Doctors, disease, dysfunction and death.

Watch this space - John Spencer (DJ ProfJohn to you) is giving up the African habit in favour of these things close to his heart...

Culture Lab Radio DJ gets own blog and puts it on Culture Lab Radio blog

Hello,

http://sidneygrovesunday.blogspot.com/

You can download the latest edition if you wish.

Steve

Aaah the canny sound of the ukulele!

As part of her series of radioshows "Speakerbox" (currently on a break), Lalya Gaye dedicated a session to the cheerful bundle of joy that is the ukulele. Beautiful!
Find below the show's playlist and links to some Newcastle-based (or not) ukulele resources:

Playlist!

The Bobby McGee's - "Sussex Uni Solipsits Society"
The Bobby McGee's - "Coalmine Kampf 1984"
George Formby - "Why Don't Women Like Me"
Lila Burns - "Zombie Song, and Apology"
Abd Al Malik - "Ma Jolie"
Lykke Li - "Little Bit"
Beirut - "Postcards from Italy"
Florence + The Machine - "Postcards from Italy (Beirut Cover)"
Florence + The Machine - "Dog Days"
Beirut - "Elephant Gun"
Beirut - "Transatlantique"
Jens Lekman - "Your Arms Around Me"
The Bobby McGee's - "When Father Died, Ferrets Licked Away the Tears"
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps (not ukulele but should be!)
Ben Westbeech - "So Good Today" (same!)
Orla Garland - "Heya (Outkast cover)"
Lila Burns - "Young Hearts Young Minds"
Bella Hemming - "You're Just My Cup of Tea"
uke3453 - "I'm yours (ukulele cover)"

Links!

Where to play the ukulele in Newcastle? Ukes4Fun! Cumberland Arms, Thursdays 6pm-8pm, and Biscuit Factory, Sundays 2pm-4pm.

Where to buy a decent ukulele for a good price? Hound Dog Music in Whitley Bay! (Monkseaton metro station, yellow line)

How to learn online? Besides yootoob (yootewb?): Ukehunt and PlayUkuleleByEar! (They also have very good ebooks and DVDs) and of course Ukulele University!

And if you're ever down south, go join the The Ukulele Research and Development Society (T.U.R.D.S)!

The Sound of Things

a new weekly show on Culture Lab radio investigating the sound of materials, items, objects and stuff. each week we are treated to a sampling (both live and recorded) of wood, zipper, wind, water, tape, soil, snow, skin, sand, rubber, rice, plastic, paper, money, metal, ice, hair, gold, glass, cotton, concrete, chain, brick... trace a sonic path through the world of things with your host, Jamie Allen:

http://thesoundofthings.tumblr.com/

International Women's Day with Lizzie and John Spencer

Another culture lab radio first - father and daughter presenting together to celebrate International Women's Day.
Find the links here for the campaigns that Lizzie has presented:
www.vso.org.uk
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/manukyanfamily/
http://www.ihollaback.org/
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/
http://www.womenforwomen.org/
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
www.myspace.com/thefreemantle

Join first Oxfam group on March 22nd at the Bridge Hotel at 7.30pm
Oxfam fundraiser for International Womens Day Friday 11th March from 8pm at Cumberland Arms

Lalya Gaye brings classic mediterranean warmth to a freezing nation.

Lalya's Sunday night show 'Down South', introduced some French language popular songs from the fifties.

Including 'Misirlou' by Dario Moreno the tune made famous here by Tarantino's use of the 1960's recording by Dick Dale. Warm memories of old movies for this listener.

Lalya's playlist:

Down South

Dalida - Ciao Amore

Dalida - Bambino

Dalida - Fado

Luis Mariano - Mexico

Luis Mariano - La Belle de Calix

Luis Mariano - Fandango des Pays Basques

Luis Mariano - Rossignol

Dario Moreno - Corps À Corps

Dario Moreno - Maria-Christina Veut Toujours Commander

Dario Moreno - Misirlou

Dario Moreno - Ya Mustafa

Dario Moreno - Brigitte Bardot

Snow White in session at Culture Lab radio

The legendary singer and actress Princess Snow White was recorded in session for the Steve Dales show last Friday night. As fresh sounding as she was in 1937 when she first came to the worlds attention with her uniquely sweet vocalising and impeccable manners.

The show was inspired by light on snow albeit very tentatively and subjectively but it's my show so there.

Playlist if you want to know:


Snow White - A Smile and a Song 2:26
Fireside Favourite 4:26 Groove Armada Northern Star
Snow White segue 0:31
White Light Of 6:56 Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet
Whiten 4:52 Hildur Guðnadóttir Without Sinking
Dwarfs' Yodel Song - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 4:40
White Rabbit 2:31 Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow
Blue Moon 2:13 Bobby "Blue" Bland Ask Me 'Bout Nothing (But The Blues)
Lazy Moon 6:39 Groove Armada Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)
Well for the sweat of the moon 3:17 Andy Partridge & Harold Budd Through the hill
Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples 2:22 David Sylvian Gone To Earth (Disc 2)
All I Wanted Was The Moon 5:40 Josephine Foster This Coming Gladness
Spindrifter 4:32 Quicksilver Messenger Service What About Me
Moonlight Mile 5:57 The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
Disney's Snow White - Someday My Prince Will Come 1:53
I'll Shoot The Moon 3:51 Tom Waits The Black Rider
Claire de Lune 5:16 Claude Debussy Journey to the Heart, Vol. 1
Sunlight seen through towering trees 2:57 David Sylvian Gone To Earth (Disc 2)/@
Suntoucher 6:32 Groove Armada Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)
Perfume For Winter 4:38 Fennesz Black Sea
O Serene Light 3:59 Rachmaninov_ Vespers, Op. 37 - 4.
Samarine (Under The Stars) 4:44 Okna Tsahan Zam (Shaman Voices) Get Around With CMN - Best Of Jazz 2005/2006
02 Icefire 6:09 Pat Metheny
Ice 4:28 Daniel Lanois Acadie
Snow White Music - Love's First Kiss (Finale) 4:17

Nice Weather For Ducks 6:08 Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons