Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 9th January 2011
More tunes than time…
Blowin now online at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen to BCB on 106.6 FM or www.bcbradio.co.uk

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What’s the future of DAB radio in the UK?

www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jacks-blog-10017212/whats-the-future-of-dab-radio-in-the-uk-10021384/

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Hi ho Silver!

I SO wanted to be the Lone Ranger when i was about 8. I used to gallop home from school for dinner with my raincoat draped like a cloak. Not that the Lone Ranger wore a cloak, but I thought it added to the drama. My galloping was so convincing that the neighbours asked my parents what was wrong with me.

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HMV to close 60 stores as sales and shares slump

“Shares in music and books retailer HMV Group have fallen 21% after revealing falling sales, weak profits and trouble meeting the terms of a bank loan. The firm – which also owns Waterstone’s bookshops – plans to close 60 UK stores in the next 12 months in order to get costs under control.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12117510

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Life

This is simultaneously nice and also puts you right in your place – click to magnify, and look for the mass extinctions – www.evogeneao.com/images/Evo_large.gif

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Well

Light floats down day river on uh red raft o’ blood

Night blocks out d’ heaven like uh big black shiny bug

Its hard soft shell shinin’ white in one spot well

It’s hard place dat I’m livin’ but I’m doin’ well well

The white ice horse melted like uh spot uh silver well

Its mane went last then disappeared the tail

My life ran thru my veins

Whistlin’ hollow well

I froze in solid motion well well

I heard the ocean swarmin’ body well well

I heard the beetle clickin’ well

I sensed the thickest silence scream

Then I begin t’ dream

My mind cracked like custard

Ran red until it sealed

Turn t’ wooden ‘n rolled like uh wheel well well

Thick black felt birds uh flyin’

With capes of solid chrome

With feathers of solid chrome

‘n beaks of solid bone

‘n bleach the air around them

White ‘n cold well well

Till it showed in pain

The hollow cane clicked like ever after

Its shadow vanished shinin’ silence

Well well

It would have been Captain Beefheart’s birthday on Saturday 15 January.

This week’s featured Beefheart album on Blowin is Troutmask Replica – Part One.

Next week, Part Two, and the week after we move onto Lick My Decals Off, Baby, IMO his best album by a long way.

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This week I have mostly been..

.. listening to Steve Barker’s On The Wire Dub Specials. Hours of great Jamaican music.

I’m working my way through them, but can especially recommend the King Tubby Requiem – fantastic dubs I’ve heard nowhere else – and Moods On the Wire – A Tribute To The Work Of Harry Mudie.

http://otwradio.blogspot.com/search?q=king+tubby+requiem

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Blowin

9 January

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Well – Troutmask Replica CD – Reprise Gregory Isaacs – Feeling Dub – African Museum 7”

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – The Dust Blows Forward ‘N’ The Dust Blows Back – Troutmask Replica CD – Reprise

General Smiley – Mama Prayed – Studio One Dancehall Selection CD – Heartbeat

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Hair Pie: Bake 1 – Troutmask Replica CD – Reprise

Leftfield – Phat Planet – Hard Hands CD EP

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Moonlight On Vermont – Troutmask Replica CD – Reprise

Keith Hudson – Satan Side – Studio Kinda Cloudy CD – Trojan

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – China Pig – Troutmask Replica CD – Reprise

Howlin Wolf – Killing Floor – The Real Folk Blues CD – Chess

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Hair Pie: Bake 2 – Troutmask Replica CD – Reprise

Wailing Souls – Without You + Version – Studio One

Little Feat – All That You Dream – Rampant Syncopatio download – www.wolfgangsvault.com/little-feat/concerts/winterland-february-14-1976.html

Gregory Isaacs – Permanent Dub – Pre 12″

John Martyn – May You Never – Solid Air CD – Island

Nightmares On Wax – Les Nuits – Carboot Soul CD – Warp

More at www.rob-walsh.co.uk

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Keep On Blowin

Rob

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