SHORT INTERVIEW: UNKNOWN REFUGE – BEGINNINGS
A band that’s made a big impression with us in 2021. Rewinding here to the first interview during lockdown with Bolton’s new rising rock force. A playful sense of fun from the band, from a time when we all relied on Zoom to keep spirits up during lockdown.
FEATURE INTERVIEW: AMONGST LIARS – BEGINNINGS
Right back to the beginning, my first chat with Leo on the transition from Saint Apache to Amongst Liars. A lot of chat on where the name for the new band came from – and words too on the band’s debut single ‘Over and Over.’
SHORT INTERVIEW: HOSS THOMSON AT WILDFIRE FEST 2O21
My full and unedited interview clip with Hoss over late lunch on the final afternoon of Wildfire 2021. Just after the band’s set, we spoke about the return of Wildfire and live music after almost 18 months of social restrictions.
Badflower – ‘This is how the World Ends’
SEPTEMBER ALBUM OF THE MONTH The most urgently needed music of 2021, Badflower return with the defining album of 2021. No ‘difficult second album’ syndrome here; ‘OK I’m Sick’ disappears in the rear-view mirror as Badflower hold a mirror up the world with a new body of work that is poetic in its lyricism, cinematic […]
Wildfire – the lost tapes: 25 July 2021
In 2018 Wildfire Festival didn’t happen, but we had already done preview interviews with 20 or so bands, which ended up never airing. Three years on for Spirit of Wildfire 3 weekend, we dug out some of these interviews from the GMS archive for an airing, an interesting snapshot of bands at a moment in […]
GuyB’s Wildfire Story: 25 July 2021
An hour from the Spirit of Wildfire 3 radio fest, I took an hour out to reflect on some of the standout moments and standout bands from my trips to Wildfire Festival since June 2016. Music includes: Massive Wagons, Jokers, Screaming Eagles, Inglorious, Broken Witt Rebels, Fireroad, Samarkind, Skam, Tarot Rats, Thundermother, Toby Jepson and […]
TROY REDFERN – ‘THE FIRE COSMIC’
AUGUST ALBUM OF THE MONTH Nightfall. Imagine Marshal Jed Cooper and Captn Jack Sparrow racing to Rockfield late at night in the Batmobile – and you have the essence of ‘Scorpio,’ the opening track of this benchmark new album from Troy Redfern. The swagger and grit of a spaghetti western, menacing rhythms reminiscent of the […]
Friday Rock Show: 16 July 2021
The first hour of the Friday rockshow, news and music from a new generation of unsigned and rising bands: Music includes: Skam, The Autumn Killers, Thundermother, Inglorious, The Ellis Mano Band, Badflower, Scarlet Rebels, Amongst Liars, plus a quick interview with Safron from Irish rockers Safire and North Atlas.
SHORT INTERVIEW: SCARLET REBELS LIVE STREAM
A backstage interview from the Scarlet Rebels stream concert which signalled the start of their new album pre-order campaign. A full feature interview hour with the band was aired, but here is a segment from Wayne’s interview. The full feature will go up on listen again after it’s had a second outing on radio.
FEATURE INTERVIEW: TROY REDFERN
Interview content from my last two interviews with Troy from recent months, joined up as a 2-in-1 listen again audio file. First up my June interview with Tory on the album pre-order campaign and new single. After this I have added our hour special from April when Troy talked in more detail about the genesis […]