Rave Down Radio
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 […]
The new album from Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters is our featured album in this show. Destiny Waiving was released last week and is the third album from the duo. We play tracks from the album throughout the show. There’s also the chance to hear plenty of new releases from the likes of Glok, Penelope […]
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 […]