Pow. R Ball BBC Radio 1 (Mark Radcliffe Live Session July 1996)) by Urusei Yatsura band published on 2016-09-10T13:19:43Z Live Session Recorded for Mark & Lard in Manchester, July 1996 Continuing our effort to provide you good people with an alternative BBC Sessions album to accompany the one we have just released, here now is a version of Powerball from the Mark n Lard show recorded in summer 1996. As you will know, this tune is a Kemp/Yatsura original that offers tribute to Calvin Johnson's K records while hilariously confusing the man with the protagonist of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon because I find it impossible to just say anything straight ffs. It probably should have been called Calvinball, but again, see above. Johnson's reaction to this goofballery is not recorded, but the man is the greatest dancer in the USA. Please YouTube Beat Happening if you are in any doubt over this. A lesser known fact is an instrumental version of this song got us 2nd place in the only Battle Of The Bands we ever entered. Genre Alternative Rock