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Islands, Casio Kids & Miike Snow on The BCB Sessions!

Wednesday 28 December

Hey up,

Trust your Christmas was full of the festive frolics we all know and love… for me it’s a great time to catch up with new releases and listen to loads of music while zooming up/down the motorway. The result is here for your listening pleasure on The BCB Sessions and we’ve got some right belters to end 2011!

Casio Kids – Golden years

Django Django – Default

Dan Sartain (feat. Jane W) – Now, now, now

Sparrow and the Workshop (BCB Session Archive) – Medal around your neck

Miike Snow – Devil’s work

Thomas Truax – December song

Clap your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical

Islands – This is not a song

Crackpot – Robopotamus

Les Shelleys (BCB Session Archive) – I’m on fire

Pocket (Feat. Steve Kilbey) – Hear in Noiseville

The Raise (Feat. Krome) – Love of hip hop

The Internet (Little Dragon Remix) – Cocaine

Of Montreal – Wintered debts

See you next Wednesday from 9pm on BCB 106.6FM and online at www.bcbradio.co.uk If you missed this week’s show – don’t forget you can catch it again via www.bcbradio.co.uk

Lx

 

Justice, The Horn The Hunt and Other Lives on The BCB Sessions!

Howdy y’all,

Don’t hunker down in the dark nights – tune into the show! So much good stuff to get your lug holes around….take a look at the list then listen in, Wed 16th Nov at 9pm on 106.6fm or online at www.bcbradio.co.uk If you can’t catch it then, listen at your leisure via BCB’s listen again link www.bcbradio.co.uk

And while you’re on BCB’s website, look out for DIY or DIE radio, Buffet, When Big Joan Sets Up and Eclectic Mainline….because if you like the sessions you’ll also love these chaps & chapesses.

Dum Dum Girls – Always looking

St Etienne – Love can break your heart (pure self indulgence, I admit it…)

Dear Reader – Bear (young’s done in)

Thomas Truax – November in Berlin

Our Albert – If I’ve told you once I’ve told you 11 times (Local, vocal and doing exciting musical things…http://ouralbert.net/)

Justice – Audio, video, disco

Our Albert – Eleventy

Blood Orange – Champagne coast

The Horn The Hunt – Animal magic (Shok remix) http://thehornthehunt.com/

Our Albert – Eleven8

Forest Fire – Future shadows

Other Lives – Old  statues

Our Albert – Eleven is a place on earth

Pitch Twit – Treatment (Take a look – you can also download tracks for free! http://www.pitchtwit.com/)

Baris Manco – Ben Bilirim

Right, off t’Sparrow….drop me a line if you’ve got tunes to play: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

Until next Wednesday night,

Lxx

 

D/R/U/G/S, Three Trapped Tigers and Summer Camp on The BCB Sessions!

Hey up,

It’s that time of the week again….we meet, I play tunes et la vie est belle. That’s the plan anyway. Here’s what tickled my fancy on this week’s BCB Sessions (Wed 28th Oct, 9pm).

Dan Mangan – Post war blues

Summer Camp – Down

Fool’s Gold – The Dive

Hanni el Khatib – Dead wrong

Shuga – Hey baby

Genuflex – Bludevotion

Thomas Truax – Everything’s gone halloween

The Twilight Sad – Untitled

Clean George IV – Pets in the blitz

Milk Maid – Dead wrong (blatant opportunity to play two tracks with the same title by two different artists, in one show…confused?!)

D/R/U/G/S – Connected

Liz Green – hey joe

CANT – Too late, too far

Zola Jesus – Seekir

Three Trapped Tigers – Reset (great Summer Camp remix of this track too)

Huzah…if you didn’t catch the show, don’t miss out – listen again at www.bcbradio.co.uk

I’ll see you next Wednesday night at 9pm on 106.6fm in Bradford and www.bcbradio.co.uk

Lx

 

 

Limetree special on The BCB Sessions!

We’re getting giddy about Limetree Festival on the show (9pm, 24th August) and to prove just how great the excitement is we’re rolling out top tunes from some of this year’s acts….feast your eyes (and ears via www.bcbradio.co.uk and 106.6fm in Bradford) on these babies:

This many boyfriends – Young lovers go pop! (fab Leeds indiepop to start the show…I wish every week could be like this)

Veronica Falls – Bad feeling

Thomas Truax – Midnight in August

M83 – Midnight city

Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra – Cross town traffic (Playing at Limetree)

Celtic Islam – Vision (Limetree talent)

Love Inks – Rock on

Planning to Rock – Going wrong

Glass Candy – Beatific (my minor indulgence this one…taking me back to 2am a few years ago, very happy at festival)

Fruit Bats – So long (best looking album of the week – beautiful thing)

Milk Maid – Dead wrong

Submotion Orchestra – Finest hour (Another Limetree lovely)

Mini Mansions – Monk

Zero 7 – Waiting line (great stuff – Limetree 2011)

Middleman – Chipping away (any excuse to play these bad boys – fellow Limetree-ers)

And on The BCB Sessions we’re continuing the festival love next week (Wed 31 Aug, 9pm) with songs from bands performing at Bingley Music Live: http://www.bingleymusiclive.com/

There’s tons of live music to be had – the week after that (if you’re still with me! Wed 7 Sept, 9pm) we’re previewing Saltaire Live Lounge: http://www.saltairefestival.co.uk/News.aspx?NewsID=38

As ever, get in touch if you’re in a band and you’ve got music you’d like me to play…or if you’d like to record an acoustic session at BCB: laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

Until next week,

Lx

(listen live and again to any show broadcast on BCB – www.bcbradio.co.uk then click on listen again)

The BCB Sessions – Wednesday nights at 9pm online and on 106.6fm in Bradford