This Reality – Podcast No 83

Episode 83 – 31 minutes running time It’s a prepared, but still fairly quick and dirty podcast today; recorded late on Tuesday evening in Studio L in Witney because when the podcast is released on Saturday/Sunday we will be… in Italy. Ciao. But as ever, this this show was recorded *live* in rural Oxfordshire and recorded in one take with... [Read More..]

This Reality – Podcast No 82

Episode 82 – 36 minutes running time There’s no excuse for being tremendously under-prepared. Apart from being too busy unpicking the shit of other people; putting right the slapdash work of certain software professionals who work for a Microchip company with a name that sounds a bit like Infel. So we’re both sorry – soz and all... [Read More..]

News update 15th September 2009: Slits over Europe

Slits at large! We’re thrilled that so soon after we referenced them in this review, the reformed formerly almost-all-girl punk band The Slits have announced a European tour. The Slits’ new album Trapped Animal will finally be released on 5th October 2009 to support the Euro-tour, which will not only unveil new material but will also show us the... [Read More..]

This Reality – Podcast No 81

Episode 81 – 42 minutes running time This week we bring you a laid-back musical vibe, three very diverse types of sounds from three very diverse areas of musical excellence. Mainstream radio could ever be this good? Really? But as ever, you know that this show was recorded in rural Oxfordshire in one take, right? So, the musical goodness from Bren’s... [Read More..]

Review: Noah and the Whale, ICA, London

It is hard to think of Noah and the Whale without the mind conjuring up thoughts of an almost childish band – or a band of many childlike qualities. Is that because of their pretty awful single ‘5 Years Time’ (please don’t ask how that made it in to the top ten – that fact alone is a shocking indictment on the state of the British music industry)... [Read More..]

This Reality – Podcast No 80

Episode 80 – 46 minutes running time All of the music in this podcast was chosen by Bren’s iPod as he trundled through the peaks of Spain’s Sierra Nevada, Alpujarra and Contraviesa mountain ranges. But you know the show was recorded in Oxfordshire in one take, right? So, the musical goodness from Bren’s Recently Played list... [Read More..]

Review: Secret Rivals

You know what it’s like when, as a child, you find something that’s so wonderful, so precious that you decide, right there and then, that you’re not going to tell a soul about it? It belongs to you and only to you and it is too good to give away? Secret Rivals, Oxfordshire’s uncomfortably cross-bred Punk/Indie band, isn’t like that. But wait. What... [Read More..]