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The rather wonderul EEP have been running various twitter polls over the last few weeks to find the best shoegaze release for each year since 1988. The shortlist for each year was picked by their followers to go into a poll and the winners are all listed below and rather fine they are. I think […]
It’s that time of year again where you hear the same songs in every shop and on every commercial radio station. We hear them every year and those songs by Shakin’ Stevens, Mariah Carey, Slade, etc… can really drive you mad. For this week’s show there’s a selection of alternative Christmas tunes to make the […]
In this show we look back at the Minor Victories album of 2016. A collaboration between Rachel from Slowdive, Stuart from Mogawi, Justin from Editors and his brother James. We’ll be playing a selection of tunes from the album throughout the show including their collaboration with James from The Twilight Sad. Also on the show […]
It’s not often I’ll have a ‘featured album of the week’ that has made the national top 20 album charts on both sides of the Atlantic, but Beach House achieved just that with their album 7. Released in May 2018 and co-produced with Sonic Boom, the album was (unsurprisingly) their seventh and their best since […]
26th November 2000 was the date I first launched the www.creation-records.com website. The month before there were two books and a compilation album on the subject of Creation Records released but there was still very little information about the music online. The legacy Creation left is probably bigger now than it was in 2000. […]
30 years is a bit of a theme this week… firstly it was November 1990 when Galaxie 500 released their final album This Is Our Music and toured the UK. That album is our featured album of the week and we play several tracks during the show. It’s also 30 years since Heavenly Records launched […]
Another show packed with new releases and classics this week. The featured album of the week comes from Swervedriver, nearly 30 years after those early EPs they released their sixth album Future Ruins on the Rock Action label. We play several tracks from the album throughout the show. There’s new releases from Daniel Avery, White […]
What a week… a new lockdown in England, the US elections and the announcement that The Boo Radleys are (kind of) returning. Sice Boo & The Radleys have announced a gig next autumn and whilst we have no idea what their setlist will include, no doubt it will focus on the later chart hits, we […]
The clocks went back this weekend as British Summer Time drew to a close so I picked one of my favourite albums of all time as the featured album of the week to cheer myself up. Spacemen 3’s Playing With Fire was the soundtrack to the summer of 1989 for me and still sounds mesmerising […]
This show features The Radio Dept’s debut Lesser Matters as the album of the week, we play a selection of tracks. We also look back at the 30th anniversary of Ride’s debut album Nowhere and the tour which included support slots from Bleach and Slowdive. Creation Records signings Meat Whiplash are in session for the […]