Episode 5 of The Benny Cash show aired 29/11/09

Hello, Bonjour, Wie Gehts Cashers.


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The show is now pushing the ratio of talk/music to about 70/30, that may even be too much. A disclaimer was added to the beginning of the show in fear of running into legal threats.

Guests on the show included a return of Wyndham O'Clock and a first time appearance of the Spectre of Matthew Twilight - The creative genius behind water colours. Current affairs discussed included the most expensive transport, Buffalo slaughtering, Mince pie ice cream, recycling for vouchers, and Santa School. We also had a phone in for the worst Christmas present ever received.

A young girl named 'Mahoona Sunset' phoned in to explain that her brother said she could have anything in his room that she wanted. What a dastardly excuse for a gift, the cheap skate.


Benjamin Cash exposed the truth behind the 300 deaths at NHS university hospital Basildon. And I've now realised he's about as funny as a toenail, so he'll no longer be continued. Some creepy monologues in the form of a pensioner recalling the events at an annual folk dance and a piece about a man peeping in on the public.

Playlist:

-Young Rabbits, The Crusaders, The Kings of Jazz
-I've Got you Under my Skin, Ella Fitzgerald
-Fat Albert Rotunda, Herbie Hancock
-Maths Song Circles Pi radius, Pi-dophiles
-My Favourite things, John Coltrane
-Cheesecake, Dexter Gordon
-Summertime, Miles Davis
-Turn me on, Norah Jones
-Loose Gardner, Flevans
-Oh Marie, Louis Prima
-Durian, The Cinematic Orchestra

More Gaffs Next Week

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Benny

Time out and first episode no longer available to Download

As the Title suggests, I have limited room to store my shows online. So only the now 'full' episodes are available.

Benny

The Benny Cash show aired 22/11/09

Greetings Cash fans,

A fresh feel to the show this week as recommended by Wynn from the previous week. With an injection of popular Jazz to increase access to the music and make it punchier all round, the whole show felt slicker.

Notable news items included the poignant record label 'SyCo' that Susan Boyle had her 'I dreamed a dream' album released on. The 'real' reason why Enid Blyton was banned by the BBC and Why the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China has no reason to celebrate as long as there is no Disneyland. I have also started to lean towards a 'mockumentary' style by adapting eerie backing tracks to play while I narrate the spoof news stories. My alter-alter ego news reader and in depth analyser Benjamin Carsh is now a regular feature.

Playlist:

-When You're Smiling, Louis Prima
-Music Takes Me Up, Mr. Scruff, Ninja Tuna
-My Favourite Things, Mark Murphy, The Kings Of Jazz
-Something That's Real, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, Stampede
-Theme De Yoyo, Cinematic Orchestra, Cinematic Orchestra
-The Sky At Night, DJ Food, Kaleidoscope
-Rose Rouge, St. Germain, Tourist
-La Dolce Vita, La Dolce Vita, Soundtracks
-I Get A Kick Out Of You, Ella Fitzgerald
-You Little Trooper, Hint, Portakabin Fever
-Dr. Wu, Steely Dan, Reelin' In The Years: The Very Best Of Steely Dan
-I’ve Known Rivers, Courtney Pine, Modern Day Jazz Stories
-Isfahan, Duke Ellington, The Far East Suite
-The Blackbyrds, Walking in Rhythm
-1958, Skalpel, Skalpel
-Billy Boy, Miles Davis, Milestones
-Dragon and Phoenix, Jah Wobble, Chinese Dub International
-Wu Bang Zi, Chen Dacan Chinese Ensemble, Classical Chinese Folk Music
-In Hong Kong, Paul Hertzog, Bloodsport Soundtrack
-Where Do You Go To (My Lovely), Peter Sarstedt, The Darjeeling Limited
-Sweet Georgia Brown, Django Reinhardt, Django Reinhardt Collection
-Sunrise, Charles Lloyd, Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd At Monterey
-Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody, Louis Prima, The Wildest!
-Square Playa, The Square Playa, The Jazz Influence
-Oldest Crap Game In New York, The Rat Pack Collection: Live in Las Vegas 1963
-Wonderful World, Sam Cooke
-The Reason, Sylk130, When the Funk Hits The Fan

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Benny

Got Sasha Grey to say hi to my loyal fans

More cultural information for you guys, but I managed to get tickets for the screening of 'The Girlfriend Experience' by Steven Soderburgh featuring the multi-talented Sasha Grey. After the performance an interviewed ensued from the Times Film critic before questions being opened to the floor - guess who's hand went up first. I asked whether or not her work in the adult film industry had helped her to lose any inhibitions and allowed her to be a more natural actress. She came alive and duly gave a lengthy response finally ending with a 'yes'.

After the mob had asked her more questions including a Dominatrix enquiring whether or not she reinforced a cliché that call girls are victims etc


After the show got a photo and then a quick mobile interview, its super gritty and super amateur. Thoroughly proud that she said hello to the Benny Cash viewers though, click the title as always.

Benny

The Benny Cash Show aired 15/11/09

A First on the Benny Cash Show; the very first guest was none other than ex-Watercolours front man/doppelgänger for Robert Pattinson, Wyndham O'Clock. Arriving in the glamour of a hi-jacked parcel force delivery van he added a new element to the show. He began by discussing his preference for pretentious herbal teas before disclosing his recreational heroin habit. There was Chemistry from the get go. O'Clock described the chemistry as animosity. To put it into context, I would describe it as Brown resenting Blair for never being no. 1. Almost a spiteful love-hate with constant attempts to 1-up and undermine the other.



You can see the sparks flying as the opposition is squared up. After the heroin remark I was speechless. What ensued was a competition to dumbfound the other, a task I successfully met by enquiring after the ailments that followed the disastrous career of seminal 90's group Watercolours.


Not only did the show have the first guest, but also its first - and second caller. Thank you to Irene and Steve for the compliments and wise song requests.

The show marked the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall as well as the 20th anniversary of Aardman creations Wallace and Gromit. Due to the dates coinciding, I set out to find out the link that forged these two events in the same annal of history.

Due to popular request another cash-rap followed the triumphs of last weeks performance. Datis made sure it was caught on camera so the event faulted 3 times before a successful rendition - professional appearance of the show thus dashed on the rocks.

Playlist:

-Sure Thing, St. Germain, Tourist
-Hurry On Now Featuring TM Juke, Alice Russell, Under The Munka Moon
-Back In The Day, Erykah Badu, Worldwide Underground
-Acknowledgement, John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
-Nocturne (Sleep Dyad 1), DJ Food, Kaleidoscope
-Directions, Skalpel
-Water Babies, Wayne Shorter, Super Nova
-How Sweet It Is, Mr. Scruff & Mark Rae, Mushroom Jazz 2
-Great Gorge, Joe Farrell, Moon Germs
-Yaphet, Miles Davis, Big Fun [Disc 2]
-Search For Peace, McCoy Tyner, The Real McCoy
-Rejection, Christian Scott, Rewind That*
-Rumplestiltskin,Cannonball Adderley Quintet, The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free*
-Vulcan Worlds, Chick Corea, Where Have I Known You Before *
-Dear Limmertz, Azymuth, Azymuth: Outubro *
-Inner City Life, JAZZ, The Kings Of Jazz [Disc 2] *
-Then Came You, Euphonic, Mushroom Jazz 2
-It's A Love Thing (Instrumental), Mushroom Jazz 5 **
-Diabolus, Cinematic Orchestra, Motion

* Indicates tracks that did not play - substituted by the Water Colours songs

** Indicates track that was sort of rapped to twice, then properly on the 3rd occasion

Regrettably, I will be ending the Time out show this coming thursday as I am overstretched. The Sunday Benny Cash Show will otherwise suffer and that would be truly awful.

Benny

As always, click the title for the link - one long complete mp3 this time, improvements are being made.

Time out with Benny Cash aired 12/11/09

Hello my adoring Cash fans.

Click the title of the post for the download site -Getting better, 75% of the show was successfully downloaded.

Brand new thursday 4-6pm slot, and a brand new theme tune that will forever be associated with the name Benny Cash (except for the guy who had it before me, no clues).

Very excited with the opportunity to work with a different show, a blend of travel news with my dark humour mixed in with some chilled tunes to take you through work - if that's where you're tuning in from. Quite the depressing setting though, alone in a sealed perspex booth with a broken halogen tube, watching the daylight fade away till I'm left with the light from the computer monitor and a desk lamp - that I later discovered - to illuminate my notes. No one upstairs and the rain was beating down on the car park below. Did a silly skit about a new Iphone app Virgin released to calm nervous flyers and some rant about the disappearing Uyuni of Bolivia. The best part was my idea for a human safari which in a nutshell sees the American death penalty idea turned into a profitable business enterprise for the already condemned.

Playlist:

-A Song For Cathy, Lalo Schifrin, Bullitt Soundtrack
-Oye Como Va, Santana, Abraxas
-Get A Move On, Mr. Scruff, Another Late Night - Fila Brazillia
-Nostalgie, Ry-Co Jazz, Bon Voyage !!
-Jiri Stivin & Co / Vyletel Ptak, Jiri Stivin & Co, The Best Of AghaRTA 1993
-Trash Box, De-Phazz, Death By Chocolate
-What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4), DJ Shadow, Endtroducing....
-Relaxin' With Cherry, Kid Loco, A Grand Love Story
-Big Calm, Morcheeba, Big Calm
-Your Place, Zero 7, The Garden
-Little Dipper, Fila Brazillia, Black Market Gardening
-Street Scene (4 Shazz), St. Germain, Boulevard
-Panoramica, Piero Umiliani, Cinematic Orchestra Remixes: 1998-2000
-Oscar feat. Anna Clementi, Tosca, Dehli 9
-And Relax!, Cinematic Orchestra, Motion
-In A Silent Way / It's About That Time, Chick Corea Five Peace Band Live
-le poinçonneur des lilas, Serge Gainsbourg, inédits 57-68
-Spooky, Dusty Springfield, Late Night Tales [Mixed by Nightmares On Wax]
-Ce Matin La, Air, Moon Safari
-Elements, Lemon Jelly, Lost Horizons

Benny

Episode 2 of The Benny Cash show aired 8/11/09

Thoroughly into my groove, confidence sky high and nerves were buried in the trenches of the Somme. Remembrance Sunday on the show, many a dedication to the troops from the bygone era to the present day conflicts in Afghanistan. Very solemn and bleak -especially as the recording failed outright. Read out Siegfried Sasson's vivid war poetry in between the playlist. News quirks about Alan Stamford having his knighthood revoked due to fraud, and the Large Hadron Collider addled by a piece of falling baguette causing a gas leak and several months worth of set backs.

Then courtesy of a friend the night before, a suggestion of a 'Rap' dedicated to the Great David Haye after his victory over the Russian 'Beast from the East' Nikolai Valuev should be featured on the Benny Cash Show - It was done, to such a success that I was asked to repeat it so it could be filmed (by Datis) and featured - as it is now - on the radioMK facebook site, as well as my own. This has since sparked a trend of imitators and 'free-stylers' on the Station, a bench mark that will not easily be met.

Playlist:

-Afros In Ya, J Boogie's Dubtronic Science, Mushroom Jazz 5
-All Aboard, 9 Zero 9, Paradise Blown
-Stan Getz, Street Tattoo, Café Del Mar
-The Aftermath Of Love, Lalo Schifrin, Bullitt
-Together, Skalpel, Skalpel
-President Chimp Toe, Fila Brazillia, Power Clown
-On Green Dolphin Street, Miles Davis & John Coltrane, Stockholm 1960 [Disc 3]
-Words To That Effect, Hint, Portakabin Fever
-Give Me Your Love (Love Song), Curtis Mayfield, Superfly
-Hot Banana's, Scienz Of Life, Mushroom Jazz, Vol. 4
-Suite For Beaver Pt. 1, [P.U.T.], Mushroom Jazz, Vol. 4 **
-All That You Give (Featuring Fontella Bass), Cinematic Orchestra, Every Day
-Everytime We Say Goodbye, John Coltrane, My Favorite Things
-Passion Dance, McCoy Tyner, The Real McCoy
-The Maids Of Cadiz, Miles Davis, 2 On 1 - Miles Ahead/Bags' *
-Ode To The Big Sea, Cinematic Orchestra, Motion
-Tell Me A Bedtime Story, Herbie Hancock, Fat Albert Rotunda
-Conversations With The Unseen, Soweto Kinch, Conversations With The Unseen
-Georgia On My Mind, Django Reinhardt, Django Reinhardt Collection *
-Five, Four & Three, Lee Konitz, The Kings Of Jazz [Disc 1]
-Monk's Mood, Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall *
-Grand Central, Tomasz Stanko Quintet, Dark Eyes
-Season's Change, Sylk130, When the Funk Hits The Fan

* Indicates tracks that did not play ** Indicates track that was rapped to -twice

A beaming Charles congratulated me on the show and I was granted the thursday 4-6 slot which he branded 'Time out With Benny Cash'

The path to stardom continues...

Benny

The First Show podcast

Okay so its here, the way my media catcher works it has chopped up the show into 13 mp3s so just play them in Chronological order and it should run smoothly. Click the title for the link - by the way the first 9 or so minutes is the music from the previous show, you'll hear me near the end of the first mp3

The First Show- Aired 1/11/09

A ridiculously nervy start to my glittering career. I believe I lost a total of 3 days sleep leading up to the debut on the 1st of November. The theme was "Black History Month" for the month past of October. I felt really confident pitching this to the Radio MK guys as a relevant, cultural idea. Having not seen who the producers were I felt rather sheepish when I did eventually meet up. I sat in a chair facing Charles - the Grand Fromage - saying he liked my application for the station, so there I am -as Waspish as you can get - opposite Charles - As Black as you can get replete with dreads - and me cringing as I watch myself talking about my idea for black history month. Alas, he was overwhelmed and I was offered the Sunday 12-2 slot. The Show is basically my music i.e. Jazz, electronica, Chillout etc interspersed with relevant cultural news and anything else that catches my eye.

I tried to profile the great Jazz legend Miles Davis, so here is playlist 1 for the show:

-Afros In Ya, Mushroom Jazz 5
-Milestones, Miles Davis, Milestones
-It Ain't Necessary So, Miles Davis, Porgy & Bess
-So What, Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
-Eighty-One, Miles Davis, E.S.P.
-Footprints, The Miles Davis Quintet, Miles Smiles
-Masqualero, Miles Davis, Sorcerer
-Fall, Miles Davis, Nefertiti
-Country Son, Miles Davis, Miles In The Sky
-In A Silent Way/It's About That Time, Miles Davis, In A Silent Way
-Spanish Key, Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
-Black Satin, Miles Davis, On The Corner
-I’ve Known Rivers, Courtney Pine, Modern Day Jazz Stories
-News From Verona, Portico Quartet, Knee-Deep In The North Sea
-The 37th Chamber, Courtney Pine, Modern Day Jazz Stories
-Spiritual, John Coltrane, Live At The Village Vanguard: The Master Takes

Sadly the first show was hampered by a technological failure. My playlist that supposedly ran for some 2 hours was massacred by an incomplete conversion from Itunes to mp3 formate effectively removing 30 minutes of music from the end of all the tracks. The mixing between my voice and the music is sheer crap as well.

I'll still make it available none-the-less.

Benny