Category: Shownotes
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SnC 323 – Fruit de Mer
Fresh back from The Great Escape festival in Brighton this week’s show is a tasty selection of of the many and varied dishes available across some 30 venues in that buzzy city by the sea. It was my first full TGE and as a convention delegate. Some of the convention sessions were actually pretty relevant.…
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SnC 322 – Your Free Tu-tu
The halfway point in a frantically busy week. As you’ll hear I’ve been over to Southwold a couple of times since last week’s show and as soon as the red light goes off on SnC 322 I’m off to Brighton, on the south coast of England, for an intensive three days of music, panel sessions…
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SnC 321 – Stormin
News of the first release of the John Peel record collection coming online together with a selection of interesting tracks from artists around the world. “Maude” spent the day under a brooding grey sky and ended the day in torrential rain while the show was put together. Say Sayonara – JOANovArc(London, UK) Inspired by Saint…
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SnC 320 – Contrasts
This week’s show contains possibly one of the “quietest” tracks I’ve played and one of the “noisiest”. A week or so ago Suffolk was declared to be an official drought area. Today, warnings of flooding and the rain kept on falling. Such a lot of contrast. Also this week is a time for reflection on…
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SnC 319 – Blackbird “singing”
Oh, the joy of living with nature. A confused and very angry blackbird has a mate nesting in the end of the barn. He insists on picking fights with everyone else and the noise, quite frankly, annoys. Never mind, I hope you’ll find this weeks mix interesting, we’ve tracks from Spain, Iceland, Hungary, Italy and…
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SnC 318 – Kite flying
Music from Glasgow, London, Northampton MA, Seattle and Paris this week with a couple of specials including the result of the Adnams Artist of the Month. It was for the AOTM interview that I went over to Southwold this morning. A fabulous day of dramatic clouds, sudden showers and bright sunshine. The beach was awash…
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SnC 317 – Spring?
Well, it seemed like spring for a couple of days there. Hey ho. I suppose it will be back. A decent geographical and stylistic spread of music floated to the top again this week with tracks from The USA, Iceland, Germany and Canada. News of The Great Escape Festival in Brighton next month too. Come…
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SnC 316 – a bit retro
This week marks the conclusion of a project I’ve been working on at home here for the past year. A somewhat confused and frail older relative faced the prospect of being shipped out into a care home or staying on in her own home 80 miles away. Consequently we did the daft thing and set…
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SnC 315 – a many splendored thing
A bit of a late start this week with the record button being pressed at almost midnight. Actually, it is only just at the point where the environment is quiet enough to focus. There have been helicopters, builders and carpet-fitters around the place all day and then at dusk the frogs took over. This seems…
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SnC 314 – then two at once
OK, so the entire independent music business has migrated to Austin, Texas this week. Well, not quite. There are still a few of us suffering good home cooking, a decent pint of beer, grey skies and something of a chill. Plenty of tee-shirts in evidence this lunchtime onwww.earthcam.com/usa/texas/austin/as I record the show this evening. This…
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SnC 313 – Sick of party invitations
I’ve been getting a sudden gush of party invitations over the past couple of weeks but I’ve had to turn them down because, by strange coincidence, they are all in Austin, Texas. Yes, SXSW (South By South West)kicks off on Friday, with the music festival from 13-18 March so quite a few tracks this week are…
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SnC 312 – Ain’t communication wonderful?
Well, it’s been an interesting week complete with a bit of a panic last night entailing long calls to clinicians and a doctor visit at 2:30 am. This mean that I wasn’t able to record the show as usual on Wednesday and had to wait until this morning. Recording the show in daylight – novel!…