The Whole Nine Yards Ep 249 2.11.25 Strings Attached with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 248     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 26th October 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Strings Attached

Today a sweeping, salt-sprayed symphony of alternative tracks that refuse to let go of our emotions. These songs are anchored to something deeper: lush orchestral arrangements, emotional undercurrents, and the kind of beauty borne of hope in the middle of storms. Epic Indie shanties and ballads washing into your ears –  tragic Alice Martineau’s ‘Right Here’; the windswept melancholy of Talk Talk’s “I Believe in You” and the cinematic ache of Hope of the States’ “Nehemiah”. Each track carries its own weight, its own story, and often, its own shipwreck.

These are tracks that never sailed the main currents and only some reached shore.

Let’s not turn them away.

Hour One

Alice Martineau – The Right Time (Daydreams 2002)

Betsy – Lost and Found (Lost & Found 2016)

LP – Into The Wild (Forever for Now 2016)

Alison Moyet – The Rarest Birds (Other 2017)

All About Eve – In the Meadow (All About Eve 1988)

Nerina Pallot – Learning to Breathe (Fires 2005)

Hope of the States – Nehemiah (The Lost Riots 2004)

The Field Mice – Sensitive (There and Back Again 1995)

Bernhardt – Buzz Aldrin (Walk With Me – Live 2011)

I am Kloot – Ferris Wheels (Play Moolah Rouge 2008)

The Mighty Truth – City to the Sea (From the City to the Sea 1995)

Hour Two

Adorable – A to Fade In (Against Perfection 1993)

British Sea Power – Canvey Island (D You Like Rock Music 2008)

Gregory Alan Isakov – The Stable Song (Greory Alan Isakov & Colorado Symphony Orchestra 2016)

Superstar – Every Day I Fall Apart (Palm Tree 1998)

Shack – Comedy (HMS Fable 1999)

Teenage Fanclub – Sparky’s Dream (Grand Prix 1995)

The Candyskins – Car Crash (Sunday Morning Fever 1997)

Shed Seven – Chasing Rainbows ((Going for Gold 1999)

Gay Dad – Plane Going Down (Transmission 2001)

Camp Claude – All This Space (Swimming Lessons 2016)

Talk Talk – I Believe in You (Spirit of Eden 1988)

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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