On my show this month:
With too many seeking to put barriers up at the moment, our show this month features a lot of people seeking to break them down, with commendable results. One of our two featured compilations comes from London's No Hats No Hoods who took a bunch of grime producers to Addis Ababa, supplied them with traditional Ethiopian instruments and shoved them in a recording studio. Meanwhile, our other featured comp. features recordings from Ukraine's dungeon rap scene, brought to us by Manchester's Natural Sciences label.
Barriers broken by our session guests this month are more likely to be sound ones as VX bring us the second instalment of exclusive tracks culled from recordings lovingly fashioned a few months ago. The new album from Poland's Nac/Hut Report is also likely to set brain and ears a-tremble in the most delightful way possible and there's loads of other new stuff, including albums from Mystica Tribe, Arthur & Martha and Nour plus singles from Oceans Over Alderaan, Neville Staple Band and Life As Surface Noise.
There's a slightly truncated Peel Back... section this month, essentially to accommodate so many new releases but if digging back into the past is your thing we do compensate with a track from the seventies courtesy of Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz, while The Unthanks cover Molly Drake and the veritable Bloomin' Nora try their hand at a T Rex classic.

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Biography:
My music-related activities over the years have been restricted to such peripheral activities as running a venue and attempting to manage a band to putting together radio shows variously named The A-Z of Punk, Idiot Jukebox and The Diamond Mine as well as masquerading as The Phantom Surfer to produce The History of Surf Music and unintentionally controversial hour-long documentary Surfin' East Kilbride, all of which have made appearances on various community radio stations over the years.

I'm the author of a book on John Peel's Festive Fifty called, with great imagination, The Festive Fifty. I edited a fanzine called The Backdoor in the late eighties, fronted a band called The Beached Whales that never got round to gigging and played amplifier lead and slides with a band who'd rather I didn't make my association with them public. I have what I believe is a healthy contempt for music journalism (even when it's good) and believe the best way to start a band is to put four people who can't play in a room with some second hand instruments, don't feed 'em and don't let them out until they've produced something great. I've tried it on several occasions and no one's died yet.

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