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Eclectic Mainline 24th November 2010

My dad, Peter Household

My dad, Peter Household

For the second time in this show’s history I had the pleasure of my dad’s company tonight, as his day in Bradford during his trip from Ireland co-incided with the day of my show.  Apart from discussing the night’s music, we discussed his “6-penny worth of porridge” as featured in yesterdays copy of The Independent and also the proposed crewed one-way mission to Mars as recently discussed on my dad’s blog.

My dad’s favourite tune in tonight’s show was that by The Phoenix Foundation.

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Eclectic Mainline 10th November 2010

constellations

Constellations line-up

This Sunday, the rather splendid Constellations Festival is on in Leeds, and it really is quite a line-up! 

You may already have heard Katie and Jen talking about it in The Show, and I’m sure several other BCB presenters have been bigging it up too.

As you will see the line-up really is quite special.  Regular listeners to Eclectic Mainline will have heard all the artists mentioned to the left.

Last night in my show we featured Katie speaking to Local Natives about their appearance at the festival.

A server glitch prevented me from posting my playlist straigh after the show, but here it is now:

This is what I played in my show last night:

Panico – “Icon” (LP – “Kick”) (Chemikal Underground)
Blonde Redhead – “Not Getting There” (single and LP – “Penny Sparkle”) (4AD)
Peter Broderick – “Human Eyeballs on Toast” (LP – “How They Are”) (Bella Union)
Zé Da Lua – “Ulungu Wami” compilation LP – “Angola Soundtrack”) (Analog Afrika)
Vessels – “Meatman, Piano Tuner, Prostitute” (single) (Cuckundoo)
The National – “Conversation 16” (single and LP – “High Violet”) (4AD)
Appliance – “West Waves” (LP – “Re-conditioned”) (RROOP)
Sparrow and the Workshop – “Black To Red” (single) (Distiller)
Four Tet – “Angel Echoes” (LP – “There Is Love In You”) (Domino)
Local Natives interview with Katie Jennings
Local Natives – “Who Knows Who Cares (BretonLABS remix)” (single and LP – “Gorillan Manor”) (Infectious)
Liars – “Scissor” (LP – “Sisterworld”) (Mute)
Warpaint – “Undertow” (single and LP – “The Fool”) (Rough Trade)
Consumers – “Anti, Anti, Anti” (compilation LP – “Black Hole: Californian Punk 1977-80) (Domino)

Eclectic Mainline – 20th October 2010

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Two of my favourite albums of the autumn are Deerhunter‘s Halcyon Digest and Port Entropy by Shugo Tokumaru.  The former is already out, and the latter comes out in a couple of weeks.  Tunes from both were in tonight’s show.

Also, a rather lovely cover by The Shelleys of a song made famous by Shakin’ Stevens, in which guise it was the first 7″ I ever owned.

Here’s what I played tonight:

Manic Street Preachers – “The Future Has Been Here 4Ever” (LP – “Postcards From A Young Man”) (Sony)
Shit Robot – “Tuff Enuff?” (single) (DFA)
Our Broken Garden – “The Burial” (LP – “Golden Sea”) (Bella Union)
Susumu Yukota – “Sprouting Symphony” (LP – “Kaleidoscope”) (Lo)
Shugo Tokumaru – “Rum Hee” (LP – “Port Entropy”) (Souterrain Transmissions)
The Dils – “I Hate The Rich” (compilation LP – “Black Hole: Californian Punk 1977-80) (Domino)
This Is The Kit – “Moon” (LP – “Wriggle Out The Restless”) (Dreamboat)
Deerhunter – “Helicopter” (LP – “Halcyon Digest”) (4AD)
Paris Suit Yourself – “Craig Machinsky” (single) (Big Dada)
Brian Eno – “Emerald And Stone” (LP – “Small Craft On A Milk Sea”) (Warp)
Dirty Projectors – “As I Went Out One Morning” (LP – “No Intention + Bitte Orca (Expanded Edition)” (Domino)
Elliott Smith – “Miss Misery (early version)” (LP – “An Introduction To Elliott Smith”) (Domino)
Offshore – “Round & Round” (“Aneurysm EP”) (Big Dada)
Les Shelleys – “Green Door” (LP – “Les Shelleys”) (Fat Cat)
Hauschka – “Children” (LP – “Foreign Landscapes”) (130701)

Eclectic Mainline 13th October 2010

That’s no age for male bonding, John.

Thus would have begun my review of the excellet gig at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds last night, featuring No Age, Male Bonding and John Wiese.  As it is though, I don’t have time to go any further than that pun.  But let’s just say, it was rather good.

Here’s what I played tonight:

The Qemists – “Renegade (feat. Maxsta) (Cutline remix)” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Male Bonding – “Nothing Remains” (single) (Sub Pop)
Brian Eno – “2 Forms Of Anger” (LP – “Small Craft On A Milk Sea”) (Warp)
Shugo Tokumaru – “Tracking Elavator” (single) (Souterrain Transmissions)
Anna Calvi – “Moulinette” (single) (Domino)
Eskmo – “Become Matter Soon, For You” (LP – “Eskmo”) (Ninja Tune)
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern – “Dagenham Ford” (LP “Essex Arms”) (Fortuna Pop!)
The Creole Choir Of Cuba – “L’Atibonite Oh” (LP – “Tande-La”) (Real World)
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Feat. Kid A – “Cauliflower (Telepathe remix)” (single) (Sunday Best)
Wyatt / Atzmon / Stephen – “At Last I Am Free” (LP – “……….For The Ghost Within”) (Domino)
Elliott Smith – “Ballad Of Big Nothing” (LP – “An Introduction To Elliott Smith”) (Domino)
Laetitia Sadier – “Un Soir, Un Chien” (LP – “The Trip”) (Drag City)
Marnie Stern – “Cinqo De Mayo” (LP – “Marnie Stern”) (Souterrain Transmissions)
Squarepusher presents – Shobaleader One – “Cryptic Motion” (LP – “d’Demonstrator”) (Warp)
No Age – “Fever Dreaming” (LP – “Everything In Between”) (Sub Pop)
Clinic – “Radiostory” (LP – “Bubblegum”) (Domino)

Eclectic Mainline 6th October 2010

My show tonight was merely an apéritif for Laura Rawlings‘ BCB Sessions featuring Mountain Man, and as Laura said, my even the hairs of my chinny chin chin stood on end!

But as starters go, I think I managed to squeeze in a rather good selection of new tunes…

Agnes Obel – “Avenue” (LP – “Philharmonics”) (PIAS)
Charles Douglas – “Good Luck” (LP – “The Lives Of Charles Douglas”) (Broken Horse)
Rustie – “Hyperthrust” (“Sunburst EP”) (Warp)
Elliott Smith – “Between The Bars” (LP – “An Introduction To Elliott Smith”) (Domino)
Male Bonding – “Nothing Remains” (single) (Sub Pop)
No Age – “Chem Trails” (LP – “Everything In Between”) (Sub Pop)
The Creole Choir Of Cuba – “Peze Cafe” (LP – “Tande-La”) (Real World)
Laetitia Sadier – “One Million Year Trip” (LP – “The Trip”) (Drag City)
Gonja Sufi – “Love Of Reign (Bear In Heaven remix)” (LP – “A Caliph’s Tea Party”) (Warp)
The Twilight Sad – “The Room (Mogwai remix) (“The Wrong Car EP”) (Fat Cat)
Anna Calvi – “Jezebel” (single) (Domino)
Yann Tiersen – “Palestine” (LP – “Dust Lane”) (Mute)
Fops – “Scandinavian Preppy” (LP – “Yeth Yeth Yeth”) (Monotreme)
Dum Dum Girls – “It Only Takes One Night” (single) (Sub Pop)

Next week Laura has Gary Stewart in session by the way.  For more details of that and future sessions see the Facebook group, BCB Wednesday Night Club.

Eclectic Mainline 29th September 2010

Is this me or it a shuttlecock? Tricky one.

I can see the similarity

Phil Cope said I looked like a shuttlecock this evening.   This was due to pressure exerted upon my mop of hair by my cycle helmet. 

I’m having my hair cut tomorrow anway, so maybe next time Phil sees me he’ll just think I look like a shuttle?

Here’s what I played tonight; I managed to cram quite a number of tunes in tonight, as there was nothing particularly long:

Flying Lotus – “Kill Your Co-Workers” (“Pattern+Grid World EP”) (Warp)
Paul Weller – “Andromeda” (single) (V2)
No Age – “Katterpillar” (LP – “Everything In Between”) (Sub Pop)
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern – “Calling Out Your Name (featuring Emma-Lee Moss)” (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
PVT – “Light Up Bright Fires” (single and LP – “Church With No Magic”) (Warp)
Crystal Fighters – “I Love London” (LP – “Star Of Love”) (Warp)
The Yello Moon Band – “Barehed” (single) (Static Caravan)
Syriana – “A Ya Zain” (LP – “The Road To Damascus”) (Real World)
Magic Kids – “Superball” (single) (Matador)
Owen Pallett – “Scandal at the Parkade” (“A Swedish Love Story EP”) (Domino)
Sparrow and the Workshop – “Black To Red” (single) (Distiller)
Squarepusher presents – Shobaleader One – “Megazine” (LP – “d’Demonstrator”) (Warp)
The Duke & The King – “Have You Seen It?” (LP – “Long Live The Duke & The King”) (Loose)
Tricky – “Ghetto Stars” (LP – “Mixed Race”) (Domino)
Caitlin Rose – “Shanghai Cigarettes (ft. Rayland Baxter)” (single and LP – “Own Side Now”) (Names)
Mice Parade – “Kupanda” (LP – “What It Means To Be Left-Handed”) (Fat Cat)
The Hundred In The Hand – “Gold Blood” (LP – “The Hundred In The Hand”) (Warp)

Eclectic Mainline 22nd September 2010

Managed to pack quite a lot in this week.  If you missed last week’s show and blog, you can go back and listen to the podcast of my Grinderman interview if you so wish, right here.

But if you prefer to live for the present moment, here’s what I played tonight:

Two Fingers – “Fools” (LP – “Ninja Tune XX”) (Ninja Tune)
Maps & Atlases – “Solid Ground” (single) (Fat Cat)
Yann Tiersen – “Palestine” (LP – “Dust Lane”) (Mute)
Clinic – “I’m Aware” (single) (Domino)
Neon Indian – “Mind, Drips” (LP – “Psychic Chasm”) (Static Tongue)
Women – “Eyesore” (single and LP – “Public Strain”) (Jagjaguwar)
Hannah Peel – “Song For The Sea” (7″ single) (Static Caravan)
Musée Mécaniques – “Fits & Starts” (single and LP – “Hold This Ghost) (Souterrain Transmissions)
Gonjasufi – “Holidays (MRR Remix)” (Remix LP – “A Caliph’s Tea Party”) (Warp)
Chief – “Stealing” (LP – “Modern Rituals”) (Domino)
Mice Parade – “Fortune Of Folly” (LP – “What It Means To Be Left-Handed”) (Fat Cat)
Grinderman – “Micky Mouse and the Goodbye Man” (LP – “Grinderman 2”) (Mute)
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern – “Calling Out Your Name (featuring Emma-Lee Moss)” (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
PVT  – “Light Up Bright Fires” (single and LP – “Church With No Magic”) (Warp)
Karen Elson – “The Truth Is In The Dirt” (single) (XL)

Eclectic Mainline 15th September 2010 – Grinderman interview

This week sees the release of the second Grinderman album, smartly titled Grinderman 2.  To celebrate, in my show tonight I spoke to Jim Sclavunos from the band.  If you heard the show you will have heard Jim and I discussing the evolution of Grinderman since the first album, and also the video to the single Heathen Child, which you can see below.  If you then read the rest of this entry, you will be able to listen to a longer version of the interview, which is available as a podcast. 

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Eclectic Mainline 8th September 2010

It’s been quite a couple of days for me, recording first a Grinderman interview to be broadcast in Eclectic Mainline next week, and then recording a session with Mountain Man for The BCB Sessions.  Not sure when that one will be broadcast, but definitely a Wednesday in the next few weeks.  If you’re on Facebook, the BCB Wednesday Night Club is the place to find out what is happening on a Wednesday.  Back to the present, here’s what featured in my show tonight:

8th September
Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – “Big Tings Redone ft. Seanie T” (LP – Duppy Writer) (Big Dada)
Goodnight Lenin – “Crack In The Creak” (single) (Static Caravan)
Tricky – “Murder Weapon” (single) (Domino)
Dan Michaelson And The Coastguards – “Love Lends A Hand” (single) (Editions)
Rustie – “Hyperthrust” (“Sunburst EP”) (Warp)
The Charlatans – “Intimacy” (LP – “Who We Touch”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Eskmo – “Come Back” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Crystal Fighers – “Follow” (single) (Zirkulo)
Mint Julep – “Cherry Radio” (Explorers Club single) (Arctic Circle / Loaf)
Grinderman – “Heathen Child” (single) (Mute)
Syriana – “Al Mazzeh” (LP – “The Road To Damascus”) (Real World)
The Long Lost – “Woebegone (Flying Lotus’ Like Woe Mix)” (LP – “Ninja Tune XX”) (Ninja Tune)
Black Mountain – “The Hair Song” (single) (Jagjaguwar)
Agnes Obel – “Riverside” (single) (PIAS)
The Yellow Moon Band – “Barehed” (Static Caravan)