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Supporting the Crowbar Totally Rocks 57 24th October

This Show Rocks · January 4, 2019

The Crowbar in Groningen was recently slapped with two hefty fines for playing live music. The Crowbar brings something important and exciting to the local artistic and cultural landscape and attracts a fantastic variety of people. It is an asset to the city of Groningen and should be treated as such. This show is dedicated …

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This Birthday Season Totally Rocks 53 26th September

This Show Rocks · December 11, 2018

What is it with birthdays in Autumn? Did our parents have nothing better to do 9 months ago? As I have been up to my eyeballs in birthday celebrations over the last week and will continue with my own this week, I have dedicated the show to banging tunes and the word party which …

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The Crowbar in Groningen Totally Rocks 29th August

This Show Rocks · November 16, 2018

This week’s show is dedicated to The Crowbar in Groningen because it is the best god damn pub in the world. FACT. One of the proprietors, either Nathalie or Esther, put up a couple of cracking tunes on FB just before I did the show so I just had to play those 2 plus …

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These Cancelled Bands Still Totally Rock

This Show Rocks · November 4, 2018

This week’s show is dedicated to all the bands that have cancelled their Dublin gigs whether it has been due to illness, visa problems, missed flights or general douche-ry. First off, it’s missed flight retardation from Jay Reatard. The Hex Dispensers follow with one off their first album which Reatard mastered. Next up it’s …

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This Show Totally Rocks 8th December

This Show Rocks · December 8, 2016December 8, 2016

Another week, another show. Stick this in your ear holes. Let’s Go!!! Tune in for: New Bomb Turks Fugazi Defect Defect The Observers The Carbonas Plateaus The Spits Night Birds The Humpers Spider Fever P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. White Fang The Hex Dispensers Pixies together PANGEA Ty Segall White Wires Steven Adamyk Band Von LMO Nation of Ulysses …

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That Reatard Totally Rocked

This Show Rocks · October 13, 2016October 13, 2016

In honour of this week’s ten year anniversary of the release of Jay Reatard’s debut/master work Blood Visions, this show is completely Reatarded. Tune in for a Jay Lindsay/Reatard retrospective, followed by songs he produced, mixed, mastered, played the guitar solo on, etc., and then a few bands with people he was in bands with. …

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This Stack of 7″s Totally Rocks 4th February 2016

This Show Rocks · February 4, 2016February 4, 2016

This week’s show was inspired by the two 7”s I picked up at last year’s Dry Heaves/Detergents gig in Tenterhooks. They are back tomorrow night (5th Febraury) for another gig in Tenterhooks, so I grabbed a pile of 7”s to find last year’s purchases and decided to play the whole pile. Tune in for: Dancing …

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Radioactivity and DOA Totally Rock 2nd July

This Show Rocks · July 2, 2015July 2, 2015

This week’s show is dedicated to two things – the new Radioactivity Record and the DOA gig tomorrow night in Fibbers. So all bands are either related to Mark Ryan and Jeff Burke or are from Vancouver. Tune in for: Radioactivity The Marked Men The High Tension Wires The Reds The Novice The Potential Johns …

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That Jay Reatard Totally Rocks 15th January

This Show Rocks · January 15, 2015January 15, 2015

Tuesday was the 5 year anniversary of the death of one of my musical heroes, Jay Reatard. When I discovered Jay, I discovered a musician who seemed to nearly breath music at the expense of everything else and I found someone with a dedication to making music that I truly admired. So this week’s …

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This Show Totally Rocks 106 23rd October

This Show Rocks · October 23, 2014October 23, 2014

This week’s show gets back to a bit of good old fashioned Punk rock and there is no better way to kick things off than with a bit of The Circle Jerks. Then its on to: Bad Brains, The Reatards, The Dwarves, Turbonegro, The Butthole Surfers, The Hex Dispensers, The Neighborhood Brats, The Gits, …

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This Show Totally Rocks 102 25th September

This Show Rocks · September 25, 2014September 25, 2014

This week’s show started off weird with Von LMO and Le Shok and then got weirder when I got to the end and realised the mic hadn’t recorded any of the vocal links. So tonight’s vocal links are brought to you by a combination of lack of sleep and the fermentation of sugars. Things …

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This Robot DJ Totally Rocks 14th August

This Show Rocks · August 14, 2014August 14, 2014

This week I had a guest take over the mic for the between song banter because it is the middle of the summer and my free time and my microphone aren’t always in the same place at the same time. Luckily DJ Adult American Male #1 was kind enough to come in spin a …

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This Show Totally Rocks 74 27th February

This Show Rocks · February 27, 2014February 27, 2014

This week’s show is eclectic as always. Things kick off with Henry Fiat’s Open Sore, Jay Reatard, Autistic Youth, Dag Nasty and Bad Religion. We’ve got a local tune from Rats Blood then it’s Wiccans, Brutal Knights, Fuck Knights, FIDLAR, Cheap Time, Beastmilk, Butthole Surfters and Double Dagger. At the half hour mark it’s …