Its Yorkshire Boxing Day! So grab a colouring book, lose your tapes, work out some wrestling puns and punch a Morrissey in the eye. There are pop records from Box Jellys, China Drum, Feeder, Jellyfish, The Negatives, Sparks, Cud and everyone's favourite bipolar bird watchist Bill Oddie amongst others, plus an interview with Garreth Hirons about post-lockdown gigging, The Flair Witch Project 2021 and lots more grapplin' daftness.

if you've enjoyed any of the music on this show please do support the acts played. The full links are on the Ben In The Basement Facebook page as well as the new Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/BenBasement - which it would be just dandy if you could give a follow to /at / up. By'eck! Whippets! And an elaborate song and dance number about sperm! Etc! 

This week the Keighley 'Lympics have begun, there's hot uncle chat, egg speciality, Kubrick funnies and we meet the Beatle Brothers. Plus music from Cake, Felka, The Monkees, Wonk Unit, Foxes Faux, Super Furry Animals, Hundred Reasons, Madness and many more. With thanks to the wonderful Paul Abbott. 

if you've enjoyed any of the music on this show please do support the acts played. The full links are on the Ben In The Basement Facebook page as well as the new Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/BenBasement. 

Presenting the most GODDAMN FREEDOM LOVIN' show in town. Also: is going nowhere near town. 

Another fine mess of daft jokes, panic attacks, black and white radio and top music from the likes of Malcolm Middleton, Random Hand, The Housemartins, Biz Markie, The Lovely Eggs, Millie Manders, The Smiths and far too many people called Bruce. As not heard on Radio.

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Yes, it's back and it's not a repeat. Unless it is, in which case, sorry. 

Series 2 of Ben In The Basement is here with great guests, ridiculous jokes and the best alternative music for ears from Code Break, Cheekface, The Vaselines, Graham Parker and the Rumour, Children of the Pope, Shampoo, Smol Data, Prefab Sprout, Ben Lee, Speed Dinosaurs, Brian Cant, Credit To The Nation and more. Plus jokes, events news, general anti-fascist rage, pop hooks and an interview with Bobbie from Kitsch In Sync. 

It's the desperate gasping cheer we all need right now! Unless asthma in which case its ventolin...

Tracks played:

https://wavingatdinosaurs.bandcamp.com

Code Break - "On Hold"

https://codebreak.bandcamp.com

The Nerves - "Hanging On The Telephone"

https://www.alive-records.com/artist/the-nerves

Cheekface - "Listen To Your Heart" "No"

https://cheekface.bandcamp.com/album/emphatically-no

Children Of The Pope - "Street of Chance"

childrenofthepope.bandcamp.com

Smol Data - "Tinceltown"

https://smoldata.bandcamp.com/album/inconvenience-store

Shampoo - "Girl Power"

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3wChfsJPsUnjVHXc79wRN1?autoplay=true

Speed Dinosaurs - "Straight Edge With The Black Marker"

https://www.facebook.com/SpeedDinosaurs

Brian Cant - "Get Your Feet Off The Table Father"

https://www.discogs.com/artist/841556-Brian-Cant

The Vaselines - "Molly's Lips" 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4wWQkHhmUNlXvhbHRUSqZW

Prefab Sprout - "Don't Sing"

https://prefabsprout.tmstor.es

Ben Lee - "Nothing Much Happens"

https://www.ben-lee.com

Graham Parker & The Rumour - "You Can't Be Too Strong"

https://www.grahamparker.net

Chumbawamba and Credit To The Nation - "Enough Is Enough" 

https://www.birminghammusicarchive.com/credit-to-the-nation/

Hello, this is a trailer for Ben In The Basement, the weird late night music and comedy show nobody asked for on a local station nobody knows exists. Series one has finished now and series two will be starting up in July to coincide with live music happening again so if you're from Keighley / Bradford / Bingley / Skipton / Leeds or any points in between, make original alternative music and have something to play, send me an email to [email protected] and you could be on a future show. There's also the Facebook group you can join here to get tracklists, links to bands etc: facebook.com/groups/beninthebasement

You can hear it on the radio or you can hear it through the window....just don't call me late for breakfast!!!!11 

Ok I love you bye bye. 

With everyone in the pub and the programme being recorded before the inevitable football, Ben Baker has put together an hour of summery songs and comedy to get you in the mood for when that yellow thing in the sky decides to play again. There's Foxes Faux, The Cure, They Might Be Giants, Joyrider, The Cardigans, Gruff Rhys, Jimmy Cliff, The Beat, Sesame Street, The Young Ones, Cannon and Ball and, frankly, bleedin' loads more. So get out your rubber ring, stand in the shallow end and hope the water doesn't go purple around you...

Time to tiptoe through the true bits as we remember great times gone by with John Cooper Temple-Clark, The Real Batman, Barry's Dog Bath Van, Ian Dependence, Jim Grotley, the Septuplets of Sponge, Josh Hartnett in Blow Dry, Sir Alan Potato MP, Sergeant Ian Line and Detective Inspector Of Duty. Plus music from Pulp, Loomer, Indigo Crow, Terrorvision, Brand New Analogues, Bangles, an exclusive first play of some new Eskimo Fandango and quite honestly a bit more. 

Tracklist: 

LOOMER - "PIPSQUEAK (LIVE)" (Live In The Scablands, 2017)

https://loomeruk.bandcamp.com/

INDIGO CROW - "WHAT I'M INTO" (Riding Pillion EP, 2015)

https://www.facebook.com/cavetownbythesea/

CHUMBAWAMBA - "THE WIZARD OF MENLO PARK" (Un, 2004)

http://www.chumba.com/

BRAND NEW ANALOGUES - "EVERYBODY KNOWS" (Lets Start Again, 2008)

https://brandnewanalogues.bandcamp.com

ELEPHANTSTOPPER - "GOODBYE ALBERT BRIDGE" (Cockadoodledoo! EP, 2016)

https://soundcloud.com/elephantstopper

TOMPAULIN - "MY LIFE AT THE MOVIES" (The Town And The City, 2001)

https://www.discogs.com/artist/294310-Tompaulin

TERRORVISION - "ENTERALTEREGO" (Regular Urban Survivors, 1996) 

https://en-gb.facebook.com/terrorvisionofficial

ZOUNDERKITE - "THE ATTACK OF THE ANTI BUREAUCRATIC PSEUDO PROLETARIAT" (Live, 2009)

https://zounderkite.bandcamp.com

ESKIMO FANDANGO - 834992 (WHO WAS RINGING YOU) (Basement Exclusive, 2021)

https://eskimofandango.bandcamp.com

BANGLES - "HERO TAKES A FALL" (All Over The Place, 1984) 

http://www.thebangles.com

PULP - "COCAINE SOCIALISM" (B-Side, 1998)

https://pulpwiki.net/

(4th June 2021)

Oh no he's got out! Yes, Ben has escaped the confines of his basement for a special...erm, special with some fantastic new music and several exclusives, plus some nice chat with Kurt Wood about his production on them all. Including music from Stuie J Blenkhorn, Thrash Talk, Life In Colour, Lissy Daisy, Lord Ryan and the Tops, Henry Parker, The Light Show, Theo. and more. 

Recorded at Corner House Recording Studio - https://www.cornerhouserecordingstudio.com/

Stuie J Blenkhorn - "Hands Up" 

www.facebook.com/stuiejb

Thrash Talk - "Only Real Heroes Choke People Out"

Life In Colour - "Fall Apart"

Cheap Brass - "There's No Place Like Home"

Lissy Daisy - "I Guess I'll Go"

lissydaisy.bandcamp.com

Lord Ryan and the Tops - "Dawson's Geek"

www.lordryanandthetops.com

Grandmammy - "Coming In From The Cold"

onestepoutside.bandcamp.com/album/nightly-dread

Henry Parker - "Silent Spring"

henryparkermusic.co.uk/

The Light Show - "Round And Round"

www.facebook.com/Thelightshowband/

Theo. - "Big Impression"

Rob Lee - "Ghost Of The Smoke"

Anyone fancy some crime? Well there's loads of it this week in the latest retooling of the programme to be about something people are actually interested in. Plus a chat with the caped crusader, a rant about surnames and some quite rude words indeed. Music comes from Traits, Extinktion, The B-52s, Wilko Wilkes, TISM, Ohtis ft Stef Chura, Neil Innes, LaVern Baker, The Jam, Gil Scott-Heron, Roger Davies, My Life Story, Jake Thackray and more.

Tracklist:

TRAITS - "THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE DOWNRIGHT UGLY" (Illuminate, 2018)

https://traitsband.bandcamp.com

EXTINKTION - "LOCKERS" (Single, 2021)

https://extinktion.bandcamp.com

THE B-52'S - "LEGAL TENDER" (Whammy, 1983)

https://www.theb52s.com/

WILKO WILKES - "YOU CAN'T STOP TIME" (Single, 2021)

https://wilkowilkes.com/

TISM - "(HE'LL NEVER BE AN) OLD MAN RIVER" (Machiavelli and The Four Seasons, 1995)

https://www.facebook.com/tismforever

OHTIS FT STEF CHURA - "SCHATZE" (Single, 2021)

https://ohtis.bandcamp.com/album/schatze-b-w-failure

NEIL INNES - "GOD IS LOVE" (Taking Off, 1977)

https://neilinnes.media/

LAVERN BAKER - "BATMAN TO THE RESCUE" (Single, 1966)

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/LaVerne%20Baker.html

THE JAM - "BATMAN THEME" (In The City, 1977)

https://www.thejamofficial.com/

GIL SCOTT-HERON AND BRIAN JACKSON - "AINT SUCH THING AS SUPERMAN" (The First Minute of a New Day, 1975)

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0kEfub5RzlZOB2zGomqVSU? 

ROGER DAVIES - "BRIGHOUSE ON A SATURDAY NIGHT" (The Busker, 2009)

https://rogerdaviesmusic.com/

MY LIFE STORY - "SPARKLE" (The Golden Mile, 1997)

https://twitter.com/mylifestoryuk

JAKE THACKRAY - "LAH-DI-DAH" (Unreleased Recording, 1967)

https://www.jakethackray.com/

KYLIE MINOGUE - "YOUR DISCO NEEDS YOU" (Light Years, 2000)

https://www.kylie.com/

The pubs are open! Celebrate by staying at home and listening to music from Mr Shiraz, The Teardrop Explodes, Hypnosister, New Order, Good Grief, Delia Derbyshire, Joe Tilston, The All Seeing I featuring Phil Oakey, Sleater-Kinney and quite a few more. Plus: pub chat, street language, the birth of the Hacienda, VHS "Collectors Editions", outsider music, chanting robots, the hottest new soap opera gossip, delicious heroin, sex code and Terrorvision do Eurovision, all washed down with three VK Watermelons for a fiver.