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Entries Tagged as 'Bicycle music'

16 June 2008: From the Tropics to the Stones

June 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments


 
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Tags: Architecture · Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · Events · London · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Touring

3 March 2008: Cycling Troubadours

March 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments


 
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Tags: Architecture · Bicycle music · London · Podcast · Touring

11 February 2007: Love

February 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a special Valentine’s Day edition, sultry Southwark Cyclist Miss Alex Crawford explains why cycling is so good for flirting while love goddess Venus Kamura tells of the fifth annual Reclaim Love ‘happening’ on Saturday 16 February at the Eros Statue on Piccadilly Circus. Over the past few days, all across the bicycling world, there [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle music · Events · France · London · People · Podcast · Style

21 May 2007: Poetry on a country ride with Martin Newell

May 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

The Bike Show returns to Essex and Martin Newell, writer, poet, musician and horticultural assassin, for another helping of Spoke N Word. This year’s programme features a new route from Wivenhoe to Bentley Green, reported to be the largest village green in England. We cross fields, pass through woodland and finish on a series of [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle music · Literature · Podcast · Touring

14 May 2007: Road Peace // Floyd Landis

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Returning for the summer season, The Bike Show turns to the trials of US cycling star Floyd Landis, whose sensational victory in the 2006 Tour de France was thrown into doubt after he failed a test for the banned drug testosterone. We also hear an extended talk on road danger in a global context by [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle music · Podcast · Politics · Road safety · Tour de France · United States

12 March 2007: The word from San Francisco and a singing bicycle prototype

March 12th, 2007 · 3 Comments

We test out Andy Cox’s prototype singing bicycle, for use in the performance of Godfried Willem Raes’s Second Symphony. Down the line from San Francisco, Jon Winston fills us in on Bay Area cycle culture and his own Bikescape bicycling podcast. Come back soon for details of the London 2007 performance of the Symphony for [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle music · Fixed wheel · Podcast · United States

12 February 2007: More experimental bicycle music

February 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Another thrilling dip into the world of experimental music involving bicycles. With guest in the studio Andy Cox, guitarist in The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals and Cribabi, who is known to play the occasional bicycle. We feature Frank Zappa’s first ever TV appearance (see below) - playing a bike! Plus music made by Sylvia Hallett, [...]

 
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Tags: Art and design · Bicycle music · Podcast

20 November 2006: Experimental music and the bicycle

November 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment

It’s cold outside, so stay at home and turn your bicycle into a musical instrument! Featuring performances by Stephen Schweitzer’s
Bikelophone (pictured left), electro-acoustic composer David Berezan and the Tea and Toast Band.
And we set a new challenge for London’s musical cyclists in 2007, the year that the Tour de France comes to our [...]

 
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20 March 2006: Deadley Treadleys live session

March 27th, 2006 · No Comments

This week’s show features a long-awaited live session by London’s best bike messenger band, the Deadley Treadleys.

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Tags: Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · London · Podcast

13 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury - part two

March 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Second half of the Bike Show’s ‘Jukebox Jury’. Cabaret star Sarah-Louise Young joins Alex Crawford and Jack Thurston in casting a critical ear at another cluch of bicycle-themed songs. Find out which come out top and which are the howlers…
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6 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury - part one

March 16th, 2006 · 4 Comments

Part one of the Bike Show’s ‘Jukebox Jury’, with cabaret star Sarah-Louise Young and Alex Crawford joining Jack Thurston to listen to a selection of bike-related songs. Which are hits and which are misses?
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31 October 2005: Roller-racing, Ghostcycle and Critical Mass London

November 1st, 2005 · 1 Comment

Joining Buffalo Bill and the hardcore of London’s bike messengers for chaotic indoor racing action at Rollapalooza IV (and live music from the Deadley Treadleys). In the studio Scott and Steve explain their Ghostcycle project to mark and map traffic collisions involving bicycles. Jack and Rakan court controversy by saying enough is enough to London [...]

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Tags: Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · London · Podcast · Politics · Road safety · Roller racing

(Archive) 11 April 2005 Show: Onset

October 7th, 2005 · No Comments

Radio premier of ‘Onset’, a sound art work by Olias Nil in which he rings around 500 bicycle bells, one by one, over three days on the streets of Amsterdam.

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Tags: Art and design · Bicycle music · Podcast

20 December 2004

October 7th, 2005 · No Comments

Featuring the Rinky-Dink Bicycle Powered Sound System, comedy from George Lopez and bicycle advice from Tall Jurgen of the London Bicycle Repair Shop in Waterloo.
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Tags: Bicycle music · Gear · Podcast · Science

27 December 2004: Mark Ellen

August 5th, 2005 · No Comments

Riding across London with Mark Ellen, bon rouleur and editor of Word Magazine. Mark is the founder of Q Magazine, a former presenter of the Old Grey Whistle Test and the bassist in Tony Blair’s college band Ugly Rumours.

 
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Tags: Bicycle music · London · Podcast · Rolling interview

10 January 2005: Kraftwerk and Cycling

August 5th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Following the Bike Show’s January 2005 feature on Kraftwerk and bicycling, I was invited to write an article for a new road racing magazine called Rouleur, looking deeper into the obsession that the German godfathers of technopop have for cycling.
Rouleur is published by those fabulous people at Rapha and is now out - £9 - [...]

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Tags: Art and design · Bicycle music · History · Podcast · Tour de France