf People – ‘All Returns’ (single and LP – Fain) (Jagjaguwar)
Gintas K – ‘Niekovv’ (LP – Slow) (Baskaru)
Kurt Vile -‘Airbud’ (single)
Marika Hackman – ‘Bath Is Black’ (mini-LP – That Iron Taste) (Dirty Hit)
!!! – ‘Slyd’ (single and LP – Th!!!er) (Warp)
The Box Tops – ‘The Letter’ (single) (Mala)
The Physics House Band – ‘Titan’ (single)
Karl Bartos – ‘Rhythmus’ (LP – Off The Record) (Bureau B)
Casual Sex – ‘Stroh “80”‘ (single) (Moshi Moshi Singles Club)
Serph – ‘Twiste’ (LP – El Esperanka) (Noble)
Autumns – ‘Keep On Sinking’ (demo) (Fat Cat)
Lapalux – ‘Swallowing Smoke’ (LP – Nostalchic) (Brainfeeder)
Yes, well done, do a joke about the colour of his eyes then use a black & white photo. Idiot.
In case you’ve been hiding under a glam rock for the last few months you can’t have helped but notice that music journalists and highly-successful BCB disc jockeys with up to 3 listeners alike have been getting into something of a froth with regards to the new album by a young man from South London. The Next Day, David Bowie’s first album since Reality in 2003 was released this week following something of a biscuit game by the great and the good among musos, among whom The Independent‘s Andy Gill referred to the new Jones long-player as “The greatest comeback ever.” Clearly the likes of Greg LeMond, Bobby Ewing, and, this week, FC Barcelona have something of a claim themselves to this title, but to argue whose was the best is a pointless task partly because it is a largely meaningless phrase and partly because I’m not entirely sure what a “comeback”, in musical terms, actually is. To comeback to something you surely have to have indicated that you were, by choice or by default, stopping doing whatever it was that you were doing in the first place. I recall no such suggestion from The Thin White Pensioner. Admittedly, 10 years between albums is something of a significant gap – particularly for someone who not only released 14 albums in 13 years between 1967 and 1980, but some of those albums were the most influential records of all time. A couple of the records after were a right load of old pelt as well, but we’ll skirt over that. However, for whatever reason our pop idols are more pop idle than they used to be – whereas releasing two albums in a year was not uncommon in the 1960s and 1970s, we think little now of artists taking 3 or 4 years between releases, which really begs the question as to why they aren’t generally a good deal better than they were 30 years ago. Continue reading →
There was an Irish flavour to this week’s edition of Bradford Beat.
The full tracklisting for the St Patrick’s Day show was:
Bluesbeaten Redshaw – Prisoner’s Home
Steve Mason – Oh My Lord
Roger Davies – Stephanie
Ricky Skaggs, Paddy Glackin and Mark O’Connor – St Ann’s Reel
Chutzpah – Tell
Billy Bragg- Handyman Blues
Figurehead – Comfortable Prison
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Swim and Sleep Like A Shark
The Dubliners – Woman From Wexford
Latch Bermany – Running Out Of Legs
Swim Deep – The Sea
Downdime – In Space
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – Holy Roller
Marxman – Sad Affair
New music in tonight’s show included Stephan Mathieu:
https://soundcloud.com/deform-store/03-stephan-mathieu-eglise
…Lower Plenty:
…and King Ayisoba:
Here is the full playlist:
Itch – ‘Diplomat’ (EP – Manifesto Pt. 2: We’re All In The Gutter) (Red Bull)
Stephan Mathieu – ‘Église’ (LP – Un CÅ“ur Simple) (Baskaru)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – ‘City’ (LP – We The Common) (Ribbon)
Atoms For Peace – ‘Before Your Very Eyes…’ (LP – Amok) (XL)
Sweet Baboo – ‘If I Died…’ (single) (Moshi Moshi)
Autechre – ‘prac-f’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Serafina Steer – ‘Disco Compilation’ (single and LP – The Moths Are Real) (Stolen)
David Bowie – ‘Breaking Glass’ (LP – Low) (RCA) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Darkstar – ‘A Day’s Pay For A Day’s Work) (single and LP – News From Nowhere) (Warp)
Lower Plenty – ‘Strange Beast’ (single) (Fire)
Liars – ‘WIXIW’ (single and LP – WIXIW) (Mute)
Lloyd Cole / Hans-Joachim Roedelius – ‘Fehmarn’ (LP – Selected Studies Vol. 1) (Bureau B)
Iron & Wine – ‘Grace For Saints And Ramblers’ (single) (4AD)
King Ayisoba – ‘Baaba Poore’ (LP – Modern Ghanaians) (Makkum)
Not only do rats spread disease, they also saved TVam, which was far worse.
Having avoided fully referring to BCB’s Studio 4 as a sea-faring vessel I now find that the metaphor would be rather useful not in only that, as a committed land-lubber (again in not in literal terms, though I can’t pretend I’m especially taken with sailing), I’m set to leg it from the aforementioned craft but also because a water rodent theme briefly developed on this week’s Selection Box. Whilst I am not a rat, and indeed Studio 4 is presumably built upon sound foundations and therefore I’m unlikely to disappear into a sink hole like that poor fellow in America, there does seem to be a varmint of a metaphor just sat there waiting to be smacked by my rolled-up newspaper.
Anyway, I appear to be drowning in metaphors. Metaphorically. As featured on this week’s programme, here’s some actual Rats, but not actual rats, courtesy of that there YouTube what all the kids are talking about now whilst they play with their yo-yos and trade Garbage Pail Kids cards.
Still recovering from the rigours of the League Cup Final, this week’s edition of Bradford Beat was a repeat of our punk rock special.
Tracks played were:
Latch Bermany – I See Through You
Swim Deep – The Sea
Chutzpah – Feel
The Adverts – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
The Ruts – Love In Vain
Spizzenergi – Where’s Captain Kirk?
The Selecter – On My Radio
I Am Kloot- These Days Are Mine
Sentimentalists – Poppa’s Stoned On Chemicals Again
Tim Burgess – The Doors of Then
Lidwine – Duet For Ghosts
Thao and The Get Down Stay Down – Holly Roller
Teleman – Cristina
Figurehead – Comfortable Prison
New music in tonight’s show included Purling Hiss:
https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/purling-hiss-mercury
…Julia Kent:
…Blank Realm:
…and Jasper TX. The tune from the new album I played tonight was its opener. The closing tune on the new album is just as worthy, if not even more so, so here it is in full:
Listen back to the full show if you desire. Â Here is the full show playlist:
Mark Templeton – ‘Matinee’ (LP – Jealous Heart) (Under The Spire)
Purling Hiss – ‘Mercury Retrograde’ (LP – Water On Mars) (Drag City)
Vision – ‘The Phuture Makes Beats’ (Life EP) (Big Dada)
Night Moves – ‘Country Queen’ (single and LP – Colored Emotions) (Domino)
RM74 – ‘Bees And Ghosts’ (LP – Two Sides Of A Triangle) (Utech)
Steve Mason – ‘Oh My Lord’ (single and LP – Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time) (Double Six)
Autechre – ‘jatevee C’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – ‘Breakdown’ (LP – What The Brothers Sang) (Domino)
Blank Realm – ‘Acting Strange’ (LP – Go Easy) (Fire)
Duane Eddy – ‘Some Kinda Earthquake’ (2xCD – Rockin’ Guitar Man 1955-1960) (Smith & Co) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by Phil Cope)
King Ayisoba – ‘Modern Ghanaians’ (LP – Modern Ghanaians) (Makkum)
Julia Kent – ‘Tourbillon’ (LP – Character) (The Leaf Label)
Troumaca – ‘My Love’ (Virgin Island EP) (Brownswood)
Jasper TX – ‘Abandon’ (LP – An Index Of Failure) (Handmade Birds)
Clinic – ‘Seamless Boogie Woogie (Free Reign II Version)’ (LP – Free Reign II) (Domino)
We reckon we played some good music this month, what do you think? Didn’t hear the show? Listen here!  And if you want to check out any artists the tracklist is below.  See you next time – 24th March 7pm – Ciao! x
1. Champion the Wonder Horse Theme music
2. TURING MACHINE – Yeah, C’mon!
3. MY BLOODY VALENTINE – Only Tomorrow
4. ALUNA GEORGE – Double Sixes
5. HIKU SALUT – Secret Forever
6. MISSY ELLIOT – Get Ur Freak On
7. NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS – Mermaids
8. LUKE HAINES/CATHAL COUGHLAN/ANDREW MUELLER – Enoch Powell: Space Poet (From North Sea Scrolls)
Featuring a host of Beatle’s covers & Beatle related songs, Going North from Nashville celebrates the band, 50 years after they shot to international fame!
 1. Handsome Family & the Rivet Gang: Eleanor Rigby
2.Tony Sheridan & the Beatles: Sweet Georgia Brown
