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Eclectic Mainline 22 February 2012 & 29 February 2012

 

Phil Cope has yet to follow the example of Richard Herring vis-a-vis facial hair.

When Albert Freeman proferred his chair to myself and Phil Cope (one sat on the other’s knee since you ask) he did so with the promise that we would ensure that his commitment to a weekly blog about his show would also follow.  What Albert foolishly failed to check was whether myself and The Mod Oliver Hardy were in fact hiding cross keys behind our backs, which as everyone knows is the legally-binding get-out clause for any promise made publically or privately and is sadly a manouevre often abused at weddings by men intent from the start on being serial adulterers.

 

So, I have welched on this agreement made betwixt Freeman, Hardy & wally and thus have to use one blog entry to catch up on two editions of Eclectic Mainline.  The first saw Cope & I playing catch with such political hot potatoes as Adele’s sac of living tissue in which she nurtures her young Brit Award eggs, the appropraicy of Paul Weller’s tie knot and the manner in which a radio wireless show can disobey the rules of the space/time continuum.  In summary: we titted about again.

Ding dong Dingle, where chair?

Sadly, such titting was reduced to a solo practice for last week’s show and Mod Laurel was forced to go it alone as, due to the constraints of that there time that they have these days, Phil was unable to join me.  You may think that recording an hour of radio together per week is not that restrictive in terms of the ticky tick tock of clocks, but if you are thinking this it just goes to show what a wretched and naive specimen you are.  You are clearly failing to take into account the work that goes into ensuring that our voices are being pushed out of radios, computer speakers, iPods, phones and various other devices accross the World simultaneously.  Everyone says that Father Christmas is amazing for managing to get around every household in the World in a single night once a year, and yet we manage to be inside thousands of radio machines all at the same time, wittering nonsense about hair dos and Cain Dingle off of out of Emmerdale Farm.  You don’t get that without at least half an hour’s preparation time, I’ll tell you now.

Anyway, here’s the track-listing, brought to you via the twin media of the written word and contemporary dance, although only one is visible here:

Jagwar Pirates' Full Total Complete Bronzage

 

Eclectic Mainline 22 February 2012 (listen again here)

1.  Adele / Prophet Arise Riddim – Dubbin In The Deep

from: unreleased

2.  Steinvord – Maelstrom

from: Steinvord

3.  Alex Chilton – Come On Honey

from: Free Again: The “1970” Sessions

4.  Field Music – A Prelude To Pilgrim Street

from: Plumb

5.  Paul Weller – That Dangerous Age

from: Sonic Kicks

6.  New Age Steppers – Conquer

from: Love Forever

7.  Liechtenstein – No Idealists Left

from: Fast Forward

8.  Jagwar Pirates – Rocket Surf

from: Full Total Complete Bronzage

9.  Chairlift – Sidewalk Safari

from: Something

10.  Soap&Skin – Wonder

from: Narrow

11. Twin Sister – Gene Ciampi

from: In Heaven

12.  Tesfay Taye – Selame

from: Ilita!: New Ethiopian Dance Music (various artists)

Those Darlins: what's not to like?

 

Eclectic Mainline 29 February 2012 (listen again here)

1.  Liz Green – Hey Joe

from: O, Devotion!

2.  Afro Beat Bariba – Abakpe

from: Le Super Borgou de Parakou (various artists)

3.  Tom Waits – Raised Right Men

from: Bad As Me

4.  Emporium – Mindbender

from: Another Planet: The Best of Emporium

5.  Crybaby – When The Lights Go Out

from: Crybaby

6.  Those Darlins – Your Bro

from: Screws Get Loose

7.  Dave Davies – Do You Wish To Be A Man

from: Hidden Treasures

8.  Amadou & Miriam featuring Santi Gold – Dougou Badia

from: Folia

9.  Leonard Cohen – Amen

from: Old Ideas

10.  Grinderman – Palaces of Montezuma (Barry Adamson Remix)

from: Grinderman 2 RMX

11. Bowerbirds – Death Wish

from: The Clearing

12.  Saint Etienne – Tonight

from: Words & Music

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight

Phil Cope presents When Big Joan Sets Up every Wednesday at Midnight

Eclectic Mainline 15/2/2012: Another Fine Mess You’ve Got Me Into

Your regular EM host Albert Freeman is off for a few weeks on a mission to save stranded vegan wasps from a concentration camp in deepest Antasia, so myself and the venerable Phil Cope – the Mod Laurel & Hardy – are sitting in for a total of four weeks in return for lurid bodily favours which would make a street girl vomit into an ashtray.

I seem to recall an off-air agreement betwixt your hosts that if I did all the technical hoohah this week, Phillip would do the blogging honours. Ah cannae see the relevant entry*, so I’ve done the honours on his behalf and will make sure to smash all the teeth out of his head as a punishment for reneging on such a deal. It also gives me carte blanche to shove up these compare & contrast images of the two of us – coincedentally taken entirely independent of each other and without prior knowledge of the existence of either, which Phil hates as he thinks it makes him look like a blind Womble.

* Although, in fairness, I took home the tracklisting which might have made it difficult for him, but I must just smash his teeth out anyway for my own amusement.

Here’s the tunes that we poured onto the airwaves like aural soup into your listening ear bowls:

 

Eclectic Mainline 15 February 2012 (Listen here)

1. Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose
from: Screws Get Loose

2. Lambchop – Gone Tomorrow
from: Mr. M

3. Hookworms – Medicine Cabinet
from: Hookworms EP

4. La Makina Del Karibe – El Maki Man
from: Kosmik Chankleta

5. Cate Le Bon – Falcon Eyed
from: Cyrk

6. Jack White – Machine Gun Silhouette
from: Love Interruption 7″ single

7. EQ Why – Back 2 Dis
from: Let Me See Your Footwork

8. Alabama Shakes – Hold On
from: Boys & Girls

9. Liz Green – Rybka
from: Bad Medicine CD single

10. Metronomy – Corinne
from: The English Riviera

11. Shearwater – Breaking The Waves
from: Animal Joy

12. The Fall – Cosmos 7
from: Ertsatz GB

13. Ital – Doesn’t Matter (If You Love Him)
from: Hive Mind

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.

Phil Cope presents When Big Joan Sets Up every Wednesday at Midnight.

Eclectic Mainline 9th November 2011

One of my favourite tunes in tonight’s show was this one by Fujako:
1- FUJAKO Sulphur-Goat (feat. Sensational) by Fujako

If you fancy a week off from listening to Eclectic Mainline next Wednesday, I can recommend you go and see Anna Calvi at The Cockpit in Leeds.

If you wish to listen again to this show, you will find the link on the BCB Listen again page for today.

Loka – “The Sound Stars Make” (LP – “Passing Place”) (Ninja Tune)
Gary War – “Zontag” (single) (Care In The Community)
The Go! Team – “Rolling Blackouts” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Angel – “Dark Matter Leak” (LP – “26000”) (Editions Mego)
Billy Bragg – “Constitution Hill” (LP – “Fight Songs”) (Bragg Central)
Simian Ghost – “Bicycle Theme” (single) (Heist)
The Twilight Sad – “Sick” (single) (Fat Cat)
Fujako – “Sulfur Goat w/ Sensational” (LP – “Landform”) (Angstrom)
Mint Julep – “Why Don’t We” (single) (Village Green)
Mickey Moonlight – “A Big Ship Passing” (LP – “And The Time Axis Manipulation Corporation”) (Because)
Gruff Rhys – “Space Dust #2” (double a-side single with “Whale Trail”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
Group Niob – “Nexus” (“Nexus EP”) (Phlox)
Hanni El Khatib – “Dead Wrong” (single and LP -“Will The Guns Come Out”) (Innovative Leisure)
Nettle – “Khalid’s Song” (LP – “El Resplandor: The Shining In Dubai”) (Sub Rosa)
Anna Calvi – “Suzanne & I” (LP – “Anna Calvi”) (Domino)

Eclectic Mainline 7th September 2011

If you missed any of tonight’s show, but would like to catch up, you can use the BCB listen again feature.

Here’s the video to one of tonight’s tunes, by The War On Drugs:

Like a muppet, I completely forgot to play something from PJ Harvey‘s Mercury Prize winning album Let England Shake.  I’ve not heard all the other shortlisted albums, so I can’t comment on its relative merits, but in its own right, it is an astonishingly good album, as I have said several times since it came out.

Anyway, this is what I did play:

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Eclectic Mainline – 18th May 2011

Here’s the exquisitely sad video to the brilliant Low tune I played tonight, taken from their marvellous new album, C’mon.

Before my list of tonight’s tunes, an adendum.  I seem to have neglected to mention in my playlist of 2 weeks ago that I played something by Mark McGuire.  Do I go back and edit said playlist or mention it today?  I’ll do the latter.  I played “Slipstreams” by him 2 weeks ago, and another tune from the same album tonight.  Here’s the *full* list of tonight’s tunes: Continue reading →

Eclectic Mainline 5th January 2010 – a pea new ear!

snow-pea-01

There’s nothing like a good pun.  And that was nothing like a good pun.  I couldn’t find a picture of an ear that didn’t make me feel a little ill, so I spared you that one as well as the pea.

This is what I played tonight, a mixture of new and old tunes, as this is traditionally a quiet time for new releases:

School Of Seven Bells – “I L U” (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Wanda Jackson – “Thunder On The Mountain” (LP – “The Party Ain’t Over”) (Third Man)
Mogwai – “Mexican Grand Prix” (single) (Rock Action)
The Decemberists – “Down By The Water” (single) (Rough Trade)
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – “Heart In Your Heartbreak” (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
Girls – “Heartbreaker” (single)
Deerhoof – “I Did Crimes For You” (LP – “Deerhoof vs Evil”) (ATP)
Vision Of Trees – “No Flag” (single)
Low – “Taking Down The Tree” (LP – “Christmas”) (Tugboat)
Gruff Rhys – “Shark Ridden Waters” (single) (Turnstile)
PVT – “Window” (single and LP – “Church With No Magic”) (Warp)
Jonny – “Candyfloss” (single) (Turnstile)
Allo, Darlin’ -  “My Heart Is A Drummer” (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
HEALTH – “USA Boys” (LP – “Disco 2) (City Slang)
The La’s – “Feelin'” (LP – “The La’s”) (Go! Discs)
The Go! Team – T.O.R.N.A.D.O. (single) (Memphis Industries)

Eclectic Mainline 29th December 2010

While all around me my associates have been looking back on, and listening back to, 2010, I haven’t really had time yet toformulate an opinion on the year in music.  So, instead I simply carried on playing recent and forthcoming releases tonight.  These are they that I played tonight:

Jonny – “Candyfloss” (single) (Turnstile)
Zola Zesus – “Poor Animal” (single)
Floating Points Ensemble – “Post Suite” (single) (Ninja Tune)
The Pipettes – “Santa’s On His Way” (free download) (Fortuna Pop!)
The Wave Pictures – “Now You Are Pregnant” (Moshi Moshi)
Deerhoof – “Behold A Marvel In The Darkness” (LP – “Deerhoof vs Evil”) (ATP)
Micah P Hinson – “Watchers, Tell Us Of The Night” (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – “Pause” (LP – “Almanac”) (Everyone Sang)
The Loves – “December Boy” (free download) (Fortuna Pop!)
Big Star – “September Gurls” (LP – “Radio City”) (UMC)
Neon Indian – “Terminally Chill” (single)
The Death Set – “Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap” (single) (Counter)
The Besnard Lakes – “And This Is What We Call Progress” (LP – “The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night”) (Jagjagwar)
Becoming Real – “Like Me” feat. Trim (single)

Eclectic Mainline 22nd December 2010

Well, having said last week I wouldn’t play (m)any festive tunes this year, I’ve crumbled.  This is partly thanks to Sally, who made a festive playlist on Spotify, that reminded me how good (some) festive tunes are.  So tonight, in between a few grand new releases, were dotted a few festive tunes as well:

Koudlam – “See You All” (single) (Luv Luv Luv)
Ensemble – “Things I Forget” (LP – “Excerpts”) (Fat Cat)
Slow Club – “Silent Night” (“Christmas, Thanks For Nothing” EP) (Moshi Moshi)
The Jolly Boys featuring Albert Minott – “Ring Of Fire” (LP – “Great Expectations”)
The Death Set – “Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Slap” (single) (Counter)
MY Latest Novel – “Outside It’s Christmas” (“Merry Christmas From Bella Union” EP) (Bella Union)
The Besnard Lakes – “Albatross” (LP – “The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night”) (Jagjagwar)
Villagers – “Becoming A Jackall” (single) (Domino)
Deerhoof – “Super Duper Rescue Heads!” (LP – “Deerhoof vs Evil”) (ATP)
Low “If You Were Born Today” (LP – “Christmas”) (Tugboat)
Ike & Tina Turner – “I Can’t Stop Loving You (live)” (LP – “Ike & Tina Turner Sing Great Rock & Pop Classics”) (SPV Yellow)
Mogwai – “Christmas Song” (“Mogwai EP” – CHEM036) (Chemical Underground)
Frightened Rabbit – “It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop” (single) (Fat Cat)
Floating Points Ensemble – “Almost In Profile” (single) (Ninja Tune)

Eclectic Mainline 15th December 2010

After all these years of thinking Blue Monday included the line “Icon and shallow bay” I finally realised tonight, when listening to The Jolly Boys‘ version, what the actual line is – “I can and shall obey“!

Also on the topic of cover versions, I also think it’s worth including here Robert Wyatt‘s words in describing his cover of What A Wonderful World:
“Our ‘Wonderful World’ is not sarcastic, ironic or even just sentimental.  It’s Social Realism: not the WHOLE truth, but nevertheless The Truth.”

Usually by mid-December I would have stuck in the odd festive tune, and would be reviewing the past 12 months.  But this year, well, I’m just getting on with the business of playing new releases, such as these from tonight:

15th December 2010
Twin Sister – “All Around And Away We Go” (single) (Double Six)
The Heavy – “That Kind Of Man 1.1.” (“How You Like Me Now? EP”) (Counter)
Ensemble – “Imprints” (LP – “Excerpts”) (Fat Cat)
Tu Fawning – “I Know You Now” (single) (City Slang)
Gruff Rhys – “Shark Ridden Waters” (single) (Turnstile)
Ike & Tina Turner – “Get Back” (LP – “Ike & Tina Turner Sing Great Rock & Pop Classics”) (SPV Yellow)
Lol – “Squeeze Me” (single) (Nonplus+)
Frank Turner – “I Still Believe” (“Rock & Roll” EP) (Extra Mile)
Igor Boxx – “Fear Of A Red Planet” (LP – “Breslau”) (Ninja Tune)
Dirty Projectors – “As I Went Out One Morning” (single and LP – “No Intention + Bitte Orca (Expanded Edition)” (Domino)
Caitlin Rose – “Learning To Ride” (single and LP – “Own Side Now”) (Names)
Chief – “The Minute I Saw It” (single and LP – “Modern Rituals”) (Domino)
Dan Michaelson And The Coastguards – “All The Trying” (single)
The Jolly Boys featuring Albert Minott – “Blue Monday” (LP – “Great Expectations”)
Wyatt / Atzmon / Stephen – “What A Wonderful World” (single and LP – “……….For The Ghost Within”) (Domino)

Eclectic Mainline 1st and 8th December 2010

Due to being rather poorly last week, I didn’t get out in the snow.  I also, therefore, didn’t get to do my show live on Wednesday.  A pre-record that was in the bag just for such an occasion, was broadcast.  I listened from home, and rather enjoyed it actually, so I should stay in and listen to myself more often, rather than do my show…

Here’s what I listened to last Wednesday night:

Peter Broderick – “Games” (LP – “Home”) (Bella Union)
Battles – “Atlas” (LP – “Mirrored”) (Warp)
James Yorkston – “5 a.m.” (BCB session)
Teenage Fanclub – “It’s All In My Mind” (LP – “Manmade”) (Pema)
Slow Club – “When I Go” (BCB session)
The Knife – “Heartbeats (live)”
Camera Obscura – “French Navy” (LP – “My Maudlin Career”) (4AD)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “Irk The Purists” (LP – “Trouble Over Bridgewater”) (Probe Plus)
Frightened Rabbit – “Fast Blood” (BCB session)
The Low Lows – “Five Ways I Didn’t Die” (BCB session)
Brakes – “Consumer, Producer, A Chicken Or An Egg” (BCB session)
Boards Of Canada – “Roygbiv” (LP – “Music Has The Right To Children”) (Warp)
Neil McSweeney – “Remember To Smile” (BCB session)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Emily Jean Stock” (LP – “Some Loud Thunder”) (Wichita)
Micah P. Hinson – “Beneath The Rose” (BCB session)
Fleet Foxes – “Your Protector” (LP – “Fleet Foxes”) (Bella Union)
Nina Nastasia – “Stormy Weather” (BCB session)
The Broken Family Band – “Give And Take” (BCB session)
Trashcan Sinatras – “Weightlifting” (LP – “Weightlifting”) (Spin Art Records)

Now, back to (almost) full health, I was back in BCB to do my show tonight, and was therefore unable to listen.  Which is a shame, because I think I would have enjoyed what I played, had I been able to tune in.  If you did so, below is a list of what you will have heard.  Did you enjoy it?

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