Rave Down Radio
Lots of new releases, reissues and classics in this hour. This show features the following tracks: The Morning After Girls – Shadows EvolveDrop Nineteens – Scapa FlowWhitelands – The Prophet and ISlowdive – Andalucia PlaysPale Saints – FeatherframesFilm School – Tape RewindSennen – Laid OutCandy Claws – Distortion SpearAndy Bell and Masal – HallogalloSwans – […]
Plenty of gig news and some new releases and classics. Tracks in this show are: The House of Love – I Don’t Know Why I Love YouLoop – FermionMaps – Witchy FeelThe KLF – What Time Is LoveEternal – SleepAir Formation – Daylight StormsSennen – St JudeMoon Diagrams – NightmovesPrimal Scream – Gentle TuesdayJames Holden […]
Last week was Independent Music Venue week and BBC 6Music were broadcasting live from Norwich Arts Centre as part of the celebrations. Steve Lamacq was at the venue and discussing live on the radio the many bands who’d played there over the years. For this show I thought it’d be good to look at some […]
Post-rock is a name to described music that is played with rock instruments in an experimental way. The term wasn’t created until 1994 when journalist Simon Reynolds wrote a review of the Bark Psychosis album Hex in Melody Maker. Over the years bands have tried to distance themselves from the term ‘post-rock’ just like many […]
As Britain is battered by storms, we spend an hour in the calm of an ambient mixtape. Very few drums and vocals feature throughout, but whilst the music may be very different the artists remain the same. Artists featured in this show include Ride, Global Communication, Chapterhouse, Mark Peters, Brian Eno, Daniel Avery, Slowdive, Biosphere, […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]