On my show this month:
Another 4 hours from Ring of Fire this month with the best that's come to my attention over the past few weeks. Favourite out of the UK this month has to be the Roxy Girls and their newest, "Spanners For Hands". It literally jumps out of the speakers and is on permanent replay at chez Ring of Fire. Also getting lots of spins are the Mad Walls, Melbourne's Disco Junk & The Tijuana Panthers.
If you are fond of new bands doing pitch perfect pastiches of styles past you'll enjoy LA's Hammered Satin and the UK's Mick Trouble with his / their great take on the TV Personalities approach to songwriting.
Otherwise it is the usual bursts of noise, oddness and music that you are unlikely to hear from elsewhere. Whether it be Mark Gardner's ( Ride) electronic almost balearic project as Glok, the Triffids singing about why you won't see farmers in nightclubs or a band I saw in the live scene in Australia's cult 1980's film, Dogs In Space, about post punk life in Melbourne in the early 80s starring a very young Michael Hutchence.
We finish the show with a track played earlier in the year; Bridges by Sydney based Erthlings. I've not been able to get the song out of my head for the last year and the more I listen the more I hear the same themes and feel of early Undertones songs ... can't stop going back to it, the fragility and joy is a wonder to behold.

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Biography:
Sean Hocking is the founder and owner of Metal Postcard Records and based in Hong Kong.

An avid Peel listener from the late 70’s onwards he discovered the true breadth of music available between 10:00pm and midnight for many years. Metal Postcard Records follows the Peel/Tony Wilson philosophy of play it, release it, and don’t worry about other people’s opinions too much; they all come round eventually.

"My first DJ experience aged 15 was being asked by older schoolboy Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins/Bella Union) to play a six form dance in the dim distant days of Dexy’s Midnight Runners and a three-piece Cure. Since then I have played Sydney warehouses, West Sussex fields, Brooklyn Bars, Cambodian restaurants, Vietnamese Riverbanks, Hong Kong rooftops and too many empty houses with dodgy fuse boxes to mention.”

“Mentioning favourite recordings would be pointless as they change from day to day but I can tell you that amongst my favourite gigs has been Black Flag at the lyceum in 1980 something, The Cramps on their Psychedelic Jungle tour, The Triffids final Sydney concert at the Paddington Town Hall, Julian Cope’s main stage sunset set Glastonbury in 1987, any Ed Kuepper performance over the last 30 years, Konono No.1 in New York a few years back and The Stone Roses at Spike Island was, without a doubt, a great day out. Oh and the three times I was lucky enough to catch Melbourne’s Morning After Girls who should all be considered for sainthood.”"

The launch party for the Cambodian Space Project’s debut single on Metal Postcard Records in Phnom Penh was a revelation as the band was joined on stage by various musical survivors of the Pol Pot genocide who sang and played their hearts out for hours on end. Couldn’t remember feeling such musical joy... Well not since Peel played The Dodgems’ ‘Lord Lucan Is Missing’ for the first time."

A listener (DJ lano) made my day with this comment on Mixcloud ... "When I was 16 John Peel was my 'go to' man for new music. Now aged almost 46, you - Sean - are the person I most look forward to listening to. Many thanks for another top selection!"

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