Episode 69 - Ireland (in honour of St Patrick's Day)

Pour yourself a pint of Guinness and enjoy the best of Irish music from the last 50 years. For a full tracklist, please divert here.

A tour through the byways of Irish alternative music over the last half century. From Stiff Little Fingers to Girl Band via Ash and Whipping Boy; The Pogues to Newdad via Stump - and all points in between.

Episode 68 - Wales (celebrating St David's Day)

Diwrnod hapus St David’s! And to celebrate the Welsh contribution to contemporary music, listen in to some classic alt Welsh tracks on our St David’s Day special. For a full tracklist, please divert here.

From John Cale to the Manics, Anhrefn via the Darling Buds, Colossal Youth through Gorky's to Derrero and Steveless, a celebration of Welsh music.

Episode 67 - "This is the Real Indie" - The Millennial NY Scene

You simply can’t get more authentically indie than the group of bands that coalesced in New York/Long Island around the turn of the century. The Strokes? No - way cooler. For a full tracklist, please divert here.

If you're looking for the real indie, here's the NY/Long Island scene that flourished at the turn of the century. Real authentic, real indie, real cool.

Episode 66 - Remembering The Fall 3 years on

3 years already! It’s never too soon with the musical retrospectives when it comes to The Fall. So here it is. For a full tracklist, please divert here.

Three years ago this week we lost Mark E Smith. Here's a tribute to the music of the man and the music of his group, The Fall.

Episode 65 - Proto-punk

The garage band garageland sounds that flourished round the world between the mid 60s and the mid 70s. Punk before it was punk. For a full tracklist, please divert here.

Punk before punk - how punk is that. AKA garage rock or, as this episode's title has it, proto-punk.

Episode 64 - Women to Watch 2021

The start of a new year and a chance to listen in to which women we should be watching in the months ahead. For a full tracklist, please divert here.

A chance to hear some of the new female artists destined to make waves on the 2021 alternative music scene.

Episode 63 - Best of 2020, Part Two, Numbers 12-1

The second of two episodes featuring the ‘best’ music of 2020. In Ian’s opinion, at least. For a full tracklist, please divert here.

A round up of the 12 "best" alternative tracks of 2020. Sombrero Fallout bears no responsibility for the absence of your favourite band, and listeners do so at their own discretion.

Episode 62 - Best of 2020, Part One, Numbers 25-13

The year might have been unhinged, but there’s always music to save us. Part One of two episodes reflecting on Music in the Time of The Pandemic. For a tracklist, please divert here.

The first of two episodes curating some of the best alternative tracks of 2020.

Episode 61 - The Go Betweens and their Influence

This is the place to start when talk turns to the best Australian bands. A Go Betweens episode: classic cuts from Grant and Robert, plus the groups they influenced. For a full tracklist, please divert here.

The Go Betweens - the greatest of all Australian bands? Decide for yourself in this episode, paying tribute to the iconic Brisbane outfit and the groups they influenced.

Episode 60 - Dub and its Post-Punk Influence

This episode celebrates a wholly benevolent infection of the late ‘70s, when post-punk bands listened to pioneers of dub reggae from Jamaica, liked what they heard, and incorporated elements from it into their hybridised sound. For a tracklist, please divert here.

A look at the link between the original early '70s dub reggae artists, such as Lee Perry and Augustus Pablo, and their influence on the original late '70s and early '80s post-punk bands.