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The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - 10/9/2015

Episode 98: Standing Near the Shoulders of Giant.

Tonight! 8/9/2015! Lovely to be back and bursting with things to play you. As Mr E had the pleasure of presenting the Lifetime Achievement Honour to Gentle Giant at the Progressive Music Awards last week it would be rude not to feature them in tonight's Progflume. New beauties from Hot Chip, the Weeknd, Snoop Dogg; Creedence in the Long One; a song that sounded good on holiday but will it work now; a four-track tribute to the mighty Rico Rodriguez. Time too for the Manics, the Isleys, Cornershop and the amazing, thought-provoking track from Janelle Monae ft Wondaland Records. Sion, GJ, Al, Sue too.

The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - 12/8/2015

Episode 97: Dog Day Evening

The one and only Spectacular in August is crammed full with seasonal treats - the best music, the most esoteric references and the frothy bonhomie that makes The Daryl Easlea Spectacular what it is. Talk Talk in the Progflume; The Fall in the Long One; Kiki Dee in Tick Tock Soul O'Clock. Some brand new Chemicals, The Weekend, Rudimental, and birthday sounds and salutes to Joe Jackson, Jah Wobble and Eric Carmen. We also will be looking at Ronald Reagan's pop record appearances. I will also have the pleasure of speaking on the telephone with artist Andy Freeman about the ongoing Wrecked In The Intertidal Zone project in the Leigh On Sea area. With Sion, Susan, Alan and Jules.

The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - 28/7/2015

Episode 96: Welcome The New Soul Vision

Join Daryl's spectacular regulars - Alan, Susan, Sion and Graham as they pilot another episode of the best tunes and esoteric, warm, spiralling chat at 8pm tonight www.sfob.co.uk. The show tonight is a tribute to Dexys Midnight Runners' Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, which Daryl and Graham heard for the first time ever 35 years ago this week. To celebrate, Daryl is going to play the album in its entirety soon after 9 from his original vinyl and Mrs Easlea will be joining the show too. All the cast are going to read out the essay from the album sleeve before it starts. Expect to hear something really special.

The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - 14/7/2015

Episode 95: Hey Tati Bum Bum

As it is Bastille Day, Most things ce soir sur Le Show will be un tribute mervielliuex to Mr Easlea's third favourite country, the France. The show indeed writes itself: St Germain, Etienne de Crecy, Air, Serge Gainsbourg, the Monkees, Chris Clark, Joni Mitchell, Kool and the Gang, the Style Council, Wire, Tinie Tempah plus many more. And something beautiful from Village Green headliner Nitin Sawnhey. Sion has a poem, Susan has a dull truth and Graham brings his Taste Of The East. All served like a flaming brandy.

Sparks – Cannes Film Festival

Francis Lemarque - Paris Autrefois

The Monkees – French Song

Tinie Tempah Ft Jess Glynne – Not Letting Go

Lee Perry and The Upsetters – The French Connection

Chris Clark – Loves Gone Bad

Cedric Im Brooks – Shaft

The Damned – Neat Neat Neat

Charlotte Gainsbourg FT Beck – Heaven Can Wait

Joni Mitchell – In France They Kiss On Main Street

The PreNew – Photographed

Wire – French Film Blurred

DJ French Bloke – Destiny Kennedies

Abba – Waterloo

Adam and The Ants – Young Parisians

Elvis Costello – Beyond Belief

Homer Banks – Sixty Minutes Of Your Love

Elton John – Nice And Slow

Kool And The Gang – Electric Frog Pt 1

Serge Gainsbourg – Melody

Roger Walters – The Fall Of The Bastille

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Liquid Liquid – Optimo

Nitin Sawhney – Letting Go

Air – You Make It Easy

Style Council - Paris Match

Angie Stone – Heaven Help

The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - 30/6/2015

Episode 94: Just Say Yes

The whole show tonight on www.sfob.co.uk was to be given over to the capital sounds of 2015 so far as we are smack dab in the middle of it. However with the sad passing of Chris Squire and me being a right old progger YES will be in the LONG ONE and the SLUMBER. And what '15 beauties we have beside: Hot Chip, Beck, LoneLady, Leftfield, the Chemical Brothers, Blur, Daphne & Celeste, the Fall, Fetty Wap, FFS, Mark Ronson ft Kevin Parker, even dear old 'people's choice' Kanye West and oodles more. 8pm Tonight www.sfob.co.uk. Or on podbean forevs. Susan's Boring Fact and the Poet Hamilton, too!

Millie Jackson – Summer (The First Time)

Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze

F.F.S. - Call Girl

Slaves – Cheer Up London

Blur – Go Out

Hot Chip – Huarache Lights

The Fall – Venice With The Girls

Lone Lady – Hinterland

St Germaine – Real Blues

Rudimental  - Never Let You Go

Homer Banks – Sixty Minutes Of Your Love

Everything Everything – Regrets

Matthew E White – Rock And Roll Is Cold

Yes – Starship Trooper

Leftfield – Universal Everything

Chemical Brothers – Go

Chic – I’ll Be There

Yes - Sweetness

The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - 16/6/2015

Episode 93: Towering achievement

a Tremendously exciting show; that new Beck track; a nod to Sir Van Morrison, tunes from IDC, Otis Redding, Neil Young, Edgar Winter Band, Hot Chip, Leftfield, Buzzcocks, 2Pac, Femi Kuti, birthday boy Lamont Dozier in the Long One, Hanson (not that one) in the Progflume. A poem from Sion, A Taste Of The East from SFOB's own Jack Hargreaves, Graham Brown, a boring fact from Susan, and vibes from Alan.

Van Morrison – Astral Weeks/I Believe I’ve Transcended

IDC – Assemble The Musicians

Neil Young – Vampire Blues

Edgar Winter Band - Frankenstein  

Human League – Darkness

Buzzcocks – Why Can’t I Touch It

Beck – Dreams

Leftfield – Bad Radio

Nick Hayward – Kill Another Day

Beck – Diamond Dogs

Homer Banks – Sixty Minutes Of Your Love

Otis Redding - Sad Song

The Elgins – Heaven Must Have Sent You

Lemont Dozier – Going Back To My Roots

Hanson – Rocking Horse Man

Rudimental – Feel The Love

2Pac – California Love

Captain Beefheart – Blabber ‘n’ Smoke

Hot Chip – White Wine and Fried Chicken

Van Morrison – Here Comes The Night

The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - 2/6/2015

Episode 92: Saved By The Bell

To celebrate the final release of Sing Slowly Sisters by Robin Gibb, Mr E will be playing a couple from his new anthology. Paul Weller in the Long One, Gentle Giant in the Progflume; Hot Chocolate, Stanley Clarke, Hot Chip, Tony Wilson, Frazey Ford, FFS, Talking Heads, Disclosure ft Gregory Porter, a ruck of old chat, vibes from Graham Brown, a boring fact from Susan.

The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - 19/5/2014

Episode 91: For Pete's Sake / State Of Grace

Contains, In strict alphabetical order: 

Banks, Homer
Brown, Graham J.
Chat
Chi-Lites, the
Chemical Brothers, the
Easlea, Daryl
Fact, boring 
Fall, the
Floorfiller, the
Genesis 
Gags, weak
Hamilton, Sion
Hot Chip
Hot Chocolate 
Johnson, Alan
Johnson, Susan
Jones, Grace (birthday girl)
King, Riley 'BB'
Long One, the
Marley, Bob 
Moroder, Giorgio ft Sia
Monkees, the
Pre New, the
Progflume, the
Random Hand-in, the
Sam & Dave
Sandoval, Arturo
Slapp Happy
Spectacular Slumber, the
Spectacular Specific, the
Stereo Total
Tick-Tock Soul O'Clock
Townsend, Pete (70th birthday boy)
Who, the

The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - 5/5/2015

Episode 90: Pre (New) Election Special

We are delighted to have gentleman Jim Fry (pictured here with Mr Easlea) from The Pre New with us on the telephone tonight to discuss their new release, The Male Eunuch, the first album ever to be released in a PowerPoint edition. We will have all the regulars and favourites too, a tribute to Ben E.King, Freddie Hubbard in the Long One, Peter Gabriel in the PROGFLUME. New ones from Giorgio Moroder and Sia and Hot Chip and classics from Taylor Swift, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Joni Mitchell, Bobby Darin and the Arctic Monkeys. A poem too from Sion Hamilton and a fact from Susan. Graham James Brown along for vibes.

The Daryl Easlea Spectacular - broadcast 21/4/2015

WHAT a show! Three of the above will be in the room tonight! Iggy Pop's birthday is generously celebrated tonight, plenty of Record Store Day goodies, plus classics from Nina Simone, Jefferson Airplane, Sandy Denny, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke. Spanking new ones from FFS, Hot Chip. Saturday night in Southend sensations Purson in the Progflume and Gary Byrd in The Long One! And . . . Southend United are playing the match of the season while we are on air so live updates, always a winner on podcast. With Susan's Boring Fact, Graham Brown's Taste Of The East, The Poet Hamilton.