Jarvis sings his intro over some soothing Spiritualized pure phase drones. This week, London skyscraper The Shard opened despite the recession — and today in 1637, the financial bubble of Tulip Mania burst. Walter Donohue reads for us Sunday Drive by Bob Ayers, from a story anthology edited by Paul Auster. Jarvis plays a song that may have been designed to catch out unwary DJs! Gertrude Stein reads the tale of a young butterfly collector. Today, as on the first Sunday of every February, Trinity Church in Dalston held the Joseph Grimaldi service for clowns. The Peel R is for Racing Cars. We mark Setsubun, the Japanese bean-throwing festival; and the listeners are asked for our favourite cover versions. Birthdays: Melanie Safka, Paul Auster, Kenneth Anger, Lol Tolhurst, Gertrude Stein, Dave Davies (who asked tricky questions in RE class) and Yasuharu Konishi.
Capital Children's Choir - So Long You Pretty Thing
Spiritualized - Pure Phase Drone 2 in D
The Phoenix Foundation - Don't Make Promises You Can't Keep
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros - Give Me a Sign
Mountain Folk - Don't Go Down There
Bishi - Flash Company
Melanie - Look What They Done to My Song, Ma
Julian Fox - Tom
Archie Bell and The Drells - Tighten Up
Sunday Drive by Bob Ayers, read by Walter Donohue
The Beatles - Long, Long, Long
Shawn Phillips - Steel Eyes
Shawn Phillips - Lookin' Up, Lookin' Down
Kris Jensen - Torture
Fionn Regan - Moving to Berlin
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Sweet Little Song
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze + DJ Clip
The Cure - Foxy Lady
Gertrude Stein excerpt from The Making of Americans, part 1
Harpers Bizarre - I Love You, Alice B Toklas
The Kinks - Death of a Clown
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - We Got the Beat
Racing Cars - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Pizzicato Five - Party
Cornelius - Clash (Pastels Remix)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and Dam-Funk - Baby (Radio Edit)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Spiritualized - Pure Phase Drone 2 in D
The Phoenix Foundation - Don't Make Promises You Can't Keep
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros - Give Me a Sign
Mountain Folk - Don't Go Down There
Bishi - Flash Company
Melanie - Look What They Done to My Song, Ma
Julian Fox - Tom
Archie Bell and The Drells - Tighten Up
Sunday Drive by Bob Ayers, read by Walter Donohue
The Beatles - Long, Long, Long
Shawn Phillips - Steel Eyes
Shawn Phillips - Lookin' Up, Lookin' Down
Kris Jensen - Torture
Fionn Regan - Moving to Berlin
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Sweet Little Song
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze + DJ Clip
The Cure - Foxy Lady
Gertrude Stein excerpt from The Making of Americans, part 1
Harpers Bizarre - I Love You, Alice B Toklas
The Kinks - Death of a Clown
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - We Got the Beat
Racing Cars - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Pizzicato Five - Party
Cornelius - Clash (Pastels Remix)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and Dam-Funk - Baby (Radio Edit)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
