Podrophenia: Dial E for Easy Listening. Dial P for Podcast

The latest Podrophenia podcast is now up for download. Wherein we bring you, not *one* - but TWO world exclusives from Eight Rounds Rapid - an album track and an SFOB session recording

Reveal how to get involved with the new Lee Brilleaux biog... Bring you up to speed with the Eye-bombing phenomenon, splain what's On The Buzzes - and tell all about why SFOB George (6 foot 6 and robustly bearded) was shopping for dresses.

Get all the answers, plus a playlist of fine and funky tunes - from within the The Podrophenia Easy Listening Collection below in any format you like

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Radio Podrophenia: The World of Easy Listening

Slip into your leisure slacks, dust down your satin smoking jacket - pour something long and clinky from the drinks cabinet, and let Podrophenia soothe you with two hours of tunes as we make our March return with an Easy Listening special...

It's a theme chosen by Alan McPhail. Expect a few new spins on some cheesier artists, and lesser known nuggets by lounge-core lovelies from Piley and self: safari suited singers getting on the good foot, country twangers going funky, divas doing disco - and a Northern Soul cover that out-stomps the original...

All this and a universally exclusive airing of an Eight Round Rapid track from the due-soon album. Slink your way to Ship Full of Bombs from 8 pm tonight or chip in with the chat hereabouts 

One on the sub's bench  Hugo Strasser's Schlager take on the Sabb's

Podrophenia's Top Ten Cover Versions....

Earlier in the week, Piley and I were very kindly asked by our local (and award winning) newspaper The Echo to pick a pocketful of covers for the Top Ten feature which gets a regular run-out in Wednesday's Scene supplement.

It's a tough call distilling down a fizzing list of possible plays to just five a piece. But we pulled it off and the final countdown is presented below. One to five are mine, six to ten - Piley's

If you fancy checking the reviews, relevant vids and lending your ears for a listen - beam yourself here... 

Vive Le Rocking

The minty new edition of that most Rock 'n' Roll of magazines is now on sale at all in-the-know newsagents and records shops..

Vive Le Rock ish seventeen brings you up to date with all the latest news from punk, rock and new wave heavy-hitters. The Stranglers, Adam Ant, and Marc Almond interviewed by Friend of the PM Blog - Barry Cain.. You can catch a second part of the Marc interview on Barry's always excellent Flexipop! blog here

As well as Sid vicious, the Stones and Wilko features  there's an update on what's a popping with our pals The Mutants mentioned last in the summer of '13

Contributions from me include reviews of newbies from Nightmare Boyzzz and The Peckham Cowboys re-issues by Daniel Ash and The Damned's Tikki Nightmare DVD/CD combo, a spitfire set with one of my cherished Damned tunes - at their most psych-poppily splendid..

Radio Podrophenia Podcast - The Letter S, with Glass Brides in session...

What a bundle of beauties and beats we bring you in that latest Podrophenia.

Tune-wise, you'll find tracks from The Stands, The Supremes and Sue Records.

Session-wise: we bring you four Glass Brides exclusives. Both sides of the due-soon single 'White Gold' B/W 'Seven (PartII)'. Also live acoustic refits of a Chaka Khan classic - and a stripped down version of 'Parasite' appearing on the Glass Brides EP Nature of the Beats



Natter-wise: expect some hash-tagging on lazy bands and songs, and Scottish Bowie songs.

All here in either iTunes or MP3 editions

Radio Podrophenia: live tonight - S is for sessions, ships and 'sclusives...

Calling all Southenders, out-of-towners and internet wireless types – tonight the February edition of Radio Podrophenia is brought to you by the Letter S from the Podrophonic alphabet.

Expect - shimmying, shaking, something from Sue Records by way of Guy Stevens – and a surprise appearance from Pellicci legend Jukebox Jimmy.

For our first live session of 2014, Southend’s Nu Trip-Hoppers - the Glass Brides, will be bringing their widescreen beats and cinematic soundtracking to the Shipful of Bombs studio. But behold – exclusive news as the Brides are revealing an exclusive freshly pressed tune (Seven Part II) never before aired *anywhere* in the entire known universe..

The official page for this Thursday night shindig – is here

Feel free to chip in and natter away with us via Chatwing

Rewire your dials from 8pm tonight and SFOB , for Glass Bombs on Shipful of Brides, or is it the other way round... Salut and see you hereabouts



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60 Minute Man: Jukebox Jimmy's Guide to Motown

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Photo by Colin O' Brien - from the always excellent Spitalfields Life

For the third installement of Jukebox Jimmy's Guide to music - we bring you a JBJ Motown special. Wherein Jim picks his favourite tracks, tunes and Tamla tales. All hand-ripped from his very own vinyl library

Ballads, belters and tear-jerkers (literally) are contained within the collection.

So let Jukebox Jim take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London and Detroit for the next hour

Sixty Minute Man - JBJ guide to Motown



The previous Sixty Minute editions are below should you fancy backtracking

Summer Sounds

JBJ Guide to Music

Radio Podrophenia - Best of 2013

Boys. girls and bloggers - help yourself to a copy of the latest Podrophenia from Piley, Kate Johnston and the other one. Our round up of the best new music, albums, blogs and discoveries from 2013.

Slightly saltier than usual - with beard watch, new jingles, rum ol' hashtags and assorted shades of smuttery, which we'll blame on the Podrophenia board. Take one and pass it on....

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Radio Podrophenia - Bif Bam Kapow

BIF! Boys, girls, what-nots and rockers.. tonight, Piley and I return to Shipful of Bombs for the January instalment of our 12 part Podrophenia partwork, where, we're joined by Kate Johnston of the Girl's Guide II blog for a round-up of fave new tunes...

BAM! It's all a'popping from 8 Southend Central time. Tune in at Shipful of Bombs, or chip in at Chatwing

I can't tell you what's on the Piley playlist. But from my six pack expect: The Strypes, Primal Scream, a Norman Watt-Roy/Wilko team up and the Vitamin Beard powered Kadavar..




POW! Should you fancy catching one one half of the Podrophenia duo double-decking, swing by The Railway tomorrow night where the Oil City powered outfit Bif Bam Pow will be booming around the room with a two-set stint of Estuary fed blues and R 'n' B belters...

I'll be pinging in soul, funk, Motown, Norther, hammond classics, boogaloo, Ye Ye and anything else grabbable from my beaten and battered old record box until bunging out time..




All the deets and details are here - and I'll hope to see you there

Radio Podrophenia - Blow Up 20th Anniversary Special

In October 1993 Southender, Paul Tunkin hosted his first Blow Up night at The Laurel Tree, Camden. An event, that after two decades of hard graft and consistently hi-quality output has developed into a globally known identity - with Blow Up events in Japan. Europe and the US - becoming the coolest indie label in Britain, and the source of chicest vintage beats and hippest new musical finds.

Paul cut his clubbing teeth locally with a DJ residency at the Pink Toothbrush alongside running a series of self-promoted nights at shifting scenes and locations (The Monkey House, The Wasp Factory and The Periphery) eventually moving and settling into the London scene with Blow Up, debuting at the Laurel Tree, Camden. A move that in a moment of musical synchronicity caught the upswing of the Britpop explosion. Blow Up later relocated to the Wag Club in Wardour Street and became the clubhouse and HQ for all ace faces of the indigenous music scene -Blur, Pulp, and Oasis.

Fast forward. to February 2013 and Blow Up celebrates its twentieth anniversary as a record label, with the Southend circle (or roundel) becoming complete as  man-about-the-Southend-music scene David Woodcock has become Blow Up's latest signing, sitting alongside established acts such as Big Boss Man, The Bongolian and the Yoko-endorsed Baltic Fleet.

A prolific songwriter and performer, with a pacy workrate of new material and gigs, Woodcock is possibly the hardest working man is showbiz since James Brown. Dave's self-penned songbook is both instantly accessible and equally broad-ranging enough to entertain salty British Legion boozers or Brick Lane's swishy-set. .

Within a week of his debut single Same Things being released last summer, hipster site Brandish described the song as ‘a distillation of everything that is great about quirky English pop music’ while it’s also been receiving plays on XFM, Radio London and spins on BBC 6Music. A strong start for a first single - Dave’s take..

The second single Beggars Can't Be Choosers/Tease - has been getting some hefty nods from Steve Lamacq.

For a listen to both sides of the new single,  the low-down on twenty years of Blow Up the club and label, a run through on some rarities, new releases - and a chat with Blow Up's Big Boss Man, Paul Tunkin tune into the latest Podrophenia

Radio Podrophenia - Blow Up Special




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