Drop The Biscuit

Up a bit, Left a bit, Down a bit- FIRE…

1 The Who-I Can’t Explain

2 The Beazers-Blue Beat

3 McPullish-Dub From Creation

4 Catherine Sauvage-Black Trombone

5 The Mighty Wah-Story Of The Blues Pt.1

6 Prince Buster- Phoenix City

7 Bryan ferry- Let’s Stick Together

8 Chicks on Speed-We Don’t Play Guitars

9 Beastie Boys/Herbie Hancock- Intergalactic Rockit

10 Chicks On Speed-Warm Leatherette

11 The Flirtations-Nothing But A Heartache

12 Dee Dee Warwick-You’re No Good

13 Johnny Haliday-Love Is Strange

14 The Velvet Underground-The Murder Mystery

15 Leslie Uggams-Ice Cream Man

16 The Ramones-Don’t Come Close

17 VCMG- Windup Robot

18 Kraftwerk- The Man Machine

19 Marilyn Monroe/Jane Russell-Little Girl From Littlerock

20 Ituana- You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

This week’s special mix is by Wireshaker-one of the original Friday night ‘Drop The Biscuit’ crew, celebrating the most influential, late an great John Peel-

WIRESHAKER- Ah, those Friday nights down the Grove: conversation, comestibles and a soundtrack supplied by the attendees that put the eclectic into electric…….

The kinda thing I tended to contribute was a disparate bunch of sounds taken from all over the map and a few from the terra incognita beyond. Not unlike, come to think of it, a fairly typical edition of the John Peel show. Which brings us to this, my DTB debut.

Not long ago, a charity shop visit netted a copy of Michael Heatley’s John Peel-A Life In Music which coulda been a cheap’n’nasty cash in after the great man’s demise. A quick glance at an index which included, one after another Kurt Cobain, Eddie Cochran, Jarvis Cocker, The Cocteau Twins and Shirley & Dolly Collins demonstrated otherwise. So I shelled out the 90p asking price and began reading with an eye on the possibility of the contents inspiring a playlist / mix. And here’s a distilled version of the result.

All the acts herein feature in the text. With a few obvious exceptions, I’ve tried to avoid the overfamiliar, and the sequencing, apart from the top & tail, is random –in the spirit of the programme itself. Any conceptual, thematic or musical segue is down to pure serendipity.

RIP you old, bald cnut.

1 Grinderswitch –Pickin’ The Blues

2        The Fall –Psycho Mafia

3        Frankie Laine –The Kid’s Last Fight

4        The Misunderstood –I Can Take You To The Sun

5        Ivor Cutler –Life In A Scotch Sitting Room

6        Soft Machine –We Know What You Mean

7        Bridget St John –Fly High

8        Field recording –Live Bee Jew’s Harp

9        Prince Far I –Under Heavy manners

10    The Faces- Three Button Hand Me Down

11    Dick Dale & The Del-Tones –Surf Beat

12    Lightnin’ Hopkins –Black Cat Bones

13    Essential Logic –Aerosol Burns

14    The Liverpool Scene –Bat Poem

15    The Stupids –You’ll Never Win

16    Captain Beefheart –Well

17    Ladytron –Seventeen (hey! serendipity indeed!)

18    John Fahey –In Christ There Is No East Nor West

19    Henry Cow –Guider Tells Of Silent Airborn Machine

20    Marc Bolan –Hippy Gumbo

21    White Stripes –One More Cup Of Coffee

22    Forest –Do You Want Some Smoke?

23    Lol Coxhill –Soprano Derivitivo / Apricot Jam

24    Tangerine Dream –Sunrise In The Third System

25    Stetsasonic –Talkin’ All That Jazz

26    The Bonzo Dog Band –Rockaliser Baby

27    Gene Vincent –You’ll Never Walk Alone

28    The Undertones –Teenage Kicks

whirls,twirls, bleeps,guitar solo’s, avant garde electronica? A mixed bag that may contain traces of the following-

The Cosmic Jokers-Galactic Supermarket 3

Cluster-Caramel

Popul Vuh-Ich Mache Einen Spiegel…

Rufus Zuphall-Prickel Pit

Can-Ethnological Forgery Series No7

Electric Sandwich-China

Neu!-Lilac Engel

Cluster-Rote Riki

Radio Marakesch-Orient Express

Faust-Why don’t you eat Carrots

Broselmaschine-Schmetterling

Embryo-A Place To Go

Neu!-Super 16

Amon Duul-Singvogel Ruckwarts

Can-Aumgh

Harmonia-Arabesque

-I was recently out walking along the seafront at Bradwell-on-Sea when I bumped into an ex-punk from Tottenham & his wife who reminded me of some of the early Punk gigs that we’d both been to, especially those at the Chancellor Hall in Chelmsford.  So here’s a playlist of some of the first Punk, New Wave & Reggae bands I was lucky enough to see, around 1977/78- Come & join the……….

1 THE CLASH-COMPLETE CONTROL

2 GENERATION X-WILD YOUTH

3 SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS-WHERE HAVE ALL THE BOOT BOYS GONE

4 THE SLITS-INSTANT HIT

5 THE BUZZCOCKS-AUTONOMY

6 SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES-METAL POSTCARD

7 ASWAD-ETHIOPIAN RHAPSODY

8 X-RAY SPEX-IDENTITY

9 XTC-TRAFFIC LIGHT ROCK

10 SHAM 69-I DON’T WANNA

11 THE BOOMTOWN RATS-LOOKIN AFTER NO.1

12 MISTY IN ROOTS-HOW LONG JAH

13 PENETRATION-FIRING SQUAD

14 EDDIE & THE HOT RODS-DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO

15 THE ADVERTS-SAFETY IN NUMBERS

16 STEEL PULSE-KU KLUX KLAN

17 THE SLITS-SHOPLIFTING

18 ASWAD- I A REBEL SOUL

19 THE CURE-A FOREST

SLIPPERY1.

A very special mix of reggae tunes from a dear friend who now lives in La La Land (Los Angeles U.S.A). Production Manager, Studio Engineer and  one of the most enthusiastic people you’ll ever meet. I present Harry Bellord (In Dub).

We met at Youths Butterfly studios in Brixton, then went on tour together with Killing Joke. We both ended up in Los Angeles at the end of the 90’s and cemented our friendship.

Prince Jammy            The Champion Version

X-Ray Music: A Blood And Fire Dub Directory

Horace Andy  Youths of Today/Jah Youths

Good Vibes (1975-1979)

Linval Thompson      Jah jah is a guiding star

Select Cuts From Blood & Fire 2

The Specials   Too Hot

The Specials

UB40   Food for thought

Signing off

The Selecter   Last Tango In Dub

Greatest Hits

Rhythm & Sound  Spend Some Time

Showcase

King Tubby  There’s Dub

X-Ray Music: A Blood And Fire Dub Directory

Scientist  10 Dangerous matches 7

Scientist Wins The World Cup

The Heptones              Make Up Your Mind

Lee “Scratch” Perry – Arkology Reel III Dub Adventure

Keith Rowe    Groovy Situation

Arkology (disc 3: Reel III, Dub Adventurer)

Lorna Bennett   Breakfast In Bed

This is Lorna

Scientist  Extra time 14

Scientist Wins The World Cup

Norma Fraser               The First Cut Is The Deepest

Studio One Soul

Cecile Campbell   Leave Me in Misery

The Best Of Studio One Women

Hollie Cook    That Very Night Dub

Prince Fatty Presents Hollie Cook In Dub (feat. Prince Fatty)

Marcia Griffiths  Band Of Gold

The Arrival

Cecile Campbell  Whisper to Me

Studio 1 Lovers

Ken Boothe   Set Me Free

Studio One Soul

Roxy, along with Bowie were probably the 2 biggest influences on most people I knew, from the early- to mid 70’s.  (pre Punk) So it seems to make sense, to follow up the BOWIE (1&2- covers, originals, interesting bits & pieces etc…) with something similar, though in the case of Roxy, I’ve also  included some solo stuff.

……………………….

1 Grace Jones-Love Is The Drug

2 Robert Fripp & Brian Eno-The Heavenly Music Corporation

3 Spizz Energy-Virginia Plain

4 Phil Manzanera-Listen Now

5 The Byrds-Eight Miles High

6 Brian Eno- No One Receiving

7 Amanda Lear- I’m A Mystery

8 Mudhoney- Editions Of You

9 Phil Manzanera- East Of Echo

10 Concrete Blonde- End Of The Line

11 Bryan Ferry & Antony- Lowlands Low

12 Radiohead- Ladytron

13 Andy Mackay- Skill & Sweat

14 David Bowie-If There Is Something

15 Jane Birkin & Bryan Ferry- In Every Dream Home A Heartache

16 Brian Eno- Dust Shuffle

17 Bill Murrey- More Than This

18 andy Mackay- Battersea Rise

19 The Bryan Ferry Orchestra- This Island Earth

Swerving left and right, trying to avoid the middle of the road.  We may succeed in getting through this alive. More musical mayhem From Rosspunk!

Double    Captain of Your Heart

The Smiths   There is a Light That Never Goes Out

The Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus   Quick Joey Small (Run, Joey, Run)

Joy Division  Heart and Soul

Bryan Ferry The Chosen One

To Rococo Rot   Cars

Bat Macumba   Gilberto Gil

Throbbing Gristle   Hot on the Heels of Love

Schneider TM Vs KPT.michi.gan    The Light 3000

Aleem   Why Hawaii?

Buffalo Springfield   For What It’s Worth

Climax Blues Band   Couldn’t Get It Right

Randy Crawford   Rainy Night in Georgia

Donovan   Atlantis

The Three Degrees    When will I see you again?  

Put the needle on the record……

Munk & James Murphy – Kick out the Chairs

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis-Song For Bob

Glen Campbell-By the Time I get to Phoenix

Soft Cell-Tainted Dub

Dennis Herrold-Hip Hip Baby

Jerry Byrne-Lights Out

Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen (Neil Barne Mix)

David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke & the Londoners-Let’s go fly a kite

Los Rockin’ Devils-Hey Lupe

The Buzzcocks-Whatever Happened to?

Carlo Ditta-Tell it like it is

Carolina Chocolate Drops-Another Man Done Gone

Dub Syndicate-Dubbing Psycho Thriller

Jean-Luc Ponty-Foosh

Spacemen 3-Ode to Street Hassle

Behold! The 32 forms of Ganesha, The patron of arts and sciences and the deity of intellect and wisdom.  As the god of beginnings, he is honoured at the start of rituals and ceremonies.

So come on music worshipers, join us on this journey of discovery.

Malcolm McLaren   Madame  Butterfly

Cake    Short Skirt/Long Jacket

The Clash   Rebel  Waltz

I Monster    Play In My Park

Ana Tijoux   1977

Don Air   Kiss Me

Simple Minds    Somebody Up There Likes Me

The Cure   Pictures Of You

Tullio De Piscopo   Primavera (Stop Bajon)

Sola Rosa   Del Ray

Fleetwood Mac    You Make Loving Fun

Midlake   Roscoe  (BTWS)

Luther Vandross   Never Too Much

Royksopp & Robyn   Every Little Thing

Shuggie Otis    Strawberry Letter 23

Medium Medium  So Hungry, So Angry

Mariachi El Bronx   Eternal

Herb Alpert   Rotation

MELANESIA, it read -songs and games from Bellona. A carved wooden mask on a bright yellow background, who could resist?

This was the first ‘World’ album that I bought, it was the late 70’s & I’ve been collecting ever since….

This is a mix of a few favourites, old an new. From Snake Charmers in  Northern India, to Bluesy, Trancey, Funky an even some Eretrean reggae…Enjoy…

1 Igbal Jogi & Party-Lal Mori Pat(India)

2 Tinariwen-Imidiwan Ma Tenam (Mali)

3 Chaweewan Dumnem-Sao Lam Plearn (Siam)

4 Sonar Senghor & His Troupe-Sabar (Senagal)

5 Asmara All Stars featuring Faytinga-Amajo (Aeitrea)

6 Mulau Astatke featuring Belayanesh Wubante & assegedetch Asfaw-Alemiye (Ethiopia)

7 Gnaoua De Abdenbi Binizi-Yumala (Morocco)

8 Vincent Ahehehinnou-Ou C’est Lui Ou C’est Moi (Africa)

9 Kemani Noubar-Taqsim (Baghdad)

10 Spirits of Life-Agoue-Dambala (yanvalou Zepol) (Haiti)

11 Co Ba-thinh & Kham Thien-Hat Du (Vietnam)

12 Asmara All Stars featuring Davit Zeragabir-Eritrean Girl (Aeitrea)

13 Inez Munoz-Fandango De Comares (Spain)

14 Cleoma Falcon-Blue Negres (French /Louisiana)

15 Bulgarian State Radio & TV Female Choir-Mir Stanke Le (Bulgaria)

16 Tribe from Belona-Na Hau A Na Sa A (Melanesia)

17 Frew Haylou-Eyetegnu Nequ (Ethiopia)

18 Hosoo & Transmongolia-Hoer Setgel (Mongolia)