Audio-only - 11 Angine de Poitrine concerts and other performances

I've not listened to all of these (most of them I've only recently discovered) but fans of the excellent band Angine de Poitrine have been recording their concerts and uploading them to the Internet Archive, in addition to the video footage with which YouTube and other platforms are awash. So much lovely content :)

• KEXP - December 2025 - there's a bit of clapping at the end (absent from the YouTube video), can download mp3 from  https://omny.fm/shows/kexp-live-performances-podcast/angine-de-poitrine-live-on-kexp
  
  
• Angine De Poitrine Live At Electric Ballroom 11.05.2026 https://archive.org/details/angine-de-poitrine-live-at-elecric-ballroom-11.05.2026-v-1.0-b-original-from-jack-master - uploader: amylamey
  
  
• L'Ubu 18th May 2026 https://archive.org/details/AngineDePoitrine2026-05-18 - uploader: RLBayers
  
  
• Angine de Poitrine - 2026-05-19 - Theatre Paul Scarron, Le Mans, France [AUD] https://archive.org/details/adp2026-05-19.h4npro - taper: furrythug, uploader: The Ugly Midwesterner
  
  
• 26 May 2026 - Brussels, Magasin 4 https://archive.org/details/adp2026-05-26.dpa4061/ - taper: Bart, uploader: The Ugly Midwesterner
  
  
• Angine de Poitrine - 2026-06-27 - Place des Festivals, Montreal, QC [AUD] https://archive.org/details/adp2026-06-27.9a - taper: Fox, uploader: The Ugly Midwesterner
  
  
• Angine de Poitrine - 14th July 2026
• Angine de Poitrine - 2026-07-14 - RBC Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON [AUD, BurnBoy CSHEB source] https://archive.org/details/adp2026-07-14.csheb - taper: BurnBoy, uploader: The Ugly Midwesterner
• Angine de Poitrine - 2026-07-14 - RBC Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON [AUD, SP-CMC-8 BurnBoy source] https://archive.org/details/adp2026-07-14.spcmc8 - taper: BurnBoy, uploader: The Ugly Midwesterner - seemingly identical to the one above
• Angine de Poitrine - Live - Toronto ON - July 14, 2026 - RBC Amphitheatre https://archive.org/details/live-toronto-on-july-14-2026-rbc-amplitheatre - uploader: Catchum - recorded from further away
  
  
• Angine de Poitrine - 31st July 2026 (Newport Jazz Festival)
• 2026-07-31 - Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI [AUD, larryrulz CA-11 source] https://archive.org/details/adp2026-07-31.ca11/ - taper: larryrulz, uploader: The Ugly Midwesterner
• Angine de Poitrine 2026-07-31 Newport Jazz Festival https://archive.org/details/AngineDePoitrine2026-07-31/ - uploader: RLBayers  
  
  
• Angine de Poitrine - 2026-08-18 - Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles, CA [AUD] https://archive.org/details/adp2026-08-18.spcmc4u - taper: ijwthstd, uploader: The Ugly Midwesterner
  
  
• Angine de Poitrine - 19th August 2026
• Angine de Poitrine - 2026-08-19 - The Independent, San Francisco, CA [AUD] https://archive.org/details/adp2026-08-19.mk4 - taper: TJ, uploader: The Ugly Midwesterner
• Angine De Poitrine The Independent, SF, CA https://archive.org/details/2026-08-19-angine-de-poitrine-the-independent-sf-ca-kreider - uploader: kskreider
  
  
• Angine de Poitrine - 2026-09-01 - Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany [AUD]  https://archive.org/details/adp2026-09-01.dpa4061 - taper: METAMARC,  uploader: The Ugly Midwesterner
  
  
• Angine De Poitrine live in Richmond at Iron Blossom Festival 9/20/26 https://archive.org/details/angine-de-poitrine-9-20-26 - uploader: ValientHimself 

 

 

Ideas for BBC Sounds - shareable playlists, timestamped clips and mixtapes

I use the BBC Sounds app and online and I'm still not a fan but hate it marginally less than I did at the start. In part I think that's because the social media team are really responsive and helpful. I suggested that I'd like to be able to share a podcast from within the app and they got back to me later to tell me I could now do it (I'm sure it was already in the pipeline, and it wasn't implement just because of me though!). 

So I like them even though I find the whole arrangement a bit... odd. For example if you're on a BBC programme page you're invited to press 'play', which then takes you to the BBC Sounds version of the page where you have to press play again. With the old system you just played within the page you were already on. Just seems weird to duplicate the system. But if you're logged in you can easily click 'bookmark' or 'subscribe' and it immediately syncs with the phone app.

Also, if you were to search for the (excellent) 15min podcast series Bunk Bed (Peter Curran / Patrick Marber) on Google the first hit you probably get is a page telling you about the very limited availability of episodes recently broadcast. In fact all episodes of all series are available, but you need to know to click on the Podcast link to get to them. Baffling.

Anyway - you can create for yourself a playlist by just adding things to bookmarks and it will play them once through continously in the reverse order you add them, last one is first. Or was last time I did this. I use this feature a lot after bleating at them that I couldn't do it and them telling me nicely that i could :)

Suggestion 1 - shareable playlists
I'd like to be able to collate and curate some programmes on a similar theme and share that (a sound-related example is here on one of my other blogs). Perhaps I could create (probably on the web version, but easier) a playlist of up to 5 separate episodes (from different series), or there'd maybe be a maximum length of 3 hours - so 3 x 1hr episodes max, or 6 1/2hr ones, or a mixture.

Suggestion 2 - Timestamped 'clips'
On YouTube it's easy to share a link to a video and specify when it starts. People clicking on your link will be taken to that very point in the video - this is great. They can then stop the video themselves or let it play to the end. I'd quite like to be able to share something similar, rather than saying 'start at 1hr 04min 23sec'. I realise it's not straightforward to create actual 'clips' because either that would involve BBC having to store additional mini copies of stuff, and there could be billions if people are endlessly clipping various sections of a piece, but a timestamp thing would help. As BBC material is copyrighted it's not practical / legal to start downloading and sharing clips yourself.

Suggestion 3 - 'Mixtapes'
If it were straightforward to share episodes or segments of episodes think of the fun we could have sharing the radio equivalent of mixtapes! Little bit of this, little bit of that.

Much missed - Speechification, curated radio documentaries

2008 was a happy year. I seem to have discovered the world of podcasts and listened to loads of them via a tiny mp3 player to which I saved downloaded programmes via a USB cable. Radiolab has been a long-term favourite since then and I discovered the Speechification podcast and blog probably towards the end of its runtime. I'm not sure how I came across it but I've mentioned it in 30 tweets since 23 September 2008, generally pointing out a particular programme I'd heard there.

Speechification was run by Steve Bowbrick, Roo Reynolds, Russell Davies and others and its aim was to curate English-language speech-based programmes from radio and help people hear a wide range of stuff. There was plenty from BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4. I can't remember the exact history of the BBC's Listen Again service aka iPlayer at that time but I think that it wasn't always so straightforward to hear a programme if you'd missed it. Even now programmes have a shelf-life (often 29 days to listen) before quietly sinking back into the archives to be released at a future date (often after two years have elapsed). So programmes oscillate between being briefly available and then having "This programme is not currently available" added to their landing page. Speechification let you listen a little longer.

So when it closed in late 2010 and took down its archives there was a bit of an audio gap for some of these programmes, but audio-only things have started popping up every so often on YouTube (admittedly probably a bit dodgy from a copyright point of view). Here are some things I've discovered through Speechification and loved, with their YouTube or other links if they're available to listen.

Other places to find interesting audio include the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/audio, Box of Broadcasts https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand and for sonic snippets of old tech try the Museum of Endangered Sounds (eg ) http://savethesounds.info/

Josie Long's "All of the Planet's Wonders" on Plants



Stephen Fry - Third Reich and Roll
"Stephen Fry tells the story of how Hitler's huge financial investment in recording for propaganda purposes gave rise to modern recording techniques"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j6qh3 - not available at time of this blog post

Spoon, Jar, Jar, Spoon - The Two Sides of Tommy Cooper
"Rob Brydon explores two sides to comedian Tommy Cooper - his humour and his love of magic. On stage, Cooper assumed a manic and bumbling persona, but behind this was a man with a genuine talent for magic, as revealed by contributions from magicans Paul Daniels, Alan Alan and Ali Bongo."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jm66h - not available at time of this blog post

The Archive Hour: Putting it Simply
"Kathy Sykes charts the way that science has been seen and heard on radio and television, from postwar lectures to modern animations."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076zc6 - "Sorry, this episode is not currently available"

Simon Fanshawe's Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher



also available at https://archive.org/details/TrackingTheLincolnshirePoacherRadioProgram

Mark Miodownik's How to Write an Instruction Manual
https://archive.org/details/HowToWriteAnInstructionManual - available
BBC page https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m4470 - not available

Fifteen Inches Per Second - 2004
A brief guide to the history and use of 1/4 inch magnetic tape.
https://archive.org/details/FIFTEENINCHESPERSECOND - available
BBC page - couldn't find it! Found its info in BBC Genome (Radio Times listing).

Jarvis Cocker's Musical Map of Sheffield


Rainer Hersch's Gershwin's Horns
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bc2r4 - not available on BBC at time of writing but if you work at a UK university or other HE institution you may be able to access it via the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) which is a MASSIVE collection of audio for educational use. Shame it's not public though, sorry https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0091F4CC?bcast=127759481 - actually starts at 6m 30s in.

Other things that are much missed

This post is part of a series of me being a bit nostalgic about things, the other posts are as follows 

• Somerset House and Film4's Summer Screen series of open air films in the courtyard (9 June 2022)
• The Bankside Frost Fair 2003 - 2008 (24 November 2020)
• Speechification, curated radio documentaries (9 January 2020) - this post
• The National Geographic shop on Regent Street, London (4 January 2020)
• Much missed - MOMI, London's Museum of the Moving Image (2 January 2014)

No sound (mechanical): can I buy a new audio jack socket & stick it in a PC?

I've no sound on my work computer which looks like it's probably one of these: "Windows 7, Dell Optiplex GX620 Desktop PC, P4 HT 2.8GHz, 1GB Ram, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD".

Apart from the mild annoyance of not being able to listen to YouTube playlists as I work, I also can't listen to all sorts of useful work-related audio or audiovisual clips - Prof Harold Thimbleby (in video below) is the Swansea PI on the CHI+MED project I work on. He's talking in London tonight and I thought I'd have one of his earlier talks on in the background.



If I turn the volume and hold my foot against the headphone jack I can hear things OK, through the left headphone. Moving my foot at all means sudden silence, and the unit (which also houses a speaker) is clearly a bit wobbly.

I'd previously checked the sound settings and used the little troubleshooting programme from Microsoft (available from that link once you've gone through the first bits) which found no problem. It's definitely mechanical.

How easy is it to
a) get a new unit
b)i) plug it in
b)ii) and what safety things to I need to be aware of? For example I'm wary of poking around in the back of a television (mine's CRT) because I understand there are fearsome capacitors within it so even with unplugging it there's still a high voltage... might be wrong, but if I unplug my PC do I need to wait hours / weeks before unscrewing things?
c) is it likelier that I can fix this by just opening it up and resoldering it, in which case I'd still need an answer to b)ii ;)

Ta :)

Honestly for the last year every time I've wanted to watch / listen to a YouTube video I've either emailed the link to myself and picked it up on my iPhone, or used an URL shortener to then type a short URL into iPhone Safari, which then automatically loads the YouTube app. There's always a workaround but it would be a nice sense of achievement to fix this!

How to enjoy media files on iPhone without using iTunes (and using Dropbox instead)

I have to assume this works for most smartphones and tablets.

You will need

• a free Dropbox account* 
• an iPhone or similar
• the Dropbox iPhone app installed on your iPhone
• wifi connectivity

*or you can use my referrer link and give me extra space which is always nice
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTQwMDAxMDQ5?src=global9 - note that this shares your email address with me, so think about your own privacy too, possibly it shares my email address with you as well!

Instructions

• Save the media file into your Dropbox folder on your computer
• open up the Dropbox app on your iPhone, navigate to the file and play it
  (you'll need the wifi to synchronise with the Dropbox server and to maintain playback - however if you favourite the file you can probably listen to it offline).

I've been listening to mp3s on my iPhone via Dropbox since November 2010 as I find it easier to handle files via Dropbox than iTunes. I just save them in Dropbox and when I open the iPhone app there they are and they play fine.

Yesterday I was rather pleased to discover that it also works for video files and I managed to play a 700mb .avi file as well as a 176mb .wmv file (it's the same programme but the larger one is nearer to broadcast quality).

Not surprisingly the first time I tried to play the larger file it kept cutting out every 10 seconds and seemed to be not working very well at all but a bit of patience was all that was needed. The iPhone did something to it to 'optimise it for mobile playback' no idea what but about 10 minutes later it played all the way through.

Dropbox's own help pages have a list of files that will play including music and video:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/80/en and they also have a more advanced page for trickier filetypes and how to convert them https://www.dropbox.com/help/83/en (they suggest Handbrake - I've only used Zamzar and Real Player).

Media filetypes that I've successfully played on my iPhone via Dropbox

• .avi
• .flv
• .m4a (these are meant for iTunes, but work fine)
• .mp3
• .wmv 

Music files listed on Dropbox help files that should work: .mp3, .aiff, .m4a, .wav
Video files listed on their help files that should work: .mov, .mp4, .m4v

Filetypes that I've not had much luck with

• .m4r - ring tones, but these can be converted to .mp3 files via http://www.zamzar.com (I've just tried it, works fine)

How to embed audio in PowerPoint presentations and convert m4a to mp3

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I've just discovered how to do this so I'm writing it down in my blogojournal as an aide memoire for when I find that I have to do it again.

As part of a workshop that my colleagues on the CHI+MED project are running we've been asked to put together a single slide to tell delegates who we are and what we do. For those not attending the workshop to deliver the slide in person we can add the audio and set it to run for us.

I've definitely done this before as we've previously used digital stories (we're a large project stretching over four universities and two hospitals and it's helpful to know who everyone is when we all get together as there are always new people) but could I remember how? No.

On Twitter @cvelhas was kind enough to give me the answer: "Hey Jodie, go to Insert, then Audio, then Record Audio :)" and she's right.

On my version of PowerPoint, clicking the Insert tab brings up a range of icons the last of which is the Audio one - clicking that brings up the option to:

Insert audio from file...
Clipart audio... (yikes!)
Record audio...

At first I tried to record but it turns out that my microphone and recording system aren't working very well on this computer.

So I recorded it on my iPhone (using the Voice Memos app that comes with it) and emailed the resulting .m4a file to myself (click on the icon with three lines, select the relevant memo, click the blue Share button and choose email - you can also do this via USB / iTunes).

It did sort of work when I embedded it into the slide but it was a struggle, and rather than appearing as an attractive 'play audio' icon it looked like a black box. When it was eventually persuaded to play the audio file it wiggled a little green line across the box, in time with my voice. Odd.

Then I googled "convert m4a to mp3" and found this free software which I've downloaded and used and it was all quick and painless. Once I'd remembered where I'd saved the output .mp3 I was able to embed it in the PowerPoint and send it to my colleague.

Peasy.

I also got a message from @liamgh who suggested "have a look at handbrake, vlc and ffmpeg too. All great for converting files - and open source."

I've not tried the others but VLC is amazing.