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The featured album on this show is Psiconáutica, the 2016 album by Linda Guilala. The 20 track longplayer was released on Elefant and is one of the best shoegaze albums of the 2010s. We play tracks from the album throughout the show. There’s a John Peel Session track from Thee Hypnotics recorded in March 1989. […]
We’re heading back 30 years for this weeks show, between the 18th and 20th January 1991 Radio One booked out Wembley Arena for the Great British Music Weekend. The event was broadcast live on Radio One and filmed as part of the Brit Awards that year. Organised by Jonathan King who was a big champion […]
We go all the way back to 1984 for this week’s featured album of the week. It’ll End In Tears was a huge independent album upon it’s release. The project of Ivo Watts-Russell and a whole host of guests including the Cocteau Twins. The album spent 35 weeks in the UK Independent charts and the […]
Happy New Year and welcome to our first show of 2021. The featured album of the week in this show seems to be an album that was massively ovberlooked at the time but is often on my turntable. Black Hearted Brother was a change of direction for Neil Halstead after his solo and Mojave 3 […]
This week’s show is a mixtape to celebrate the new year with no geeky facts or waffling from me, just back to back tunes. All killer, no filler! The tracklisting for the mixtape is: Ulrich Schnauss – Clear Day My Bloody Valentine – Soon (Andrew Weatherall remix) Glok – Dissident (Richard Sen remix) The Early […]
If 1990 was the year of Madchester, 1991 was the year of shoegaze. In 12 short months the scene was created and killed off by the UK music press. As the year started NME gave their tips for the top 20 bands to break through, the list is actually very different to what you’d expect. […]
2020 stopped us all in our tracks which has made music so much more important. Below is a round-up of the best tunes of the year from me, all of which you’d have heard on the radio show. Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini – Illusion of Time This sounds just so incredibley moving when you’ve […]
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 […]