The BritMix

BritMix 263: 14 January 2014

Winter Fields - Bat for Lashes
From the album: The Haunted Man
Cover Story Grace - Jeff Buckley
From the album: Grace
Cover Story Grace - King Creosote
From the album: Dream Brother: The Songs Of Tim & Jeff Buckley
The Little Vagabond - Dave Walters
From the album: Innocence and Experience

The Weaver's Daughter - Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party
From the album: Orfeo
Blacksmith [Youth Remix] - Lisa Knapp
From the album: Wild and Undaunted
Alice In The Bacon Box - Lucy Ward
From the album: Adelphi Has To Fly
Good Man's Wife - Bella Hardy
From the album: Battleplan

New Music Jetplane - The Fall
From the album: Re-Mit
New Music Chocolate - The 1975
Single
New Music Louise – Cud
Single
New Music From the Sea To the Land Beyond - British Sea Power
From the album: From the Sea To the Land Beyond

British Premier League Soccer on TV in the WJFF area
There’s live games on NBC Channel 4, and also on NBCSN (which is on Direct TV channel 220, on Dish Network channel 159, on Time Warner Cable channel 73 or 81, and on Blue Ridge Cable channel 66). And every single game is streaming live on nbcsports.com/liveextra.

 

BritMix 262: 7 January 2014

Taking Down The Tree - Tracey Thorn
From the album: Tinsel and Lights    
Winter Trees - The Staves
From the album: Dead & Born & Grown
Cover Story No Man Can Find The War  - Tim Buckley
From the album: Goodbye & Hello
Cover Story No Man Can Find The War – Tunng
From the album: Dream Brother
London - Dave Walters
From the album: Innocence and Experience

Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
From the album: Teenage Kicks: UK Pop 1
The Heavens Above Us - Emily Portman
From the album: The Oak, Ash and Thorn Project
Hinge Of The Year - Emily Portman
From the album: Hinge Of The Year
Hatchlings - Emily Portman
From the album: Hatchling

Help Save the Youth of America - Billy Bragg
From the album: Talking To The Taxman About Poetry
New music (sort of) Missing (Original Version) - Everything But The Girl
From the album: Amplified Heart
New music Suddenly - Anna Calvi
From the album: One Breath

BritMix 261: 31 December 2013

Looking back at 2013, this is some of the best and most interesting music of the year.

Good Things Happen to Bad People - Richard Thompson
From the album: Electric
Love's For Babies And Fools (featuring Richard Thompson) - Linda Thompson
From the album: Won't Be Long Now
The Messenger - Johnny Marr
From the album: The Messenger
Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys
From the album: AM
I Was An Eagle - Laura Marling
From the album: Once I Was An Eagle
Little Birds - Carthy Hardy Farrell Young
From the album: Laylam

Wasting My Young Years - London Grammar
From the album: If You Wait
Armourland - Everything Everything
From the album: Arc
Where Are We Now? - David Bowie
From the album: The Next Day
Courage - Peter Gabriel
Single
Jackie and Murphy - Martin Simpson
From the album: Vagrant Stanzas
None The Wiser - Chris Wood
From the album: None The Wiser
Handyman Blues - Billy Bragg
From the album: Tooth & Nail

Britmix 260: 24 December 2013 - Christmas Special (part two)

Part Two of this year's BritMix Christmas Special features the Top Ten best selling British Christmas hits.

These four, suggested by BritMix listeners, are bubbling under the Top Ten.

I Believe In Father Christmas - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
From the album: The Return Of The Manticore
Lonely this Christmas - Mud
From the album: A's B's & Rarities
Father Christmas - The Kinks
From the album: Come Dancing with The Kinks
Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth - Bing Crosby & David Bowie
From the album: Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas

And this is the Top Ten best selling British Christmas hsongs

10 2000 Miles - The Pretenders
From the album: Cool Christmas
9 Step Into Christmas - Elton John
From the album: Number 1's: Christmas
8 Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens
From the album: The Collection    
7 Merry Xmas Everybody – Slade
From the album: It’s Christmas Time
6 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday – Wizzard
From the album: Christmas Hits: Party
5 Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney
From the album: NOW That's What I Call Christmas
4 Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
From the album:  NOW That's What I Call Christmas
3 Last Christmas - Wham!
From the album: All-Star Christmas
2 Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
From the album: Millennium Christmas Songs
1 Fairytale Of New York Fix - The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl
From the album: Galore

BritMix 259: 17 December 2013 - Christmas Special (part one)

The first BritMix Christmas special features new and less familiar holiday music...

Christmas Is Now Drawing Near At Hand - The Watersons
From the album: Frost and Fire: A Calendar of Ritual and Magical Songs
Christmas Was Better In The 80s- The Futureheads
Single

The Boar's Head Carol - Maddy Prior & Carnival Band
From the album: Carols At Christmas
Stop The Cavalry - Jonah Lewie
From the album: The Best of Jonah Lewie
Christmas At The Airport - Nick Lowe
From the album: Quality Street

The Holly And The Ivy - Kate Rusby
From the album: Sweet Bells
Frosty the Snowman - The Cocteau Twins
From the EP: Snow 

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It's Clichéd to Be Cynical At Christmas - Half Man, Half Biscuit
From the album: Trouble Over Bridgwater
Christmas Is For Mugs - Graham Parker
From the album: Graham Parker's Christmas Cracker
Have Yourself a Bitter Little Christmas - David Ford    
From the album: It's Not Like Christmas
Christmas Tree On Fire - Holly Golightly
From the album: A Damaged Christmas Gift To You

Christmas Bells – Bellowhead
Single
Snowflake - Kate Bush
From the album: 50 Words for Snow

Joy - Tracey Thorn
From the album: Tinsel and Lights
25th December - Everything But The Girl
From the album: You Sleigh Me!

BritMix 258: 10 December 2013

December's Traditions - Frightened Rabbit
From the album: Pedestrian Verse
Winter - Teenage Fanclub
From the album: Songs from Northern Britain
Cover Story My Boy Lollipop - Barbie Gaye
From the album: The American Roots Of The British Invasion
Cover Story My Boy Lollipop - Millie Small
From the album: AM Gold: The Mid-'60s
Cradle Song - Dave Walters
From the album: Innocence and Experience

Verses (The Winter Comes Dreary) - Gordon Tyrrall
From the album: A Distance From The Town
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - John Martyn
Mojo: London Conversation
Solid Air - John Martyn
From the album: Solid Air
Sweet Little Mystery - John Martyn
From the album: Grace and Danger

Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
From the album: Led Zeppelin 1
Once Upon a Time – Bakerloo Blues Line
From the album: Bakerloo
New Music Litmus Test – Hejira
From the album: Prayer Before Birth
New Music Idle - Peggy Sue
From the album: Choir of Echoes

BritMix 257: 3 December 2013

Jason Dole sitting in tonight, thank you Jason for a great show. His playlist will be posted here soon...

BritMix 256: 26 November 2013

Jason Tougaw from The MixTape sitting in – thank you, Jason – with his take on British pop and new wave of the early 1980s.

The Cutter - Echo And The Bunnymen
From the album: Porcupine (1983)
Pale Shelter - Tears For Fears
From the album: The Hurting (1983)
Stand Down Margaret - The English Beat
From the album: I Just Can’t Stop It (1980)
That's Love That It Is – Blancmange
From the album: Mange Tout (1984)
It Must Be Love – Madness
From the album: Complete Madness (1981)
Oblivious - Aztec Camera
From the album: High Land, Hard Rain (1983)
Enola Gay - Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
From the album: Organisation (1980)
The Chauffeur (acoustic demo) - Duran Duran
B-side of “Come Undone” (1994)
Geisha Boys And Temple Girls - Heaven 17
From the album: The Luxury Gap (1980)
Kyoto Song - Duncan Sheik
From the album: Covers 80's (2011)
Ever Fallen In Love – Buzzcocks
From the album: Love Bites (1981)
Ghost Town - The Specials
From the album: Ghost Town (1981)
Vienna – Ultravox
From the album: Vienna (1980)
I Love a Man in Uniform - Gang of Four
From the album: Songs of the Free (1982)

BritMix 255: 19 November 2013 - Pledge Drive Special

On this special "The First, and The Latest" pledge drive edition of the show we, mainly, heard the very first track ever released by some familiar names - and also their very latest.

Thank you everyone who pledged during the show, and helped us jump well past our target for the hour.
And thank you to to Jason Dole, for his whit and wisdom.

In Spite of All the Danger - The Quarry Men    
From the album: Anthology 1
New - Paul McCartney
From the album: NEW

I Wanna Be A Cosmonaut - Riff Raff
From the album: The Singles 1977-1980
Handyman Blues - Billy Bragg
From the album: Tooth & Nail

Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
From the album: Moondance

Less Than Zero - Elvis Costello
From the album: My Aim Is True
Walk Us UPTOWN - lvis Costello And The Roots
From the album: Wise Up Ghost

Courage - Peter Gabriel
Single

Come Back Baby – Bluesology
From the album: To Be Continued
Oscar Wilde Gets Out - Elton John
From the album: The Diving Board

Fake Tales of San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
From the EP: Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? - Arctic Monkeys
From the album: AM



Daydreamer – Adele
From the arts website: Platforms

BritMix 254: 12 November 2013

I apologise for the break in transmission towards the start of the show, the station suffered a short interruption to the power supply.

Winter Singing - The Imagined Village
From the album: Bending The Dark
The Isle Of France - Jackie Oates
From the album: Hyperboreans
Cover Story Wasn't Born To Follow - The Byrds
From the album: Notorious Byrd Brothers
Cover Story I Wasn't Born To Follow - Beth Orton
From the album: Sugaring Season
Do You Remember That - Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby
From the Radio Free Song Club podcast
Reflections In A Flat - Half Man Half Biscuit
From the album: Back In The D.H.S.S.

The Nurse's Song - Dave Walters
From the album: Innocence and Experience
My Favourite Girl - King Creosote
From the EP: Favourite Girl
Not One Bit Ashamed - King Creosote
From the album: KC Rules OK
Bats In the Attic - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
From the album: Diamond Mine

New Music (kinda) I'm Talking About You – The Beatles, Live at the BBC For "Saturday Club" 16th March, 1963)
From the album: On Air - Live at the BBC, Vol. 2
New Music Somewhere Only We Know - Lily Allen
Single
Here's the John Lewis TV commercial featuring Lily Allen
 
New Music Underground - Kathryn Williams
From the album: Crown Electric
New Music The Lady Is Risen - Johnny Flynn
From the album: Country Mile

 

Lily Allen's new single - Listener Discretion Is Advised