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The latest edition of Bradford Beat included a couple of tracks marking Thanksgiving in the US.

Here’s the full playlist:

Great White Underground – Messiah In Hiding
Cranberries – Zombie
Green Day – American Idiot
Venusian Plow – Hanging In The Playground
Tilly and the Wall – Love Riot
Jed’s Blues Band – Dirty Water
Clinic – Miss You
Sentimentalists – I’m Beat
Little Comets – A Little Opus
John Parkes – Fireships
Dinosaur Jr – Watch The Corners
The Seven Inches – Peruvian Poncho
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – In The Open
Loqui – We Drown On Dry Land

You can listen again here

Eclectic Mainline 21st November 2012

Do our brains act like virtual jukeboxes, storing a copy of every song we have ever enjoyed, and calling up any given song when prompted to do so by an outside stimulus? I ask this because every once in a while a song will end up going round in my head simply because somebody has said something that brings to mind its lyrics, or a conversation reminds me of a specific event that my brain links to a given piece of music.

This happened to me last week. I was speaking to a good friend about some of our favourite music from 20 years ago.  The next day when I awoke, ‘Fishes Eyes‘ by New Fast Automatic Daffodils was in my head, and there it stayed for several hours.  Despite not having heard it for several years, my brain was giving a pretty faithful rendition, and it sounded very much like this:

How this happens, I would love to know.  If anybody wants to sponsor me to write a book on the topic, I would certainly take up the challenge.

Anyway, as a result I decided to play a bit of New FADS in tonight’s show.  I also played this excellent Four Tet and Burial collaboration, that I picked on on 12″ at Jumbo Records earlier this year:

Another tune I played tonight was this from the Snow Palms album:

If you have a desire to listen back to the full show, you will find it on the BCB Listen Again site.  These are the tunes I played: Continue reading →

The Mirrored Hammer

The fourth episode of The Mirrored Hammer: Art, Culture and Social Change airs tonight at 9pm on BCB 106.6FM. This episode focuses on varying approaches in socially-concious art and culture and its potential to effect change from the level of the individual to the social and environmental. It features excerpts from talks by Karren Ablaze about her new book ‘The City is Ablaze: The Story of A Post-Punk Popzine 1984 – 1994’; fragments of the Bradford One launch event with Griff Rhys Jones talking about the use of Bradford’s former Odeon Building as a cultural centre and music venue; artist Jeanne Van Heeswijk on sustainable socially-engaged art and the Homebaked project as part of the Liverpool Biennial; an interview with Interactive Arts trio Invisible Flock; and excerpts from Irna Qureshi and Chol Theatre’s rehearsed reading of ‘Cartographies of Love’ and accompanying discussion. There’s also bootlegs of live performances by Cowtown, The Jelas, Garfunkle and Simon, James Blackshaw and Matthew Bourne.

Last month’s episode is here if you want to warm yourself up:

World Waves, 27th November 2012

PLAYLIST FOR 27/11/12

LISTEN AGAIN HERE

Kishore Kumar & Amitabh Bachchan – “My Name is Anthony Gonsalves”
(from Amar, Akbar, Anthony, Polydor)

The Upsetters – “Bird in Hand”
(from Return of the Super Ape, VP Records)
…here’s a video for the above song, followed by the original Hindi film song it’s based on:

A.L. Lloyd – “Jack Orion”
(from First Person – A.L. Lloyd: Some of his favourite folk songs, Topic)
…and a great Bert Jansch version:

V/A – “Sin Sin Oyun Havasi”
(from The Living Tradition: Folk Music from Turkey, Argo)

Wayne Smith – “Under Me Sleng Teng”
(from 300% Dynamite: Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk & Dub in Jamaica, Soul Jazz)

Jesse “Babyface” Thomas – “No Good Woman Blues”
(from Blues from the Western States, 1927-1949, Yazoo)

Cem Karaca/KardaÅŸlar – “Lümüne”
(from Cem Karaca/Kardaşlar, Türkofon/Velp)

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A Going North fom Nashville pick n’ mix – the best of recently music – Monday 19th November – 10-11pm.

1.Lucinda Williams : Buttercup – Lucinda is currently touring her 2011 studio album, Blessed……….next, a of couple of singles from recently released albums…………..

2.The Wooden Sky: Take Me Out –  from Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun

3.The Late Call:Look at You Now – from Pale Morning Light

4.Benjamin Frances Leftwitch: Pictures – title track of his 2011 EP………..followed by two more artists with a Yorkshire connection………..

5.Fran Smith: We Will Have No More Marriages – from eponymous 2012 album

6.Mickie Lavender: Wild Flowers from When the Nightingale Calls (a shout to the Wednesday Open Mic at the Victoria Public House, Leeds!)

7. Bob Dylan:Long & Wasted Years – haunting track from new studio album, Tempest………. next, two more singles…………

8. Blue Flint: Take Your Shoes Off – from 2011’s Maudy Tree

9.Correatown: Shine Right Through – from Pleides……………….. now, the return of a GNfN favourite…………

10. Ryan Adams:Kindness – from 2011’s Ashes & Fire

11.Rachel Semanni:Waltz – from Under Mountains, released 2010

12.The Moulettes:Uca’s Dance – single from debut album The Bear’s Revenge……….followed by the welcome return of………….

113.Diana Derby: Buttercup  – from her new album – IV ………… neatly tying in with our first track!

More from By Hook Or By Crook

More tracks from the Sturdy Records compilation CD By Hook Or By Crook feature on this week’s Bradford Beat.

The full track listing is:

Eureka Machines – Do Or Die
Dutch Uncles – Fester
Sentimentalists – Apricots
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – In The Open
Racket Ball – When They Walked In
John Parkes – Don’t Be Seventeen
Clinic – Miss You
Downdime – In Space
Richard Marriott – Under Occupation
The Seven Inches – (Let’s Learn Off By Heart) International Dialling Codes
Cave Painting – So Calm
Scaramanga Six – Trouble
This Many Boyfriends – Young Lovers Go Pop

You can listen again by clicking here

Eclectic Mainline 14th November 2012

The new Efterklang album is a thing of carefully constructed beauty.  To get a glimpse of the lengths the band went to to get the right sounds they wanted, watch this:

If you are inclined to listen back to tonight’s show, you’ll find it somewhere on this page.  Here is what I played:

Efterklang – “The Ghost” (LP – “Piramida”) (4AD)
Pulled Apart By Horses – “Epic Myth”
Offshore – “Slip” (LP – “Bake Haus”) (Big Dada)
Serafina Steer – “Night Before Mutiny”
Clinic – “Miss You” (single and LP – “Free Reign”) (Domino)
Tindersticks – “This Fire Of Autumn” (single and LP – “The Something Rain”) (Lucky Dog)
Emanuele De Raymondi – “BV_3” (LP – “Buyukberber Variations”) (ZerOKilled Music)
Chains Of Love – “He’s Leaving (With Me)” (single)
Hope & Social – “Shake Your Gimli” (LP – “All Our Dancing Days”)
Pianonegro – “La Cascada” (2CD – “Diablos Del Ritmo – The Colombian Melting Pot 1960 – 1965”) (Analog Africa)
Locrian & Christoph Heemann – “Loath The Light” (LP – “S/T”) (Handmade Birds)
Poliça – “Form” (single and LP – “Give You The Ghost”) (Memphis Industries)
Annie & Baby Dee – “State Of Grace (w/ Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy)” (LP – “State Of Grace”) (Tin Angel)
Rozi Plain – “See My Boat (Alexis Taylor Remix)” (single) (Fence Records / NeedNoWater Records)

Album launch gig

Here’s the full track listing for this week’s show:

Alt-J – Something Good
The Seven Inches – Peruvian Poncho
Manic Street Preachers – You Love Us
Eureka Machines – Being Good Is Okay But Being Better’s Better
TOYS – When I Was A Toy
Jed’s Blues Band – Dirty Water
Men Only – Summer Girls
Liquid Eyes – (2012 Remix) – Steven Fenton and Siamese Twist
The World Service – Katherine
Sentimentalists – All I Need
The Wind-Up Birds – Two Ambulance Day
Venusian Plow – Hanging In the Playground
Talk To Angels – The Truth Undressed

Don’t forget the By Hook Or By Crook CD launch is at Oporto in Leeds on Sunday, 11 November.

You can listen to the show again by clicking here

Eclectic Mainline 7th November 2012

There were a couple of tunes tonight that I had to cut short due to their length.  My heart told me to let them play out, but my head told me it would have been at the expense of other tunes getting a look in at all. But such is the wonder of the Internet, that you can hear one if the long-uns in full now.  This is by Fimber Bravo, the first steel pan player to feature in my show:

Fimber Bravo – Life After Doomsday (with Zongamin) by moshi moshi music

Alas I couldn’t find the Nick Edwards tune online, so you’ll have to take my word for how good the full 16 minutes of that one is.  I can, however, show you this delightful tune by Akira Kosemura, the title track from the It’s On Everything album which is being re-issued by Raster Noton:

If you wish to listen back to the full show, you’ll find it here.

Here is a full list of the tunes I played:
The Magnetic North – “Bay Of Skaill”
Grischa Lichtenberger – “1110_01_Iv_1b” ” (LP – “And IV Inertia”) (Raster Noton)
Errors – “Relics”
Pollens – “Helping Hand” (single and LP – “Brighten & Break”) (Tapete)
Merz – “Eudaimonia” (LP – “No Compass Will Find Home”)
Akira Kosemura – “It’s On Everything” (LP - “It’s On Everything”) (Someone Good)
Fimber Bravo – “Life After Doomsday (with Zongamin)” (Moshi Moshi)
Nick Edwards – “Part 3: Inside The Analog Continuum” (LP – “Plekzationz”) (Editions Mego)
Grizzly Bear – “Half Gate” (LP – “Shields”) (Warp)
Sonora Dinamita – “Eco en Stereo” (2CD – “Diablos Del Ritmo – The Colombian Melting Pot 1960 – 1965”) (Analog Africa)
Pure Bathing Culture – “Ivory Coast” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Offshore – “Downer” (LP – “Bake Haus”) (Big Dada)
Patrick Watson – “Black Wind” (single and LP “) (Domino)

By Hook Or By Crook

Listen out for a double whammy of  exciting new sounds from West Yorkshire bands in this week’s edition of Bradford Beat.

The show will be focusing on two new compilation albums – By Hook Or By Crook released by Sturdy Records and 13 for 2012 released by Soundshack.

Bands featured will include TOYS, The World Service, Men Only, Wind-Up Birds and many more.

An all-day luanch gig for By Hook Or By Crook will take place at Oporto in Call Lane, Leeds, on Sunday (11 Nov) from 2pm to 10.30pm.

Tune in to Bradford Beat on Thursday (8 November) from 8pm to 9pm on BCB 106.6FM.