On my show this month:
This month's show features an excellent exclusive session from Alexei Shishkin , featuring not only a wonderful cover of a much-loved Microdisney song but another track that's unlikely to be heard anywhere else, in any form.
In addition to that we have tracks from new albums by The Beths , Osees, Richard Quirk and Bloodshot Bill , among others, plus new singles from The Cords , Burial and Cornershop .
There's more from the excellent Public Enemy and Half Man Half Biscuit albums plus something from the new Eamon the Destroyer album, destined to join them in my personal list of 2025 favourites. Peel Back..., as usual, reintroduces us to tunes featured in session in John Peel's shows 50, 40 and 30 years ago this month.
On the show NEXT month:
This month's show features an exclusive session from Tiberius as well as the usual line-up of recent and new releases, including albums from the likes of Prolapse , Shame, Diane Marie Kloba , Max Rael and The Beths, plus new singles from Babe Roots and The Cords, among others.
Some of our favourite labels of recent times have delivered some great releases of late, as is their wont, including Libertino and Lavender Sweep, Skep Wax, God Unknown, Bearsuit and Blue Tapes.
We've also got a couple of great reissues featuring Zig-Zag Band and Rapture and, naturally, our regular Peel Back... feature documenting some of the tunes that lit up the Peel universe 50, 40 and 30 years ago this month.
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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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