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| 19th September 2009 The Midnight Feast listen | |
| 10th June 2009 1700-1900 | |
| 20th May 2009 listen | |
| 13th May 2009 Live From Our Second Home listen | |
| 6th May 2009 Election Night listen | |
| 8th April 2009 What Do You Hear? listen | |
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Rock Island Line returns with a fourth season of shambolic features, whimsical musings, and abundant audiowank. After a summer scouring the city's record shops by day, and trawling the internet by night, we return with the same tunes as last year. But we're playing them in a different order! In between we'll be revisiting vintage features such as the ever popular Jesus Says No, and writing Das Kapital In The Back Of The Cab. Expect regular guests, sermons from John's soap box, and tracks from bands that don't even exist yet.
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Rock Island Line // 19.09.09 // The Midnight Feast
Tonight sees the return of the munch anticipeated gastronomic gala that is Eat To The Beat. The pearings have been confirmed for our 8-man tag team cookie crunch match and are as follows:
George 'The Gorger' Pearson and David 'Gastronomic Grey-Area' Jackson a.k.a Chew World Order
'Thin' Joe Evans and Simon 'The Pie' Bryan (from Eat Beaneath) a.k.a The Lardy Boys
Jim Wilson and Sophie Hall a.k.a Sabbstandards
and of course current tag team champignons
John 'The Stick' Burns and Jannik 'What A Mouthful' Giesekam a.k.a The Caked Crusaders
For a picture of the cookies they'll be eating hop over to our show profile where you can also feast upon a selection of past compeatitions.
Alongside the main course we'll be serving up platters from Pete Yorn, She&Him, Message To Bears and Stacy Lane. So get your best pyjamas on and sneak down to your kitchen radios at midnight tonight.
Posted at 16:01, 19th September 2009
eat to the beat - the midnight feast
Rock Island Line // 19.09.09 // The Midnight Feast
It’s time for us to lunch a new compeatition in the unforkgiving all you can eat festival of food. This time we’ll be skipping straight to the main course, leaving no room for dessert, with a 4-way no holds barred TLC tag match (that’s Tables, Ladders, and Cookies for those who don’t know.)
8 compeatitiors will be putting their stomachs on the line, in a 90 mineat, 4 way, tag team event all fork the coveated 42-inch tag team belt.
This will, of main course, feature the return of the infamous John “The Stick” Burns, former ETTB world champion and compeatitive eating hall-of-famer. John will be joined in his attempt by Jannik “What A Mouthful” Giesekam, previous custard eating champion and undefeated tag team title belt holder. Will they ever meat their match?
Hammy commentary and plateside analysis will be served up by Shaun “Sweet Tooth” Murphy. To sweeten the deal, we’ll have pundeatry from past eaters and a possible special guest appearance.
To get your teeth into this compeatition, send your past eating credentials, tag team name and contact details on an empty plate to john@subcity.org.
Following an embarrassing def-eat, and six months without the sweet taste of victory, John is hungry for that dish best served cold: revenge.
Eat To The Beat: The Midnight Feast.
For an appetiser why not enjoy a nomnibus of last year’s Eat To The Beat
Back For Seconds
Just Desserts
The Main Course
Your Starter For Ten
An Appetiser
Radio Times – “More filling than you might think.”
John Prescott – “I can’t get enough of it.”
The Observer Food Supplement – “The horror. The horror.”
New York Times – “Average portions.”
The oven is preheated, the table is set, let the mealy-mouthed snacktalking begin.
Posted at 22:22, 8th September 2009
back for seconds
Rock Island Line // 18.03.09 // Back For Seconds
Many meals ago an ancient prophesy on the back of a Shreddies box foretold the coming of a man whose hunger could never be locked up. A man whose appetite for food was matched only by his appetite for victory. A man who gross consumption would attain legendary status across the globe. A man they would call 'The Stick'.
Over the past three weeks 'The Stick' has watched on as six young compeatitors have steaked a clam at his apple crown. Now it is time for his return from retirement in Wednesday night's munch-anticipated pay-per-spew Eat To The Beat - The Last Supper. The Grammed Final will see a fatal four-way between Zoe 'Killergrams', Thin Joe Evans, Shaun 'Sweet Tooth' Murphy, and John 'The Stick' Burns all eating a mystery food over 45 gruelling mineats. The winner will be crowned the 2009 Eat To The Beat King-Size Champion.
If you want to eat along at home you'll need to live near a supermarket or 24 hour shop. We'll be putting up a clue as to nature of the mystery food about an hour before the show on www.subcity.org/shows/rockislandline As soon as that clue goes up I'd recommend dashing down to the shops and stocking up on as much as you think you can eat.
If you want to join us in the studio for some pundeatry, or fancy being one of our team of plateside analysts, then get in touch by emailing jannik@subcity.org
That's the unmissable Rock Island Line - Wednesday 6-8pm on www.subcity.org and 106.6FM (for the last time this year).
Posted at 11:40, 17th March 2009
just desserts
Rock Island Line // 11.03.09 // Just Desserts
It's time for the third qualifier of our ongoing Eat To The Beat tournament, where we'll find out who will book the final table at The Last Supper? Shaun 'Sweet Tooth' Murphy puts his teeth on the line with condensed milk, as his opponent George 'The Gorger' Pearson celebrates his heritage with a cornucopia of Cornish pasties. Shaun is out for revenge having been pipped to the post by John last time on fizzy-wizzy strawberry sticks, whilst George enters The Oven for the first time hoping to unsettle his adversary with a blend of meat, vegetables, pastry and spices. Who'll be able to stomach this horrendous combination?
If you want to eat along at home you'll need the following (per person):
2 x 397g tins of condensed milk
7 x "Jumbo" Cornish pasties (270g each on average)
1 x emergency dentist
1 x preheated oven (for those desiring the easier hot pasties)
Don't miss out on your final chance to win some hearty leftovers. Also on the menu is Jesus Says No, and an after-dinner selection of musical treats.
So tune in for this week's Rock Island Line, 6-8pm Wednesday, everywhere on www.subcity.org, and on 106.6FM in the west of Scotland.
Posted at 15:58, 8th March 2009
the main course
Rock Island Line // 04.03.09 // The Main Course
This week sees round two of our ongoing Eat To The Beat tournament, and after Zoe's astonishing win last week who knows what may happen. David 'Gastronomic Grey-Area' Jackson will be filling his self-proclaimed massive gob with After Eights whilst his opponent Thin Joe Evans stomachs the nasty industrial scale cheese. David returns in style to the show, having previously beaten John at lemon curd tarts, whilst Joe makes his debut in what could be the most sickly of matches. Just how do you eat cheese, mint and chocolate together?
If you want to eat along at home you'll need the following (per person):
1 x 1kg slab of Mild Cheddar Cheese
4 x 300g packs of After Eights (or cheaper equivalent)
1 x ambassador costume
1 x cheese knife
There's also another chance to win yourself a sack of tasty leftovers.
We'll divulge in another game of Jesus Says No, and have tracks from Auteur Jazz, The French Wives and Brother Louis Collective.
That's this week on Rock Island Line, 6-8pm Wednesday, worldwide on www.subcity.org and for the weegies, 106.6 FM.
Posted at 09:59, 3rd March 2009