New Sounds on Going North from Nashville: Monday 8th October, 10-11pm

John & Sue play a selection of the best in Alt Country & Americana from recent months.

Patterson Hood: Fifteen Days(Leaving Time Again), from Heat Lightening Rumbles in the Distance………solo outing for Drive By Truckers main man

The Moonbeams: Where are you now Juanita. Yorkshire Dales based country, from their album, Sparrowhawk’s Eye

Calexico: Splitter, from new album Algeirs

Rebecca Worthley: A Thousand Lights. Not new but new to GNfN, from 2008’s Morning Comes to Those Who Wait

Fossil Collective: Guaratuba from Leeds based band’s debut Ep Let it Go

Luke Ritchie: Cover it Up. Another debut - from The Waters Edge album

Bob Dylan: Roll on John. First GNfN taster of  new album, Tempest

Race Horses: Nobody’s Son from Furniture

The Hayley Sisters: I’ll be Your San Antone Rose. Not new but local – from the Silsden sisters’ 2006 album, No Bounderies

Jack White: Love Interuption, from much acclaimed solo offering, Blunderbuss

Donovan Woods: No Time Has Passed from the Widow Maker

Chris Robinson Brotherhood: Someday Past the Sunset. Second 2012 album for Black Crows singer - The Magic Door

Eclectic Mainline 3rd October 2012

So, the new Flying Lotus album is out.  Jumbo Records sold out of the deluxe vinyl edition before I managed to get one.  I had mixed emotions as a result.  I was both disappointed (for me) but pleased (for FlyLo and Jumbo).  Clap along with this:

Shonen Knife are currently on a tour of the UK and Ireland.  Have a look at their live dates and see if there is still time for you to catch them.

Another tune from this week’s show with a video worth feasting your eyes on is that by The Helio Sequence:

If you want to listen back to the show, be my guest.  This is what I played: Continue reading →

Eclectic Mainline 26th September 2012

Matthew Bourne is playing at the University of Bradford on 29th October.  I hope to see you there if you can make it along.  Here is his take on ‘God Save The Queen‘:

If you wish to listen back to tonight’s show, you’ll find it somewhere around about here.  These are the tunes you will hear:

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Baby” (LP – “Mature Themes”) (4AD)
Bob Mould – “The Descent” (single and LP – “Silver Age”) (Demon)
Hooray For Earth – “Figure” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Beth Orton – “Magpie” (single and LP – “Sugaring Season”) (Anti-)
John Cale – “Face To The Sky”
Mira Calix – “What Are You Afraid Of?” (EP – “Prickle”) (Warp)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Bag Of Bones” (single and LP – “Meat and bone”)
Matthew Bourne – “Étude Psychotique” (LP – “Montauk Variations”) (Leaf)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – “I Follow You” (LP – “Melody’s Echo Chamber”) (Weird World)
The Touré-Raichel Collective – “Alem (feat. Mark Eliyahu)” (LP – “The Tel Aviv Sessions”) (Cumbancha)
Lord Huron – “Time To Run” (EP – “Time To Run”) (I Am Sound)
Tilly And The Wall – “Love Riot” (EP – “Love Riot”) (Team Love)
The Helio Sequence – “Hall Of Mirrors” (single and LP – “Negotiations”) (Sub Pop)

The Mirrored Hammer

The second instalment of The Mirrored Hammer: Art, Culture and Social Change airs tonight on BCB 106.6FM at 9pm. Interviews with Dusty Rhodes talking about being a student in Bradford post ’68 and the/(a) history of The Bradford Festival. Also a chat with Nagbea (The Word/Sound Shack Records) talking about the birth of the Punk scene and resonances between African culture and the DIY music scene. Live bootlegs from Blood Sport, Guns or Knives, Jupiter and Okwess International, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band and Gerrard Bell-Fife.

 

You can listen to last month’s debut episode here:

Join us for a Going North from Nashville focus on Duets, feat. My Darling Clemantine! Monday 24th September, 10-11pm

A programme of duets; some unlikeley contenders, some old favourites & an interview with Micheal Weston King who duets with his wife, Lou Dagleish, as My Darling Clemantine.

1. MacIntosh Ross: Gloria

2. Paul Rogers & Nils Lofgren: Abandoned Love

3.Ryan Adams & EmmylouHarris: Oh My Sweet Carolina

4.First Aid Kit@ Emmylou

5. Tom Waits & Keith Richards: Last Leaf

6. Ray Davies & Lucinda Williams: Long Way from Home

7. Johnny Cash & June Carter: Jackson

8. Clive Gegson & Jacqueline Sharp : Antidote

9. My Darling Clemantine : Going Back to Memphis

10. “       “                  “                 : Nothing Left to Say

11. “        “                 “                 : She’s Still My Weakness

12. “       “                 “                  : 10.000 Words

13. “        “                “                  : It’s All Too Much

Punk’s not dead

With Penetration, The Members and the UK Subs all playing in the area in the coming weeks, there’s a punk rock flavour to this weeks’ show.

Here’s the full track listing:

Stranglers – Skin Deep
handmadehands – Daring Me Not To
Julian Cope – World Shut Your Mouth
The Chevin – Champion
Michelle Shocked – When I Grow Up
Talk TO Angels – He Loves Cilla
Field Music – a New Town
I Like Trains – Sirens
Zulu Winter – Silver Tongue
Terrorvision – Oblivion
Teardrop Explodes – Reward
Official Secrets Act – Something That You Want
Massive Attack – Atlas Air

You can listen again by clicking here

Term time

This week we continue our look ahead to a busy autumn gig scene in West Yorkshire (mainly Leeds to be honest) as the students return with a vengeance.

There are some corking gigs at the Cockpit and Brudenell in particular.

Here’s the full tracklisting to last week’s show, which you can listen to again by clicking here

Django Django – Storm
handmadehands – Over The Edge
Coldplay – Yellow
Rodina and the Wolf – What Are You Trying To Do?
Reverend and the Makers – Champion of the World
Terrorvision – Rock Radio
Little Comets – Worry
Everything Everything – Suffragette Suffragette
Post War Glamour Girls – Tremor
Robert Wyatt – A Sunday in Madrid
Sentimentalists – My Mad Mind
The Word – Schoolboy Saint
Wind Up Birds – Popman

Eclectic Mainline 19th September 2012

Andy O’Brien, who used to follow me at 9pm on BCB, would be delighted to learn of the return of Tilly And The Wall.  I started tonight’s show with their new single:

Tilly & the Wall – Love Riot by Team Love Records

If you want to listen back to tonight’s show, you’ll find it on the BCB Listen Again service.  Here’s what I played:

Tilly And The Wall – “Love Riot” (EP – “Love Riot”) (Team Love)
Efterklang – “Apples” (4AD)
Jesse Boykins & MeLo-X – “The Perfect Blues” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Palma Violets – “Best Of Friends”
A.R. Kane – “Sea Like A Child” (2CD – “Complete Singles Collection”) (One Little Indian)
Illum Sphere – “Birthday”
The Touré-Raichel Collective – “Kfar” (LP – “The Tel Aviv Sessions”) (Cumbancha)
Purity Ring – “Fineshrine”
Spring Break – “Baby, You’re Better” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Grimes – “Genehsis” (single) (4AD)
Ty Segall – “The Hill” (single) (Drag City)
Howler – “Told You Once”
Kid Koala – “6 Bit Blues” (LP – “12 Bit Blues”) (Ninja Tune)
Why? – “Sod in the Seed” (EP – “Sod In The Seed”) (City Slang)
Sone Institute – “Fear And Happiness” (LP – “A Model Life”) (Front & Follow)

Buffet’s Midnight Filth

We often feel frustrated by how many records can’t be played on our regular show because they’re loaded with F-Bombs. So BCB kindly gave us a midnight slot to unleash this filth, broadcast on 11th Sept at midnight. There is no ‘listen again’ feature – it was just too rude.

But you may be interested to know just what we played and how the swear box fills up, so here’s our tracklist:

1. BIKINI KILL – New Radio
2. KORN –  Y’all Wanna Single
3. MARTHA WAINRIGHT – Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
4. CSS – Fuck Everything
5. THE BIRD AND THE BEE – Fucking Boyfriend
6. PJ HARVEY – Who the Fuck?
7. FATIMA MANSIONS – Shiny Happy People
8. DEATH GRIPS – Get Got
9. SHELLAC – Prayer to God
10. PLAN B – Lost My Way
11. tUnE-yArDs – Es-So
12. ELO – Oh No, Not Susan
13. ANTLERED MAN – Platoono of Uno
14. HOLY FUCK – SHTMTN
15. THE MOTHERFUCKERS – Sick and Wrong
16. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – The Man Don’t Give a Fuck

We have not had time to put together the planned pie-chart of sweardom, but can confirm there were over 200 fucks (and variants) and at least 4 shits.

Get in touch if you’d like to hear it…

Love Team Buffet

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Eclectic Mainline 12th September 2012

After last week’s excitement, I have only the routine task of telling you how amazing the tunes in tonight’s show were. Why? are back, and this pleases me no end. I played the lead track from their new ‘Sod In The Seed’ EP tonight. Hear the whole EP though, as it’s mighty good:
WHY? – ‘Sod in the Seed’ EP by City Slang

I strongly advise you to seek out “Nothin But Time” from the new Cat Power album too. If you’ve been a Cat Power fan for as long as I have, you will remember when she played pretty much everything herself, and in those early days, that was often just her and a guitar, or her and a piano.  Well, although her sound as evolved greatly since those early albums, a similar principle applies; she plays the majority of the instruments herself.  She’s a modern day Stevie Wonder.

Here’s the full playlist from tonight’s show, which you can hear again over on this page.

Alt-J – “Something Good” (single and LP – “An Awesome Wave”) (Infectious)
Husky – “Tidal Wave” (single and LP – “Forever So”) (Sub Pop)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Live It Up” (LP – “Mature Themes”) (4AD)
The Touré-Raichel Collective – “Alkataou” (LP – “The Tel Aviv Sessions”) (Cumbancha)
Dinosaur Jr. – “Pierce The Morning Rain” (LP – “I Bet On Sky”) (PIAS)
Rollo Jean – “St Tropez” (double A-side single with “Cellar Of Love”) (Memphis Industries)
Cat Power – “NothingBut Time” (LP – “Sun”) (Matador)
Rustie – “After Light feat. AlunaGeorge” (single) (Warp)
Call The Doctor – “Here To Haunt” (b-side to “Wrecking Ball” single) (Glasstone)
Why? – “Sod in the Seed” (EP – “Sod In The Seed”) (City Slang)
Sonic Boom Six – “Virus” (single) (Xtra Mile)
Frank Zappa – “Bobby Brown Goes Down” (LP re-issue – “Sheik Yerbouti”)
Babe, Terror – “Lifantastic I” (“Knights EP”) (Phantasy Sound)

Minor correction from last week’s show – I played the following but forgot to include it in my playlist:

Dinosaur Jr. – “Rude” (LP – “I Bet On Sky”) (PIAS)