Brumcast 171 'I lost the map' was broadcast live on http://www.rhubarbradio.com on Monday 19th July 8pm GMT. Featuring Ska from Tempting Rosie & 360, Metalfrom Morgue Orgy, Lunacy from Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank (Revival), post rock from Io and heavily tipped bands such as Tantrums, The Arcadian Kicks, Miss Halliwell plus a loads more different stuff . All tracks written and performed by artists from Birmingham and the UK Midlands. Download free and direct from here Full show details and audio streams at the archive
Here's this show's playlist :-
1. Tempting Rosie - Fagin (4:10)
2. Bronze Medals - I Lost The Map (3:51)
3. The Traps - The Honey Drip (3:25)
4. Tantrums - Give me my ticket (3:33)
5. Morgue Orgy - Blacken (3:51)
6. Miss Halliwell - Let's do business (3:35)
7. 360 - I Ran (2:53)
8. The Arcadian Kicks - Howl at the Sun (3:26)
9. Visual Audio Replicant - stolen shadow (4:37)
10. Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank (Revival) - Gas Bill (1:39)
11. Io - If You Don't Trust Me, Trust My Berreta (4:31)
12. The Love Child Electric - Good for the heart (3:13)
13. Muchuu - Adventure We Go (3:16)
14. Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank (Revival) - Cheese (2:42)
Enjoy!
Little Chris
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Brumcast 170 'Disco Terror' was broadcast live on http://www.rhubarbradio.com on Monday 12th July 8pm GMT. Featuring 8 bit from 8 Bit Ninjas, Hardore from Police Bastard, Dub Step from Scarlet Harlots, Indie, Rock, plus a loads more different stuff . All tracks written and performed by artists from Birmingham and the UK Midlands. Download free and direct from here Full show details and audio streams at the archive
Here's this show's playlist :-
1. Scarlet Harlots - Porcelain (2:45)
2. Friendly Fire band & Fiery Friends - YT - Credit Crunch (3:05)
3. The Bluebeat Arkestra - Waves (4:30)
4. 8-Bit Ninjas - Disco Terror (3:28)
5. Police Bastard - Born to die (3:45)
6. Hot Monocles - At my door (4:40)
7. Sea Fields - hidden forests (3:58)
8. Ace Bushy Striptease - Wrestle; Eat; Cry (1:17)
9. Drop The Ball - The Workhorse (4:41)
10. We Writers - We Writers (4:11)
11. Stinky Wizzleteat - megtilda (2:32)
12. Just Morale - Hold On Tight (2:36)
13. Little Night Terrors - Vultures (3:35)
14. Mr. Shankly - Little things (3:29)
Enjoy!
Little Chris
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Brumcast 170 'Disco Terror' was broadcast live on http://www.rhubarbradio.com on Monday 12th July 8pm GMT. Featuring 8 bit from 8 Bit Ninjas, Hardore from Police Bastard, Dub Step from Scarlet Harlots, Indie, Rock, plus a loads more different stuff . All tracks written and performed by artists from Birmingham and the UK Midlands. Download free and direct from here Full show details and audio streams at the archive
Here's this show's playlist :-
1. Scarlet Harlots - Porcelain (2:45)
2. Friendly Fire band & Fiery Friends - YT - Credit Crunch (3:05)
3. The Bluebeat Arkestra - Waves (4:30)
4. 8-Bit Ninjas - Disco Terror (3:28)
5. Police Bastard - Born to die (3:45)
6. Hot Monocles - At my door (4:40)
7. Sea Fields - hidden forests (3:58)
8. Ace Bushy Striptease - Wrestle; Eat; Cry (1:17)
9. Drop The Ball - The Workhorse (4:41)
10. We Writers - We Writers (4:11)
11. Stinky Wizzleteat - megtilda (2:32)
12. Just Morale - Hold On Tight (2:36)
13. Little Night Terrors - Vultures (3:35)
14. Mr. Shankly - Little things (3:29)
Enjoy!
Little Chris
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Brumcast 169 'Destined for tomorrow' was broadcast live on http://www.rhubarbradio.com on Monday 5th July 8pm GMT. Featuring funk from Carvalho, Jazz Thrash from Meatfeast, Soul from Stone Foundation, Post Rock from MotherTrucker & IO plus a loads more different stuff . All tracks written and performed by artists from Birmingham and the UK Midlands. Download free and direct from here Full show details and audio streams at the archive
Here's this show's playlist :-
1. Carvalho - Beware (4:32)
2. Meatfeast - School of Random Thought (2:53)
3. Stone Foundation - Please Tell Me (4:01)
4. Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame - Klutz (3:24)
5. Odessa - Destined For Tomorrow (3:23)
6. Joe Karchud - Harder Job (2:15)
7. Io - Silent Hymns in the Dark (4:56)
8. Old School Tie - Promises (3:54)
9. Falling Faster - I Saw This In A Movie (3:06)
10. The Fores - Paint The Sky (5:30)
11. MotherTrucker - Festival Strength (5:09)
12. Capital Sun - When Somebody Takes Your Heart (3:46)
13. Tiny Cinema - Recovery Song (3:18)
Enjoy!
Little Chris
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Courtney 'circular breathing' Pine giving it some at the Mostly Jazz Festival. Image by Pete Ashton.

Day Two in the Mostly Jazz house(/park). If Day One was all about the jazz-funk and the blistering drummers, Day Two was all about the jazz-jazz and prodigious guitarists.

Marshall Allen from Sun Ra Arkestra, looking like .. errr.. a lot of other people in Moseley, actually. Image by Pete Ashton.

Day One in Mostly Jazz house. Or should that be park, which indeed it was. And gloriously so, as the sun shone upon the hobbit holes of Moseley's secret park pretty much all day and all the beards, yummies and long-haired children of Birmingham were out in full force.

I'm not quite sure how to do just one blog entry on an entire day of music, featuring 12 different bands, a couple of poets and a bit of World Cup football thrown in for good measure, without this being the longest blog entry in the universe. So, in the interests of brevity, this is Saturday by moments. Day One's best bits, if you like...

Tis the time for football quotings, tra la la la.
Anyway, so spoke Alan Hansen about Alex Ferguson's Manchester United side ahead of the 1995 - 96 season. United went on to win the league and cup double.
It's now one of the greatest footballing clichés of all time.
I'll be shooting a movie with a 'bunch of kids' from Birmingham School of Acting very soon indeed.
We have no money, the script is still being written and there are a million and one things that we need to find.
Right now I have a lot of reasons to be very, very scared but I don't feel that way.
This is one of the most exciting things I have ever done.

Sister Henry and The Prescriptions. Some of them, anyway.

In theory, I've semi-retired from blogging. This theory has been somewhat thrown out of the window, however, by the irresistible prospect of the imminent Mostly Jazz Festival - this weekend in Moseley Park. It's jazz, it's funk, it's soul. It's in Moseley. It's a festival. It's Sun Ra Arkestra, it's Quantic, it's JTQ, it's Craig Charles DJing at the after-party. It's local, national and international jazzy, funky, gypsy, fusiony, souly, latiny (they're not even real words, but I don't care I'm that excited) talent. It's beers and beards and (Polar) bears. And it's right on my doorstep. How could I possibly not do a festival diary?