Rave Down Radio
Every year we hear the same old songs, whilst for some people this brings them real joy hearing Wham! and Slade again for others there is a sense of dread about hearing the same tunes again and again. Hoping to offer some kind of alternative, this show features a selection of Christmas tunes to soundtrack […]
What a rollercoaster of a year, personally it had plenty of twists and turns and with another variant and a lockdown looming it seems 2021 is the year that will keep on giving until the end. However there was plenty of good music released during the year and this show runs through some of the […]
2021 saw the 30th anniversary of shoegaze, first mentioned in a news story about Slowdive in May 1991 and within months all across the music press. Whilst the roots of shoegaze date back to the 1960s these shows play a track a year since the name/genre was born, from My Bloody Valentine’s groundbreaking Loveless in […]
This show is the usual round-up of new releases, anniversaries and news. We play tracks from the new Beach House album announced for February, released in chapters, we play a selection from chapter one. Andy Bell has announced he’s playing some gigs early next year and he’ll be at Chelmsford, Colchester and Ipswich. Lewsbery were […]
The recent Rough Trade session by Sennen is being released on Sonic Cathedral as the Transmissions EP, featuring mainly tracks from their debut Widows album alongside a Big Star, we play several tracks throughout the show. There’s also new releases from Spiritualized, Seagoth, Grouper, Blushing, HOO, Kelly Lee Owens and Daniel Avery. Tracklisting Seagoth – […]
When a band recorded a John Peel session it was always an exciting moment for a fan as you got to hear either new material or a different take of previously released track. The sessions were often as close to hearing the band live as you could get as there was no studio trickery. Like […]
With the announcement that Ride are to take their (belated) Nowhere 30th anniversary tour on the road next year we’ll be playing tracks from their debut as our featured album of the week. The band will be playing Norwich Waterfront on April 22nd 2022 as part of a nationwide tour. There’s also the usual mixture […]
We have another new release as our featured album this week. Dummy’s incredible debut album Mandatory Enjoyment is released on Friday (22nd October) on Trouble In Mind and we feature tracks throughout the show. There’s also a live track from Sennen taken from their forthcoming Transmissions EP recorded for Rough Trade and released next month […]
On this show we previewed Dean Wareham’s first new album in seven years called ‘I Have Nothing To Say To The Mayor of LA’ which is released on Friday. You can hear tracks throughout the show. We also travel back 30 years ago this week to a small festival that happened in Paris and went […]
From Manchester in the mid-80s, Magic Roundabout have waited over three decades for the songs they recorded to finally be released. Up was recently remastered after Ian Masters from The Pale Saints discovered their old recordings from 1987 and they’re finally released on Jack White’s Third Man Records. During their original run they played gigs […]