Category Archives: When Big Joan Sets Up

Matters relating to Phil Cope’s show, When Big Joan Sets Up, at midnight as Wednesday morphs into Thursday (UK time)

When Big Joan Sets Up 12th December – Spring Forward – The Fall are Back!

This week, three tracks from the gods that men call The Fall and their new EP “The Remainderer” More tracks were planned but more important things took precedence…

Tabu Ley Rochereau and M’Bilia Bel feat. L’Orchestra Afrisa – “Sisi Mandela” (LP – “Nelson Mandela”) (TCK)
Pinch and Sherwood – “Music Killer” (12″) (On-U-Sound)
Kabaka Pyramid – “No Cliché” (LP – “Lead The Way”) (Bebble Rock)
Josephine Foster – “This Is Where The Dreams Head,Maude” (LP – “I’m A Dreamer”) (Fire)
AGF – “The Generations 1” (LP -“Kuuntele”) (AGF Productions)
Throat – “New Pest” (LP – “Manhole”) (Kaos Kontrol/At War With False Noise/Made In Kansas/Rejuvination Records)
Alphatec 5 and Corevax – “Music Please” (Download EP – “Stupid Commando”) (Smiley Tunes Digital)
The Fall – “Amorator!” (EP – “The Remainderer”) (Cherry Red)
The Fall – “Mister Rode” (EP – “The Remainderer”) (Cherry Red)
The Fall – “Remembrance R” (EP – “The Remainderer”) (Cherry Red)
Lord Buckley – “Subconcious Mind” (LP – “Buckley’s Best Live”) (Liberty)
Visionist – “Secrets” (12″) (RAMP Recordings)
Macka B – “Proud of Mandela” (LP – “Natural Suntan”) (Ariwa)

When Big Joan Sets Up 5th December – Camber Angle

Songs and stories from the final (for now) ATP Festival at Camber Sands plus three from the excellent Sleaford Mods LP “Austerity Dogs” and the greatest record The Fall never made.

Althea and Donna – “Loco Negril” (V/A LP – “Roaring Lion – 16 Untamed Black Ark Masters and Dubplates”) (Pressure Sounds)
Thoughtforms – “Only Hollow” (LP – “Ghost Mountain”) (Invada)
James The Fang and Serious Sam Barrett – “Birmingham Jail” (LP – “North Country Steed”) (YaDig)
Sleaford Mods – “McFlurry” (LP – “Austerity Dogs”) (Self Released)
Dom and Roland – “Unofficial Jah” (12″) (Metalheadz)
Eaux – “Hold On” (EP “i”) (Morning Ritual)
The Container Drivers – “The Ex-Members Of The Fall Club” (V/A LP – “Perverted By Mark E”) (ZickZack)
Esper Scout – “Wallet Of Brass Crowns” (EP – “Poet Curses”) (Self Released)
Sleaford Mods – “Shitstreet” (LP – “Austerity Dogs”) (Self Released)
Junior Murvin – “I Was Appointed” (LP – “Police and Thieves”) (Island)
Dawn Hunger – “Billowed Wind” (12″) (Mourning Joy)
Mary Schneider – “Post Horn Gallop Yodel” (LP – “Yodelling The Classics Volume 2”) (Koch)
Sleaford Mods – “Don’t Wanna Disco Or 2” (LP – “Austerity Dogs”) (Self Released)
J:Kenzo – “TVR” (12″) (Tempa)

When Big Joan Sets Up 28th November – Magik,Our Maurice

And with that nod to devotees of ancient YTV sitcoms, we launch once again into another hour of purifying racket featuring three from “Surrender To The Fantasy” the new LP by Magik Markers. Next week, Thora Hird says “Billy!,That’s my best jelly mould!” to Christopher Beeny as your humble DJ once again fails to get out more.

The FLK – “Red Herring” (Download EP – “The Folk Law”) (Self Released)
Mary Schneider – “Yodel and Waltz” (LP – “Yodelling The Classics”) (Koch)
The KVB – “Kill The Lights” (LP – “Minus One”) (A)
Mark Pritchard – “Make A Livin'” (EP – “Make A Livin’) (Warp)
20th Century Steel Band – “Heaven and Hell is on Earth” (LP – “Warm Heart, Cold Steel”) (Island)
Pyorrhea – “Sodomy” (LP – “I Am The War”) (Self Released)
Warrior King – “Redemption Come” (V/A LP – “Colonial War Riddim”) (Rastar)
Gardland – “Nothing But Not Zero” (LP – “Syndrome Syndrome”) (Rvng Intl)
Magik Markers – “Crebs” (LP – “Surrender To The Fantasy”) (Drag City)
Magik Markers – “Bonfire” (LP – “Surrender To The Fantasy”) (Drag City)
Magik Markers – “American Sphinx Face” (LP – “Surrender To The Fantasy”) (Drag City)
Mandy Rice-Davies – “Close Your Eyes” (V/A LP – “It’s A Scandal! – Songs For Soho Blondes”) (Fantastic Voyage)
Macka B – “Black Security” (7″) (Ariwa Japan)
Apocalypse Meow – “Bats!,Bats!,Bats!,Bats!” (Download LP – “Rad Girlfriend Records Compilation II”) (Rad Girlfriend)
Hitori Tori – “Kappatan” (EP – “Stop Self Checking”) (Peace Off)
Scott Brown – “Stylin’ (12”) (Evolution)

When Big Joan Sets Up 21st November – Ted Who?

A double header of featured LP’s on this week’s programme. Three from Luciano‘s new one and just over a third of our running time gratefully given up for a 23 and a half minute cascade of six stringed aceness from Cian Nugent and the Cosmos. But starting us off this week the undoubted single of this (or any other) year…

Girl One and The Grease Guns – “(Here Come The) Catastrophe Machines” (7″) (Squirrel)
The Reveliers – “Patch” (V/A LP – “Long Lost Honkers and Twangers”) (Ace)
Laurel Halo – “Thrax” (LP – “Chance of Rain”) (Hyperdub)
Mary Schneider – “Yodelling Overtures” (LP – “Yodelling The Classics”) (Koch)
Luciano – “Don’t Sell Out” (LP – “The Qabalah Man”) (AL.TA.FA.AN)
Luciano – “Weapons Of War” (LP – “The Qabalah Man”) (AL.TA.FA.AN)
Luciano feat U-Roy and Ziggi Ricardo – “Organize” (LP – “The Qabalah Man”) (AL.TA.FA.AN)
Cian Nugent and The Cosmos – “Houses of Parliament” (LP “Born with the Caul”) (No Quarter)
Ital Tek – “Jupiter Ascent” (EP – “Control”) (Planet Mu)

When Big Joan Sets Up 14th Nov. – Have You Met Lydia?

This week’s selection of boss tunage featured the new EP from the majestic Lydia Loveless.

Gunslingers – “Massacre Rock Deviant Inquisitors Part II” (12″) (Riot Season)
Lydia Loveless – “Boy Crazy” (EP – “Boy Crazy”) (Bloodshot)
Arovane – “Gaed Ventr” (LP – “Ve Palor”) (n5MD)
Beenie Man – “Dance Wah Cork Up” (download single) (King Sturrige)
Le Grand Kallé – “Table Ronde” (LP – “His Life,His Music”) (Sterns)
Bikini Kill – “Suck My Left One” (EP – “Bikini Kill”) (Kill Rock Stars)
The Julie Ruin – “Right Home” (LP – “Run Fast”) (Discord/TJR)
Lydia Loveless – “Lovers Spat” (EP – “Boy Crazy”) (Bloodshot)
Misty Conditions – “Demonoid” (LP – “D’zzzz”) (Planet Mu)
Linval Thomson and the Revolutionaries – “Morning Dub” (LP – “Boss Man’s Dub – The Lost 1979 Dub Album”) (Hot Milk)
DJ Format and Phil Most Chill – “Get Busy Music” (LP – “The Foremost”) (Project Blue Book)
No – “Perpective Helps” (LP – “The Great Space”) (Static Shock)
Bent Shapes – “What Do You Get?” (LP – “Feels Weird”) (Father/Daughter)
Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?” (7″) (United Artists)
Lydia Loveless – “All I Know” (EP – “Boy Crazy”)
Ø (Phase) – “Misaligned” (LP – “Frames Of Reference’) (Token/N.E.W.S.)

When Big Joan Sets Up 31st October – Pay No More Than £2.99

This week WBJSU brought you national treasure Billy Bragg live at The Union Chapel in that London in June this year running through the whole of his first LP “Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy” in it’s 30th Anniversary year. A record which told my 12 year old brain more about socialism, love and justice in 18 minutes than a million Russell Brands wanking on on Newsnight.

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Lumpy and The Dumpers – “Sex Pit” (7″) (Muckracker)
Hard Toch – “Rolling,Rolling,Rolling (Download EP – “GGM Digital 46”) (GGM Digital)
The Naturalites – “Picture On The Wall” (LP – “Picture On The Wall”) (CSA)
Thomas Grinder – “Living Dead In Poznan” (EP – “Late Train”) (Symbiosis Trax)
Whore Paint – “Trigger” (LP – “Swallow My Bones”) (Load)
Roy Rogers – “A Four Legged Friend” (LP – “30 Greatest Cowboy Songs”) (Vintage Masters Inc)
Billy Bragg – “Lovers Town Revisited – Live At The Union Chapel” (LP -“Life’s A Riot with Spy vs.Spy – 30th Anniversary Edition”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Billy Bragg – “To Have And Have Not – Live At The Union Chapel” (LP -“Life’s A Riot with Spy vs.Spy – 30th Anniversary Edition”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Billy Bragg – “The Busy Girl Buys Beauty – Live At The Union Chapel” (LP -“Life’s A Riot with Spy vs.Spy – 30th Anniversary Edition”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Billy Bragg – “The Man In The Iron Mask – Live At The Union Chapel” (LP -“Life’s A Riot with Spy vs.Spy – 30th Anniversary Edition”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Billy Bragg – “Richard – Live At The Union Chapel” (LP -“Life’s A Riot with Spy vs.Spy – 30th Anniversary Edition”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Billy Bragg – “The Milkman Of Human Kindness – Live At The Union Chapel” (LP -“Life’s A Riot with Spy vs.Spy – 30th Anniversary Edition”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Billy Bragg – “A New England – Live At The Union Chapel” (LP -“Life’s A Riot with Spy vs.Spy – 30th Anniversary Edition”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Xtrah and Break feat. DRS – “Always There” (EP – “Lost Time”) (Symmetry Recordings)
Saint Max and The Fanatics – “T-Shirt” (LP – “Saint Max Is Missing And The Fanatics Are Dead”) (Ahmelodie)
L Pierre – “Movement III” (EP – “Surface Noise”) (Melodic)
10ft Ganja Plant – “Sounding Zone” (LP – “Skycatcher”) (Reach Out International)
Swearin’ – “Dust In The Gold Sack” (download single) (Witchita)

When Big Joan Sets Up 17th October – Tet Offensive

Three from “Beautiful Rewind” the excellent new LP from Four Tet on this week’s programme plus these beauties…

Perc and Einstürzende Neubauten – “Leibesdub” (EP – “Interpretations”) (Submit)
Mexican Knives – “Killer Snake” (EP – “Other Trams”) (Self Released)
Noel Phillips – “Money Man Skank” (V/A 4CD Set – “Rootsman Vibration at King Jammy’s”) (Greensleeves)
Four Tet – “Gong” (LP -“Beautiful Rewind”) (Text)
Gong – “Ego” (LP – “Magick Brother”) (BYG)
The Razorblades – “Let’s Go Down To Brighton” (V/A LP – “Best of the North Sea Surf Festival Since 2010”) (Bandcamp)
DJ Rashad feat. DJ Phil – “Everyday Of My Life” (LP – “Double Cup”) (Hyperdub)
The Fall – “Enigrammatic Dream” (LP – “Live in San Fransisco”) (Ozit/Dandelion)
Four Tet – “Ba Teaches Yoga” (LP -“Beautiful Rewind”) (Text)
Lord Sassafrass – “Talking Yardie” (7″) (Maffi)
Lost In The Riots – “Reset,Engage!” (LP – “Stranger In The Alps”) (Lonely Voyage)
The Young Tradition – “The Bold Fisherman” (LP – “Oberlin 1968”) (Proper)
John Zorn and Thurston Moore – “Jazz Laundromat” (LP – “@”) (Tzadik)
Lee Ranaldo and The Dust – “Key Hole” (LP – “Last Night On Earth”) (Matador)
Four Tet – “Buchla” (LP -“Beautiful Rewind”) (Text)

When Big Joan Sets Up 10th October – Yes,We Have Some Bananas

Melt Bananas,to be precise (I know, I’m not proud of this Alan Partridge style opening, but it’s been a long week) Three tracks from “Fetch” the new LP by the incomparable Melt Banana graced the programme plus a new live LP from the greatest band to ever walk among us and the answer to the question I get asked more than any other (apart from “why don’t you go and put some clothes on’).

The Fall – “I Wake Up In The City” (LP – “Live In San Fransisco”) (Ozit/Dandelion)
Polvo – “Anchoress” (LP – “Siberia”) (Merge)
Jeff Mills – “When Night Fell” (LP – “The Jungle Planet”) (Axis)
Laura Cantrell – “Can’t Wait” (LP – “No Way There From Here”) (Spit and Polish)
Melt Banana – “The Hive” (LP – “Fetch”) (A-Zap)
Talisman – “Season For Freeman” (LP – “I-Surrection”) (Sugar Shack)
65daysofstatic – “Heat Death Infinity Splitter” (LP – “Wild Light”) (Superball Music)
Marc Smith and Joey Riot – “You Know How To Love Me” (Download) (Notorious Digital)
The Lodger – “Fast” (Download single) (Bandcamp)
Melt Banana – “Infection Defective” (LP – “Fetch”) (A-Zap)
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band – “When Big Joan Sets Up” (LP – “Trout Mask Replica”) (Straight)
Si Begg – “Kosmiche Stepper” (LP – “Permission To Explode”) (Additech)
Red Hex – “Shoulda Known” (7″) (Negative Fun)
The Fall – “Cyber Insekt” (LP – “Live In San Fransisco’) (Ozit/Dandelion)
Melt Banana – “Lefty Dog (Run Caper Run)” (LP – “Fetch”) (A-Zap)
Dubblestandart feat. Jazzmine Tatum – “Don’t Worry What The People Think About You” (LP – “Woman In Dub”) (Collision)

When Big Joan Sets Up 3rd October – Phil Cope’s Wednesday Love Songs

Well, one at least – a soppy dedication to my mum and dad for their 49th anniversary provided a much needed warm and fuzzy moment amongst the usual yelps,bleeps and screeches.Mind you there were plenty of those as well not least those provided by three from Traxman’s excellent new LP. All this and a group called Pikelet.

Mark Pritchard feat.The Ragga Twins – “1234” (EP – “Lock Off”) (Warp)
The Animals – “Bring It On Home To Me” (LP – “A’s,B’s and EP’s) (EMI Gold)
Bam! Bam! – “Something Awful” (7″ EP – “Golden Haze 2”) (HHBTM)
Subactive feat. Mikey Murka – “Blam Blam” (7″) (Cubiculo)
DJ Hazard – “Digital Bumble Bees” (12″) (Playaz)
Laura Cantrell – “No Way There From Here” (LP – “No Way There From Here”) (Spit and Polish)
The Ketamines – “Lawncare” (LP – “You Can’t Serve Two Masters”) (Southpaw)
The Durian Brothers – “Unterirdisch” (LP – “Split Series #22”) (Fatcat)
Traxman – “Japan” (LP – “Teklife Vol 3:The Architek”) (Lit City Trax)
Traxman – “Hold It” (LP – “Teklife Vol 3:The Architek”) (Lit City Trax)
Traxman – “Makin’ Me Itch” (LP – “Teklife Vol 3:The Architek”) (Lit City Trax)
Pikelet – “Combo” (LP – “Calluses”) (Chapter Music)
Brandt Brauer Frick – “Skiffle It Up” (12″)
The Vipers Skiffle Group – “Streamline Train” (V/A LP – “Great British Skiffle Volume 2 1952-1957”) (Smith & Co.)
Polvo – “Blues Is Loss” (LP – “Siberia”) (Merge)
Tunnidge – “Rag and Bone” (12″) (Chestplate)

When Big Joan Sets Up 26th September – Bills,Bills,Bills

An unusual amount of records by people called Bill in tonight’s programme. Not least three tracks of primal guitar strangling from the peerless Bill Orcutt whose new LP “A History of Everyone” tackles The Great American Songbook in the way that Roy Keane tackled Alfie Haland plus a dub selection from Pete Chapman who the eagle eyed will have observed isn’t called Bill.

Betse Ellis – “The Complainer” (LP – “High Moon Order”) (Free Dirt)
S3RL feat. Johnny – “Da De Da” (Download) (Emfa)
The String-A-Longs – “Wheels” (7″) (London American)
Bill Orcutt – “When You Wish Upon A Star” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Bill Callahan – “Ride My Arrow” (LP – “Dream River”) (Drag City)
Shed – “Fluid 67″ (12”) (50 Weapons)
Carlton Livingston and Blend Mishkin meet The Burger Project – “Born Troublemaker” (7″) (Cast A Blast)
Pop 1280 – “Coma Baby” (LP – “Imps of Perversion”) (Sacred Bones)
Bill Orcutt – “White Christmas” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Bonnie Prince Billy – “Make It Not An Evil Mark” (LP – “Bonnie Prince Billy”) (Astro Black)
Wild Billy Chyldish and CTMF – “Our Moonlit Heath” (LP – “All Our Forts Are With You”) (Damaged Goods)
Singers and Players – “Follower” (LP – “Revenge of the Underdog”) (On-U-Sound)
Tingle In The Netherlands – “Namklim” (EP – “Mirror Writing”) (Nerve Echo)
Sector Zero – “Guitar Attack” (7″) (Goner)
Agent Sasco – “Gone A Lead” (Download) (Markus)
Bill Orcutt – “Onward Christian Soldiers” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Nphonix – “Getting Run Down” (EP – “Getting Run Down”) (Shifting Peaks)