30 years ago this week the 1992 Reading Festival took place, it was the year when Nirvana headlined and secured the festivals future for the next few decades. This show looks back at the festival and plays a selection of tracks performed over the weekend. Alongside Nirvana the festival had ...

This shows features plenty of new releases, reissues and gigs news. Plus there's a brief discussion of the recent Woodstock 1999 festival series on Netflix. Tracks played in the show include: White Flowers - Night DriveThe Cure - HighFloral Image - Dial InMark Peters - Switch On The SunJust Mustard ...

In this show we're heading back 30 years to 1992. Lots of the shoegaze and Manchester bands were still in full throttle after their initial success and despite the press turning to the USA following the success of Nirvana it was a year when some of the best records of ...

The summer of 2022 has seen record high temperatures this summer in the UK alongside being the driest on record. With the hot temperatures it makes you want to slow down and this show will hopefully help with this. Tracklisting for the show is below. Slowdive - Blue Skied N' ...

This show is a round-up of new and recent releases from July 2022. There's plenty of singles from forthcoming albums including Alvvays, The House of Love and Sonic Boom with Panda Bear. Then there's also tracks from recent albums including Launder, Ghost Woman, Horsegirl, Working Men's Club and Pye Corner ...

Post-rock is a name to described music that is played with rock instruments in an experimental way. The term wasn't created until 1994 when journalist Simon Reynolds wrote a review of the Bark Psychosis album Hex in Melody Maker. Over the years bands have tried to distance themselves from the ...

Whilst shoegaze bands released plenty of EPs there were still loads of quality tracks that were just tucked away as b-sides. This show is back to back b-sides, expect to hear tunes from the likes of Lush, Ride, The Radio Dept, Cocteau Twins, Adorable, My Bloody Valentine, DIIV, Chapterhouse, Sigur ...

Back in January 1992 the NME ran a front cover featuring LFO called Don't Fear The Bleeper. The cover showed the band smashing up guitars and highlighted a big move for the paper. Although it had covered acid house and hip-hop in the recent years the focus had very much ...

In this show we look at the latest music news, new releases and reissues. Expect to hear tunes from the likes of Business School, Horsegirl, Dummy, Just Mustard, Neu, XAM Duo, Pye Corner Audio, Under The Sun, Dean and Britta, HAAi, Poster Paints, Seagoth and Revolution Above Disorder ...

In this show we focus on dreampop which Wikipedia tells me "emphasizes atmosphere and sonic texture as much as pop melody." Expect to hear tunes from Lush, Cocteau Twins, Beach House, The Beach Boys, Low, Julee Cruise, Mazzy Star, Slowdive, Sigur Ros, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, The Duritti Column ...

This show is a round-up of new releases, reissues, gig news and any other general bits and bobs going on this month. Expect to hear tunes from Horsegirl, Sun's Signature, Mogwai, Bdrmm, A Place to Bury Strangers, Daniel Avery, Minor Victories, Eternal, Engineers, Ride, Warpaint and Hatchie ...

An hour of back to back tunes from the early 90s that were played in indie discos across the land. There was a time before Britpop and Mr Brightside when indie discos were blasting out music that was either fast or baggy, accompanied by the stench of stale lager and ...

Slowdive are returning to the live stage this week in Bath and to celebrate the show looks back at their career. Outside of the band they've released so much music over the last 30 years and I've tried to cover much of it in this show alongside a few Slowdive ...

This week pop pickers every song featured in the show has been a chart hit in the UK including 5 number one singles. However we aren't playing the original versions, all the songs have been covered by the usual bands we play on this show such as Lush, Ride, The ...

This show looks at the UK hidden psych scene of the late 80s as recently written about on Loud and Quiet. Bands like Loop, Spacemen 3, The Telescopes and Thee Hypnotics created a sound hugely influenced by Suicide, The Stooges and MC5. It was a natural progression following the success ...

This show looks at what has been going on in April with new releases, gigs and anniversaries. In this show we feature.... Adorable's incredible debut single Sunshine Smile turning 30.Ride have announced some reissues and a new compilation.Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai has announced his autobiography.Bdrmm have a new remix EP ...

There's been so many great live recordings of shoegaze bands over the years, whilst they were criticised for being static and staring at their shoes on stage, it was when they played live the true volume of their sound could be experienced. This show features a selection of tracks released ...

This show goes back to the mid-noughties as we look back at the revival of shoegaze. With the emergence of the internet there were various fan led scenes focusing on eras of music the press had previously written off, Nu gaze was the name given to the shoegaze revival, there ...