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A bottle rocket is a cheap flying firecracker on a stick commonly used in the USA and other places where cheap firecrackers are enjoyed. Bottle Rocket is also an indie dancing club night, taking place in the basement of Nice N Sleazy. And now Bottle Rocket is a happy-go-lucky radio show delighted to play you songs to make you smile, songs to make your dancing shoes itch and songs to make you walk with a spring in your step. There will also be songs which do none of the above but are ace in other ways, and songs from bands soon to be plying their wares live in the city.
Here are just a few of the key ingredients: dynamite, pole vaulting, laughing gas, choppers - can you see how incredible this is going to be?
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a bottle rocket christmas
Bottle Rocket is putting up the twee this week (ok, it's not the best pun ever, but its remarkably difficult to come up with a good christmas/music pun that doesn't sound dead obvious. some might say don't bother with a pun if it's that much hassle, but what kind of an attitude is that to take?)
Thursday's radio show will be all festive an' that - after searching itunes for christmas-related songs it appears i have over two hundred to choose from, so who knows which ones will rise to the top like musical cream. not that i'll be doing all the choosing myself, as i'll be joined in the studio (yeah, i know! another voice! been a while...) by susan for merry yuletide-yness.
and then on saturday it's the final bottle rocket of the year at nice n sleazys. it's gonna be full to the brim with festive pop and suchlike, so if you've heard the show but not yet checked out the club, it'll be the perfect occasion to turn up, smile with your face and dance with your feet.
so, saturday 20th december, 11:30 - 3:00am.
x
Posted at 19:04, 16th December 2008
(sort of) best of 2008
g'day,
just a quick note to say that for the first half hour of this week's show it'll be the usual gig related bands (including the Pogues, The Damned and, er, Simple Minds - well, it can't always be ultra-modern...), and then for the rest you'll hear some cracking songs from some cracking albums that i haven't already played in previous weeks. soze i dont repeat mysel', innit.
so no tv on the radio, she and him or los campesinos (probably my 3 favourites of the year), but how bout santogold, shearwater and alphabeat (amongst others) instead? yeeeeeeaaaaah.
br x
Posted at 18:24, 1st December 2008
bottle rocket is turning japanese!
kind of... a wee bit... and no, it's got nothing to do with that rather sordid vapours song (the disgusting oiks), nor the kelly osbourne tv show. nope, it's just a rather lame way of saying that this week's show will be topped and tailed by some rather fantastic japanese music (which bands? listen in and find out whydontcha?)
inbetween it'll be the usual blend of new stuff and good stuff (and new good stuff). Examples? i'll give you examples: how about something from the new Lucksmiths record, some Je Suis Animal and a tune from Frightened Rabbit?
Excited? I'm not bloomin surprised...
br x
Posted at 15:09, 24th November 2008
sleazy saturday
this month's show will be playing the usual combination of new music, touring bands and dancing-party favourites, which this month happens to mean We Were Promised Jetpacks, Far and Nina Simone amongst others. you like them? then you'll love bottle rocket radio!
next on the agenda: thanks to any listeners who made it down to the club night on Saturday at Nice N Sleazys. Unfortunately the emphasis seemed to be on 'sleazy' rather than 'nice' for once which was a bit of a shame. Once you factor in some crippling technical problems it adds up to an eve that was a little less satisfying than previous months. but such setbacks only strengthen our resolve to up the niceness and make december's christmassy bottle rocket the best yet!
but that is awfully far away still. so lets just focus on the radio show: as well as the above i'll probably play nick cave and the bad seeds and my latest novel. so there's two more excellent reasons to tune in.
laterzzzz
br x
Posted at 16:41, 19th November 2008