In anticipation of our increased listenership, due to the fact that everyone’s telly’s is screwed now When Big Joan Sets Up made like Nigel Ogsen this week and pulled out all the stops to bring you four tracks from Shonen Knife’s Ramones tribute LP “Osaka Ramones” (is this the first tribute LP made by a band who’ve had a tribute LP of their own ? – I don’t know , what are you asking me for? I can’t even work out how to get BBC2.) and also a16 track 7″ EP from Beartrap and a tribute to W.C Fields from Superfools which contains the immortal quote “I heard you buried your wife” to which he responds ” I had to, she died”

AGF and Ellen Alien - “Champagner 1-3” (LP – “Gedichterbe”) (AGF Produktions)
Divorce – “Wet Bandit” (7″) (Gravy)
Ruffstuff and Jayline – “Raduim Rays” (EP – “Radium Rays”) (Chronic)
Richard and Linda Thompson – “Dragging The River” (Box Set – “Live at The BBC”) (Universal)
Funghi Girls – “Doldrums” (LP -“Some Easy Magic”) (Hozac)
Beartrap – “Lack of Effort” (7″ EP – “Nailed Shut”) (To Live A Lie)
The Superfools – “All Kinds Of Gibberish Sounds” (download LP – “Aristophonics 1 – Sentimental Fields”) (from freemusicarchive.org)
Tuff Scout All-Stars – “A Battling Dub” (7″) (Tuff Scout)
Horrordactyl – “Dock Of The Bay” (download – “Horrordactyl Plays Everybody’s Songs”) (Sluggisha.blogspot.com)
Otis Redding – “That’s How Strong My Love Is ” (LP – ‘The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads”) (Stax)
Shonen Knife – “Blitzkreig Bop” (LP – “Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Shonen Knife – “Rockaway Beach” (LP “Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Shonen Knife – “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker” (LP – ‘Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Shonen Knife – “We’re A Happy Family” (LP – ‘Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Joy O – ‘Knock Knock” (12″) (Swamp)
The Fruit Tree Foundation – “I Forgot The Fall” (LP – “The Fruit Tree Foundation”) (Chemikal Underground)
The Fall – “Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul” (7″) (Kamera)
Mogwai – “Drunk and Crazy” (EP – “Earth Division”) (Rock Action)