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Blowin – the African Special, and updated Photos

Hey up, now then


The Photos site has new pics, at www.rob-walsh.net plus older ones revisited – all our photos are organic home-grown produce, with zero manipulation or photo-shopping (oh, alright, I’ve cropped one…).


AND there’s a two hour Blowin wireless programme of rather wonderful african music at blowin.podomatic.com

I enjoyed recording it for BCB FM back in 2004 – hope you enjoy it too… playlist below – listen or download this and other Blowin broadcasts from the above site.

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The Blowin Weekly Extra – Bowls?

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 6th June 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

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

 

Water falling on stone

Water falling on stone

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  King Midas Sound – The Bug / Roger Robinson / Hitomi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mRasMttLfw&feature=player_embedded
www.myspace.com/kingmidassound
thanks to On The Wire – http://otwradio.blogspot.com

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The Blowin Weekly Extra – Beyond

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 3oth May 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

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

 

Thornton Moor

Thornton Moor

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Robert Johnson – King Of The Delta Blues Singers – slower, and better - IMHO

http://globalgroovers.blogspot.com/2010/05/robert-johnson-king-of-delta-blues.html

 

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Johnny Clarke is playing the West Indian Centre, Leeds, Saturday June 5, with Iration Steppas and others – from 10pm.

 

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MelaMatik Dub Day in Bradford @ Infirmary Fields opposite New Beehive

Saturday June 19 - 12 noon to 8pm

Inspirational Sound, Dr Huxtable’s Axis Reggae Sound System and Rootsman

www.myspace.com/melamatik

www.melamatik.co.uk  

 

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The Blowin Weekly Extra – Scorchio

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 23rd May 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

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

 

Thursday, November

Thursday, November

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 Botswana guitar – very unorthodox, very effective
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im_-1H_sI8w&feature=player_embedded
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The Blowin Weekly Extra – Through

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 16th May 2010

More tunes than time…

Blowin can now be heard online or downloaded at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE on Sunday evening – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u

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

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This week I have mainly been…  trying Google’s Chrome.
Firefox was getting a bit creaky, Chrome seems faster and handles my 37 tabbed pages of breakfast reading well.
I like Firefox’s multiple download manager though.

Go Through

Go Through

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Africa Oyé
returns to Sefton Park, Liverpool, Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 June
12:30pm-9:30pm both days – Free

Including Michael Rose from Black Uhuru with his live band, the Gangbe Brass Band from Benin, and Youssou N’Dour’s protégé Carlou D from Senegal. www.africaoye.com

Pre-festival Party – Wailing Souls, Saturday 22 May, The Picket Venue, Liverpool L1 0BW £10 advance £15 on door. www.africaoye.com/tandt/wailingsouls.htm

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The Blowin Weekly Extra – So fine

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 25th April 2010
More tunes than time…

BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u everywhere else..
Blowin podcasts – play or download at blowin.podomatic.com
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Looking north from Baildon Moor

Looking north from Baildon Moor

It’s time to pop open a party bag of adrenal glands and start munching.”
Elections are tedious and change little, it’s the smartarse commentary that really gets us going.
Try Malcolm TuckerHunter S Thompson would have been jealous  
.. older columns here 
More on Malcolm Tucker here

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The Blowin Weekly Extra – Still willin’

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 18 April 2010
More tunes than time…

BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u everywhere else..
Blowin podcasts – play or download at blowin.podomatic.com
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Sterns podcast – Senegal Special!
Includes Thione Seck and Orchestra Baobab
Tracklist and download/stream links here
sternsmusiconline.podomatic.com/

And Afropop has a page of links to more info on key Senegalese artists, at www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/936

The Bay

The Bay

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The Blowin Weekly Extra – Stay Dread

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 11 April 2010
More tunes than time…

Blowin podcasts – play or download at blowin.podomatic.com
Listen LIVE  – www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u
BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk everywhere else..

Stoodley Pike

Stoodley Pike

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International Record Store Day is April 17.
Jumbo Records in Leeds has live acts instore, including Wilful Missing with BCB’s very own Albert Freemanwww.myspace.com/wilfulmissing and www.jumborecords.co.uk/jumbo-records-news.asp?news_id=165

Lots of very limited edition discs might also be available [check with Jumbo] – including:
Jesus & Mary Chain – Just Like Honey/Head 7 inch (Rhino Records 750 only)
Jesus & Mary Chain – You Trip Me Up/Just Out Of Reach 7 inch (Rhino Records 750 only)
Factory Records: Communications 1978 – 92 (10inch sampler – Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays & The Durutti Column) (Rhino Records 750 only)
Rolling Stones “Plundered My Soul” unreleased track from the ‘Exile On Main Street’ sessions (Polydor 1000 only)
The Fall “Bury / Cowboy Cowboy” 7 (Domino 750 only)
Jimi Hendrix 7″ UK exclusive ltd pressing, numbered & coloured (Sony 1000 only)

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The Blowin Weekly Extra – Sunshine

More tunes than time…

Blowin 9-10pm Sunday 21st March 2010

Blowin podcasts blowin.podomatic.com

Listen to BCB LIVE – 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u everywhere else..

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Whole Lotta Love inna dance-rock stylee anyone? anyone at all?

AND Stairway To Heaven! No? a step too far? ….come back here, now!

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Blowin

21 March

  • Edgar Broughton Band – Apache / Drop Out
  • Asif Ali Khan w. Manzoor Hussain Santoo Khan & Ensemble – Rone Umaara De – Dancing With The Dead CD – Ellipsis Arts
  • Horace Andy – Natural Mystic – The Prime Of Horace Andy CD – Music Club
  • Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart – Substance CD – Factory
  • Four Tet – Angel Echoes – There Is Love In You CD – Domino
  • Prince Jammy – Interboro Dub – Prince Jammy Presents Strictly Dub CD – Pressure Sounds
  • Jimi Hendrix – Sunshine Of Your Love – Valleys Of Neptune CD – Sony
  • Issa Juma And Super Wanyika Stars – Barva (The Letter) – World Defeats The Grandfathers – Swinging Swahili Rhumba 1982-1986 CD – Sterns
  • The Box Tops – The Letter – Bell
  • Big Star – In The Street – # 1 Record / Radio City CD – Big Beat
  • Rhythm & Sound w. Jennifer Lara – Queen In My Empire – Rhythm & sound w. the artists CD – Basic Channel
  • Rhythm & Sound – Queen Version – Rhythm & Sound–the versions CD – Basic Channel
  • Lord Tanamo – Keep On Grooving – Studio One

More playlists and pictures at www.rob-walsh.co.uk

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