On my show this month:
This month X-Ray Moon attempts to warm us all up with a winter programme to keep us going until Spring arrives (at least for us over here in this hemisphere)...
As usual, Mooney has an abundant selection of new tracks (and new-ish) and some older songs that need, in his opinion, a re-airing. This month he plays the likes of, for example, Go Kurosawa, Staggs, PRAY-PAX, Jad Fair and Yo La Tengo, and Mari Mathias.
Among his older choices he treats us to a bit of John Lydon, some William Burroughs, and a favourite of his, it seems, some Dadaist 'sound poetry'.
It's February, snuggle up with a brandy and hot chocolate and listen to this month's offering from X-Ray Moon.

On the show NEXT month:
X-Ray Moon has an intriguing one hour show for us this month.
Full, so he tells us, of spicy grooviness and herbally fascinating psyche-licious tunes. Umbilical Noose, Melvic Centre[artist], [artist]Peplum[artist], and [artist]Neon Crabs, are just some of the groups he presents us with to tickle our aural taste buds.
He also, somewhat non-perplexingly and rather joyously, does not seem to be able to help himself when it comes to playing one or two of the old staples that have got many of us to where we happen to be today. Such as, for example, The Doors, because they are re-releasing a picture disc of Morrison Hotel. As if all of this were not enough he introduces us to a short sound poem by SJ Fowler.
He hopes everyone enjoys his show and the slow arrival of spring - at least in his hemisphere.

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Biography:

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.

Tracklistings and listen again to the previous shows: