Thomas Ravenscroft, and why not?

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Although "his father introduced him to music from an early age, he saw Nirvana at Reading Festival age 11" is wrong on so many levels...

1) our Amber and Alice saw Placebo at age 4 and 6 so ner...
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But otherwise, we can live in hope, cant we?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 August 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't John sometimes play "Tom's Tips" (might even have been a weekly thing in the late 90s), mainly of a techno and hardcore variety? Those were usually pretty good! So I'd be interested to hear this. At least it shouldn't all be indie indie indie (and I'm one of ILM's not-quite-resident corny indie fuxx0rs). Hopefully the Nirvana thing is just the BBC's feeble attempt to find an angle for the kids and nothing to do with Mr Ravenscroft.

What is this Slashmusic and how can I listen to it? The C4 "Slashmusic" website doesn't seem to mention radio or have any listings anywhere.

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 21 August 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

yes, why not. good luck to him.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 21 August 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

i saw him, with his father, at Reading in 1991. he had a napalm death t-shirt on. (ok, could've been his brother but...)

(xpost)

peel also played a couple of things from his kid's school concert (a couple of which i have on tape, including one that rhymes 'agean' with 'water skiing') and one track (Down Pike's) that was a teenage son's band's effort.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 21 August 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

He saw Nirvana at the age of 11? Poor lad...

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.channel4radio.com/store/view.php?Id=409

I heard the first one, excellent stuff. He does have his father's style in a lot of ways. This is a must-keep-up-with, for me.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Here's me bumping this.

The programmes are uniformly excellent, and well worth the effort.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

yes. Rigil especially nice in the last one. saw him live about a month ago but it was late and everyone was leaving.

they really do need a full list with titles and artists and to archive it. it's about 6 or 7 lines of text a week, surely channel4 can manage that? (the acrimm(?) track from week 2 didn't even get a mention on the site.)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/music/mymusic/slashmusicradio.html

As you say, this is close but needs a little bit more.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

yes, i knew that. but it's not even halfway there, hence the rant 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm just adding these links for my (and by nature, yourn) benefit, so's I can quickly get to them later. "Add to Favourites", never heard of it)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, dropping Alice off at Brownies, while she's singing "give me 50p and I'll show you a good time" .. fairly classic!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

what is wrong with seeing nirvana as a kid, exactly?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

nothing that's not wrong with seeing them any other time

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

hai

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

(did this thread get renamed? could've sworn it said Peel last time.)

anyway, annoyed at ch4radio's lack of decent listings i've done it myself. am working backwards and will put them on web with hyperlinks eventually but for now:

Episode 4 - 2006-09-14
The Swings: Disco Heaven
Parameter Surfer: Kinky Bitch (Part 1)
Rigil: Wheat Fields
Spitfire: Meat Market
Barry Phillips: Polska Fran Glava
The Young Detectives: The Pussycat Lego Disaster
Xylitol: Ritual King Slaughter

Episode 3 - 2006-09-07
Flood: Hell Is Only A Name
Raymond Pistola: Mix
Pants Yell!: More Purple (Session)
Sabrepulse: Famicon Connection
Pants Yell!: Our Weather (Session)
Kevin Sinnott: Saw Through You
Pants Yell!: Kids Are The Same (Session)
Pleated Lemon: Yuletide Logs

episode 5 is now live btw

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Episode 5 - 2006-09-20
Oki Dog: Saturday Night
Matter & Villem: Machines
Enid Blitz: Day By Day
Gay Against You: Strawberry Blueberry
Last Chance To Dance: The Ben Richards Showdown
Black Curtain: Follow Me
Athletic Automaton: Cicadas

(Matter & Villem was great. Black Curtain sounded like Joy Division with added birdsong)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Episode 2 - 2006-08-31
Acrnym: Friendship Station
Hotplate: The Dance Of DJ Hotplate
Ciccone: Look At You Now
Si: If You Do As I Do
Child Abuse: Blessed From The Bowel
Makvert: Resonance Cascade
Phillip Roebuck: Travel Light
Pants Yell!: Kids Are The Same

Episode 1 - 2006-08-24
The Monroes: Not Tonight
Gay Against You: teleRAD
Cluekid: 10p Dub
The Fourers: Wood For Trees
Genghis Tron: White Walls
Lindsay West: Newcastle
UND: Fox In The Box

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

SlashMusic does seem to have gained a clue and both track titles and artists are now on the website, for the latest show at least. most of them are correct, even. for the sake of completeness:

Episode 6 - 2006-09-28
Kentucky AFC: Outlaw
Kingbastard: Got Milk
Oli 'n' Clive: Lucky Tape
Lactation Sandwich: Sewer Water
Sleeping Years: Islands
Gay Against You: Muscle Milk (Session)
Gay Against You: Let's Build A China Town (Session)
Gay Against You: Triple Schipol (Session)
Gay Against You: Gay Unicorn (Session)
Gay Against You: teleRAD (Session)
Gay Against You: I Put My Hood Up (Session)
Gay Against You: Electric Face Wound (Session)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

New show up!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

hey! it might be better than 6music (qv that radio 2 thread). i shall investigate.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

heh, what a comedy nasal funster! mark's right: he's got a peel-y touch, but it doesn't sound forced or even particularly intentional. i like this a lot already.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

oh, turns out people found this via google and are looking for better listings than the shoddy slashmusic ones. anyway, here's episode 23

Episode 23 (2007-01-25)
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Holy Molar: The Night Poca-Hot-Ass Spread Her Land O' Lakes (holymolar)
Poq: Hi-Tec (poq)
KZA: Fire Over Istanbul (kzadesertstorm)
The Bright Lights: Closed on Mondays (thebrightlightslondon)
Unknown: Gjsghxjsgsdg
"Savarna Carnatica(?)"
Pappy: Syrette (pappylove)
Nat Baldwin: Shadows (natbaldwin)
Ben's Bedroom Band: Showdown In Goat Town (bensbedroombands)
Das Oath: All The Songs Have Been Sung (dasoathdasoath)
Poq: Hi-Tec (poq)

myspace names in brackets.

here's a patchy list of the missing entries. will get around to them when i can. http://www.channel4.com/music/mymusic/slashmusicradio/previouspodcasts.html

― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

This is somewhat disappointint on first viewing...

http://www.unpredictableporridge.com/

― Mark G, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:12 (seventeen years ago)

This being William Rav's website, but guess who gets the biggest emphasis!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 09:24 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

Tom and William Ravenscroft introduce Tom Robinson to some of their favourite tracks of late.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_robinsons_introducing/

Available on Listen Again now.

― bruno_stroszek, Sunday, 4 January 2009 06:29 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

starts his own weekly show, fridays, 21:00-00:00, starting tomorrow

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00slvl3

― koogs, Thursday, 3 June 2010 18:06 (fifteen years ago)

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