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Radio Buffet – feat. Dr Jenny Jet’s Rock Surgery! July 2010

You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d happened upon a twisted radio version of ‘Loose Women’ if you tuned into Radio Buffet this month. What with there being another female in the studio (International DJ Jenny Jet) and all the chit chat about Peter Andre’s underwear. Actually, we didn’t talk about Peter Andre’s smalls, why would we ever do that, we talked about ROCK! We’re nowt like that TV programme, but we wouldn’t say no if BCB wanted to provide us with special mugs, that would be nice. Anyroad, aside from talking about music and championing Mo Tucker as an example of someone who can’t really play but really rocks, we played some excellent music…

Theme from The Sweeney
Lady Sovereign – Public Warning
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
The Amps – Tipp City
Young Knives – She’s Attracted To
Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs
Barry White – I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More, Baby
Quack Quack – Jack of None
Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
Blonde Redhead – Here Sometimes
Roxy Music – Do the Strand
Dead Weather – Blue Blood Blues
Ella Fitzgerald – Mack the Knife

Hope you enjoyed it!

Glastonbury 2010…..

tUnE-yArDs, the brainchild of the clearly unhinged but super-talented Merrill Garbus, opened my Glastonbury 2010 (Rolf Harris doing ‘Stairway To Heaven’ doesn’t count) on the West Holt Stage early on Friday afternoon, with a set of songs from debut album ‘Bird-Brains’. In contrast to the lo-fi sound of the album, recorded solely by Garbus using a sound recorder, a full band complete with 3 drummers, including Garbus herself, meant that the tribal energy of the songs broke through. Driven by a kind of afro-beat rhythm that builds and builds on top of Garbus’ distinctive chanting and yodelling, this all came together to form a sound that’s brilliantly smart and stupidly brilliant, exemplified in ‘Sunlight’.

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