On my show this month:
This month's show features the usual batch of new releases, including something from the new album from last month's session guests My Best Unbeaten Brother, new singles from Fontaines DC and Rodney Cromwell, the new SILAS EP, another track from the JD Meatyard album and something from the meeting of great minds that is the split EP from Manwel T and Zion Train. This week's featured compilation is a wonderful box set from the History of Soul label and there's something from Record Store Day releases from Ramones and Kristin Hersh. We also feature a track from the Utopia Song BBC Sessions release and, of course, Peel Back... to rummage through the Peel Session archives of 1984, 1994 and 2004...
On the show NEXT month:
August means, of course, the annual Green Man Festival at Glanusk Park in Wales, this year taking place between the 15th and the 18th. As usual, we preview many of the anticipated highlights including tunes from Osees, BEAK>, Omar Souleyman, Tapir! and Lambrini Girls. There's also a Green Man-themed Peel Back... section featuring vintage session tracks from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nightingales and Explosions in the Sky, all of whom will be hauling their considerable legends across the Welsh countryside. We also feature great new music from across Europe and beyond, including a new single from Germany's Vertont, an EP from Poguba from Slovenia, a split release from Berlin's Unity Vega and Milan's Piezo and a double helping from the French Culture Dub label, while Amyl & The Sniffers and Honeyglaze - creators of magical moments from Green Man's recent past - return on top form.
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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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