On my show this month:
Welcome back to another 4 hours of Ring of Fire for July. I'm really enjoying some new UK releases at the moment. Rough Trade record stores have alerted me to London duo Ozteki who's latest album sounds like the perfect marriage bwtween rave culture, Hot Chip & Radiohead ... count me in.
Also thanks to the Monolith Cocktail blog for making me aware of Rezo a virtual collaboration between Irish musicians Colm O'Connell and Rory McDaid (based in Spain). Their bandcamp page says, "While they have played music together over the years, this project was largely borne out of the Corona virus pandemic. Using internet technology to bridge the social and physical divide, the pair have in Travalog produced a collection of tunes about a time when travel was possible." It's a beautifully realised album of the old school and deserves to be on everyone's playlist.
Other new releases from The Bordellos, Occult Character, Acid Dad, Micromoon and too many more to mention.
For the first time on the show we have something from Nick Cave, off his new album (yes we have featured Grinderman in the past .. but too many moons ago to remember) and the Pistols!
More oldies from Reperata & the Delrons, Terry Noland & Buck Owens! amongst others.
The IDLES cover the Gang of Four, Cutters shout/sing about Australian War Crimes and Stephen Evans "Hates Shop".
Hope you enjoy the show

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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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