On my show this month:
There's always a danger, in the month of a Half Man Half Biscuit album release that I'll simply put it on repeat and listen to nothing else. Thankfully, the sheer number of great albums around at the moment means there's no danger of that so, in addition to something predictably wonderful from the Biscuits, there are tracks from Earl Sixteen , Tian Qiyi , Stereolab and Herman Dune , among others.
As I've decided by now that the McLusky album is the release against which all else in 2025 must be measured, there's more from that too, and we have new singles from the likes of Zoom Unit and Swansea Sound , plus Darren Hayman trying his hand at a Madonna tune.
As usual, we Peel Back... for a few great tunes from the session archives, which is incidentally where Orbital have unearthed yet another fabulous reissue. We've also got another remix of a Children Of The Bong track and a couple of timely tributes to the majesty of Brian Wilson and Sly Stone.
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Email:
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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 and a novel that is nothing at all to do with music ... called Balls. 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.
Tracklistings and listen again to the previous shows:
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