Braces, tire swings, then love and other catastrophes. Songs about the indignities and thrills of being young.
Perth, a thousand miles from anywhere else, and West Australia more broadly have always had their unique thing going on. Here’s their unique musical thing.
25 Years of living under the reign of Mogwai. Interlaced with some influences on the band themselves.
Tributes, hymns, odes to. Songs for, Homages about. Not people though. Binoculars, divorce and androids amongst others.
Songs about the class system, about the bourgeoisie, about unfairness, about inequality. But with humour too.
The inheritors of the ’60s psychedelic bands are the latter-day Neo-Psychedelia practitioners. Here’s an episode featuring them.
The conch is handed to listeners of the podcast who feature here in the bands they play in.
Songs about actors, songs about movies, songs about actors in movies.
Great tracks from TV shows, good, bad and indifferent.
More songs about cameras and photography.
Guest host this episode is Jowe Head, veteran of many groups and especially beloved by post-punk aficionados for his time in the legendary Swell Maps.
Now there’s a Two Tone museum in Coventry, here’s a celebration of the label and the original ska sound from Jamaica in the ’60s that inspired it.
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