On my show this month:
The backlash against summer starts here. Not only does a track from 93millionmilesfromthesun take us into some appealing icy environs, we've got a track from The Declining Winter and no less than three tracks about those decidely noctural creatures, owls.
We have some stimulating tracks of Antipodean origin, where it really is winter, including a new album from show favourite The Peach Tree and a southern hemisphere tour single from Wooden Shjips.
If all this leaves you feeling unseasonably chilly, there's a fine exclusive session from Extradition Order to warm your cockles and tracks from new albums by Woom, The Men and Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones, among others, plus self-released gems courtesy of Hehfu, Colleen Green and Floyd The Phenomenal Cat Trophy and a whole load of dub and electronic adventures from the Beatservice, Rockers' Revenge, Enough and Deep Dark & Dirty labels.
Enough to disrupt even the most idyllic picnic, I'd say.
On the show NEXT month:
August's session guests are the excellent Crescendo, heading a stellar cast of show favourites that includes new tracks from The Coffee & TV Wreck, The Pocket Gods and Whitewater Orgasm.
Summer moods are celebrated via the electro-surf of Orgone Accumulators and a track from the much anticipated Best Coast album, and there are pan-global musical escapes from Romania's Subcarpati, Venezuela's Pocz + Pacheko and more from those Greeks bearing immense gifts, My Wet Calvin.
All this, plus a bunch of musical discoveries - including Tantric Mealworm, Remora and The Venopian Solitude - that rank among the best the year's had to offer so far, a brace of cassette releases from The Men and Pipsqueak and another dollop of Brazilian guitars from fantasy festival favourites Top Surprise.
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Biography:
My music-related activities over the years have been resticted 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. 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.
Tracklistings for my previous shows:
06/2010 - 05/2010 - 04/2010 - 03/2010 - 02/2010 - 01/2010 - Festive 50 2009 - Festive Fifty Build-Up 2009 - 12/2009 - 11/2009 - 10/2009 [1] - 10/2009 [2] - 09/2009 - 08/2009 - 07/2009 - 06/2009 - 05/2009 - 04/2009 - 03/2009 - 02/2009 - 01/2009 - Festive 50 2008 - Festive Fifty Build-Up 2008 - 12/2008 - 11/2008 - 10/2008 - 08/2008 - 06/2008 - 05/2008 - 04/2008 - 03/2008 - 02/2008 - Festive 50 2007 - Festive Fifty Build-Up 2007 - 12/2007 - 11/2007 - 10/2007 - 09/2007 - 08/2007 - 07/2007 - 06/2007 - 05/2007 |
