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Wednesday 27 November 2013

Kat Jenkins' life and music...

...was the theme for much of the first part of Hot Pebbles! on Phonic FM today. Kat Jenkins has led a full and exciting life and has an extremely positive attitude. Thank you very much, Kat, for joining us to tell us about the ups and downs, highs and lows and loves and adventures you have experienced and for sharing some lovely music with us.
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Kat's musical choices
Rajko..Stick Dance
Warsaw Choir..unidentified track
Daniel Kolos..Comfort Zone (a poem)
Jimi Hendrix..If 6 was 9..Easy Rider Soundtrack
John Klemmer..Cry
Anggun..Breath Of An Angel
The New Potatoes..The New Potatoes
Kat Jenkins with Jim Howden and Dave Eustace..Medicine Man (Live)

We heard from Sarah Pennington about The Starlings Octet, a mixed a cappella group, breathing life into a range of choral works.

The octet are performing Madrigali, madrigals from the sixteenth century to the present day, at Brixington Community Church, Exmouth on Saturday 30th November at 19:30.

Matti Fantasi told us about his glam punk band Dead Frequency. Formed in Exeter, the band now perform in the Daventry / Rugby area but hope to be down our way for gigs next year. They have a new EP out called Desire For Fire and you can hear the three tracks here.

We publicised a special event for Phonic FM at Exeter Phoenix 
on Friday 29 November

Martin's playlist
2 Cellos..Welcome To The Jungle
Count To Fire..Pictures On The Wall
Mark Harrison..Georgia Greene..Crooked Smile
Alex Kumar..Long Time Man / 1963..Alex Kumar
Batavia Madrigal Singers..Après Un Rêve
The Bombay Royale..Dacoit's Choice..You, Me, Bullets, Love
Jay Tamkin..Grown Up In every Way
Stornoway..Zorbing
Dead Frequency..Never Gonna Fall In Love / Your Love (Acoustic version)
Chris Woods..Release..Woodcraft

Wednesday 13 November 2013

The Legendary Ten Seconds and more

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Ian Churchward aka The Legendary Ten Seconds joined me in the studio to perform a couple of songs live and chat about his music. We played some of his recordings too.

Ian performed the following, accompanying himself on the guitar:

Arrow Into Your Heart and Lord Anthony Woodville.

The recordings:
Morrisons Brew..Rainy Day..Morrisons Brew
The Legendary Ten Seconds..York City Fayre / The Battle Of Barnet / Fanfare For The King..Loyaulté Me Lie

Many thanks to Ian for a very nice session.


Local gigs include 21 November at Exeter Picturehouse (Ian with band Session 75) and 30 November at Merlin's Cafe at Evolution, Exeter.

Websites: Soundcloud + Freewebs: The Legendary Ten Seconds.

Tom McConnell is appearing in Exeter at The Angel on 14 November. I spoke to Tom on the phone about his music, his recent appearance at the Royal Albert Hall with renowned guitarist Newton Faulkner and ace beat-boxer Schlomo and his EP: Scraps

We played music by Tom:
Flags from his EP Scraps
+ his new single Show You How

Other recordings played
Linda & Teddy Thompson..Evona Darling..Shining Bright: Songs Of Mike & Lal Waterson
Tim Van Eyken..Barleycorn..Stiffs, Lovers, Holymen, Thieves
Samba Touré..Ayé Go Mila..Albala
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors.A Place To Lay My Head..Good Light
Andy Cutting & Nigel Eaton..Plane Silver..Panic At the Cafe
Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita..Bamba (Live)..Clychau Dibon
Orchestra Bailam E Compagnia Di Canto Trallalero..A Mae Moae..Galata
Richard & Linda Thompson..Civilisation..Sunnyvista
Jim Moray..Lord Douglas..Skulk
The Traveling Wilburys..Heading For The Light..The Traveling Wilburys
La Bottine Souriante..Le Reel Des Soucoupes Volantes..La Mistrine
Gecko..Guanabana..Pigeon
Moving Hearts..The Storm..The Storm In The Teashirt: The Staff In The Baggot..The Storm

Wednesday 6 November 2013

Movie man and the UK Queen of Swing

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Film buff Geoff Stow joined me for Hot Pebbles! on Phonic FM today and, in the second half, I spoke on the phone to Britain's Queen of Swing Clare Teal about her music and her Devon and Exeter concerts.
We played tracks from her album Hey Ho:
Try A Little Tenderness
Smile
Love Is The Sweetest Thing
The Bright Side Of The Road

Clare will be at The Flavel TheatreDartmouth as part of her The Divas and Me tour on
She brings her Festive Fiesta to Exeter's Barnfield Theatre on 9 December. On both occasions Clare will be accompanied by her band led by pianist and musical director Grant Windsor.
Find more about Clare's music on her website.

Other recordings chosen by Geoff and Martin
Söndörgö..Buso Kolo..Tamburising: Lost Music Of The Balkans
Manu Delago..Bigger Than Home..Bigger Than Home
P J Harvey..Words That Maketh Murder..Let England Shake
Georgina Starlington..Louise Louise..Paper Moon
The Swamp Gods..Vanity Mirrors..Space Junk
Ry Cooder..Dirty Chateau..Pull Up Some Dirt
65 Days Of Static..Welcome To The Times..One Time For All Time
Police Dog Hogan..World Enough..The Land Of Miracles
The Carrivick Sisters feat. John Breese..Pretty Fair Damsel..Over The Bridge
The Gillette Brothers..The Devil Made Texas..Lone Star Trail
Lyle Lovett..That's Right, You're Not from Texas..Road to Ensalada
Keaton Henson..Teach Me How To Love You..Birthdays
Medicine Head..When The Night Falls..New Medicine
Jay Tamkin..Circles..Alibi
Tom McConnell..Old Edinburgh Town..Scraps
Ballake Sissoko..Maimouna..At Peace
Marianne Faithfull..Ballad Of Lucy Jordan..Broken English
Rufus Wainwright & Pink Martini..Kitty Come Home

Sunday 3 November 2013

Luch Caise-Gearg

Luch Caise-Gearg hosted Hot Pebbles! on Phonic FM on Wednesday 30 October. Luch featured music by Chris Caldwell who has been involved with some of Britain's leading contemporary composers and ensembles including The Mike Westbrook Orchestra, BCMG, the Steve Martland Band, London Saxophonic and the Michael Nyman Band. Chris has also performed with many of the UK's leading orchestras

Since 2009, Chris has been exploring and developing a new area of improvisations and compositions with Susie Hodder-Williams, inspired by the natural history of Dartmoor. The Mariner's Way CD is the first result of this fruitful partnership. He also performs with the highly original Delta Saxophone Quartet and they are performing locally in November.

We heard Chris with
The Delta Saxophone Quartet: The Pipes of Medb + Rita's Regret + Rita's Gavotte
all from the album Run Riot.

Pictured: Chris Caldwell & Susie Hodder-Williams. Photo by Martin Hodge

Playlist
Michael Flanders & Donald Swann..Hippopotamus Song
Tom McConnell..Show You How
The Bad Shepherds..The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum..Mud, Blood & Beer
The Swamp Gods..Large Hadron Collider..Space Junk
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin..One of Those Days..Shining Bright: Songs of Mike & Lal Waterson
Rosa Rebecca..Mrs Beautiful's Guitar..Songs For Mrs Beautiful
Spin 2..The Credit Crunch Calypso / Salad Days
Willie & The Bandits..Still Go Marching In..Grow
Elizabeth-Jane Baldry..La Danza Degli Spiriti
3 Daft Monkeys..Agnes The Giant Killer..Of Stones & Bones
Gheorghe Zamfir..Salabriaza