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Buffet presents “Cover Versions – sometimes they’re not shit”

Now then! If you tuned in to Buffet – we thank you. Or if you want to listen, the link is here.

We dedicated a whole show to cover versions – often they are crap, but ours range from the bonkers to the sublime. This is what we played:

1. MINOR THREAT – Steppin’ Stone (best known by The Monkees)
2. JOHNNY CASH – The Mercy Seat (originally by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
3. TRICKY – Black Steel (originally by Public Enemy)
4. COME – I Got The Blues (originally by The Rolling Stones)
5. CHUCK D & HENRY ROLLINS – Rise Above (originally by Black Flag)
6. DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY – California Uber Alles
7. CICCONE YOUTH – Addicted to Love (originally by Robert Palmer)
8. TONY OSBORNE ORCHESTRA – Hard Days Night (originally by The Beatles)
9. NEKO CASE – Alone and Forsaken (originally by Hank Williams)
10. SNUFF – I Think We’re Alone Now (a take on the Tiffany version)
11. PAUL ANKA – Smells Like Teen Spirit (originally by Nirvana)
12. AFGHAN WHIGS – My World Is Empty Without You (originally by The Supremes)
13. THE SHOP ASSISTANTS – Train From Kansas City (originally by The Shangri Las)
14. LEATHERFACE – Talkin’ Bout a Revolution (originally by Tracy Chapman)
15. FATIMA MANSIONS – Long About Now (originally by Scott Walker)
16. FRANK SIDEBOTTOM – Indie Medley: Love Will tear Us Apart/How I Wrote Elastic Man/Take The Skinheads Bowling/Big Mouth Strikes Again (originally by: Joy Division/The Fall/Camper Van Beethoven/The Smiths)

We’re back on Sunday 13th July 7-8pm. Thanks!!!


A Country Covers Show on Going North from Nashville, Monday 31st January 10-11pm

Janis Joplin gets us off to a rocking start with Bobby Mc Gee
followed by Mark Eitzel’s take on another Kristofferson song: Help Me Make it Through the Night
Sandy Denny covers Dylan’s Tomorrow is a Long Time
then Dylan covers The Boxer
Simon & Garfunkel’s version of Anji is followed by (spot the links?)
Davy Graham with Don’t Let Your Deal go Down
Phosphorescent covers Willie Nelson’s The Party’s Over
Ryan Adams does Always on My Mind ( also covered by Wille )
Joan Baez sings Ryan’s In My Time of Need
FLARE give us a weird version of Last Train to Clarksville ( better than the Monkeys!)
Rosie Thomas’s beautiful version of The One I Love (REM)
Micah P Hinson covers his hero, John Denver, with This Old Guitar
U2/ Johnny Cash: The Wanderer
Gregson Collister sing Jackson Browne’s  For a Dancer
and Patti Smith plays us out with her unique take on Gloria!

It’s quite a show………..!

Other people’s songs on Going North from Nashville, 27th September 10-11pm. An eveningof Alt Country covers!

Janis Joplin gets us off to a rocking start with Bobby Mc Gee

followed by Mark Eitzel’s take on another Kristofferson song: Help Me Make it Through the Night

Sandy Denny covers Dylan’s Tomorrow is a Long Time

then Dylan covers The Boxer

Simon & Garfunkel’s version of Anji is followed by (spot the links?)

Davy Graham with Don’t Let Your Deal go Down

Phosporescent covers Willie Nelson’s The Party’s Over

Ryan Adams does Always on My Mind ( also covered by Wille )

Joan Baez sings Ryan’s In My Time of Need

FLARE give us a weird version of Last Train to Clarksville ( better than the Monkeys!)

Rosie Thomas’s beautiful version of The One I Love (REM)

Micah P Hinson covers his hero, John Denver, with This Old Guitar

U2/ Johnny Cash: The Wanderer

Gregson Collister sing Jackson Browne’s  For a Dancer

and Patti Smith plays us out with her unique take on Gloria!

It’s quite a show………..!