Going North from Nashville’s Best of 2012! Monday 14th January, 10-11pm!

Before 2013 gets much older we take a look at our favourite releases from last year – a playlist not to miss! 

1. Sheerwater: Breaking the Yearlings from the album Animal Joy

2. The Moulettes: Sing Unto Me – first single from debut album The Bear’s Revenge

3. Simon Felice: You & I Belong from eponymous solo outing

4. Tom Waites: New Year’s Eve – as featured on 2011’s Bad As Me

5. Angus Stone: Bird on the Buffalo- Angus goes solo with his album Wooden Chair

6. Husky: History’s Door from Forever So

7.Wooden Sky: Take Me Out from the wonderfully titled Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon as Son.

8. Fossil Collective: Let it Go – title track from this Leeds band’s execellent debut EP

9. Fran Smith: Take These Bones – found on Fran’s eponymous EP

10. The Welcome Waggon: I Know that My Redeemer Lives from – Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices – another amazing album title!

11. Bob Dylan: Duquesne Whistle – single from Tempest, Bob’s 35th studio album!

12. Leonard Cohen: Banjo – from highly the acclaimed Old Ideas

13. My Darling Clematine: Going Back to Memphis- to be found on How Do You Plead

14. Jack White: Blunderbus – title track from his 2012 release.

New music for 2013

Local band Figurehead were a new name on the playlist in this week’s edition of Bradford Beat.

They are yet another recommendation from the Sound Shack stable.

The full tracklisting for the January 10 show was:

Kaiser Chiefs – On The Run
Eugene McGuinness – In The Bleak Midwinter
Day One – Saturday Siren
The Wind-Up Birds – Two Ambulance Day
Beth Orton – Call Me The Breeze
Figurehead – Comfortable Prison
Dinosaur Jr – Watch The Corners
The Chevin – Blue Eyes
Scars on 45 – Heart’s On Fire
The Maccabees – Feel To Follow
Sentimentalists – My Mad Mind
Orange Juice – Rip It Up
The Seven Inches – A Letter
The Blackout – Running Scared

You can listen again by clicking here

 

Selection Box Show 247: No Wowee for Bowie

Ol' blue eye is back.

Quite frankly, I find it hard to criticise David Bowie in any way. As I outlined last year in my 65th birthday love letter to him, even the dreadful offerings of Tin Machine and the Tonight album serve a vital public service in making us all feel a bit less inadequate that we are not David Bowie and he is.  However, I am mildly miffed that His Nibs Jones saw fit to release his first single (though not strictly his first new material as the popular press seem intent on telling us) in 10 years a mere 10 hours after I had recorded this week’s show – the first in the new time slot of 9pm on a Wednesday – therefore leaving my hour’s offering notably shy of Where Are We Now.  He could have told me first.  Thanks a bundle, Dave – and I call you Dave knowing full well that you don’t like people calling you Dave, just as I come out in hives whenever anyone refers to me as “Pat”.  Eugh.

 

Show up at Glastonbury in June and I’ll consider letting you off.  And indeed I’ll call you “David” again.

For those of you still stuck with your head in an ignorance bucket, here’s Bowie’s rather lovely comeback offering:

And here’s the Bowieless playlist for this week’s show:

Selection Box Show 247 (Listen Again here)

 

Transmitted 09/01/2013

1. Television – Marquee Moon
from: Marquee Moon

2. Otis Rush – Homework
from: Black History: American Blues Classics (various artists)

3. Rennie Pilgrem Presents Thursday Club featuring Anthea – Somewhere
from: Y3K> Deep Progressive Beats (various artists)

4. Soul Dendi – Hanoubiangabou
from: Le Super Bourgou de Parakou (various artists)

5. Broadcast – Hammer Without A Master
from: Black Session, Paris (5/4/2000)

6. Parno Graszt – Odi Phenel Cino Savo / Ast Mondja A Kiffiam
from: Rávágok A Zongorára

7. Beth Orton – Mystery
from: Sugaring Season

8. Braintax – Syriana Style
from: Panorama

9. Mobile Strugglers – Memphis Blues
from: Western Swing Roots 3: Jug / Washboard Bands (various artists)

10. Prince Fatty featuring Hollie Cook – And The Beat Goes On Dub
from: Prince Fatty Presents Hollie Cook In Dub

11. Moulettes – Circle Song
from: The Bear’s Revenge

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Eclectic Mainline 9th January 2013

Over the festive season I finally got round to watching something that has been patiently waiting my attention for several months. That is the Faraway Close DVD that comes with Parallel 41, the 2012 album by Barbara De Dominicis and Julia Kent.  Watch the trailer here:

If you are inclined to do so you can stream the whole show.  This is what I played:

Wave Machines – “Home” (LP – “Pollen”) (Neapolitan)
Steve Mason – “Fight Them Back” (LP – “Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time”) (Double Six)
Julia Holter – “Marienbad” (LP – “Ekstasis”) (Domino)
Roots Manuva – “Banana Skank (WAFA Remix)” (“Banana Skank EP”) (Big Dada)
Woody Guthrie – “Do-Re-Mi”
Cave Painting – “Leaf” (single and LP – “Votive Life”) (Third Rock)
Former Utopia – “A Love Like Infinity” (“Colapsar E.P.”) (Damnably)
The Creole Choir Of Cuba – “Tripot” (LP – “Santiman”) (Real World)
Barry Adamson – “If You Love Her” (single and LP – “I Will Set You Free”) (Central Control International)
Ducktails – “Letter Of Intent” (single and LP – “The Flower Lane”) (Domino)
The La’s – “Feelin'” (LP – “The La’s”) (Go! Discs)
Barbara De Dominicis and Julia Kent – “Voiceless Laughter” (CD + DVD – “Parallel41 + Faraway Close”) (Baskaru)

Packing and unpacking Selection Boxes

Experts say that moving house can be almost as stressful as moving house.

The majority of you have probably polished off your selection boxes sometime mid-last week (leaving the Jelly Tots as a slightly crap last treat if you’re anything like me. Do they still even do Jelly Tots? Who cares, it has nothing to do with this, press on…) but for some of us a Selection Box, like a dog, is for life and not just for Christmas. Not that I have a dog. I didn’t get a choccie selection box either, but that is by the by.

My Selection Box has been a midnight feast for the past five and a half years, but as from this week any late night gorging will come to an end and will instead be taken with a post-meal coffee. In other words, and to stop talking in tortured metaphors at last, Selection Box is now set to be primetime fare as it moves to its new slot at 9pm on Wednesdays. The glamour. For those of you loathe to replace the sultry tones of BCB’s resident five tissue fantasy Laura Rawlings for that of an utter divot, Laura’s commitments with a high-fallutin’ rival broadcaster have sadly taken her time away from these shores somewhat, though her BCB Sessions show will still be a going concern once a month on a Sunday, starting on 20 January.

Here’s what I played on what turned out to be my last midnight show:

Selection Box Show 246 (Listen again here)

TX 24/12/2012

1. Tracey Thorn – Joy
from: Tinsel & Lights

2. How To Swim – A Minor Key Christmas
from: A Minor Key Christmas

3. Housewives On Prozac – I Broke My Arm Christmas Shopping At The Mall
from: I Broke My Arm Christmas Shopping At The Mall

4. The Raveonettes – The Christmas Song
from: The Christmas Song CD single

5. Kate Bush – Snowed In At Wheeler Street
from: 50 Words For Snow

6. Hasil Adkins – Santa Claus Boogie
from: Best Of The Haze

7. G Love – Christmas Blues
from: This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday Volume 2 (various artists)

8. Ron Holden & The Thunderbirds – Who Sez There Ain’t No Santa Claus
from: Rockin’ N’ Rollin’ With Santa Claus compiled by Mark Lamarr (various artists)

9. Paul Simon – Getting Ready For Christmas Day
from: So Beautiful Or So What

10. Shonen Knife – Space Christmas
from: 7″ Single

11. Ernest Tubb & His Texas Troubadours - I’ll Be Walkin’ the Floor This Christmas
from: Country & Hillbilly Christmas (various artists)

12. Cocteau Twins – Frosty The Snowman
from: Snow EP

13. Neil Halstead – Home For The Season
from: This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday Volume 2 (various artists)

14. Little Joey Farr – Rock & Roll Santa
from: A Very Norton Christmas (various artists)

15. Kill It Kid – Just Like Christmas
from: CD single

Eclectic Mainline 2nd January 2013

For the same reason that last week’s show was not a special festive edition, this week’s is not a special new year show.  Would you rather I had varied things a bit?  Let me know if so, either in the comments here, or on Twitter.  I just want to get as much new music into my show each week as I possibly can.  I do have one or two ideas for special features, which I might introduce over the next few weeks, but otherwise I will just stick to my “here are some new releases I think you should hear” formula.

If you’ve been listening to this show for a few years, you’ll know I’m a big fan of Max Richter.  Here’s a new tune of his, composed for for Random International’s ‘Rain Room’ at the Barbican Centre, down in that London:

Caitlin Rose, who has a cross-generational appeal in our has, is back too, and here’s her new single:

 

If you are brave enough to listen back to the whole show, be my guest. These are the tunes I played:

PAWS – “Miss American Bookworm” (LP “Cokefloat!”)
Jamie Lidell – “What A Shame” (single and LP – “Jamie Lidell”) (Warp)
Tame Impala – “Mind Mischief” (single and LP – “Lonerism”)
Heathered Pearls – “The Worship Bell” (LP – “Loyal”) (Ghostly International)
Caitlin Rose – “No One To Call” (single)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba – “Kele magni feat. Khaira Arby” (LP – “Jama ko”) (Out Here)
Flying Lotus – “All In / Getting There” (single) (Warp)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – “Holy Roller” (single) (Ribbon)
Max Richter – “Rainlight”
Rachel Zeffira – “To Here Knows When” (LP – “The Deserters”) (RAF)
Electric Ills – “Thanks But No Thanks (Hookworms remix)”
Concrete Knives – “Wallpaper” (single b/w “Greyhound Racing”) (Bella Union)
Mazes – “Bodies”
Euros Childs – “Be Be High” (single) (National Elf)
Yo La Tengo – “Well You Better” (single)
Sum Of R – “Growing Into Something Special” (LP – “Ride Out The Waves”) (Storm As He Walks)

Happy New Year

So that’s just about it for 2012.
We’ve rounded off the year on Bradford Beat by revealing our favourite tracks of the last 12 months.
Here’s the Christmas Countdown in full.
1 Whiter Than – Note To Self
2 Django Django – Default
3 Field Music – A New Town
4 Sentimentalists _ I’m Lonely For Every Woman I’ve Ever Known
5 The Maccabees – Pelican
6 The Ting Tings – Silence
7 The Seven inches – Peruvian Poncho
8 Little Comets – Worry
9 Mara Carlyle – Ping Ting
10 Nick Toczek – Noo Yawk
11 Paul Weller – That Dangerous Age
12 Benjamin Francis Leftwich – In The Open
13 City and Colour – The Grand Optimist
14 Downdime – In Space
15 handmadehands – Words That Mean Nothing
16 The Wind-Up Birds – Cross Country
17 Yo El Rey – And One For The Doctor
18 Rodina and the Wolf – What Are You Trying To Do?
19 Alt-J – Something Good
20 Jed’s Blues Band – Dirty Water

You can listen again by clicking here.

Eclectic Mainline 26th December 2012

No Boxing Day special show for me this year.  This wasn’t for any “bah humbug” reasons, but simply because I still have a backlog of new music that I want to air.  I know that if you want Christmas music, you are clever enough to find ways of hearing it all by yourself.  I don’t mean that you’re too dim-witted to unearth the tunes in my show, I mean….oh, I could get myself into a hole here.  I’ll quit while I’m only marginally behind and just show you what I played…

There is a new single coming out early in the new year by Roots Manuva.  This is certainly cause for excitement.

Roots Manuva – Natural Featuring Kope (Clean Edit) by Big Dada Sound

 

This Hauschka tune has been on my ‘to play’ list for several weeks now, and it is shameful that it has taken me so long, as it’s rather good indeed:

Hauschka – 2AM – patten Remix by Fat Cat Records

 

Vladislav Delay – “Kellute” (LP – “Kuopia”) (Raster Noton)
Joshua James – “Willamette” (LP – “From The Top Of The Willamette Mountain”) (Free The Sun)
Roots Manuva – “Natural ft. Kope” (“Banana Skank EP”) (Big Dada)
Villagers – “Nothing Arrived” (single) (Domino)
Kreidler – “Deadwringer” (LP – “Den”) (Bureau B)
Little Richard – “A Little Bit Of Something (Beats A Whole Lot Of Nothing)” (VA CD – “The Northern Soul Story Vol. 1: The Twisted Wheel”) (Sony BMG)
Ergo Phizmiz – “Bernard and The Genie” (single and LP – “Eleven Songs”) (Care In The Community)
The Creole Choir Of Cuba – “Llegada” (LP – “Santiman”) (Real World)
Concrete Knives – “Greyhound Racing” (single) (Bella Union)
Pinkcourtesyphone – “Sans Motif / Closer To Here Than You Care To Be” (LP – “Elegant and Detatched”) (Room40)
Field Music – “Is This The Music?” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Hauschka – “2AM (Pattern Remix)” (LP – “Salon Des Amateurs Remixes”) (Fat Cat)
Piano Interrupted – “You Don’t Love Me Yet” (LP – “Two By Four”) (Days Of Being Wild)

Listen back to the show if you are so inclined.

Buffet’s 2012 Review Thingy

So 2012 is coming to an end and, as is tradition on Buffet, we offer a loose musical reflection on the year. And in the absence of Jenny Jet and Emma Bob 3 we have a studio guest – James Davies (the man from Spunkle and new electro project Konstanzegraff).

If you want to catch up with the show on BCB’s fabulous listen again page you can do so here.

And here’s what we played:

1. TY SEGALL BAND – Death
2. KIM DEAL – Walking With A Killer
3. BEASTIE BOYS – Super Disco Breakin’
4. IT BITES –  Cartoon Graveyard
5. CLAUDINE LONGET – Snow
6. PLAN B – Ill Manors
7. RAVI SHANKAR – Afghani Sitar
8. PEACHES et al – Free Pussy Riot
9. KONSTAZEGRAFF – Billy
10. FUTURE OF THE LEFT – Robocop 4 – Fuck Off Robocop
11. THE B52s – Rock Lobster
12. EMPTY VESSEL MUSIC – She Brings The Moths In Flame
13. THE MONKEES – Daydream Believer
14. SUFJAN STEVENS – Auld Lang Syne

See you in 2013 – have a good one!

x

Into the top 10

The season of goodwill must be well and truly upon us – we’ve moved into the top 10 of the 2012 Christmas Countdown.

It’s looking like a high quality chart – here are the 15 tracks unveiled so far:

6 The Ting Tings – Silence
7 The Seven inches – Peruvian Poncho
8 Little Comets – Worry
9 Mara Carlyle – Ping Ting
10 Nick Toczek – Noo Yawk
11 Paul Weller – That Dangerous Age
12 Benjamin Francis Leftwich – In The Open
13 City and Colour – The Grand Optimist
14 Downdime – In Space
15 handmadehands – Words That Mean Nothing
16 The Wind-Up Birds – Cross Country
17 Yo El Rey – And One For The Doctor
18 Rodina and the Wolf – What Are You Trying To Do?
19 Alt-J – Something Good
20 Jed’s Blues Band – Dirty Water

You can listen again to the 20 December show by clicking here.

Listen to Bradford Beat on BCB 106.6FM from 8pm – 9pm on Thursday, 27 December to hear the Top 5.