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Of All The Minutes That Were Taken Away – 21/04/13
Tis the time of year again when the slightly dishevelled and pastey among us (myself included!) get up at the crack of dawn to queue up outside our favourite independent record shops for this
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I’m An Animal Just Like You – 17/02/13
This week’s music listening was mainly brought to me by the extremely ace new album from Oxford band Foals, who released their third album Holy Fire. Judging by the rave reviews that I’ve read
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The Emotion Signal – 03/02/13
Live music in the studio this week, courtesy of a visit from Essex-based singer songwriter The Emotion Signal. He performed three songs for us and we had a catch up regarding everything from the
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Oh, How Time Flies, With Crystal Clear Eyes – 06/01/13
So, 2013 is upon us, along with all the musical delights that I’m sure it will bring. One thing I have learnt already this year is that my fingers apparently won’t do what they
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2012 Part The Third – 30/12/12
Not entirely sure where the time has gone but this week was the last show of 2012. Now that the albums of the year list is out of the way chose some of my
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33RPM Albums Of 2012 15-1 – 23/12/12
So here we are, the second half of our albums of the year list. The final countdown from 15-1. There was never really any doubt in my mind what would be number one. Attack
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33RPM Albums Of 2012 30-16 – 16/12/12
Yes, it’s that time of the year again. Time to reflect on some of the truly excellent music that has been released in 2012. There’s nothing I quite like more than making a list
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What A Difference A Gallbladder Can Make – 25/11/12
My first week back in what seemed like forever (well 5 weeks actually), due to a rather lengthy stay in hospital to have my gallbladder removed. A big thank you to everyone at Phoenix
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Sunday 28th October 2012
Chris was unwell tonight so I sat in for him. I did a little journey through the decades in music and here is what was played. 1970s: Rah Band- The Crunch Siouxsie & The
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2 Years of 33RPM – 07/10/12
What a difference a year makes..or two! Really can’t believe it’s been two years since I started out at Phoenix. That makes it roughly 104 shows and over 2000 songs! Unfortunately there was no
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As We Get Older And Stop Making Sense – 30/09/12
33RPM was back on the air this week after a brief one week break, a big thanks to Nick Field for covering in my absence. While I was away I’ve been thinking about all
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Kids With Torches – Live Session – 26/08/12
On this week’s show I had the pleasure of being joined in the studio by electronic duo Kids With Torches. Hailing from Southend / Brentwood, the duo recently self-released their debut album Carried Over
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Blur – Sing To Me – 12/08/12
This week I decided to dedicate the whole show to one of the greatest British bands ever to exist, Blur. On the same night as what could turn out to be their final ever
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I’m Not Your Friend, Buddy! I’m Not Your Buddy, Guy! – 29/07/12
It felt like it had been months since I was last at Phoenix Headquarters for the show (actually it had been 3 weeks due to illness and Latitude!), so I was rather itching to
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In Our Days We Will Live, Like Our Ghosts Will Live – 17/06/12
This week continues my obsession with the rather brilliant new Future Of The Left album, with which I toyed the idea of just playing the whole thing in full 2.5 times on this weeks
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Mike Summers – Live Session & Interview – 10/06/12
For this weeks show I was joined live in the studio by local singer-songwriter Mike Summers, who a couple of months ago played a brilliant set at the first 33RPM night that took place
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I’ll Show You The Ropes Kid, Show You The Ropes – 20/05/12
After a rather excellent weekend of music that included Southend band Afterglow’s sell-out album release party at Club Riga Friday night (you can download the album for free at www.afterglowband.net). Then on Saturday at
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I Gave Up On Everything That We’d Felt – 15/04/12
There’s nothing that a music publication/record store/fan/geek (delete as applicable) likes making more than a list. Favourite albums, favourite songs, favourite year..etc..etc, and the NME this week unveiled their latest list, the top 100
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So Glad To Meet You, Angeles – 01/04/12
Another Sunday and another 2 hours packed full of great music (well I like to think so anyway!). This weeks show was partly inspired by an article on the music site Drowned In Sound
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The questions are the answers to questions in themselves – 25/03/12
First order of business for this weeks round up is to wish Phoenix a happy 5th birthday! Heres to another 5 years and more! Onto the just as important business of this weeks show
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Punks In The Beerlight, Burnouts In Love – 18/03/12
After another week off (all these gigs seem to be happening on a Sunday at the moment!) the 33RPM show returned. Last Sunday I was at the Union Chapel (possibly my favourite venue) to
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33RPM – A Night Of Live Music And Dancing – 24/02/11
And finally it was upon us, the very first 33RPM night! Taking place at The Royal Hotel, Southend-on-sea, we were treated to some stunning live performances from Molly Christian, Mike Summers featuring Jai The
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Your Lips Are Red…My Face Is Red From Reading Your Red Lips = 04/03/12
After a week off to catch the quite frankly mindblowing St Vincent live in concert I returned to the studio this week armed with an arsenal of great music. There were plenty of new
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Rocking The Plastic Like A Man From The Casket – 24/01/12
On tonight’s show we answered the burning question that had plagued mankind for at least 2 weeks, what was Art Garfunkel reading when you were born?. Well you can answer this question yourself by
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Ziggy Played Guitar – 10/01/12
The legend that is David Bowie turned 65 this week so this weeks show is dedicated to The Thin White Duke. We celebrated this by having Bowie as our featured artist this week (instead
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In With The New – 03/01/2012
Starting the year as we mean to go on with this weeks line up. Part of this weeks show was inspired by watching lots of Sonic Youth live footage including the brilliant documentary 1991
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2011 Review Part The Second – 27/12/11
The final show of 2011 was upon us this week so thought I would round up the review of 2011 that we have been doing the last couple of weeks. Tonight we had tracks
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Top 25 Albums of 2011 – 20/12/11
After much much much much deliberation, frustration, many late nights and copious amounts of tea we finally arrived at our top 25 albums of 2011. This year was a truly exceptional year for music
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2011 Review Part 1 – 13/12/11
It’s that time of the year again, when every single website, newspaper, labrador are all coming out with their top albums of 2011 lists. We at the 33RPM show are no different and next
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77-84 Post Punk Special – 06/12/11
This week I thought we’d take a rest from 2011 (as the next couple of weeks will be full of 2011 goodness), and focus on post-punk music from the years 1977-1984. Some truly brilliant
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The Live Edition – 29/11/11
On this weeks show we split the music in two. First hour we had the usual mix of new music (which included a track from the stunning new Kate Bush album 50 Words For
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Music is bigger than words and wider than pictures – 15/11/11
This weeks show came with a rather excellent announcement from ATP Festivals in that the London leg of their I’ll Be Your Mirror festival will be returning in 2012, with headliners Slayer(who will
Read More »His ‘N’ Hers – 20/09/11
This weeks show had a little bit of a strange format, being that I had one hour, then an hours break then the second hour. So because of this I decided to do a
Read More »Changes are afoot – 13/09/11
This week the show moved to it’s new time slot, still on a Tuesday but now 9pm-midnight. A little later but an extra hour which means more great music! And this week was definitely
Read More »Every night my teeth are falling out – 16/08/11
2011 continues to be an amazing year for music with so many great releases so far. And it doesn’t look like it’s going to let up at all for the rest of the year.
Read More »Underneath the river bed, we burned the river down – 02/08/11
Another packed show this week, including a track from the new Laura Marling album which is due out on September 12th called A Creature I Don’t Know. From the sound of the first song
Read More »The International Language Of Music..17/05/11
A veritable banquet of great music to feast upon on this weeks show. Our featured artist on An Introduction To.. were Super Furry Animals who have over the course of 9 studio albums crafted
Read More »That Tuesday feeling..22/03/11
The first proper show of our new Tuesday night slot! Some great songs tonight including a new track from the Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke 12inch and a great cover of the Outkast track
Read More »It’s A Latitude thing..15/03/11
This week saw the announcement of this years Latitude Festival, which takes place July 14th-17th in Southwold, Suffolk. Some great bands were announced so this weeks playlist featured the three headliners and also some
Read More »A Truly Breathtaking Week Of Music
This week we looked forward to an absolutely stunning new release in the form of Josh T Pearson’s solo debut album Last Of The Country Gentlemen. A real contender for album of the year
Read More »Afterglow!
This week we were joined live in the studio by Southend band Afterglow. They have recently made it through to the Live And Unsigned regional finals on 9th April in Ipswich. We chatted about
Read More »In With The New
This week was a quite frankly staggering week for new releases. New albums from Mogwai, Gruff Rhys, The Babies, La Sera, Asobi Seksu, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth and Bright Eyes! Oh and also some
Read More »Love Is An Occasionally Splendid Thing
The last of the theme shows this week, and with valentines looming I gave in to the old romantic in me and picked a playist for star-crossed lovers everywhere and also one or two
Read More »Women Of Venus
It was the second of the theme shows this week and the theme was women of music, celebrating some of the best music by female musicians / singer-songwriters. Also included were a new track
Read More »The Return Of The Debuts
This week kicked off the first of a few theme shows. Back in November while covering for Eddie Curry I played a show of tracks from debut albums. I had a stack load of
Read More »Savage Beats
This week we celebrated new releases from the brilliant Deerhoof and Joan As Policewoman along with some great reissues from The Fall and Sebadoh, all worthy of anyones time and attention. We also had
Read More »It’s the Ones Who’ve Cracked That the Light Shines Through 08/01/11
Another week and more great music to be heard on this weeks show. 2011 is shaping up to be another great year for album releases and we played some tracks from forthcoming releases including
Read More »Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Like Antennas to Heaven…01/01/11
2011 is upon us! The first 33RPM of the year was a special extended edition, a chance to play more great music for your listening pleasure. There were some new tracks from some great
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