the bike show

 

 The Bike Show - 16 June 2008 - From the Tropics to the Stones [30:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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 3 March 2008: Cycling Troubadours [30:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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 [...]

 

 11 February 2007: Love [29:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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 [...]

 

 Poetry on a country ride with Martin Newell: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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 [...]

 

 Resonance FM: The Bike Show: 14 May 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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 [...]

 

 The word from San Francisco and a singing bicycle prototype [28:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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, [...]

 

 More experimental bicycle music [29:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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 [...]

 

 Experimental music and the bicycle: Play Now | Play in Popup

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

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 20 March 2006: Deadley Treadleys live session [25:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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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 13 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury - part two [29:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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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 6 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury - part one [29:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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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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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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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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.

 

 27 December 2004 - Mark Ellen [30:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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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