For the September edition of their Outsiders residency, Bureau B invited Alexandra Gruebler who released two wonderful records on BB under her moniker Baal & Mortimer.

As unbounded as her own music, Alexandra's mix is an embrace of contrast - dubby bass landscapes, celtic moods and delicate encounters for catalytic doom & gloom.

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Outsiders: Bureau B w/ Alexandra Gruebler @ Kiosk Radio 22.09.2025

Please enjoy Piney Gir & Parenthesis Dot Do Dot's offering "Winter Flowers" created especially and exclusively for the Joyzine Advent Calendar, where Piney is the sun to Parenthesis' darkness; you hear them toggle from waltz-time to four-on-the-floor, giving a not-so-subtle, crooning nod to Lee & Nancy, this song will see you through a dark winter's night and into the light.

Winter Flowers

I was originally going to create something seasonal then common sense interrupted. 'Heavens to Betsy' is a polite track about the everyday chaos and horror. Obviously, it’s a pop song…

Syd Howells - Heavens To Betsy

Long time champion of the band, Gareth Jones, egged us on to record a Christmas song for a compilation he was putting together. We didn't manage to write one (we've put a pin in that) as it was pretty short notice, so we thought we'd do a cover! 'Stop the Cavalry' was give or take at the top of everyone's list.

Mo was in her element as she's always been quite a big Jona Lewie fan, so you can hear her delivery is as giddy as it is angelic. The synth parts are true to the original so you still know what you're listening to instrumentally. Then there's some pretty ska-ish rhythms flying around whilst it's sprinkled with some quite perky sounding guitar licks.

We were really proud with how it came and out and had a ball recording it.

Stop the Calvary

The track is called '12:07am'. It's an exclusive track and has never seen the light of day anywhere else before now. It's something I wrote when I was a student in London a good few years back, and I managed to get some time in a studio to write, record and mix it. It's a party tune of sorts, rhythmic and pulsing, and it came from a sense of openness and adventure among new friends and experiences in a new city. I felt very in awe of the world and life, and all the new possibilities ahead. As much as I am really fond of this song, it's one that I was not able to square with the direction and feel of the Dextro releases I was producing at the time. On its own however it's got a unique character and buzz, and I've not had an opportunity to put it out until now. So this seems like the perfect time, for a great and important cause, and in the festive spirit :) 

12:07am

Don't try to work out any deeper meaning in the lyrics, there is no meaning, we just like those words in that order

Before the track name 'Head' emerged, the demo was called 'Marching Snare', and we thought it was possibly our most Christmassy track because of that little drummer boy link! Also a lot of people are in their own head around Christmas...

Head

This is a demo of a new track that’s going to be on the album. It’s called 'Are We Expecting Guests?' The lyrics are based around my experience of staying in the worst B&B I have ever been subjected to. It was on the outskirts of Ramsgate staying after a Monochrome Set gig at the Music Hall. I don’t know where to begin with this place. It was unfriendly, the pillow on my bed was “stained”, it smelt like death and the toilet door had one of those toilet stall “engaged” locks on it. I had to lay a towel on the bed to be able to sleep on it without being overly grossed out. 

I don’t really feel like I’m selling this to you? Anyway, it’s quite spiky and quirky and got lots of cool synth mucking about on it. Enjoy!!

Are We Expecting Guests?

This track was my December 'Lunar One' B side (in which I released a download-only single with an A and B side every full moon for a year). 

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Title theme from a lost electronic space opera. No voices, just machines.

Truth In Space

Truth In Space