And my 20 Sep show ... my birthday show! ... is also online. You can hear it here: phoenixfm.com/2025/09/23/r... #MusicSky #RadioSky #indie #punk #postpunk #alternative #indiemusic #alternativemusic #resurrection #communityradio

After our server shenanigans we've finally got our 13 Sep show online!

📊 Phoenix FM Chart w/e 21 September 2025

Achievement unlocked I didn't actually win 100% of the time, I lost 5/1000 so it's 99.5% #wordle

8am Monday morning. This is the Berlin rush hour

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Great weekend in Berlin watching Laura Lee and the Jettes live (among other things). Now back to my Easyjet nightmare

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4 years ago today: Great night out at the Lexington for @jetstreampony.bsky.social and @theprimitives.bsky.social

5 years ago today - a @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social gig I DIDN'T go, thanks to Covid! It was rescheduled for 3rd Sep 2021 and cancelled, and finally took place on 2nd Sep 2022

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Happy birthday to us! We started plotting and planning our new radio station on 31 August 1996 - and we're still going strong #communityradio

Happy Pete Burns Day to all those who celebrate it

It's a bank holiday, so what I am doing this morning? Rescuing 4,000 words from a defunct website written in 1998 about a Kenickie and Earl Brutus gig I went to www.redpenguin.net/gigs/kenicki...

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6 years ago today - British Sea Power at the Craufurd Arms in Milton Keynes. Possibly my last BSP gig before they became Sea Power?

Also 19 years ago today: watching Australian band The Grates at the Metro Club. Another fantastic much-missed band

19 years ago: interviewing Welsh band The Hot Puppies before their gig at the Metro Club in Tottenham Court Road. They were a fantastic band, much missed

27 years ago today - when V was a great festival. Saw The Charlatans, Texas, Robbie Williams (haha), The Lightning Seeds, Space, Iggy Pop, James, Chumbawamba, Catatonia, Saint Etienne, Lo Fidelity Allstars, Republica, Gomez, The Montrose Avenue, theaudience and some Britpop football match too

Great watching Sea Power last night at a very packed Trades Club in Hebden Bridge

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It's 46 years old but I'm still obsessed by this album

Currently enjoying listening to this album - "as if Blink 182 met Jean-Michel Jarre". Thanks to Mark @122musicmanagement.com for the heads up runrunjumppunch.bandcamp.com/album/pizza-...

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I know where I was exactly 30 years ago today - in HMV in Sauciehall Street in Glasgow, on my way back down south from a week's holiday in the Highlands. I remember thinking "Blur have 2 CD singles, Oasis only have 1. I know who's going to win this one". Still have the Blur singles ...

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14 years ago today: watching Bray Wanderers v Drogheda United. Drogheada won 2-1. The crowd was small, but they set a world swearing record thanks to the home team's inept performance

20 years ago today: @jesusjonesband.bsky.social at the Garage in Highbury. We also interviewed Mike and Iain for @phoenixfm.com !

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ICYMI: You can listen again to all my reviews of this week's big film releases right here:

Had a great time at the Moseley International Punk Festival in Birmingham last night. Got to see Mika Bomb, Healthy Junkies and Lady Rage, who were all excellent

I'm on the radio at 8pm tonight ... 98.0FM and DAB in Essex and www.phoenixfm.com online

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13 years ago today: Blur at the Winter Gardens in Margate

Since it's her birthday ... #nowplaying

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2 years ago today: Pulp at Hammersmith Odeon. 10/10, no notes.

23 years ago today: at the Square in Harlow (RIP) to catch a live show with Malowski, @christt.bsky.social and Jim's Super Stereoworld. (I hope that guy in the last pic was OK)

Out on 30 July is 'Stick Figure' by @stilltraffico.bsky.social linktr.ee/122mm Feel the beach, the sea air, as you kick back and sip on your favourite (gin and) juice with this piece of summer. #newmusic #newmusicalert #summervibes #MusicSky

10 years ago today: was at Indietracks watching way too many great artists, including Evans the Death, Desperate Journalist, Tigercats and Colleen Green

10 years ago today: opening night of Indietracks in Derbyshire, watching Fever Dream, The School and Cinerama. I miss Indietracks!

8 years ago today: recording a studio session at Studio 6, Witham for radio with Tokyo band Taffy

Best Black Sabbath cover ever ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7I...

Polly and Simon will play an acoustic set at the Pog 25th anniversary festival this weekend, 25-27th July, at Earth Camp, nr Lewes. The weekend is raising funds for the Josh Evans Trust Fund, who help the families of diabetic children in Somerset. Email [email protected] for tickets x

Made me laugh ...

25 years ago I stacked all my cassettes into three cardboard boxes and taped them shut. They've been through two house moves since then, but yesterday I decided to open them up and sort them out (a bit) into albums, singles and mixtapes/bootlegs.

Playing this album for the first time, only 32 years too late! For some reason Catherine Wheel passed me by - I think they were lumped in with all the shoegaze bands, but this album is more complex than that

Can't believe it's been two years. Must be another one due soon!