On my show this month:
X-Ray has an hour-long show this month. On his show, as usual, he has predominantly new tracks to play to us with a few, possibly, lesser well known older tunes.
The Lemonheads are back after a long hiatus, with apparently more new material on the way.
A somewhat mysterious and haunting album by ISONA has recently been released. And, SPG One have a new album out called "Telephone Calls from Hyperspace".
From the older offerings there is a beautiful track by NYAYA DZINONETSA from an album that came out in May of this year titled, "Zimbabwe: The modern sound of Harare' Townships 1975 – 1980".
X-Ray Moon hopes everyone has and is having a fabulous July and he hopes everyone enjoys the show.

On the show NEXT month:
This month X-Ray Moon's show is a special on the Battle of the Beanfield, which was a devastating confrontation between peace-loving environmentalists anti-racists and anarchists, against the truncheon-wielding aggressive police who attacked this 'peace convoy'.
It was forty years ago this summer that those heading towards Stonehenge for what was an annual free festival to celebrate life, freedom, the planet, music and the solstice were stopped and brutally attacked by Margaret Thatcher's uniformed goons. Why? Because they were free and living their lives in an alternate way; not wishing to live in boxes and conform to the war-mongers' control-freakery.
So, then: On the morning of 1st June 1985, a peaceful convoy of over 600 New Traveller families, artists and musicians travelled towards Stonehenge, to mark and celebrate the summer solstice. As the convoy neared Cholderton, the 140+ vehicles (with many doubling up as homes) were ambushed with a police roadblock 7 miles away from Stonehenge. Over 1300 officers, some equipped with riot gear, surrounded the Traveller families and proceeded to assault people, families, vehicles, and anyone who dared be near the police's reach. After smashing windows, beating people with truncheons and shields, pulling pregnant women from buses, and destroying people's homes, over 537 Travellers were arrested… This is often considered the largest mass arrest since WWII.
Forty years on and there has still never been an inquiry into the events that unfolded that day. For many, the Battle of the Beanfield was a direct result of the Thatcher government choosing to 'make an example' of the Travellers. With the media downplaying the violence and even contributing to it with unrepentant attacks on New Travellers, survivors have been left traumatised, injured, and homeless. To this day, there are people and families whose lives have been irreparably damaged by the actions taken that day, by the police and the authorities.
X-Ray Moon wishes to send his love and respect to those who were doing no harm to anyone, and if anything should be held up as wonderful examples of how to live peaceful non-destructice environmentalist lives.
This is dedicated to all those who were part of the Peace Convoy, and all of those who were part of the 'free festival' scene… This programme is called 'The Beanfield Etcetera'.

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Music both old and new. My tendency has always been to be attracted to the 'different', the other, the subversive… something that in one way or another challenges authority or orthodoxy and somehow attempts to shape wider society. Whether that be Punk, two-tone, Krautrock, Rai… etc.
In addition to that though I quite simply enjoy discovering the new, the different and the strange. Sounds, voices and atmospheres from around this small globe we call home are what excite me...
Over the years I have lived in many different countries, and wherever I was John Peel was the background, for many years, that aurally lit-up my adventures. He so perfectly reminded us that the quality, importance and worth of something has nothing to do with its 'popularity', and more to do with how it breaks down barriers and makes the complacent feel uncomfortable. How music at its best can be so much more than just a wallpaper-friendly pop song. So, then, eternal thanks to John Peel, who helped mould many of us…
Plus, thanks for listening. It is a great pleasure and joy to bring these shows to you; I hope you enjoy what you hear.

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