Buffet #43

Hello there! Miss our radio show? Well you can hear it here: http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=9262 (it starts 5 mins 30 seconds in)
We’re back on Saturday 1st December serving up a Nightmare Before Christmas, but in the meantime here’s what we played this month:
1. WE’VE GOT A FUZZBOX AND WE’RE GONNA USE IT – XX Sex
2. PAVEMENT – Embassy Row
3. SINKANE – Runnin’
4. FLYING LOTUS – Until the Quiet Comes
5. PARQUET COURTS – Borrowed Time
6. JIM O’ROURKE – Ghost Ship in a Storm
7. SANTIGOLD with KAREN O – Go!
8. HOOKWORMS – Form and Function
9. ALICE COLTRANE – Stopover Bombay
10. MULATU ASTATKE – The Way to Nice
11. DEUS – Instant Street
12. RITES OF SPRING – By Design
13. JOHNNY CASH – Ghost Riders in the Sky
14. HENRY MANCINI – Shaft

Going North from Nashville, Monday 5th November 10-11pm – Yorkshire Mix revisited!

After all, Guy Fawkes came from this fair county!

Top of the programme, Bradford’s own……

1.Wilful Missing : I am Clay …………….next a couple more locals, take us from Shipley to Ilkley

2.Blue Roses : I am Leaving

3.Ben Otwell : Step Right Back ………… we’re going live in Leeds, but not with the Who!

4. John Martin: The Man In the Station

5. Neil Mc Sweeny: London Road…………..on to a couple more artists who can be found live on the Leeds circuit……

6.Michael Rossiter: Jack Went A- Sailing

7.A Free Soul Poetic : I Whistled Up the Devil ………. let’s go to the Yorkshire coast , courtesy of a folk dynasty…

8. Martin Carthy : Scarborough Fair

9. Eliza Carthy: Train Song……….more folk royalty, this time from Barnsley….

10.Kate Rusby: Green Fields……….then, Live at York Minster….

11. Laura Marling: I Was Just a Card…………back to Leeds…

 12. Fossil Collective: Let it Go

13. Patsy Matheson: Ulverston Gypsy ……… another Yorkshireman ends the show………

14. Des Horfall’s Kushty Rye: Random Acts of Kindness

Eclectic Mainline 31st October 2012

Yesterday I learnt that Halloween has its origins in a Pagan festival called Samhain.  It looks like a rather good festival, without all the nonsense that comes with modern Halloween.  Anyway, before I learnt this, I had already intended to play this Roky Erickson tune, what with my show falling on 31st October and all:

Also featured in this week’s show was the Mark Pritchard’s Harmonic 313 remix of his collaboration with Wiley, “Money Man”:

If you wish to listen back to tonight’s show, your first step will be to click here.

This is what I played:

Dan Deacon – “Crash Jam” (single and LP – “America”) (Domino)
Wiley and Mark Pritchard – “Money Man (Harmonic 313 Remix)” (single) (Big Dada)
Patterson Hood – “Disappear” (LP – “Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance”) (Play It Again Sam)
Fukera – Police Orchestra – “Shellelle” (LP by Getatchew Mekuria, The Ex & Friends, “Y’Anbessaw Tezeta” (Terp)
El Perro Del Mar – “Walk On By” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Grischa Lichtenberger – “globalbpm” (LP – “And IV Inertia”) (Raster Noton)
Two Fingers – “Little Brat” (LP – “Stunt Rhythms”) (Big Dada)
Efterklang – “Dreams Today” (LP – “Piramida”) (4AD)
DIIV – “Sometime”
Tilly And The Wall – “Defenders” (LP – “Heavy Mood”) (Team Love)
Fryars – “Love So Cold”
Myrian Makenwa – “Amampondo” (2CD – “Diablos Del Ritmo – The Colombian Melting Pot 1960 – 1965”) (Analog Africa)
Emmylou Harris – “Cosmonaut” (LP – “Lawless” OST) (Sony)
Ty Segall – “Would You Be My Love” (LP – “Twins”) (Drag City)
Roky Erickson and The Aliens – “Don’t Shake Me Lucifer” (LP – “Roky Erickson and Evilhook Wildlife”) (Sympathy For The Record Industry)

The Return Of The King(s), Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Manchester Club Academy 29/10/12.

I bloody love these guys.  When I first heard their debut Horse Of The Dog on it’s release 10 years ago, *feels old*,  I could NOT stop listening to it.  Clocking in at just over 25 minutes it grabs you by the scruff of the neck, screams in your face and lacerates you with Cramps/Birthday Party-style guitars that momentarily made me think I should perhaps listen to a nice safe band like Travis……but that didn’t last.

Fast-forward 10 years, only two more albums, an almost Spinal Tap-esque rotation of guitarists and the re-release of their single ‘Chicken’ (which was used in a recent Nike advert) and suddenly all feels right in the world.  Re-forming after splitting up in March 2010 with ALMOST the original lineup, (no Tom on drums?) there’s a real sense of excitement in the academy tonight. Andy Huxley who left in 2005 due to that old chestnut ‘musical differences’ is back on lead guitar and they sound EXACTLY as brilliant as they did back in the day, (during Huxley’s feedback-drowned solo on ‘Pyschosis Safari’ it sounded like the Kraken had been released).

Opening with the creepy ‘Freud’s Black Muck’ from 2005’s ‘The Royal Society’, it’s just a non-stop assault on the ears (in a good way you understand).  They only play songs from their first two albums, (leaving out 2010’s ‘Blood and Fire’) and a couple of b-sides but to be honest the omission of their last long player was no big loss bar a couple of decent tunes.  The crowd sang/screamed along to most of the words and there seemed to be a genuine feeling of relief to have ’em back.

And then there’s Guy.  Mr. Guy McKnight Mr. Mental himself.  What a bloody frontman, he never disappoints.  Sounding like Elvis being molested by Kurt (enduring image) with his forays into the crowd to scream lyrics into their ecstatic  faces you just can’t take your eyes off him……he won’t let you.  You just feel this is a band that gives you their all and the appreciation from the crowd is more than obvious.

So what happens now?  They play Camden’s Electric Ballroom on Halloween and then………..who knows.  HOPEFULLY another album, (please x10) but if not………well at least I’ve seen ’em tear the academy a new one.  Oh and I got a couple of cool t-shirts from the merch stall.

Here’s the setlist if you care

  1. Freud’s Black Muck
  2. Celebrate Your Mother
  3. Alex
  4. Whack Of Shit
  5. Chicken
  6. Torrential Abuse
  7. I Rejection
  8. Puppy Dog Snails
  9. Giant Bones
  10. Charge The Guns
  11. Team Meat
  12. Temple Music
  13. Morning Has Broken
  14. Rise Of The Eagles
  15. Psychosis Safari
  16. Fishfingers
  17. Presidential Wave
  18. The Way Of The Men Of The Stuff


Skeletons and Catherine Wheels

The latest edition of Bradford Beat is a double whammy – a Halloween and Bonfire Night special.
The show is being repeated this Thursday (Nov 1) and you can listen again by clicking here

The full list of ghoulish and firework-themed tracks is here:

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hallowe’en
The Coral – Skeleton Key
The Seven Inches – A Letter
Nick Toczek – Noo Yawk
Embrace – Fireworks
Catherine Wheel – Flower To Hide
Cocteau Twins – Pink Orange Red
Whiter Than – And So To The Burning
Jim Jones Revue – It’s Got To Be About Me
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
The Damned – Nasty
The Fall – Frightened

The Mirrored Hammer

The third episode of The Mirrored Hammer: Art, Culture and Social Change airs on Saturday at 5pm on BCB 106.6FM. This episode is a ‘music special’ prompted by the ‘It Came Out of Nowhere’ event in September that focused on DIY and self-organised music. The programme contains live recordings from a.P.p.A.T.t, Dolphins, The Bismarck, Poil, Dean McPhee and The Horse Loom. There are also conversations with Chris Jury and The Bismarck about the DIY punk scene in the American Upper Midwest and Gary Cavannagh about Bradford’s music history.

To get you in the mood you can listen to last month’s episode here:

Eclectic Mainline 24th October 2012

I had no show last week due to 11 local men trying to chase a leather ball past 11 non-locals, who were simultaneously trying to chase the same ball the other way. BCB decided this was an event worth commentating on.  Consequently, I have a backlog of tunes I want to play you.  I squeezed 15 in this week, including this gorgeous Nicholas Jaar remix of Cherokee by Cat Power:

 

I could quite happily have played one of the two 20-minute tracks from the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album, but not wanting to leave too many other artists out of the show, settled for one of the shorter tunes.  I would highly recommend you listen to the entire album though, as it is quite brilliant:

 

If you are inclined to listen back to tonight’s show, you’ll find it over here. Here is what I played: Continue reading →

Music with a Siblings theme on Going North from Nashville! Monday 22nd October, 10-11pm

First, Chuck Prophet looking for his brother………….

1. Chuck Prophet : Where the Hell is Henry.  Next a couple of brother & sister acts……….

2. Angus& Julia Stone : Mango Tree         

3. Cowboy Junkies: Brothers under the Bridge . Followed by a fake brother & sister act……..

4. White Stripes : Well it’s True that We Love One Another.

 Now, some good old fashioned country brothers………

5. Stanley Brothers : If I got Loose

6. Louvin Brothers : The Family Who Prays .

Not real brothers next, but a seminal alt country band from the 60’s……

7. Flying Burrito Brothers : My Uncle

We move on to a couple of songs about sisters…………..

8. Mary Gauthier: Your Sister Cried

9. Rebecca Worthley : Little Sister . Followed by two more classicl sister songs…..

10. Bob Dylan : Oh Sister 

11. Leonard  Cohen : Sisters of Mercy.

Next, a sister of a famous brother, now famous in her own right……….

12. Martha Wainwright : GPT.

 Back to the 60’s………………. 

13. The Byrds : Tribal Gathering from their Notorious Byrd Brothers album, followed by two more bands of brothers………

14. The Felice Brothers : Frankie’s Gun

14. The Barr Brothers: Deacon’s Son.

Finally, a classic brothers song from a band that once featured two brothers…………….

16. Dire Straits:Brothers in Arms

Buffet #42 Record Club Special

Vinyl is making a comeback of sorts, though it ain’t necessarily cheap. Apparently you can buy the new Mumford and Sons LP for £23. Frankly you’d have to pay me a hell of a lot more than this to listen to it, but that’s me. Give me “The Beatles – Tijuana Style” for two quid from a charity shop any day.

This month Buffet shares its love for proper vinyl records with David from Shipley’s Record Club – a monthly event that is well worth a visit. And you can catch up with this particular broadcast here

Here’s what we played on the show:

1. LCD SOUNSYSTEM – Time to Get Away
2. JONATHAN RICHMAN – Egyptian Reggae
3. DUTCH UNCLES – Fester
4. SEX PISTOLS – God Save the Queen
5. GRAM PARSONS AND THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS – Honky Tonk Women
6. FIELD MUSIC – Terrapin
7. THE BREEDERS – Cannonball
8. TY SEGALL BAND – Tell Me What’s Inside Your Heart
9. HUSKER DU – Makes No Sense At All
10. MAHGEETAH – Wheels
11. THE CURE – Inbetween Days
12. BLONDIE – Union City Blue
13. MY BLOODY VALENTINE – To Here Knows When

See you next month!

Team Buffet
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Eclectic Mainline 10th October 2012

If you have been listening to BCB and/or following this blog over the past year, you’ll know that we are quite keen on Those Darlins. Patrick banged on about their last album, as did Laura. Well, Those Darlins didn’t rest on their proverbial laurels, and have a new, seasonal single:

Another tune I played tonight is this one by JJ Doom:

If you wish to listen back to the whole show, seek and you will find.

Here’s tonight’s playlist: Continue reading →