I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee

Tony Njoku is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, musician, producer and visual artist whose music is impossible to categorise. It has so many influences that its identity is unique – just like it s…

Curiosity is one of the most endearing things that we have as children – the never ending barrage of “why?”. 

It’s also one of the things, along with playfulness and adaptability, that can get kicked …

We're signing off Season 9 with a pioneering legend. 

Here's what the incomparable Vivien Goldman wrote about Lora Logic back in the nascent days of punk:

 “The remarkable Lora Logic, several phases ah…

Alianna Kalaba is a multi-instrumentalist, most renowned, I guess, for playing drums for the past 10/11 years with Cat Power and this beautifully distorted, snake-like bass with FACS, signing off fro…

When I started thinking about experimental mindsets, I started looking for examples of that mindset at use in real life.

I wrote something about Detroit. Detroit has always fascinated me, just like M…

One of the wonderful things about an experimental mindset is that it gives you the willingness and desire to be not just open to other ways of living and approaching your life – whether that be your …

Elisabeth Elektra has lived with and through change, uncertainty, improvisation and transformation – the sort of things that today’s world throws at us. She gained her degree in experimental music an…

Marissa Paternoster is doing too many amazing things to be defined by any one of them – she’s best known for her music in the Screaming Females, a band whose whole ethos of self sufficiency, open min…

Dedicated to the memory of Matt Evans.


"Brixton is God"

Brix Smith is a rock legend. Her life story is as inspirational as it is turbulent. It’s inspirational because of that turbulence and how she’s n…

Matt Black is half of the magnificently innovative and renegade DJ + multimedia pop group Coldcut, co-founder of Ninja Tune, one of the world’s leading electronic music labels and a beacon for the in…

It's a great privilege to have conversations like I do with so many talented and amazing humans, each of whom is making their mark through their music and other creative projects.

Today's conversatio…

Three things struck me about Billy Nomates when I first heard her work - vulnerability, humanity and what a bloody exciting talent.

I first saw Tor perform live when she supported the Sleaford Mods at…

“There’s a world outside if you want it” ….

…. this lyric from Jesse's 2015 song Oh Sheena kinda sums up his desire to find the positive in life, to make the best out of the good times and the tough t…

It's the early '80's and I'm going through one of many identity searches. I was always drawn to the non-conformers, even though I conformed in many ways. Therein lies a struggle.

Music was obviously a…

Thank fuck for Starcrawler

 
When I first heard their debut album around 5 years ago and I was like, well, this is what the world’s been waiting for. A good dose of Hollywood underbelly, a bit of glam,…

Today's special guest is Kelly Ogden!

Kelly, together with her husband Luis, started The Dollyrots for a bit of fun whilst college students in Florida. They then decided to take the leap of faith and …

Sam Quartin is the guitarist and vocalist for THE BOBBY LEES. They're one of my favourite bands, rooted in punk, the blues, the garage and a big old dose of weird. Live, they are a tight, ball of wil…

The Butthole Surfers didn't play the UK that often back in the day. And when they did, I missed them: damn that shit English Pennine weather! One of life's regrettable moments.

So, 35 years later, the…

Steve Hillage is one of music’s greats - a great musician, a great innovator, a great free thinker and great experimenter whose achievements and career is just one whole wall of inspiration for doing…

As I'm writing these show notes, I'm listening to The Minutemen's History Lesson Part 2 which opens with this wonderful line:

"Our band could be your life".

For me, this succinctly captures what Mike…