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It's 3 hours from Bottom of the Pops this month and as some have been complaining about leftist politics on the station I've made sure that this month's show has a Palestinian freedom song and a track by Kneecap who are turning out to be the best thing to have happened to rock'n'roll since the Sleaford Mods, even if I don't like all their tunes.
There's some acts with great names in this month's show ... Bleak Squad, Dj Die Soon, 3 Electro Knights & Erik Nervous to name a few.
We can't not remember the great Brian Wilson who I was lucky enough to see live soon after he came out of the Landy coma-zone. Once you listen to the tunes again it's not hard to see why they call him a genius and I'm still, after 1000's of listens, obsessed by 1968's "Do It Again" which squeezes as much pathos, yearning, memory and desire into its 2 minutes 19 seconds as a Tolstoy novel.
We've also got new releases by Whitney K, The Conspiracy, Ezra Furman and The Bug amongst others.
This month's particular obsession is Napalm Death teaming up with Thurston Moore to cover The Ramones' "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue". Too good to be true!
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Donovan - Tangier
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Powered by Audioscrobbler™Donovan Philips Leitch (born May 10, 1946 in Maryhill, Lanarkshire), better known as simply Donovan, is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and musician. Originally a '60s folk singer, as the decade progressed Donovan cultivated his own unique eclectic sound, mixing elements of folk, pop, jazz, world music and more, often with a twinge of psychedelia. His most well-known work was suffused with altruistic political overtones, making him an iconic figure of the "flower power" counter-culture of the '60s.

Donovan came to fame in Britain in early 1965 with a series of live performances on the television pop series, Ready Steady Go!. He first hit the charts in 1965 with his single "Catch the Wind", continuing on with a string of hits, most of them produced by Mickie Most. Donovan's 1966 Sunshine Superman marked not only a transition to the burgeoning psychedelic scene, but is also viewed as a formative album in its genre, inspiring countless contemporaries. His 1967 double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden—the first major album released as a boxed set—completed the transition from beat poet folkster to hippie troubadour.

As a close friend of The Beatles, he traveled with them to India during their stay at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and taught them the "clawhammer" finger-picking style, which is featured on several tracks on their seminal 1968 double album The Beatles, better known as "The White Album."

The decline of Donovan's commercial popularity coincides roughly with his split from Most in 1969, as well as gradually lessened interest in psychedelics by artists and the record-buying public alike. With the advent of punk rock during the mid-'70s, Donovan, now viewed as a "nice boy" '60s relic, truly fell from favor. Music critics' tastes too had changed; Donovan's new product, while still quirky and experimental, earned little but scorn and derision. As the decades progressed, Donovan would record and perform only sporadically, often separated by several years.

Donovan's career went through a revival of sorts with the emergence of Britain's rave scene in the '90s. As a result, his most famous works were reissued, and once again viewed favorably by critics. With the release of the back-to-basics Rick Rubin-produced Sutras in 1996, Donovan's career settled into a comparatively steady stream of new releases, coupled with archival material and various reissues. He was inducted into the Rock and Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Before that we played:
Alien Nose Job - Family Dinner
Mfongozi Guitar Players - Marabi Jazz
The Dagenites - I'm Gone Slide
Xray Xeroxx - Johnny Rotten Is A Fascist Pig
The Conspiracy - Digital
Falcons - Perdido En El Universo (1978)
The Beach Boys - Barbara Ann