The Chiminea at Riverside Radio

01/08/2024

I was on my way to cover the opening of a rooftop bar just now when the heavens opened and I was among the hat and brolly-less. I'm assured they have a Plan B tonight and we'll review the no doubt excellent lineage next week.

31/07/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgrLATb75No This is an eloquent slice of musical history. I'm pretty certain that Ray turned up at our secondary school once or twice where BSO players were Peris ( how luck y we were), possibly in the Sinfonietta when Simon 'Baby' Rattle won the John Player competition in 1970 something. Above all it talks about the idea of British professionalism as it rapidly evolved, how and why.

A documentary by Bunny Laden.This documentary tells the story of the Bournemouth Symphony's rise to international acclaim while under the baton of Maestro Co...

16/07/2024

At Hamlet Basement this evening recording the convivial line-up of Swing Driven Thing and Vince Burke (Quartet) for this weekend and next .

13/07/2024

I went to see 'Accolade' , having been intrigued by the ad playing before my radio show. The ad ambiguosly and craftily suggests there here and now of cancel culture - writer and reluctant talking head with a shadow side goes Icarus- and in fact Emlyn Williams, of all people , in 1959 is prophetic of where are now , as some of the inventively simple scene changing suggests. Honeysuckle Weeks is a kind of Celia Johnson of what would eventually become swingin' London, but then was anything but .The writers; nemesis , a sort of Walter Mitty with more than a bit of Hamlet , is an extraordinary turn as is the writers' son, developmentally thwarted by privilege, who has to get his head around extraordinary circumstances in the plays' final moments. Unfortunately they are just doing one more night at Richmond, but well worth catching on tour.

10/07/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jj4wt This series is being shown in its entirety tonight on BBC4, banned from re-broadcast on the grounds of its controversial but it appears well-informed views about aspects of the judiciary and policing. Writer Gordon Newman introduces the series tonight and I'm delighted to say that he's going to be on The Chim in a week or two.

Groundbreaking, controversial series that changed the face of police drama.

06/07/2024

Tonight from 11 on Riverside Radio after Kent and Simon Burnett
my guest is Brazilian Jazz Trombonist Joabe Reis who was at
World Heart Beat Music Academy earlier this week with his London host Fernanda. Plus new &impending soulful goodness.

29/06/2024

Tonight from 11 on Riverside Radio my guest is Edward Schyfrin - Ukrainian Businessman , Scholar who has returned to music in his 60s with a formidable Alliance . Plus the latest from the Hat crew with Rosie Reed Gold Misha Rees Andrew Neil Carpenter on Dreams and Dreamscapes. (There was no News Review this morning due to my lurgi, but I've learned that I'm covering tjhe Lambeth count on Election Night while my regulars Leonie Cooper AM and Mal are in the studio with News Editor Cam Hall)

26/06/2024

After work yesterday I got myself shorn for the first time as an OAP, ironically in a non-canine 'grooming' place . The assumption appears to be crew cut plus hipster beard , a Percy Thrower influence detectable, but all in all a relief to be less foggily hirsute in these temperatures. Then last night I talked to 60-something emerging bluesman /singer-songwriter Edward Schyfryn for the Chim and I hope we'll speak again about the politics of Ukraine and Israel. I don't think he has much time for the Zionists somehow.

24/06/2024

Morning, the weekends' Chims are now up at www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay with Beverly Andrews on Sojourner Truth and the here and now, Hugo Jennings on this years Battersea Jazz Festival , Gabriel Moreno -Music and Poetry-,Anouk Aimee remembered, Farah popping in ahead of the Nightside on Borneo and Donald Sutherland, the cream of the new soulful and songwiterly and Lustgarten's shipping forecast.

17/06/2024

Morning , last nights' Chim Extra on Bloomsday, Fathers' Day and in the trossachs with Lustgarten is now up at www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

16/06/2024

Here's last nights' Colin Crilly Takeover https://www.mixcloud.com/upload/andy-bungay/colin-crilly-takeover-saturday-15th-june-plus-podcast/complete/with guest John Hamilton talking in Russell Square last weekend about an extraordinary life in campaigning . Back at 9 on Riverside with Fathers' Day, James Joyce and Edgar Lustgarten.

09/06/2024

Being mildly lurgified, I've been able to dive into 'Wayne Shorter- Zero Gravity' on Amazon Prime. The visual composition of the films has a nascent jazz about it. One moment, after a life of stoicism, finds Wayne editing and taping together the immaculately hand-written orchestral parts for 'Gaia' in his 80s, unperturbed, while some Trump wonk is bleating away on CNN. Musicianship as martial art.

01/06/2024

Tonight from 11 after Simon Burnett we've Johanna Baget and , across town, http://vincentburke.co.uk in session & Rosie Reed Gold, Misha Rees, Steev Burgess, Andrew Neil Carpenter
& new soulful, jazz and world.

20/05/2024

This past weekend is still very much with me - notwithstanding the awful Thameslink a fascinating delve at Clophill either side the Saturday radio show archive of which follows shortly . Thanks to Farah Lily Farah for filling in on Sunday enabling me to catch some (bloody trains again ) of Anton Lesser as Laurie Lee at the Richmond Theatre accompanied by world-class string ensemble from the Orchestra Of The Swan. If you a spoken word and classical denizen , catch this on tour if you possibly can- magical. Thanks to Ian Barclay for the comp and good company.

17/05/2024

After a bit of a delay I am haring off in a bit to catch Julian Joseph at World Heart Beat Music Academy- here's this weeks News Review from Matthews Yard justb now with Leonie Cooper AM, Mal and Graham on and his 6 pledges , Cameron in China and Neil Schofield-Hughes reporting on the , er, challenged state of the Welsh Arts scene under a Labour administration . Tomorrow at 11 hopefully JJ plus extended conversation with Electronica genius John Callaghan . www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

07/05/2024

Sorry this has taken a while due to sundry misadventures, but here are the weekends' Chims featuring-on Saturday- Total Immersive Sound and Light from www.arightleftproject.com at www.worldheartbeat.com plus recent live performance from Melissa James and Hugo Jennings- while on Sunday we had Farah Lily Farah, Alan Bennett at 90 (not an interview as yet sadly) , Steev Burgess, and Lustgarten's coverage from the frozen architraves of Near Muck.

21/04/2024

https://mixcloud.com/andy-bungay/saturday-20th-april-ft-hugo-jennings-trio-toulouse-lautrec-lustgarten-aloft9/ Good Morning ,Last Nights' Chim will be imminently up with new grooves from Peckham and Santa Rosa including Fiametta Alexander, Baby Rose, Ashley Slater, the Alabama 3 and Sam Castell-Ward.Guest Hugo is also with the South London Jazz Orchestra at Rotherhithe Roundabout for the Marathonas I type. Back tonight at 9.

20/04/2024

https://mixcloud.com/andy-bungay/news-review-saturday-20th-april-graham-stevens/ This weeks' News Review -
Leonie Cooper AM & Malcolm Grimston
are away so Graham Stevens and I dug into
Thames Water (nationalisation? )
George Monbiot on Protest (Graham was one or two in the 60s) & the Irish News ( and Caroline Lucas) on our National Identity at the moment. Tonight from 11 on The Chiminea at Riverside Radio Riverside Radio we've Hugo Jennings and his Trio from Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club recently and, with a following wind, the return of Edgar Lustgarten.

While Leonie and Mal are away, Graham and I dug into some of the nat phil and ethics in this weeks' stories- George Monbiot on the possible deportation of Climate Change protestor Marcus Decker , https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/19/victimise-people-protest-britain-destroy-families-...

16/04/2024

https://mixcloud.com/andy-bungay/sunday-14th-april-guido-spannochi/ Here's my conversation from Sunday night
with Guido Spannochi about his quartet's new live album from the 2022 London Jazz Festival . In lighter vein they'll be in residence at https://instagram.com/pear.tree.cafe from May through the Summer.

14/04/2024

Last Night's Colin Crilly Takeover featured Anna Redfern of www.cinemaandco.co.uk on the extraordinary cultural politics of Covid-19 as they've impacted on her business decisions, on local culture and her life - CC considers the Bridgen debate on this territory ahead this week in the Commons, the latest from Gaza and protests about it, and the new version of the SNP's Hate Speech Act among other things. I'm back tonight from 9 with Guido Spannochi, Summertime Sax denizen of Battersea Park Cafe, on his rather different new live album plus Farah popping in about 1030.

31/03/2024

Last Nights; Chim with Rosie Reed Gold Alice Mary Williamson Jelaska Dominic Silvani and friends on 'The Whole Moon' plus new/ ish music from Donald and Dorothy Brown, Lady Blackbird , Haitus Kayote, The Whispers and from Salento via Iran, Hystteria. More tonight from 9 plus Farah and Lustgarten. www.mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

30/03/2024

After Simon Burnett at 11pm on Riverside Radio Keep It Under Your Hat with Rosie Reed Gold considers the Lunar eclipse and the coming of Spring, plus some bespoke new grooves from them and from other corners of the soulful diaspora.

25/02/2024

On the N44 an extended plangent threnody by two Aussie deep Contraltos tired and emotional about an office menage a something or other. It occurs to me that this must be from the same undiscovered Harrison Birtwistle Opera that the Geese have been performing. Unfortunately they were indisposed for the obligato.

18/02/2024

https://mixcloud.com/andy-bungay/saturday-17th-feb-ft-bird-mouth-collective-news-from-vauxhall/ Last Nights' Chim features new but old school experimental theatre made from Vauxhall ft Misha Rees and team plus new soulful grooves,before which the News Review returned with

& Graham Stevens on
and new Jo Harman, Mark Knopfler, Memphis Gold and more. Back at 9 with Paul Wilkinson .

18/02/2024

Due to non-availability of the other party I trook a detour and got on the Wareham and Swanage Railway, remembering that last steam trains a few miles north-west when I was 4 or 5 . The dedication and preservation of the team is first-rate , and their low budget will have been swelled by 291 opassengers at 12 quid a head on my journey alone. Lacking the oomph to go far, I went to see 'Bob Marley-One Love ' on the way back- a bit stylised at the end to make a genre-historical point. Performance of great nuance and the behaviour of musicians in rehearsal, and Bob's style on stage, is brilliantly caught. The Odeon in Bournemouth has an usual policy on people behind kicking the person in front, and prolonged unrelated yatter during the film ( one source was loudly sworn at ) , and I wound up sitting on the floor for my £17.60. But with a film that good it doesn't matter.

13/02/2024

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/steve-wright-bbc-radio-presenter-has-died/ar-BB1idS6d?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=de394937345c449892455877eb93e688&ei=9

Arriving home to this sad news- gone far too soon. The BBC clipped the wings of his convivial anarchy (Mr Angry and Mr Spoons via Peter Dickson in the news booth were rumbled by the suits) but he was one of the rare grouping that transcended to be the complete entertainer, a lot smarter than he would be expected to be now. RIP and Thank You Steve :)

Veteran BBC radio presenter and broadcasting "legend" Steve Wright has died at the age of 69.

12/02/2024

Carl Chambrerlain's Urbane Folk is up at 9 on Riverside Radio. Here's last nights' Chim : Crilly Takeover guest Joe Sacker
on his songwriting , more from Paul Wilkinson in Nepal & for the Chinese New Year, a moment with still-active ancient divination, new music from
http://mixcloud.com/andy-bungay

11/02/2024

https://mixcloud.com/andy-bungay/10th11th-feb-the-colin-crilly-takeover-feb-24-ft-joe-brack-wise-up-action/ Last Night's Colin Crilly Takeover (extended) up shortly with guest Joe Brack of WISE Up Action
plus and more. Back tonight
on Riverside Radio at 9 with Joe's music, more from Paul Wilkinson in Nepal and broadly soulful new releases.

04/02/2024

Morning All- Last Nights' Chim is now up at http://mixcloud.com/andy-bungay with Paul Wilkinson on Nepal, HHugo JenningsTrio at Canvas and Cream, and Keep it Under Your Hat ft MMisha Rees SSteev BurgessAAndrew Neil Carpenter Back next Saturday, newly upgraded in the studio with the Colin Crilly Takeover and Sunday night goodness. The News Review should also be back up and running from its new home/ s in Croydon.

03/02/2024

The Chim from 11 tonight hopefully features a bounty of goodness from the Hat crew with Misha ReesAndrew Neil CarpenterSteev Burgess the Hugo Jennings Trio this week at Canvas and Cream and more from Paul Wilkinson on Nepal. The News Review will be back next week ; no show tomorrow as the studio is being upgraded.