Day Four in Domino Radio Week!
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Below is the schedule for the day ahead…
1pm – The London Story – Ben Thompson presents 500 years of history and The More Fire Crew
The London Story – Ben Thompson presents 500 years of history and The More Fire Crew
Author, journalist and moonlighting Resonance FM fixture Ben Thompson presents a musical pageant of life in Great Britain’s capital, with help from a cast of hundreds including Lord Kitchener, Ivor Cutler, World Domination Enterprises, The Streets, The Slits, Steptoe & Son, The Small Faces, Sir Richard Dimbleby, Sir Winston Churchill, SL2, Quentin Crisp, John Barry, T.S.Eliot, Caetano Veloso Sir John Evelyn, Jimi Hendrix, Iain Sinclair, Underworld, Pet Shop Boys, Dorothy Tutin, Shy FX & UK Apache, Sir John Betjeman, Robert Grawi, X-Ray Spex, King Timothy, Derek B, Aswad, The cast of Round The Horne, The Who, Stanley Holloway, Dizzee Rascal, Lionel Bart and Ambrose & His Orchestra.
Anyone who fancies listening to more of this kind of nonsense can find 24 hours of it at www.thelondonear.co.uk from June 6th 2011.
2pm – Angular Records featuring Tim Key and Alex Horne
Angular Records have instigated a radio show where Alex Horne and Tim Key will spend two hours playing Russian Lounge Music and trad jazz and getting confused by the equipment. Key is a poet and Horne will bring his lunch in and they’re trying to get a celeb or musician in to interview them about their life. Tune in!
4pm – All Things Reconsidered with Richard King
Richard King is the editor of Loops an occasional journal of long-form music writing jointly published by Domino and Faber & Faber. In All Things Reconsidered he talks to Loops contributors past, present and future about the ideas behind their current books, along with handpicked musical examples from the authors to illustrate their perspective.
Episode 2
Owen Hatherley’s forthcoming Different is a biography of Pulp that locates the group’s stand-alone individuality during Britpop in their antecedents in Acid House, subsidized Sheffield bus routes, their willingness to sing about class and Brutalist council architecture.
Dan Hancox is the editor of Fightback, A Reader on the Winter of Protest, a survey of the student protests and other actions carried out in the last nine months, including the moment when Lethal Bizzle’s Pow rang out on the soundsystems in Parliament Square, becoming an anthem for kettled youth.
Richard King’s How Soon Is Now? The inside history of the independent music business is published by Faber & Faber in 2012
5:30pm – Guardian Request Show
Hear that? No, it’s not a Magnetic Man soundcheck, nor is it a Sunn O))) rehearsal. That rumbling is the sound of radio being shaken to its foundations next week when Rosie Swash and myself take to the airwaves to present two live shows on Domino Radio.
The shows come in two parts. For the first hour (1.30pm-2.30pm, Monday 6 June), we’ll play tunes we first fell in love to as kids – before we became emotionless music hacks governed solely by what’s in fashion. Don’t worry, we won’t play Right Said Fred. But we will provide a journey that takes in old-school R&B, happy hardcore and maybe even folkie stuff our dads played in the car on the way to some godawful campsite.
But that’s only the first part. For the second (5.30pm-6.30pm, Thursday 9 June), we need your help. Because over the course of that 60-minute marathon we want to play your selections. So post below the songs you first fell in love to as a kid or teenager, and please feel free to throw in a heartwarming story or two. We’ll play the best ones, and read out your tales. Requests taken here – http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/jun/03/nominate-songs-domino-radio?INTCMP=SRCH
7pm – Roots Manuva and Big Dada Records
Will Ashton at Big Dada and Roots Manuva are taking back Hackney City Farm.
Big Dada Recordings have been releasing cutting-edge Black music from the UK and beyond for the last fourteen years. Probably their best known artist is Roots Manuva, who will release a new album with the label this September.
8pm – Kieran Hebden
Just did a show for Domino Radio… raw and unplanned with a broken mixer and a weird mixture of records. Recorded in Brooklyn. Played some current things I’ve picked up and also some old classics. The first track on there is Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company…
9:50pm – Berlin Pop Choir
Lyndsey Cockwell started the Berlin Pop Choir in 2009. In a city that was famously once divided, a diverse group of around 40 people come together every week to sing in harmony. With no audition and no experience necessary the only requirement is to love singing. The repertoire ranges around the world of pop from Anna Calvi to Lady Gaga, from Wild Beasts to Pet Shop Boys, Candi Statton, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, Britney Spears and Animal Collective. All the songs are custom arranged and taught by Lyndsey. The choir performs at the end of each term and at various locations around Berlin.
10pm – To Rococo Rot – Stefan Schneider presents Roots Speculation Part I
I have started listening to Reggae music in the very early 80’s when i discovered Dub albums from Prince Jammy or LKJ. When i started playing bass guitar with Kreidler in 1994 those reggae basslines have been a huge influence on my playing. As i failed to properly play off beat syncopations my basslines sounded more like country or new wave.
Darryl Moore who’s been a friend and then collaborator of to rococo rot introduced me to some thrift stores in his Brixton neighbourhood where i did endless listening sessions to jamaican 7” inches. Most of the tunes on my mix are gems from those humid bargain places.
10:30pm – Liquid Liquid – Sunny Nites
My radio show is called ‘sunny nites”
as it intends to shed
musical light into the darkness
& musical darkness into the light
admittedly it’s a rambling
slightly crusty selection
of random items
non the less
it attempts to create an idiosyncratic narrative
that is formed more by whimsy than style
the music deconstructs
folding into itself
reaching so far back
it’s forward looking
darkness at it’s brightest
it’s a big wet kiss to the radio listener
sloppy, sincere
with much affection
all the tracks were lovingly compiled
salvatore principato
may 2011
FRIDAY
12:30am – Cass Browne and Jamie Hewlett – The Horror
Cass Browne (Gorillaz scriptwriter / drummer) and Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz artist / co-creator) endeavour to play a sprawling selection of tunes, scores, soundtracks and other ephemera from the world of Horror, taking in cuts from The Shining, Cape Fear, The Exorcist, The Omen, Dawn of The Dead, Rent-a-Ghost, Eraserhead and more.
We also get a flimsy insight too, as to which of these images and themes have made their way into the colourful Gorillaz visual world. Rich pickings indeed.
Cass lines up the tracks while Jamie twiddles with his ingenious ‘saxophone tie’ toy in a puerile attempt to cause disruption. The show has been heavily edited in order to make some kind of sense, and in some places it actually does come close. Either way it makes for a truly ‘horrible’ listening experience. A night of horror ‘par excellence’, perhaps…?
Maybe so. Have a listen and see…
Voice recording (and background heckling) by Morgan Nicholls
Show edited by Seb Monk.
2am – Selector Dub Narcotic
Selector Dub Narcotic in the house! Calvin Johnson on the MIC.
And it gets even better because sessions have been recorded with Arrington de Dionyso, Tender Forever and Angelo Spencer et les Haut Sommets
For real!
We are so exicited, and rekon you’ll be hopping too.
The K revolution is exploding the teenage underground into passionate revolt against the corporate ogre.
Rise up, listen up! And here’s a little more about all things Narcotic.
Based in Olympia, Wash., Calvin’s work in underground culture started as a teenage fan volunteering at the local community radio station, KAOS-FM. He moved on to writing for fanzines, organizing music and film events, playing music in various ill-fated bands. Calvin established K, a locally oriented media outlet, in 1982.
In 1993 Calvin founded Dub Narcotic, a recording studio, in which he has documented the work of the Somehow Is and Never Was, such as Mirah, the Blow, Versus, Built to Spill, Fitz of Depression, Make-Up and Little Wings. It has also been the incubator of many Calvin experiments in collaboration and self-expression, such as Beat Happening, Halo Benders and Dub Narcotic Sound System.
The decade of the double zeroes has seen Calvin Johnson set out into the world, acoustic guitar in hand, as a solo artist of musical platitudes. Last year’s release of his album Before the Dream Faded… [KLP170] is one byproduct of such venturing forth.
3am – Greg Vegas – An Irreverent View of Saxophones
Brooklyn, NY based Greg Vegas is music junkie and music professional of all sorts. As an artist manager he represents international artists such as Peter Bjorn and John, The Radio Dept, Loney Dear, The Suzan and more. In addition, Greg currently holds position as US Label Manager for Cooperative Music after spending over a decade of working with some of the worlds best Independent labels at Alternative Distribution Alliance. Also known as a noise maker, Greg plays with long running improv group THE HAT CITY INTUITIVE, and got his inflated ego in his previous 90’s grungy-pop group MONSTERLAND. Greg cut his teeth hosting various radio shows at WXCI Radio (Danbury Ct) starting in the mid 80’s only ending in 2002 when he no longer could pass as a college student.
Mr. Vegas’ show for Domino radio is “An Irreverent View of Saxophones”, exploring the power of sax in music of all sorts. He hopes you enjoy it.
4am – Leyland Kirby – The Caretaker
when i was a child i wanted to be a bumble bee which is factually correct
6am – Handsome Steve Miller
I grew up at the arse end of the world, latitude 37 south. The town was dominated by four stinking pulp mills that operated twenty fours a day.
There were two tribes, the bikies and the hippies. My mate Dave and I hated them, we were looking for something, just couldn’t work out what it was. We pilfered through our older brothers records, came across Howling Wolf, the Phil Spector Xmas LP, then one Xmas my brother gave me Dr Feelgood’s Stupidity and a record by Asleep At The Wheel for a joke.
I was onto something. We found Alex Harvey and Lou Reed. We saw the Saints perform Stranded on television. A nugget of gold. We moved to Adelaide then Melbourne then London. We blew the Fall off the stage at the Electric Ballroom and got dropped from the tour. We liked groups who we thought were funny… have a listen, maybe you’ll think they’re funny too, if you don’t, take a powder and have a lie down.
