Ruby's Chicky Boil-Ups: Architecture

To celebrate the launch of the London Festival of Architecture, hear songs about buildings chosen by Designer Wayne Hemingway, Architecture Critic Tom Dyckhoff, Architects Amenity Space and Simon Allford, and Acting Director of the Architecture Foundation, Elias Redstone.

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Playlist
The Smoke Comes Out My Chimney Just the Same - Skeets McDonald
Do The Whirlwind - Architecture in Helsinki
This is the House that Jack Built - Willy Whyton
London Calling - The Clash
Luton Bungalow - John Hegley
First Row Balcony - The Gaylords
Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout
Home is where the Hatred Is - Gil Scott-Heron
I Wish to Build a Mosque - Markos Vamvakaris
In Your House - The Cure
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis
Living on the Ceiling - Blancmange
Maison Rose - Emmanuelle Parrenin
Underneath the Arches - Billy's Banjo Band
My Head is My Only House Unless it Rains - Captain Beefheart
Lara's Castle - Yann Tiersen
Come on Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
Build - The Housemartins
Christopher Robin at Buckingham Palace - Anne Stephens
We Built this City on Rock and Roll - Starship

Samantha Marais on The Christopher Laird Show 23.June.2008

THE CHRISTOPHER LAIRD SHOW 23.June.2008
Artist of the Week: SAMANTHA MARAIS

THE CHURCH – Bel-Air

FLEET FOXES – Mykonos

THE SEAHORSES – Blinded By The Sun

THE BYRDS – I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better

SAMANTHA MARAIS – First Days Of June

MY BLOODY VALENTINE – Off Your Face

DEAN ELLIOTT AND HIS SWINGING BIG BIG BAND – The Lonesome Road

SAMANTHA MARAIS – Charcoal Man

LEE DORSEY – Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky

STEREOLAB – Three Women

SAMANTHA MARAIS – Run Away

VANESSA & THE 0’s – Charlie Charlie

CSS – Left Behind

PRINCE – I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

Miou Miou on The Christopher Laird Show 16.June.2008

THE CHRISTOPHER LAIRD SHOW 16.June.2008
Artists of the Week: MIOU MIOU

THE BEACH BOYS – Wouldn’t It Be Nice

THOSE DANCING DAYS – Run Run

THE ROGERS SISTERS – Why Won’t You

EMILY CHURCHILL – Messy

MIOU MIOU – Le Petit Punk

CARPENTERS – We’ve Only Just Begun

U2 – Like A Song…

KOOL AND THE GANG – Celebremos

PAVEMENT – Cut Your Hair

SANTOGOLD, JULIAN CASABLANCAS & PHARRELL WILLIAMS – My Drive Thru

MIOU MIOU – La Chambre Voisine

LIZ PHAIR – Never Said

RADIOHEAD – Where I End And You Begin

THE CURE – A Night Like This

Ruby's Chicky Boil-Ups is missing a week, in preparation for an architecture special to celebrate the London Festival of Architecture which runs from June 20th - July 2oth.
Tune in on Sunday June 22nd to hear some of the country's top architects, designers and architecture critics choose their favourite building songs. If you have a suggestion, please email ruby@radionowhere.org

Little Majorette on The Christopher Laird Show 9.June.2008

THE CHRISTOPHER LAIRD SHOW 9.June.2008
Artists of the Week: LITTLE MAJORETTE

KISS – Detroit Rock City/King Of The Night Time World

TILLY AND THE WALL – Dust Me Off

STEREO MC’s – Connected

TIGER – Shining In The Wood

LITTLE MAJORETTE – London

THE PIPETTES – Judy

THE TYDE – North County Times

THE GIRL WATCHERS – Fish-Net Stockings

BARENAKED LADIES – Crazy ABC’s

GARY NUMAN – Cars

BO DIDDLEY – Who Do You Love

LITTLE MAJORETTE – Let’s Get Drunk

THE WEEPIES – All This Beauty

VANESSA & THE O’s – Cruels Et Tendres

Playlist 3.June.2008 Jessica 6

Jessica 6 3.June.2008

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES – Institutionalized

HARVEY DANGER – Flagpole Sitta

THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT – Bales Of Cocaine

TERRY HALL & MUSHTAQ – The Hour Of Two Lights

THE FALL – How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’

THE SPECIAL AKA – What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend

NANCY SINATRA – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

CAJUN DANCE PARTY – No Joanna

FREDA PAYNE – Band Of Gold

ABSENTEE – We Should Never Have Children

PATTI SMITH – Dancing Barefoot

THE DOORS – Hello, I Love You

RAY CHARLES – Georgia On My Mind

DOLLY PARTON & PORTER WAGONER – I’ve Been Married (Just As Long As You Have)

Absentee on The Christopher Laird Show 2.June.2008

THE CHRISTOPHER LAIRD SHOW 2.June.2008
Artists of the Week: ABSENTEE

DEVO – Uncontrollable Urge

ABSENTEE – Bitchstealer

FRANKIE VALLI – My Eyes Adored You

DENIM – Middle Of The Road

ABSENTEE – Getaway

JACKSON BROWNE – Somebody’s Baby

LEE HAZLEWOOD & NINA LIZELL – Hey Cowboy

ABSENTEE – Pips

FRANK BLACK – Headache

THE REPLACEMENTS – Achin’ To Be

THE SCHOOL – Let It Slip

MAGNAPOP – Slowly, Slowly

ABSENTEE – My Dead Wife

MINISTRY – Stigmata

Ruby's Chicky Boil-Ups: Insects

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Bumble Bee - Lavern Baker
Lepidopteroa - Devil in a Woodpile
Gli Insetti Del Podere - Caparezza
The Bug - Jerry Dallman and The Knightcaps
Vivo Con Fuoco - Goran Bregovic
Ladybird - Ladytron
I'm Nature's Mosquito - Jonathan Richman
Coccinella - Ghigo
The Grasshopper Unit - Beastie Boys
The Roach - Gene and Wendell
I Am The Fly - Wire
Shoo Fly - Clark Kessinger
Madonna of the Wasps - Robyn Hitchcock
The Bee & The Wasp - John Shuttleworth
Birds & Bees - Agent Ribbons
Bee Bom - Anthony Newley
Les Abilles - Andre Bourvil
Flight of the Bumblebee - George Malcolm
Worms - The Pogues