Musical hieroglyphics and wonders

Subways of your Mind

A box of treats for the first show of 2025. FEX – a lost German indie track from 1983, released on vinyl this month; The Pretenders with a song by the Ramones; Gaelic reggae; The Dead South (who appeared on Jools’ Hootenany; 2 songs about US presidents; Saint Etienne’s comeback; two songs from the soundtrack of 2021’s ‘Last Night in Soho’.

It’s what your ears were made for..

Hour One

The Men – Pony (Buyer Beware, 2024)

Elvis Costello – Lipstick Vogue (This Year’s Model 1978)

The Wildhearts – Just In Lust (P.H.U.Q. 1995)

Ramones – Bonzo Boy Goes to Bitburg (Animal Boy 1985)

Pretenders – Something To Believe In (We’re A Happy Family – A Tribute To The Ramones 15 Songs By 15 Various Artists 2003)

Girls – Alright (Broken Dreams Club EP, 2010)

Whirr – Raw Blue (Raw Blue 2024)

FEX – Subways of Your Mind (Like the Wind) (Single 1983 / remastered on 7” vinyl 2024)

An Dannsa Dub – Kick Up The Dust (Single, 2024)

Burning Sensations – Belly of the Whale (Burning Sensations 1983)

Our Daughter’s Wedding – Lawnchairs (Single 1980 / Digital Cowboys EP 1981)

Ry Cooder – El Corrido de Jesse James (Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, 2011)

Hour Two

The Dead South – Blue Trash (Sugar & Joy 2019)

Saint Etienne – Nightingale (The Night, 2024)

Whitney Rose – Ain’t It Wise (Heartbreaker of the Year, 2015)

Joe Pug – Hymn #35 (Nation of Heat EP, 2008)

Majid Jordan – Waiting For You (ft. Naomi Sharon) (Good People, 2023)

Ayo – How Many Times (Joyful, 2006)

Sault – Signs (Acts of Faith 2025)

DBM & T – Mr President (Fresh Ear 1970)

David Sanborn & Linda Ronstadt – The Water is Wide (Love Songs, 1995)

Graham Bond Organization – Wade in the Water (Take 2) (The Sound of 1965 1965)

Anya Taylor-Joy – Downtown (Downtempo version) (Last Night in Soho OST 2021)

Laibach – Vor Sonnen-Aufgang (Also Sprach Zarathustra 2017)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 206 5.1.25 Forever with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 206

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 5^th January 2025 3-5pm

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Forever

Some tracks are timeless – and some are somehow plucked from the ether and will live for much longer than us. Everlasting songs and forever lyrics.

Hour One

Amber Pacific – Forever (Virtues 2010)

The Maccabees – Forever I’ve Known (Given To The Wild 2012)

The View – Best Lasts Forever (Bread And Circuses 2011)

Dry the River – Everlasting Light (Alarms in the Heart 2014)

Vertical Horizon – Forever (Go 2005)

Robert Knight – Everlasting Love (Everlasting Love 1967)

The Drums – Forever and Ever, Amen (The Drums 2010)

Taylor Swift – Forever & Always (Fearless 2008)

Moby – Forever (Hotel 2005)

Alphaville – Forever Young (Forever Young 1984)

Chvrches – Forever (Love Is Dead 2018)

Hour Two

Echo & the Bunnymen – Nothing Lasts Forever (Evergreen 1997)

Stereophonics – Forever (Oochya! 2022)

Jessie Ware -You & I (Forever) (Tough Love 2014)

Mumford & Sons – Forever (Delta 2018)

Noah Kahan – Forever (Stick Season (Forever) 2024)

Neko Case – The Next Time You Say Forever (Middle Cyclone 2009)

Chris Isaak – Forever Blue (Forever Blue 1995)

Carrie Underwood – Forever Changed (Blown Away 2012)

Delirious? – I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever (Cutting Edge 2 1994)

Joshua Idehen – Could be Forever (Could be Forever 2024)

Professor Green – Forever Falling (At Your Inconvenience 2011)

Manic Street Preachers – The Everlasting (This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1998)

Lost Immortals Ep 301 29.12.24 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Ep 301

Sunday 29th Dec 2024 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The future is our way out

Our last show in 2024. More great undiscovered music selected by our Facebook community. Could you feature in a future programme?

Hour One

1. Ducks Ltd – Harm’s Way (Harm’s Way, 2024)

2. The Massive Wagons – Back to the Stack (Full Nelson 2017)

3. Ride – Moonlight Medicine (Carnival of Light, 1994)

4. The Last – So Quick to Say (Confession, 1988)

5. The Crowd – As You Were (Tomorrow) (A World Apart, 1981)

6. Abdoujaparov – Bicycle Shed (Seaside Arcade Bingo Patrol 2014)

7. John Prine – Ubangi Stomp (Pink Cadillac, 1979)

8. Black Market Karma – Ray Tube Jokers (Duotone EP 2024)

9. The Church – Underwater (Man Woman Life Death Infinity 2017)

10. Brigitte Calls Me Baby – The Future Is Our Way Out (The Future Is Our Way Out, 2023)

11. Basixx – The World Is Beautiful (Single, 2024)

Hour Two

1. Spirit of the Beehive – Nail I Couldn’t Bite (Hypnic Jerks, 2018)

2. Suburban Lawns – Gidget Goes To Hell (Single Gidget Goes to Hell / My Boyfriend, 1979)

3. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Heaven Can Wait (IRM, 2009)

4. Battleme – Hey Hey, My My (Sons of Anarchy: Music from Sons of Anarchy Seasons 1–4 OST, S03E13)

5. Jalen Ngonda – Here To Stay (Here to Stay, 2024)

6. James & Bobby Purify – Hello There (Shake a Tail Feather – Best Of 1967)

7. Bettye LaVette – The High Road (I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise 2005)

8. Steve Goodman – Spoon River (Jessie’s Jig & Other Favorites 1975)

9. Dennis Ellsworth – Things I Want (Hazy Sunshine 2013)

10. Mr Twin Sister – Phenomenons (Colour My Life 2010)

11. Vashti Bunyan – Mother (Heartleap 2014)

12. Rob Halligan – The Parting Glass (We all write the Songs 2018)

Extended

• Anders Trentemøller – A Different Light (Dreamweaver 2024)

• Jun Miyake – The Here And After (Stolen from Strangers, 2007)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 205 29.12.24 Threshold with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 205

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 29th December 2024 3-5pm

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Threshold

Standing at the edge of the New Year, we’re playing songs that celebrate the human spirit’s ability to find light when the power’s gone down. The playlist reminds you that whatever the challenges, stepping over the threshold of a new year means closing the door on the old one.

And dawn means wiping the slate clean.

Hour One

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

Swim Deep – She Changes the Weather (Where the Heaven Are we 2013)

Inhaler – It Won’t Always Be Like This (It Won’t Always Be Like This 2019)

Camera Obscura – New Year’s Resolution (Desire Lines 2013)

This Beautiful Republic – New Year (Even Heroes Need a Parachute 2007)

Great Lake Swimmers – Gonna Make it Through This Year (Hands in Dirty Ground EP 2008)

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

Regina Spektor – New Year (Remember Us to Life 2016)

Charles Brown – Bringing in the New Year (Cool Christmas 1961)

McFadden & Whitehead – Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now (McFadden and Whitehead 1979)

Erica Falls – Good Time (Emotions 2024)

Chic – Good Times (Extended) (Risqué 1979)

Hour Two

Death Cab for Cutie – The New Year (Translanticism 2003)

A Great Big World – This is the New Year (A Great Big World 2011)

Jake Bugg – Love, Hope & Misery (On My One 2016)

Kate York – New Year (New 2012)

Jamie Cullum – Everlasting Love (Twentysomething 2004)

Jamie Cullum – Edge of Something (Momentum 2013)

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

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

Beach House – New Year (Bloom 2012)

Ingrid Michaelson – It Never Ends (For The Dreamers 2024)

The Zombies – This will be our Year (Odessey & Oracle 1968)

Laufey – What are you doing New Year’s Eve (Demo 2021)

Regina Spektor – My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) (iTunes Live Session Performance 2007)

Van Morrison – Celtic New Year (Magic Time 2005)

Lost Immortals Ep 300 22.12.24 with Roy Stannard and Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Ep 300

Sunday 22nd Dec 2024 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

She came home for #Christmas

So did these guys: Aaron Neville, McGarrigle Sisters, El Vez, Beat Farmers, Phoebe Bridgers, Thee Sacred Souls, Amy Winehouse, Anna Phoebe, The Pines.. 2 hours of great rare seasonal music unwrapped. Join us as we celebrate our 300th show three days before Christmas.

Hour One

Julian Casablancas – I Wish it was Christmas Today (Phrazes for the Young 2009)
Bad Religion – O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Christmas Songs EP, 2013)
El Vez – Feliz Navidas (Merry Mex-Mas 1994)
Arkells – The Last Christmas (We Ever Spend Apart) (Single, 2021)
Mew – She Came Home for Christmas (Frengers: Not Quite Friends, But Not Quite Strangers 2003)
Astral Bakers – Cherry-Coloured Funk (Cherry-Coloured Funk, 2024)
Joanna Jones as The Dame – God Ain’t Comin’ (Single, 2024)
The Beat Farmers – Lost Weekend (Tales of the New West, 1985)
Michael Nau – Glass (Mowing 2016)
Frah Quintale – Gli Occhi (Regardez moi, 2017)
Samantha Crain – Taught to Lie (Kid Face, 2013)
Trio Ternura – A Gira (Single 1973)
Phoebe Bridgers – So Much Wine (Single, 2022)

Hour Two

Danny O’Keefe – The Jimmy Hoffa Memorial Building Blues (The Global Blues 1979)
Jackson Browne – The Road (Running on Empty 1978)
Jean Ritchie – One I Love (Mountain Hearth & Home, 1965)
Thee Sacred Souls – Weak for Your Love (Thee Sacred Souls 2020)
Aaron Neville – Mickey Mouse March (From “The Mickey Mouse Club”) (Stay Awake (Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films 1988)
Amy Winehouse – I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Live at Union Chapel / BBC Radio 2 2008)
The Pines – Throw Me in the River (Sparrows in the Bell 2007)
Blue Rose Code – Sandaig (The Water of Leith, 2017)
Anna Phoebe – The Angel Gabriel (Midwinter, 2024)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Il est né/Ça bergers (The McGarrigle Christmas Hour, 2005)
The Unthanks – Carol of the Birds (In Winter. 2024)
She & Him – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (A Very She & Him Christmas 2011)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 204 22.12.24 Coolest Yule Yet with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 204

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 22nd December 2024 3-5pm

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Coolest Yule Yet

Fed up with the tired old Christmas hits? The stick in the Muds, Dire Carey, very Shaky Stevens; the less than magic Wizzard; Nat King Old and Bin Crosby?

Well, I’ve found some great seasonal tracks that don’t sound like they’ve come from Santa’s old Wurlitzer and might put a spring in the step of Donner and Blitzen. So, grab your eggnog, put on your loudest jumper, pull a cracker, find some mistletoe and murmur ‘Ding Dong’ in your best Leslie Phillips accent.

Hour One

The Linda Lindas – Groovy Christmas (Single 2022)

Courteeners – Winter Wonderland (Winter Wonderland 2015)

Holy Moly & The Crackers – Punk Drunk Xmas Eve (Single 2017)

High Tropics -Lonely Christmas (Underground Christmas 2021)

Marika Hackman – Driving Under Stars (Wonderland EP 2016)

Fickle Friends – Dream (Dream Single 2024)

Saint Sappho – M.A.D. (Single 2024)

Fiona Hope – Catch 22 (Catch 22 EP 2024)

Sparks – Christmas Without a Prayer (Single 2015)

The Florin Street Band – My Favourite Time of Year (Original Christmas Songs 2010)

Tracey Thorn – Maybe This Christmas (Tinsel & Light 2012)

Jenny Owen Youngs – Maybe Next Year (Maybe Next Year 2020)

Calexico – Hear The Bells (Seasonal Shift 2020)

Kaeyra – Christmas with Me (Single 2024)

Say She She – This Wintertime (Single 2024)

Hour Two

Stars – Christmas Anyway (Single 2024)

Kytes – (Hello) and it’s Christmas (Single 2021)

Last Place Runner-Ups – At Last, Christmas Will Come (Single 2023)

The Lathums – Krampus (Single 2024)

Iron & Wine – Faded From The Winter (The Creek Drank the Cradle 2015)

The Marias – We’re the Lucky Ones (Single 2020)

Laura Niro – Christmas in My Soul (Christmas & the Beads of Sweat 1970)

Sara Noelle – Little Dove (Little Dove / Silent Night Single 2024)

WildWildSky – Winter Comes (Single 2024)

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

Chris Simmons – A Cold December (Single 2024)

Lindisfarne – Wintersong (Nicely Out of Tune 1969)

Lost Immortals Ep 299 15.12.24 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Susex Radio 103.8FM

Ep 299

Sun 15th Dec 2024 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Christmas Underground

The big questions considered this week. Can Keira Knightley sing? Can we enjoy Christmas when some of us are living underground? Is James Brown the funkiest Christmas artist of all time? What time do the shops shut on Christmas Eve?

Hour One

Girl – My Number (Sheer Greed 1980)
Thus Love – On The Floor (All Pleasure 2024)
Gold Star – Wild Boys (Wild Boys Single 2024)
MC5 – Poison (High Time 1971)
Keira Knightley ft Hailee Steinfeld – Tell Me You Wanna Go Home (Rooftop mix) (Begin Again OST 2014)
Band of Horses – The Funeral (Everything All The Time, 2006)
Kristin Hersh – Christmas Underground (Wyatt at the Coyote Palace, 2016)
The New Master Sounds – Smoothie (Old School 2024)
James Brown – Go Power at Christmas Time (Go America 1970)
Yazmin Lacey – Feels (Feels 2024)
Low – Just Like Christmas (Christmas EP, 1999)

Hour Two

Sunday (1994) – Blossom (Sunday 1994 EP 2024)
Tom Waits – Silent Night/Christmas Card from a Hooker (Live in Minneapolis, Orig. Blue Valentine, 1978)
The Amazing Rhythm Aces – Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette) (The Amazing Rhythm Aces, 1979)
Bleachers – Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call Me (Single 2024)
The Handsome Family – Frogs (Wilderness 2013)
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow – Strayed (Desperate Straights, 1975)
Björk – Jólaköttinn (The Christmas Cat of Iceland) (Hvít Er Borg Og Bær, 1987)
Margo Guryan – I Don’t Intend to Spend Christmas Without You (Take a Picture, 1968)
Yasmin Williams – Virga (Acadia, 2024)
Joshua Radin – Here, Right Now (Here, Right Now, 2019)
KT Tunstall – Universe & U (Acoustic Extravaganza Version) (KT Tunstall’s Acoustic Extravaganza, 2006)
Ayo – Rosie Blue (Acoustic Demo 2019)

Extended

Out of Focus – Fly Bird Fly (Out of Focus 1971)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 203 15.12.24 Advent with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 203

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 15th December 2024 3-5pm

Advent

Get ready for the season of hope with a musical grotto of undiscovered Christmas songs and a few sonic surprises. Setting the mood, putting up the musical decorations, reminding you of the joy and anticipation to be found on the path to Christmas Day.

Hour One

Cristian Fenn – Wintersong (Just a Thought 2023)

Sam Fender – Wintersong (Live in Gateshead 2020)

Pistols at Dawn – Last Christmas (Single 2024)

Flor – Last Christmas (Single 2024)

Common & Pete Rock – A God (There is) (The Auditorium Vol 1 2024)

DeRobert & The Half-Truths – Peace on Earth (Peace on Earth 2024)

The Allergies ft K.O.G. – God Walked Down (Single 2024)

Femi Large & MaWhoo – Ngifunani (Single 2024)

Ina Wroldsen – Christmas ’94 (Single 2024)

Smith – Stay with me Santa (Mrs Claus’ Christmas Wish) (Single 2024)

Telenova – Discothèque Dans Ma Tête (Time is a Flower 2024)

Rebecca Ferguson – Christmas will find You (It’ll Find You)

Gwen Stefani – Early Winter (The Sweet Escape 2006)

One Sad Horse – December (Just Like That Single B Side 2024)

Hour Two

Part-Time Friends – Paris en août (Weddings & Funerals 2021)

Christen Cooper – Mary, Did You Know (Single 2024)

Chloe K – Believe (Single 2024)

Part-Time Love – Paris en août (Weddings & Funerals 2021)

Bat For Lashes & Lara Somogyi – Christmas Day (The Dream of Delphi – Harp Visions 2024)

Winterval – Making Christmas (Making Christmas 2024)

Janice Burns & Don Donal – The Trees are all Bare

The Staves – Winter Trees (Dead & Born & Grown 2011)

Steven Wilson – December Skies (December Skies Single 2024)

Garbage – Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses? (Copy/Paste 2024)

Chris Simmons – A Cold December (Single 2024)

Eyedress ft Dent May – Something About You (Mulholland Drive 2021)

Sister Silvia – 12 Days of Christmas (12 Days of Christmas 2024)

Freedom Fry – My Evergreen (Single 2024)

Emilee Moore – Forest Green (Single 2024)

Phil Wickham – Merry Christmas (Christmas 2019)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 202 8.12.24 re/collection with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 202

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 8th December 2024 3-5pm

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

re/collection

Music is a tardis – little spaces where big memories hang out. It has a way of transporting us back to moments long gone, putting our memories back on the big screen. Through music, our past isn’t just remembered – it’s relived, each note breathing life into the shadows, where people and places we’ve lost come back and surround us. Music and memory are inseparable. And there’s a light sprinkling of seasonal music too.

Hour One

Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were (The Way We Were soundtrack 1973)

Neil Diamond – September Morn (September Morn 1979)

Anna B Savage – Lighthouse (You and I are Earth 2024)

Circa Waves – T-Shirt Weather (Young Chasers 2015)

Plain White T’s – Wonders Of The Younger (Wonders Of The Younger 2010)

Michael Kiwanuka – One & Only (Small Changes 2024)

The Supremes – Reflections (Reflections 1967)

Marmalade – Reflections of my Life (Reflections of my Life 1969)

Birdy – Raincatchers (Portraits 2023)

St. Vincent – Teenage Talk (Not Released on an Album 2015)

Chris Simmons – A Cold December (Charity single for @AtaLoss 2024)

Orleans – Time Passes On (Let There Be Music 1975)

Hour Two

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters – Rare Thing (Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters 2017)

Richard Hawley – Tonight The Streets are Ours (Lady’s Bridge 2007)

Jim Capaldi – Old Photographs (Let the Thunder Cry 1981)

Dawes – St. Augustine At Night (Good Luck With Whatever 2020)

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

Thomas Rhett – Remember You Young (Center Point Road 2019)

The Byrds – The Airport Song (The Preflyte Sessions 1964)

Waxahatchee ft MJ Lenderman – Right Back to it (Tigers Blood 2024)

Julia Michaels (featuring Niall Horan) – What A Time (Inner Monologue Part I 2019)

The Staves – Winter Trees (Dead & Born & Grown 2011)

Steven Wilson – December Skies (December Skies Single 2024)

The Indigo Girls – History of Us (Indigo Girls 1989)

Sean Connery – In My Life ( George Martin – In My Life 1998)

Lost Immortals Ep 298 Sunday 8.12.24 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Ep 198

Sun 8.12.24 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM