Come on you Bantams!

If you need any more pre-Wembley excitment, then listen again to this week’s cup final special edition of Bradford Beat.

It features a host of Bradford City tunes to get you in the mood for Sunday.

The full track listing is:

James – Sit Down
Hanson – Where’s The Love?
Simon Crabtree – The Spirit of Bradford City
Peculiar Disco Moves – Wembley Way
Tom and Dom – Let’s Get Ready For Wembley
Bantams Wonder featuring Live Lounge – Living For The City
Venusian Plow – Ed Canaveral
I Am Kloot – These Days Are Mine
Roger Davies – Stephanie
Chutzpah – Feel
Mark Heslop aka The Ginger Bantam – Cap One Story
Martin Josephson – I’ll Always Be A Bantam
Anita Madigan – The Dalai Lama Loves You All

and you can listen again by clicking here

Selection Box Show 252: Fire Up The Quattro

For reasons far too dull and footling for even me to remember, this week’s Selection Box was recorded in Studio 4 of BCB instead of it’s regular home two doors away in Studio 2. Much like its Thunderbird of the same numeral, Studio 4 is something of a minor player in the BCB cannon compared to the all-important live broadcast hypersonic variable-sweep wing rocket plane of Studio 1, the heavy supersonic VTOL carrier lifting body aircraft that is Studio 2 and the re-usable, vertically-launched single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft we affectionately know as Studio 3. It’d be a stretch of an already tenuous metaphor to suggest it is a small utility submersible for underwater rescue, but, to flick to a barely more relevant simile, using Studio 4 instead of one of the other recording holes is like suddenly trying to use a Commodore 64 joystick to play Fifa when you’re used to the Duashock 3 controller.

In basic terms, the controls are different. In basic terms, it’s basic. Whilst to a novice the myriad of fiddly knobs, light-emitting diodes and push-me-pull-you faders may look more daunting than a desk with an abacus and a twisty crank, when you are used to the former you know how it works and, more to the point, how to correct something if it goes wrong. If you have nothing more than an on / off switch and a big red button that says, “DO NOT PRESS” on it then finding a way of piloting the vessel away from the big broadcasting black hole you’re about to get sucked into is more problematic. And thus it was that I fully expected disaster to befall the programme this week with every given push of a button or slide of a fader. Save for an odd moment a few records in, where my voice seems to appear mid-sentence for reasons I’m still not entirely clear of, I seem to have come out of my Studio 4 journey unscathed, which makes me blase for next week when I am in there again and will, therefore, no doubt end up die screaming as I plough the ruddy thing at full pelt into the hot burning sun.

Anyway, a quick bit of housekeeping is required on here before I get onto the weighty subject of the playlist, namely that the show this week began with Local Natives and you can still hear the interview I conducted with them at Leeds Festival on this ‘ere Soundcloud wotsit here. You can even download it should you be so very inclined – simply click on the arrow on the player and save it as you feel appropriate.

Patrick Thornton speaks to Andy & Kelsey from Local Natives by PatrickSelectionBox

 

Selection Box Show 252 (listen again HERE)

Transmitted 20/02/2013

1. Local Natives – Heavy Feet
from: Hummingbird

2. Junior Electronics – Mike McConnell
from: Musostics

3. Harlem River Drive – Seeds Of Love
from: Harlem River Drive

4. Mikhail – Cerberus
from: Xenophonia

5. Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Oh You Nasty Man
from: Risque Blues, Vol. 1 (various artists)

6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Higgs Bosun Blues
from: Push The Sky Away

7. Natacha Atlas – Marifnaash
from: Halim

8. Chris Barber Skiffle Group feat Dickie Bishop – Gypsy Davy
from: Chris Barber 1956

9. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
from: Pale Green Ghosts

10. Freaks – 80s Throwback
from: The Man Who Lived Underground

11. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Crystallized
from: Melody’s Echo Chamber

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Eclectic Mainline 20th February 2013

New music in this week’s show included Letherette:

…Fawn Spots:

…and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.  The video below is the censored version. Feel free to watch the uncensored version if you can handle it:

If you were to stream the show at your leisure, this is what you would hear:

Concrete Knives – ‘Wallpaper’ (LP – Be Your Own King) (Bella Union)
Blood Red Shoes – ‘Get Off My Ghost Train’ (split single with Pulled Apart By Horses)
Letherette – ‘D&T’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Youth Lagoon – ‘Dropla’ (single)
Julia Kent – ‘Only Child’ (LP – Character) (Leaf)
Beach Fossils – ‘Careless’ (single)
Gilded – ‘Velar’ (LP – Terrane) (Hidden Shoal)
Pulp – ‘After You’ (single)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – ‘Crystallized’ (single and LP – Melody’s Echo Chamber) (Weird World)
Mogwai – ‘Special N’ (LP – Les Revenants)
Fawn Spots – ‘Watered Down’ (LP – Wedding Dress) (Fat Cat)
Wire – ‘Outdoor Miner’ (LP – Chairs Missing) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by Tilt Araiza)
Ducktails – ‘Ivy Covered House’ (LP – The Flower Lane) (Domino)
Yo La Tengo – ‘Ohm’ (single)
Japandroids – ‘The Nights Of Wine And Roses’ (single and LP – Celebration Rocks) (Polyvinyl)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Jubilee Street’ (LP – Push The Sky Away) (self-released)

Selection Box Show 251: Hang The DJ

Click ting stamps.

Ugh. Every now and again a show ends up being an unmitigated disaster for no readily apparent reason. The brain fails in basic cogent thought and even when there is a flicker of something approaching intelligent air-filler the lip-enhanced hole in the middle of my face fails to express this appropriately and it just comes out as bibblebibblebibblebibblebibblebibblebibble.

Sadly, this week’s Selection Box was one such show. I can only apologise. Oh, and boil my neck in pot of heated fat as a form of self-flaggelation.

Thankfully there was the usual helping of delicious musical morcels to punctuate the flailing jibbering idiot, including a Thanking Your Kind Indulgence from Kraftwerk – who completed their residency at Tate Modern this week. What better antidote to an incoherent disc jockey could there be than a 7-minute display of minimalist German efficiency.

Here be the full playlist. I’m off to cry big wet tears until next week’s show.

 

Selection Box Show 251 (Listen again HERE)

Transmitted 13/02/2013

 

1. My Bloody Valentine – In Another Way
from: MBV

2. Bob & Lucille – Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo
from: Good Girls Gone Bad (various artists)

3. The Soft Hills – Dr. Mr Moonlight
from: Chromatisms

4. Kraftwerk – The Hall of Mirrors
from: Trans Europe Express

5. Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys – Won’t You Ride In My Little Red Wagon
from: Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions

6. Woodkid – Iron
from: The Golden Age

7. Walter Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange (From Henry Purcell’s The Funeral of Queen Mary)
from: A Clockwork Orange soundtrack

8. Wess & The Airedales – Blackout
from: Aquarium Drunkard Presents DJ Soft Touch (various artists)

9. Edwin Bonilla Y Jesus El Nino Perez – Angoa
from: Tirando Pa Charanga

10. Paul Ngozi – In The Ghetto
from: The Ghetto

11. Mr Vast – In Terms Of Ease & Speed
from: Grievous Bodily Charm

12. Fotheringay – The Sea
from: Fotheringay

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Wembley Fever

Bradford Beat will be celebrating the Bantams’ appearance in the Capital One Cup Final with a special football-themed show.

There will be something by James and something by Hanson. Oh yes.

We also plan to play a couple of the several tracks written and recorded to mark the occasion – these include Cap One Story by Mark Heslop aka The Ginger Bantam and The Spirit of Bradford City by Simon Crabtree aka The Bradford City Food & Beverage Sub Committee.

The Wembley special will be broadcast on BCB 106.6FM from 8pm – 9pm on Thursday 21 February.

Meanwhile the tracklisting for this week’s show was as follows:

Roger Davies – Stephanie
Swim Deep – The Sea
Great White Underground – Memory Loss and Sleep
Chutzpah – Doctor
Phoenix Foundation – The Captain
Sentimentalists – I’m Beat
Blueveils – Quiet Riot
Lidwine – Duet For Ghosts
Cave Painting – Leaf
Latch Bermany – Running Out Of Legs
Dinosaur Pile-Up – Arizona Waiting
Talk To Angels – Lead Balloon
Little Ones – Argonauts
Richard Marriott – Join The Dance

And you can click here to listen to the whole show again.

Eclectic Mainline 13th February 2013

In this week’s show, the new music included Veronica Falls:

…Jamie Lidell:

…and Lycoriscoris:

Feel free to listen back to the show. This is what you would hear:

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – ‘We The Common’ (single) (Ribbon)
Ty Segall – ‘Would you Be My Love’ (single) (Drag City)
Dobie – ‘Stan Lee Is A Hero Of Mine’ (LP – We Will Not Harm You) (Big Dada)
Caitlin Rose – ‘Only A Clown’ (single)
David Fenech – ‘Grand Huit’ (LP – Grand Huit) (Gagarin)
Bleached – ‘Next Stop’ (single)
Rdeča Raketa – ‘andere Menschen (part 1)’ (LP – Wir weden) (Godrec)
Smashing Pumpkins – ‘Sweet Sweet’ (LP – Siamese Dream) (Virgin) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by David Craig)
Veronica Falls – ‘Teenage’ (LP – Waiting For Something To Happen) (Bella Union)
Pulled Apart By Horses – ‘Heartsink’ (split single with Blood Red Shoes)
Jamie Lidell – ‘You Naked’ (single) (Warp)
PVT – ‘Nghtfall’ (LP – Homosapien) (Felte)
Frightened Rabbit – ‘Escape Route’ (LP – Pedestrian Verse) (Atlantic)
Major Lance – ‘Investigate’ (CD – The Northern Soul Story Vol.2: The Golden Torch) (Sony BMG)
Lycoriscoris – ‘Oar’ (LP – From Beyond The Horizon) (Moph)
My Bloody Valentine – ‘Wonder 2’ (LP – MBV) (self-released)

Selection Box Show 250: Tube Wave Harm Me

As many a dull, spawn-of-their-loins-obsessed parent will tell you, having a child can present a different perspective on the ways in which the World works from time to time. This has a peculiar way of manifesting itself now and again, such as, just for example, discovering that those irritating adverts on YouTube can serve a genuinely beneficial sociological function.

Of course it serves us ruddy well right for trying to watch something for nothing that we have to sit through up to a whole five seconds of an advertisement before we can view whatever 5-minute load of pelt we’re wanting to stream, but this does not stop us finding the 8%-of-a-minute commercial for arse hair removal something of an irritant. However, when your choice of viewing is an episode of Fireman Sam, selected by your 3 year old son, and the advert is for the new album by Villagers there is clearly something of a benefit to them. This is particularly true when 24 hours later said child expects to see the same advert again and asks for it, and then spends much of the week singing Villagers around the house.

Thus it was that we added Villagers to the list of Good Things that he has now shown a genuine postive interest in, which includes Talking Heads, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, Spirit of Eden period Talk Talk and Diana Rigg-era episodes of The Avengers. Parenting isn’t a competition, but I’ve definitely won.

Enough of this Look At Me I Procreated guff, here’s what I went and gone done played this week:

 

Selection Box Show 250 (listen again HERE)

Transmitted 6/2/2013

 

1. Villagers – The Waves
from: {Awayland}

2. The Lightcrust Doughboys – Pussy, Pussy, Pussy
from: Hillybilly Fever! Volume 1 Legends of Western Swing (various artists)

3. Submotion Orchestra – Thinking
from: Fragments

4. Max Roach – Motherless Child
from: Lift Every Voice & Sing

5. Carmen González & Koral Y Esmerelda – Andarele
from: Anderele

6. Ian Skelly – Nickel And A Dime
from: Cut From A Star

7. Wilko Johnson – Down By The Waterside
from: The Best of Wilko Johnson Volume 2

8. T. Power – Kool & Deadly
from: Y3K Deep Progressive Beats (various artists)

9. Izzi Dunn – Visions
from: Visions EP

10. Johnny Macrae – Betty Boop
from: It Came From The Suburbs: Rare Teen Rock From The Kennedy Era (various artists)

11. Liars – No. 1 Against The Rush
from: WIXIW

12. Naomi Adams – Woman of Samaria
from: Rough Guide to Ska (various artists)

13. Parquet Courts – Borrowed Time
from: Light Up Gold

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

RIP Reg

Bradford Beat has paid tribute to the Troggs frontman Reg Presley.

We played one classic Troggs track plus a punk cover of another.

The full tracklisting was:

The Troggs – With a Girl Like You
Venusian Plow – Ed Canaveral
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark)
Latch Bermany – Undivided Love
Lurkers _ Ain’t Got A Clue
Chutzpah – Cannonball
Parma Violets – Best of Friends
Nick Toczek – A Bratfud Life
Everything Everything – Kemosabe
John Parkes – My Hit Song
Vibrators – You Broke My Heart
The Chevin – Champion
Swim Deep – The Sea
Great White Underground – Eyeball Cafe
Buzzcocks – Can’t Control Myself
Ra Ra Riot – Beta Love

You can listen again by clicking here

Going North from Nashville’s Annual Valentine’ Bash, Songs of Love & Hate – Monday 11th February, 10-11pm.

Whether or not you’ll be celebrating Valentine’s day this week, Jonh & Sue hare som e excellent music for you.

Chuck Prophet: Hot Talk

Theo Gilmour: I Want to tell You

Dylan Le Blanc : Emma Hartly

Bon Ivor: For Emma Forever  Ago

M Ward, Conner Oberst & Jim James :Girl from the North Country

Josh Ritter : The Curse

Jim Clements & the Right to Die : Coming Up Roses

Lucinda Williams :  Steal Your Love

Leonard Cohen : Dance Me to the End of Love

Robert Plant & the Band of Joy : Cindy, I’ll Marry You Someday

Neil Young : Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Sonnenberg : Another Mile

Blue Roses : Does Anyone Love Me Now?

The National : Conversation16

Eclectic Mainline 6th February 2013

New tunes in tonight’s show included this from Ametsub:

…this from Widowspeak:

… and this one from Short Stories:

If you opt to Listen Again to the whole show, this is what you would hear:

Indians – “I Am Haunted” (single) (4AD)
Falty DL – “She Sleeps (feat. Ed McFarlane) (Martyn Remix)” (single and LP – “Hardcourage”) (Ninja Tune)
Grizzly Bear – “Speak In Rounds” (single and LP – “Sheilds”) (Warp)
Local Natives – “Heavy Feet” (single) (Infectious)
Palma Violets – “Step Up For The Cool Cats” (single) (Rough Trade)
Ametsub – “Cloudsfall” (LP – “All Is Silence”) (nothings66)
Short Stories – “Let It Go” (single) (Young Turks)
Fela Kuti – “Yellow Fever” (2CD – “The Best Of The Black President 2”) (Knitting Factory)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “So Good At Being In Trouble” (single and LP – “II”) (Jagjaguwar)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “Irk The Purists” (LP – “Trouble Over Bridgewater”) (Probe Plus) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Widowspeak – “Ballad Of The Golden Hour” (single)
Taylor Deupree – “Negative Snow” (LP – “Faint”) (12K)