http://rdbpodcast.co.uk Podcast of Rob da Bank, Radio 1 DJ and man behind the Bestival Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:41:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rob returns to the studio for a cracking Chrimbo mixup! A refreshing return from the boss brings a bounty of new tracks for your festive stockings/earlobes. Hear the storming new single ‘Get Better’ from Sunday Best’s own dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip and check out what next ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2009/12/11/rob-da-bank-xmas-special-2009/ This month it’s a full house in the studio with every man (and lady) and their dog from the Sunday Best camp pitching up to podcast towers and throwing in their tuppence worth. Too many cooks? Probably. But we had lots of fun doing it! Tune in to hear our ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2009/10/16/sunday-best-48-october/ Quick!  Before you set off for Bestival, tune in and get Rob da Bank's personal lowdown on the 2009 line up with his tip-offs about all best new acts to check out, the new arenas and special nooks and crannies of the '09 site - and to hear a totally ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2009/09/09/bestival-2009-lost-in-space/ In the midst of the Sunday Best summer madness, Rob da Bank handed over the reigns to Julian, Duncan and Andy from his record label earlier this month to play a collection of musical treats from the da Bank camp, whilst Rob focuses on his ever-nearing Bestival bonanza on the ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2009/08/25/sunday-best-46-august/ May has been a very exciting month for Rob da Bank as he has had his first ever book published, "The A-Z of Festivals: My Festival Life in 26 Letters". So this month he’s knocked up a wishlist of classic festival tracks in a loose A-Z stylee for this podcast special! ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2009/05/19/sunday-best-45-a-z-of-festivals/ Rob da Bank is back!  Apologies to all our regular listeners who noticed we missed a podcast in March… da Bank wasn’t off skiving, he had the small feat of putting together a couple of festivals to take care of!  But we’re now back on track… promise! This month’s 38 minute ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2009/04/08/sunday-best-44-shoegaze-special/ This month, we bring you some beautiful new gems, some beautifully shambolic records and lots of Sunday Best news for 2009 including some very exciting news for fans of Kitty, Daisy & Lewis and Coldplay across the pond! Click play below to listen and find out more - don't ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2009/02/17/cheeky/ Rob starts the year 2009 with an eclectic mix up of musical delights. From psychedelic folk sounds from the US to ravey bits from the UK, Rob’s keeping his eye on the ball for 2009's up and coming artists – plus he gives us a very sneaky peek at ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2009/01/16/sunday-best-42-good-morning-2009/ This week da Bank is bringing you a festive feast of Chrimbo treats, with a bounty of Sunday Best artists dropping by to leave their Yuletide greetings and play you their favourite Xmas tunes, and of course Rob bringing you the finest of new tunes and nascent underground artists. You can ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/12/01/yuletidings-2008/ This month, Rob da Bank has temporarily handed over the podcast to Julian from Sunday Best as da Bank has been busy giving a big talk at the UK Festival Awards and kicking off the Bestival Reunion tour in Liverpool! But don’t fear, Rob has given Jules all his ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/11/05/sunday-best-40-top-tips-for-2009/ This week young Rob finds himself alone in the studio post Bestival with a pile of Cracking CD's to rifle through and bring to your sweet ears, so settle down for a feast of entertainment. Leave a comment here on the website at sundaybestpodcast.com, or email your host robby [at] sundaybestpodcast ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/10/06/sunday-best-39-post-bestival/ This week, Captain da Bank has jumped ship down to the Isle of Wight to make way for this year’s Bestival. Five days to go! yeah! In Rob’s absence, Julian from the Sunday Best office and Bobby Lost from Bestival’s own crew of ‘Lost & Found’ mascots are left ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/09/02/sunday-best-38-a-bestival-2008-special/ As per usual Rob is playing an absolute corker of a Sunday Best playlist, so listen to this podcast for your greatest sunday best tunes, from the man who put the EEK into eclectic... Leave a comment here on the website at sundaybestpodcast.com, or email your host robby [at] sundaybestpodcast [dot] ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/08/11/sunday-best-37-lots-of-lovely-nonsense/ For every high there has to be a low, but don't despair, Rob is back in the Sunday Best chair bringing you another half an hour of wonderful music and chat from Bestival Towers, with songs and sketches and jokes old and new ... Leave a comment here on the website ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/07/29/sunday-best-36-post-festival-blues/ We’ve jumped ahead of ourselves a week in the podcast schedule, It’s a Camp Bestival special – which features loads of the big artists playing at CB – and it ties in with a few ‘last minute tickets available’ emails that we sent out yesterday. Leave a comment here on the ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/07/09/sunday-best-35-camp-bestival/ This week Kid Carpet takes over the reigns of the Sunday Best Podcast to bring you all some tunes from his brand new album while Rob is away at Glastonbury. Leave a comment here on the website at sundaybestpodcast.com, or email your host robby [at] sundaybestpodcast [dot] com - and don't ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/06/30/sunday-best-34-kid-carpet/ Apologies from the da Bank camp. I’ve got a bit snowed under here, with my new son dribbling everywhere and my new Camp Bestival festival approaching mega quick, so I’ve had to leave the podcast for this fortnight. I’ll be back in two weeks I promise, come Hell or high ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/06/17/apologies/ So this week Rob is away in Ibiza, smearing himself with factor 14 and giving his Foster Grants a good workout, so we went into the SB lab and built a series of digital facsimile personalities that will serve only to prove that the human element of this show is ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/06/01/sunday-best-33-stepford-rob/ As bloomin Chelsea and Man Utd prepare to do battle on Russian soil and with the Eurovision Song Contest just around the corner, thank the sweet lord for a bit of this ... Rob's back in the chair swing this week with some excellent Sunday Best music featuring Underworld, Kid ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/05/20/sunday-best-31what-a-mix/ Corsa presents Bandstand steered by Sunday Best. The final of the the special podcasts by Rob da Bank. This week Rob is recovering from the first live event held at Billingsgate Fish market on Saturday 3rd May which was a fantastic success with all the usual Bestival madness indoors and ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/05/05/sunday-best-31-the-final-bandstand-special/ Corsa presents Bandstand steered by Sunday Best. The second of three special podcasts by Rob da Bank, which looks forward to the new indoor event, the first of which kicks off May 3rd in London, followed by May 10th in Liverpool. Rob and Ben discuss all things Bandstand and reminisce ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/04/21/sunday-best-30-a-bandstand-stand-out/ This week we find Rob on the very cusp of entering into a one man support group as his wife gives birth. So picking up the flaming torch of The Sunday Best Podcast we find Julian and Duncan hunched over the mic for a round-up of acts booked to play ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/04/06/sunday-best-29-babies/ This week Rob gets his label pal Julian back in the studio and the two have a little natter about new signings to the label, playing new Portishead, Fourtet, David E Sugar and FrYars. They still haven’t quite got the hang of this technical lark yet though! Leave a comment ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/03/23/sunday-best-28-nattering/ Corsa presents Bandstand steered by Sunday Best. The first of three special podcasts by Rob da Bank, featuring Mark Ronson, Annie Mac, Kissy Sell Out, The Cuban Brothers, Late Of The Pier, The Troubadours in a truly mixed bag which looks forward to the new indoor event, the first of ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/03/10/sunday-best-27-bandstand/ Our 26th Sunday Best Podcast, on the 26th! Rob da Bank assisted by Steve waxes lyrical about the Bestival reunion tour, announces artists who will play at Bestival this September and plays selected tracks from Short Wave Set, The Mystery Jets, Frightened Rabbit, Crystal Castles plus others who may also ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/02/27/sunday-best-26-leaping/ It's our 25th and thus silver Sunday Best Podcast - Rob da Bank accompanied by Julian explores the sublime, eternal and sometimes grisly subject of cupidity with a simmering selection of appropriate musical muses from Thom Yorke, King Creosote, an exclusive new Sportsday Megaphone track, and more. Leave a comment here ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/02/12/sunday-best-25-love/ Rob delves experimentally into his immense postbag and plays a brilliantly unpredictable selection of previously unheard songs from a wonderfully diverse group of artists including Frankie Knuckles, Adele, and soon-to-be Sunday Best signed FM Belfast. If you're new to the podcast subscribe! http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobdaBankPodcast Listen to all the Sunday Best Podcasts at ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/01/29/sunday-best-podcast-23-the-postbag/ Rob da Bank celebrates womankind in this wonderful all-female podcast to move us into 2008, moving through many themes and moods both gender-specific and truly universal. Leave us your comment (register on the website www.sundaybestpodcast.com to do that) or email your host robby [at] sundaybestpodcast [dot] com - and don't forget ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2008/01/14/sunday-best-podcast-23-ladies/ Rob da Bank brings you a heartwarming New Year's Eve podcast to delight you whatever you're up to - staying in with mulled wine, Wogan and the TV, or returning at 6am with tired ears and sore feet, in need of some refreshing after living it up massive in true ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/12/31/sunday-best-podcast-22-new-year-2008/ Rob da Bank gives the seasonal cake some musical icing with a retrospective look at his favourites of 2007, anticipating 2008 with some glee, and providing listeners everywhere with welcome respite from the annual drudgery of bad jumpers, unwanted socks, and indigestion from brussels sprouts. Leave us your comment (register on ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/12/24/sunday-best-podcast-21-aka-the-christmas-podcast/ This is indeed a special day, as our main man of music, Rob da Bank, has created an epic 40 minute-long podcast to usher in the festive season. Remarkable achievements abound; because of all you podcast-fanciers out there who know about these things, we confidently predict we'll have topped 100,000 downloads ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/12/10/sunday-best-podcast-20/ When we grow up, we want to be astronauts... Another half hour of eclectic joy from Rob da Bank, who brings us his top eleven tips for 2008. Includes Black Kids, Ebony Bones, Lady Hawke, the super-shy Burial and seven more artists that you'll be glad you discovered via this ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/11/26/sunday-best-19/ Fresh from gallivanting from Iceland to Stockport, Rob da Bank arrives at the Sunday Best Podcast a tad late this week, but bearing many musical gifts to cheer the soul, mixing chilled beats and beautiful acoustic songs with rave, disco and dub as only he can. You can click below to ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/11/09/sunday-best-18/ Bringing warm summeryness into cold October, we're six months into the Sunday Best Podcast (version 2) and so very happy to celebrate this milestone with an extra-long, 43 minute special in which Rob da Bank goes the extra mile for your listening pleasure. Featuring an interview with Julian (label-employee-turned-signee) aka ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/10/22/sunday-best-17-the-extra-mile/ Rob returns from the very successful Bestival with thirty minutes of relative relaxation to ease you out of the festival mayhem. Features ace new Sunday Best signing Christopher D. Ashley, Tongue, and some lovely old beans remixed in some delightful new sauce. Don't forget to subscribe - you'll find the link ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/10/08/sunday-best-podcast-16-post-bestival-chill/ Come gather round bestivalians, for this maybe the final taste of summer that will get you through the long cold winter ahead. Throw your mind back to the hot hot heat, early september, the Isle de Blanc, England. Press play now for your aural pleasure. The joys of Bestival on this podcast include ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/09/27/sunday-best-15-the-bestival-podcast-part-three/ After a blinding set in the Big Top on Sunday afternoon, the Trojan Soundsystem joined the aquatic airwaves of Bestival Radio for an hour of blissful, sunshine, reggae fun. Selectors Earl Gateshead and Daddy Ad were joined by Chucky Banton and Super Four on MC duties. Trojan Soundsystem formed in ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/09/15/sunday-best-14-the-bestival-podcast-part-two/ Hello and welcome to the first Bestival podcast of 2007 – Join the Bestival FM team as they scoot about the Robin Hill site reporting on the gala opening, enjoy the company of northern tent erectors and marvel at Captain Disco’s costume description and the sound of lobsters on stilts ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/09/12/sunday-best-13-the-bestival-podcast-part-one/ Miguel Mantovani joins Rob in this Bestibal Special - a marvellous anticipation of all things Bestival, and a must-have for your Isle of Wight iPod, or any other MP3 player, of course. While you're at it, subscribe and grab all twelve Sunday Best Podcasts from SundayBestPodcast.com http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/08/28/sunday-best-12-bestival-special/ As we enter the season of Bestival, Rob presents a pre-festival podcast with six minutes more than the usual 30 minutes of excellence, featuring tracks from Bob Dylan, The Go Team and Fear of Theydon, and joined in the studio by special guest and new label signing Alice McLauglin who ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/08/20/sunday-best-11/ A sunbeam through the rainclouds from Rob da Bank, this podcast including Taken by Trees, Andrew Bird, Mode Selector featuring Thom Yorke, My Toys Like Me, the tonic delights of t'internet and more. How can Rob effortlessly fit these beautiful tunes into one 30 minute, 192kbps podcast? And yet ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/07/23/sunday-best-podcast-10/ Rob da Bank flaunts all the rules of broadcast in a breathless style as he leaves the studio at a run, and only just makes it time to prevent the parking attendant giving him a ticket. An even more wonderfully eclectical mix than usual, which includes a random street meeting ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/07/09/sunday-best-9/ After a week off for good behaviour, here's another 30 minute superb-sounding plethora of grooviness from Rob da Bank, including Johnny Flynn, The Lovers, a great track by someone rumoured to be Richard "Aphex Twin" James, the hugely energetic and sweaty Miss Odd Kidd, and a selection of wonderful covers ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/06/25/sunday-best-8/ Rob da Bank provides an unusually eclectic and varied selection (even for him!) which should cheer up your very rainy British Bank Holiday, or indeed any day. A choir of crickets, The Royal British Legion, UNKLE, and Grand National in session combine to form 30 minutes of the best-sounding MP3 ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/05/28/sunday-best-7/ Podcast number 6 sparkles like light on water and shimmers like an early summer haze, with music from Frankie Valley, Hot Chip, Milk Can featuring Dolly Parton, Transglobalunderground and an acoustic session from The Hat, plus crucial information about the Bestival Festival, imparted in Rob's own unique Thai Sangria-inspired ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/05/14/sunday-best-6/ All on his lonesome this week, Rob does a great job of filling 30 minutes with several unsigned corkers including the new track from the celebrated Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, and a cracking tune from the ex-Sunday Best teaboy. The usual eclectic high standards we've come to expect, ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/04/30/sunday-best-5/ Hot on the heels of podcast number 3... Rob da Bank guides you through 28 minutes of the finest and freshest music around, joined this week by the rather knowledgeable Sportsday Megaphone from the Sunday Best label. http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/04/16/sunday-best-4/ Joined this week by The Dub Pistols, BBC Radio 1 DJ and Sunday Best Recordings supremo Rob da Bank guides you through 30 minutes of the finest and freshest talent around. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill (Lex) CocoRosie – Rainbowarriors (Touch and Go) Dub Pistols – Running ... http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2007/03/27/sunday-best-3/ BBC Radio 1 DJ and Sunday Best Recordings supremo Rob da Bank guides you through 30 minutes of the finest and freshest talent around, this week joined by his Radio 1 compadre Annie Mac to preview her forthcoming A to Z compilation and Bestival. http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2006/09/02/sunday-best-2/ BBC Radio 1 DJ and Sunday Best Recordings supremo Rob da Bank guides you through 30 minutes of the finest and freshest talent around, joined by special guests from the eclectic label. Episode 1 Guests: The Cuban Brothers and Barry Peters. http://rdbpodcast.co.uk/2006/04/24/sunday-best-1/