Want to know what I'm doing in tonight's live "Ben Baker Vs. Monday"? Me too. Lets both find out at 8pm on noiseboxradio.com

A special hour of music picked by Tim on @noiseboxradio.com at 7pm tonight. I'll assume he's playing all the mixes of "Glasses" by Chris Jarvis.

If you would like to spend some of your Sunday reading an issue of Nutty accompanied by some inane commentary, I have you covered. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/02/frui...

Some of you will remember James Whale's 80s single 'Bimbo' but we go deeper than that and look at his bizarre 70s release, 'Crystal Drops'. youtu.be/C4ksnHeGRIQ?...

Happy Valentine's day! I was never there.

This week I learned my Dad needs surgery again, got my hopes up for a flat only for it to be horrible and still haven't regained full hearing in my left ear. Still, at least I'm not single for another Valentine's Day...oh.

We endorse this opinion, with evidence like this... Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

Happy Valentine's day! I was never there.

The only single supporting "HARM A LONDON CHILD" on the market today. houseofsplain.bandcamp.com/album/noiseb...

I know all the 1999 one-hit wonders, me.

Yes, not only did *IAN BEALE* direct the panto in Halifax in 1995 he did it during his legendary moustache era. Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

He better not have, the dirty get.

Who was your favourite band who originally split up thirty years ago? Maybe they're in this @noiseboxradio.com show at 11am this morning. But only maybe.

When the Pokemon craze was at its height, does anyone know if The Wurzels recorded "Drink Up Thy Zyduck"?

Who was your favourite band who originally split up thirty years ago? Maybe they're in this @noiseboxradio.com show at 11am this morning. But only maybe.

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

Have you got yours yet? houseofsplain.bandcamp.com/album/noiseb...

Nowt on tonight? Get PantoSplaining on the big telly! And if you like it, please tell people.

That twat off the weather.

How do you do, fellow kids?

Barry Kent has almost definitely enjoyed a lunchtime snifter with Steven Toast during the filming of a mid-tier "Crown Court". #ToastofLondon

My musings on English Settlement, track by track, as the XTC album turns 44! gayleramage.co.uk/xtc-annivers...

This is one of the oddest panto posters we've looked at yet but perhaps the most entertaining. Ian Beale's short-lived spiv moustache demands you subscribe!

Awful news about James Van Der Beek. Really enjoyed those first few series of "Dawson's Creek" at the time. As if to note its quality, Channel 4 tried it out on Saturday nights at 7pm when it began before it slid into the teatime slot.

Barry Kent has almost definitely enjoyed a lunchtime snifter with Steven Toast during the filming of a mid-tier "Crown Court". #ToastofLondon

On the last Ben Baker Vs. Monday, I played all this stuff. Sound like your sort of thing? Find it on the Noisebox Mixcloud or my personal Patreon now, along with tons more programming from my mouth and mind. www.patreon.com/BenBaker2000

The H*ritage Chart. For people wondering what the two remaining members of The Rubettes might sound like with production done on a cracked copy of Mario Paint....

Good clean fun for all the family. Tomorrow.

Before 1983, there was no fun in pubs. Only bitterness and peanuts.

I miss the glory days of ridiculous sheets of stickers on magazines featuring everything from Take That to Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Goronwy Roberts...

Myself and @ricardoautobahn.co.uk have made a novelty pop song covering a TV favourite to try raise a few quid for the running costs of community station @noiseboxradio.com which have doubled recently. Just dont tell Chisholm! houseofsplain.bandcamp.com/album/noiseb...

Myself and @ricardoautobahn.co.uk have made a pop single to raise awareness and hopefully a few quid for @noiseboxradio.com - its a familiar sort of tune but with all new lyrics. There nay even be - gulp - rapping. houseofsplain.bandcamp.com/album/noiseb...

Premiering my first ever proper pop single in about 3 minutes on noiseboxradio.com

With you in just over five minutes. Might even play you my BRAND NEW ACTUAL GENUINE CHARITY POP SINGLE! noiseboxradio.com noiseboxradio.com/discord

I love curling. Also Curly Watts, Colin Curly off of the Quavers; someone from Newcastle saying "coal".

As Yorkshire's very own 'splainer, I think you'll enjoy this episode very much. Follow @pantosplaining.bsky.social for much more.

Gather your family, we'll be revealing this month's poster in half an hour right here.

Last week on "Ben Baker Vs Monday" I played this lot and it seemed to go ok. So lets try again tonight at 8pm and hope for the best. #highpressuresalespitch noiseboxradio.com

For the last Smash Hits of the 90s, they asked the then-current crop of popstars what they'd like to do in 2000. Most should've said "not get dropped by the label so I have to give tug jobs in the park for a fiver". No such worries for "Beyonci" though... 😬

Lads on tour @benbaker.bsky.social @alfsplaining.bsky.social @thecubanboys.bsky.social

Who wants to know some mid-range 90s Gladiators' opinions on Shampoo, Erasure and The Grid? Oh....and some Christmas songs that will probably go nowhere.

This is you watching TOTP, mate.

An hour of follow-up singles to hits by alternative favourites. Friday morning on @noiseboxradio.com at 11am. But no sport content I promise.

This is great! I'll have to give it a "spin" on my "prog" next week.

An hour of follow-up singles to hits by alternative favourites. Friday morning on @noiseboxradio.com at 11am. But no sport content I promise.

My favourite part of a visit to an otter sanctuary is the bit where the otters stand respectfully in silence for their national anthems.

Need something to listen to? Of course you don't, nobody does. We're all drowning in podcasts. However this one with me and @benbaker.bsky.social is deep-diving into every episode of 80s sitcom ALF, and 60 episodes in it's going as well as you'd expect....

Add "constant and very distracting weird low rumble like a car is parked with the engine on outside but never leaves or endless haptic vibration which is almost certainly low-frequency tinnitus due to mixture of stress and ear issues" to the list, Ken. 😩

The fact they're only trying six episodes of the UK SNL is a terrible idea. The original needed about ten to bed in and that was...you know, the original. Six gives it too much chance to be ditched if it doesnt work immediately. And as its a live variety format no-one has done for decades here...

I dont want to move, this is my home but all they see is development money. I try to face everything in good humour but hate feeling in the way as I'm such a people pleaser. Other than with the people who listen to me on the radio anyway. Just....ugh.