Lost Immortals Ep 387 23.7.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 387

Sunday 23 August 2026 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Sunlight bathed the golden glow

Lawrence and Felt and what happened next; the Datsuns take us to the moon; The Church’s best song; Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Comin’ Home; Guru & DC Lee; Kissing the Pink; ACR Do the Du; Todd Rungren says hello; Culture with Two Seven Clash; Roy Buchanan at his best, live. This show’s got your name on it.

Hour One

1. The Datsuns – Moonstruck Man (Moonstruck Man 2026)

2. The Church – Metropolis 2005 remaster (Gold Afternoon Fix 1990)

3. Last Tourist – Lust (Last Tourist 2023)

4. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Shapes and Forms (Single, 2025)

5. my bloody valentine – Sugar (Orig. Single, 1988. ep’s 1988-1991 and rare tracks, 2012)

6. Cowboy Mouth – Jenny Says (Word of Mouth, 1994)

7. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Comin’ Home (First….and Last 1971-2) Released 1978

8. Guru – No Time To Play ft. Ronny Jordan, DC Lee (Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1, 1993)

9. Go-Kart Mozart – When You’re Depressed (Mozart’s Mini Mart 2018)

10. Felt – Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow (Single version) (The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories 1984)

11. Kissing The Pink – The Last Film (Hymn version) (Naked 1983)

Hour Two

1. A Certain Ratio – Do The Du (The Graveyard and the Ballroom, 1979)

2. Gari – Physique (Tim Gane remix) (E•go•is•tick Al•tru•is•tick 2006)

3. Benny Joy – Nosey, Nosey Neighbours (Rockin’ and Rollin’ with Benny Joy Compilation 1992 – this song c1958)

4. Todd Rungren – Hello, It’s Me (Something/Anything? 1972)

5. Harold Johnson Sextet – Sorry ‘Bout That (Orig Single, 1967. Jazz Goes Mod: Soho Scene ’67 , 2020)

6. Culture – Two Sevens Clash, (Two Sevens Clash, 1977)

7. Mouths of Babes – My Country (World Brand New, 2025)

8. Evan Honer – Me, Without You (Single 2024)

9. Allison Russell – Persephone (Outside Child 2021)

10. Tommy Lefroy – The Mess (The Rivals EP 2024)

11. The Stills-Young Band – Midnight on the Bay (Long May You Run 1976)

12. Roy Buchanan – The Messiah Will Come Again (Live at Rockpalast (Live at Markthalle Hamburg 24.2.1985) Original Roy Buchanan 1972

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 291 23.7.26 Rock and Role on with Roy Stannard Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 291 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 23 August 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Rock and Role

Actors who make records are supposed to give us vanity projects, curios, the odd charming misfire, but this week’s playlist proves half of Hollywood has been quietly moonlighting as the real musicians. From Richard Harris turning heartbreak into baroque melodrama, to Idris Elba’s soulful grit, Jeff Goldblum’s jazz‑club elegance, Zooey Deschanel’s vintage shimmer, and Keanu Reeves brooding his way through basslines, this is a two‑hour reminder that some performers don’t just play emotion, they can actually write it, sing it, and occasionally shred it. Welcome to a show where the actors get to steal the scene with a guitar instead of a monologue.

Hour One

Richard Harris – MacArthur Park (2023 remaster) (A Tramp Shining 1968)

Idris Elba – Hold On (Mi Mandela 2014)

David Duchovny – How Do I (Prince of Pieces 2026)

Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn – Search Your Heart Break Up 2012)

Riz Ahmed – Karma (The Long Goodbye 2020)

Juliette Lewis – Future Deep (Future Deep 2016)

Michelle Gayle – Tell Me (I’ll Find You EP 1994)

Dead Mans Bones with Ryan Gosling – Lose Your Soul (Dead Man’s Bones, 2009)

Kiefer Sutherland – Something you Love (Reckless & Me 2019)

The Bacon Brothers (Kevin Bacon) – We Belong (Ballad of the Brothers 2024)

Hugh Laurie –  St. James Infirmary (Let Them Talk, 2011)

Hour Two

Phantom Planet with Jason Schwartzman – California (The Guest, 2002)

John Hawkes – Down with Mary (Demo) (Too Late, 2016)

Minnie Driver –  Invisible Girl (Radio Mix) (Invisible Girl2004)

Tim Robbins & The Rogue’s Gallery – You’re My Dare (Tim Robbins & The Rogues Gallery Band, 2010)

Ethan Hawke – Sunday Never Comes (Juliet, Naked OST 2018)

Michael Cera – Clay Pigeons (True That, 2014)

Billy Bob Thornton –  Hearts Like Mine (Beautiful Door 2015)

Dogstar with Keanu Reeves – Everything Turns Around (Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees, 2023)

Toni Collette & The Finish – Look Up (Toni Collette & The Finish, 2006)

Brie Larson – Hope Has Wings (Finally Out of P.E. 2005)

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra – Misty with Melanie Gardot (Night Blooms 2026)

She & Him (Zooey Deschanel) – This Girl’s In Love With You (Classics 2014)

Robert Downey Jr. – Man Like Me (The Futurist, 2004)

Jesse Buckley & Bernard Butler – We haven’t spoke  about the weather (For all our days that tear the heart 2022)

Lost Immortals Ep 386 16.8.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Lost Immortals Ep 386

Sunday 16 August 2026 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Sword from the stone

Dedicated to the latest quixotic politician attempting to pull the sword from a stony Westminster.

“I can’t do it on my own

And I’ve tried and I can’t pull the sword from the stone”

A musical round table where every track has a role to play.

You are invited.

Hour One

1. Westside Cowboy – Dobro (It Goes On 21st August 2026 via Island Records)

2. The Misfits – Cough/Cool (7″ Single, 1977)

3. Teenage Fanclub – The Cabbage (Thirteen, 1993)

4. Iggy Pop and the Stooges – I Got a Right (More Power, 2009)

5. The Mynah Birds – I’ll Wait Forever (recorded 1966, released Motown Unreleased, 2016)

6. The Lumineers – Ophelia (Brightside, 2022)

7. Rare Earth – Warm Ride (Band Together 1978)

8. Vlads – Mars (Mars Single 2024)

9. The 4 of Us – Mary (Songs for the Tempted 1989)

10. Los Lunáticos – Los de Abajo (LDA V The Lunatics, 2015)

11. The Differences – Five Minutes (Single, 1971)

12. Tom Waits – 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six (Swordfishtrombones, 1983)

Hour Two

1. Travis ft Josephine Oniyama – Idelwild (Everything at Once 2016)

2. Josephine Oniyama – Electrically You (Human EP / Kindred 2022)

3. Amos Lee – Won’t Let me Go (Last Days At The Lodge, 2008)

4. Samantha Crain – Joey (A Small Death 2020)

5. Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Goin’ back to Harlan (Aka Appalachian Dream) (Matapedia, 1996)

6. Lera Lynn – Are You Listening? (On My Own, 2020)

7. Kim Richey – Joy Rider (Joy Rider 2024)

8. Glen Hansard – High Hope (Rhythm and Repose, 2012)

9. Luke Sital-Singh – Me and God (Strange Weather 2022)

10. Passenger – Sword from the Stone (Songs for the Drunk & Broken Hearted 2021)

11. Maisie Peters – Nothing Like Being in Love (Florescence 2026)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 290 16.8.26 Shamrock & Roll with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 290 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 16 August 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Shamrock and Roll

Ireland has always had a way of bottling weather, sunlight, heartbreak, rebellion, and mischief – and turning it into songs. From The Walls blazing into To The Bright & Shining Sun, Power of Dreams sharpening the edges, The Frank and Walters colouring the sky, and In Tua Nua, The Stunning, and The Golden Horde combining poetry with songs that punch hard.

In the second hour we have the modern folk gravity of Lankum, the emotional heft of Dermot Kennedy, the poetic fire of Grian Chatten and Kae Tempest, and the raw ache of Junior Brother and For Those I Love. From Shane MacGowan’s haunted beauty to Kodaline’s widescreen heartbreak, the music will be like walking through Dublin at midnight: voices rising from doorways, old ghosts humming in the alleys, and music that drifts into the night.

Hour One

The Walls – To The Bright & Shining Sun (New Dawn Breaking 2005)

Power of Dreams – 100 Ways to Kill a Love (Immigrants, Emigrants and Me 1990)

The Frank and Walters – Colours (Grand Parade 1997)

In Tua Nua – Don’t Fear Me Now (The Long Acre 1988)

The Stunning – Brewing Up a Storm (Paradise in the Picture House 1988)

The Golden Horde – 100 Boys (The Golden Horde 1991)

The Fountainhead – Someone Like You (Voice of Reason 1988)

Something Happens –  Room 29 (Stuck Together with God’s Glue

The Devlins – All The Days (All The Days 2024)

The Coronas – Light Me Up (True Love Waits 2020)

Catchers – Beauty #3 (Mute 1994)

New Dad – Safe (Safe EP 2025)

Just Mustard – We Were Just Here (We Were Just Here 2025)

Hour Two

The Fat Lady Sings – Drunkyard Logic (Johnson 1993)

Lankum –  On a Monday Morning (False Lankum 2023)

Dermot Kennedy – Funeral (The Weight of the Woods 2026)

Farah Elle – Teardrop (Degrees of Light, Experiments in Love 2017)

Damon Albarn, Griann Chatten & Kae Tempest – Flags (Help 2 2026)

Fontaines D.C. –  Black Boys on Mopeds  (Help 2 2026)

Junior Brother – Take Guilt (The End 2025)

Dove Ellis – Love Is (Blizzard 2025)

Kodaline – Without You (We Were Only Young 2026)

Shane MacGowan & The Popes with Sinead O’Connor – Haunted (Two If by Sea/Stolen Hearts OST 1995)

The 4 of Us – Sunlight (Heaven & Earth 2004)

Lost Immortals Ep 385 9.8.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 385 Sunday 9th Aug 2026 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Homo Sapien Symphony

When the first 3 tracks are by The Charlatans, Sonic Youth and Spizzenergi you know you’re in for a wild ride. When the subsequent tracks include Alabama Shakes, Department S and a glorious version of Wichita Lineman by James Taylor, introduced to me by our own Dave Purkis (Sundays 10am-1pm), then you know the show is worth the price of admission (free).

Hour One

1. The Charlatans – Sproston Green (remastered) (Some Friendly 1990)

2. Sonic Youth – The Diamond Sea (Washing Machine, 1995)

3. Spizzenergi – Where’s Captain Kirk (Single, 1979)

4. Alabama Shakes – Hold On (Boys & Girls, 2012)

5. Department S – Going Left Right (Single, 1981)

6. The Head and the Heart – Lost in My Mind (The Head and the Heart, 2011)

7. Beluga Lagoon – Homo Sapien Symphony (Single 2026)

8. Kilbey Kennedy – The Formless Realms (Things We Did on Earth 2016)

9. Theatre Royal – If You Could Stand Up (You’d Walk Away) (From rubble rises… , 2010)

10. Nyv – Banlieue (Low Profile 2020)

11. Bebe – Malo (Pafuera Telarañas, 2004)

Hour Two

1. Noumoucounda – Sorra feat. Goundo Cissokho (Griots, 2024)

2. The Crooked Jades – Can’t Stare Down A Mountaineer (World’s on Fire 2006)

3. Niyaz – Beni Beni (Nine Heavens, 2008)

4. It’s A Beautiful Day – Girl with No Eyes (It’s a Beautiful Day 1969)

5. The Scones – White Bird (It’s A Beautiful Day cover) (Single 2017)

6. Leon Russell, Willie Nelson and Ray Charles – A Song For You (live) (Willie Nelson 70th 2003)

7. Amelia Curran – Move a Mile (Watershed 2017)

8. The Irrepressibles – In Your Eyes (Mirror Mirror 2010)

9. James Taylor – Wichita Lineman (Covers, 2008)

10. Aurora – Runway (Orchestral version) (Running with the Wolves EP (2015) and debut album All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (2016)

Extended

• L. Shankar – Dead Girls Of London (lead vocs by Van Morrison) (Touch Me There, 1979)

• Nomadi – Mamma Musica (Quando Ci Sarai, 1996)

• Gorillaz – Hong Kong (D-Sides, 2007)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 289 9.8.26 We’re going down the pub – Shambolic: British Pub Rock 1975-85

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 289 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 9 August 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

We’re going down the pub – shambolic British rock

British Pub Rock wasn’t a movement that arrived with a manifesto – it stumbled in from the car park, ordered a pint, plugged straight into the wall socket and started playing. Before punk, before new wave, before the industry realised what was about to hit it, Pub Rock was already there: loud, local, unpretentious, and committed to make Friday night feel like a minor revolution.

This week on The Whole Nine Yards, we’re heading back into that world – sticky carpets, nicotine ceilings, and bands who played like their lives depended on it. The soundtrack comes from the back rooms of pubs across London, Essex, Sussex and beyond, where groups like Dr Feelgood, Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Inmates, The Motors and Sham 69 forged a raw, high‑energy British sound that shaped what came next.

So grab a stool, lean on the bar, and let’s go down the pub.

HOUR 1

Sham 69 – Hurry Up Harry (That’s Life, 1978)

The Faces – Pool Hall Richard (Single, 1973)

Ian Hunter – Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Ian Hunter 1975)

Radio Stars – Johnny Mekon (Songs for Swinging Lovers, 1977)

The Motors – Dancing the Night Away (Approved by the Motors, 1978)

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Giddy Up a Ding Dong (The Penthouse Tapes, 1976)

Yachts – Suffice to Say (Yachts, 1979)

The Outsiders – On the Edge (Close Up, 1978)

La Peste – I Don’t Know Right from Wrong (La Peste EP, 1978)

Miss Ludella Black – You Don’t Know Right from Wrong (Single, 1999)

Dave Edmunds – A1 on the Jukebox (Get It, 1977)

The Inmates – (I Thought I Heard a) Heartbeat (First Offence, 1979)

Dirty Looks – Let Go (Turn It Up, 1981)

HOUR 2

Brian Spence – Reputation (Reputation, 1985)

Secret Affair – My World (Soho Dreams, 1980)

999 – English Wipeout (Separates, 1978)

The Romantics – Rock You Up (In Heat, 1983)

Staa Marx – Crazy Weekend (Single, 1979)

The Records – Starry Eyes (Shades in Bed, 1979)

Chris Spedding – Lone Rider (I’m Not Like Everybody Else, 1977)

Rose Tattoo – All the Lessons (Southern Stars, 1984)

The Members – Sally (Uprhythm, Downbeat, 1982)

Department S – I Want (Is Vic There? EP, 1981)

The Ruts – Something That I Said (The Crack, 1979)

Dr Feelgood – Down at the Doctors (Private Practice, 1978)

Eddie & The Hot Rods – Beginning of the End (Life on the Line, 1977)

Lost Immortals Ep 384 2.8.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 384 Sunday 2 August 2026 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

A Lost Immortal

One of my all-time favourite artists Glen Hansard died in a motorbike accident on 29th July, aged 56. He was one of around ten musicians who I would listen to whatever he released. This show is wonderful, but it has a black border.Hour One

Sophia – Resisting (As We Make Our Way (Unknown Harbours) EP, 2016)

Star Horse – Slower Now (Single, 2015)

Graham Coxon – Spectacular (Happiness in Magazines 2004)

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

1985)

Cardiacs – Trademark / My Trademark (Toy World, 1981)

Elephant Ears and Shirley Callaghan – Haunting My Shadows (Single, 2026)

The Attack – Any More Than I Do (Double A-side with Hi-Ho Silver Lining, 1967)

The Beths – Not Running (Future Me Hates Me, 2018)

Moby – That’s When I Reach for my Revolver (Animal Rights 2012)

Etiblancko – Love N’ Hope (Collection of Songs, 2024)

Broadcast – Tender Buttons (Tender Buttons 2005)

Hour Two

Barry Can’t Swim – Dance, Dance; Dance (Single 2026)

Issa Bagayogo – Dya Bana (Tassoumakan Voice of Fire , 2004)

The Subdudes – Faraway Girl (Primitive Streak, 1996)

Nick Drake- Free Ride (Pink Moon, 1972)

Lucinda Williams – Lonely Girls (Essence 2001)

Mark Knopfler – What it is (live at La Noche Abiera 2.11.2000 – original Sailing to Philadelphia 2000)

English Teacher – Birds of a Feather (Live from BBC Maida Vale EP 2022)

Mathilde Santing – Close Watch (Breast and Brow, 1989)

Jack – My World versus Your World (The Jazz Age 1998)

Grace Cummins – Fake (Bloodhorse 2026)

The Swell Season – Impossible (Forward/Impossible Single 2026)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 288 2.8.26: Laura Nyro – a life in 23 songs with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Ep 288 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 2 August 2026  3-5pm

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Laura Nyro – A Life in 23 Songs

Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro, 1947, The Bronx) grew up absorbing jazz, soul, gospel, girl‑group pop, classical music, and poetry — influences she fused into a style so distinctive that the mainstream often struggled to contain it. She wrote her first songs at eight, taught herself piano, and by her early 20s had become one of the most important American songwriters of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her own albums — Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969) — earned critical acclaim, while other artists turned her compositions into major hits. Her life was marked by bursts of creativity, periods of retreat, fierce independence, and a deep commitment to artistic authenticity.

Below, her story unfolds chronologically through 24 songs that shaped her career and legacy.

Hour One

Laura Nyro – And When I Die (More Than a New Discovery, 1967)

Fifth Dimension – Wedding Bell Blues (Age of Aquarius 1969)

Laura Nyro – Stoney End (More Than a New Discovery, 1967)

Barbra Streisand – Hands off the Man (Flim Flam Man) (Stoney End, 1971)

Three Dog Night – Eli’s Comin’ (Suitable for Framing, 1969)

Fifth Dimension – Stoned Soul Picnic (Stoned Soul Picnic, 1968)

Fifth Dimension ft Frank Sinatra – Sweet Blindness (live) (Frank and Friends TV show 1968)

Laura Nyro – Emmie (Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, 1968)

Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma & Billy Childs – New York Tendaberry (Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro 2014)

Laura Nyro – Beads of Sweat (Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, 1970)

Hour Two

Laura Nyro – Up on the Roof (Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, 1970)

Laura Nyro – Save the Country (New York Tendaberry, 1969)

Laura Nyro & Labelle – I Met Him on a Sunday (Gonna Take a Miracle, 1971)

Laura Nyro – To a Child (Mother’s Spiritual, 1984)

Laura Nyro – Lite a Flame (Walk the Dog and Light the Light, 1993)

Laura Nyro – Broken Rainbow (Walk the Dog and Light the Light, 1993

Becca Stevens & Billy Childs – The Confession (Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro 2014)

Blood, Sweat & Tears – And When I Die (Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1969)

Laura Nyro – Walk on By (live) (Angel in the Dark 2001)

Jane Siberry – When I think of Jane Siberry (Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro 1997)

Tennis – Mean Streets (Ritual on Repeat 2014)

Elton John & Brandi Carlile – The Rose of Laura Nyro (Who Believes in Laura Nyro 2025)

Lost Immortals Ep 383 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 383⁠ Sun 26.7.26 5-7pm⁠

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM⁠

www.Mid Sussex Radio.co.uk⁠

⁠

Another great show from the brothers in arms.⁠

Come and share.

Hour One

1. Morphine – Sharks (Live, 1994)

2. Minibar – New Mexico (Fly Below the Radar 2003)

3. Mary Karlzen – Everybody’s Sleeping (Yelling at Mary, 1995 / 2003 reissue)

4. Rialto – Monday Morning 5.19 (Rialto 1998)

5. The Walkabouts – The Light Will Stay On (Devil’s Road, 1996)

6. Nymphlord – Garden (Shedding Velvet, 2026)

7. Jeanne Bonjour – One way (le mode automatique) (Single, 2022)

8. Nice Biscuit – Fade Away (SOS, 2025)

9. José James – When They See Us (Single, 2019)

10. The Stranglers – Old Codger (B side to Walk On By, 1978)

11. The Vandalias – These Others (Buzzbomb!, 1998)

Hour Two

1. DC Fontana – It Don’t Worry Me (Meshkalina EP, 2011)

2. Richard Orange – All The Way To China (Hole In My Heart) (Big Orange Sun, 2005)

3. CAKE – Never Gonna Give You Up (Fashion Nugget (Deluxe edition), orig.1997 deluxe remaster 2022)

4. The Last Shadow Puppets – My Mistakes Were Made For You (The Age Of The Understatement, 2008)

5. Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws (My Head Is An Animal, 2012)

6. Maryam Mursal – Somali Udiida Ceb (Somalia, Don’t Shame Yourself) (The Journey, 1998)

7. Tish Hinojosa – In the Real West (Culture Swing, 1993)

8. Jeffrey Foucault – Ghost Repeater (Ghost Repeater, 2005)

9. Fink – Looking Too Closely (Hard Believer, 2014)

10. Hooverphonic – Mad About You (Live at Koningin Elisabethzaal, 2012)

Extended

1. Demi Marriner – Seize the Day (The Things I Said 2025)

2. L7 – Mr. Integrity (Bricks are Heavy, 1992)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 287 26.7.26 Catalyst Songs with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM 

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 287 26.7.26

Catalyst Songs with Roy Stannard

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM 

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Catalyst Tracks

In 2011 I took part in a pilot called Time Tracks in which you pick your nine most influential tracks from childhood to the present day and talk about what they mean to you.

I thought I’d revisit them after my 70th birthday yesterday and add a few that have become pivot points since 2011.

Hour One

The Rolling Stones – I Wanna Be Your Man (Single 1963)

Bob Lind – Remember The Rain (Don’t Be Concerned 1966)

America – A Horse With No Name (America 1971)

Neil Young – Like a Hurricane (American Stars ’n Bars 1977)

Scarlet Party – 101 Dam-Nations (Scarlet Skies 1982)

Horse – Careful (Sasha Dub Mix) (The Same Sky 1990)

Brooklyn Funk Essentials – The Creator has a Masterplan (Cool, Steady & Easy 1995)

Mike Scott – What Do You Want Me To Do (Bring ’Em All In 1995)

Geneva – Tranquillizer (Further 1997)

Tom Baxter – My Declaration (Feather and Stone 2004)

Hour Two

Athlete – Light the Way (Black Swan 2011)

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Helplessness Blues 2011)

The Veils – The Tide that left and Never Came Back (The Runway Found 2003)

Marseille – Brightest Star (This Dream of Mine 2023)

Adorable – A to Fade In (Against Perfection 1993)

Shack – Comedy (HMS Fable 1999)

I Am Kloot – Ferris Wheels (Pay Moolah Rouge 2008)

Breton – Closed Category (War Room Stories 2014)Breton

Jungle – Someday, Somewhere (Loving in Stereo, 2021)

Ruti – Flowers (Single 2026)

Lola Young – From Down Here (Single 2026)

RAYE – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Live at Montreux 2026)