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When Big Joan Sets Up 21/1/10 – The Wilfully Missing One

Due to popular demand (well, one person asked me for it – that counts as popular demand at BCB) here’s the tracklist from When Big Joan Sets Up broadcast on 21st Jan.

Purling Hiss – “Almost Washed My Hair” (LP- “Purling Hiss”) (Permanent)
Cornell Campbell – “Dub Trap” (LP – “The Gorgon Dubwise”) (Jamaican)
Edu K – “Ja Mann” (12″) (Scattermusic)
The Underlings – “Vice Squad” (7″) (Meth Bog)
Vice Squad – “Last Rockers” (LP -“The Complete Punk Singles Collection”) (13th Moon)
Kid Butcher – “Fighting For Yourself” (download EP – “Oblivion”) (Darkland)
The Pirates – “Four To The Bar” (LP-“Skull Wars”) (Warners)
Jack Rose – “West Coast Blues” (LP- “Luck in The Valley”) (Thrill Jockey)
Bounty Killer and Sugar Minott – “Tune In” (LP- “Sly and Robbie present Tune In to The Merry-Go-Round”) (Tad’s Music)
These New Puritans – “Attack Music” (LP – “Hidden”) (Angular)
Gorgonized Dorks – “Bloody Slab Of Jazz” (split cassette with Dos Amigos) (Thrashmouth)
Pierre Tchana and Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo -“Il Ne Jamias Trop Tard” (v/a LP – “Africa Boogaloo – The Latinization of West Africa”) (Honest Jon’s)
Top Cat – “Champion DJ – Shy FX Mix” (LP – “Champion DJ”) (Streetlife)

When Big Joan Sets Up – 28/01/10 – Aww C’mon

Returning to Untitled Noise after a week of overtime and televised football matches put paid to last week’s blog entry, this week’s programme featured three tracks from the ambivalently reviewed but actually rather ace new LP from The Soft Pack, tracks from two download LP’s you can buy to aid the relief effort in Haiti and various other top tunes/horrible noises depending on whose side you’re on.

Joey Riot -“Forget The World”- (12″) (Lethal Theory)
Waylon Thornton and The Heavy Hands – “Color TV” (LP – “Yours Truly”)(download from whitemoon.com)
Liquid Stranger – “Aftershock” (download EP -“Steel Trap”) (Interchill)
Errors – “Sorry About The Mess” (LP- “Come Down with Me”) (Rock Action)
Northern Portrait – “What Happens Next?” (LP- “Criminal Art Lovers”) (Matinee)
The Widdler – “Haitian Relief Dub” (download v/a LP “Dubsteppers For Haiti”) (Betamorph) (for £12.99 at Juno Download – all proceeds to the Haitian Relief Fund)
Kid Sputnik – “Meep” (download v/a LP “Monome Community – Haiti 2010”) Get it here
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji – “Ejaculation, Ejaculation” (download complation “WHNZ:3:EHKI”) download here
The Soft Pack – “Down on Loving” (LP- “The Soft Pack”) (Heavenly)
The Soft Pack – “More Or Less” (LP- “The Soft Pack”) (Heavenly)
The Soft Pack – “Parasites” (LP- “The Soft Pack”) (Heavenly)
The Tenth Dymentions – “My Love For You Is Growing Wild” (v/a LP – “Soul With A Hole Vol 1”) (Peanut Butter Wolf)
Harlem – “Pissed” (LP- “Hippies”) (Matador)
Caitlin Rose – “Docket” (EP – “Dead Flowers”) (Names)
Loops Haunt – “Joplin” (7″) (Black Acre)
Joshua Rifkin – “Maple Leaf Rag” (LP- “Scott Joplin Piano Rags”)(Nonesuch)
Four Tet – “Plastic People” (LP- “There is Love In You”) (Domino)

When Big Joan Sets Up 14/01/10 – Pink Lips and The Flaming Floyd

Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs - The Dark Side Of The Moon

Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs - The Dark Side Of The Moon

After last week’s snowbound cancellation this week, When Big Joan Sets Up emerged from the frozen wastes of Kippax like a big emerging thing to bring you Oaklahoman psychedelic legends,The Flaming Lips‘ radical reinterpretation of Pink Floyd‘s 1973 gazillion selling opus, Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety.

This fact has led to me and Albert Freeman putting our not inconsiderable heads together to come up with other “classic” LPs that we’d like to see reinterpreted. Above the clamour of “haven’t you sad bastards got anything better to do?” (the answer to which is, he probably has, I definitely haven’t) we came up with the following:

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When Big Joan Sets Up 30/12/09 – Full Warp Speed

Greetings my plump, juicy lovlies, and as the fetid odour of partially digested sprouts begins to dissipate for another year, When Big Joan Sets Up picks up its boots and goes back to its roots with a contribution to Warp20 night.

A mix of classics and neglected gems from the dusty corners of the near faultless Warp records catalogue (we’re not going to mention Maximo Park as it’s Christmas and we’re in a good mood because we got gorilla slippers), alongside some of the banginest tunes from today’s new beat combos…

The Powdered Toastman – “Alley Oop” (12″) (Haunted House)
The Hollywood Argyles – “Alley Oop” (LP – “The Golden Age of American Rock and Roll Volume 2”) (Ace)
Bounty Killer – “Ungrateful Hellboy” (EP- “Raise Hell on Hellboy”) (Payday)
Vic Chesnutt – “Concord Country Jubilee” (LP- “At The Cut”) (Constellation)
These New Puritans – “We Want War” (10″) (Angular)

Big Joan’s Warp20 (Minutes) Mix

Chris Morris – “Club News” (LP- “Blue Jam”) (Warp)
Plone – “Plock” (LP- “For Beginner Piano”) (Warp)
Phillip Glass – “Heroes Symphony – (Aphex Twin Remix)” (LP-“26 Mixes For Cash”) (Warp)
Sweet Exorcist – “Testone” (12″) (Warp)
David Holmes – “Johnny Favourite” (12″) (Warp)
Sabres Of Paradise – “Wilmot” (12″) (Warp)
Kid Unknown – “Devastating Beat Creator (Dub Echo)”(12”) (Warp)

Liars – “Scarecrows on A Killer Slant” (LP-“Sisterworld”) (Mute)
Laura Cantrell – “I’d Be a Legend In My Time” (download from Lauracantrell.com)
Delphic – “Red Light” (LP- “Acolyte”) (Chimeric/Polydor)

When Big Joan Sets Up 24/12 – A big fat man with a beard – how festive!

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit,
He must be a communist.
And a beard and long hair,
Must be a pacifist.
What’s in that pipe that he’s smoking?
Arlo Guthrie

Happy Christmas bloggers, Here are the tracks from Wednesday:

Rage Against The Machine – “Killing In The Name Of” (LP -“Rage Against The Machine”) (Epic)
Lucky Soul – “Lonely This Christmas” (EP -“Ruffa Round The Christmas Tree”) (available free from www.ruffalane.com)
Sizzla – “Res A Dem” (LP- “Stand Tall”) (Yes)
Africa Hi Tech – “Blen” (CD – “Warp Sampler 2010”) (Warp)
Deiphago – “Subliminal Satan” (v/a CD – “Fear Candy 75”) (Terrorizer)
The Twerps – “Good Advice” (CDR – “The Twerps”) (Night People)
T-Model Ford – “Two Trains” (LP – “The Ladies Man”) (Alive)
Flore – “Feel Me” (12″) (Botchit & Scarper)
Morecambe & Wise – “Bring Me Sunshine” (LP – “EMI Comedy Classics”) (EMI)
The Fall – “We Wish You A Protein Christmas” (EP- “We Wish You A Protein Christmas”) (Action)
Sy and Unknown – “Move It” (12″) (Quosh)
Cliff Richard and The Drifters – “Move It” (7″) (Columbia)
The Soft Pack – “C’mon” (Download from Pitchfork.com)
Black Tusk Sound – “Sound Killin'” (12″) (Frozen O’s)
Bonny Billy and The Picket Line -“Ramblin’ Fever” (LP- “Funtown Comedown”) (Drag City)
Lee Perry and Adrian Sherwood – “His Master’s Voice” (LP – “Dubsetter”) (Beatnik/On U Sound)
The Shurfine Singers – “Silent Night/11 O’Clock News” (7″) (Josie)

When Big Joan Sets Up 2/12/09 – “When two great saints meet, it is a humbling experience”

Cheeky Beatle

Cheeky Beatle

And that rather grandiose Paul McCartney quote from the front cover of John and Yoko’s 1968 avant garde bonkersfest “Two Virgins” (although no one saw it because they were too busy looking at the staggeringly unattractive picture of them with their gear off that also adorns said LP – at least it wasn’t Ringo and Maureen, though) is my way of saying that we had a guest presenter in this week. The wonderful Laura Rawlings came to add some much needed DJ class to the programme, and was kind enough to bring some tunes in for us which feature amongst this lot. And everyone kept their clothes on. Thankfully.

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When Big Joan Sets Up Playlist 22/10/09 – Rooooragh!

Earache

Grind Madness at the BBC

Back to the formative days of grindcore on this week’s programme, with four shuddering blasts of apocalyptic noise  from Earache records epic 3 CD box set “Grind Madness at the BBC - The Earache Records Peel Sessions”  and also, by way of contrast, three tracks from Serious Sam Barratt’s excellent “Close to Home” LP on Ya Dig?. What else did we have in store? Walk this way , and take your shoes off ,I’ve just hoovered…

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When Big Joan Sets Up

Assassins 88

Assassins 88

Hello all,

When Big Joan Sets Up is BCB’s dirty little secret tucked away on Wednesday nights at midnight like a mad relative trapped in the attic in a 1970’s horror film.  If you, humble blog reader, decide to join the happy band of insomniacs, skiving security guards and burglars that comprise our listenership, you can sample delightful new music in a bewildering variety of genres and one or two old songs as well.

This week’s cavalcade of innocent  fun featured the new tunes from Asobi Seksu, Skream and Wet Hair along with four tracks from the new Topic Records box set.   Tracklist looks like this: Continue reading →