The Blowin Weekly Extra – Rose

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 6th June 2010

More tunes than time…

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Battlo Rose

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Our Photos site at www.rob-walsh.net now has new pics, with older favourites revisited – all photos are organic home-grown produce, with zero manipulation or photo-shopping (ok, alright, I’ve cropped one…).


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It’s the 40th anniversary of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, and there now seems to be a beer of the same name..

www.milesdavis.com/us/news/dogfish-head-craft-brewery-unveils-its-bitches-brew

Also, a short film of Miles playing Bitches Brew live in 1969 – http://bit.ly/aGATIo


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Blowin – the African Special, and updated Photos

Hey up, now then


The Photos site has new pics, at www.rob-walsh.net plus older ones revisited – all our photos are organic home-grown produce, with zero manipulation or photo-shopping (oh, alright, I’ve cropped one…).


AND there’s a two hour Blowin wireless programme of rather wonderful african music at blowin.podomatic.com

I enjoyed recording it for BCB FM back in 2004 – hope you enjoy it too… playlist below – listen or download this and other Blowin broadcasts from the above site.

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When Big Joan Sets Up 10/6/10 – Double Time

Hello cheeky. Having given my all standing in for Laura on the BCB Sessions this week, I dragged my exhausted and broken body back in to the studio at midnight for this week’s programme. What do you mean “you could tell?”

Dead Farmers – “Down Low” (LP – “Go Home”) (RIP Society)
Marc Smith – “Where’s The Party At?” (EP – “We Are Hardcore”) (Notorious Vinyl)
Lazer Zeppelin – “Cigareets and Whursky and Wild,Wild Women” (LP – “American Derivitives”) (People In A Position To Know)
Bobby Freemen – “(I Do The) Shimmy Shimmy” (Bri’s Revived 45) (Parlophone)
Scorn – “Insert Waggler” (LP – “Refuse; Start Fires”) (Ohm Resistance)
The Cute Lepers – “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl” (7″) (Damaged Goods)
Nic Sarno – “Mana Wasa” (v/a LP – “The Hard Ass Sessions Voume 2) (Enchufada)
Roy Shirley – “Dance Arena” (v/a LP -“Rocksteady Hits The Town”) (Kingston Sounds)
Camera Obscura – “The Nights Are Cold” (7″) (4AD)
Lee “Scratch” Perry – “Dub The Rhythm” (LP- “Mad Alien Dub”) (Great American Music)
Blighters – “Heartbeat” (7″) (Hungry Audio)
Go-Zen – “Go-Zen Grinder” (LP – Hinamatsiri) (Self Released)
P.U.D.G.E – “Elektric Werdz” (LP – “Idiot Box”) (Ramp)
The Keys – “Fire Inside” (LP – “Fire Inside”) (See Monkey Do Monkey)
Pansonic – “Voltus Bolt” (LP – “Gravitoni”) (Blast First Petite)
Fatts and G Maffia – “State of Emergency” (7″) (Studio 91/Gully Squad)
The Sexcapades – “Do The Huckebuck” (v/a LP – “Party Platter”) (Florida’s Dying)
Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers – “The Hucklebuck” (v/a LP- “Blowing The Fuse – 27 R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox In 1949”) (Bear Family)
Rolo Tomassi – “Agamemnon” (LP- “Cosmology”) (Hassle)

The BCB Sessions – 9th June 2010

Laura was off this week sipping sparkling elderflower cordial in the swanky nitespots of that London, which meant I got to rummage around in the BCB Sessions archive and play some of my favourite sessions plus some top tunes, and it went like this.

The Bluetones – Carry Me Home
Lazer Zeppelin – Friday Night
The Lodger – I Can’t Stop (BCB Session)
Flying Lotus – Galaxy In Janaki
Alisdair Roberts and Jackie Oakes – The Bloody Fields of Flanders/The Red Haired Boy
The Peppermint Lounge – African Orange (BCB Session)
The Fall – Hot Cake
David Moleon and Tadox – Final Days
Ritchie Spice – Yap Yap
Gun Outfit – My Whole Life
Slow Club – When I Go (BCB Session)
Rox – My Baby Left Me
The Smiths – Hand In Glove
Best Coast – Far Away
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Revolution Dub
Freyed Knot – Wild West Yorkshire (BCB Session)
Blighters – Don’t Want Nothing
Yimino – Q-Bit (BCB Session)

Eclectic Mainline – 9th June 2010

And so it came to pass that it was Hannah Peel who first discovered that a good pop song will also sound good when sung accompanied by a music box.  Her Re-Box EP of covers of Cocteau Twins, New Order, OMD and Gloria Jones (or more likely Soft Cell given the era of her other choices) is well worth getting hold of.  Here’s a full list of what I played tonight:

The Bluetones – “Firefly” (LP – “A New Athens”) (CIA)
Surfer Blood – “Twin Peaks” (LP – “Astro Coast”) (Kanine)
The Acorn – “Crossed Wires” (LP – “No Ghost”) (Bella Union)
Micah P. Hinson – “2’s and 3’s” (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Seahawks – “Fantasy” (free CD with 7″ single – “Astral Winds”/”High Tides”) (Static Caravan)
Roland S. Howard – “(I Know) A Girl Called Jonny” (LP – “Pop Crimes”) (Infectious)
Nina Nastasia – “A Kind Of Courage” (LP – “Outlaster”) (Fat Cat)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Fright Night (Nevermore)” (LP – “Before Today”) (4AD)
2020 Soundsystem – “Dark Matters” (free download from Bleep.com)
Dan Sartain – “Bohemian Grove” (LP – “Dan Sartain Lives”) (One Little Indian)
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – “The Wave” (EP – “Iris”) (Leaf Label)
Bonobo – “Stay The Same” ft. Andreya Triana (single and LP – “Black Sands”) (Ninja Tune)
Faust – “Hit Me” (LP – “Faust Is Last”) (Klangbad)
Hannah Peel – “Blue Monday” (EP – “Re-Box”) (Static Caravan)

The Blowin Weekly Extra – Bowls?

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 6th June 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, www.bcbradio.co.uk everywhere else…

 

Water falling on stone

Water falling on stone

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  King Midas Sound – The Bug / Roger Robinson / Hitomi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mRasMttLfw&feature=player_embedded
www.myspace.com/kingmidassound
thanks to On The Wire – http://otwradio.blogspot.com

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The Show – 5th June (and then Tuesday 8th) – Violets, Shapes, and some Punky Reggae…

Greetings from the show!

This week in fun show-land, Norwich 2-piece Violet Violet were the extra-special co-hosts ahead of their support slot with The Slits (words like legendry etc fit in here) at the Brudenell Social Club on the 3rd. There was much fun and giggling and Cheri&Fliss played 2 acoustic songs – both from their new EP entitled ‘Ebony and Ivory’ which will be out in July on NRone Records. You can view their ace (but slightly disturbing) video for their last single here –

The two acoustic tracks will be up on this here blog in the next few days…

The Show goes out at 6pm on Saturdays and is then repeated for further audio fun at 1pm on Tuesdays. Next week on The Show – The Return of Jen Fox, our continuing feature – ‘The Next Song We Play Will Be One We Found on a Table in BCB’, and a preview of Bradford Zine Fair.

Fun times 🙂 xx

When Big Joan Sets Up 3/6/10 – Some Records

After weeks of specials, guests, featured LP’s and other exciting showbiz frippery, this week we returned to the business of playing some tunes and damn fine they were an’all.

Starting with an oldie, one of the great records and also including the Lazer Zeppelin LP , a record, which when my inevitable mental collapse happens and I am apprehended by members of the constabulary on the central reservation of the M62, naked, saucer eyed, and howling like a dog , I will be clutching close to my chest.

Billy Butler – “Right Track” (v/a LP – “It’s Okeh Up North”) (Sony)
Broken Note – “Channel Zero” (12″) (Prspct)
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – “I Hate The Blues” (LP – “Blood and Fire”) (Black)
Howlin’ Wolf – “House Rock Boogie” (LP-“The Chronological Howlin’ Wolf 1951-52”) (Classics)
The Chap – “Never A Frown With Gordon Brown” (download)
Lee “Scratch” Perry – “Kojak” (LP- “Mad Alien Dub”) (Great American Music)
Lazer Zeppelin – “This Heart Is Just A Muscle in My Chest” (LP- “American Derivitives”) (People In A Position To Know)
The Lodger – “Nothing’s Impossible” (LP- “Flashbacks”) (Slumberland)
Sven Hanke and 1125X – “Gepflegt 745” (EP – “Strichcode”) (Pure Pure)
Kath Bloom – “Let’s Get Living” (LP- “Thin, Thin Line) (Caldo Verde)
Cock Safari – “We Don’t All Sniff Petrol” (CDR) (Magic Crowbar)
Math and Physics Club – “Jimmy Had a Polaroid” (7″) (Matinee)
God Is An Astronaut – “In The Distance, Fading” (LP- “Age of the Fifth Sun”) (Revive)
Shuttleworth – “England’s Hearbeat” (download single) (Minder/Yip Yop)
The Real Sounds of Africa – “Soccer Fan” (12″) (Cherry Red)

Eclectic Mainline – 2nd June 2010

The Love Apple, Bradford.  RIP

The Love Apple, Bradford. RIP

Admittedly the closure of The Love Apple in Bradford isn’t the saddest news I’ve been greated with in the past couple of days. I wish it was, however, and that the shootings in Cumbria hadn’t happened.  However, I’m totally shocked and gutted that The Love Apple had to close, and this is a sad result of what has happened to Bradford in the past few years.  About 5 years ago the place (both Bradford and The Love Apple) was buzzing (quite literally after The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit‘s loud gig there!)  and there was a real vibe around the place.  Now…well, how things have changed.  The Bradford Playhouse is showing promising signs, but if a nice independent bar like The Love Apple can’t make ends meet, well, we’ve got problems.  Other highlights that I’ve seen there include Jeffrey Lewis (at which I was very proud to be part of the support with Wilful Missing), Dufus and The Wave Pictures (a great, yet poorly attended gig, again at which Wilful Missing were lucky enough to be asked to support).  I was also at the Jeremy Warmsley gig at which one Laura Groves made her first appearance, many a moon before blossoming into Blue Roses.  So, thanks must go to Pav and co for giving us The Love Apple, and I wish him and his staff the best of luck for whatever they do next.

Here’s what I played in my show tonight:

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