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Blowin Extra – Move it on over

The Blowin Weekly Extra
More tunes than time…

Blowin 8-10pm, Sunday 20 December 2009
Repeated around 1 am on Tuesday

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

Playlist below…

Shwe in Bin Kyaung Teak Monastery

Mandalay, Myanmar, 3 November 2008,  Photo by Irene Young

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Shwe in Bin Kyaung Teak Monastery

Shwe in Bin Kyaung Teak Monastery

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This week’s programme has a track recorded in Belgium, possibly the only such we have in the vaults.

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The Blowin Weekly Extra

More tunes than time…

Blowin 8-10pm, Sunday 25 October 2009
Repeated around 1 am on Tuesday

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

Playlist further down..

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Foamlines

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Foamlines
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BBC Landscape photo of the year 2009 – some great photos here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8314105.stm

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A site worth checking daily, just in case, like..
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com

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Raise Your Banners, Bradford’s festival of political song, 6-8 November www.raiseyourbanners.org

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The Blowin Weekly Extra

More tunes than time…

Blowin 8-10pm, Sunday 18 October 2009
Repeated around 1 am on Tuesday

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

Playlist further down…

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Curled

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Curled

This week it’s a repeat – I’ll be back in the studio next week with a brand new programme, including Francophonic 2, the second compilation of music by the legendary Congolese bandleader Franco, Neil Young rarities and lots more.

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The Blowin Weekly Extra

More tunes than time…

Widdop in October

Widdop in October - More at www.rob-walsh.net

Blowin 8-10pm, Sunday 11 October 2009
Repeated around 1 am on Tuesday

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

Playlists further down..

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Half Man Half Biscuit
Thursday 15 October – Leeds Stylus

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Reggae listings from Dub Lab…

Underground Roots Sound System
Saturday 17 October, Bradford Playhouse, Chapel St, 9pm-3am
featuring Danman with selection from Scratchy and Red J.
Also Inspirational Sound
“We will be open til at least 3am, suggested donation of £5 for entry, optional , whatever people can afford, if that’s nowt then it’s nowt, we put our trust in the people. One love.”

Nucleus Roots – full live band
Friday 23 October – Beaver Works, 36 Whitehouse Street, Leeds LS10 1AD
Plus: Root One Band; Operation Sound; Inspirational Sound; High Pressure Sound; Symbiosis Sound
£8 b4 12 £10 after, 10pm – 5am

Dub Lab
Friday 20 November @ The Mill, Thornton Road, Bradford
Plus: Symbiosis Sound System; Inspirational Sound.
All nighter £5 entry

www.dublab.co.uk

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Unbelieveable – The Blowin Extra

The Blowin Weekly Extra
More tunes than time…

Playlist further down…

Blowin 8-10pm, Sunday 20 September 2009
Repeated around 1 am on Tuesday

BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk everywhere else..
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Grizzly Bear
5 Nov Leeds Met University
http://www.myspace.com/grizzlybear

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Decontextualised music as muzak, part 3
Bugman: ” I was in K-mart once and they were blasting the VU’s ‘Beginning To See The Light’. I asked a clerk, who said ‘any song with the words ‘blue’ or ‘light’, we play’. Then there was that Volvo ad with the Stereolab song about emerging from a shelter after a nuclear holocaust [did the Volvo survive?].”

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Odemba OK Jazz All-Stars – The Spirit of Franco Tour
www.africaoye.com/
Saturday 3 October, Leeds Irish Centre
Tickets Leeds Irish Centre, York Road , Leeds LS9, 9NT or Jumbo Records 0113 245 5570
www.jumborecords.co.uk

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Leeds is gearing up for a Festival of Sound Art
http://leeds.expofestival.org/

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