It’s no surprise people who write songs also write letters, read books, and have attended libraries. Here’s a happy collision of the two - songs about all three. For a tracklist, please divert here.
Episode 88 - Is modern life rubbish?
Haircut not quite what you wanted? Supermarket run out of pine nuts? Modern life sure is rubbish! For a full tracklist, please divert here.
Episode 87 - Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire (1956-2021) - A Tribute
Another musical visionary leaves the scene, far too young. Richard H Kirk along with his Cabaret Voltaire bandmates, was a primary architect behind today’s electronic music, as this episode amply demonstrates. For a full tracklist, please divert here.
Episode 86 - Guest Host Pinko Fowler
From the Pixies to Sonic Youth to the Fall to Nick Cave to the Go-Betweens to Cabaret Voltaire to Pulp and on it goes - guest host Pinko Fowler has shot them all and become friends with most of them too. Plus he founded Snub TV, the premier UK indie music show of the early ‘90s. Not too shabby a CV. For a full tracklist, please divert here.
Episode 85 - Covers from another genre
From vocoders through dub to folk and country, here are some radical and mind expanding reinterpretations of various classic tracks. For a full tracklist, please divert here.
Episode 84 - Lee 'Scratch' Perry (1936-2021); A Tribute
Celebrating the music, the production and the visionary spirit of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, genius architect behind the reggae and dub we know and love. For a full tracklist, please divert here.
Episode 83 - Guest Host Andrew McLelland
A blast co-hosting this episode with Andrew. Indie, shoe gaze, post-punk and post-rock, yes - but our first sea shanty on top. For a full tracklist, please divert here.
Episode 82 - Confessional Songs
Confessionals? Personal outpourings? Subjective reflections? It’s hard to find the right description. Whatever the term, a highly enjoyable collection. For a full tracklist, please divert here.
Episode 81 - The Sparks Brothers
50 years of the Brothers Mael and the groups they influenced. For a full tracklist, please divert here.
Episode 80 - 50 Years of Music's Most Influential Riff
Where did the descending riff - G, F#, E - first surface? Why has it proved so enduring? Here we play the original and pay tribute to its influence. For a full tracklist, please divert here.