Drop The Biscuit

GO BUDDY GO GO GO…

-So, this being the first DTB of 2016, I just wanted to wish all you folk a very Happy New Year.

-Plenty of random/ slippery selecions comin’ your way over the next few months-

I also got a couple a great themes in the bag- An of course we’ll have the odd guest mix comin’ at ya……… but for now, it’s bac to this weeks DTB…..

This week we have a very special mix & a first here at DTB. A JOINT guest mix-by John & Julia T. ‘English As Tuppence’

-I first met John when we both worked at a small record store in Wickford, Essex in the late 70’s. Thru the early 80’s we were all regulars down at Crocs in Rayleigh.

John went on to work at Rough Trade & Southern records. He was also one of the  early participants of the original monthly ‘Drop the Biscuit’ sessions at my flat in West London. Sit back, relax, enjoy…..

1 vivian stanshall-aunt florrie’s waltz

2 vivian stanshall-the question

3 owl service-turpin hero

4 roxy music-in every dream home a heartache

5 babyshambles-albion

6 johnny kidd & the pirates-shakin’ all over

7 the clash-know your rights

8 shirley Collins-the oxford girl

9 the kinks- she’s bought a hat like princess marina

10 the stone roses-waterfall

11 the incredible string band-painting box

12 t-rex-king of the rumbling spires

13 wire- dot dash

14 billy Nicholls-would you believe

15 xtc-grass

16 the swell maps- let’s build a car

17 caravan-golf girl

18 hard skin-make my tea

19 the specials-stereotypes pt 1&2

20 dusty Springfield-the look of love

21 the fall-telephone thing

22 hawkwind-hurry on sundown

23 roy harper-one of those days in england

Been thinking about this as a theme for a while now, but proved to be a bit challenging as I was struggling to find stuff I liked with girls that exemplified a real ‘Punk Rock’ attitude. I know that I will get bombarded with, “why didn’t you use……….?” Well, go on then. We have used the only 2 Slits songs I like in previous shows and is Patti Smith Punk? Hhmmmm!

So, what’s here is not strictly punk or all girls for that matter. What drew me to these tunes was attitude, buzzsaw guitars and girls doing it for themselves, no compromise.

The Queers – Punk Rock Girls

X-Ray Specs – Genetic Engineering

Suzi Pinns – Rule Britannia

Sleater-Kinney – I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone

The Ramonas – 53rd & 3rd

Suburban Lawns – Janitor

CSS – CSS Suxxx

The Runaways – Queens of Noise

The Adverts – No Time To Be 21

Holly Cook – Ari Up

Kleenex – Hedi’s Head

Penetration – Don’t Dictate

The Rezillos – I Can’t Stand My Baby

X – Your Phone’s Off The Hook, But You’re Not

Elastica – Line Up

Snatch – All I Want

Maneaters – Nine To Five

L7 – Pretend We’re Dead

Fatal Microbes – Violence Grows

Hinds – Castigadas En El Granero

Blondie – X Offender

The Breeders – Canonball

Souixsie and the Banshees – Love In A Void

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – Gold Lion

A sad week this week, the passing of one of the most influential British artists of our time- -DAVID BOWIE- already there’s been lots of tributes- people choosin their favourite Bowie tunes etc…..so we thought we’d just play some of Bowie’s favourite’s from around 64-67.

You may recognise it as Pin-Ups?

We’ve left it in the same runnin’ order as Bowie decided on at the time (I wonder if he ever compiled it in this way first (possibly on cassette!?!) before finally goin’ into the studio himself?) Anyway it make’s a brilliant album, so enjoy.

love-on ya, DTB…..

side 1.

1 The Pretty Things-Rosalyn

2 Them-Here Comes The Night

3 The Yardbirds-I Wish You Would

4 Pink Floyd-See Emily Play

5 The Mojo’s-Everythings Alright

6 The Who-I Can’t Explain

side 2.

7 The Easybeats-Friday On My Mind

8 The Merseys-Sorrow

9 The Pretty Things-Don’t Bring Me Down

10 The Yardbirds-Shapes Of Things

11 The Who-Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere

12 The Kinks-Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

Do you dream in colour? I dream of electric sheep. Does that make me strange.

Stranger than fiction and Swooping in for another week, Rosspunk blows off the cobwebs and spits out another golden selection of oddball and oddities.

Brian Protheroe – Pinball

Nicolette – No Government

The Staple Singers – Help Me Jesus

Nash The Slash – Wolf

Opal – Fell From The Sun

Nazareth – This Flight Tonight

Jane Weaver – The Electric Mountain

The Flamin’ Groovies – Shake Some Action

Jerry Lee Lewis – High School Confidential

The Everly Brothers – I Wonder If I Care as Much

Public Image Limited – Graveyard

The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)

Karen Dalton – Something On Your Mind

Lamont Dozier – Blue Sky And Silver Bird

The Rivingtons – Papa Oom Mow Mow

Merle Haggard – Okie From Muskogee

Pere Ubu – Heart of Darkness  (Cassette Version, 1976)

John Foxx – Underpass

The Staple Singers – Slippery People

Big Hair – Neville Neville

Bill Withers – I Can’t Write Left -Handed