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The Whole Nine Yards Series 2 Ep 8 21.3.21 Passport to La-La Land with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 21.3.21 3-5pm

broadcast on www.burgesshillradio.co.uk Show 8
with

Roy Stannard

Passport to #LaLaLand

Right now, we all want a ticket to La-la Land. In fact we all want a ticket to just about anywhere. The expression La-La land seems to date back to 1979 when people used it to mean a mystical, whimsical place inspired by la la refrains used in songs.

It then became shorthand for Los Angeles and the dream world created by the magic of celluloid there before becoming the name of a blockbuster movie in 2016. Jazz pianist Ryan Gosling and aspiring actress Emma Stone realise their dreams of stardom in La La Land.

The rest of us secretly wish that we had a place like that where we can forget our worries, dream of better days and join in the chorus of la las. Blue skies and clandy floss skies. This is your passport to a paradise lost..

Hour One

Underworld – Caliban’s Dream (Isles Of Wonder: Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 2012)

La Ragazza 77(Ambra Borelli) – Il Paradiso Della Vito (Single 1968)

Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice (Farewell to the Real Magnificent Seven 1969)

The Rokes – Piangi Con Me (Single 1966)

The Grassroots – Let’s Live for Today (Let’s Live for Today 1967)

Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) the Reaper (Agents of Fortune 1976)

Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me) – The Breakfast Club Soundtrack 1985)

Tears for Fears – Head Over Heels (Songs from the Big Chair 1985)

Jason Mraz – Everything is Sound (La la la) (Love is a Four Letter Word 2012)

Michael Kiwanuka – You Ain’t the Problem (Kiwanuka 2019)

The Fugees – Killing Me Softly with His Song (The Score 1996)

Stevie Nicks – Stand Back (Disco Purrfection Version The Wild Heart 1983)

Hour Two

Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl (Blowin’ Your Mind! 1967)

Snoop Lion – La la la (Reincarnated 2012)

Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith – La la la (Hotel Cabana 2013)

The Carpenters – Yesterday Once More (Now and Then 1973)

Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour (My Cherie Amour 1969)

Kandace Springs – Killing me Softly with his Song (The Women who Raised Me 2020)

Haley Heynderickx – Oom Sha La La (I Need to Start a Garden 2017)

Myles Kennedy – Love Can Only Head (Eye of the Tiger 2018)

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – Killing Me Softly with His Song (Killing Me Softly 1973)

Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ You (Perfect Angel 1974)

Cat Stevens – Lady D’Arbanville (Mona Bone Jakon 1970)

Tears for Fears – Suffer the Children (The Hurting 1981)

Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (Ocean Rain 1984) (Orchestral Version 2013) — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/message

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Lost Immortals Ep 353 28.12.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 353 Sunday 28th Dec 25 5-7pm with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Go Gently

As we move distracted and traumatised into 2026, our contributors have put forward some essential tracks to listen to as we contemplate the start of another year. The Pixies, Gladys Knight, James Yuill, Cocteau Twins, Grandaddy and Picture This make the transition less painful.

Hour One

1. Rise Against – Savior (Appeal to Reason, 2008)

2. Those Damn Crows – Blink Of An Eye (Murder and the Motive, 2020)

3. Metallica: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (live) (Washington, D.C. – March 20, 2024)

4. Grouplove – Tongue Tied (Never Trust A Happy Song, 2011)

5. The Pixies – Nimrod’s Son (Come On Pilgrim, 1997)

6. Hum – Stars (You’d Prefer an Astronaut, 1995)

7. Blink182 – Dammit (Dude Ranch, 1997)

8. Kelly Boesch – Night Owl (Single 2025)

9. The Incredible Bongo Band – Apache (Original 1973) (DJ Booblikon Mix)

10. Gladys Knight & The Pips – I Will Survive (Touch, 1981)

Hour Two

1. JJ Grey & Mofro – The Sweetest Thing (Georgia Warhorse, 2010)

2. Anders Osborne – Highway (Living Room, 1999)

3. Acústico 1Kilo – Deixe-me Ir (Baviera, Knust e Pablo Martins)

4. Pink Floyd – See-Saw (A Saucerful of Secrets 1968)

5. King Hannah – Look at Miss Ohio (Single 2025)

6. James Yuill – No Surprise (Turning Down Water For Air, 2009)

7. Cocteau Twins – Heaven Or Las Vegas (Heaven or Las Vegas, 1990)

8. Grandaddy – Wives of Farmers (Through a Frost Plate Glass EP 2001)

9. Capsuna – Sleep (One Hit for Trainwreck, 2024)

10. Young Hunting – Sweet Bird (Hazel, 2013)

11. Picture This – Go Gently (Let The Light In EP 2025)

Music that hit the spot but missed the charts

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 257 28.12.25 Resolutionaries with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 257     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 28th December 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Resolutionaries

This time of the year is when we look back ruefully and plan to do things differently next year. Normally the good intentions become goodbyes before the end of January, but for a brief time, perhaps just a few hours, everything seems possible.

Welcome to Planuary. This is the soundtrack for all radical resolutionaries..

Hour One

Counting Crows – A Long December (Recovering the Satellites 1996)

Angus & Julia Stone – Here We Go Again (A Book Like This 2007)

You Me at Six – Hope For The Best (Cavalier Youth 2014)

Amy MaDonald – The Hope (Is This What You’ve Been Waiting For? 2025)

Randy Crawford – Wishing on a Star (Every Kind of Mood)

Athlete – Light the Way (Black Swan 2009)

Doves – Catch the Sun (Lost Souls 2000)

The Veils – Guiding Light (The Runaway Found 2003)

Ash – Shining Light (Free All Angels 2001)

Swing Out Sister – I Wish I Knew (Almost Persuaded 2018)

The Jeremy Days – Brand New Toy (The Jeremy Days 1988)

Thea Gilmore – Start as We Mean to Go On (Regardless 2013)

Daughtry – Start of Something Good (Break the Spell 2011)

Hour Two

Altered Images – I could be happy 12”  (Pinky Blue 1982)

Martin Smith – Back to the Start (Back to the Start 2013)

The Montrose Avenue – Start Again (30 Days Out 1998)

The Goo Goo Dolls – Better Days (Let Love In 2005)

Guided By Voices – Hold On Hope (Do The Collapse 1999)

Rod Stewart – Tomorrow is a Long Time (Every Picture Tells a Story 1971)

Eva Cassidy – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Imagine 2002)

The Courteeners – Yesterday, Today & Probably Tomorrow (St Jude 2008)

Tenth Avenue North – I Have This Hope (Followers 2016)

Bill Ryder-Jones – If Tomorrow Starts Without Me (Lechyd Da 2023)

Bruce Springsteen – Land of Hope and Dreams (Wrecking Ball 1999) (Live in New York 2001)

Lost Immortals Ep 352 21.12.25 with Roy Stannard and Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Lost Immortals Ep 352

Sunday 21st December 2025 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Ave Maria

Chris Cornell collaborates with Franz Schubert on Ave Maria, another track from Low’s 1999 Christmas EP, some fun festive blasts from Captain Sensible and The Greedies – and take part in an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party with Girlhouse. The band We Are Still Here debut their single ‘Auntie Knows Best’. The Corporation will be relieved to hear it..Hour One

1.     Captain Sensible – One Christmas Catalogue (Single 1984)

2.     Von Hertzen Brothers – Long Lost Sailor (War Is Over 2018)

3.     The Greedies – A Merry Jingle (Single 1979) Thin Lizzy & Sex Pistols

4.     Girlhouse – Ugly Christmas Sweater Party (Single 2020)

5.     Smash Mouth – Baggage Claim (The Gift of Rock, 2005)

6.     Mec Lir – Flashback (Livewire, 2020)

7.     Gang Of Four – Natural’s Not in It (Entertainment!, 1979)

8.     Low – Just Like Christmas (Christmas EP, 1999)

9.     Pyr – Dune (Laventine EP 2025)

10.  Sun Kil Moon & Amoeba – Wolves (Sun Kil Moon and Amoeba, Vol. II, 2025)

11.  Buddy Miller – Hole In My Head (Your Love And Other Lies, 1995)

12.  John Hiatt – Alone In The Dark (Bring The Family, 1987)

Hour Two

1.     We Are Still Here – Auntie Knows Best (Single, 2025)

2.     The Zombies – Beechwood Park (Odessey and Oracle, 1968)

3.     Besos – Sunlight (Sunlight Single 2019)

4.     Jack Bruce – Theme of an Imaginary Western (Songs for a Tailor 1969

5.     Queen – A Winter’s Tale (Made In Heaven, 1995 and Forever, 2014)

6.     Remmy Ongala and Orchestre Super Matimila – I Want To Go Home (live at Real World Studios 1991) (Mambo 1992) (Short of tracks – could play 8 mins – otherwise extended)

7.     Josh Radin – You Got Me Thinking  (Here, Right Now 2019)

8.     The Chieftains ft Marianne Faithful – I Saw Three Ships A Sailing (The Bells of Dublin 1991)

9.     Chris Cornell – Ave Maria (featuring Eleven) (Single, 1997)

10.  Laurence Nerbonne – Noël brille encore (Single, 2022)

11.  Bruce Cockburn – Silent Night (Christmas 1993)

EXTENDED

The Futureheads – Christmas Was Better in the 80s (Single, 2010)

The Lathums – Krampus (Single, 2021)Reserves

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 256 21.12.25 Seasonal Songs Left Out in the Cold with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 256     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 21st December 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Hour One

Seasonal songs left out in the cold.

These are the songs that didn’t make it down the chimney. There was no mince pies and certainly no carrots waiting for them. They languished in the cold, snowmen melting with tears as each year they were ignored again. These are the precious presents lost under the sofa, thrown into sacks of wrapping paper or staring from outside through  the family window.

The lost Christmas songs in from the cold. At last.

Hour One

The Beths – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Single 2018)

Florrie – Kissing in the Cold (Mistletoe Version) (The Lost Ones 2024)

Boh Doran – Real Christmas (Underground Christmas 2020)

The Bleachers – Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call (Single 2024)

The Flaming Lips – A Change at Christmas (Say It Isn’t So) (Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell 2003/2020 Reissue)

Julian Casablancas – I Wish It Was Christmas Today (Single, 2009)

The Rosebuds – Melt Our Way Out (Christmas Tree Island 2013)

Tom Walker – For Those Who Can’t Be Here (Single 2021)

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds -‘Wandering Star (Blue Moon Rising EP 2019)

Frightened Rabbit – It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop (Single 2008)

Johnny Hallyday – Mon plus beau Noël (Ma Vérité 2005)

Chorale – Riu, Riu (Single 1978)

Hour Two

Marillion – I Believe in Father Christmas (Single 2023)

Chris Squire – Run with the Fox (Chris Squire’s Swiss Choir 2007)

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize – It Only Snows at Christmas (Dufflecoats and Christmas Cards 2016)

The Band – Christmas Must Be Tonight (Islands 1977)

Freedom Fly – My Evergreen (Single 2024)

JVKe – CHRISTmas (This is What Christmas Feels Like 2025)

Gemma Hayes & Richard Egan – The Christmas Song (Single 2015)

Echosmith – I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day (Single 2013)

There Will be Fireworks – In Excelsis Deo (Because, Because 2011)

Low – Some Hearts (at Christmas Time) (Single 2016)

Mew – She Came Home For Christmas (Frengers: Not Quite Friends, Not Quite Strangers 2003)

Future of Forestry – Now (Single 2021)

Sam Fender – Winter Song (Live a The Sage Gateshead) (Single 2020)

Picture This – This Christmas (Orchestral version) (Single 2019) (Original 2017)

Lost Immortals Ep 351 14.12. 25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Lost Immortals Ep 351

Sunday 14th December 2025 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

How did I get here?

A smidge of seasonal music, some Madchester, Kevin Coyne (remember him?), The Beta Band and a couple of songs by talented songwriters who Roy knows personally. Rob Halligan debuts his musical ‘How did I get here?’ in January.Chris Simmons ‘A Cold December’ is re-released this year to remind us that not everyone has the family they had last year.

Hour One


Roland Gift – Everybody Knows it’s Christmas (Single 2025)
Paris Angels – Scope Two (Scope, 1990)
Northside – Funky Munky (Chicken Rhythms, 1991)
Hurricane #1 – Think of the Sunshine (Find what you love and let it kill you 2015)
Lotus Plaza – Strangers (Spooky Action at a Distance 1980)
Kevin Coyne – House On The Hill (Marjory Razerblade, 1973)
Tom Petty – You Wreck Me (Wildflowers, 1994)
Rob Halligan – How Did I Get Here? (How Did I Get Here? – Musical 2026)
Geneva – No One Speaks (Further, 1997)
Black Label Society – Heart of Gold (Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live!, 2018)
Fischerspooner – Emerge (1# 2003)

Hour Two


The Beta Band – Troubles (Heroes to Zeros 2018)
Paul Draper – I’ve Seen The Top Of The Mountain (Mansun Retold, 2025)
The Moldy Peaches – Jorge Regula (The Moldy Peaches, 2001)
Sarah MacDougall – Grand Canyon (Grand Canyon 2013)
Cat Stevens – The Wind (Teaser And The Firecat (remastered 2021), orig 1971)
François Valéry – Aimons-nous vivants (Aimons-nous vivants 1989)
Dalida – Come Prima (1958)
Ditonellapiaga – Dalla terra all’universo (Camouflage 2022)
The Lynnes – Don’t Look Down (Heartbreak Song for the Radio, 2018)
Peter Green – The Apostle (Single version 1978 / In The Skies album 1979)
Chris Simmons live at The Venue, Worthing – A Cold December (Single 2024/5)
Extended
Rush – Turn The Page (Hold Your Fire, 1987)
Anna von Hausswolff – Stardust (Iconoclasts 2025)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 255 14.12.25 Santa’s Secret Songs with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 255     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 14th December 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Secret Santa Songs

Songs you never hear at Christmas.. This week the show is devoted to seasonal songs that have never troubled the chart and yet are at least as good as anything else on the radio.

Wonderful December gems that only get unwrapped at Christmas.

Hour One

Reliant K – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Let it Snow Baby, Let it Snow 2007)

Cher – DJ Play a Christmas Song (Christmas, 2023)

Coldplay – Christmas Lights (Single, 2010)

Eels – Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas (Single 1998)

The Raveonettes – Christmas Song (Whip It On EP, 2003)

Smashing Pumpkins – Christmastime (A Very Special Christmas III 1997)

Glasvegas – A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss) (EP, 2008)

There Will be Fireworks – This Christmas is Forever (No Christmas Bells/ This Christmas is Forever 2023)

Trashcan Sinatras – The Engine (Glasgow in the Snow) (Snow EP 1999)

Amy MacDonald – Caledonia (This is the Life – Japanese Edition) 2007)

Thea Gilmore – December in New York (Strange Communion 2009)

The Rosebuds – Xmas in New York (Christmas Tree Island 2013)

The Reds, Pinks  & Purples – We Won’t Come Home at Christmas (They Only Wanted Your Soul 2022)

The Lemon Trees – Child of Love (Open Book 1993)

Hour Two

Donna Lewis – Christmas Lights (Single 1995)

Andy Burrows – Light The Night (The Snowman & The Snowdog OST 2013)

The Brilliance – A Light (Advent Vol. 1 2011)

Mabel – The Loneliest Time of the Year (High Expectations 2019)

White Door – Jerusalem (Windows 1983)

Future of Forestry – What Beauty (Light Has Come: Christmas 2019)

Wolf Alice – In the Bleak Midwinter (Single 2022)

Belle and Sebastian – O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Peel Session, 2002)

Victoria á Lakjuni – Mary Did You Know (Single 2017)

APRE – Christmas Trees in Rain (Single 2019)

Ane Brun – The First Day of Christmas (Single 2019)

Gemma Hayes & Richard Egan – The Christmas Song (Single 2015)

Christina Perri – Something about December (A Very Merry Perri Christmas 2012)

The Editors – Just Like Christmas (live) (Live in Kortrijk 2019)

Lost Immortals Ep 350 7.12.25 with Roy Stannard and Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 350 Sunday 7.12.25 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Put Yourself in the Picture

This week we feature four bands that hatched four of the best known front men in 80s music. Cass McCombs was voted the 20th best album this year. You’ll hear why. And the sad lost story of The Bhundu Boys. Plus some Guadalajaran rock. Of course.

Hour One

Blue Zero – Slip Away (Confusion EP, 2025)

Jonny Lang – Still Rainin’ (Wander This World, 1998)

Cass McCombs – Asphodel (Interior Live Oak 2025)

Neptuna – Alquimista (Lutea, 2025)

Doctors Of Madness – Out (Figments of Emancipation, 1976)

Red Axes – Seek & Destroy (LOUD, 2025)

The 101ers – Surf City (2005 Remaster) Elgin Avenue Breakdown 1976)

Rich Kids – Put You In the Picture (Ghosts of Princes in Towers 1978)

The Nips – Vengeance (Single / B Side Gabrielle 1980)

The Longpigs – Lost Myself (The Sun is Often Out 1996)

Moose – XYZ (…XYZ 1992)

Hour Two

Man/Woman/Chainsaw – Only Girl (Only Girl Single 2025)

Bhundu Boys – Hatisi Tose (Shabini, 1986)

k.d. Lang And The Reclines – Diet of Strange Places (Angel With a Lariat, 1987)

Devin Shaffer – All My Dreams Are Coming True (Patience, 2025)

Dodie – Cool Girl (Build a Problem 2021)

The Secret Sisters – Tennessee River Runs Low (You Don’t Own Me Anymore 2017)

Yseult – Corps (Noir EP 2019)

The Pines – Heart & Bones (Tremolo 2009)

The Notwist – Consequence (Neon Golden Deluxe Version 2002)

Paul Brady – Nobody Knows (Trick or Treat 1991)

Extended

Deerhunter – 60 Cycle Hum (Live Radio 6 Session / Not on an album 2011)

Tocotronic – Golden Years (Golden Years 2025)

Langhorne Slim – Song For Sid (Last.fm Sessions) (orig. The Way We Move by Langhorne Slim And The Law, 2012)

Robert Earl Keen – So I Can Take My Rest (A Bigger Piece Of Sky 1993)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 254 7.12.25 The Songs of Billy Blake with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 254
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday 7th December 2025 3-5pm
www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

The Songs of Billy Blake

William Blake’s life and work have moved many artists, musicians in particular. His influence has crossed genres: classical, punk, and folk musicians have walked through his doors of perception. He wrote ‘Jerusalem’, ‘Tyger, Tyger’ and portrayed a London that Dickens would later inhabit. He loved God and hated religion. Van and Jim Morrison and Patti Smith wrote songs about him. Billy Bragg named an album ‘William Bloke’. We take him out of the Albert Hall and send him to brighten our Albion.

Hour One

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Jerusalem (Brain Salad Surgery 1973)
Testament – London (Blake Remixed 2015)
Jah Wobble – Lonely London (The Inspiration of William Blake 1996)
Patti Smith – My Blakean Year (Easter 1978)
Radiohead – Airbag (OK Computer 1997)
Pet Shop Boys – Inside A Dream (Electric 2013)
The Verve – History (A Northern Soul 1995)
Coldplay – Viva La Vida (Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends 2008)
U2 – Ultraviolet (Light My Way) (Achtung Baby 1991)
Bloc Party – Ion Square (Intimacy 2008)

Hour Two

Julian Cope – Psychedelic Odin (Black Sheep 2008)
Babyshambles – Albion (Down in Albion 2005)
Tangerine Dream ft Jocelyn Bernadette Smith – London (edit) (Tyger 1987)
Beth Orton – Poison Tree (Sugaring Season 2012)
Terry Scott Taylor – Song of Innocence (Knowledge & Innocence 1986)
Midlake – Winter Dies (The Courage Of Others 2010)
The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake (Ensoulment 2024)
Bob Dylan – Every Grain Of Sand (Shot Of Love 1981)
Jeremy Irons – The Garden of Love (Poem)
Van Morrison – In The Garden (No Guru, No Method, No Teacher 1986)
Billy Bragg – Jerusalem (The Internationale 1990)

Lost Immortals Ep 349 30.11.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 349 Sunday 30th Nov 2025 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Mountains that we climb

Every week Matt and Roy grab crampons, oxygen masks, and any Sherpas we can find to climb to the summit of music with the help of our FB followers. This week: ‘The Tubs’ with the 8th best album of 2025, three tracks with ‘sun’ in the title (are you trying to tell us something?) and the great Son Little. Plus the exotic Júlia Colom from Mallorca and Nina Simone in Italian, plus Tide Lines who inspired this week’s show title.HOUR ONE

  1. Ganser – Half Plastic (Animal Hospital 2025)
  2. The Tubs – The Narcissist (Cotton Crown 2025)
  3. That Dog – Retreat from the Sun (Retreat from the Sun 1997)
  4. Golden Apples – Noonday Demon (Shooting Star, 2025)
  5. Pavement – Summer Babe (Winter Version) (Debut single, 1991)
  6. Neurotic Outsiders – Jerk (Neurotic Outsiders, 1996)
  7. Witch – Livin’ in the Past (In the Past 1974)
  8. The Third Mind – Reno, Nevada (Right Now! 2025)
  9. The Ghost Ease – Gemini Rise (Raw 2015)
  10. Sneaker Pimps – Post Modern Sleaze (Becoming X 1996)
  11. Mallard – Jonnie Shots (Of the Think EP, 2011)
  12. The Polyphonic Spree – It’s The Sun (The Beginning Stages of… 2002) Hour Two
  13. Belle & Sebastian – Beyond the Sunshine (Live) (Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant 2000)
  14. Pictureplane – Dream Machine (Sex Distortion, 2025)
  15. Fruit Bats – Flamingo (The Ruminant Band 2018)
  16. Júlia Colom – Sa Teva Barca (Paradís, 2025)
  17. Nina Simone – Cosi ti Amo (To Love Somebody Expanded Edition 1969)
  18. Catie Curtis – Soulfully (Catie Curtis, 1997)
  19. Morcheeba – Blood Like Lemonade (Blood LikeLemonade, 2010)
  20. Son Little – Mad About You (New Magic 2017)
  21. Buddy Holly – Love Is Strange (Undubbed Version) (Down The Line: Rarities 1949-59 – this song 1958)
  22. Lisa Hannigan – A Sail (Passenger, 2011)
  23. Rosie Doonan – Into the Fire (Pot of Gold, 2016)
  24. Tide Lines – Mountains that we Climb (Glasgow Love Story 2025)
    EXTENDED
  • Josh Rouse – Fine, Fine (Josh Rouse and the Long Vacations, 2011
  • Ben Harper – Diamonds On The Inside (Diamonds On The Inside, 2003)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 253 30.11.25 Rock School of Thought with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 253     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 30th November 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Rock School of Thought

This week we move into the mystic where philosophy meets melody – from homespun wisdom to classical reflection, from desert travellers to street prophets. Each song in this journey asks a question or offers an answer: Eddie & the Hot Rods urging freedom, Dylan rolling through existential doubt, Tinariwen tracing nomadic truths, and Van Morrison drifting into mystical rivers. These songs riff on identity, meaning, and the restless search for something greater – whether it’s happiness, faith, or simply the courage to grow up..

Hour One

Eddie & the Hot Rods – Do Anything You Wanna Do (Life on the Line 1977)

Elvis Presley – Milkcow Blues Boogie (The Sun Sessions 1956)

Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited 1965)

Bruce Springsteen – Growing’ Up  (Greetings from Asbury Park N.J. 1973)

Tinariwen – Amassakoul ‘n’ Tenere (The Traveller in the Desert)  (Amassakoul 2004)

David Honeyboy Edwards – Things Gonna Be Alright (Mississippi Delta Bluesman 1997)

Nashville Cast – The World Don’t Owe Me Nothin’ (Nashville Series V 2017)

Catie Curtis – World Don’t Owe Me (A Crash Course in Roses 1999)

David Honeyboy Edwards – Remarks to his Mother 1997) (RS Mix)

Cat Power – Rambin’ (Wo)Man (Jukebox 2008)

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Wolf Among Wolves (Master and Everyone 2010)

Gang of Four – Not Great Men (Entertainment! 1979)

Wishbone Ash – All There Is To Say (Blue Horizon 2014)

Elliott Smith – Ballad of Big Nothing (Either/Or 2014)

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – What I Am (Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars 1988)

Hour Two

Kula Shaker – Tattva (K 1996)

Mumford & Sons – The Cave (Sigh No More 2009)

Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push The River (Veedon Fleece 1974)

Marillion – Happiness Is The Road (Happiness Is The Road 2008)

The Beach Boys – All This Is That (Carl and the Passions – “So Tough” 1972)

The Police – Spirits In The Material World (Ghost in the Machine 1981)

U2 with A.R. Rahman – Ahimsa (Single release only 2019)

The Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Let it Bleed 1969)

The Weeknd – Faith (After Hours 2020)