On my show this month:
Only an April fool would choose to miss this month's show. I'll be taking a look at a few of this year's quirkier Record Store Day releases, including a fried egg edition of "This Is Eggland" by The Lovely Eggs and a hippo picture disc from Sparks .
In "Secret Songs From The Sixties" I've chosen two cuts from the recently released "Fool's Paradise Favourites" compilation, courtesy of fellow freeform station WFMU. And for "Soundtracks of the Strange", I've appropriately picked a piece from the "Stranger Things" TV series, along with a track from the 2016 weird black comedy "The Greasy Strangler" by Andrew Hung from Fuck Buttons .
To celebrate the recent deluxe reissues of "Please" and "Actually" by the Pet Shop Boys, I'll be bringing you four cover versions of PSB hits as you've never heard them before, from a metal version of "West End Girls" by GWAR to an anarchic punky take on "Rent" by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine . All this plus plenty of very recent or brand spanking new tunes including former Cuban Boys members Spray and Japan's crazy Otoboke Beaver .
In the words of the late, great Jim Bowen, hopefully you'll think these two hours are super, smashing, great.
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Biography:
In my teens I was an avid listener of Peel plus Mark & Lard and always wished I could play obscure songs at the wrong speed and utter some nonsense into a microphone. This sort of happened in my twenties when I accidentally stumbled into DJing at Moles Club in Bath for their regular Thursday nights called 'Purr'. From 2000 - 2009 I had the opportunity to play whatever I liked inbetween the live bands and witnessed early gigs from the likes of Art Brut, The Futurheads, Gossip, The Long Blondes, Los Campesinos and Wild Beasts, all playing in this tiny venue with me constantly pushing my way through the drum kit to get myself back into the DJ booth! I later became a promoter there myself and booked mostly bands who disappeared off the face of the earth, but I did manage to book a then unknown Metronomy for £60! When I eventually threw in the promoter towel at Moles club, I ended on a high by booking the late great Frank Sidebottom. Yes, I did get to see him without his head on! But he wouldn't let the support bands see him!!
I very occasionally continue to promote gigs in Bristol under the name 'Go Ape', with shows including The Lovely Eggs, Piney Gir, The Thyme Machine, Tunabunny, Sam Coomes (Quasi) and co-promoting Damnably shows with Shonen Knife and Otoboke Beaver. I'm also a keen collector of Indie/Alternative Christmas records, and in recent years I've helped to compile the annual Indie compilation CD 'A Very Cherry Christmas' for small DIY label Cherryade Records (the label who originally released the first two Lovely Eggs albums).
Wanting to get into radio but not really sure how to go about it, a few years ago I started making an occasional podcast. It's imaginatively called 'Radio Radio' (yes, after the Elvis Costello song) and I've interviewed bands/artists including Allo Darlin, Bis, Helen Love, Kid Carpet, Momus, Paul Guided Missile's Dream Themes band, The Spook School, They Might Be Giants and more. You can find them at podomatic.com/podcasts/radioradiopodcast
Outside of music, I've sometimes been known to review new crisp flavours on my facebook page and I collect toy robots (although the shelves are now getting a bit too full for many more). I live with my suffering girlfriend Becky and Lily our cat.
Tracklistings for my previous shows:
03/2018 -
12/2017
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