thanks for everyone whos been listenin to shows and sending me pukka music... some top unsigned gear still comin in...unsigned faves at mo include kate nash, friendly fires, zoltan kodaly school for girls, roman revutsky, riff raff and quite possibly other people with both names beginning with r that i havent listened to yet..

check em all out on the ubiquitous getting slightly boring but how could we live without it myspace!

anyway im off djing in a mo..every day this week by the seems of it..on sunday just before the show i was djing at the all time top 100 night..yes does what it says on the tin - you have to play your fave 100 records..

i started thinking about it 3 hours before i was due down there and 3 hours to play em all to a befuddled audience wondering how id just mixed from blondie into the pixies into brian eno..i ended up cheating but if you wanna check out teh full list go to http://www.alltimetop100.co.uk/ and dont come back and say oh god why did u choose that.. u try doing it in 3 hours and i bet u drop a clanger or 4

anyway my amigos ..thanks for listenin and keep sendin me tunes

;)

hope ur enjoyin the show - seem to be getting a suitable amount of random texts and emails so someones listenin..

as youve probably noticed still playing lots of unsigned music...last weeks highlights were Curses! - Hungry For Love (cant seem to find em again on myspace but hes on there - its actually another of drop the limes aliases!)

and

My Toys Like Me - Sick Couple (www.myspace.com/mytoyslikeme)

this week lyons and tigers gets another airing (myspace.com/lyonsandtigers)

and very excited to play Friendly Fires new stuff.. just dont call the boys fromst albans new rave..but do check out their wicked version of Frankie Knucklles 'Your Love' and their site (myspace.com/friendlyfires)

see ya sunday you non believers!

;)

Check myspace.com/lyonsandtigers and www.myspace.com/plasticlittlerap for two of my fave new unsigned acts at the mo...

Anyway hope u enjoyed the new show and please do keep the unsigned music coming into Radio 1 towers.

Right i'm off to bed after drinking too much and DJing at the BT Digital Music Awards last night. Not only was I pipped to the post for my award of Best Electronic Act by a band called Lorraine, I mean i ask you! But then played for 3 hours at the after party to a crowd including Peter Gabriel, me Radio 1 pal Edith Bowman and Lil' Chris, the rock kid who's all over everything at the mo and was lovin' my nirvana/metric/clash mash up... Jumping up and down like a little bean. Shouldn't he have been in bed?

Tune in this sunday and email me robdabank@bbc.co.uk with any top tips.

BUT i will be back on sundays midnight til 2am and i dont want any crappy excuses like ive got work on monday or im washing my hair...if i can do it so can u

its gonna be a lot of fun - a magical end of weekend hootenanny to flick the finger at mondays with..do join me

;)

anyway im down on the sunny old isle of wight setting up my bestival festival..blue skies so far and fingers crossed..if youre a fan of one music youd like the lin eup - 250 artists from gogol bordello to get cape wear cape fly, klaxons, love is all, the fall... and then more blue room type fodder from scissor sisters, pet shop boys, kid creole and john martyn...

a right old mish mash in a typically da bank style

im sure youll have heard the news that the one music club is shutting its doors in september...but the good news is im starting afresh on sunday night midnight til 2am every week,..gonna be a bit of a mix of one music and the blue room with some other weird and wonderful stuff thrown in...so do stay tuned!

til the next time my friends

robby

Just been listening to Jarvis of the Cockers new song - Running The World, with the immortal chorus of: 'c**ts are still running the world'. Its grandiose, witty and brave - just what the bespectacled doctor ordered for a sick pop world … but possibly won't get much radio play!

Check it out at: http://www.myspace.com/jarvspace

Since we last spoke I've been doing a fair amount of festivals - both as punter and DJ. T In The Park was ace - I managed to drag about 5000 people in at 1145am for some techno action in the Slam tent. Only in Scotland could this happen - must be something in the water but it's so great to see everyone really letting go and having a whale of a time.

Went to Latitude this weekend in Suffok which is a more arty affair entirely - lots of poetry and spoken word … and the Welsh wizard Huw Stephens hosting a stage. Managed to see one band in an entire day - Howling Bells who were great but not as good as I'd hoped.

Check out One Music on Thursday to hear the incredible Vashti Bunyan and Ive got Hot Chip in session on the Blue Room Saturday and Sunday.

Adios amigos

;)

why can the british go to ibiza/canary islands/miami and sit in the sun for 18 hours a day smiling but if its sunny over here we all get road rage, kick our pets and sweat like steamrooms?

anyway gonna play some more thom yorke solo stuff this week..and loads more new exciting electronics..be there!

ps got the pipettes in session on the blue room on sunday too..watch out!

if u wanna enter just send me a cd to radio 1, yalding house, clipstone street, w1n 4dj...

;)

JUNE

Aldeburgh Festival – Faster Than Sound – SAT 24th JUNE
Cutting-edge sound artists and composers get together on a remote airbase in Suffolk to create a massive One Off Soundscape
Mira Calix, Andrea Parker, Shitmat and Venetian Snares all taking part
E-mail fasterthansound@aldeburgh.co.uk for info

Here Comes The Knight – Tapestry Goes West – JUNE 30/ JULY 1
Last year it was a cowboy themed party, this year it takes place in a medieval village at Margam Park in South Wales
Field Music, The Early Years, The Hazey Janes, Archi Bronson Outfit, Rod Stern, Hot Puppies & Misty’s Big Adventure all playing

The Beat-Herder Festival June 30 - July 2nd 2006
 
A weekend of beats and barminess in sunny lancashire.
With Dreadzone, eatstatic, plus loads of mad artistry and thespians.
 
JULY

Dour Festival
Running from July 13th-16th, the Dour Festival, Belgium encompasses seemingly every genre in the world, inviting the best artists, DJs and performers from each to one 4-day festival, all totalling £50.

Thursday 13 July
Art Brut, Maxïmo Park, Primal Scream, , Jackson and his Computer Band Ellen Allien, Modeselektor, Miss Kittin dj set, Pendulum live, Nathan Fake, 65daysofstatic

Friday 14 July 2006, Nebula, , Mercury Rev, Fischerspooner live dj3000, Plastician
Saturday 15 July 2006
Mudhoney, Desmond Dekker & The Aces, T.Raumschmiere live, Derrick May, , Arab Strap,
Sunday 16 July 2006
The Gossip The Datsuns, The Dandy Warhols, Animal Collective, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Adam Green, Matthew Herbert live

Find out more at www.dourfestival.be/en , where you'll also find great deals for getting there and getting in.

AUGUST

Roots Rock Cymru – SATURDAY 26 AUGUST at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff

Reggae Celebration
Culture, Misty in Roots, Llwbyr llaethog and Guto Price from the Super Furry Animals doing a Trojan records set
Only 18 pounds! A bargain

SEPTEMBER

ABC charity festival, near Marlow on 2nd / 3rd September

live:
Hexstatic (audio visual dance music)
Bussetti (jazz/funk/hip hop)
Invertebrakes (breaks)
Groovenik (funk)

DJ: Gilles Peterson

I currently find myself sweating my pants off in Ibiza, the home of ancient old ladies standing around in olive groves watching their goats climb trees and on the other hand hordes of beefed up ravers storming the niteries of the white island.

If you've never been it's nowhere near as horrific as stories tell, in fact it's tricky to find any bad things about it unless you hang around outside brit abroad pubs at chucking out time wearing the wrong football top.

I'm over here for my first date of new residency at Flower Power, a hippy night started in 1965... yes 1965, nearly a whole decade before da bank was even an itch in papa da Bank's troosers. Anyway one guy, Piti, DJs all night playing the Beatles, Stones, psychedelia and weird stuff... and it's the busiest night on the island just about!

I feel very honoured to be asked to host the second room. The idea is I bring back some balearic flavour so I've invited DJs like Alfredo and Jon Sa Trincha to join me playing anything from Grace Jones to Grateful Dead, Prince to Arethra Franklin and lots of unearthed oddities too...

Comin' back to blighty for the show naturally and can't wait to see what's a waiting in the da bank post sack.

Keep those festival details coming in to onemusic and your unsigneds too!

adios amigos, Roberto del Banco

Well come over at 6am every morning ladies when he's screaming the house down til I get up looking like wurzel gummidge and walk him round the house showing him the sights and sounds for the umpteenth time... Anyway he's started smiling gummily and I'm sure he said hello the other day, or it could have been pass the ketchup!

Fields are my new favourite guitar band - the second time I've seen them this year and they were on fire! A heady mix of My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Led Zep and... umm... pastoral folk, played on your usual geetars and then up pops an accordion! Yup it's a right old mash up but really works. Recently signed to Atlantic these guys and gals are gonna be mega, I think their MySpace has 4 tracks on there so check 'em!

Oh, and tune in thursday... or else.

Tonight it's all about festivals - we've got live(ish) music from ATP from The Black Keys, the nutters Lightning Bolt and Electrelane plus a Not So Secret Now Secret on underground festivals happening this year... So if you know of one or are running on email me at onemusic@bbc.co.uk and we'll include you in our mini guide!

This weekend on the Blue Room I'm doing a transcendental meditation soundtrack for anyone feeling a bit jaded as we reach the halfway point of the year... Don't listen to it while driving a combine harvester or using a drill - I wont be responsible for you dozing off on the job.

Listen in my good people and see you on the other side...

elsewhere in da bank land i was somehwat puzzled to get an email from jeremy beadles agent asking if i wanted to book mr beadle for my festival in september.. £1700 not bad though i dont know what he'd do down there? maybe just stand there and have people shout out 'watch out beadles about' at him...

in other news my blue room show has become part of a university of cambridge research project into whether cows produce more milk listening to radio 1, radio 2 or no radio at all.. barmy but great!

im hoping their udders become uncontrollably big while listiening to my dulcet tones and spray the entitre country with semi skimmed..ill let you know the results

also doing both blue room shows this weekend so tune in 5-7am sat and sun for loadsa horizontal things and a session from the ace tunng

toodleeoo and happy birthday huw!

x

have only met michael once when i was paralytic in the lost vaguness field and i was haranguing him about how he was God.. so i was slightly more sober this time and surprisingly calm when it came to the interview..i hate public speaking despite being a 'broadcaster' in the loosest sense of the word...

we rambled on for three quarters of an hour and michael went off on many tangents as he'd warned he would

probably the most intriguing was when he told us he'd booked 2007's headliner (there is no glasto this year remember! it would be highly embrassing if you were stood in the stone circle watching the sunrise on your own in a months time!) ... he wouldnt tell us who it was and warned that we'd never guess as it was on of the most amazing acts of the last 25 years but so unlikely that we wouldnt guess

i ran through the usual suspects U2, the stones and pink floyd..and bunged in chas n dave for good measure but he was keeping mum ..later the wife josie blurted out that she thought it was michal jackson and that makes quite a lot of sense..but i didnt ask mr eavis..just in case we got it right...

ooh, what a mystery

the rest of the weekend has been spent huddling in a windswept marquee on top of a cliff on the isle of wight at a mates wedding... drunk... in charge of a small baby...with a hosepipe ban sweeping the nation..
wow

night night