La Grosse Tambouille: radio en directo desde Toulon

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La Grosse Tambouille

The crowd gets a vote.

Listener-voted eclectica, mustard or ketchup.

It is published by a loi-1901 association, La Grosse Tambouille & Compagnie, with Michaël David as director of publication, and runs on donations rather than advertising: no spots, no cookies, no third-party trackers, and the only thing logged is an IP address that gets deleted inside the day. Nobody has to make an account to listen or to vote, which matters here, because the voting is half the point of the station and has been since the first day it went on the air from Toulon.

Every track carries two buttons, mustard or ketchup, and the counts go back to the programmers. The results page is public in both directions, so the crowd sees what it lifted and what it sent down, and a week runs from boom bap and roots reggae through sixties soul and classic rock to skate punk, with lines of Pagnol and other French film dialogue cut in between.

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La Grosse Tambouille

The crowd gets a vote.

Listener-voted eclectica, mustard or ketchup.

It is published by a loi-1901 association, La Grosse Tambouille & Compagnie, with Michaël David as director of publication, and runs on donations rather than advertising: no spots, no cookies, no third-party trackers, and the only thing logged is an IP address that gets deleted inside the day. Nobody has to make an account to listen or to vote, which matters here, because the voting is half the point of the station and has been since the first day it went on the air from Toulon.

Every track carries two buttons, mustard or ketchup, and the counts go back to the programmers. The results page is public in both directions, so the crowd sees what it lifted and what it sent down, and a week runs from boom bap and roots reggae through sixties soul and classic rock to skate punk, with lines of Pagnol and other French film dialogue cut in between.