Cloudcast for a cloudy day

A 45 minute mix rather than a radio show this week with a dozen songs and no chat in between. From the song titles, you can see that I was inspired by the very wet weather we're currently having here in Lancashire. Enjoy! (the music, not the weather)

http://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/a-wet-afternoon-in-june/

Chas Ambler - My City Home
Kate Bush - Under Ice
The Existence of Harvey Lord - Where The River Runs Slow
Angie Palmer - Time of Thunder
Moll Baxter - Weatherman
Carole King - Out In The Cold
John Rigby - If I Had A Boat
Crosby Stills & Nash - Shadow Captain
Paul Levy - On The Hill
Martha Wainwright - Niger River
Ottersgear - Where Ottersgear Lies
Kami Thompson - Stormy

http://www.myspace.com/chasambler
http://theexistenceofharveylord.bandcamp.com/
http://www.molliebaxter.com/
http://www.myspace.com/plevyman
http://www.mikeykenney.co.uk/ (Ottersgear)

Book update

After a period of inactivity on the book, I've now done some more editing and feel it might just about be finished. My wife Sam does proofreading as part of her job so had a look through my manuscript and confirmed what I had suspected - namely that the second last chapter needed some more work and the final chapter was rather disjointed and not nearly as good as the earlier part of the book.

In light of this I made the decision to scrap the final "Folk Years" chapter and have deleted some and re-written other parts of the preceding chapter. So the book now covers the years 1981 to 1999. This then leaves some of what I'd written left over for what could be the start of my next writing project.

I have signed up to the Smashwords web site with a view to publishing in various electronic formats with them. I found them via Steven Baxter's excellent book "Musings of a Monkey" based on his blog at enemiesofreason.co.uk

So the next steps are to format the text for e-publishing, re-do the cover design and that'll be about that. Then hopefully I might be able to sell a few copies!

CB

PS In case you're wondering what the book includes, the final chapter covers some of the concerts I went to between 1991 and 1999 and features the likes of Manic Street Preachers, Smashing Pumpkins, Iggy Pop, The Cramps and Hugh Cornwell.

Lancaster.Internet show 10 June 12

Playlist for the show which went out on Lancaster.Internet on the 10th of June.

It's a selection of songs by American and Canadian artists with an animals theme.

Alison Krauss & Union Station - Cluck Old Hen
Steve Earl & the Del McCoury Band - Texas Eagle
Michelle Shocked - Jump Jim Crow
Be Good Tanyas - Crow Waltz
Gillian Welch - Six White Horses
Flying Burrito Brothers - Wild Horses
Hayseed Dixie - War Pigs
Stephen Stills - Bumblebee
Neil Young - Birds
Tom Waits - Mockin' Bird
Suzy Thompson - Black Rat Swing

You can listen to the show on Mixcloud at 

http://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/lancasterinternet-show-10-june-2012/

Playlist for 27th May show

Listen to the latest show at http://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/lancasterinternet-show-27-may-2012/


Seasick Steve - You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
Kami Thompson - Gotta Hold On
The Long Lost Band - For My Sins
Lau - Dear Prudence
Peter Nardini - Bum
Icepops For Breakfast - Stuart Maconie
Megson - Working Town
Patsy Matheson - Water Is Over The Weir
Steve Knightley - Poppy Day
Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston - Trouble
Ribbon Road - Like A Bird
The Balkanics - Warsaw

Links...

http://www.thelonglostband.com/
http://icepopsforbreakfast.tumblr.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thebalkanicsband

OTBT on Lancaster.Internet 13 May

Here's the playlist for my second show on Lancaster.Internet which will be going out on Sunday the 13th May bewteen 7 and 9 pm.

Sandy Denny - John The Gun
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Please Read The Letter
Rab Noakes - Take This Letter
Angie Palmer - Notes From Underground
The Billionaires - Jump, Jive & Wail
Richard & Linda Thompson - It'll Be Me
Chris Bradley - To My Ears
Karine Polwart - Maybe There's A Road

Tracks 4 & 5 feature Lancaster-based piano and keyboard player 'Boogie' Bill Roberts. Bill currently has a residency at the Robert Gillow pub in Lancaster on Thursdays from 5 to 7:30pm. Check out Bill online at :

http://www.boogiebill.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/boogiebillroberts


Off The Beaten Tracks on Lancaster.Internet
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lancaster-internet

OTBT on Lancaster.Internet

My first Off The Beaten Tracks show on Lancaster.Internet will be broadcast on Sunday evening between 7 and 9 pm. I went along to familiarise myself with the equipment and so only took a few cds, one of which wouldn't play in the cd deck but I ended up recording a show. It is about 50 minutes long and this is the playlist. Hope you can tune in at http://bit.ly/IAFZoV

The Low Countries - Wino
Duotone - Turning Pages Over
Darwin Song Project - Heavy In My Hand
Darwin Song Project - We'll Hunt Him Down
Greenheart - Lemongrass
Greenheart - Walk In The Park
Moll Baxter - Passenger of Love
Duncan McCrone - Waiting Here For You
Seth Lakeman - Blacksmith's Prayer
Treacherous Orchestra - Superfly

For gigs in the Lancaster & Morecambe area check out Ron Johnson's page :

http://www.lunevalleyaudio.com/wall.htm  

He also posts daily updates on his Facebook page :

Beside The Seaside

The end of Diversity FM... but we may be back!

Some news from Duncan Moore (ex-volunteer co-ordinator at Diversity FM) -

"After a couple of weeks discussion with Ofcom and putting a number of plans before them I am sad to say they have refused the license extension, this makes it impossible to seek a transfer to a new group. The reason for not extending the license was on 'legislative' grounds and their decision, which was taken at a senior level, is final. Sadly this brings 8 years of community radio history in Lancaster to an end, the transmitter will be turned off shortly.

However... the next round for community radio licensing for our region begins early in 2013 and I will be putting together a license application to bring back community radio to our district. I have recently spoken to a number of other people from the community radio sector in the north west who would be interested in forming a limited company to move this forward and I will have an initial meeting with them soon. I have today agreed to purchase the transmitter from the YMCA so it will stay in its current location until we need it. So watch this space!"

In the meantime the cloudcasts continue and I will hopefully be meeting up with Gordon Smith next week to talk about doing shows on Lancaster.Internet. 

The latest cloudcast includes two tracks from Duncan McCrone's new album 'Colourblind' and tracks by Didi Bergman, Chas Ambler, The Darwin Song Project, The Midden and Martha Wainwright.

Check it out at http://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/off-the-beaten-tracks-06/