Episode 12 of Fresh Ingredients is now up on Mixcloud! Click click click! Songs from some of the finest, smartest, saddest, sweetest indie popstrels in the business. Includes some lovely, doleful, jangly treats www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

I hope you've all had a nice Sunday. This last track was suggested by my friend @luetgewatz.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago and it took me a while to track it down! It's great - The Red Balloon by Crockett and Jones. Not the shoemaker. Thanks for listening x x x www.discogs.com/fr/release/7...

I watched @dreamcoasterband.bsky.social play a super show in Brighton on Friday. This track was the highlight. From their recent LP Imaginary Reflections, this is 'Dancing To Your Favourite Song'. dreamcoaster.bandcamp.com/album/imagin...

A nice acoustic take on Ballboy's 'Sex Is Boring' follows, from 2001. "Take me back to your room Tie me up and strip me naked And lie me on your floor And then you'll see that sex is boring with me" Great song!

If you blinked you might have missed it, but Love, Burns uploaded a mini-LP on Friday. It was available for a day & accordingly they've made it private now. A shame as it's lovely. Currently playing a track, Northern Line, which oviously I can't link to! But this show will be up on Mixcloud tomoz.

Next up, this lovely track by Victoria is a long-standing favourite. Somewhere in the sweet spot between The Go Betweens and The Auteurs. Which is a very sweet spot indeed (though arguably that's The Servants, thinking about it) victoriatheband.bandcamp.com/album/treats...

This is a really great new track by @genevadrive3.bsky.social Such a perfectly judged piece; those keyboard sounds! That loping beat. Perfect perfect. genevadrive.bandcamp.com/album/sub-rosa

I'd be pretty happy if someone ever said that Assistant sound a bit like an English version on Lewberg. It has crossed my mind, occasionally. lewsberg.bandcamp.com/album/out-an...

That light, dubby beauty is from the new @slowcountry.bsky.social mini-LP, which is lovely as ever. Here's what I said about their previous LP in my fanzine, In The April Sun. thisisslowcountry.bandcamp.com/album/differ...

The flood of releases from Hurry Up, Gregory has, alas, come to an end with the most recent & final release on Bandcamp. Not sure what that means for other things on the Back To Somerset "label". I am deeply appreciative of what they've shared. This, currently playing on my radio show, is a beauty.

Quite a fews songs this week that could pass for Belle & Sebastian through a thick wall. I love the new LP by Queen Midas, from which this is drawn. It seems oddly below the radar on Bandcamp - can I humbly recommend it?

Currently playing my own band with no apologies! When I played Anne-Sophie this song - Sean from The Photocopies' mix of her song Overwhelming - she gasped and said "finally we have a proper upbeat song!" And we do! Thanks @thephotocopies.bsky.social! assistant.bandcamp.com/album/assist...

A song by Beat Happening now! "Coral breathing tiger Seaweed in a spiral Starfish titled spider" How do you mix deep vocals like this, team? Calvin always sounds so good. #freshingredients www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyiY...

Currenty playing the fantastic new single by @would-be-goods.bsky.social on untidyradio.com. A nymph meets a god in disguise in a garage-band take on a Greek myth. A v v good album by the band is on the way...

That last track - a beauty from The Westfield Mining Disaster - is from their LP, 'Big Ideas From Small Places'. Only a quick listen with prompt the immediate question: er, why weren't this lot huge? From 2010. thewestfieldminingdisaster.bandcamp.com/album/big-id...

Fun fact: original Assistant drummer and fab person Ali Gavan was in an eary version of Electric Soft Parade, two of whom play in Brakes (and tons of other bands).

You'll note there's no talking on my show this week. Sorry! As things stand, I'm not planning to go to End of The Road this year, but I have noted that Brakes are playing & am hoping there'll be more dates announced. If it's a one off, then I guess I probably am going to EOTR this year.

This lovely track is 'Lemonade', by Fell. Fell is Nicolas Burrows, an artist, illustrator and musician living in London, with band members Jon Rulton (Bear Driver, Dream Giant), Dav Shiel (Beth Jeans-Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny) and Matt Giraudeau (Dogtanion). This is just out & so great.

This song is from the forthcoming LP by Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard, which I discovered via my pal @shopfiresmusic.bsky.social. Here's the LP - some great Scott Walker / Lee Hazelwood vibes. Except it was recorded in Margate. maxwellfarringtonlesuperhomard.bandcamp.com/album/window...

After the show I'll be uploading some stems from the Assistant song 'Fresh Ingredients' and inviting anyone out there who wants to make a jingle for me! Be nice if I had a few #freshingredients

This week's Fresh Ingredients is on air now! And twelve shows in, there is a tiny opening jingle! Will be better by next week. Opening with Lost by Meat Puppets. I think maybe there aren't that many great bands from Arizona? Anyone else? I like early Alice Cooper, weirdly. He's from there too.

Alert!🚨 #RedPlanet 🎶📡📻 @wsum.bsky.social LIVE ON AIR top o the hour + NoonCT 10aPT🇺🇸 6p🇬🇧 1900🇩🇪 + Tunein 91.7fm Madisn wsum.org + 2hrs #indienouvelle ft~ Softjaw @assistant.bandcamp.com @pefkin.bsky.social @andrewpelletier.bsky.social Rocketship @glenndonaldson.bsky.social Subtle Body Vic Velvet &&&

Songs from 7pm by The Meat Puppets, Maxwell Farringdon & Le SuperHomard, Fells, Brakes, The Westfield Mining Disaster, Would-Be-Goods, Beat Happening, Queen Midas, Just Johnny & His Guitar, Slow Country, Geneva Drive, Lewsberg, Love Burns, Victoria, Ballboy, Dreamcoaster & Crocket & Jones.

Half an hour ‘til this terrific show from @jodiewood.bsky.social - expect beautiful, strange, tender and unsettling textures and echoes from the edges of pop. Tune in at 5pm

Me looking vainly moody and bruised on this 117th attempt to play Remember Me through without making any hilarious mistakes.

Me looking vainly moody and bruised on this 117th attempt to play Remember Me through without making any hilarious mistakes.

If you missed it yesterday; perky upbeat indiepop melancholia from Assistant and The Photocopies - we’ve teamed up for a split single and mutual appreciation society! We’re giving any and all proceeds to Cancer Research so please consider picking up 4 tracks for £3 and/or sharing! X

Show 12 of Fresh Ingredients goes out tomorrow! I've been going out too - so this week we have no chat & brilliant songs by @dreamcoasterband.bsky.social, Beat Happening, @slowcountry.bsky.social, @would-be-goods.bsky.social, Queen Midas, @genevadrive3.bsky.social & loads more. Will be good!

Hope you all had a great Bandcamp Friday! Thanks to anyone who grabbed the Assistant single. This is what I got (includes a few gifts from @luetgewatz.bsky.social that had been stranged in my spam folder!!! Thanks Christian).

The splendid @dreamcoasterband.bsky.social playing at the Albert. Their gorgeous certified pop-hit ‘Dancing To Your Favourite Song’ sounding absolutely delightful tonight.

Watching the utterly splendid Snowy Mountain playing other-worldly and beautiful galaxy pop.

Heading down to the Prince Albert where I’m DJing between bands at the @dreamcoasterband.bsky.social / Perfect English Weather / Snowy Mountain show at the Prince Albert. If you’re there and see you see me, say hello, because I will be feeling awkward!

Me & @goodbyewudaokou.bsky.social have quietly set up a little record label this year, having enjoyed the experience of pretending-to-be-proper with our spit 7". The first thing we've put out is @francarlyon.bandcamp.com's lovely, intimate indie-folk debut Home Truths, which is out today & it's fab!

I know I am supposed to be promoting a single, but just remembered that I also made a fanzine, and as today is Bandcamp Friday it would be a good day to grab a copy if you have any £££ left over assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

Thanks to everyone who bought the Assistant / @thephotocopies.bsky.social single today! We're looking forward making a big donation to Cancer Research! Four postcards left if anyone wants one assistant.bandcamp.com/merch/assist...

If this remix of @assistant.bandcamp.com doesn't get stuck in your head, nothing will. Get this EP on a #bandcampfriday - like today - and it'll benefit @cancerresearchuk.org more. You can even opt to get a unique painted postcard with it! assistant.bandcamp.com/album/assist... #indiepop #endcancer

Out Now, the beautiful hushed tones of @francarlyon.bandcamp.com’s debut, Home Truths. The first YYZ album release and just a handful of CDs left. Make our day & grab one 💜 intimate acoustic pop with a smattering of dreamy synths: yyzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/home-t... (reposts much appreciated)

Team: if you buy the postcard version of the Assistant/Photocopies single and you can't see the songs in your collection, don't worry - I will send you a code assistant.bandcamp.com/album/assist...

New from us and new from our pals @thephotocopies.bsky.social! All proceeds to Cancer Research! assistant.bandcamp.com/album/assist...

Tomorrow morning at 7am(UK) on buff.ly/ypvhzgV An Untidy Mind is back. Come and listen to me jibber jabber my way through an hour's worth of top music that is too good to miss. #music #musicsky including music by: @tinnedmeats.bsky.social @dionysusxerox.bsky.social @caseywellsmusic.com

Guys, unless I missed something we still need to schedule the enormous celebration that Brakes are back and playing End of The Road this year! When do we raise our glasses?

Via a Postcard Records fanpage on FB, you might be interested in this - downloads from the unreleased Green Jacket Grey album by Aztec Camera. Only available for another six days, so listen when you can: www.wesendit.com/dl/nQaTn7hvu...

Writing these down while I figure them out. Remember Me; capo on 5 —Em7, Cmaj7 —G, G6sus2 —C, G #whatjonathanisplaying

Just finished listening to this and had a GREAT time. Racecar Racecar are my new favourite band!

Putting out another call for indie pop requests for Sunday’s show! Any baroque/chanson/Scott Walker adjacent spins most welcome!

5. Queen Midas - The Spell Of Habit (2026) What a splendid record this is; a compelling 6-track debut from Brooklyn which goes from angelic, limpid indie pop to bar-room Stones rock and expansive americana in just a few songs. On perma-repeat here. queenmidas1.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...

Hey there pop pickers ... we've got a vital new album release for pre-order at Bandcamp on Friday (Feb 6): PRELP 10 is CULT FIGURES – Reports of People ... chroniclers of modern madness, welcome back ! @cultfigures.bsky.social

Stumbled across this Grant McLennan video that I hadn't see before. Surround Me is from his Firebox LP and I think it was only released as a single in Australia youtu.be/7eBGo7OlxBk

Last night's Fresh Ingredients is now up on Mixcloud if there's anyone out there with an hour on their hands! A nice show, I think - new stuff and old stuff with some real indiepop classics in there (Harper Lee! The Steinbecks! The Hit Parade!) www.mixcloud.com/jonathanship...

Another day, another splendid Hurry Up, Gregory single. This one is a delightful instrumental, equal parts Johnny Marr and Peter Buck. backtosomerset.bandcamp.com/album/carry-...