Great new music from independent labels and artists all around the world

We had summer in the UK over the past week. Perfect for a visit to the circus. Well, not just the circus but the Insect Circus, hugely entertaining if a little frightening for some of the children in the audience.  It’s OK you’re grown up so I’m sure you will enjoy it. Take a look…

A mixed bag of styles this week from New York, New Jersey, Berlin, Jamaica, Colombia, France and Leicester, here in the UK. I experimented with a video tweet from Tweetie at the end of the show. You may well find it at: http://yfrog.us/13gewz if you really want to. I don’t know how long it will…

A right old mix of tuneage this week with couple of blues tracks, dub de France, straight on rock from New Jersey and the original Cambridge and Norfolk here in the UK, Zydeco from Louisiana, African sounds from northwest London and a little treat for you from Mexico. Joey Nightmare (photo by JC) showed their…

Some excellent new music again this week, mostly from the USA and the UK with a timely intervention from Jamaica.The show was recorded a few hours early this week as I’m off to London to see Jessie before she heads off to Ibiza and we’ll almost certainly check out the Get Wanted night at Mother…

A great mix of music this week from Wales, Italy, France, Israel, England, Philadelphia, Zimbabwe, Toronto and Bergen in Norway. Quite a mix of styles and a feature on an amazing collaboration project.Despite cold winds over the past week or so, one of the wild ducks was spotted on the top pond with her brood…

A small experiment this week and next in that I’ll be including reports on music developments and people that I’ve come across. Please let me know what you think. No chance to grab a picture this week but I did have a look through some of the stuff from Long Island and quite liked this…

Remix is a bit of a theme this week, with a couple of very interesting initiatives encouraging you to have a crack at "the dark art".After a false start to the Kerplunk (our own form of free-style Pétanque) season at the Three Horseshoes pub in Charsfield last week, we are hoping for less rain tomorrow…

A rather quirky show with some great tunes from around the world.Having said, in the show, that spring had arrived in Suffolk, I’m now frantically trying to get the show uploaded before the current thunderstorm knocks the power out completely. UPS has been working every few minutes so I’ve not lost everything … yet. This…

Recovery from Podcrawl is progressing as quickly as can be expected. The day started wonderfully well for Jeremy G and I at the very welcoming Market Coffee House near Spitalfields Market in London. Apparently a former market pub (from when Spitalfields was a proper market with pubs all around to quench the thirst of market…

My thanks to Pete Cogle for pointing out that I’d left the MP3 file out when publishing the show last night. Doh! It is in now but if you subscribe to the show and found 161 a bit quiet, you may need to download it again. Sorry. PS Thanks to Graham Holland for posing for…

I’m back from The Bahamas and still somewhat jetlagged after 18 hours or so travelling including an almost sleepless red-eyed special trans-Atlantic flight. Yes, the sea really was that clear and an amazing colour. From the position of the rudder on the wreck of the Imperial, the final command was probably "left hand down a…

A rather different sort of show from Long Island in the Bahamas so it just seems right to pull up a selection of Caribbean feeling tunes off my MacBook, even if most of it originates in Europe. I think it is all available from Jamendo at www.jamendo.comThis week’s show has, I suppose, been part sponsored…