Mish Mash 23 - Rozi Plain

Mish Mash was graced by Fence Records' Rozi Plain (www.myspace.com/roziplain) this evening. There's not much i can say other than that her music is beautiful.

1. The New Pornographers – Challenger
2. Alexander Thomas – On Amber Eels
3. Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea
4. The Beatnik Filmstairs – Wing Off A Plane
5. Matmos – Banquet For King Ludwig II Of Bavaria
6. Joy Division – Decades
7. Rozi Plain - Marsupials (Live in session)
8. The Delgados – Everything Goes Around The Water
9. Rozi Plain – Days, Minutes (Live in session)
10. Roots Manuva – Yellow Submarine
11. Elliott Smith – New Disaster
12. Rozi Plain – Let’s Go (Live in session)
13. Rozi Plain – No One Else (Live in session)
14. Plaid & Grandmaster Flash - Scorpio
15. The Dynamites – Hello Mother

Mish Mash 22 - Freeze Puppy

Freeze Puppy played 11 songs in 15 minutes, undoubtedly a record on Mish Mash. He's also a lovely man and you can find out more about him here: http://www.portfolioproductions.co.uk/freezepuppy/index.htm

the music of the night:

1. Raymond Scott - When Will It End?
2. Volcano - Fire Fire
3. The Dirty Projectors - No More
4. Mole Harness - Collapse Of A Harness
5. Modified Toy Orchestra - Black Star (edit)
6. Freeze Puppy - Hey Mr. (live in session)
   
7. Freeze Puppy - Birth Of A Legend (live in session)
8. Freeze Puppy - Mustard (live in session)
9. Freeze Puppy - Oscar And Lucy (live in session)
10. Freeze Puppy - Realise (live in session)
11. Freeze Puppy - Newborn Coming (live in session)
12. Adele - Hometown Glory
13. Autechre - Vletrmx (Plaid Remix)
14. Freeze Puppy - Everything Fades (live in session)
15. Freeze Puppy - Still Life (live in session)
16. Freeze Puppy - Too Nice (live in session)
17. Freeze Puppy - The Name Game (live in session)
18. Freeze Puppy - The Bluebird Song (live in session)
19. The Maytones - I Am Feeling Lonely
    

Mish Mash 21 - Ladybird

Ladybird (www.myspace.com/ladybird00) couldn't make it into the studio this evening to play a session, as they are playing The Metro in London, so i went to the Cube Cinema here in Bristol to record them this afternoon. They play the Cube tomorrow night (Friday 21 September 2007).

Mish Mash came of age with the following:

1. Beirut - Nantes
2. A Hawk And A Hacksaw - God Bless The Ottoman Empire
3. Paul Lansky - Idle Chatter Junior
4. Jeffrey Lewis - End Result
5. Efterklang - Frida Found A Friend
6. Ladybird - (live in session)
7. Ladybird - (live in session)
8. Ladybird - Seagulls (live in session)
9. Ladybird - In The Sky Made Out Of Gold (live in session)
10. Ladybird - Toxic Dancehall (live in session)
11. (Ladybird Interview)
12. You And The Atom Bomb - Return Of The Condor
13. Red - Baps
14. Raymond Scott - When Will It End?

Mish Mash 20

A little late, here are the tunes i played last week:

1. Mu-Ziq - Prongh Seemness
2. Dennis Alcapone - Spanish Omega
3. MIA - Hussel (Ft Afrikanboy)
4. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (Peel Session)
5. Burial - Distant Lights
6. Harold Budd - The Room Of Ancillary Dreams
7. Pulp - Common People
8. Mike Ink - Polka Track 3 (remix by Weschel Garland)
9. Belly - Someone To Die For
10. Jan Garbarek & Ustad Fateh Ali Khan & Musicians from Pakistan - Raga 1
11. The Boo Radleys - Lazarus
12. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
13. Beastie Boys - Just A Test

Mish Mash 19

I'm tired but happy. The internet was broken in the studio, so there was no communication either inwards or outwards. It's a strange thing, sending music into the air yet being unaware of whether none or one or many people are listening. You just send it out in good faith, with the best of wills, but you have no proof that it reaches anyone.

And if no one heard these tunes, did i really play them?

1. St Vincent - Your Lips Are Red
2. Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimbas
   
3. The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train
4. The New Pornographers - All The Things
5. T La Rock - Breaking Bells
6. The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
7. Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
8. Arboretum - The Rise
9. The House Of Love - Christine
10. Rachel's - First Self Portrait Series
11. Radcliffe Butler - You Got To Love Me
12. Kristen Hersh - Your Ghost
13. Minotour Shock - The Downs
14. Woodie Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land

Mish Mash 18

1. Mates Of State - Nice Things That Look Good
2. Eat - Psycho Couch
3. Scala - Naked
4. Ommm - Tree
5. Keith Hudson - I'm Alright
6. Photek - Hidden Camera
7. Saint Etienne - Conchita Martinez
8. The Pogues - Summer In Siam
9. Serious Music - No Time
10. The Pixies - Tame
11. The Liftmen - Axylotl
12. Lessons From Around Us - Fernwork Grenoble
13. Lessons From Around Us - We Love Billy
14. Morrissey and Siouxsie - Interlude
15. Cajun Dance Party - Amylase

Mish Mash 17

1. Happy Mondays – Loose Fit
2. Tunng – Take
3. My Bloody Valentine – Lose My Breath
4. Orbital – Out There Somwhere (Part 2)
5. Rachmaninov – May Our Mouths Be Filled
6. The Sisters Of Mercy – Some Kind Of Stranger
7. Sparklehorse – Homecoming Queen
8. Taken By Trees – Lost And Found
9. Josephene Baker – Si J’etais Blanche
10. Foehn – Just A Little While Longer
11. Tatu – All The Things She Said
12. Junior Murvin – Magic Touch

Mish Mash 16 - Duncan Speakman

Mr Duncan Speakman (www.duncanspeakman.net) was in the studio this evening. He's a sound artist, composer and performer and we chatted about his work and heard pieces and extracts from sound walks, installation soundtracks and noise forecasts. Go and check his site out - there's some really beautiful stuff there.

Here's what you could have won:

1. U-Roy - Wear You To The Ball
2. Apparat Organ Quartet - Romantika
3. Arab Strap - The Clearing
4. Ride - Like A Daydream
5. Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It?
6. Duncan Speakman - My Energy Is Spent On These Moments
   
7. Duncan Speakman - Feelings Are Always Local
8. Duncan Speakman - Sorry Bridgwater
9. Duncan Speakman - B
10. Birgit Binder and Duncan Speakman - Noise Forecast
11. The Fall - Eat Yourself Fitter
12. Roger Tarry - When You Rise
    

Mish Mash 15 - Arctic Circle in session

www.myspace.com/arcticcircle is where you can find information and music by Arctic Circle. Erstwhile of Edinburgh and Glasgow, they now ply their songs down Brizzle way. hear them at Ashton Court and Green Man this summer.

and the show went thus:

1. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Way
2. Prefuse 73 Ft Blonde Redhead - We Go Our Own Way
3. Clark - Herzog
4. Santa Dog - Chemical
5. Arctic Circle - Meanwhile Gardens (Live In Session)
6. Susumu Yokota - Kodomotachi
7. Money Mark - Pretty Pain
8. Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
9. Arctic Circle - The Hours Over The Sea (Live In Session)
10. LFO - LFO
11. John Taverner - Fac Nobis Secundum
12. Dizzee Rascal - Jus A Rascal
13. Arctic Circle - Shipping Forecast (Live In Session)
14. Lali Puna - Faking The Books

Mish Mash 14

War Against Sleep (http://www.waragainstsleep.co.uk/) were in session tonight. We still had a little Glastonbury mud up our phonos at BCfm this evening, as were thus a touch slow off the mark in getting W.A.S. all plugged in and ready to go. But once we did, they played 3 tracks in a row with blistering energy.

Here be the songs of MM14:

1. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
2. Kraftwerk - The Robots
3. Louis Armstrong - I Cover The Waterfront
4. PJ Harvey -Shame
5. Seefeel - Industrious
6. Transmitstatim - It's All Gone Pete Wrong
7. Carl Orff - Musik Fur Kinder III
8. Bollywood Brass Band - Ishq Bina Ishq Bina
9. Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping
10. War Against Sleep - The Fall Of The Empire (Live In Session)
11. War Against Sleep - Cruise Control (Live In Session)
12. War Against Sleep - Shamelady (Live In Session)
13. Derek Morgan - Tougher Than Tough

Mish Mash 13

The Summer Solstice episode. Stanley Forbes in session (www.myspace.com/stanleyforbes). He made us chuckle.

1. The Beatles - Here Come The Sun
2. Throne - The Spell
3. Daniel Johnston - Love Will See You Through
4. Deerhoof - Choco Fight
5. Stanley Forbes - Those Dasterdly Iraqis (Live In Session)
6. Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon
7. Ensemble - Sketch Propsals 1
8. Stanley Forbes - Don't Reject My Sympathies (Live In Session)
9. Junior School Band - Living On A Virgin
10. Interview with Sam Prekop of The Sea And Cake
11. The Sea And Cake - Left On
12. Mustard Allegro - Great White
13. Stanley Forbes - Lovesong For Tony Blair (Live In Session)
14. Magaya - Nhemamusasa (Instrumental Excerpt)
15. Ry Cooder - Brothers
    

Mish Mash 12

1. Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Spring Back
2. ADULT. - L.S.x
3. The Sea And Cake - Coconut
4. Roots Manuva - Colossal Insight
5. Lena Rez - The Waitressing Song
6. John Barry - Wednesday's Child
7. Patterson - Freedom Now (Meditation)
8. De Rosa - Father's Eyes
9. The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
10. The Wraiths - Charing Cross
11. Spiritualized - Angel Sigh
12. TV On The Radio - Dumb Animal
13. Julian Cope - Charlotte Anne

Mish Mash 11

On Thursday 7 June 2007, Mish Mash sounded like this:

1. Two Lone Swordsmen - Stack Up
2. Tortoise - Blackbird
3. The Mules - Polly O
4. Arvo Part - Spiegel Im Spiegel
5. Efterklang - Step Aside
6. Don Bear - The Monster Was Sung To
7. Voices Of Kwahn - Peninsular Song
8. Horace Andy - You Are My Angel
9. Ultra Vivid Scene - Special One
10. The Prodigy - Jericho
11. Sister Vanilla - Can't Stop The Rock
12. Smith And Mighty - Hold On (Strange Mix)
13. Le Tigre - Eau d'Bedroom Dancing
14. Baader Meinhof - Baader Meinhof

Mish Mash 10

No session tonight as we reach double figures.

the music was:

1. Bovine Life - A Local Magnetic Anomaly
2. Crippled Black Phoenix - Sharks And Storms / Blizzard Of Horned Cats
3. Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares - Houbava Milka
4. Clue To Kalo - We'll Live Free (In NYC)
5. Fireworks Night - When We Fell Through The Ice
6. Mahogany - One Plus One Equals Three Or More
7. Lord Jellicoe - Zombie Jambouree
8. The Smiths - That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
9. Plaid - Coat
10. Manyfingers - For Many Shores
11. The One Ensemble - Neither One Thing
12. Califone - Pink And Sour
13. Digital Mystikz - Pathwayz

Mish Mash 9 - The Venn Festival Special

Tonight The Heath Robinson (http://www.myspace.com/theheathrobinson) was live in session. He was also pre-recorded in session as his song 'Sick Of Love' burst unannounced through the airwaves, much to everyone's pleasant surprise.

Allthe artists featured (apart from The Heath Robinson) are on the bill of Venn Festival 2007 (www.vennfestival.com), which will run from Thursday 31st May to Sunday 3rd June.

Here come the tunes:

1. Bronnt Industries Kapital - Knights Of Vipco
2. Faust - Giggy Smile
3. Helena Gough - Yolk
4. Sleeping States - Don't Make Me Over
5. The Heath Robinson - The Lovesong Of H P Lovecraft [LIVE IN SESSION]
6. A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hangar Ensemble - Vajdaszentivany
7. Thee, Stranded Horse - Churning Strides
8. Paavoharju - Aamuauringon Tunluinen
9. Low & Springheel Jack - Bombscare
10. The Heath Robinson - The Clifton Hunt [LIVE IN SESSION]
11. Ghostigital ft. Mark E Smith - Not Clean
12. The Heath Robinson - Sick of love (ft Sally Dahl) [NOT LIVE IN SESSION]
13. Adrian Orange – (as yet untitled)
14. Freeze Puppy - Scissors

Mish Mash 8

Stanton Delaplane is a very nice man who played a blinder of a set on Mish Mash tonight. Check him out on www.myspace.com/stantondelaplane

1. The Notwist - Neon Golden
2. Kronos Quartet & Asha Bhosle - Koi Aaya Aane Bhi De (If People Come)
3. The Teenagers - Homecoming
4. Colleen - Sea Of Tranquility
5. Bjork - Declare Independence
6. Battles - Race In
7. Stanton Delaplane - The Little Strange World Of Stanton Delaplane Has Come To An End (Live In Session)
8. Blueneck - Yesterday's Forgotten
9. Stanton Delaplane - Magical Bird (Live In Session)
10. Tin soldier - Elevator Music
11. Stanton Delaplane - Melpomene, Her Tragedy (Live In Session)
12. Paulette Williams - My Island

Congratulations to Sean Talbot, who won the Battles tickets, courtesy of the lovely Warp Records.

Next week is a Venn Festival session. Ooo! Now i'm off to bed. Goodnight.

Mish Mash 7

Eleanor and Neil of The Cedar (www.myspace.com/thecedar) were in session tonight, and they were lovely.

This is how the show went:

1. Michael Nyman - Angelfish Decay
2. Virus Syndicate - Neva
3. Swervedriver - Laze It Up
4. King Creosote - Nothing Compares 2 U
5. Battles - Atlas
6. The Cedar - Room To Beat (LIVE IN SESSION)
7. The Cedar - I'm Always Explaining To Mum How It's Different Here (LIVE IN SESSION)
8. You And The Atom Bomb - Return Of The Condor
9. Printed Circuit - Switch It On
10. The Cedar - Bits Of Grass (LIVE IS SESSION)
11. Boards Of Canada - Melissa Juice
12. Black Death Music - Black Death Music 1
13. Leafcutter John - Lesson

Vexkiddy Photos

Mish Mash 6

Vexkiddy (www.vexkiddy.com) were in session tonight. They arrived dressed in full victorian regalia, complete with broken toe and cast, and took control of Mish Mash for a period of time-travelling time. I hope anyone listening enjoyed it as much as i did.

The tunes, then:

1. Cornershop - Sleep On The Left Side
2. Clogs - Who's Down Now
3. David Bowie - Andy Warhol
4. The Sky Is Blue - Centrepoint
5. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (live)
6. Four Tet - Slow Jam
7. Vexkiddy - In The Key Of Delete (LIVE IN SESSION)
8. Vexkiddy - Elizabeth Duke (LIVE IN SESSION)
9. The Beastie Boys - The Move
10. Countryside - Estuary
11. Primal Scream - I'm Coming Down

Mish Mash 5 - Playlist

Ok. We're getting the hang of this. North Sea Navigator in session tonight, and he was great.

the tunes, then:

1. Felt - Space Blues
2. Ivor Cutler - I Believe In Bugs
3. Tranquility Bass - They Came In Peace
4. Alarm Will Sound - 4
5. North Sea Navigator - Suicide Bomber (LIVE IN SESSION)
6. Glee Club Is Dead - Mancini's Revenge
7. Carlton And The Shoes - Better Days
8. Vexkiddy - Elizabeth Duke (9 Carat Remix)
9. North Sea Navigator - Dark Pines Under Water (LIVE IN SESSION)
10. Shigeru Umebayahsi - Yumeji's Theme
11. The Jesus And Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up
12. Uffie - Pop The Glock
13. North Sea Navigator - Carnival Won't Sleep (LIVE IN SESSION)
14. Benga And Skream - The Judgement
15. Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman - The Bare Necessities

Mish Mash 4 - Playlist

So no session tonight. But we were graced by the presence of Colonel Datsun Allegro and Major Tom Foolery telling us about The Scumbag Rally.

The tunes were as follows:

1. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Candyman
2. Speedy J - R2D2
3. Atmosphere - If I Was Santa Claus
4. The Carter Family - John Hardy Was A Desperate Man
5. First Of The Giants - Obsessive Compulsive
6. Love - Alone Again Or
7. Various Production - Thunnk
8. Philip Glass - Kuru Field Of Justice
9. Impact All Stars - Easy Come Dub
10. Glow - The Story Of Balck And White
11. Slowdive - Avalyn 1
12. The Chiffons - Sweet Talking Guy

Mish Mash 3 - Playlist

this week i had Rasha Shaheen in session (www.myspace.com/rashashaheen). she was good. technical fuckuppery still there, but reduced. we're moving in the right direction.

the Mish Mash of songs this week was as follows:

1. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
2. Psapp - Velvet Morning
3. DJ Dangermouse - Public Service Announcement
4. Pilote - Junior
5. Rasha Shaheen - When I Was Young (LIVE IN SESSION)
6. The Good The Bad & The Queen - The Bunting Song
7. Rasha Shaheen - Fools Gold (LIVE IN SESSION)
8. The Black Dog - Close Up Over
9. Rasha Shaheen - Fingers (LIVE IN SESSION)
10. Professor Longhair - Big Chief
11. Babel - Pearl Street Raga
12. Duke Ellington - Rockin' In Rhythm

Mish Mash 2 - Playlist

I played these tunes on Thursday 5th April 2007

1. Cocteau Twins – Feet Like Fins (Mark Clifford remix)
2. Cranes – Adrift
3. The Vegetable Orchestra - Stoik
4. DJ Crystl – Crystlized
5. Rose Kemp – Morning Music
6. Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
7. The Primitives - Crash
8. Konono No.1 – Kule Kule
9. Billie Holiday – Do You know what it means...
10. Mu Ziq – Hasty Boom Alert
11. Alexander Thomas – [sound check]
12. The Cedar – Little Images
13. Alexander Thomas – Glottal Box [Live in session]
14. The Silvertones – Financial Crisis
15. Alexander Thomas – Rachis and Barb [Live in session]

Mish Mash 2 - teething problems

so last night was a little tricky. we had some problems with the live session. it was my first session on the radio (it was only my 2nd ever show, forchrissakes) and i think it's fair to say that the technical support could have been a little more, well, supportive. anyway we got there in the end, and the artist in question, Alexander Thomas, came through a stressful soundcheck to perform with aplomb.

it's all a learning curve...

Mish Mash 1 - Playlist

This is what i played on my show on 29th March 2007:

1. Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
2. Lady Sovereign – Tango
3. Young Tiger – I Was There
4. Twocsinak – Burn Your Face
5. Laika – Breather
6. North Sea Navigator – Aileen Wournos
7. De La Soul – It Ain’t Hip to be a Hippy
8. The Books – Enjoy your worries (You may never have them again)
9. The Stooges – I Wanna Be your Dog
10. Broadcast – You and Me in Time
11. Princess Superstar – Bad Babysitter
12. The Go Team – Bottle Rocket
13. Jackson 5 – ABC
14. Matt Elliott – Also Ran

a little nervous

so i'm going to be a DJ on the radio.

i have no experience of this.

i know i'm going to play music. not sure what yet (apart from the first song) but i know that there is NO MUSIC POLICY. so i can just play what i want.

people in Bristol, UK, will be able to hear my show every Thursday evening from 10 til 11. and everyone else can hear it live at 22.00GMT at www.bcfm.org.uk

you can also find out more about the show at www.myspace.com/radiomishmash

that's it for now

neil