The kids are back in online school, so it feels like a weekday again and hump day tunes feel more needed than they did over the Easter break.  So tune in for some crackers today from the G’s and H’s. The Grateful Dead The Growlers Half Man Half Biscuit The Hard-Ons PJ Harvey The …

Tunes for a grey Saturday afternoon in Lockdown. This week’s tunes includes some pretty wild combinations – Frankie Goes to Hollywood straight into Aretha Franklin, Fun Boy 3 straight into a double dose of Fuzz into a double dose of Rory.  Tune in for: Flux of Pink Indians, Forbidden Tigers Frankie Goes to Hollywood Aretha …

Another week of lockdown, another week of tunes, 19 at a time.  This hump day we are working through D’s, E’s and F’s.  Tune in for: D.O.A. x 2 The Dogs Drakulas Drive Drive Like Jehu Dwarves x 2 Earthmen and Strangers The Estranged Faith No More The Fall-Outs x 2 The Final Solutions FIDLAR …

The calender says its Saturday (like that means much in a lockdown).  It also says its Easter weekend, so Bank Holiday Saturday afternoon tunes are a welcome distraction.  Tune in for an hour of scratchy old records and generally low production values here at Studio L(ockdown).  Records this week from: Carpenters CFM Cute Lepers Dead …

Hump Day Tunes for a Sunny Wednesday in Lockdown.  It’s another week and another trip through the collection.  This time it’s C’s and D’s. Tune in for: Creedence Clearwater Revivial Mikal Cronin x 4 Culture Shock x 2 The Cure x 3 Dag Nasty The Damned Dan x 2 The Uptown Bums (off the Denton …

Here we go again.  Another 19 albums, these spanning the latter end of B and the start of C.  Tune in for Kate Bush The Buzzcocks Carbonas Career Suicide Johnny Cash Christmas Island Chumbawumba x3-4 The Clash Cloak/Dagger The Cramps Elvis Costello Crass x3 Circle Jerks x2

Another trip through the collection and a much needed distraction from the lockdown.  Tune in for: Angry Angles Belly x2 Black Flag x2 Bleeding Rectum Brawl The Boys The Breeders The Briefs x3 The Brutal Knights x2 Bob Burns and the Breakups Butter 08 Butthole Surfers Brendan Benson David Bowie

I didn’t really like the name 19Radio.  The enjoyment I got out of doing the first one was that it was a lovely distraction from all that’s going on and I’d like it to be a distraction for the listeners as well, so from now on this is Distraction Radio.  Still 19 albums, still A …

New Radio Show for Extraordinary times.  I am going to play my wife and I’s record collection in alphabetical order from A to Z (hopefully won’t get anywhere near Zed!) 19 songs at a time. It’s a low-fi affair.  All music will be ripped from an old Sony push button record player with vocal links …

New week, new show. This week is all about the tunes I bought with my birthday voucher to Freebird and getting the brand new Mikal Cronin (released today) album out of  Spindizzy on the first day of release!  Tune in for one tune from The Briefs, and two tunes off the new Mikal Cronin album …

New week, 5 tunes, let’s go! Tune in this week for Feast of Snakes, The Mad, Hollywood Squares, Queers and The Headaches.

New week Show, 5 Class Tunes, Let’s Go! This week starts with the announcement that Hot Snakes are coming to Dublin in December.  Tune in for the following: Hot Snakes, Final Solutions, Video, Hank Wood and the Hammerheads and Jeff the Brotherhood.

    Last week I went to the Get Mad Festival in Madrid to get a bit of sun and a bit of garage punk.  The sun refused to come out, but  along the way I caught a bunch of deadly bands, some of which are played on this very show tonight.  (I also had …

New week, new show, Karate Klub Comp let’s go. They’re all on the album in dedication to the Grit gig tomorrow night (saturday) in Bohs. Check it out, support the scene (n’all) Electric Bill and the Meter Readers, Grit, The Whole Sick, Pozoga, the objectorZ Links to gig and bandcamp above.  DO IT