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Sitting With Gianluca with Coventry band Pint Shot Riot

Sitting With Gianluca is Coventry band Pint Shot Riot. The band were busking in New York when Gianluca saw them and dragged them back to his flat to find out more about them. Originally broadcast on April 6th. Since the original broadcast, one of the band’s songs has been picked by the BBC TV’s Final Score to run under the sports newsround section.

Joe Boyd’s Lucky 13 – Episode Four

Episode 4
An hour of revelation, anecdote and music. Each week legendary record producer Joe Boyd selects tracks from his extensive and judiciously ordered record collection, using the number 13 as his lode-star.

Theme Music
CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA
CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061
Bourgeois Virtuosi
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW / MULESKINNER
LP: Muleskinner / Warner Bros BS2787
WILD OX MOAN / GEOFF MULDAUR
CD: Secret Handshake / Hightone HCD 8097
MOUWASHSHAH / AL KINDI ENSEMBLE
CD: Les Croisades / Chant du Monde 5741118.19
Birth of Bossa Nova
SARAU PARA RADAMES / PAULINHO DA VIOLA
CD: Brazil Blue / EMI Hemisphere 8 28185 2
ESTE SEU OLHAR / JOAO GILBERTO
LP: Boss Of The Bossa Nova / Atlantic 8070
NO MORE BLUES / DIZZY GILLESPIE
CD: Dizzy On The Riviera / Verve B0012556-02
Dylan Covers
I’ll KEEP IT WITH MINE / RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON
CD: Shoot Out The Lights (bonus) / Rhino Handmade RHM2 523875
ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS / BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO
LP: Border Crossings / Arton 19390
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER / JIMI HENDRIX
CD: Experience / MCA MCD11671
CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA
CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061
Originally broadcast on 3rd December 2010

Joe Boyd’s Lucky 13 – Episode Three

An hour of revelation, anecdote and music. Each week legendary record producer Joe Boyd selects tracks from his extensive and judiciously ordered record collection, using the number 13 as his lode-star.

Theme music
CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA
CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061
Costello & Covers
BIRDS WILL BE SINGING / NORMA WATERSON
CD: Norma Waterson / Hannibal HNCD 1393
CLOWNTIME MEDLEY / ELVIS COSTELLO
CD: Costello & Nieve in New York / Warner Bros 9 46469-2
SHIPBUILDING / ROBERT WYATT
LP: 1982-1984 / Rough Trade RTSP 25
Afro Cubism
NANA SERE / ARSENIO RODRIGUEZ
CD: Grabaciones Completas / Tumi TCD316
MBAOUDE / MANGALA CAMARA
CD: Minye Minye / Syllart
AL VAIVEN DE MI CARRETA / ELIADES OCHOA / KASSE MADY
CD: Afrocubism / World Circuit WCD 085
Rota’s Ripples
SYCAMORE TREES / JIMMY SCOTT
CD: Twin Peaks / 4AD 9 45019-2
8 1/2 / CARLA BLEY
LP: Amarcord Nino Rota / Hannibal HNBL 9301
I’LL SHOOT THE MOON / TOM WAITS
CD: The Black Rider / Island CID 8021
Originally broadcast on 26th November 2010

50/50 Soundsystem – November 24th 2010

50-50 Soundsystem bring 17 years of DJing experience to ResonanceFM with 60âs, 70âs & 80âs old skool reggae with a touch of the new, plucked from the 50-50 vaults. Come listen to a flavour of the real old school, instrumental dub classics, and original soul breaks.
This week brought to you by Chris, Frost and Roots Ran.
Email: admin@5050soundsystem.com

Joe Boyd’s Lucky 13 – Episode Two

An hour of revelation, anecdote and music. Each week legendary record producer Joe Boyd selects tracks from his extensive and judiciously ordered record collection, using the number 13 as his lode-star.

LUCKY 13 / PROGRAMME 2

(aired 19 Nov 2010)

Theme music

CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA

CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061

The Bo Diddley Beat

WOMPE MASEM / AFRICAN BROTHERS

CD: Ghana Special / Soundway SNDW CD016

CADILLAC / BO DIDDLEY

CD: Essential / Spectrum 544 348 2

YOU CAN’T CATCH ME / CHUCK BERRY

CD: Not Fade Away / Uncut 2008 04

Male – Female Harmony Duets

SACCO E VANZETTI / GIOVANNA MARINI / FRANCESCO DE GREGORIO

CD: Il Fischio Del Vapore / Caravan COL510218 2

RUMELAJ / KALYI JAG

LP: Black Fire / Hungaroton SLPX 18132

LOVE HURTS / GRAM PARSONS

LP: Grievous Angel / Reprise MS 2171

Prince After-party

MAYBE YOUR BABY / STEVIE WONDER

LP: Talking Book / Tamla T319L

FOREVER IN MY LIFE / PRINCE

CD: Live In Rotterdam 1988

THANK YOU ETC / SLY & THE FAMILY STONE

LP: There’s A Riot Goin’ On / Epic KE 30986

CHURCH MOUSE / DUDU PUKWANA

CD: White Bicycles / Fledgling FLED 3061

Technical Difficulties 1:9 – 12th November 2010

British Sign Language interpreter, music producer and director of Walthamstow Deaf Club, Tim Bonham Carter talks about the Technical Difficulties of Deafness.

The full transcript is available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51100524. Any sign language interpretations of the show are welcome.

Join the discussion on Google + Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.

Technical Difficulties 1:7+ 1:8 – 5 November 2010

Join the discussion on Google + Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.

The 7th episode was stories from www.thebrokenofbritain.blogspot.com and music from attitude is everything.

The 8th was music:

Heart Knock Schule by Caro Snatch. Nicholas Ray by Bug Prentice, Basement Scene by Deerhunter Lied der Doofen by Station 17.

Stranger by Marlo Donato. Broken Things by Laurence Amery

Technical Difficulties 1:6 (22 October 2010)

The sixth installment of Technical Difficulties. Music with the Awkward Bitch, Marlo Donato. The transcript is available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51100374

Join the discussion on Google + Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.

Technical Difficulties – 1:5 (October 8, 2010)

The fifth instalment of Technical Difficulties was a look at  pain in the company of Elaine Axten in London and Sarah Wylder-Deshpande in Virginia, transcript at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51100231

Join the discussion on Google + Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.

Technical Difficulties 1:4 – 1st October 2010

Join the discussion on Google + Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.
This week was music, as ever by disabled artists.
Transmission – Joy Division (Manchester, England)
Sub Umbra Florio – Daddy Antogna y los de Helio (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Himmel ueber Hamburg – Station 17 (Germany)
Don’t Cry – Deerhunter (Atlanta, Georgia)
Georgia on my mind – Ray Charles (Also Atlanta)
Time to say goodbye – Andrea Bochelli and Sarah Brightman