On my show this month:
Having recently spoken again with Lee Fowler, founder of the Thomas Imposter label, thoughts of Japanese bands were swirling in my head so I thought I'd check out the new Cosmic Rock compilation of sixties Japanese bands. Very pleased I did - and it's my featured compilation this month. Alongside it you can hear tracks from new albums by Gentles, Stand High Patrol , The Joy Thieves and Rizomagic. We've also got new tracks from Robert Wotnot, Adrian Crowley and Foglights. among others, while there's another intriguing look-ahead to the Tian Qiyi & Jah Wobble album of Beatles covers. Oh, and there's also something by some band called The Fall .
This month's Peel Back... feature is slightly truncated. You'll have to tune into my FSK show this month if you want to hear the rest of it: not a cunning ruse to get you to listen to the other show, I promise you, just simple technological incompetence.
On the show NEXT month:
This month's show features a new session from the excellent Jack Hayter . Five exclusive recordings from the ex-Hefner multi-instrumentalists is one of many highlights in a show that includes new albums from Paul Rooney , Zoom Unit and future session guests The Male Pattern .
We've also got a couple of releases from the excellent Half Edge label, another two from Metal Postdcard, a new God Unknown album from Drift and, courtesy of Damaged Goods, something from the new Goat Hill Clippers album. There are some cracking remixes of Pitch Black , yet more from the wonderful Stand High Patrol and another slice of dub from the always-excellent Manwel T .
As usual, we Peel Back... to three tracks from the John Peel archives, while there's also a track from yet another Xmal Deutschland sessions compilation and a live album from Osees confirming, if any confirmation were needed, their status as one of the planet's finest live bands.
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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.
Tracklistings and listen again to the previous shows:
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