Rave Down Radio
Lots of new releases, reissues and gig news this week. Expect to hear the following tracks…. Sennen – FrancesDummy – Nine Clean NailsAlvvays – Archie, Marry MeDa Googie – Kiss Me My FoolSandy Posey – Single GirlJulie – CatalogueAlan Sparhawk – Can U HearEmma Anderson and Julia Holter – Taste The AirA Place To Bury […]
In this show we head back 20 years to 2004. It was the year that shoegaze was finally mentioned in the press again as new record labels and the club nights started. You can hear the following tracks in this hour. Low – CaliforniaThe Engineers – HomeMonster Movie – Letting You KnowAir Formation – Fallen […]
The first edition of Rave Down was broadcast on March 11th 2020. Looking back is pretty surreal as I remember talking at the station about what was happening in Italy at the time and hoping we wouldn’t go into lockdown. 12 days later we had the same restrictions placed on us in the UK and […]
It’s January with short cold days and next Monday is officially the most miserable day of the year so we’re going to take it easy this show by keeping things nice and slow. Expect to hear the following tunes: Spacemen 3 – So HotLove – AndmoreagainSimon Rowe – Over and OverTrespassers William – Vapour TrailSlowdive […]
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 […]