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This Punk/Garage Halloween Party Totally Rocks 27th October

This Show Rocks · October 27, 2017October 26, 2017

This week’s show is a Punk/Garage Halloween party. Every band or song has some spurious connection to the holiday, most of which are the word Witch in the title with a smattering of Demon, Dracula and Frankenstein. Tune in for the following creepy ass tunes: Moutpiece Dracula’s Daughter Dead Kennedys Halloween Tight Bros From …

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This 80’s LA/DC Hardcore Show Totally Rocks 20th October

This Show Rocks · October 20, 2017October 20, 2017

This week’s show is inspired by the middle of the 3 punk documentaries I watched on Sky Arts last Saturday. The first and third focused on punk ‘attitude’ and punk ‘fashion’, but the middle one just had loads of Henry Rollins talking about LA and DC Hardcore from the early 80’s. It is a genre …

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This Heavy Rock Show Totally Rocks 13th October

This Show Rocks · October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

This week’s show is inspired by my son’s unexpected and newly found love of Trashcat. So that set the tone and pushed me into a big heavy rock mood (even though Trashcat is decided on the Punk Rock end of things). That sent me down the stoner rock/wigout route which slowly evolved back into a …

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This Show Totally Rocks 6th October

This Show Rocks · October 6, 2017October 6, 2017

New week, new show, old tunes, let’s go!!! This week’s show is bookended by Tom Petty tunes with a heady mix of rock (and a couple of roll) tunes from the early 60’s to late last year in between. Tune in for: Tom Petty David Bowie Blue Cheer Jimi Hendrix Neil Young and Crazy Horse …

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That Damo Fella Totally Rocks 29th September

This Show Rocks · September 29, 2017September 29, 2017

This week I am joined by young Damo of such Dublin institutions as GZ, Easpa Measa, Mongolia, Scientific Bong, The Whole Sick and undoubtedly loads of others. Damo is a particularly large fan of Jeff Burke of The Marked Men’s work and included a good bit of it on the show. Tune in for inane …

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This Wig Out Show Totally Rocks 22nd September

This Show Rocks · September 22, 2017September 22, 2017

These types of shows are always some of my favourites to do, cuz I do love an auld wig out, especially on a Friday night with a couple of beers. If that sounds like your proverbial cup of tea, tune in for guitar pyrotechnics from: von LMO Oh Sees Wand Zig Zags White Fang …

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This Comeback Show Full of Bangers Totally Rocks

This Show Rocks · September 15, 2017September 14, 2017

And we are back!!!! Sorry for the un-scheduled time off. I needed a break and was up to my eyes in summertime fun. I am back and ready to rock. I’ve got loads of ideas for the future of the show including a list of shit hot guest DJ’s for topic quality tunes and …

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10 Songs the Drummer Wrote: A Grant Hart Show

This Show Rocks · September 14, 2017

Very sad to hear of Grant Hart’s passing today. A sad day for punk rock indeed. Here’s 10 songs he wrote while in Husker Du. Every Everything – Flip Your Wig The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill – New Day Rising It’s Not Funny Any More – Metal Circus Sorry Somehow – Candy Apple …

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Rock Jihad Radio 28th March

This Show Rocks · September 12, 2017September 8, 2017

Tonight’s Show!!!! Craic was had.

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This Final Blind Pull Show Totally Rocks 29th September

This Show Rocks · September 11, 2017September 8, 2017

This week’s show is the final Blind Pull Show. Next week I will go back to picking tunes in a less random fashion, which will inevitably probably seem more random. I had good luck this week so tune in for: Angry Samoans NoMeansNo The Fall Outs So Cow Henry Fiat’s Open Sore Shellac Jeff the …

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This 7 Inch Blind Pull Show Totally Rocks 22nd September

This Show Rocks · September 10, 2017September 8, 2017

This week is another Blind Pull Show and this week it is the 7” shelf’s turn. Tune in to see what gets pulled. If you want to hear loads of old Portland and Dublin underground bands and a few stone cold classics from England and America, hit play!!! Mule Sprinkler Matt K Shrugg Bambi Puget …

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This Second Blind Grab Show Totally Rocks 15th September

This Show Rocks · September 9, 2017September 8, 2017

This week’s show is the second Blind Pull show of September. This week I was brave/stupid enough to just grab from the pile closest to the turntable where records go once they’ve been played (instead of back to where you got them from) This means that I had to use all of my free passes for …

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This Blind Grab Show Totally Rocks

This Show Rocks · September 8, 2017September 8, 2017

For the month of September all shows will be Blind Grab Shows. This means I will pick records off of the shelves without looking (the blind grab) and play them in the order they are selected. I have given myself 3 ‘free passes’ for when I pick something completely inappropriate for the show or something …

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This Disco Humeantes and Tic Tac Totally Show Totally Rocks 21st July

This Show Rocks · July 21, 2017July 20, 2017

Often times a song from one show will influence the entire next show. Last week I played a band from the Northern Spanish Garage punk scene by the name of Las Nurses, which reminded me of how much great Northern Spanish garage Disco Humeantes has put out. So they are responsible for all of the …