Rave Down Radio
First show after a couple of weeks off and there are plenty of new tunes to play. There’s also the incredible new album by Low. Their 13th album Hey What is our featured album of the week and one of the best, we play tracks throughout the show. There’s also new releases from the like […]
We go back to 1991 again this week as we visit one of the last great occasions of the original shoegaze era. Not only do Slowdive release their debut album Just For A Day but a whole bunch of groups play the Yamaha Band Explosion. Throughout the show we play tracks recorded at the event […]
The featured album of the week in this show is from Helen with their The Original Faces album. Helen was a one-off album from Liz Harris of Grouper released in 2015 on Kranky. Also on the show there’s plenty of new releases from Low, Dean Wareham, Mildred Maude, Penelope Isles and Deafheaven. There’s also the […]
We go back 2 years for our featured album of the week from Ride, their sixth album ‘This Is Not A Safe Place’ found them on top form and we play some tracks throughout the show. There were plenty of 30th anniversaries from Revolver, Mudhoney and Five Thirty as we look back at the music […]
This week’s show is packed with new releases and another look back at the music press in 1991. There’s also our usual featured album of the week which this time comes from Amusement Parks On Fire with their self-titled debut album from 2004. Looking back at this week in 1991 there is The Lilac Time, […]
We head back to 2003 in this week’s show for our featured album of the week. Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts was the second album by M83 and we play several tracks throughout the show. We also revisit the first airing of a tune from Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space […]
Thirty years ago this week, the shoegazing youth of 1991 decended on Slough for their 2nd annual festival in Upton Park. The show revists that event. The first Slough Festival in 1990 featured The Soup Dragons, Northside, The Cardiacs, Frank Sidebottom, Teenage Fanclub and Thousand Yard Stare. That first year wasn’t hugely attended, despite The […]
On Tuesday night (13th July 2021) Sennen hosted a Twitter Listening Party with Tim Burgess. This was to celebrate the reissue of the band’s debut album ‘Widows’ from 2005. When the album was released I was part of Hungry Audio who originally released the album, the band very kindly asked me to join them so […]
We travel back to 1990 for this week’s album of the week. It was to be the final album on 4AD for the Cocteau Twins and is often seen as their best. We play tracks from Heaven or Las Vegas throughout the show. There’s a 1994 Peel Session track from the Swirlies and the first […]
There’s been so many fantastic new releases recently we’ve pretty much dedicated the whole show to them this week. First up Daniel Avery releases his fourth solo album ‘Together In Static’ which follows his recent gigs and online stream from Hackney Church. Daniel continues to push the boundaries with the new album and we play […]