On my show this month:
Being December, we do our best to feature the best Xmas tunes of the year, including a few highlights from this year's Cherryade album, though the main focus is, as always, on digging out the best new tunes to emerge at the end of the year. In that spirit, we feature new albums from Mutabaruka , Frog, Shackleton and Katy J. Pearson, among others, as well as looking ahead to 2024 releases from Dez Dare and Bob Vylan. We also play three tracks from the new Human Worth compilation and tunes from the live extravaganzas from Cat Power and Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs , while leaving room, naturally, to Peel Back... thirty years and play three entries from the 1993 Festive Fifty.
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Biography:
My music-related activities over the years have been restricted to such peripheral activities as running a venue and attempting to manage a band to putting together radio shows variously named The A-Z of Punk, Idiot Jukebox and The Diamond Mine as well as masquerading as The Phantom Surfer to produce The History of Surf Music and unintentionally controversial hour-long documentary Surfin' East Kilbride, all of which have made appearances on various community radio stations over the years.
I'm the author of a book on John Peel's Festive Fifty called, with great imagination, The Festive Fifty and a novel that is nothing at all to do with music ... called Balls. I edited a fanzine called The Backdoor in the late eighties, fronted a band called The Beached Whales that never got round to gigging and played amplifier lead and slides with a band who'd rather I didn't make my association with them public. I have what I believe is a healthy contempt for music journalism (even when it's good) and believe the best way to start a band is to put four people who can't play in a room with some second hand instruments, don't feed 'em and don't let them out until they've produced something great. I've tried it on several occasions and no one's died yet.
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