On my show this month:
This month X-Ray Moon completes his two-parter dedicated to The Velvet Underground and the spirals that circled around and beyond them.
This, in total (with last month's show: PART 1) two hour special is due to the fact that sixty years ago, in 1966, the Velvet Underground began recording tracks for what would become their first album: 'The Velvet Underground & Nico', released in 1967.
Such an important music group were they, that it would have felt incongruous to have let such a pivotal moment, anniversary, in music history to pass unmarked.
X-Ray Moon hopes everyone enjoys the show... and suggests that maybe people play this month's show along with last month's show, back to back... or even back to front... or even... upside down:
"What goes on in your mind makes me feel I'm upside down"

This is: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND ETCETERA - PART 2

(other specials by X-Ray Moon include programmes on: CAN; Nirvana; Protest Songs; East German Music; The Jam, etc...)

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Biography:

Music both old and new. My tendency has always been to be attracted to the 'different', the other, the subversive… something that in one way or another challenges authority or orthodoxy and somehow attempts to shape wider society. Whether that be Punk, two-tone, Krautrock, Rai… etc.
In addition to that though I quite simply enjoy discovering the new, the different and the strange. Sounds, voices and atmospheres from around this small globe we call home are what excite me...
Over the years I have lived in many different countries, and wherever I was John Peel was the background, for many years, that aurally lit-up my adventures. He so perfectly reminded us that the quality, importance and worth of something has nothing to do with its 'popularity', and more to do with how it breaks down barriers and makes the complacent feel uncomfortable. How music at its best can be so much more than just a wallpaper-friendly pop song. So, then, eternal thanks to John Peel, who helped mould many of us…
Plus, thanks for listening. It is a great pleasure and joy to bring these shows to you; I hope you enjoy what you hear.

Tracklistings and listen again to the previous shows: