This Reality – Podcast No 75

Episode 75 – 39 minutes running time This week we return to our normal style and our usual low standards amid much hilarity, uncontrolled coughing and some impromptu egg-laying. The musical goodness comes to you from: 1. Axis of Awesome, How To 3… (http://www.myspace.com/axisofawesomemusic) 2. The Fray, How To Save A Life (http://www.myspace.com/thefray) 3.... [Read More..]

This Reality – Podcast No 74

Episode 74 – 52 minutes running time Cornbury 2009 Festival Special – Part 2: This week we focus on just some of the sights and sounds that we encountered during Day Two of the 2009 Cornbury Festival, Sunday 13th July. And the musical goodness for Day Two of Cornbury 2009 comes to you from: 1. Laura And The Tears (http://www.myspace.com/lauraandthetears) 2.... [Read More..]

News update 17th July 2009: BBC Radio 1, presenter changes

In a move calculated to align their ‘Corps of Ageing Presenters’ to the newest generation of radio listeners, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) main output of youth programming, Radio 1, will be undergoing the latest set of changes in their self-imposed, perpetually shifting, demographic-updating cycle. Weekday daytime presenter... [Read More..]

Band review: Warning! Heat Ray!, Riverside Stage, Cornbury Festival

11th July 2009 Music festivals have three groups of people – and they all want something different from the gig. If you’re a member of the public what you want is weather that is going to be neither too hot nor too cold. And not too wet either. You don’t care too much about it being too dry. But apart from the weather the bottom line is the music;... [Read More..]

This Reality – Podcast No 73

Episode 73 – 47 minutes running time Cornbury 2009 Festival Special – Part 1: The 2009 Cornbury Festival ran from Satuday 12th July to Sunday 13th July. But like many other people we were on-site from Friday 11th right through to late Sunday night. In that time we recorded so much audio, saw so many things and heard so many bands, that... [Read More..]

News update 13th July 2009: Cornbury Festival

(This is the 2009 Cornbury page. If you want our 2010 Cornbury page you need to click here!) It would be too easy to make the bizarre English weather the feature of the 2009 Cornbury Festival; hideous downpours Friday night, Saturday evening and Saturday night, followed by skin-scorching sunshine all day Sunday. It would also be far too easy to focus... [Read More..]

This Reality – Podcast No 72

Episode 72 – 45 minutes running time Give aways! Free EPs! Send an email to thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com with ’72′ in the subject line and get a free copy of the beautiful ‘Fire’ EP by ‘inLight’ and a free copy of the captivating ‘Service Bell’ EP by ‘Years of Rice and Salt’. So this... [Read More..]

This Reality – Podcast No 71

Episode 71 – 52 minutes running time Giveaways! Free EPs here! Welcome to an American Independence Day-flavoured episode of This Reality Podcast. Umm, kinda. Sortov. We hope our American friends appreciate the humour! This week the music includes: 1. Wax Audio, Maiden Goes To Hollywood (http://www.waxaudio.com.au) 2. Sue Quigley, Without A Trace... [Read More..]

News update 3rd July 2009: The Good China

Thrilling news from Melbourne, Australia where the amazingly talented seven-piece eight-piece band of richly diverse and incredibly talented musicians known collectively as ‘The Good China’ have secured a short-term residency at the prestigious Evelyn Hotel. The Good China will be joined onstage (but not at the same time, obv) by Plastic... [Read More..]