In episode 21 Simon Jones from one of Colin's favourite ever bands, Chichester's utterly fantastic but sadly disbanded post rock legends Hope Of The States, joins us to talk about Melody Maker & BBC Radio 1 present Steve Lamacq's Bootleg Session cassette from March 1998. The tape's full tracklisting is - 1 – Gold Blade – Stricyly Hardcore Evening Session Jingle 2 – Ash – Let It Flow (BBC Session) 3 –Suede – Saturday Night (BBC Session) 4 – Travis – The Line Is Fine (BBC Session) 5 – Fun Lovi...
Nov 08, 2020•58 min•Ep. 21
In episode 20 Rachel Branson from the utterly brilliant Mosher Mags Instagram account joins us to talk about NME & Green Day present Generation Punk from June 2005 The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 – My Chemical Romance – Give 'Em Hell, Kid 2 – The Distillers – Drain The Blood 3 –Generation X – Kiss Me Deadly 4 – Operation Ivy - Knowledge 5 – AFI – The Days Of The Phoenix 6 – The Stooges – I Got A Right 7 – MC5 – The American Ruse 8 – Alkaline Trio – Back To Hell 9 – Deftones – Be Quiet And ...
Oct 11, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 20
In Episode 19 Derrek Carriveau from the “I F*cking Love This Record” podcast joins us to talk about Mojo Magazine's Teen Spirit (15 Noise-Filled Classics from the American Underground Scene 1989-1992) from October 2017. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 – Rocket From The Crypt – Short Lip Fuser 2 – Afghan Whigs – I'm Her Slave 3 – The Jesus Lizard - Gladiator 4 – Urge Overkill – The Kids Are Insane 5 – 7 Year Bitch – Chow Down 6 – Pavement - Here 7 – Mudhoney – Good Enough 8 – Love Battery – Out...
Sep 13, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 19
In episode 18 stand up comedian, podcaster, musician, and Colin's old schoolfriend, Michael Dryburgh (from the excellent Mixtapes With Mike podcast) joins us to talk about Q Magazine's Really Free from November 1994. In between the recording and release of this episode Q Magazine has sadly announced that the July 2020 issue will be their final issue. Big thanks to all Q 's contributors past and present as they were pioneers in our particular area of the universe due to them being the first magaz...
Aug 09, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 18
In Episode 17 Charly Lombardi joins us to talk about Bang Magazine's This Sh%t Is Immortal from May 2003. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Hot Hot Heat - Aveda 2 - The Darkness - The Best Of Me 3 - Electric Six - Naked Pictures 4 - Gold Chains - Code Red 5 - Ladytron - Blue Jeans 6 - Interpol - Roland 7 - The Postal Service - Such Great Heights 8 - Brendan Benson - You're Quiet 9 - James Mercer Feat. Sam Beam & Rosie Thomas - The Past & Pending (Live) 10 - The Flaming Lips - It's Summ...
Jul 12, 2020•58 min•Ep. 17
In episode 16 Sarah Daniels returns for a Glastonbury special where we talk about NME & Radio 1 Present The Glastonbury Broadcasts Vol. 1 from June 1999. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz (Live at Glastonbury 1995) 2 - Oasis - Rock N Roll Star (Live at Glastonbury 1995) 3 - Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train (Live at Glastonbury 1997) 4 - Reef - Allotment (Live at Glastonbury 1997) 5 - Cast - Alright (Live at Glastonbury 1997) 6 - Jeff Buckley ...
Jun 14, 2020•54 min•Ep. 16
In episode 15 Matt Latham from the Pick A Disc podcast joins us to talk about Plan B Magazine's B'Wich'D Wichita records sampler from August 2008. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Those Dancing Days - Home Sweet Home (Rough Mix) 2 - Lovvers - Human Hair 3 - Sky Larkin - Antibodies (Demo) 4 - Los Campesinos - How I Taught Myself To Scream 5 - The Bronx - Knifeman 6 - Les Savy Fav - Meet Me In The Dollar Bin 7 - Conor Oberst - I Don't Want To Die (In A Hospital) 8 - Peter Moren - Tell Me In Tim...
May 10, 2020•59 min•Ep. 15
In episode 14 Westie (with a short guest appearance from Jayde from episode 11) joins us to talk about Metal Hammer's Brutal Bunch 4 from November 1996. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Pist.On - Down & Out 2 - The Driven - Killer 3 - N.Y. Loose - Apathy Is Golden 4 - Sullen - Korrupted 5 - Stuck Mojo - Pigwalk 6 - Cathedral - Urko's Conquest 7 - Floodgate - Running With Sodden Legs 8 - Earth Crisis - Constrict 9 - Laberinto - Priority 10 - Cradle Of Filth - Dusk & Her Embrace Find We...
Apr 12, 2020•40 min•Ep. 14
In episode 13 we celebrate a whole year of Free With This Months Issue by inviting our wives Helen & Lydia to talk about CD1 of Kerrang! 2 - The Album from November 2001. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Foo Fighters - Breakout 2 - Papa Roach - Between Angels & Insects 3 - Slipknot - Wait & Bleed 4 - Queens Of The Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer 5 - Hole - Celebrity Skin 6 - American Hi-Fi - Flavor Of The Week 7 - Alkaline Trio - Stupid Kid 8 - 3 Doors Down - Be Like That ...
Mar 08, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 13
In episode 12 Birmingham's most rock and roll chef, Alex Claridge from The Wilderness selects Kerrang - Search & Destroy: The History Of Punk Volume 1 from June 2000. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 -NOFX - Dinosaurs Will Die 2 - Less Thank Jake - Motto 3 - The Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day 4 - Vandals - My Girlfriend’s Dead 5 - Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout 6 - The Damned - You Know 7 - AFI - God Called In Sick Today 8 - Misfits - Fiend Club 9 - Napalm Death - Politicians 10 - Discharge - The...
Feb 09, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 12
In episode 11 Jayde Bates selects Rock Sound's Music With Attitude 10 CD from March 2000. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Filter - Welcome To The Fold (Album Version) 2 - Stroke - Momentary 3 - Kittie - Get Off (You Can Eat A Dick) 4 - Muse - Agitated 5 - Keith Caputo - Honeycomb 6 - Queen Adreena - Pretty Polly (Album Version) 7 - Psycore - The Zoo (An Apathy Allstar Percutation) 8 - Soulwax - Too Many DJ's 9 - Seafood - Belt (Original Version) 10 - Meathook Seed - Beautiful 11 - Supersucke...
Jan 19, 2020•56 min•Ep. 11
In our first ever Christmas Special Gemma Williamson & Graham Reed return to play Russian Roulette with a pile of cds! This time we grabbed a pile of CDs (Radio Kerrang Volume 1, Mojo's Blue Christmas, X-Ray volume 11, Metal Hammer's Razor & Rock Sound Music With Attitude 32) and allowed fate to choose which one we were going to talk about. If you want to keep it as a surprise don't read any further and just listen! * * * * * * The CD the universe chose for us to discuss was...Metal Hamm...
Dec 15, 2019•58 min•Ep. 10
In Episode 9 Jenny Hipkiss selects's NME's Cool List from December 2004. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Goldie Lookin' Chain - 21 Ounces 2 - Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot (Live) 3 - The Futureheads - First Day 4 - The Rakes - Strasbourg 5 - Nine Black Alps - Cosmopolitan 6 - Bloc Party - Helicopter 7 - The Dears - Lost In The Plot 8 - The Concretes - Chico 9 - Babyshambles - Babyshambles 10 - Selfish C**t - I Love New York 11 - Art Brut - Bad Weekend 12 - Neil's Children - I Hate Models ...
Nov 17, 2019•48 min•Ep. 9
In Episode 8 Gemma Williamson selects Kerrang Magazine's "The Best Of 2002" from November 2002. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Disturbed - Awaken 2 - New Found Glory - The Story So Far 3 - P.O.D. - Alive 4 - Silverchair - The Greatest View 5 - A - Nothing 6 - The Datsuns - In Love 7 - Idlewild - Out Of Routine 8 - Finch - New Beginnings 9 - Feeder - Come Back Around 10 - Murderdolls - Twist My Sister 11 - Muse - In Your World 12 - The D4 - Get Loose 13 - InMe - Ruins 14 - Black Rebel Motorc...
Oct 20, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 8
In Episode 7 Tracey Bowen from the We Dig Music podcast selects Mojo magazine's "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Indie Classics 1982 - 1987)" from October 2012. In Episode 7 Tracey Bowen from the We Dig Music podcast selects Mojo magazine's "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Indie Classics 1982 - 1987)" from October 2012.The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Felt - Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow 2 - The Weather Prophets - Almost Prayed 3 - Hurrah! - Sweet Sanity 4 - The Woodentops - Wel...
Sep 15, 2019•54 min•Ep. 7
In episode 6 Leah Fitzsimmons selects Uncut Magazine's The REM Collection Disc 2 Michael Stipe Presents... Rare And Unreleased Tracks from July 2005. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Now It's Overhead - Reverse (Live) 2 - Karen Elson - Coming Down 3 - Papercranes - Know You When 4 - Tilly & The Wall - Nights Of The Living Dead (Live) 5 - The Citizens Band - Je T'Aime Scumbag 6 - Flash To Bang Time - H The President (Live) 7 - The Checks - Mercedes Children 8 - Vic Chesnutt - Aunt Avis 9 -...
Aug 18, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 6
In Episode 5 Graham Reed selects Q Magazine's Q Covered - Best of 86/06 from May 2006. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Franz Ferdinand - What You Waiting For? 2 - Sugababes - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 3 - The Flaming Lips - Can't Get You Out Of My Head 4 - Corinne Bailey Rae - Venus As A Boy 5 - Elbow - August And September 6 - Richard Hawley - Some Candy Talking 7 - Editors - Orange Crush 8 - Delays - The Sun Always Shines On TV 9 - Jack Johnson - The 3 R's (The Magic Number) 10...
Jul 21, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 5
Episode 4, the first episode we recorded back in mid 2018. Sarah Daniels selects Melody Maker;s Nu Clear Bombz from April 2000. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Slipknot - Wait And Bleed (Terry Date Mix) 2 - Pennywise - Alien 3 - Korn - Dirty 4 - The Bloodhound Gang - Magna Cum Nada 5 - Queens Of The Stone Age - Regular John 6 - Kittie - Get Off (you Can Eat A Dick) 7 - Amen - Down Human 8 - The Get Up Kids - Holiday 9 - One Minute Silence - 1845 10 - Dum Dums - You Knock Me Off My Feet Liste...
Jun 16, 2019•50 min•Ep. 4
Episode Three & our first with a Guest! Thom Baker selects Uncut Magazine's Rebel Rebel - A Tribute To David Bowie from April 2008. The CD's full tracklist is - 1 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Rebel Rebel 2 - The Sea & Cake - Sound & Vision 3 - King Crimson - "Heroes" (live) 4 - The Last Town Chorus - Modern Love 5 - John Howard - The Bewlay Brothers 6 - Ed Kuepper - The Man Who Sold The World 7 - Brett Smiley - Kooks 8 - L.A. Guns - Moonage Daydream 9 - Eater - Queen Bitch 10 - Mott The H...
May 19, 2019•52 min•Ep. 3
Episode two is here! This time Ian selects Metal Hammer Brutal Bunch 3 from October 1996. The CD's full tracklist is - 1 - Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole (Unplugged) 2 - Moby - Someone To Love 3 - Dub War - Million Dollar Love 4 - Fireside - Kilotin 5 - Manhole - Six Feet Deep 6 - Corrosion Of Conformity - King Of The Rotten 7 - Type O Negative - Wolf Moon 8 - Everclear - Heroin Girl 9 - Feeder - W.I.T. 10 - Sponge - Silence Is Their Drug 11 - Imperial Drag - Zodiac Sign 12 - Scheer - Shea 13 ...
Apr 21, 2019•46 min•Ep. 2
It's our first ever episode, and to kick off procedings Colin chooses the first CD we'll be listening to. Radio Kerrang Volume 5 from February 1998. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Soulfly - No 2 - Cold - Goodbye Cruel World 3 - Idlewild - Self Healer 4 - Backyard Babies - Bombed (Out Of My Mind) 5 - 12 Rods - Red 6 - Therapy? - Screamager 7 - Symposium - Schostakowitsch 8 - Catherine Wheel - Texture (Live) 9 - Feline - Can't Help Myself (Edit) 10 - Addict - Caned 11 - Clawfinger - Hold Your...
Mar 15, 2019•50 min•Ep. 1