Andy's 60 minutes for April features new music from Honesty, Kilimanjaro, Sir Robert Orange Peel, Blue Foundation, Andy Bell, Brian Bilston & The Catenary Wires, Lust For Youth & Croation Amor and Leatherette. Andy plays a track from the excellent new album by Bdrmm, plus an Andy's Old Chestnut that he's fairly sure must have inspired it. You'll also hear new music from past session guests The Pony Collaboration and The Divided Circle.

Greetings! First off, we pay tribute to three early punk legends we recently lost: David Johansen of The New York Dolls, Brian James of The Damned, and Rick Buckler from The Jam.
Elsewhere, I have new stuff from Gents, Klint, Sunny War, Limbo District, Exo, The Nerve, Dehidratált Fejek, Zalomon Grass, Punter, Pretty Lightning, Lost Legion, The Blue Herons, Kendra Morris, Young Widows, and Grails.
As the result of some recent armchair traveling I a few really cool songs from Armenia to play.
Enjoy the show!

Gareth's eggshellent April show is more packed than the Easter Bunny's basket. Kicking off with two unusual cover versions of songs originally by Chappell Roan, there's also quirky country from The Burning Hell, silly Spanish pop from Papa Topo and some strange sci-fi instrumentals from Synthetic Villains.
Plus this month's 'Secret Songs from the Sixties' features two cuts by the cult 60's girl band The Clinger Sisters.
Then the 2nd hour's guest presenter for 'Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue' is Kate from feminist punk-pop band Twat Union who release their debut EP 'Don't Look It In The Eye' via Alcopop! Records on April 4th.

Four hours of the freshest, most spring-like tunes from Leo this April, as he welcomes in the season of growth and renewal with songs from around the globe.
Big hitters are definitely there, represented by names such as The Smile, Jeffrey Lewis, Richard Dawson and Billy Nomates, all displaying their brand-new wares, but once again Leo’s lucky listeners will be struck by how many bands he features who they might not have come across before.
Heard of these? Arc of an Eye, Melondruie, Nido, Mücha, teethin and Cross Record.
And that’s not even the half of it. Tune in and open your ears to the sounds of life bursting abundantly all around.

Plenty of great new tunes this month, as you'd expect, including tracks from new albums by Snapped Ankles, House Of All, Residents, McLusky and many more.
We've also got a taste of the forthcoming Samantha Crain and Black Country, New Road albums, plus something from the Analog Africa seventies Zimbabwe compilation, due out in May.
Our featured compilation this month is another excellent release from Punk 4 The Homeless, a reissue of a Stone Age album featuring punks from the UK, USA and Indonesia. We've also some Record Store Day Charlie Patton vinyl, new singles from Wales by Melys and Kikker, a fantastic new Dutch release from Klamp, German Dub from Ghost Dubs and, naturally, a whole lot more.

An hour from Rocker this month, Including new tracks from The Silver Caskets; Beau; Prolapse; The Nightingales; Benefits; and Jetstream Pony.
There's new electronica from Ida Engberg, plus a stunning new remix by Extrawelt of a 1995 classic from Aural Float.
This month's Rocker's Shellac Attack is a 1918 recording of the Canadian national anthem, played by the American Regimental Band.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: Between them the USA and Canada lost around 175,000 troops fighting as allies in the first world war.

We have two shows this month. A regular Bottom of the Popa and a Bus Special.
On Bottom of the Pops this month it's another 4 hours of fun.
We've got songs about Wizards not needing computers, Strawberries, Rainbows, the dreaded Bobby Gillespie, men with two left hands, getting lost, going to Germany and so much more.
There's really not much to tell you except that you won't have so much musical fun until another episode of Bottom of the Pops rolls around again next month.
For the Bus Special listen out for love on buses, death on buses, possible death by bus, greyhound buses, New York buses, National Express buses, Bus Drivers, drugs on buses and of course waiting for buses.

This month we’re hurtling into the year’s second quarter with a hearty grab bag of sonic treats in the glovebox, there’s a song called Egg and a band called Eggy, a song called Grub Club and a band called The Bug Club, a trip to Planet Sister and Mulga Bore as well as lovely Wales, remixes for Perc and Hydra Fashion Week, plus new noisy business from Baker Boy, Infinity Knives, Elvis 2 and more besides.

From 1977 to 1982 in British popular music culture there were very few groups that came close to The Jam.
There were of course other groups around at the time that also had an ‘edge’ to them, but very few if any had the success that The Jam experienced. With 18 consecutive top 40 singles and 4 number one hits in the UK, it’s difficult to think of many other ‘alternative’ or counter-mainstream-cultural groups of the time that had such mass appeal.
For those who were attracted by music and lyrics that in some form or other challenged the status quo, The Jam were seen, by some, to not only challenge the hum-drum and drabness of that period, but were somehow, counter-intuitively doing it quasi from the inside… That is, since they were not all-out Punks, and since they wore suits, and since they occasionally played spiked-up Soul covers, and were quite often melodic, they limbo-danced under the radars and into the bedrooms and living rooms of otherwise unsuspecting adolescents with otherwise quite middle-of-the-road musical tastes.
Lyrically they had one of the best song-writers of the time. Politics, poetry and social conscious married-up to create anti-war, anti-racist, and anti the right-wing government (from 1979…); frequently, as much as anything else, with lyrics that depicted a rundown Britain whose over-arching mood was one of despondency and hopelessness.
Paul Weller as primary song-writer neatly slotted into the British lyrical family tree which also consisted of the likes of Ray Davies of The Kinks, Peter Townsend of The Who, with elements of The Small Faces and indeed Nick Drake ... All – when they were at their best – combined with Punk fervour and a subversive do-anything attitude.
This programme is dedicated to the memory of Rick Buckler, the drummer of The Jam who died recently, who along with Bruce Foxton and Paul Weller embodied a certain attitude and outlook from a certain period of time in British musical history.
This is The Jam Etcetera ...