On my show this month:
In the current UK political climate, it was always dangerous to start the show with a track about the current Prime Minister (courtesy of Captain Ska, who else?) only to find that now the show is going out somebody else has been shunted by his mates into 10 Downing Street.
Elsewhere in this month's show, we briefly discuss the pile of vinyl under the stairs in my house and lament the absence of the previous Essential Logic album from that collection, while of course playing something from the new one. Our featured compilation is a fabulous Yep Roc soul collection and there are new releases from the likes of JD Meatyard , Bill Callahan , Lisa Pung and Black Market Karma , among the aural delights on offer.
And, of course, this being the month of Festive Fifty voting, we Peel Back... to the chart of forty years ago, though not in the way you might expect ...
On the show NEXT month:
Christmas is coming, but we're not feeling very merry about the recent loss of Mimi Parker and Keith Levene so, as you'd probably expect. there are offerings from both of them in this month's show. Sadly, timing didn't allow for a suitable goodbye to Wilko Johnson but the sentiments are the same.
Aside from that, we've got tracks from new or recent releases by Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs, Agent Starling, Burial and Mdou Moctar .
We also have as many as four releases from the Metal Postcard, who could probably make a plausible claim to be the most productive label of 2022 in terms of both number and quality of releases.
There's a lookback to the Festive Fifty of 30 years ago in our Peel Back... section and a clutch of some of the best of the early Christmas releases and reissues to sing along to with a plate of nuts and a bowl of figgy pudding, if such things are to your liking.
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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. 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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