Friday, 18 March 2022

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 448


Purge your demons with our patented polyvinyl exorcism, all you need is right here...


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Thee songs:

The Days of Sand and Shovels – The Winstons

Dance of Maria – Elias Rahbani

発光体 - Yura Yura Teikoku

Girl After Girl – Alex Chilton

Nancy – Richard Swift

Joe (Demo) – PJ Harvey

Green Power – Jesse James

The Coincidentalist – Howe Gelb

C.B. 200 – Dillinger

No Faith – Suburban Studs

Holy Cow – Lee Dorsey

Doin’ It – Ginger Baker’s Air Force

Hit This Pipe – Whitney K

My Babe – Spoon

Purging the Demons – Shintaro Sakamoto

Welcome to Hard Times – Charley Crockett

When Twilight Falls on NGC891 – Martin Segundo and the Scintilla Strings

Let’s Pretend We’re Not In Love – The Reds, Pinks & Purples

Against the Tide – The Order of the 12

Egy Lang New Ment Haza – Omega Redstar

Ode To A Black Man – Phil Lynott

Whispered – Baxter Dury

One Man No City – Parquet Courts

Enter or Exit – The Stroppies

The Geese Are Flying Westward – Bill Fay

Time To Get Ready – The Bats

Women of the Ghetto – Hortense Ellis

Thursday, 3 March 2022

Polycarbonate Craftsmen Transmission 447


Nope, it's not an autocorrect or a typo, for one week only we have morphed into the Polycarbonate Craftsmen. Why? Everything we play this week is on a shiny little CD and not vinyl. Normal service will be resumed!

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Thee Songs:

Revolver – Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

1 – Squarepusher

My Sister and her Books – Plantman

Fight War, Not Wars (Dub Revolutions) – Crass

Doomsday -Discharge

Lean On Me – Beth Orton feat. Terry Callier

Lessons From What’s Poor – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

The Wig He Made Her Wear – Drive By Truckers

The Killing Season – Mark Lanegan

Silver Raven (Acoustic) – Gene Clark

Renegade Grinder – Johnny Know & Hi-Test

Wiggle Stick - The Rev Horton Heat

Mushaboom – Feist

Middle Saxon Town – Alan Tyler & the Lost Sons of Littlefield

Whole Wide World (Acoustic) – Wreckless Eric

America  - B.J. Snowden

Florida – Grandaddy

Where the Walls Are Made of Grass – Feregus & Geronimo

Wild – The Butterflies of Love

Rome Wasn’t Built in A Day – Nick Lowe

Milton Keynes – Wild Willy Barrett

Nothin’ In the World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ‘ Bout That Girl – Mark Lanegan

Whatevershebringswesing – Kevin Ayers

Claudette – Robert Marlow

I Wish That I Could See You Soon – Herman Dune

In the City – Nodzzz

Tropical Yeti – The Pharmacy

The Impeccable Dandy In White – Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge

Red Cabbage – Peter Jay & the Jaywalkers

Grey Hairs – Darren Hayman

Friday, 25 February 2022

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 446


Shed's back open this week, come on in...


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Thee Songs:

I Wanna Be Loved – Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers

Buzz Saw – The Gee Cees

Love Letter – Del Swade

Trans Canadian Oil Boom Blues – Whitney K

San Francisco B.C. – Silver Jews

Beat Up By A Girl – King Louie One Man Band

Southern Mark Smith (Big Return) – The Jazz Butcher

Warm Girls – Girls At Our Best!

Hard Work – Basement 5

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – Nina Simone

OD’d In Denver – Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy

Broken Finger Blues – Richard Swift

Remote Viewer – OCS

Will Work For Food – The Halo Benders

She – The Monkees

Money Can’t Buy – The Order of the 12

Don’t Tinker With History – Shintaro Sakamoto

Skies Are Blue – Pama International

Lost In Music – The Fall

We Got To Have Peace – Curtis Mayfield

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 445



Transmission 445, a snapshot of a world turned upside down.


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Thee Songs:
Getting Nowhere Fast – Girls At Our Best
Year of the Spider – Shannon and the Clams
Those Words – Mattiel
1921 – The Who
The Rocket Takes A Break – The Rebel
To the Country – Viagra Boys
Downtown – Shirley Scott
Don’t Come m Too Soon – The Reds, Pinks & Purples
Three Sixty Degrees – The Windmills
The Feeling of Love – Shintaro Sakamoto
All My Negatives Have Been Destroyed – Spoon
Memphis Spoon Bread & Dover Sole – Herbie Mann
Rushing the Acid Frat – Stephen Malkmus
Forever You Love – Daniel Jonston
Good Will Hunting – Black Country, New Road
The Hard Road – Smog
Running Riot – Cock Sparrer
Questioinaire – Chaz Jankel
Love Intervene – Lou Barlow
I Don’t Care – May Weiss
Brain of Oskar Panizza – Michael Bundt
Camino A Casa (On My Way Home) – La Cuarta Calle
Nowadays A Woman Gotta Hit A Man – Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Take A Bow – Matt Berry
The World Turned Upside Down – Leon Rosselson
It’s A Trip – The Last Poets
Syphilis – Catfight!

Thursday, 3 February 2022

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 444


Anyone lost a foot? Send you details to us on a stamped addressed jiffy bag c/o the shed and we'll get it back to its rightful owner. On with the music...


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Transmission 444
She Wanna – Miss Alex White & the Red Orchestra
Last Chance – The Jackals
Up Down Sue – The Luv’d Ones
In Love – The Marine Girls
Red Wine Promise – Norma Waterson
English Scheme – The Fall
Brainwashed – The Kinks
Choice Not A Child – Chain and the Gang
Doldrums – Fort William
Teenerama – The Records
Crying Inside – Nick Lowe
Roller Girl – Ann Karina
Festival Time – San Remo Strings
Zig Zag Wanderer – Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band
Alabama – Michael Hurley
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey – Paul and Linda McCartney
Work: Dub – Basement 5
Yes It’s You – Sweet Charles
I’m An Old Cowhand – Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
Ghost Riders in the Sky – Susan Christie
Arise Therefore – Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy
It’s Your World – Gil Scott Heron
Push – The Woggles
Autumn Leaves – Coldcut
Who’re You – Fela Kuti
That’s the Bag I’m In – The Fabs
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free – David Tattersall

Thursday, 27 January 2022

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 443


 27 tunes of various lengths specially selected for people of different lengths.


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Thee Songs:
Do I Love You? – The Ronettes
Griselda – The Unholy Modal Rounder
Avalanche – Leonard Cohen
My Tape’s Gone – The Freshies
Ragdoll – The Devil Dogs
Peter Gunn Twist – The Jesters
Viktor Borgia – Stephen Malkmus
Timesteps (Excerpt) – Walter Carlos
Walter Carlos – Momus
Dennis the Menace – Dennis Pinnock
If I Could Write Poetry – Television Personalities
It Is Always Now, All Of It Is Now – Wagon Christ
Steve Threw Up – Beck
Hey Little Girl – The Chasers
Greedy G – Booker Gee
Scratchy – The Luv’d Ones
All the Madmen – David Bowie
People Talk Too Much – Bananagun
Dark Creedence – Nap Eyes
Back Off My Baby – Catfight!
Let My People Go – Brother Jack Macduff
Direct Response (Instr) – Session In Session
The Harem – Mr Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band
New Kind of Kick – The Cramps
Shake the Foundation – Radio 4
3E – Mars
Tear the Club Up – The Dirtbombs

Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 442


Back in thee shed after an enforced covid break with a couple of tributes, a few Christmas presents and some records from the vaults.


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Thee Songs:
29 – The Abigails
Man On the Move – MX-80 Sound
Don’t Touch My Bikini – The Halobenders
All I Want For Christmas Is the Dukla Prague Away Kit – Half Man Half Biscuit
What’s In My Head – Fuzz
Building Song – Drug Store Romeos
You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory – Ronnie Spector
Bad Girl – The Detroit Cobras
True Love – Dan Sartain
Une Sale Histoire Part 1 – Fab 5 Freddy
Cricket Lovely Cricket – Dillinger vs Trinity
Soul Call – Soul Rhythms
Eloise – Dean Reed
It’s My Life I’m Fighting For – Leon Thomas
Shake – The Hate Bombs
Sookie Sookie – Steppenwolf
Free -Arthur Satán
Place I Know/Kid Like You – Arthur Russell
Designer – Aldous Harding
I Was A Stranger – Smog
Chaff – The Nightingales
Shallow Brown – John Francis Flynn
Voice Your Choice – The Radiants
Livin’ Was Easy – The Glands
Po D’ Terra – João Cirilo
Light My Fire – Beastie Boys
Pretty Boys - Paul McCartney feat. Khruangbin
Burrough’s Break – William S. Burroughs and Gus van Sant
Black Sheep Boy – Scott Walker
Whoever You Are – Geggy Tah