2019-11-15 11:32
Just recorded an hours showcase of cover versions for Panic Radio on WCR (Warminster Community Radio). This is the track listing:1. Panic - 2012 Rema… Read More
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2019-06-14 11:20
One of my favourite DJ Eclair Fifi giving it some HOUSE in Edinburgh this morning! What do they put in the water up there :)https://boilerroom.tv/recording/eclair-fifibc89142f-8b7d-4ce… Read More
2019-06-14 09:12
Panic Radio is pre recorded this evening. An hour of charity shop finds. 9pm to 10pm.Them - GloriaPernice Brothers - Weakest Shade of Blue Grant Lee Buffalo - Mocking Birds R.E.M… Read More
2018-04-12 16:19
Unknown Pleasures is one of the touchstones of the alternative music scene. It is the Rosetta Stone of new wave, from its deep vinyl grooves you can decode the influence in bands as diverse… Read More
2018-03-28 08:33
A great mix of tunes from Chinawww.highwayfive.blogspot.com Read More
2018-03-28 08:28
Panic Radio March 21st 2018• Pulp – Common People• Marisa Anderson – Cloud Corner• Finley Quaye – Butterfly Lovers• Pixies – Bone Machine• Gu… Read More
2017-07-13 07:48
Playlist July 13th Second Hand Special Panic Radio1. Blondie – Rapture2. The Killers – Jenny Was A Friend of Mine3. Buzzcocks – Everbodys Happy Nowdays 4. Guess the a… Read More
2017-05-17 09:46
I have launched a new site that is focused on the radio show that I do weekly on WCR FM in Warminster Wiltshire on a Wednesday evening. The show is called Panic radio and below is a link to… Read More
2017-02-10 16:13
My Radio show tribute to Prince. Two hours of Prince originals, b-sides, remixes and cover versions. I hope you enjoy it.Track listing for the showLets Go CrazyAnotherloverholenyoheadGuitarS… Read More
2016-12-14 11:32
Top 20 LPS 2016 Panic Radio - Highway Five1. Ed Scissor and Lamplighter – Tell Them It’s Winter 2. Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos3. Towel – Wipe Me Dry4. Serpentwi… Read More
2014-03-07 18:36
One of the main joys of the internet for me is the ability to stumble across new music and then get directly to the source via few clicks of a mouse. I love Soundcloud and Bandcamp for allow… Read More
2014-02-28 16:46
Belgian Fog is the musical alias of Robert Dale from Washington State and he works at KEXP in Seattle and has produced a sparkling gem of a track. The songs is propelled along a strident bri… Read More
2014-02-24 21:06
I have recently uncovered this great interview with Steve Albini @ http://vishkhanna.com were he talks in depth about recording (he always says he doesn't produce records) In Uter… Read More
2014-02-24 15:05
I have been a big fan of the Hacker Farm collective since reading a piece in The Wire in May 2013. The collective live and work on an abandoned Farm in the Dorset countryside and the artists… Read More
2014-02-24 12:42
The Go-Betweens seem to be cursed. They are a classic example of the Big Star music law. The law that states that no matter how much critical acclaim you receive, regardless of the majesty o… Read More
2014-02-22 13:04
A certain Mr Steven Patrick Morrissey hand picked the The Boyfriends to provide the support on his UK tour. From the opening bars on their eponymously titled debut LP is… Read More
2014-02-18 22:16
Winter North Atlantic are new to me but after reading a review in this month Wire magazine I have downloaded the LP Phonautogram from emusic and have gone hunting out whatever else I could f… Read More
2014-02-17 16:54
The Art of Noise have always been a band I have loved since the first time I heard “Close to the Edit” back in 1984 aged 13. Well apart from the Prince thing with Tom Jones which… Read More
2014-02-17 14:01
Having not really thought about Neneh Cherry for years she seems to have somehow worked her way back into my musical consciousness. I unearthed a copy of her seminal Buffalo Stance Remix 12… Read More
2014-02-14 21:48
I caught a brief snatch of "Love Can't Turn Around" by Farley "Jack Master" Funk and Darryl Pandy on the radio the other day. Its a great record and it makes me think the first time I heard… Read More
2014-02-06 16:05
A great video of Mark Eiztel playing the Paradiso Amsterdam in 2013. I assume although I don't know that it is an edited set list but its still a wonderful performance of some classic Americ… Read More
2014-02-04 13:38
The every elusive and odd Dean Blunt has dropped a 27 minutes free mix tape titled Skin Fade. The "tape" by the Hype Williams main man is a collaboration with Joanne Robertson. The tape seem… Read More
2014-02-03 16:33
Stumbled across this great record today. I have always been a fine of the cover LP and this version of the seminal My Bloody Valentine LP Loveless by a range of Japanese shoegrazing bands is… Read More
2014-02-03 16:19
On the 30th January 1989 New Order released their LP Technique on cassette, compact disk, record and digital audio tape! Released on Factory Record with the Factory Number - FAC 275. Re… Read More
2014-01-22 14:38
Have just found this little gem on Spotify. The LP Cool as Ice collects various New Order Productions as Be Music between 1983 and 1984. This was just as New Order were dancing headlong towa… Read More
2014-01-20 14:44
On the first couple of listens I am loving the debut LP by William Doyle as East India Youth. It has elements of many things I love, electronic systems music, four to the floor electronica… Read More
2014-01-20 14:44
Doll Boy – Ghost Stations There is something about travelling in London on the Tube that makes me want to soundtrack the journey with electronica. Born and bred in London I find t… Read More
2014-01-17 13:19
The new Mogwai LP is released in the UK on the 20th January 2014 on Rock Action Records. Titled Rave Tapes and likely the works of Burial it seems to be in part at least a requiem for the "g… Read More
2013-12-19 17:03
I stumbled across this lovely acoustic cover The National song City Middle on YouTube looking for live versions of the song. I love this version and how it is so much more vulnerable and ope… Read More
2013-12-19 17:00
The National are one of my favourite bands of all time and I would think they are the band I have listened to most in the last 6 of 7 years. I think my profile on Last FM shows this to be th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
1. Jason Isbell – Something More Than FreeThe new king of alt.country? Former Drive By Trucker releases a LP that is full of great songs that much l… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
New Order have previewed their first new track since 2005's Waiting for the Siren's Call. Played live in Chile as part of Lollapalooza Chile on the 30th March 2014. The song is the first new… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The genius of Martin Hannett (Joy Division, New Order, U2 and Happy Mondays producer) is too be celebrated with a new book and DVD film both released in April.Hannett's story,he died of a he… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This great little EP popped into my inbox a few weeks ago and I have been returning to for repeat listens. It was recorded in a bedroom in Berlin by Sam Radcliff and has shades of few cool t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
There is a wonderful interview in the March edition of Wire Magazine with Actress (aka - Darren Cummingham ). It covers a fair amount of ground looking at his background in Wolverhampton, hi… Read More
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