Following Record Store Day this show features the Pale Saints compilation Mrs Dolphin as the featured album of the week. The album was originally released in Japan only and has never been pressed on vinyl before. We play several tracks from the album including Colours and Shapes that has never ...

On last week's show we discussed the 1990 Reading Festival so this week I decided we'd have a break from the usual show to run down the 1990 Festive Fifty. You'll hear standout tracks from the like of My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Boo Radleys, Sonic Youth and a few ...

The latest show features Methodrone by the Brian Jonestown Massacre as the Album of the Week. Released exactly 25 years ago this week. Also on the show we have new releases from I Like Trains, Secret Machines, bdrmm, Ceremony and Dean & Britta. We also remember the 1990 Reading Festival ...

Slowdive's third album Pygmalion is the featured album of the week. Released in 1995 at the height of Britpop, the album sounds absolutely nothing like other albums of the year with an ambient and experimental approach. Pygmalion is a timeless album. There's also a Peel Session track from Broadcast recorded ...

This week's show features Ringo Deathstarr with their 2011 album Colour Trip as our featured album of the week. Chapterhouse are live at the Marquee in London recorded in 1991. There's a John Peel session track from The Telescopes recorded in May of 1989. Also on the show there's the ...

Our album of the week is from Seefeel, Quique was released in 1993 on Too Pure. The album adds ambient and dub sounds alongside shoegaze and dreampop elements. You can hear recent releases by Vinyl Williams, the Flaming Lips, Andy Bell, Tennis System and the BMX Bandits with Anton Newcombe ...

This show features the soundtrack album to Lost in Translation as our album of the week. We'll be playing tracks from The Jesus & Mary Chain, Death In Vegas and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine. Also on the show we'll be playing new tracks by Zoon, EEP, Archie Sagers, ...

This show is the second and final part of our exploration into the world where shoegaze meets electronic music. Our guest on the show is Joe Clay of the Bytes and we discuss and play tunes by Kelly Lee Owens, Daniel Avery, Future Sound of London, Seefeel, Global Communocation, Chapterhouse, ...

For this week's show I am joined by journalist, blogger, label owner of Bytes and shoegazer... Joe Clay. This is the first of two shows where we explore the relationship between electronic music and shoegaze. We discuss and play tracks by the likes of Glok, Slowdive, Ulrich Schnauss, Casino Versus Japan and ...

Another week, another show and on this one we celebrate Adorable's debut album from 1993. Against Perfection was the right album released at the wrong time to be successful, too late to be part of the Shoegaze scene and too early (and too good) for Britpop! Netherless it's a great ...

This week's show features the debut album from BDRMM as our album of the week. Bedroom is one of the most exciting debut albums in recent times and we play a couple of tracks. We also preview a track from the forthcoming Dissident Remixed album by Glok due out in ...

On the show this week our featured album is Spooky by Lush. Released in the spring of 1992 a whole 2.5 years after their debut EP, Spooky is one of the definitive albums of the era. We play a couple of tracks from the album. There's a live track from ...

On this week's show our featured album of the week was from DIIV. Released in 2016 their second longplayer Is The Is Are was a double album from a band that was struggling at the time dealing with drug issues. It's an album that even the band never knew if ...

The latest radio show features The Engineers 2005 debut as our featured album of the week and we play a couple of tracks from the album and brioefly discuss the NuGaze scene created by the NME. We also have a bunch of electronic tracks with Ulrich Schnauss covering a Slowdive ...

On this week's show our featured album of the week is the 2007 debut from Fields. Everything Last Winter was released on Atlantic Records and blended shoegaze with folk. Also on the show we have the Andy Bell (Ride) remix of the latest BDRMM single. We play a John Peel ...

This appearance by The Pale Saints on the BBC2 alternative music TV show Snub was broadcast the same month the band's debut album was released ...

This week's show covers a mixture of old and new releases. Album of The Week is The Jesus & Mary Chain's Darklands from 1987, we play a couple of the tracks from the album during the show. There's new releases by Dean & Britta alongside the Stephen Morris remix of ...

Disclaimer: I first wrote this blog post back in 2010 so some details may be incorrect/out-of-date especially as a lot of these bands are now touring again. 1992. This was the year Reading went BIG!!! I first went in 1988 and it was utter rubbish. We all went just to ...