Join us for Christmas 1973 — 18/12/10
Come join us for The Big Paws Christmas Special on the 18th of December—when we’ll be broadcasting the show live from 1973.
Nineteen Seventy-Three was the high point of Christmas, it’s never been as good again. With Slade and Wizzard battling for their Midlands-based glitter-fests, dressed in tin-foil like a fattened turkey. We’ll be glammed-up and have crackers, tinsel and a tin of Quality Street for anyone who pops in to the studio at the Custard Factory (8am-10am we’re on, you know that).
All the usual favourites, Tweet of the Week from 1973, and the latest and new music from the hotest bands… of late 1973. What will 1974 have in store for us?
And Noel Edmonds? He’s on Radio One.
The Big Paws 04/12/2010 — Tracklisting
“Nom nom nom song” by Parry Grip
“There is Power in a Union” by Billy Bragg
“Hey Cool Kid” by Cloud Nothings (it’s a free download)
“DJ, Ease My Mind” (Raffertie remix) by Niki & The Dove (it’s a free download)
“Humid Air” by The Moaners (it’s a free download)
“Nutcracker Christmas Dubstep REMIX” by BogTroTTeR
The Time Tunnel
- It was the year that Band Aid recorded the charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” to raise money to combat the famine in Ethiopia.
- Moreish drug Crack, a smokeable form of cocaine, was first introduced into the Los Angeles area and soon spread across the United States.
- The Soviet Union announced that it would boycott that years 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
- Advance Australia Fair was proclaimed as Australia‘s national anthem, in this year.
- The Provisional IRA attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the Brighton hotel bombing.
- Beverly Lynn Burns became the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.
- Virgin Atlantic Airways mades its inaugural flight.
- Sid was told, and British Telecom was privatised.
- Born in this year were: Man Utd makeweight Darren Fletcher, curly-haired Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and Welsh singer and duck impressionist Duffy
- Died in this year: man film director Sam Peckinpah, Welsh comedian and magician Tommy Cooper, and famous Georgian chess player Tigran Petrosian.
- With the slogan “why 1984 won’t be like 1984” the Apple Macintosh was introduced.
But what was the year?
“Sexcrime (1984)” by Eurythmics (1984)
“Aitu” (LQD Live Edit) by Funerals (it’s a free download)
“Forget Me Not” by Glass Vaults (it’s a free download)
“Written On The Forehead” by PJ Harvey
“Brakehorn” by Sudanim (it’s a free download)
“Shake the Shackles” by Crystal Stilts (it’s a free download)
“Framebreaker ” by Return To Mono
“The Lion and Albert” – told by Jarvis Cocker
“Polarise” by Cameras (it’s a free download)
Furtive Forty: “Ancestors” by Gonjasufi
Furtive Forty: “MCs Can Kiss” by Uffie
Tediously Topical Twitter Tag Time: “*Poo* Are You” by The Who
“NY Is Killing Me” by Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx
“Paradise Circus” by The Lilac Time
The Big Paws 4/12/2010 — Stuff we talked about
UK Uncut’s Big Society Revenue & Customs
Paris woman trapped for 20 days in the bathroom
Kunt and the Gang – Use My Arsehole as a C*unt for Christmas no.1 2010
Gary Lineker poos himself at World Cup 1990:
Big hair/now bald rockers Skin farewell tour and the classic Look But Don’t Touch from 1994:
Celebrating a year of Craftivism
Jarvis Cocker reads The Lion And Albert:
The Big Paws 27/11/2010 — Listen Again
It’s gonna be a dubstep Christmas:
The Big Paws 27/11/2010 — Tracklisting
“Nom nom nom song” by Parry Grip
“Da Da Da” by Elastica
“Curious” (Co-Pilots Remix) by Pin Me Down
“Lazy Bones” by Grass House
“Four Days Straight” by Scattered Trees
“Punk Hopper” by Iron African (it’s a freedownload / – whole album)
The Time Tunnel:
- The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, was among 96 killed when their airplane crashed in western Russia.
- Volcanic ash from one of several eruptions beneath Eyjafjallajökull, an ice cap in Iceland, disrupted air traffic across northern and western Europe.
- North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea.
- Eurozone countries agreed to a rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country’s financial crisis.
- The Togo national football team was involved in an attack in Angola, and as a result withdrew from the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.
- Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides won the Nobel Prize for Economics
- Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter, but not for long, obviously.
- The United Nations designated 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity and International Year of Youth in honour of Teenagers wash baskets.
- Born in this year: tiny owl Cal Drew, minibrumcast Luke Downing and tiny Lichfieldian Gwilym Harrison
- Died in this year: Persuader Tony Curtis, reclusive author J. D. Salinger, and “British Chaplain” Sir Norman Wisdom,
- The 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.
“Dubstep Christmas” by Goldie Lookin Chain (2010)
“Nachtmusik” by Seams
“Trapdoor” by Salem
“Elephants & Little Girls” by Loch Lomond (it’s a free download)
“Surfin’ Geocities” by VEKTROID (it’s a free download)
“Bubble Gum” by Hodgy Beats Feat. Tyler Creator x Casey V (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) (it’s a freedownload)
“Flawless Executioner” by Christopher Paul Stelling
“Seasick” by Tetris=Therapy (it’s a freedownload)
“Terry” by Anika
Furtive Forty: “FM Tan Sexy” by El Guincho
Furtive Forty: “Wicked game” by Sad NES
Tediously Topical Twitter Tag Time: “Do you know the *wafer* San Jose?” by Nancy Sinatra
“Little Bird” by Pancake Breakfast
“Paradise Circus” by The Lilac Time
The Big Paws 27/11/2010 — Stuff we talked about
We played #biscuitsongs because:
Ace of Spades from Fireplayer on Vimeo.
Jon’s stand-up:
