Category: Shownotes

Suddenly there’s a great rush of really good new music on the PMN and here’s the best of it interspersed with a few independent gems on Suffolk ‘n’ Cool.I dashed up to Manchester after the show so here’s a picture of a very dull late afternoon looking over the Salford Quays from my 7th floor…

Intro Happy – Jimmie Bratcher (Missouri, USA)www.jimmiebratcher.comFabulous moon rise last night (right). Mustang Daddy – Jinx Titanic (Chicago, Illinois, USA)Former front-man and song-writer for the legendary Chicago based Super 8 Cum Shot, Jinx Titanic is known for his "whip-smart lyrics, straight-ahead style, and raucous live shows, JINX TITANIC supplies the world with 100% XXX Pure…

Aren’t you dead yet? – Denada (Plymouth, UK)two guitars, a bass, some drums and some shoutingwww.denada.co.ukIntro – Happy – Jimmie Bratcherwww.jimmiebratcher.comGimme this Life – Cara Robinson (Leeds, UK)Keeper Lit is Cara’s impressive debut album, which she wrote and produced with keyboard player Joe Tatton. The closeness of the band has been established over years of…

Strange goings on with the Podshow servers. They normally dish up the podsafe music for me to listen to on your behalf with unfailing loyalty. But not today. All is running painfully slow but fortunately I had almost a show-worth of music already lined up. I must have been very good at sometime in this…

The first Session at the Barn from the home of Suffolk ‘n’ Cool.It has always been the plan to make fuller use of the barn to promote independent music.I don’t yet know how frequently it will be possible to put shows together for you but you can be sure there is plenty of enthusiasm here.My…

Suffolk ‘n’ Cool takes a rather-more-laid-back-than-normal turn this week – probably in the wake of too much excellent beer at The Three Horseshoes last night! I must admit that some of the tracks featured may not have normally been selected but in a way that’s for the best as it gives us something else to…

A right old mix of music from California, New Jersey, New York and British Columbia then across the Atlantic for a couple of tracks from good old Blighty. By the skin of our teeth we just managed to avoid a session on the spoons from my chum Rob Martin who just popped up on Skype…

Having spent most of yesterday afternoon in a coffee shop prepping the show I realise that a lot of the music reflects the caffine levels – so a lively show from the start this week!Look at the face on you – The Marla’s (UK)The Marla’s choppy guitars, dirty bass lines, pounding drums and spitting vocals…

Quite a bit of unashamed pop in this week’s mix along with a few other tunes that I wouldn’t really expect to hear on my show. But that’s what about, listening with fresh ears. Sometimes it’s very new music which we need to focus on and sometimes it’s music in styles that we’d normally dismiss…

A very different show this week just one artist in a 20 minute feature.Foy Vance made a memorable appearance at the Arts Centre in Norwich in the spring and wowed a sell-out crowd with his passionate singing and his alternating lyrical and percussive guitar style.I had the good fortune to be there and to talk…

A formidable selection of music this week from New York, Hawaii, France, Italy and Australia. First, Lame Duck from Finland. OK so the viral cough is retreating a bit so hopefully back to normal soon. A few fairly appropriate song titles may help: Rolling with the punches, Pieces of me and Eucalyptus! Rolling with the…

I’m afrad the virus is still doing it’s best to screw things up – still, at least it’s affecting me rather than the computer and I should be fine (self-cured) in a another week or two.Summer Rain – Steffen Coonan & Kate Power (Clonmel, Ireland)Steffen ia a producer of all genres and always open for…