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the return of beard radio!
After a well-earned summer break, Beard Radio returns to the air on Thursday 16th September at 6pm on Subcity.
Brace yourselves for another year of fluffed cues, eclectic tuneage and illustrious guests. In a turn up for the books, we're actually quite organised, and can reveal our September schedule!
Sep 16: Back to School We welcome freshers, returning students and listeners old and new with some records that are exciting us right now. We also pay tribute to one of our heroes, the great poet, translator and scholar Edwin Morgan.
Sep 23: TIME Transmitting not-so-live from Mile End, we welcome our very special guests Frances Morgan and Mark Dicker of glorious psych-folk-doom duo TIME, who will be playing us some of their favourite records. Frances also plays with Morgen Und Nite, is one of the finest music writers around and was editor and publisher of the lamented Plan B magazine. You may know Mark as guitarist in the mighty grindlords Trencher. This show promises to be a belter.
Sep 30: New Zealand Special Beard buddy and Glasgow music scene legend-of-sorts Lo-Fi Bri spreads the gospel of the New Zealand underground. From The Chills to Alastair Galbraith, Pumice to the Dead C, this show will turn your world upside down in the best possible way.
Posted at 19:10, 13th September 2010
beard's bangin' beatles bop
Thursday sees Beard radio raise our thumbs aloft to the Fab Four as only we know how. Yes, it's our long-awaited Beatles special. Now, this might seem a somewhat mainstream, classic-rock kinda thing for us to do, but rest assured this is no predictable Mojo-style snooze fest featuring the same old stuff. Deep cuts, hidden solo gems, unusual covers, tunes that sample the Beatles, homages, and related acts... If you're the kind of Beatles fan who hates Yoko and loves Oasis then you might not like this show. We think you should listen in anyway and have your mind blown. Or if you're one of those people who says the Beatles are lame perhaps we can change your mind. As for everyone else, turn off your mind, relax and float downstream...
Posted at 20:32, 3rd May 2010
beard radio with special guest john cavanagh!
Beard Radio is delighted to announce our special guest, the legendary John Cavanagh! Radio presenter, musician, producer, writer and raconteur, John will be playing some of his favourite records, as well as some exclusive new tracks.
In addition to working for BBC Scotland and presenting his own weekly Soundwave show on Radio Six International, John has recently been producer for weird-folk luminaries Trembling Bells and Family Elan, while working on his own Phosphene project.
Past projects include a one-man show about electronic music goddess and BBC Radiophonic Workshop legend Delia Derbyshire, and a book in the 33 & 1/3 series on Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates of Dawn. He has also been involved in the release of records by Derbyshire and Ron Geesin.
Read all about his activities here: http://www.phosphene.debrett.net/complete.htm
We're really excited for this show. Do tune in and turn on.
Posted at 13:16, 16th March 2010
beard radio new year special
For our first show of 2010 we're welcoming special guests Joseph Stannard (Wire, Resonance FM, The Outer Church) and Petra Davis (Plan B, The Quietus). They'll be spinning a few fine tunes and engaging in some classic Beard Radio banter. Expect prog, space disco, r 'n b, metal, and who knows what else. What's more, we're on for 90 minutes this week. Gnarly.
Posted at 13:49, 6th January 2010
beard halloween special from the crypt of terror
Behold! Prepare to submit your trembling souls to the sheer wanton terror of Beard Radio's annual witching night special. Quiver with fear, shriek with horror and curse your existence as Stewart and Gary let the devil take over their souls live on air! Our shiversome selection of tenebrous tunage takes in hauntological transmissions, face-melting death metal, witchy prog, evil techno, satanic jazz invocations and readings from Byron. Miss this chilling, thrilling hour at your peril, for we shall doom the souls of non-believers for eternity! Bwahahahahaha!!!!
Posted at 23:25, 28th October 2009
do not adjust your set: beard radio returns
We've been busy over the summer writing dissertations, growing beards (finally) and digging up yet more amazing music to share with you, our wonderful listeners. If you're new to Beard Radio don't be scared. We're a great big friendly beast, enthusiastically spreading the anything goes musical gospel. Our first show back features some amazing new tunes from Beard favourites old and new, some transcendent jazz, and a BRAND NEW JINGLE THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND. Crank up your speakers, open your minds and tune in at 7pm.
Posted at 23:20, 16th September 2009
beard radio le weekend competition winners
The lucky winners of tickets to Le Weekend are...
Howie Reeve Matt Evans
Collect your tickets from the Le Weekend box office on Friday 29th May.
Posted at 14:41, 25th May 2009
win le weekend tickets with beard radio!
Beard Radio is delighted to be able to give away two tickets to Le Weekend, Stirling's No Limits Music Festival, taking place from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May.
Starring Evangelista, Trembling Bells, John Edwards, Drew Mullholland of Mount Vernon Arts Lab and Portishead's Adrian Utley, Eddie Marcon and an exhibition by Ghost Box's Julian House, it's another cornucopia of leftfield delights.
To win, simply answer the following question...
Evangelista's Carla Bozulich was a member of which '90s alt country band?
(a) Chickasaw Mudd Puppies (b) Uncle Tupelo (c) Geraldine Fibbers
Answers to beardmag@yahoo.co.uk
We will announce the winners on next week's show.
Posted at 09:01, 18th May 2009
no beard radio this week...
...it's the Easter Holidays and I've two essay to write!
Posted at 16:36, 6th April 2009
beard radio goes to instal
Tonight's Beard radio sees us anticipating the amazing Instal festival. We're very lucky indeed to have such a bold and exciting festival of experimental and avant-garde music in Glasgow. Curator Barry Esson will be telling us all about it and we'll be playing some tunes by Instal artists, past and present. In addition to that we'll be bringing you socialist art-song, stoner rock, wonky bass and desert sludge. Tasty.
Posted at 18:05, 16th March 2009
beard djing at vault of horror, flying duck, fri
VAULT OF HORROR!!!! If you enjoyed our Halloween Special, then why not check out this fine event...
Flying Duck, 31st October, 8pm-3am
HALLOWEEN LINE-UP:
Vom
Plaque Terror (Hockyfrilla/Nackt Insecten)
Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra)
Nalle
The Radiation Line VS Mills & Boon
PLUS film screenings, visuals and DJ sets from John Cavanagh, w'OWfi fESt, BaNG!bAnG! crew and Beard.
Friday 31st October @The Flying Duck 8pm til 3am £6
http://www.myspace.com/christmastimeinthemountains
Posted at 22:42, 27th October 2008
beard radio's halloween crypt of terror!
It's Halloween, it's Halloween It's time for scares, it's time for screams It's Halloween, it's Halloween
The ghosts will spook, the spooks will scare Why, even Dracula will be there!
The Shaggs - It's Halloween
Every year us Beardsters like to hold a black mass in the Subcity Studio. As the demons possess us, we unleash a terrifying selection of ghoulish sounds! Cower! Tremble! Scream! as Shocking Stew, Monstrous Matt and Rabid Reuben strike terror into your mortal soul. There will be blood! There will be horror! There will be pain! And if you see your mom this weekend, tell her SATANSATANSATAN!!!!!!
Posted at 15:32, 26th October 2008
beard radio 13th october!
Japanese disco bliss! 16 minutes of DOOM!!!!! Shouty punk rock!! Math-pop joy! Free jazz in praise of culinary excellence!!!
It can only be another exciting episode of Beard Radio!!!
This week we celebrate Abraham Cruzvillegas's exhibition at the CCA, Autoconstruction, by playing some of the songs he co-wrote with Glasgow bands. We've also got all the good stuff mentioned above and then some!
Posted at 20:39, 13th October 2008
beard asks you to kill your timid notion
On this week's show we'll be previewing Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee's pioneering festival devoted to exploring the borders between sound and vision. Brought to you by the good people behind Glasgow's Instal Festival and The Music Lover's Field Companion in Gateshead, KYTN brings together experimental music, performance, art and film, making for an experience that'll open your ears, eyes, and mind. While we can only represent the sonic side of the festival, we hope our selections will have you intrigued - expect to hear sounds electric and acoustic, digital and analogue, human and animal. We're not joking about the animals by the way.
http://www.arika.org.uk/kytn/2008/
All that plus the usual mix of miscued records, overuse of the word "awesome", and new tracks from some of our favourite artists.
Posted at 23:09, 5th October 2008
beard radio episode 3
From hurricane lashed Texas to a dreich Glasgow, Beard co-founder Neil Jaques is back! And he's brought some amazing old records from his father-in-law's collection with him. Meanwhile, Stewart will be dropping some recently acquired bombs. So after a barrage of new releases for our first show, we fancied going for a kind of new old theme this week. So we'll be winding back a couple of years, then back to the 1940s, before beaming right back through time again, like music geek timelords.
Posted at 17:12, 29th September 2008
beard radio episode 2
Gather round ye feral children and worshippers of Pogon. Fire up the crystal set and let Beard Radio lift you heavenward on radiant beams of feedback and breath. Or in other words, tune in at 7pm tomorrow to hear Stewart and regular guest Matt, aka Guanoman, mumble and miscue some very good records. Huzzah!
Posted at 15:30, 21st September 2008
the return of beard radio
Stewart and Neil, the young shavers behind the award-winning Glasgow periodical Beard., return on Monday 15th at 7pm. On this week's show we'll be discussing the recent Colour Out Of Space festival in Brighton and welcoming our special guest Lo-Fi Bri, who's flown all the way from Florida to play us some choice numbers. Don't want to give away our playlist, but to give you a few clues expect guitar shredding math-pop, underwater dream-dirge and much tautological mangling.
Posted at 23:20, 15th September 2008