Lost Immortals Ep 215 7.5.23 with Roy Stannard and Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Joy Pop

Broadcast in a post-Coronation stupor on 7.5.23: the day after, in the New Carolean era.

Fortunately, The Ramones ask us to dance; we take the skinheads bowling and play the theme from Joy Pop. You, our audience, are the housebuilders, we wield the chisels.

We play a couple of dance tracks from the Ramones; take the skinheads bowling before a bit of psychomania from The Damned. Then a brilliant cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘People are People’ from Vaja. But there’s time to play a long forgotten Brighton band ‘Us and Them’ and some Scottish Britpop from Octopus that provides us with this week’s show title.

Hour One

The Ramones – Let’s Dance (The Ramones 1976 Remaster)

The Ramones – Do You Want to Dance (Rocket to Russia 1977)

The Bouncing Souls – Kenver (Ten Stories High, 2023)

Camper Van Beethoven – Take the Skinheads Bowling ( Telephone Free Landslide Victory 1985)

The Damned – Psychomania (Anything 1986)

The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site (Reconstruction Site, 2003)

Birdland – Shoot You Down (Birdland, 1991)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Man (Fever to Tell, 2003)

Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies) (Funeral, 2004)

boygenius – Not Strong Enough (The Record, 2023)

Us & Them – Out of Touch (The Girl that Got Away 2009)

Vaja – People Are People (Single, 2023)

Kevin Morby – This is a Photograph (This is a Photograph, 2022)

Hour Two

Octopus – Theme from Joy Pop (From A to B 1996)

Shawn Mullins – The Great Unknown (My Stupid Heart 2015)

Youth Lagoon – Idaho Alien (Heaven Is a Junkyard, 2023)

Anders Osborne & Monk Boudreaux – Junko Partner (Bury The Hatchet, 2005)

Jackie DeShannon – When You Walk in the Room (Breakin’ It Up on The Beatles Tour! 1963)

Annie Black – Gloomy Sunday (Meet Anna Black 1969)

Samantha Crain – Elk City (Under Branch & Thorn & Tree 2015)

Danny Schmidt – Just Wait Til They See You (Standard Deviation, 2019)

Molly Tuttle – Helpless (live) (But I’d Rather Be With You 2020)

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – Cast Iron Skillet (Weathervane 2023)

Caroline Spence ft Lori McKenna – The Next Good Time (True North 2023)

Night Beds – 22 (Country Sleep, 2013)

Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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