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Grahame reminded me that the whole of the Paul Jones programme this week on BBC radio 2 was devoted to the Fabulous Thunderbirds. There were cuts from Kim Wilson solo and T-Birds CDs, a nice interview with Kim and a segment of the live show recorded in London during the recent tour.
You can still listen again to the show if you follow this link.
North west favourite Doug MacLeod will be featured on the Paul Jones show this Thursday 29 March 2007. The live session was recorded on March 6th while Doug was in the country on his UK tour.
BBC Radio 2 at 8pm
Please note that the broadcast time for Lanchashire Blue Notes has been moved to 9pm on Sunday evenings.
You can read the full entry on this radio show on its bluesinthenorthwest.com page.
For those of you who listened to Paul Jones tonight (Thursday 15th March), studio guest Sonny Black is appearing at Worthenbury on March 30th - contact Pete Evans on 01948 770215.
For those who did not hear it then go to the listen again page, listen, then call Pete for tickets. What a beautiful first tune from Sonny (second song into the show).
An interview with Kim Wilson to be broadcast tonight on WVEW at 10.45 UK time. This will be streamed on the internet
http://www.wvew.org/
Brief Profile: Presented by Paul Jones on BBC Radio 2 between 7pm and 8pm on Monday evenings. Consistently excellent programme covering a wide range of blues music. The format includes interviews and studio sessions (usually by British blues bands/artistes). The show is available on the internet and offers the ‘Listen Again’ facility.
Radio Frequencies: 88-91 FM and Digital Radio and TV
Brief Profile: Spencer Leigh presents On The Beat on BBC Radio Merseyside from 6.30pm to 8pm on Saturday evenings. The programme covers a wide range of musical tastes but often includes a blues element, featuring interviews and live or recorded performances. Those features are sometimes linked to blues artistes appearing at The Harbourside Club at Liverpool Marina.
Radio Frequencies: 98.5 FM, 1485 AM and Digital Radio
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/local_radio/index.shtml
Follow this link to hear the show live. To listen again, follow the link from that link (the Radio Merseyside home page) to Saturday Shows and click on Spencer Leigh.
Brief Profile: The Lancashire Blues Notes programme is presented by Nick Dow on BBC Radio Lancashire from 9pm to 10pm on Sunday evenings. It is proudly representative and supportive of the North West blues scene. In addition to the playing of old and new blues recordings, Nick Dow regularly profiles local bands and venues often by means of live interviews. The show’s catchphrase echoes its format: ‘News, blues and reviews from right across the county’. It is available on the internet and offers the ‘Listen Again’ facility.
Radio Frequencies: 103.9, 95.5 and 104.5 FM and on Digital Radio
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/local_radio/
You can hear the programme live, if you follow this link when it is on air. To listen again, follow the link, then follow the ‘Presenters’ links until you locate the Nick Dow link.
Profile: True Blues is presented on BBC Radio Wales by Euron Griffith from 7pm to 8pm on Wednesday evenings. It provides a wide range of blues styles, with a generous helping of contemporary recordings. It is presented in a very pleasant laid-back manner and is well worth a regular visit.
Radio Frequencies: 93-104 FM, 882 and 647 AM and Digital Radio and TV
Christmas Day saw the launch of an all-new digital radio station called thejazz.
Available on DAB, on Sky and NTL’s radio channels and online at www.thejazz.com, the station will play a range of music across the jazz genre and plans to engage listeners in a debate throughout 2007 by asking listeners to discuss “What is jazz?”
Darren Henley, station manager of Classic FM and thejazz, says: “Just as Classic FM has taken classical music into the mainstream, so we want to make jazz a part of everyday life in the UK.”
The digital-only station, which went on air at 9am on Christmas Day, will operate as a sister service to GCap-owned Classic FM.
Like Classic, GCap hopes theJazz will develop as a brand across live concerts, CDs, books, podcasts, downloads, a website and TV programming.
According the www.thejazz.com website
theJazz will play a wide range of jazz genres such as bebop, swing, cool jazz, trad, blues and modern jazz.
Some of the artists featured on the station will include Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Weather Report, Branford Marsalis, Denys Baptiste, Jamie Cullum, Diana Krall and Madeleine Peyroux to name but a few.
Our full playlist will follow in January 2007.
Only time will tell just how much of the programming will be blues. I will pass on more information as I receive it.
Great news for Stumble fans. The band have recorded a Christmas Unplugged Special to be broadcast across the region on Christmas Eve. I paste below the text from the band’s website http://www.thestumble.com/
CHRISTMAS EVE BROADCAST
Unplugged Christmas Special is to be aired on Nick Dow’s BBC RADIO LANCS BLUENOTES PROGRAMME at 20:00 GMT Sun 24 Dec 103.9, 95.5 and 104.5F.M. You can listen again online via http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire
The legendary Irish broadcaster Charlie Hussey has part one of an interview with Nick Moss on the radio tonight. The show can be streamed from the Internet. Check out The Blues Train on Dublin City Anna Livia FM Online.
Pete Evans writes…
Bad Brad Wheeler who played at Worthenbury in August has his own show on Free Radio Utah on www.KRCL.org
It really is excellent. On Thursdays from 8.30pm to 10pm. Strongly recommended.
Incidentally, he was in the opinion of many who were at the gig, one of the best harp players we have heard and he teaches harp in the “Blues In The Schools” programme and on Oct 15th is hoping to break the world record by organising the most harp players playing in one place at the same time - I think he said over 18,000 in a ball stadium in Ogden, Utah.
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