http://rdbpodcast.co.uk Twice-monthly podcast of Rob da Bank, Radio 1 DJ and man behind the Bestival Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:37:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/