The Whole Nine Yards Ep 289 6.9.26 Freshly Plucked: Best new guitar tracks with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Ep 293 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 7 September 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Freshly Plucked

The new guitar generation:

There’s something in the air again – the sound of guitars being picked up by people with something to say. After years of synths, beats and bedroom pop, a new wave of bands has emerged with six strings, fresh stories and an indie attitude. They are reinventors – folding Americana into indie, punk into pop, folk into widescreen dreamscapes. We’re showcasing bands who know a guitar can change the temperature of a room, crack open a memory, or send a crowd into orbit.

Hour One

The Broken Radios – Dark Highway (Single 2026)

Valerie June – Smokestack (Single 2026)

White Collar Crime – Words I Never Said (Words I Never Said 2026)

Westside Cowboy – Paperchains (It Goes On 2026)

Tooth – Age of Innocence (Age of Innocence 2026)

The Chats – The Price of Smokes (Get Fucked 2022)

Spacey Jane – All the Noise (Single 2025)

So Reverie – Close My Eyes (Andy Power · Dan Jones · Andy Power · Cain Garcia) (Single 2025)

Mark Knopfler – What it Is (Remastered 2021) (Sailing to Philadelphia 2000)

Strawberry Milk – Katherine the Great (Single 2025)

The Band Friday – Pink Lemonade (Homecoming EP 2026)

The American Dawn – Her (Single 2024)

Hour Two

SwIss Portrait – Photobooth (Single 2024)

Little Grandad – Tiny Feet (Speak Softly, Son 2026)

Spanish Horses – Hey Man (Hey Man!) (Single 2026)

Francis of Delirium – It’s a Beautiful Life (Run, Run Pure Beauty 2026)

Portraits – Glitch (Vaguely Western 2026)

Marlon Funaki – When Sunday Comes Around (Monterey Village 2024)

Hurray for the Riff Raff – Alibi (The Past is Still Alive 2024)

Weezer – Go Away ft Bet Cosantino (Everything Will Be Alright In The End lost track

Powers of the Monk – Sleepy Fields (Single 2025)

Civic Video – Wasted Days (Single 2026)

Willowake – Held My Hand (Single 2026)

Pamela – Better Than Before (It’s Nice to See You Here EP 2026)

ITHEMS – A Ghost Inside (Single 2025)

LP – Thirty 2nd Chances (Room 12 2026)

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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