16/03/06
This week I've mostly been lying in the bath/doing the dishes/travelling on trains listening to my Buddha Machine ...
Yes, sounds like some hippy contraption that'll take you back in time to the good old days of peace and love in ancient India. Well, not quite. Essentially a small red/green/blue box from Japan with ten different loops contained within, the Buddha Machine is a great little sound toy (cripes, I sound like a press release!?).
Brian Eno's a big fan who keeps buying them and after 5 minutes fannying around with mine I could tell why he's bought about 20. Drones and little spacey bleeps alternate with ambient white noise on different settings and that's about it ... but for ears tired of being bombarded with James Blunt and Pussycat Dolls it's a small mercy. Only about a tenner too.
Make sure you check out the show tonight with the ace Smoosh, two young ladies from the States who are fresh from supporting The Go Team! over here and make a right old pretty racket.
Worrying news elsewhere in world of music from the Glastonbury festival! Michael Eavis has implied that Dire Straits might be appearing.
'We're raring to go for next year and we're booking bands and doing stuff. There's a whole lot of stuff going on, I can't tell you about it at the moment, but there's some real surprises for next year,' said Mikey. 'For the headlining slot you know we're sort of moving away from the traditional Top Of The Pops thing and doing something different. The headliners next year are going to be a big surprise for everyone.'
Melt Banana and Shitmat with Scotch Egg on tambourine I reckon!
But when a possible Dire Straits performance was jokingly asked about, Eavis
responded: 'Funnily enough, I'm talking to them at the moment you know.
Yeah, not for the Main Stage but for something else.'
Whoah, that is barmy!
Anyroad, back to the real world and thanks to all the ravers who came down to see me at the Mud Club in Bognor Regis and at Wax On in Newcastle ... fun times and far too much vodka.
This weekend too much vodka again at me own bash at Koko in London with The Aliens, one of my new fave bands featuring two thirds of the Beta Band plus the Puppetmastaz - german hip hop with puppets. Hmm.
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09/03/06
First up thanks to all of you who made it down to see me and Bloc Party DJing at University of Northumbria.
It was great to share the dais (I think that's the posh word for DJ booth) with the boys from the Bloc, staring out through the laser beams... awww.
I'd been DJing in Aberdeen the night before which was amazing! Minus five outside, sheet ice on all the roads and a foot of snow in front of the club but the Scots still made it out! And man do they like their techno hard and then a bit harder please! Cracking.Ìý
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After such an energetic weekend I thought I'd hold the grand finale down in Brighton where I saw my favourite live act of the last decade (forgetting temporarily about The Pixies, The Cure and The Flaming Lips), Gogol Bordello. Ukranian gypsy punks corrupted by New York's melting pot and making such a great racket. On stage it's all about accordions, violins, big bass drums strapped to beautiful girls in ripped cheerleader outfits and head Gogol man Eugene screaming, spitting and crowd surfing his way through a blistering set. If you get a chance please go and see 'em!
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Catch the show tonight forÌýa great double header from Comanechi and Trencher -Ìýthe young versus the marginally older noiseniks from London town. Plus some drill & bass, Woody Guthrie and a bit of slow techno for good measure.
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Thanks for listenin'
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02/03/06
Been a bit slack on the diary front gang so apologies but but my life is often quite dull so I wouldn't want to bore you with 'I woke up, had a piece of toast (my favourite jam is raspberry)' etc etc.
Things that haven't been boring of late include Amadou and Mariam who I went to see on Monday at the Barbican. They're a couple from Mali, who met at a blind school and they make amazingly uplifting music - kinda like electric highlife. Their album was produced by Manu Chao and his rootsy gypsy atmosphere really comes through.
Other unboring things witnessed this week include US teen act Smoosh who we went to see at Maida Vale today recording their session for us... I think they're 11 and 13 years old but they batter their drums and geetars like 40 year old rock veterans!
Going to see Gogol Bordello in Brighton on Sunday so if I survive that I'll be back next week to do our slow techno Not So Secret Now Secret feature - it's the new rock & roll dontcha know.
Toodleoo
Da Banko
16/02/06
Cripes on a bicycle, that was one fun show.
Just finished doing the show with Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey from PulpÌýand I haven't laughed so much in a while and I think a small bit of wee may have escaped when Jarvis was telling the story about his mate getting his little fellow stuck in his zip and having to knock on a little old ladies door for help!
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If you ever have Pulp over for a gig/coffee morning I can attest that a Hawaiian pizza and lashings of red wine is the order of the day - now that's a rider!
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If you wanna check out the great music the boys unearthed for us and you need a laugh then !
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This week on the show we have the rather excellent city of Norwich stepping up as The Not So Secret Now Secret waiting to be revealed. Oops, cats out the bag now! Lots of ace music from there plus new Flaming Lips, Morrissey and some weird stuff I found down the back of my sofa.
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Mustn't waffle as I've got the rather enviable task of remixing one of Ryiuchi Sakamoto's new works this weekÌýand and I don't know where to begin.
Answers on a postcard please!
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09/02/06
10 reasonsÌýto strip naked and run roundÌýthe lanes singingÌýhallelujahÌýthis week in the world of Rob da BankÌý
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1. New Primal Scream gear finally surfaced - amazing track called Country Girl which will be a mega rock hit and downbeat psychedelic beauty Sometimes I Feel So Lonely.
2. UK festivals start announcing line ups next week... and I've had a sneak preview. No Glastonbury but believe me there are some incredible line ups about to be announced!
3. Walk The Line - best film I've seen in ages (I average about three a year so that's not always a good sign!). I came out of the cinema wanting to drive a tractor into a lake while yodelling a hillbilly rockabilly track in a Johnny Cash style (you had to be there).
4. New Morrissey LP - played the single on the show this week (listen again to the show)Ìýand the albums a corker. The first track sounds like Mozzas been dipping his quiff in the acid punch as he goes all reverse sitar psychedelia.
5. Not sure why it's so far down the list as it's the best one so far. Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackay from Pulp are joining me in the OneMusic studio next Thursday for the whole show and playing me some records... and hopefully talking to me!
6. Chips - well, they're always good aren't they.
7. The Aliens - members of the Beta Band and future folk hero Lone Pigeon join forces on an incredible record. Check it out before everyone else does on good old MySpace.
8. That's about all the musical fun I can fit into one week. I'm off to the pub - fancy a quick one?
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02/02/06
So we've made a year without being taken off air. Oh yes, OneMusic is one.Â
Not exactly an excuse to break out the alcoholic beverages but seeing as you're buying... !
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I went down to Huw's session with Mogwai and Jakokoyak on Tuesday and mighty fine both bands were too. Personal fave moments were putting faces to the OneMusic chatroom names (and lots of them too!) and Mogwai forgetting the lyrics to one of their new songs and the tour manager running around finding a lyric sheet. Still rocked though.
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Green Y-fronts... I wondered when I'd start wearing them. It's weird how you wear them up to age 12 or whenever, then the boxer shorts were invented, you ceremoniously burn all your Y-fronts on a bonfire and think never again... and then, bam! They're on again.
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I bet my fellow RadioÌý1 DJs Huw Stephens and Chris Coco don't wear them.  I imagine (not that I have ever imagined  honest!) that Huw, being only about 19 still and in the glow of eternal youth would laugh in the face of a pair of Y-fronts as he struts his stuff in his designer satin boxers. Anyway enough pants for one column.
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As the show reaches one year old, personally I'm cruising along in my 33rd year on earth which is a good year I think - the first year of the RPM years  33, 45 and 78. I'm hoping to make it to all of them!
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Thanks to all the gang up at Fresh Air in Edinburgh who looked after me when I DJed for them on Sunday. I love DJing and 99% of the time it all goes swimmingly  but it only takes one person to spoil it all.
So I had 299 people loving every minute and then one person comes up to the front and makes the traditional wanker sign to me mouthing abuse. Not even sure what I was playing at the time but what that guy doesn't know is that I've got over 300 friends on MySpace!
Ha. We won't mention the fact that our bearded friend Huw has over 500.
Til the next time, thanks for listening!
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OneMusic's 1st Birthday: All the sessions
26/01/06
Hello gang! hope you¹re all feelin fruity on this fine Thursday ... I'm just seeing if anyone wants to come to my first birthday party next week at Maida Vale? Despite what you may think I am older than one but my OneMusic show (and that of my brothers in arms Huw Stephens and Ras Kwame) is 365 days old on Thursday.
There'll be jelly and ice cream , daft hats and balloons , Louise promises to dance with Martyn and I'm gonna be cracking the whip dressed as a nurse , and most importantly there'll be some excellent live performances from Tunng , the best UK folk outfit around (I hope 18th Day Of May, Vashti Bunyan and King Creosote aren't reading this!) and Robochrist who we're not quite sure how to describe... but anyone who can mash the Grange Hill theme tune into heavy noisecore gets my vote.
It's gonna be new and interesting anyway which is what counts! So if you fancy coming down (and you'll need to be free Thursday 2nd Feb from 5pm ) then first 3 people to reply to this will get the tix... with a plus 1! Email onemusic@bbc.co.uk Orderly queueing please and see you there I hope. If not remember you can always tune in!
Outside of the OneMusic dungeon it was great to see that Arctic Monkeys sold 768 million records before lunchtime on Monday  from Huw playing them unsigned a year ago it¹s been a darn quick ride. Just hope they can find a bigger high after this 'cos its gonna take some beating, but (puts on motherly tone) they seem like nice boys with their feet firmly on the ground.
I feel sorry for the poor sod of a mate whose pictures on the cover of a record that's gonna sell over a million  (adopts miserly business man style voice) he should have agreed some royalty rates for his mug to be on there. They only paid him £70!
Right I'm off to play you some music on the radio  if you missed it remember to Listen Again!
19/01/2006
Greetings from da Bank towers where I'm perched on the edge of the big white telephone (the toilet!) suffering from gastric flu as much of Radio 1/the outside world seems to be. Don't get too close you may catch it!
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Aside from my bodily ailments another exciting week for music and I can't wait to lift the lid on the underground Bristol scene in our future Sony award winning Not So Secret Now Secret feature on tonights show!
And please check out the session from the criminally unsigned This Is The Kit too  as Ive boasted if the singer Kate Stables isn't signed within six months I'll eat my size 12 Green Flash shoes slathered in mustard! Just watch me.
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I'm being bombarded with new gadgets at the moment from technology companies, Â don't get me wrong I love a freebie as much as the next man/woman/mouse, but there are only so many ways I can listen to my music - and call me old fashioned but I love the crisp perfume of a fresh slab of vinyl in the morning.
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Granted it makes the journey to work easier if you can have your record collection on a small blue thing the size of a kids Cornish pasty in your pocket - but I do think the world is in danger of getting so hooked up on making music smaller, faster and more invisible that music itself may soon just decide to hang up its headphones and try another planet. Music needs serious attention paying to it.
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A friend of mine went to see Babyshambles three weeks ago, on one of the rare occasions when a certain member of the band wasn't residing at Her Majestys Pleasure or else sat at the bar at the back wondering why the lead singer wasn't onstage until he suddenly realised that was his job!
Anyway as soon as the band piped up the first song literally everyone in the audience held a phone aloft and started videoing/recording/taking pictures  now where's the enjoyment in watching a live gig on your camera while you're actually there and can see it with your own eyes? Weird!
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Anyway enough rant here are 5 things worth staying alive for on a Thursday
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1) Bonnie Prince Billy and Tortoise's great versions of Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road and Elton John's DanielÌý - check the album The Brave And The Bold on Domino.
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2) 5 inch vinyl singles. Looks like a CD but is a record Â- magic!
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3) A whale being spotted in the Thames blowing through it's spout! Thumbs up animal action.
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4) More and more UK festivals being announced by the day! I'm spending my summer in a camper van naked in a field eating mung beans.
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5) Sun  just when it looks like the new ice age has set in the sun comes out and we smile again
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Not So secret Now Secret
This Is The Kit - Interview
12/01/2006
Oops I seem to have fallen off the wagon
Less than a week into the New Year and I was on the sauce again - my only New Year's Resolution in tatters ... must be something to do with staring out the window at the torrential rain and accidentally having caught an episode of Big Brother. That is enough to turn any soul to drink ... or worse!
When I first turned it on I thought they were playing a repeat of Fraggle Rock or The Muppets. I've never seen so much reconstructive surgery gone wrong. Noses that look like wedges of brie and breasts that wouldn't go amiss on a market stall down the Old Kent Road!? Absolutely Wrong with a capital W!
Anyroad that's why I'm all the more grateful for Mogwai who have saved my week. I begged and sold my soul for a ticket for the sold out shows and was blown away as ever.
The gang have been together over ten years now and the barrage of sound just gets better. New single Friend Of The Night hasn't left my cd player since it popped through the da Bank letter box and live it was a delight! Huge fan Huw Stephens joined me in saying one of the best gigs we've seen in a while.
As with Huw I also downloaded my first tune from iTunes and worked out what a podcast was - embarrassing for a Radio 1ÌýDJ but I'm there now, so stop giggling at the back.
Check out the show tonight for new ones from Speedy J, Trencher, Errors (signed to Mogwai's label) and the mighty Mogwai themselves! ... and remember do email us or text us any time to let us know what you'd like to hear.
Keep listening!
Robby
Rob da Banks five favourite things this Thursday:
5. Martin Scorsese presents The Blues - ace book with big pictures and all telling the story of the genre!
4. Podcasts - finally I get it! Watch out for a da Bank podcast very soon!
3. MySpace - more internet thrills! Come and be one of my friends online - Im trying to overtake Huw!
2. The White Heat label - every release a winner and featured on tonights show!
1. Battle's double EP - B and C. Doesn't get better than this.
Rob's gigs:
Sat Jan 28 Telegraph, Brixton
Sun Jan 29 Fresh Air, Edinburgh
Fri Feb 3 Dirty Disco, Leeds
Sat Feb 11 Chibuku, Liverpool
Sat Feb 25 Turnmills, London (with Zero 7)
Sat Mar 4 Jet, Aberdeen
Fri Mar 10 Digital, Newcastle
Sat Mar 11 Fabric, London
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:: OneMusic guide to Podcasting
05/01/2006
Hippy new year my fellows and may it be a fruitful and fruity one for you all.
Very exciting new music in the da Bank mailbox as ever at the beginning of a year  it¹s a good time to reflect on records that may have got caught up in the Xmas rush or just been plain forgotten in the alcoholic maelstrom
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Speaking of which I'm four days into my New Years Resolution no booze attempt and things are going well  no shakes or renal failure yet, but mild cravings for anything alcoholic including red wine vinegar and wine gums. My wife Josie is pregnant so that helps as apparently if I pass so much as a sniff of liquor across my lips I smell like a giant Pritt Stick getting into bed, such is the pregnant noses sensitivity!
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What do u call a Reliant Robin with a football inside it?
A whistle.
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Sorry just had to get that out of the way as it's the only joke I've ever remembered  I can forget it now.
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Aside from blathering on on the radio and making crap jokes I have lots of DJ gigs coming up around the country so if you live in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Nottingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London then watch out there'll be a da Bank about near you in the next few weeks. Lock up your daughters and fetch the earplugs, mother!
Sat Jan 28ÌýTelegraph, Brixton
Sun Jan 29 Fresh Air, Edinburgh
Fri Feb 3ÌýDirty Disco, Leeds
Sat Feb 11 Chibuku, Liverpool
Sat Feb 25ÌýTurnmills, London (with Zero 7)
Sat Mar 4ÌýJet, Aberdeen
Fri Mar 10ÌýDigital, Newcastle
Sat Mar 11 Fabric, LondonÌý
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Do check out the show tonight or online on Listen Again if you missed it for a whole week afterwards  magic, huh!?, as I'm proclaiming from the rooftops my Top Tips for 2006 although I have to say since I decided them I've found another 25 who I think'll be bigger! Anyroad, tune in and see if you agree with me.
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:: New Music 2006 - Lamacq Live documentary
:: Make an audio feast for Rob's ears
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15/12/2005
Festive my arse!
Woken up in a foul mood this morning, knocked over my mammoth pile of Christmas cover versions and Now That’s What I Call A Happy Ruddy Christmas records in a right old huff. I’ve no idea why but hey ho!
Back in real time and away from Santa's greedy mitts, I feel more relaxed when I start listening through some of the ace records on tonights show – Metronomy must be one of my most played artists and I only started on him 2 months ago! It’s always a treat to have a Misty's Big Adventure record on the show and tonight we’re spoilt with a whole bloomin session from the boys!
Egyptian grime, English pastoral folk and angry US thrash with rude words in the mix all add up for a bumper show – my last one before we go properly festive next week with the OneMusic Festive 50! Make sure you’re tuned into me and Huw from Tuesday for the full countdown.
If you listen to the show toinight (and what else could you possibly be doing instead!) you’ll know I’ve got a top secret passports please who's your friend type search going on for DUETS. Thaat’s right, very simple, I just wanna get your best duets from down the years, whether it was Renee and Renata or King Creosote and Magnétophone. Please tell me on the Radio 1 . All will be revealed in early 2006!
I’m also gonna be up in the wee hours of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day doing my Blue Room shows 5-7am so please do join me for a pre-breakfast sherry if you’re not too hungover/sensible.
Til next week!
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Misty's Big Adventure - in session
Blue Room with Rob da Bank and Chris Coco
08/12/2005
Aye aye me hearties.
Hope all's well out in the wide world? This week I’m typically over excited about how much new music is pouring into my ears – DJ Rupture teaming up with reggae legend Sister Nancy, the Talking Heads sideways rock of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Le Volume Courbe’s gentle murmurings and the ace new dub techno of Argy from Chile.
Check out this weeks show online on Listen Again if you wanna hear any of those and the excellent excellent Melt Banana session clocking in at just over 7 minutes for four tunes!
If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know I’ve been playing lots of Smoosh and Kitty, Daisy and Lewis records – the former being two young ladies (11 and 15) from Seattle and K, D and L from London and respectively 11, 15 and 17! They’re starting them young nowadays and even Jack White’s got in on the act with The Muldoons – two 8 year olds for goodness sake. Good music though!
Out and about in da Bank world it’s festive party season where I'm rolled out to various office parties and clubs to entertain drunken revellers.
High/lowlight of the week was probably DJing for a big music television stations party (have you guessed yet!?) where the crowd were particularly fussy about what they wanted. One minute 400 people were going nuts to anything I played the next they'd be booing and threatening to cut my ponytail off.
As ever I carry my bag of emergency records to stem any life threatening musical wounds so I whacked Dolly Parton's 9 To 5 on which could make even a dead man dance. So blow me down if that wasn't the moment my Radio 1 compadre Tim Westwood decided to take to the stage to say hello...
It looked really good I can tell you, Radio 1's supposed ambassador of all things underground grinning from ear to ear through red wine lips as the stage was invaded by screaming girls dancing to Dolly!
Tim graciously ignored what I was playing and gave me a pat on the head – I quickly and surprisingly smoothly mixed into Run DMC's Walk This Way and deemed myself forgiven!
Thanks for listening as ever my friends
Related links:
Melt Banana interview
Melt Banana photo gallery
1/12/2005
You're too late!
If you're reading this on Friday I'm sorry to say the Festive 50 voting has been closed now. At least that means no more votes for Britney, 50 Cent or Jamie Cullum ...
Actually votings been exemplary this year with huge support for the underground acts we love in the OneMusic dungeon. Can't wait to team up with my hirsute chum Huw on the 20th December to kick off this whole shebang.
Out and about in the world of da Bank I played a great club in Bournemouth last week called Maison. Sounds poxy but the crowd bore with me whether I was dropping minimal techno or the Human League and most styles in between.
On Wednesday I was the special guest DJ (I like it when they call me that!) at the British Independent Film Awards which was a great honour! James Nesbitt, him off Cold Feet and the Yellow Pages adverts was presenting it (saw him crapping himself backstage, cool as a cucumber as soon as he walked on!) and the cream of the indie film scene were there.
I never know what kind of tunes they'll want to sashay around in their dinner jackets to but as soon as I stuck on some OutKast, Keira Knightley and the gang cut a rug. I dont think Deerhoof or Scotch Egg would have worked to be frank.
If you're in the Nottingham area tonight I'm playing at Stealth which should be a blast. I love Nottingham not least because the town centre seems to be full of young people wandering around without a care in the world spouting nonsense and being sick while still talking - my kinda people.
Musically Ive just come out of Rough Trade with a much lighter wallet than when I went in. I get sent 300 odd records a week but still seem to need more and more and more!
Just too many good records but the new Cat Power LP, the Congotronics compilation, Neil Young'snew album, the new Mathew Jonson and that Smoosh LP I've been playing were just some of this weeks highlights.
Dont miss Belle and Sebastien and Tunng's new singles on the show next week and the awesome Melt Banana in a very short and loud session.
Til then my friends - toodleoo
Related links:
The Orb
Festive 50 show details
24/11/2005
Found meself wandering out of Cardiff station in a pink cardigan and carrying a Vietnam fighter pilot's hat last weekend.
No, I wasn’t on a Ban The Bomb march, just off to play at Matt the Hat's hat party! He’s a Welsh chum of mine who owns an inflatable church (very handy for impromptu weddings) but what he hadn't told me was it was rugby day in Wales.
Suddenly I was swallowed up by thousands of Welsh fans jubilantly drinking their way round the town centre, knocking over old ladies and limboing under taxis … and then I found out they’d lost the game to Australia! I daren't think what they’d be like if they won?
Anyway Huw's home town is very genteel really and I met lots of civilized, later inebriated, folk who listen to the show and seemed happy I was there … even after I'd DJed!
My fighter pilot helmet held its own against a cavalcade of feather boas, bowlers, stovepipes, flat caps, American football helmets and every other hat constructed in the last century.
This week I’ve been asked to assist in the making of the new Matthew Herbert record – well that's not strictly true but I am contributing a sound onto his answerphone as instructed and if it's good enough my noise will appear on said record. Any ideas pop pickers? Email me on onemusic@bbc.co.uk.
I also met one of John Peel's fave bands Melt Banana who have recorded a session for us, when the lovely Amy gave them a guided tour of Radio 1's ravishing environs. We probably needed an interpreter (although their English was 100% better than my Japanese!) but I was told they recorded 4 tracks and I think the session totals less than five minutes. Ace.
Lastly, if you ever get a chance listen to my Blue Room show – it's on Saturday mornings 5-7am and despite the killer hour it's a bit tamer than my One Music outings so no-ones head falls off at dawn and I get sued. Anyway, this week I’ve got TV On The Radio in session so that's gotta be a reason to listen again from Saturday onwards for a whole seven days? No? Well, I give up …
Last but not least remember to vote in the Festive Fifty ... or I'll set Martyn on you...
Related links:
OneMusic Festive 50
Sender Berlin interview
17/11/2005
Mornin campers and campettes - hope you're all fine and dandy.
Another Thursday is suddenly upon us and not too soon I say! I'm always raring to go with another bumper box of musical magic for you (or at least I hope that's how it comes across!)
Just landed last night from New York where aside from DJing with Annie Nightingale at hip niterie Crobar. I had one of the worst cases of Delhi belly. I've never had so spent much of my time in an unseasonally sunny Big Apple sat on a hotel toilet whistling Scotch Egg tunes to while away the hours. Nice.
Back in Blighty our OneMusic office doors and emails are blocked solid with Festive 50 votes are coming in apace. If you haven't voted yet what's keeping ya? Plenty of ways to get your votes in.
Regular-ish OneMusic feature You Say We Play returns tonight with a New York theme. If you haven't taken part yet, it's the most fun you can have without ice cream and a horse's saddle (ask me later!). Last weeks' the original of Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love beat off stiff competition from the new John Peel tribute version ... check it out at midnight tonight.
If you're up for a rave tomorrow (Friday 18th) do come to the Lo Recordings tenth birthday celebrations - any independent label that can keep going for a decade deserves a bit of a knees up - I'll be buggered if I know why they chose me to clear the floor down there with my maladjusted mash up but at least you get to see Nathan Fake DJ after me!
Check it out at Jacks in London Bridge if you can. I'm also playing at a 'hat' party in Cardiff this Saturday... something in my pea brain tells me the venue is the Toucan Club but I could be totally wrong!
Anyway I'm still deciding whether to go with the Indian headdress, jaunty sailors cap or regal crown look. Oh the trials and tribulations of a Radio 1 DJ. Til the next time!
Related links:
Magnétophone in session
OneMusic Festive 50
10/11/2005
I must be getting political in my old age.
Not only am I fuming that Mayor Of London, Ken Livingstone, is getting rid of the old Routemaster red double decker buses but he's also given a development company permission to tear down the Battersea Power Station chimneys, so beloved of The Orb and Pink Floyd on their artwork and icons of the London landscape ... tsk, I don't know.
And just when it looked like it couldn't get any worse, the crazy guys in charge of this country are trying to eject our OneMusic hardcore hero Scotch Egg 'cos his student visa has run out.
Now anyone that listened to our Wrong Music special (Thursday Oct 20th) will know this is plain insane ... where else can we possibly get our fix of fried chicken related gabba noisecore if Mr Egg is ejected?
Glad to see Michael Eavis has locked down his headliner for Glastonbury 2007 although he won't tell us who it is ... bets are on for U2 or The Rolling Stones but I reckon he should spice it up a bit ... how about using someone from this weeks da Bank One Music show?
You could have Electronic Elvis doing covers of The King or perhaps Kate Bush popping her live cherry again after 12 years, or for something really crazy have Kid 606 duetting with Jackie O Mother****er for a sunrise with a difference at Glasto's hallowed Stone Circle!
I'm off to New York with Annie Nightingale as soon as we've done our shows tonight. No, we're not eloping but we are DJing together in the Big Apple so I'll report back if I do manage to mix Jeggsy Dodd into stomping hardcore into Annie's breakbeat maelstrom.
Til then my friends, adieu!
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Wrong Music special
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