We are still learning this radio game... and we didn't really have enough microphones to do this properly so both me and Matt ended up coming out a bit quiet. Matt set the sound levels... so if you want to blame someone, blame him.
If it sounds Ok then you can thank me for all the amazing work I did boosting the levels and moving stuff around. You can tell how much work i had to do by the fluctuating volume of the beds...
Anyway. Here is the show.
By the way, If you haven't heard Clayton before... He is amazing. The next hour or so may change your life.
'Inspector Gadget' by Dann Casswell and Clayton Blizzard
We've long talked about working on a project together, but we just couldn't get our schedules to align. Eventually, after talking to my astrologer, we decided that instead of actually making a track, we should just start the show with an impromptu Beat Box Session. Matt failed to 'bust in with a wicked Freestyle'
'We're all Gonna Die' by Clayton Blizzard
It's funny because it's true. When Clayton came into the studio both me and Matt were swiftly reduced to the status of giggling fan boys. In order to lift the mood Clayton played this cheerful little ditty and left us in further Awe.
'Ballad of a Thin Man' by Bob Dylan
I may have made a mistake at this point by suggesting that this is an inappropriate song for Clayton to play out. Mostly because he is not a thin Man. He's not a fat man. He is a little bit of a stout man.
'MC' by KRS 1
Clayton comes from a tradition of Hip Hop and Folk Music. He's as happy busting off some phat ryhmes to the haunting drone of the Hurdy-Gurdy as he his sipping kristal in the back seat of his record companies beamer while two weedy looking vegetarian groupies sing 'where did you get that hat.' He's a stone cold player (of nine Men's morris).
'Crushed Bones' by Why
It's been so long since we recorded the show that I have completely forgotten what the hell this song sounded like. I will replace this with the first description that is sent to me over EMAIL
'Jean' by the Smiths
People always think that I will really like The Smiths. But oddly enough I'm not a big fan. TV is my God and I once saw Morrissey on the Johnothan Ross show and he didn't come off to well. I do however like this. It's Chris Packham dropping references to Smiths songs into episodes of Spring Watch. Genius. I particularly like Kate Humble corpsing every time he does it.
'Function Creep' by Clayton Blizzard
Oh Clayton, with my looks and your brains just think what amazing children we would have. I'm thinking Superpowers.I'm thinking that we would have to hide them from the military. I'm not letting the Feds do experiments on our kids.
'Umi Says' By Mos Deff
Deftones is an American rock band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1988 consisting of Chino Moreno (lead vocals and guitar), Stephen Carpenter (guitar), Chi Cheng (bass) Frank Delgado (keyboards and turntables), and Abe Cunningham (drums and percussion). They have released six albums to date, with their most recent Diamond Eyes in spring of 2010. Mos Deff is the alternative name of that dude from the IT Crowd.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
'Winning a Raffle Loosing a War' by Clayton Blizzard
'Union Man' by Clayton Blizzard
That's it from me.
goodnight.
Bristol Community FM's Flagship Friday Night Music Show Fridays at 7pm on 93.2fm
Thursday 22 July 2010
Tuesday 13 July 2010
21: Trilogy of Pain pt.3
Lets say you start life with a bucket of joy, but that bucket has a pinhole in it. Just a small one, so you don't think to fix the damn thing. And then 30 years later there's f all left in the bucket and you're left sitting all alone and crying, in a Weatherspoons in Milton Keynes. Tears dripping from your sweaty chin into a cheap pint of... Bitter.
You can hear this episode. HERE
This week it is dedicated to despare.
Track Lisitngs
'I Never Came' by Queens of the Stone Age
When Pandora opened her box of human suffering, the last thing to come flying out was hope. When they tell this story to children, they tend to sell hope as a kind of concelation prize. Something that makes all the other problems in the world bearable. Sometime I think that hope is just as bad as the others. when you get hit, hope makes you get up and get hit again. Makes you que in line for an audience with Simon Cowell, makes you think that all your hard work and dedication will be rewarded rather than abused. Hope is not a friend... hope... she is the bigest bitch of them all.
'Juliane' by Ben Folds Five
At one time I thought this was a happy song about new found freedom. It's not it's about a man over-compensating for the massive blow he has been dealt. Weighed down by the weight of despare he is unable to walk and can only run and dance like fool. Like a man on hot coals, he waves his arms not in celebration but in desperation. The garbage he drags up and down the road is not physical, but emotional. He himself is inside that black polythene bag, kicked around and gasping for air.
'Take this Bottle' by Faith No More
They tell you not bottle it all up inside, but if you wander into your place of work and lay all your junk out on the desk they tend to call security. Perhaps it's best to flip randomly between the two. Bottle it all up in public but then the moment you are alone, wail like a dog towards the moon. Let it all out my lupine friend, let it all flow out into midnight sky.
'I Will Survive' by Cake (First performed by Gloria Gaynor, but written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris.)
The killer line in this track is this one 'It took all the strenght I had just not to fall apart'. Forget about progress. Progress is impossible, the best you can hope for is for things not to get worse and it may well take all your strengh to make that simple dream come true. Last night I dreamed I was the rain, falling from the sky pulled down, first onto the ground, then poluted and dragged into the drain before becoming lost in an endless sea of obscurity.
'Home of the Brave' and 'The Individual' by Spiritualized
Home. What do we think of when we think of Home. That place exists only in the past, sometimes in the futures. Home is the lie, the great lie of a wasted sunday afternoon. a summer's day, a clear pool of water, a singing fish, a picket fence. Home is a place you have never been. Home is being dry humped by a labrador while sixteen cops simultainously put tickets on your car.
'Still Alive' Written by Jonathan Coulton and performed by Ellen McLain
How much of your average day is speant staring at a computer. How many people do you know that you would rather not talk to face to face. Birthday messages flash up from friends you haven't seen for fifteen years and will not see again. They seem to be doing ok. It's hard to imagine how they do it. Was there some fork in the road. A seminal moment. Something you should have said. Perhaps that job interview up in London a couple of years back. The one you didn't get. Maybe that would have turned things around.
'Here's Looking at You Kid' by the Gaslight Anthem
What would you say if you could meet yourself. Your ten year old self. The shy worried creature which still exists beneath that bluff layer of comedy that you built and built until it was loud enough and abnoxious enough to get it's own show on BCFM. What would you say to that skinny sun-tanned little boy. Would you tell him not to worry, would you tell him everything was going to be ok? Would you lie?
'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Leonard Cohen
Cleaning my house I pause to look through a draw full of photographs. Youthful faces, young hearts beat beneath morter boards and gowns. We are graduating. the world is our oyster, but we have no idea what we are in for. Not one of us has ever been hit in the face by an oyster before.
Only one link this week.
This one
You can hear this episode. HERE
This week it is dedicated to despare.
Track Lisitngs
'I Never Came' by Queens of the Stone Age
When Pandora opened her box of human suffering, the last thing to come flying out was hope. When they tell this story to children, they tend to sell hope as a kind of concelation prize. Something that makes all the other problems in the world bearable. Sometime I think that hope is just as bad as the others. when you get hit, hope makes you get up and get hit again. Makes you que in line for an audience with Simon Cowell, makes you think that all your hard work and dedication will be rewarded rather than abused. Hope is not a friend... hope... she is the bigest bitch of them all.
'Juliane' by Ben Folds Five
At one time I thought this was a happy song about new found freedom. It's not it's about a man over-compensating for the massive blow he has been dealt. Weighed down by the weight of despare he is unable to walk and can only run and dance like fool. Like a man on hot coals, he waves his arms not in celebration but in desperation. The garbage he drags up and down the road is not physical, but emotional. He himself is inside that black polythene bag, kicked around and gasping for air.
'Take this Bottle' by Faith No More
They tell you not bottle it all up inside, but if you wander into your place of work and lay all your junk out on the desk they tend to call security. Perhaps it's best to flip randomly between the two. Bottle it all up in public but then the moment you are alone, wail like a dog towards the moon. Let it all out my lupine friend, let it all flow out into midnight sky.
'I Will Survive' by Cake (First performed by Gloria Gaynor, but written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris.)
The killer line in this track is this one 'It took all the strenght I had just not to fall apart'. Forget about progress. Progress is impossible, the best you can hope for is for things not to get worse and it may well take all your strengh to make that simple dream come true. Last night I dreamed I was the rain, falling from the sky pulled down, first onto the ground, then poluted and dragged into the drain before becoming lost in an endless sea of obscurity.
'Home of the Brave' and 'The Individual' by Spiritualized
Home. What do we think of when we think of Home. That place exists only in the past, sometimes in the futures. Home is the lie, the great lie of a wasted sunday afternoon. a summer's day, a clear pool of water, a singing fish, a picket fence. Home is a place you have never been. Home is being dry humped by a labrador while sixteen cops simultainously put tickets on your car.
'Still Alive' Written by Jonathan Coulton and performed by Ellen McLain
How much of your average day is speant staring at a computer. How many people do you know that you would rather not talk to face to face. Birthday messages flash up from friends you haven't seen for fifteen years and will not see again. They seem to be doing ok. It's hard to imagine how they do it. Was there some fork in the road. A seminal moment. Something you should have said. Perhaps that job interview up in London a couple of years back. The one you didn't get. Maybe that would have turned things around.
'Here's Looking at You Kid' by the Gaslight Anthem
What would you say if you could meet yourself. Your ten year old self. The shy worried creature which still exists beneath that bluff layer of comedy that you built and built until it was loud enough and abnoxious enough to get it's own show on BCFM. What would you say to that skinny sun-tanned little boy. Would you tell him not to worry, would you tell him everything was going to be ok? Would you lie?
'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Leonard Cohen
Cleaning my house I pause to look through a draw full of photographs. Youthful faces, young hearts beat beneath morter boards and gowns. We are graduating. the world is our oyster, but we have no idea what we are in for. Not one of us has ever been hit in the face by an oyster before.
Only one link this week.
This one
Saturday 10 July 2010
20: Trilogy of Pain pt. 2
Me and Matt have decided that our speaking voices have got a bit tired and have decided to start with some tribal drumming. For those that don't speak drum... what we are saying is that we 'have many women in our tribe who are of marriageable age' but due to a cunning play on drums we are also making a topical joke about the Liberal Democrats and their 'insatiable lust for power'.
Anyway... you can hear this crime against Audio relations..
HERE
And the tracklistings are below.
'The Longer You Wait' by Fol Chen (again)
Atonal Atomic Atonement. Matt claims not to like this record but then he's god an odd perspective on life. While he is now loved by women and men alike... Matt was raised in the wild by monkeys. It's a wonder he can speak at all.
'What it is to Burn' by Finch
Matt thought I might like this record and for the first seven seconds or so I did. Which has got to be a result for Matt really. It did however inspire the Emo Triangle.
'Last Day of Magic' The Kills
I thought Matt might like this reccord and for the first seven seconds or so he did. Which has got to be a result for me really. Sadly no triagles were inspired uh oh!
'I Wanna Go Back' by Weezer
It's a well established fact that both Matt and I would gladly go back in time to re-enjoy the flower of our youth. But to be fair... on a more balanced analysis the inane teenage level of conversation would just get on our nerves, then again it really hasn't changed that much. boobs. ha ha... mmmm... she said boobs...
'I wish I was in New Orleans' by Scarlet Johansen
So many obvious jokes here that were not made. Still it was a great excuse for me to google the lovley miss Johansen. Matt didn't get it. But I like to think that the diserning listener did. That's you by the way.
'Deafening' by Far
We are in the mid point of Matt's Emo cycle at this point. It's the point where he starts to get a little agressive.
'Miserable' by Lit
In an attempt to placate him it was decided that he should be alowed two songs in a row. As a result in 2010 no-one died.
'The Well' by Bill Callahan
Yes it was too long and yes.. it did have too much swearing in it and yes it's probably not very good, but... Oh crap it I have no excuse.
Goodnight.
Anyway... you can hear this crime against Audio relations..
HERE
And the tracklistings are below.
'The Longer You Wait' by Fol Chen (again)
Atonal Atomic Atonement. Matt claims not to like this record but then he's god an odd perspective on life. While he is now loved by women and men alike... Matt was raised in the wild by monkeys. It's a wonder he can speak at all.
'What it is to Burn' by Finch
Matt thought I might like this record and for the first seven seconds or so I did. Which has got to be a result for Matt really. It did however inspire the Emo Triangle.
'Last Day of Magic' The Kills
I thought Matt might like this reccord and for the first seven seconds or so he did. Which has got to be a result for me really. Sadly no triagles were inspired uh oh!
'I Wanna Go Back' by Weezer
It's a well established fact that both Matt and I would gladly go back in time to re-enjoy the flower of our youth. But to be fair... on a more balanced analysis the inane teenage level of conversation would just get on our nerves, then again it really hasn't changed that much. boobs. ha ha... mmmm... she said boobs...
'I wish I was in New Orleans' by Scarlet Johansen
So many obvious jokes here that were not made. Still it was a great excuse for me to google the lovley miss Johansen. Matt didn't get it. But I like to think that the diserning listener did. That's you by the way.
'Deafening' by Far
We are in the mid point of Matt's Emo cycle at this point. It's the point where he starts to get a little agressive.
'Miserable' by Lit
In an attempt to placate him it was decided that he should be alowed two songs in a row. As a result in 2010 no-one died.
'The Well' by Bill Callahan
Yes it was too long and yes.. it did have too much swearing in it and yes it's probably not very good, but... Oh crap it I have no excuse.
Goodnight.
Wednesday 7 July 2010
19: A Trilogy of Pain... (Part 1, The Ballad of Me and My Facebook Friends)
This is the first of three episodes in which Matt slips deeper and deeper into the horrific world of Emo. Luckily I'm more Elmo than Emo so it kind of balances it out. Anyway you can listen to it
HERE
At the start of the show you can hear me making references to how Clayton beat me up on air. One day you will all get to listen to that... but not today. Other things to spot durring the show are my attempts to get Matt to fill gaps in the programme by asking him about his 'Big weekend' I don't think he ever quite figures out what I'm doing.
Track Listings
'When the Man Comes Around' by Johnny Cash
My granddad went to Cambridge. He's an ex-vicar, ex-heavyweight boxer and an ex-Royal Engineer. He has shrapnel scars on his right arm and stories about invading Germany that you have to pull out of him like teeth. He used to ride through tank battles in an armoured car. He used to be the smartest, bravest and strongest man in almost any room. Now he has a three minute memory and he's pretty much all alone in the world. This song makes me think about him.
'Born on the FM Waves of the Heart' by Against Me
The heart does not produce FM Radio. Unless this is a reference to 'Heart FM' the pretend local station that is in fact syndicated from a central location with only split trails that reference your local area... (and perhaps one local show a day) Heart FM is the living lie of Glocalization. Also a rival radio station. BCFM baby... For Ever Yo! or at least until someone offers to pay me cash money.
'Cable TV' by Fol Chen
Due to an earlier spelling mistake (now corrected) I have just started wondering what Cabbie TV would be like. Then stopped thinking about it very quickly as I remember conversations I've had with Cabbies.
'Radio' by Alkaline Trio
Batteries man! That's the cunning link here.
It was while this track was playing that I first had the thought... there must be something bothering Matt this week. I'm the one that's meant to play the bed-wetting music... Matt likes the HardCore Metal and Punk. Then I realised that this could have something to do with the recent change in his Facebook status...
'Uncle Remus 'by Frank Zappa
There's nothing worse than getting all dressed up and then having someone spray you down with a hose. Unless of course you are an underwear model and you happen to be shooting an advert for a perfume called 'Freedom of Joy' and there are a bunch of other models there and the whole thing doesn't last longer than forty five seconds or so.
(There's no such person as 'The Wasp-Man' it was a reference to a review of a Joe Satriani gig in which his noodling was compared to the sound of a drowning wasp) also this.
'Change Despair' by Lagwagon
Based on the classical chord sequence A G D G A-minor, C B-Flat-Minor A D G, D V D A... Which underpinned most of the music of the early 90's punk pop scene in Canada, this is a just another classic of the genre.
'New York is Killing Me' by Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron is the ultimate dream of all performance poets. He is at the top of their career pyramid. While Gil was right, and the revolution wasn't televised there was a later HBO Mini Series all about what went on. It was also all over 4chan.
'The Mallard of Me and My Friends' by Frank Turner
Every group of friends all over the world is essentially the same group of people repeated again and again. And somewhere out is space there is another planet and on that planet there they are again, striving and working and humping each other and staring at girls in bars without ever realizing that they are already married to them. That was what Hitler said. I mean, say what you like about Hitler, but he couldn't half pull a bong.
Goodnight.
PS... if you email us and you can get to us... we will let you come on the show and you can even pick your own music and everything. Just give us a reason why we should.
DannAndMatt@bcfm.org.uk
We are in Bristol, UK.
HERE
At the start of the show you can hear me making references to how Clayton beat me up on air. One day you will all get to listen to that... but not today. Other things to spot durring the show are my attempts to get Matt to fill gaps in the programme by asking him about his 'Big weekend' I don't think he ever quite figures out what I'm doing.
Track Listings
'When the Man Comes Around' by Johnny Cash
My granddad went to Cambridge. He's an ex-vicar, ex-heavyweight boxer and an ex-Royal Engineer. He has shrapnel scars on his right arm and stories about invading Germany that you have to pull out of him like teeth. He used to ride through tank battles in an armoured car. He used to be the smartest, bravest and strongest man in almost any room. Now he has a three minute memory and he's pretty much all alone in the world. This song makes me think about him.
'Born on the FM Waves of the Heart' by Against Me
The heart does not produce FM Radio. Unless this is a reference to 'Heart FM' the pretend local station that is in fact syndicated from a central location with only split trails that reference your local area... (and perhaps one local show a day) Heart FM is the living lie of Glocalization. Also a rival radio station. BCFM baby... For Ever Yo! or at least until someone offers to pay me cash money.
'Cable TV' by Fol Chen
Due to an earlier spelling mistake (now corrected) I have just started wondering what Cabbie TV would be like. Then stopped thinking about it very quickly as I remember conversations I've had with Cabbies.
'Radio' by Alkaline Trio
Batteries man! That's the cunning link here.
It was while this track was playing that I first had the thought... there must be something bothering Matt this week. I'm the one that's meant to play the bed-wetting music... Matt likes the HardCore Metal and Punk. Then I realised that this could have something to do with the recent change in his Facebook status...
'Uncle Remus 'by Frank Zappa
There's nothing worse than getting all dressed up and then having someone spray you down with a hose. Unless of course you are an underwear model and you happen to be shooting an advert for a perfume called 'Freedom of Joy' and there are a bunch of other models there and the whole thing doesn't last longer than forty five seconds or so.
(There's no such person as 'The Wasp-Man' it was a reference to a review of a Joe Satriani gig in which his noodling was compared to the sound of a drowning wasp) also this.
'Change Despair' by Lagwagon
Based on the classical chord sequence A G D G A-minor, C B-Flat-Minor A D G, D V D A... Which underpinned most of the music of the early 90's punk pop scene in Canada, this is a just another classic of the genre.
'New York is Killing Me' by Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron is the ultimate dream of all performance poets. He is at the top of their career pyramid. While Gil was right, and the revolution wasn't televised there was a later HBO Mini Series all about what went on. It was also all over 4chan.
'The Mallard of Me and My Friends' by Frank Turner
Every group of friends all over the world is essentially the same group of people repeated again and again. And somewhere out is space there is another planet and on that planet there they are again, striving and working and humping each other and staring at girls in bars without ever realizing that they are already married to them. That was what Hitler said. I mean, say what you like about Hitler, but he couldn't half pull a bong.
Goodnight.
PS... if you email us and you can get to us... we will let you come on the show and you can even pick your own music and everything. Just give us a reason why we should.
DannAndMatt@bcfm.org.uk
We are in Bristol, UK.
Monday 5 July 2010
18 Not The Erotic Clayton Toast Blizzard show!
You want to know where we've been for the last month? Well Matt's been fine... but it's my birthday coming up. I'm about to turn thirty one. For the last month I have been curled up in a ball weeping at the horrific speed at which my life is passing and staring into the half-empty cardboard box of trinkets and photographs that I have amassed in that time. I have done nothing worthwhile with my life... except perhaps this... a few weeks back me and a friend Interviewed Clayton Blizard.
This Life Affirming Clayton Blizzard Special Can be heard HERE wait no, oh crap...
I seem to have misplaced the the one thing I'd done right in my life. This is the Covers Special... Like god said to me in a dream last night, 'you'll just have to make do with mediocrity.'
Track Listings for The Awesome Covers Special...
In the hope of being more regular I'm going to do less descriptive work on these from now on... Unless I get a bunch of emails telling me to do otherwise.
DannandMatt@bcfm.org.uk
'We are the World' by Richard Cheese (Originally by 'The World')
Richard pokes fun at well meaning celebs in his own inimitable style.
'Wuthering Heights' by China Drum (Originally by Kate Bush)
My old English teacher said that Wuthering Heights was a book about love and sex written by an eighteen year-old virgin. I think he was trying to inspire us.
'Life on Mars' by Seu Jorge (Originally by David Bowie)
At the risk of being laughed at by future generations I'm going to go ahead and stick my neck out as say that there isn't any life on Mars. I do however love the idea of life existing on Europa ice covered moon of Jupiter which may have a ocean beneath the ice that is 200 miles deep. Think about it.
'Buddy Holly' By Biffy Clyro (Originally by Weezer)
HERE is a link for the Moog Cookbook version
'My Boyfriends Back' Me first and the Gimmie Gimmies (Origianlly by The Angels)
This song was written by Feldman, Goldstein and Gottehrer.
'Misery Business' by Paramore and also by Sea of Treachery (Originally By Paramore)
The name Paramore is just the last name of the bassist in the band. Not as I first suspected a word meaning Warrior Priest. It's funny that Matts definition has some kind of weird sexual undertones... I worry about him I really do.
'Karma Police' Easy Start All Stars (Originally by Radiohead)
Who do I make a complaint to if I feel I have been a victim of Karma Police Brutality?
Some of.... 'Take me out' by Biffy Clyro (Originally by Franz Ferdinand)
then
None of... 'Easy' by Faith No More (Originally by Lional Richie)
and finally
'Common People' by William Shatner (Originally by Pulp)
I really don't know what happened there. But it happened. I hope we can all just get on with our lives.
Goodnight.
This Life Affirming Clayton Blizzard Special Can be heard HERE wait no, oh crap...
I seem to have misplaced the the one thing I'd done right in my life. This is the Covers Special... Like god said to me in a dream last night, 'you'll just have to make do with mediocrity.'
Track Listings for The Awesome Covers Special...
In the hope of being more regular I'm going to do less descriptive work on these from now on... Unless I get a bunch of emails telling me to do otherwise.
DannandMatt@bcfm.org.uk
'We are the World' by Richard Cheese (Originally by 'The World')
Richard pokes fun at well meaning celebs in his own inimitable style.
'Wuthering Heights' by China Drum (Originally by Kate Bush)
My old English teacher said that Wuthering Heights was a book about love and sex written by an eighteen year-old virgin. I think he was trying to inspire us.
'Life on Mars' by Seu Jorge (Originally by David Bowie)
At the risk of being laughed at by future generations I'm going to go ahead and stick my neck out as say that there isn't any life on Mars. I do however love the idea of life existing on Europa ice covered moon of Jupiter which may have a ocean beneath the ice that is 200 miles deep. Think about it.
'Buddy Holly' By Biffy Clyro (Originally by Weezer)
HERE is a link for the Moog Cookbook version
'My Boyfriends Back' Me first and the Gimmie Gimmies (Origianlly by The Angels)
This song was written by Feldman, Goldstein and Gottehrer.
'Misery Business' by Paramore and also by Sea of Treachery (Originally By Paramore)
The name Paramore is just the last name of the bassist in the band. Not as I first suspected a word meaning Warrior Priest. It's funny that Matts definition has some kind of weird sexual undertones... I worry about him I really do.
'Karma Police' Easy Start All Stars (Originally by Radiohead)
Who do I make a complaint to if I feel I have been a victim of Karma Police Brutality?
Some of.... 'Take me out' by Biffy Clyro (Originally by Franz Ferdinand)
then
None of... 'Easy' by Faith No More (Originally by Lional Richie)
and finally
'Common People' by William Shatner (Originally by Pulp)
I really don't know what happened there. But it happened. I hope we can all just get on with our lives.
Goodnight.
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