Podcasts about Jon Boden

1. (Intro) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement)2. Boss Morris : Filberts from the CD Boss Morris (Boss Morris)3. Dr. Strangely Strange : Baby Bunting from the CD Anti-Inflammatory (Think Like A Key)4. FaithNYC : Eagle Street from the DL album Love Is A Wish Away (Faith NYC)5. Sam Amidon : I'm On My Journey Home from the CD Salt River (River Lea)6. Karolina Wegrzyn : Tomu Kosa Dobre Kosyt from the DL album Oy Vesna Krasna (Karolina Wegrzyn)7. Gangspil : Læspolkaer from the DL album Live At Alice, Copenhagen (GO Danish Folk Music)8. Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver : Hawk & Crow from the CD Hinterland (Ear To The Ground)9. Liz Overs : Yellow Horned Poppy from the CD Nightjar (Liz Overs)10. The Zawose Queens : Lulelule from the CD Maisha (Real World)11. Dal:um : Cracking from the CD Coexistence (tak:til)12. Laura Jane Wilkie : Lift Up My Love from the CD Vent (Hudson)13. Rachel Newton : Saint Bride from the CD Sealladh (Hudson)14. Ben Nicholls feat. Sam Sweeney : Northern Frisk from the CD Duets (Hudson)15. Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings : The Oggie Man from the CD Parlour Ballads (Hudson)16. The Memory Band : Primroses from the DL/ K7 A Common Treasury (Gorodisch)17. The Baltic Sisters : Nuslaida Saulala from the CD Värav / Värti / Vartai (CPL Music)18. Landless : The Wounded Hussar from the CD Lœireach (Glitterbeat)19. Samba Toure : Wotoro Pousselaw from the CD Baarakelaw (Glitterbeat)20. Piers Faccini & Ballake Sissoko : Borne On The Wind from the CD Our Calling (Nø Førmat!)21. Santrofi : San Su from the CD Making Moves (Outhere)22. Pete Hampton & Laura Bowman : Mister Your Room Rent's Due from the CD Over There! (Bear Family)23. Tanburi Cemil Bey : Nihavent Sirto from the CD Tanburi Cemil Bey (Traditional Crossroads)24. Jackie Oates & John Spiers : The Broomsquire's Bird Song from the CD A Midwinter's Night (Needle Pin)25. Windborne : Malpas Wassail from the CD To Warm The Winter Hearth (Wand'ring Feet)26. Hladowski/ Hampton/ Strachan : They All Were Looking For A King from the DL single (Mary Hampton)27. Amparo Sánchez : Pa´ Llegar A Tu Lado from the CD Ritual Sonoro (Mamita)28. Carmen Souza : Badju Mandadu from the CD Port'Inglês (Galileo)29. Tucker Zimmerman : Taoist Tale from the CD I Wonder If I'll Ever Come True (Big Potato)30. Tucker Zimmerman Feat. Big Thief : They Don't Say (But It's True) from the CD Dance Of Love (4AD)31. Flook : The Farther Shore / Winter Flower from the DL single (Flook)You can find more details including past playlists and links to labels at www.podwireless.comPodwireless can also be heard streamed live on Mixcloud.Follow the links for previous podcasts.

Enjoy this classic episode from December 2019In search of the festive spirit of Christmas – and bearing gifts - we travel to the Peak District and Sheffield to hear the area's unique local carols. Along the way we collect music from Jon Boden, Bella Hardy, The Melrose Quartet and the singers of the villages of Dungworth and Hathersage. We hear how the traditional carols written and sung by working people were thrown out of the church – and had to find a new home in the village pubs. Put on your Santa hat, reindeer antlers or Christmas jumper, get yourself a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie and join us. ---We rely on support from our listeners to keep this show on the road. If you like what we do please either...Become a member and get great rewards: patreon.com/folkonfootOr just buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/folkonfootSign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.comFollow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jon Boden is Matthew's guest on this month's Official Folk Albums Chart Show, bringing an exclusive performance of one of the Parlour Ballads from his new album. There's also music from Talisk, Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton, Henry Parker and David Ian Roberts, The Shovel Dance Collective, The Rheingans Sisters, Naima Bock and Nina Nesbitt.---We rely on support from our listeners to keep this show on the road. If you like what we do please either...Become a member and get great rewards: patreon.com/folkonfootOr just buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/folkonfootSign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.comFollow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot---Subscribe to the Folk Forecast to explore all the gigs and album news we ran through in the show: https://thefolkforecast.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Intro:  One More Night – Can  1. (Walking) In The Rain – The Ronettes (3:18)                                                                                                                         2.  Crying In The Rain – The Everly Brothers (1:59)                             3.  Rainy Day In June – The Kinks (3:12)                                                                                                                               4.  The Rain It Rains – John Spiers & Jon Boden (4:02)                                   5.  Rain – The Beatles (2:59)                                                                                                                                                     6.  A Pluviophile's Dream – Anandi Bhattacharya (5:51)                                   7.  Rain Dogs – Tom Waits (2:56)                                                      8.  Damp Weather – Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight (3:40)                                         9. Rainmaker – Michael Chapman (3:36)                                                                                                                                 10.  Buckets of Rain – Bob Dylan (3:25)                                           11.  Didn't It Rain? – Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight, with the Sam Price Trio (2:37)                                                 12.  Out In The Rain And Cold – Little Axe (4:47)                                                                             13.  Rain (from ‘Dolmen Music') – Meredith Monk (Vijay Iyer remix) (4:24)                                         14.  When It Rain – Danny Brown (3:16)                                       15.  I Can't Stand The Rain – Ann Peebles (2:30)                                                              16.  March Rain – Michael Chapman (3:01)                                17. Make Me Rainbows – Mark Murphy (3:08)                                                                                                                 18.  Monsoon: top To Bottom – Portico Quartet (4:12)                                                           19.  Rainy Day Raga – Peter Walker (6:26)                                                                                                                 20.  Cold, Haily, Windy Night – Eliza Carthy, Chris Wood, Transglobal Underground, & the Young Copper Family (6:19)       21.  One Rainy Wish – Jimi Hendrix Experience (3:41)                             22.  After the Rain – John Coltrane (4:09)                                         23.  It's Raining Today – Scott Walker (3:59)                                                                                                                          24.  Azt Gondoltam, Esö Esik (I Thought It Was Raining) – Muzsikás (4:04)                                                                         25.  Rain And Snow – Pentangle (3:43)                                                       26. A Rainy Night In Soho – The Pogues (4:32) 27.  Green Rain – Citizen Bravo, Raymond MacDonald & Friends (1:37)                                   28.  Here's That Rainy Day – Freddie Hubbard (5:16)                                   29.  Delta Rain Dream – Jon Hassell & Brian Eno (3:29)                                                                                                                                                Outro: Pogles Walk – Vernon Elliott Ensemble

1. (Intro) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards2. Suzumeno Tears : Akita Daikokumai from the CD Sparrow's Arrow Fly So High3. Jali Bakary Konteh : Jama from the DL single 4. Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings : On One April Morning from the CD Parlour Ballads5. Jim Moray : Spencer The Rover – preview of forthcoming CD6. The Rheingans Sisters : Un Voltigeur from the CD Start Close In 7. Martha Mavroidi : Ti Na To Kano Pos To Les from the DL album Ta Paixnidia 8. Three Cane Whale : Farewell To The Orchard from the CD Hibernacula9. The Henrys : Fairground from the CD Secular Hymns & Border Songs 10. Commander In Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe And His Nigerian Sound Makers : Agadinwanyi Egbunam from the 2CD Nigerian Guitar Roots11. Afro Celt Sound System : Badji Kan Waly from the CD Ova (Six Degrees)12. Moira Smiley feat. Merrill Garbus : Go Dig My Grave from the CD The Rhizome Project13. Rising Appalachia : The Bones from the DL album Folk & Anchor 14. Van Orman & Helwin : Wedding Dress from the CD Some Other Love Degree15. Suthering : Threads from the CD Leave A Light On 16. Dan Whitehouse & Max ZT : Bury One's Head single from the DL album Ten Steps17. The Shackleton Trio : Frost Fair from the CD The Shackleton Trio 18. Christine Collister : Lift The Veil from the CD & book Children Of The Sea19. Dave Malkin & Louis Campbell : Sussex Cotillion from the Bird On A Briar EP20. Anne Wood : kArACHi SCot from the CD When Mountains Meet 21. El Khat : Tislami Tislami from the CD Mute 22. Gordan : The Bell Is Buzzing from the CD Gordan 23. Jon Doran & The Northern Assembly : The Evening Sun from the CD EP Jon Doran & The Northern Assembly 24. Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne : Hangman Slack On The Line from the CD Play Up The Music!25. Landless : Death And The Lady from the CD Lœireach26. Astrid Williamson : King Orfeo from the LP & DL album Shetland Suite 27. Maja Kjaer : Normannen from the CD Landing 28. Plønk : Frogs And Fireflies from the DL single29. Billy Bragg : We're The Ones from the CD Labor Day (Si Kahn & George Mann)30. Roland Van Campenhout : Under The Sea And Above from the LP Roland & The Deep Blue Sea31. Something Sleeps : Summer's Lament from the CD Something Sleeps 32. Anna Anise : Perranporth from the DL EP Awakening 33. Pippa Reid-Foster : Melting from the CD UndercurrentsYou can find more details including links to labels and past playlists at www.podwireless.com

Starting as we mean to go on, with Roud #1 – THE RAGGLE TAGGLE GYPSIES.   Historical guest: Steve Roud Singer Guest: Jon Boden   Email us: intheroud@singyonder.co.uk   Follow us on: Facebook Twitter Instagram   Your host: Matt Quinn Website Facebook Twitter Instagram   Historical Guest: Steve Roud About Steve   Singer Guest: Jon Boden Website Facebook Twitter Instagram   Traditional recordings played: Black-Hearted Gypsies O by Harry Cox Dark Eyed Gypsy by Jean Orchard The Draggle-Tail Gypsies by Carolyne Hughes The Raggle Taggle Gypsies by Walter Pardon     Modern versions mentioned: Steeleye Span Planxty The Carter Family Waterson:Carthy Mike Waterson Nic Jones John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris     Folk song recourses: Sing Yonder The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Sussex Traditions Jon Boden's A Folk Song A Day Andy Turner's A Folk Song A Week     Record labels promoting recordings of traditional singers: Topic Records  Veteran Records Musical Traditions One Row Records

In this week's episode Esther & Susie showcase talents even they didn't know they had. And they probably don't. Let's just say, Eminem does NOT need to worry... They discuss talent v success, and if baby is born with it or if it's maybe-learnt. Again, Eminem does not need to worry! Thankfully someone with a tangible talent is their special guest this week. Namely, musician Sam Sweeney. Sam has been described as 'one of the defining English fiddle players of his generation' (Mark Radcliffe) and this was cemented when he won Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award in 2015 - his fourth time of being nominated. He is a veteran of folk juggernauts, Bellowhead, former and inaugural Artistic Director of the National Youth Folk Ensemble, a founder member of ground-breaking trio Leveret as well as a passionate and experienced educator. He has collaborated, recorded and performed with The Full English, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, Fay Hield and Emily Portman as well as creating his own theatre production Made In The Great War. Sam's first two albums, The Unfinished Violin (Island Records) and Unearth Repeat (Hudson Records) were received with international acclaim. Sam is currently touring his third solo album, Escape That - tour dates. Sam's chat with the gals is wide-ranging and hugely entertaining. He tells them about joining the biggest folk band in the world aged 18, and how it feels to rock (folk) out at the Royal Albert Hall. He talks about his experiences in movies - Disney's live action 'Little Mermaid', and Richard Curtis's 'About Time'. There are some super questions from our wonderful listeners, and, as an extra treat, Sam performs live on the podcast! LTO's first live musical performance and it is magical. (Sam is available to tour when you need him, Arcade Fire - just putting that out into the universe!) With sketches, live music, surprising rapping and a joyful interview, this is an episode to savour. We hope you enjoy it!   OTHER USEFUL LINKS: SPIRO Watch - We Wish To Be Absorbed   Sign up to be an LTO Patron now at: Patreon.com/LimitedTimeOnlyPodcast LTO now has a PATREON page which means you can become an LTO Patron. Patrons get a raft of lush stuff including exclusive bonus content and access to exclusive LTO live events online and in-person. The next Patron-only LTO Live Online event is later this month! Details on Patreon! Susie & Esther are thrilled to be back in your ears. And over on Patreon too! Limited Time Only. A pick-me-up in podcast form.   Instagram @limitedtimeonlypodcast Twitter @limitedtimepod Facebook Limited Time Only Podcast Email: limitedtimepodcast@gmail.com   Music by Joel White aka Small Plates Listen to his music on Soundcloud Other sound effects from https://freesound.org

  "Mists Among the Stones" is borrowed from a song title on this week's songlist. As a mid-winter mist settles over our lands the session includes tunes and songs from the UK's Salt House, "Fallow Ground" from John Spiers &  Jon Boden, the band Bellowhead, a trio including Mike McGoldrick, John Musker & John Doyle, the band Runa, Coscán, Sam Sweeney, the Poppy Seeds, The Furrow Collective, Moore, Moss & Rutter. Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

Jack Rooke drew on his own life for his hit Channel 4 sitcom Big Boys which focussed on an unlikely friendship between two first year university students – both working class with one struggling to explore his gay sexuality and the other an apparent Jack-the-lad who is really anything but. As Big Boys returns for a second series, he talks to Samira about making comedy out of loss, mental health, and male friendship.Musician Eliza Carthy is Front Row's wassail Queen as she sings live on the programme some traditional songs from Glad Christmas Comes - her new album with Jon Boden lead singer of Bellowhead. Her performance joins in with many others happening across the country this month to mark the January ritual of blessing fruit trees in hope of a bountiful harvest.Simon Broughton reports from the Mugham festival of music and poetry in Baku, Azerbaijan. Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer: Tim Prosser

In the Official Folk Albums Chart of the Year Show 2023, Matthew Bannister counts down the biggest selling and most streamed folk albums of the year. There are guest appearances by Sean Cooney of the Young'Uns, Kathryn Tickell, Shirley Collins and Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, plus exclusive performances from James Yorkston and Nina Persson, Angeline Morrison and Katherine Priddy. Matthew also features highlights of the December chart, including an interview with Jim Moray and music from Spell Songs, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden and Kate Rusby. --- We rely entirely on support from our listeners to keep this show on the road. If you like what we do please either... Become a patron and get great rewards: patreon.com/folkonfoot Or just buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/folkonfoot Sign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.com Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot --- Subscribe to the Folk Forecast to explore all the gigs and album news we ran through in the show: https://thefolkforecast.substack.com/

This is the free-for-all version, featuring folk music royalty Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, playing songs from their new album of wassailing wonderments and telling stories. Plus lots of tracks I hope you've never heard before but will love for ever more.

Still feeling rough,  Graham reports on his interview with Simon Nicol from Fairport Convention. Inspired by a discussion with Jon Boden, Charles challenges Graham to come up with songs that could survive the Apocalypse.  Graham remembers Robbie Bachman and the duo pay tribute to Lisa Marie Presley. Graham reflects on his reading of British military historian Antony Beevor's account of the Russian Civil War. Charles and Graham start reviewing Tár starring Cate Blanchett; more next week on that.

Ahoy there! A folk supergroup – The Sea Song Sessions - playing and singing on board a tall ship in Fowey Harbour in Cornwall as the water laps the hull. A discussion of the role of seafaring music in our island history. And a tour of the good ship Anny of Charlestown from her skipper. Shiver me timbers – it's a great listen! --- Delve deeper into the Folk on Foot world and keep us on the road by becoming a Patron—sign up at patreon.com/folkonfoot. You can choose your level and get great rewards, ranging from a stylish Folk on Foot badge to access to our amazing and ever expanding Folk on Foot on Film video archive of more than 150 unique performances filmed on our travels. Sign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.com Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot --- Find out more about Sea Song Sessions at https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/2022/08/sea-song-sessions/

Paul Thomas Anderson discusses directing and writing his new romantic comedy, Licorice Pizza, starring Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper and Tom Waits. The film is a coming-of-age story, complicated by the fact that the protagonist is 15 and his love interest, 25. In our Christmas card from Doncaster, the host of the BBC's Yorkshire-cast and local boy, James Vincent, meets Deborah Rees, Director of CAST Theatre and Connor Bryson, an actor appearing in the BSL integrated pantomime, Aladdin. Street art duo Nomad Clan reflect on the making of the UK's longest mural, and local musician Skinny Pelembe shares his lockdown Song for South Yorkshire. Last night, the longest of the year, musicians Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden intended to bring good cheer, light and joyful music with a wassail concert, but the omicron variant put paid to that. Instead Eliza and Jon will be bringing some of what was planned to Front Row, explaining the ancient tradition of wassailing – the word comes from the Anglo Saxon for good health - and singing and playing. Presenter Tom Sutcliffe Producer Julian May

Brand new and fabulous 'God Cast' Interview with former Bellowhead front man Jon Boden, who is about to go on tour with his musician partner John Spiers.

There's some excitement in the world of English traditional music: Spiers and Boden have reunited, recorded a new album and are embarking on a month long tour. Squeezebox player John Spiers met fiddle player Jon Boden in a pub session twenty years ago and quickly established themselves as a duo playing English music, winning a devoted following and several awards. They formed the hugely successful 11-piece folk big band Bellowhead, but separated in 2014 and didn't play together again until this year. Spiers and Boden talk about their new album, Fallow Ground, explain how they find old tunes, and write new ones. And they play two tunes inspired by ancient English places. A DCMS Report has called for a “complete reset” of the music industry following an investigation into the economics of music streaming services. Reporter Melanie Abbott describes the impact that streaming and new forms of music distribution have had on the earnings of artists and why the Government have accepted the recommendation to refer major music groups to the Competition and Markets Authority. Although written before the pandemic and the rise of working from home culture, Calvin Kasulke's novel, Several People are Typing is set entirely on the Slack chat of staff working at a small advertising agency. He joins us to discuss how our online versions of ourselves can interact with our physical lives, as well as the complexities of writing as an online bot. We talk to another of the authors shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2021. Danny Rhodes's story ‘Toadstone' tells the story of a man returning to the village of his childhood, and looking to his own future. Danny Rhodes is a novelist and a lecturer in creative writing. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Sarah Johnson

In this episode of The Album club, Chris is the host and discussing Jon Boden's “Songs from the Floodplain”. Our talking points this week include how many times Chris has seen Jon Boden live, concept albums and the imagery presented throughout the album. Also this week, running, lawn mowing at 8pm and post apocalypse hi-hat. Also Jack proceeds to mispronounce Boden for the entire episode. Contact us on thealbumclub.pod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and Facebook at TheAlbumClub.pod and on Twitter at TheAlbumClub. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thealbumclub/message

The Official Folk Albums Chart Show from Folk on Foot features Jon Boden talking about the Bellowhead re-union, Katherine Priddy on her long awaited debut album and an interview with Lady Nade featuring an unexpected interruption. Plus music from Gwenifer Raymond, Peter Bruntnell, Chloe Foy and MG Boulter. --- Access over 100 performances from dozens of artists, by signing up to Folk On Foot On Film: https://www.folkonfoot.com/watch We rely entirely on support from our listeners to make Folk on Foot. So please consider becoming a patron. You'll make a small monthly contribution and get great rewards. Find out more at www.patreon.com/folkonfoot. Sign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.com Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot

This month's show features an interview with Jon Boden about his album “Last Mile Home” (and the joys of wild swimming). There’s also a beautiful track from Ninebarrow recorded in the historic St James’s Church in Poole, an amazing video from Brian Finnegan shot all over the world plus music from High Kings, Harbottle and Jonas, John Smith, Blackmore’s Night and The Staves. And we showcase the extraordinary hula hooping skills of Laura Lamn.”  

An interview with Jon Boden by Sage Gateshead

On Easter Bank Holiday Monday, April 13th 2020, we organised the Folk on Foot Front Room Festival - seven and a half hours of wonderful folk music from 15 top artists playing in their front rooms, linked by Matthew Bannister from his. Bella Hardy, Beth Porter and the Bookshop Band, Jon Boden, Julie Fowlis and Éamon Doorley, Karine Polwart, Kerry Andrew/You are Wolf, Kris Drever, Lisa Knapp, Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Peggy Seeger, Rachel Newton, Sam Lee, Seth Lakeman and Steve Knightley all played sets of around 30 minutes. The festival raised thousands of pounds for musicians unable to work during the coronavirus lockdown. Here are some of the highlights of an amazing day.

EP56 - Tradfest 2020 is only two days away and kicks off this Wednesday Night when Screaming Orphans, this week's guests, play a show at the Olympia Theatre with Hothouse Flowers plus Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings!

In search of the festive spirit of Christmas – and bearing gifts -  we travel to the Peak District and Sheffield to hear the area’s unique local carols. Along the way we collect music from Jon Boden, Bella Hardy, The Melrose Quartet and the singers of the villages of Dungworth and Hathersage. We hear how the traditional carols written and sung by working people were thrown out of the church – and had to find a new home in the village pubs. Put on your Santa hat, reindeer antlers or Christmas jumper, get yourself a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie and join us.  

PODCAST: 24 Nov 2019 01 They’ll Be Waiting – John Campbell Munro – The Kelly Collection 02 George Collins – Cordelia’s Dad – Comet 03 Going Down To The Wasteland – Jon Boden – Rose In June 04 Mule Skinner Blues – David Grisman – Dawg Duos 05 Polly On The Shore – Bella & Polly – Bella & Polly 06 Glossop Road – Harp and a Monkey – The Victorians 07 Inse Gall – Willie Campbell & Band – Dileab: A Legacy 08 Paddy’s Lamentation – Will Finn & Rosie Calvert – Beneath This Place 09 The Battle Of Cable Street – Man The Lifeboats – When The Bell Rings 10 The Dark Eyed Gypsy – Lankum – The Livelong Day 11 Up A Lazy River – Duck Baker – When You Wore A Tulip 12 The Moving On Song – The Wicca Men – Albion’s Darkness 13 Rufford Park Poachers – Ewan McLennan – Borrowed Songs 14 Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood – Daria Kulesh – Earthly Delights 15 Nana Was A Suffragette – Lizzy Hardingham – Dusk   16 Bear Creak – Lankum – The Livelong Day 17 The Rambling Irishman – Harry Brazil – Travellers 18 Seven Bonnie Gypsies – Jon Boden – Rose In June 19 Fields Of Gold – Flossie Malavialle – Live – June 2018 20 Widnes Bound – Stanley Accrington – Home Banker 21 Paddy And The Judge – Tommy Sands – Fair Play To You All 22 Ode To Europe – Tommy Sands – Fair Play To You All 23 Love And War – Track Dogs – Fire On The Rails 24 Wassail Song – Various – Flash Company/25 Years Of Fellside Records 26 Gortvale Rock – Cathal Haydn – Hooked On Banjo

Pop queen Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English folk star Jon Boden and exciting young jazz pianist Elliot Galvin are our guests this month. Some of the most successful performers are the shapeshifters – the artists who can reimagine their songs for all kinds of line-up from big bands to duos and trios… from playing solo to fronting a full blown orchestra. In this episode of Backstage, Sophie Ellis-Bextor describes what it’s like to sing her disco and house hits in front of a conductor; folk singer-songwriter Jon Boden explains why he loves flipping from performing solo tours to taking big bands like Bellowhead and the Remnant Kings on the road; and we ask pianist Elliot Galvin why he keeps returning to the classic jazz trio.

In his latest film, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Dustin Hoffman plays an old, bitter, self obsessed sculptor, whose children from several marriages nonetheless crave his approval. He and the director, Noah Baumbach, discuss grumpiness, fatherhood and the nature of success with Kirsty Lang.In St Ives the Tate is about to reopen with refurbished rooms rehung with wonderful work, by international artists - Rothko, Gabo, deKooning - and those working there who achieved such status - Hepworth, Lanyon, Wallis. The writer on art, Michael Bird, who lives in St Ives, follows the conversation between these works with the artistic director, Anne Barlow and curator Sara Matson. He has a preview, too, of Tate St Ives' beautiful new gallery, a feat of engineering years in the making. It is cut into the hill, yet still illuminated with the natural light of St Ives that drew artists there to begin with.Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jon Boden caused some consternation when he decided to leave Bellowhead, the 11 piece folk big-band that brought traditional music and sea shanties to Glastonbury, Later with Jools Holland and the London Palladium, and the group dissolved. He has just released a solo album, Afterglow. He performs live with a string trio and talks about this work which is very different from Bellowhead, a cycle of his own songs charting a fleeting romance in a ruined city. And Annette Bening has her say about Harvey Weinstein. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Julian May.

This week, Allan is out of town, but since when has that ever stopped us from bringing you a new episode of BSDNow? We have news, This episode was brought to you by Headlines Unix's file durability problem (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FileSyncProblem) Another article by Chris Siebenmann from the University of Toronto This time, the issue was a lost comment on his Python based blog which uses files on disk rather than a database After an unexpected restart of the system, a recently posted comment no longer existed The post goes on to investigate what the ‘right way' to ensure file durability is The answer, as you might expect, is “it depends…” Normally, fsync() should work, but it seems with ext4 and some other file systems, you must also fsync() the directory where the file was created, or it might not be possible to find the file after a crash Do you need to fsync() the parent of that directory too? Then what is fdatasync() for? What about just calling sync()? “One issue is that unlike many other Unix API issues, it's impossible to test to see if you got it all correct and complete. If your steps are incomplete, you don't get any errors; your data is just silently sometimes at risk. Even with a test setup to create system crashes or abrupt power loss (which VMs make much easier), you need uncommon instrumentation to know things like if your OS actually issued disk flushes or just did normal buffered writes. And straightforward testing can't tell you if what you're doing will work all the time, because what is required varies by Unix, kernel version, and the specific filesystem involved.” Second post by author: How I'm trying to do durable disk writes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/HowISyncDataDWiki) Additional Discussion on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511269) The discussion on HN also gets into AIO and other more complicated facilities, but even those seem to be vague about when your data is actually safe At least ZFS ensures you never get half of your new data, and half of your old data. *** Build a FreeBSD 10.3-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit (https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/FreeBSD_10.3-release_Openstack_Image.html) Are you using FreeBSD and OpenStack or would you like to be? We next have a great tutorial which explains the ins-and-outs of doing exactly that. Remy van Elst brings us a great walkthrough on his site on how to get started, and hint it involves just a few ‘pip' commands. After getting the initial Python tools bootstrapped, next he shows us how to save our OpenStack settings in a sourceable shell command, which comes in handy before doing admin on a instance. Next the ‘glance' and ‘cinder' tools are used to upload the target OS ISO file and then create a volume for it to install onto. Next the VM is started and some specific steps are outlined on getting FreeBSD 10.3 installed into the instance. It includes some helpful hints as how to fix a mountroot error, if you installed to ada0, but need to mount via vtdb0 instead now. After the installation is finished, the prep for ‘cloudinit' is done, and the resulting image is compressed and made ready for deployment. We've kinda stepped through some of the more gory steps here, but if OpenStack is something you work with, this tutorial should be at the top of your “must read” list. *** Undeadly and HTTPS (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160411201504) Undeadly, the OpenBSD journal, is thinking of moving to HTTPS only In order to do this, they would like some help rewriting part of the site Currently, when you login to post comments, this is done over HTTPS, but to an stunnel instance running a custom script that gives you a cookie, and sends you back to the non-HTTPS site They would like to better integrate the authentication system, and otherwise improve the code for the site There is some pushback as well, questioning whether it makes sense to block users who are unable to use HTTPS for one reason or another I think it makes sense to have the site default to HTTPS, but, maybe HTTPS only doesn't make sense. There is nothing private on the site, other than the authentication system which is optional, not required to post a comment. There is also some discussion about the code for the site, including the fact that when the code was released, the salt for the password database was included This is not actually a security problem, but the discussion may be interesting to some viewers *** FreeBSD Journal March/April Edition (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/journal/browser-based-edition/) The next issue of the FreeBSD Journal is here, and this time it is about Teaching with Operating Systems In addition to the usual columns, including: svn update, the ports report, a conference report from FOSDEM, a meetup report from PortsCamp Taipei, A book review of "The Algorithm Design Manual", and the Events Calendar; there are a set of feature articles about teaching Teaching with FreeBSD through Tracing, Analysis, and Experimentation CHERI: Building a foundation for secure, trusted computing bases A brief history of Fast Filesystems There is also an interview with Gleb Smirnoff, a member of the Core team, release engineering, and the deputy security officer, as well as a senior software developer at Netflix Get the latest issue from your favourite mobile store, or the “Desktop Edition” directly in your browser from the FreeBSD Foundation's website *** Interview - Brooks Davis - brooks@FreeBSD.org (mailto:brooks@FreeBSD.org) / @brooksdavis (https://twitter.com/brooksdavis) CHERI and Capabilities *** TrueNAS Three-Peats!!! (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-three-peats/) News Roundup UbuntuBSD Is Looking To Become An Official Ubuntu Flavor (http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/ubuntubsd-is-looking-to-become-an-official-ubuntu-flavor-502746.shtml) You may recall a few weeks back that we were a bit surprised by the UbuntuBSD project and its longevity / goals. However the project seems to be pushing forward, with news on softpedia.com that they are now seeking to become an ‘official' Ubuntu Flavor. They've already released a forth beta, so it seems the project currently has some developers pushing it forward: "I would like to contribute all my work to Ubuntu Community and, if you think it is worthy, make ubuntuBSD an official Ubuntu project like Xubuntu or Edubuntu," said Jon Boden. "If you're interested, please let me know how would you like me to proceed." It's Just Bits (http://blog.appliedcompscilab.com/its_just_bits/index.html) We have next an interesting blog post talking about the idea that “It's just all bits!” The author then takes us down the idea of no matter how old or mysterious the code may be, in the end it is ending up as bits arranged a certain way. Then the article transitions and takes us through the idea that old bits, and bits that have grown too large should often be good candidates for replacement by “simpler” bits, using OpenBSD as an example. “The OpenBSD community exemplifies this in many ways by taking existing solutions and simplifying them. Processing man pages is as old as Unix, and even in the 21st century OpenBSD has taken the time to rewrite the existing solution to be simpler and safer. It's just bits that need to be turned into other bits. Similarly, OpenBSD has introduced doas as an alternative to sudo. While not replacing sudo entirely, doas makes the 99.99% case of what people use sudo for easier and safer. They are just bits that need to be authenticated. “ All in all, a good read, and it reinforces the point that nothing is really truly “finished”. As computing advances and new technologies / practices are made available, sometimes it makes a lot of sense to go back and re-write things in order to simplify the complexity that has snuck in over time. *** Disk IO limiting is coming to FreeBSD (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2016-April/084288.html) A much requested feature for both Jails and VM's on FreeBSD has just landed with experimental support in -HEAD, Disk IO limiting! The Commit message states as follows: “Add four new RCTL resources - readbps, readiops, writebps and writeiops, for limiting disk (actually filesystem) IO. Note that in some cases these limits are not quite precise. It's ok, as long as it's within some reasonable bounds. Testing - and review of the code, in particular the VFS and VM parts - is very welcome.” Well, what are you waiting for? This is a fantastic new feature which I'm sure will get incorporated into other tools for controlling jails and VM's down the road. If you give it a spin, be sure to report back bugs so they can get quashed in time for 11. *** BeastieBits PC-BSD 10.3 Is the Last in the Series, PC-BSD 11.0 Arrives Later This Year (http://news.softpedia.com/news/pc-bsd-10-3-is-the-last-in-the-series-pc-bsd-11-0-arrives-later-this-year-502570.shtml) ASLR now on by default in NetBSD amd64 (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2016/04/10/msg073939.html) Daniel Bilik's fix for hangs on Baytrail (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2016-April/228682.html) Don't forget about PGCon 2016 (http://www.pgcon.org/2016/) Get your paper in for EuroBSDCon 2016, deadline is May 8th (https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/call-for-papers/) Feedback/Questions John - Destroy all Dataset (http://pastebin.com/QdGWn0TW) Thomas - Misc Questions (http://pastebin.com/43YkwBjP) Ben - ZFS Copy (http://pastebin.com/gdi3pswe) Bryson - SysV IPC (http://pastebin.com/E9n938D1) Drin - IPSEC (http://pastebin.com/bgGTmbDG) ***