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24/07/2024

John Mayall.
29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024

John Mayall, (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over sixty years. In the 1960...

23/07/2024

Double Bubble Nº1
On this date 23/07/21
From our archives.

Join Captain Steve and his guest every Friday night in the queue at the chip shop. Fryday night chip shop - Rock and Soul hour (mostly).

23/07/2024

WWOZ
Live Radio from New Orleans

Listen live online to WWOZ: volunteer-powered, listener-supported community radio in New Orleans.

22/07/2024

Remember folks.
The the full archives for all the Big Bubble Radio shows can be found here ⬇️

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22/07/2024

26 years ago this month.
A short clip of Redsands Radio.

A clip from inside the studio on Redsands Radio. Broadcasting for 10 days in July 2008 on AM and The Web from the old WW2 Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames Es...

15/07/2024

It is the Pink Floyd album that marks the group's transition to a more elaborate sound, before settling on the one we all know and which made albums such as "The Dark Side of The Moon" and "Wish You Were Here" famous . Published in the United States on October 31st and November 5th in England 52 years ago, "Meddle" was born after the challenging experience with Michelangelo Antonioni and collects some famous pieces by the group of Gilmour and his associates, including the long suite " Echoes", the instrumental "One of these days" which sees Gilmour and Waters dueling on bass, with a great Mason unleashed on drums, and finally "Fearless", signed by Rogers Waters, who will begin to take care of the group's lyrics more assiduously and which sees the inclusion of the very famous Liverpool fans' chant "You'll Never Walk Alone". "Meddle", almost a sort of warm-up for the famous works of the following years, can be considered without a shadow of a doubt, a fundamental album for the evolution of the style of the four Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd

07/07/2024

07/07/2024

Happy Birthday Ringo

Ringo Starr turns 84 today!

06/07/2024

Also on July 6: On this day in 1957, Paul McCartney was introduced to John Lennon.

https://tinyurl.com/3c7ky3x3

[Painting, "The Introduction," by Eric Cash]

It happened at St. Peter’s Church in Woolton, during the summer garden fete. The catalyst was mutual friend, Ivan Vaughan - a sometime member of The Quarry Men, who got the notion in his head that his two musical friends, 16 year-old John and just-turned 15 Paul would get on well. while maintaining reservations as to whether Paul qualified as a “great” fellow - the kind he normally would introduce to John. (He’s seen here with Paul and a young George Harrison: https://tinyurl.com/2j7l6xtc)

The meeting took place in the church hall, sometime before the 8pm start time of the group’s second set. (The first had taken place on a stage outside; this was where Paul first heard and saw John, that day at least.) It remains unclear whether Paul had rode his bike home to retrieve his guitar before meeting John, or whether he had it all along; it’s an open question whether or not the left hander would have been able to impress on the opposite-stringed instrument John was playing, though not impossible.

But wow them he did, with run throughs of Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock,” Gene Vincent’s “Be Bop A-Lula,” and - to top it off - some Little Richard, his show-stopper. He also took the trouble to show them how to tune a guitar properly, a skill that had eluded John and the others thus far. The meeting stirred mixed feelings in John as to what decision to make: potentially undermine his own dominance or advance his musical career. In this instance, he made the right call.

For a band of nobodies for the first half-decade following their union, the boys that became the Beatles were remarkably well documented. Though no photos of the two were taken together on this day, photos of the band were, as well as an audio recording of their second set. It only surfaced in the 1990s, when the son of the youth who had taped it discovered it in his family’s attic. Here’s the publicly available snippet: the entire tape was bought at auction by EMI in 1994.

06/07/2024

Only A Pawnin Their Game.
Bob Dylan.

04/07/2024

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupMarch Of The Meanies (Remastered 2009) · George MartinYellow Submarine℗ 2008 Calderstone Productions Limited (a d...

03/07/2024

Remembering Brian Jones 28 Feb 1942 - 3 July 1969
Brian Jones composed the soundtrack music for the film A Degree Of Murder between 1966 and 67. He recorded the music together with Jimmy Page, Nicky Hopkins and Kenny Jones.
The music was never released as an album.

Recorded in September'1966 in London, IBC Studios (and other dates and places in late 1966 and early 1967).All music produced and composed by Brian Jones.Mus...

02/07/2024

The Who on Ready Steady Go, on this day July 2 1966.

On July 1st, 1965, The Who are filmed performing live versions of "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere" and "Shout and Shimmy" for Ready Steady GO! With great luck a kine...

01/07/2024

Blondie, Debbie Harry turns 79 today!

07/06/2024

Pink Floyd's "Paintbox'' written and sung by keyboardist Richard Wright. It was first released in 1967 as the B-side to the single "Apples and Oranges". The ...

06/06/2024

Gong

06/06/2024

Happy Birthday Jim Leverton

Provided to YouTube by Cherry Red RecordsBright New Way · Fat MattressFat Mattress℗ 2009 Esoteric RecordingsAuto-generated by YouTube.

06/06/2024

Also on June 6: On this day in 1968, the Beatles were interviewed by Kenny Everett in the studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_rVzAIhHGs

The group’s connections to the then-23 year old former pirate radio broadcaster were substantial: having landed at the BBC (which he promptly dubbed “the Beeb”) in 1967, it was Everett who previewed (most of) the Sgt. Pepper album in England on May 20, interspersing tracks with soundbites from each Beatle he’d taped the night before at the Pepper launch party hosted by Brian Epstein.

Later, he would be entrusted with stitching together separately-recorded segments for the 1968 and 1969 Beatles Christmas messages, giving an illusion of unity where none existed. But in between lay this in-studio visit, taped in EMI Studio 3 as the White Album sessions were getting underway. Dominated (naturally) by Lennon, he was joined by Paul (who trots out his Tiny Tim impression) and Ringo; George, only briefly.

Kenny’s broadcast history heretofore was known for madcap comedic characters and sound manipulation (playing with tape speeds). The Beatles therefore being on his wavelength, it was a very comfortable match. What ensued was an interview unlike any other they gave: all pretense of being serious was jettisoned early on, resulting in priceless captures of a succession of “goodbye jingles,” a jazz take of “Strawberry Fields,” and John’s piss-take of Lead Belly’s “Cottonfields.” (Also, John gives a shout out to future pal, Harry Nilsson.)

As noted, Everett caught them early on in their work: “Revolution 1” had been tracked (but not completed), as had Ringo’s “Don’t Pass Me By.” Worth noting is the news of the day: Senator and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy’s death after being critically wounded in the early morning hours of June 5 had been announced, though it is not known if the Beatles had heard this yet.

Here’s a transcript of the proceedings:
http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1968.0605.beatles.html

Edited down to a listenable length, the Everett interview was pressed onto both sides (part 1 and part 2) of a 7” single and issued in November as part of an Apple launch promo package in Italy, bundled with releases by Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax and The Iveys. Yes, it’s quite rare: http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=374523

06/06/2024

Buy tickets for Neil Innes - 'How Sweet To Be An Idiot' at indigo at The O2 from the official retailer, See Tickets.

05/06/2024

Happy 78th Birthday to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd🎶 (06/05/46)

05/06/2024

Fat Mattress - Fat Mattress, 1969 🌺
with Noel Redding

05/06/2024

02/07/2023

A favourite on Big Bubble Radio, Jim Leverton.
His new album "Let It Rain" is now available on Bandcamp.

10 track album

25/03/2022

25/03/2022

Well folks, it's the last day of Big Bubble Radio today.
Listen to all the presenters last shows which will be playing throughout the day.

Here is the schedule.

09:00 - Cop That 10:00 - What the Folk? 11:00 - Jazz Blues and Beyond 12:00 - Midday The Synth Show 13:00 - Lost and Found 14:00 - Radio High Life 15:00 - Justin Time 16:00 - The Duke Box 17:00 - Roger's Country Routes 18:00 - Psychedelic Sunday 19:00 - Sunripe 20:00 - The Dan Swag Hour Live! 21:00 - Live Chaos until close!

Thanks for listening everyone.
And remember the archives will remain, so you can listen to all the past shows anytime you choose.

Peace and Love from all at BIG BUBBLE RADIO.

20/03/2022

It's the last of the Sunday shows before bigbubble closes down next week. Tune in while you can.

13/03/2022

There's an all new Roger's Country Routes at 6pm tonight 13.03.22. This will sadly be the penultimate show, prior to bigbubble closing down on the 25th March. Mostly new tracks thus week with a greatest hits package next week. Get it while you can! https://www.mixcloud.com/live/bigbubbleuk/

31/01/2022

Nick Wilty's great show about his good friend Barry Cryer repeated tonight at 10pm on https://www.mixcloud.com/live/bigbubbleuk/

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23/01/2022

Tune in to Roger's Country Routes at 6pm today on https://www.mixcloud.com/live/bigbubbleuk/ for an all new show featuring some of the finest in Americana. Very excited to be featuring a brilliant track from Dave Sutherland's forthcoming album "Last Drop of Empty". See you there!

22/01/2022

Whitstable Theme Time Radio returns this Saturday evening at 5pm on https://www.mixcloud.com/live/bigbubbleuk/
Always a great choice of music presented in his own inimitable style by Art Decades.

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