16 MayEclectic Mainline 16th May 2012

I’m really rather excited by the imminence of a new album by Liars.  They’re amazing live, so you should go and see them if you get chance this year.  Here’s the new single, as played in tonight’s show:

 

If you’re in Leeds tomorrow night, you should get yourself along to Gary Stewart’s new EP launch at the Brudenel Social Club.  Here’s ‘Blue’ the song I played tonight:

Blue Master-MP3 by garystewart

If you’re keen enough to listen again, or even for the first time, to tonight’s show, you will magically find an opportunity to do so here.  And I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but this is what you would hear:

The Magnetic Fields – “Andrew In Drag” (LP – “Love At The Bottom Of The Sea”) (Domino)
FilFla – “Iso-Circle” (CD – “Fliptap”) (Someone Good)
Liars – “No.1 Against The Rush” (single and LP – “WIXIW”) (Mute)
Gary Stewart – “Blue” (“Year and a Day EP”) (self released)
Volcano – “Long Gone” (LP – “Piñata”) (Leaf)
Don Preston – “Analog Heaven #7″ (LP – “Filters, Oscillators & Envelopes 1967-82″) (Sub Rosa)
Flats – “Shuffle” (LP – “Better Living”) (Sweat Shop)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “Holland, 1945″ (LP – “In An Aeroplane Over The Sea”) (Domino)
Amon Tobin – “Angels & Demons” (Amon Tobin box set) (Ninja Tune)
White Rabbits – “Temporary” (single and LP – “Milk Famous”) (Mute)
FilFla – “Wst-Est” (CD – “Fliptap”) (Someone Good)
Breton – “Jostle” (double A-side single with “Foam”) (Fat Cat)
Senking – “The Dance Hall Walk” (12″ – “Dazed”) (Raster Noton)
King Creosote – “Doubles Underneath” (EP – “I Learned From The Gaels”) (Domino)

15 MayYo El Rey in the studio

Bradford band Yo El Rey are int he studio this week chatting about their forthcoming album.

You can hear the interview plus a couple of their tracks on Bradford Beat on Thursday May 17 from 8pm – 9pm.

If you missed last week’s session with Sentimentalists, you can listen again here

The full track listing for that show was:

Whiter Than – Golden Smile
Whipping Boy – No One Takes Prisoners Any More
Sentimentalists – My Mad Mind (live in session)
Sentimentalists – Tobacco (live in session)
Sentimentalists – I’m Lonely For Every Woman I’ve Ever Known (live in session)
The Wind Up Birds – Cross Country
Paul Weller – That Dangerous Age
Talulah Gosh – Steaming Train
Ting Tings – Guggenheim

09 MayEclectic Mainline playlist 9th May 2012

The album by Flats has been something of a revelation to me.  A revelation partly because I thought the band were new to me, but it turns out they are not.  Phil Cope tells me I played a single of theirs last year, and it turns out he is right.  I played a Flats single  in April 2011, as did Phil, a month earlier.  But mainly the Flats album is a revelation because it’s bloody brilliant.  You can hear Moonwalk, the tune I played tonight, on Soundcloud. (embedding seems to have been disabled – dear One Little Indian, please enable embedding on this wonderful tune)

A tune that Domino have enabled embedding for is this wonderful song from the new album by The Magnetic Fields:

The Magnetic Fields – Quick! by DominoRecordCo

Another tune I can include here for you is that by From The Mouth Of The Sun.  I’ve said this a few times over the past year or so, but I’ll say it again.   If I could change my own style of music to any other style, this is what I’d like to sound like:

If you want to listen again to the show, you’ll find it over here.  And here’s a list of all the tunes I played:

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04 MayNew & Nearly New on Going North from Nashville Monday 7th May 10-11pm!

An eclectic selecton of excellent music, starting with the last album from………….

The Eagles : How Long - from A Long Road Out of Eden (2007)……….next, two artists bringing us new music for 2012……

Simone Felice: You & I Belong – from his recent eponymous album, a very pleasant listen , &………

The War on Drugs: Best Night- from Slave Ambient………….then Bradford’s own…….

Wilful Missing: The Waltz – from the most excellent Molehills out of Mountains………….followed by a couple of veterans ……

Leonard Cohen : Banjo – from Old Ideas, Cohen’s latest amazing studio album….then…..

Tom Waits: Bad As Me – title track from anothergreat album

First Aid Kit: Emmilou – from the Lion’s Roar………..their first play on GNfN, followed by two tracks from 2011…..

Frank Turner: Wessex Boy – from England Keep My Bones

Kill it Kid: Wild & Wasted Waters – from Feet Fall Heavy………..then another first timer for GNfN……

Anais Mitchel: Dying Day – from her 2012 album Young Man in America………….

Carolina Chocolate Drops: Political World – their treatment of the Dylan classic, one of many interesting takes on Dylan from Chimes of Freedom compliation - proceeds to Amnesty International, marking 50 yearsof their work (& Bob’s recording career!)

Katie Malco & the Slow Parade: Johnny – from Katie’s eponymous debut ep – look out for her if she comes to Yorkshire!……..finally a couple of GNfN favourites……..

Gillian Welch: Silver Dagger – from the wonderful The Harvest & the Harrow……&……

Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues – tiltle track from this excellent 2nd album

04 MaySentimentalists in session

Don’t miss next week’s Bradford Beat when we have the West Yorkshire band Sentimentalists live in session.

They’ll be playing live on Thursday May 10 from 8pm – 9pm and chatting about their forthcoming gig at the Kirkgate Centre in Shipley on May 12.

The full playlist for May 3 is:

Three Johns – Pink Headed Bug
Ting Tings – Silence
Cud – Sticks and Stones
Felice Brothers – Ponzi
Real Estate – Green Aisles
Whiter Than – Scarlet and Silver
Django Django – Storm
Sentimentalists – I’m Lonely For Every Woman I’ve Ever Known
The Chevin – Drive
Duckworth Lewis Method – The Age of Revolution
Wind Up Birds – Past Houses
Three Johns – Death Of The European

02 MayEclectic Mainline 2nd May 2012

There were several tunes in tonight’s show that I thought were quite wonderful.  One of them was this gorgeous tune by From The Mouth of the Sun:

Mention must also go to the Muddy Waters Blues Band release, Mud In Your Ear.  Luther “Snake Boy” Johnson led the band on this one, when recorded in 1967.  There were apparently contractual reasons why Muddy Waters himself could not lead the band.  It stands up well and is recognisably Muddy in character.

If you wish to listen again to tonight’s whole show, you’ll find it on the BCB Listen Again service for 2nd May 2012. Here’s a full list of the tunes I played:

Malorix – “Stretch Out Your Frown (Zea remix)” (12″ – “Malorix Remixed and Recycled”) (Makkum)
AM & Shawn Lee – “Dark Into Light” (single and LP – “Celestial Electric”) (Eighteenth Street Lounge)
Cate Le Bon – “Through The Mill” (LP – “CYRK”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
Das Politics – “Sourcloud” (LP – “Blitz Glazer”) (Sub Rosa)
Milagres – “Halfway” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Philippe Petit & Friends – “Eunoïa” (LP – “Cordophony”) (Home Normal)
Blockhead – “Never Forget Your Token” (LP – “Interlude After Midnight”) (Ninja Tune)
Muddy Waters Blues Band – “Evil” (CD – “Mud In Your Ear”) (Douglas Records / Wienerworld)
Füxa – “Some Things Last A Long Time” (LP – “Electric Sound Of Summer”) (Rocket Girl)
Husky – “History’s Door” (single and LP – “Forever So”) (Sub Pop)
Pieter Nooten – “Drone” (LP – “Surround Us”) (Rocket Girl)
Spoek Mathambo – “Kites” (single and LP – “Father Creeper”) (Sub Pop)
From The Mouth Of The Sun – “Sitting In A Roofless Room” (LP – “Woven Tide”) (Experimedia)

27 AprSpring into action

The weather may be barely spring-like let along summery but there’s some spanking music around to warm us all up.

And plenty of it is from this neck of woods.

Brand new tracks by The Chevin, The Wind Up Birds and Whiter Than are among the highlights of this week’s edition of Bradford Beat.

Here’s the full tracklisting:

Paul Weller – That Dangerous Age
The Wind Up Birds – Neutral Countries
Ting Tings – Hit Me Down Sonny
Sentimentalists – My Mad Mind
The Heartbreaks – Delay, Delay
I Like Trains – Mnemosyne
Whipping Boy – No One Takes Prisoners Any More
Whiter Than – Note to Self
The Mekons – Space in Your Face
Kaiser Chiefs – Starts With Nothing
Ellen and the Escapades – Coming Back Home (BCB session)
Field Music – Effortlessly
The Chevin – Drive

 

25 AprEclectic Mainline 25th April 2012

After last week’s Record Store Day preview show, it was back to business as usual tonight.  I think my personal favourite in tonight’s show was this one by Clark:

This coming Saturday afternoon there is going to be a rather excellent-looking, family-friendly, disco in Saltaire hosted by DJ Wil Oddsox, called Love To Boogie. Get yourself down if you can.

If you wish to catch up with tonight’s show, you will be able to use this page of the BCB Listen Again service.  Here is a list of the tunes I played:

Tesfay Taye – “Selame” (12″ – “Ililta”) (Terp)
Yann Tiersen – “The Trial” (single and LP – “Skyline”) (Mute)
THEESatisfaction – “Earthseed” (LP – “awE naturalE” (Sub Pop)
Sven Kacirek – “Cars & Nightingales” (LP – “Scarlet Pitch Dreams”) (Pingipung)
Ellen And The Escapades – “This Ace I’ve Burned” (LP – “All The Crooked Scenes”) (self-released)
Clark – “The Pining Pt2″ (LP – “Iradelphic”) (Warp)
Oren Ambarchi – “Passage” (CD – “Audience Of One”) (Touch)
Spoek Mathambo – “We Can Work” (LP – “Father Creeper”) (Sub Pop)
Simone Felice – “Splendour In The Grass” (LP – “Simone Felice”) (Reveal)
Amadou & Mariam – “Chérie” (LP – “Folila”) (Because)
Fuxa – “Our Lips Are Sealed” (single) (Rocket Girl)
Paul Weller – “The Attic” (LP – “Sonik Kicks”) (Island)
Marcus Fischer – “Wires On Carpet” (LP – “Collected Dust”) (Tench)

21 AprBuffet #35

So, the cowbell highlight for this month is Tony Osborne’s highly percussive Latin version of Eleanor Rigby (Emma is pictured holding the album – it’s bloody good!).

You can listen or listen again here (and the skip the first five minutes – it’s sport, BORING!): http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?id=6335

 

And here’s what we played:

 

  1. Library music from a found CD  – “Mystery, horror…”
  2. YEAH YEAH YEAHS – Date With the Night
  3. MOON DOG – Remember
  4. MAGIC WANDS – Burning Up
  5. BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS – Lucretia MacEvil
  6. OFF! – King Kong Brigade
  7. DANIEL ROSSEN – Silent Song
  8. TONY OSBORNE AND HIS ORCHESTRA – Eleanor Rigby
  9. THE SCARAMANGA SIX – The Last Roll of the Dice
  10. TYCHO – Dive
  11. CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE – Graceland
  12. LOWER DENS – Brains
  13. PLAN B – Ill Manors
  14. THE HEADSTART – Feels Like Home
  15. SLY & THE FAMILY STONE – It’s a Family Affair
  16. THE MONKEES – You Told Me

 

Join us again on Saturday 19th May!

 

Big love,

 

Team Buffet

 

xxx

 

18 AprEclectic Mainline 18th April 2012 – Record Store Day special

Tonight’s was a special show dedicated to releases that are coming on on Saturday 21st April, the annual Record Store Day event.  The official UK Record Store Day 2012 website has a full list of releases coming out on the day.

Record Store Day 2012

 

During the show I spoke to Adam of Jumbo Records in Leeds.  Jumbo have arranged a really special line-up of in-store performances for Record Store Day.   If you do make it into Leeds, I would advise you also visit Crash Records who are, of course, also stocking a wide range of special releases for Record Store Day.

I must confess I got something wrong in the show tonight.  I said that the Wickerman 7″ is on BBC Records.  It is, in fact, nothing to do with the BBC, but is released on Silva Screen.

If you missed the show you can hear it on the BCB Listen Again service, here.  Apologies for the low bit-rate and low volume.

Here is a full list of the Record Store Day releases that I played tonight:

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