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rob presents the radiofreemidwich show episode 49!

the radiofreemidwich show episode 49

Hello comrades!  I’m guessing we could all do with a little distraction before getting back to the fight, eh?  So here’s half an hour for you.  The show is bookended with righteous anger but in the middle we have industrial clunk, magickal incantations, an outsider art mystery and our second reading from the wonderful Kevin Boniface.

The next episode will be #50, which is one of those landmarks that merits noting, but I haven’t decided what to do to celebrate it (suggestions welcome).  Luckily, due to some family stuff it will be delayed by a couple of weeks, so I have time to mull it over.  In the meantime, why not listen to old episodes you’ve missed or catch up with sister podcasts such as Anticipating Nowhere, Hide From Time, Phantom Circuit or any number of others doing the work.  I’ll be back before you know it.

Here’s links to the tracks played – please support the artists!

XCLASSACTIONX – IF I HEAR YOU SAY “FREE SPEECH” ONE MORE TIME I’M GOING TO FUCKING LOSE IT (MAKING THE WORST OF A BAD SITUATION)

https://xclassactionx.bandcamp.com/album/making-the-worst-of-a-bad-situation

AMY CUTLER – THE DRIZZLE OF THE RAIN (THE ENDS (ALSO END) OF (THE) EARTH AND VARIANTS)

https://crowversuscrow.bandcamp.com/album/the-ends-also-end-of-the-earth-and-variants

NOSTRIL FLAIR – LIGHT THE FLARE (PUNKS INTO GROWN UP ARTISTS)

https://steepgloss.bandcamp.com/album/punks-into-grown-up-artists

KEVIN BONIFACE – I DON’T REALLY DO WINE (EXCERPT, ROUND ABOUT TOWN)

https://www.colinsackett.co.uk/roundabouttown.php?x=115&y=166

AVIVA ENDEAN & CHLOE SOBEK – A CHARM OF SAGES (FROM VARIOUS ARTISTS – INCLUSIVES)

https://fairplaynetwork.bandcamp.com/album/inclusives

Ⓚ – ABOUT 730 PAGES (THREE PILLARS OF LIMBIC FISSION)

https://threepillarsoflimbicfission.bandcamp.com/album/three-pillars-of-limbic-fission

MARLO DE LARA – STAGE THREE (PANDEMIC SCORES (2021))

https://corpuscallosumdistro.bandcamp.com/album/pandemic-scores-2021

Thank you very much for listening.  These shows can be heard via the embedded player below, downloaded as podcasts from a variety of providers and streamed on Mixcloud, where you will also find links to the music played.  Comments, reblogs, tweets and the like all very much appreciated.

With love,

Rob

Episode 49 on Mixcloud

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rob presents the radiofreemidwich show episode 48!

the radiofreemidwich show episode 48

Hello comrades!  Presenting an epic 34 minutes of kitchen fires and their dark aftermath, the corrugations on unfurling beech leaves and the swagger of ants marching across a beer garden.  Get yourself a big sandwich and/or plan your stroll accordingly. Terrific line up.

Of special note is that today’s interlude is a reading by Kevin Boniface.  Kevin is a writer and artist who makes his living as a postman in Huddersfield.  His diaries – beautifully observed vignettes of ordinary life, presented deadpan, free of judgement – were published in a book called Round About Town by Uniform Books in 2018.  I love this book, I find the writing hypnotic, poignant and frequently hilarious and when I saw Kevin tweet a link to a soundcloud recording of him reading I took a chance and sent a DM.  He graciously agreed to choose and read a handful of excerpts for me to use as interludes in coming shows.  Three more to look forward to.

Here’s links to the tracks played – please support the artists!

DIANACRAWLS – MOSAÏCQUE II (A GLITTER MANIFESTO)

https://dianacrawls.bandcamp.com/album/a-glitter-manifesto

SABRINA – CHEING LB (THE NEGATIVE)

https://jaringanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-negative

DEPLETION – DILAPIDATOR (PROJECTIONS)

https://darkpassagerecords.bandcamp.com/album/projections

KEVIN BONIFACE – DRINKING MUCH MORE WINE (EXCERPT, ROUND ABOUT TOWN)

https://www.colinsackett.co.uk/roundabouttown.php?x=115&y=166

SHANDARGH SUPERSTAR – SMOKE YOUR FAG (PAINT A PICTURE) (FROM V/A – I AM NOT YOUR BODY)

https://liquidlibrary.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-not-your-body

B.G.S. – POINTLESS LIVING

https://hrrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/pointless-living

LLANERCH THE TREES – LLANERCH (S/T)

https://listentothevoiceoffire.bandcamp.com/album/llanerch-the-trees

Thank you very much for listening.  These shows can be heard via the embedded player below, downloaded as podcasts from a variety of providers and streamed on Mixcloud, where you will also find links to the music played.  Comments, reblogs, tweets and the like all very much appreciated.

With love,

Rob

Episode 48 on Mixcloud

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rob presents the radiofreemidwich show episode 47!

rob presents the radiofreemidwich show episode 47!

Hello comrades!  Hope all is good with you lot.  This is a tight af episode, a mere 25 minutes, featuring the taste of salt liquorice, heaving viscera of uncertain purpose and adventures in spelunking.  The interlude is a clip of a phone recording made whilst overexcited at being on a bus.  It has been great to read some of Pete Coward’s poems over the last few weeks but I think we are done with that now.  R.I.P. comrade.  A new spoken word series is being arranged and, if it comes off, will be a right treat.  As an added bonus, this week the boy returns to help.

Here’s links to the tracks played – please support the artists!

MARIAM REZAEI FT. PETRONN SPHENE – ANTE (SKEEN)

https://fractalmeat.bandcamp.com/album/skeen

STUART CHALMERS – FEBRUARY 4 (SUIKINKUTSU)

https://stuartchalmers.bandcamp.com/album/suikinkutsu

KHOST – WORKING THE SOIL (23_12 TWO)

https://stillheatrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/23-12-two

FIREWALL III – 41 BIS (FIREWALL III)

https://firewalliii.bandcamp.com/album/firewall-iii

PRINCESS MOLASSES – BRAND LOYALTY (RACCOONCORE 2021)

https://princessmolasses.bandcamp.com/album/raccooncore-2021

MARSHA FISHER – NEW RUINS (NEW RUINS)

https://marsha-fisher.bandcamp.com/album/new-ruins

Thank you very much for listening.  These shows can be heard via the embedded player below, downloaded as podcasts from a variety of providers and streamed on Mixcloud, where you will also find links to the music played.  Comments, reblogs, tweets and the like all very much appreciated.

With love,

Rob

Episode 47 on Mixcloud

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rob presents the radiofreemidwich show episode 46!

the radiofreemidwich show episode 46

Hello comrades!  I hope you are well.  The fresh weather and lengthening days seem to be helping with my mental posture, as is the production of this little broadcast.  Just under half an hour of roar, pulse and drone this episode – a short train journey, inland from the container port, passing through flowering orchards…

Here’s links to the tracks played – please support the artists!

COMPLAIN – CHANGE (DEMO)

http://www.muteantsounds.com/

EHUA – BLACK (AQUAMARINE EP)

https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/album/ehua-aquamarine-ep

THERE ARE NO BIRDS HERE – PARHELION (THE DRIFT)

https://dubcthonic.bandcamp.com/album/the-drift

(PETE COWARD – PROOF)

RABBIT GIRL – Ø EGO PHASE (STRIKETHROUGH)

https://rabbitgirl.bandcamp.com/album/strikethrough

KEVIN SANDERS – A CORMORANT DREAMING (S/T)

https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/a-cormorant-dreaming

CARNIVOROUS PLANTS QUARTET – CHERRY BLOSSOM (SMOG CHOIR)

https://liquidlibrary.bandcamp.com/album/smog-choir

Thank you very much for listening.  These shows can be heard via the embedded player below, downloaded as podcasts from a variety of providers and streamed on Mixcloud, where you will also find links to the music played.  Comments, reblogs, tweets and the like all very much appreciated.

With love,

Rob

Episode 46 on Mixcloud

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rob presents the radiofreemidwich show episode 45!

the radiofreemidwich show episode 45

Hello comrades!  Hope you are well and negotiating the creep towards ‘normal’, whatever that might be.  Today’s question is can a 31-minute podcast hosted by some bloke who always sounds half-asleep brighten your day.  Don’t answer yet!  First, sit on the front step with this selection of ice under sun, deep sea bioluminescence, neon green wristbands and ectoplasm to think it through.

Here’s links to the tracks played – please support the artists!

GLITTER GRAVE – NOT ALL BASTARDS ARE COPS, BUT ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS (WE ARE THE 97%)

https://glittergrave.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-the-97

DARCY SPIDLE – UNDER ICE (THE THAWING OF BAYER LAKE)

https://chikwhite.bandcamp.com/album/the-thawing-of-bayer-lake

DNRSS – NEON FURRY RAVECORE CAPSLOCK TYPE BEAT (HELLO YOU WERE BORN HERE)

https://dnrss.bandcamp.com/album/hello-you-were-born-here

(PETE COWARD – QUOTING BUKOWSKI AT AA MEETINGS, IAMASHIT #2)

GREY FREQUENCY – MANIFESTATION (PARANORMAL)

https://greyfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/paranormal

PINNEL – BRISTLEMOUTH (DREAMER)

https://tqn-aut.bandcamp.com/album/dreamer

APRIL LARSON – DUSK (SINGLES 2011-2016)

https://aprillarson.bandcamp.com/album/singles-2011-2016

Thank you very much for listening.  These shows can be heard via the embedded player below, downloaded as podcasts from a variety of providers and streamed on Mixcloud, where you will also find links to the music played. Look after each other, folks.

With love,

Rob

Episode 45 on Mixcloud

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rob presents the radiofreemidwich show episode 44!

the radiofreemidwich show episode 44

Hello comrades! I hope you are keeping warm/cool (delete as appropriate) in the unsettling weather.  This episode’s selection is brought to you by the smells of boiling pitch, wild garlic, laundered bedsheets and dune sand.  Here’s links to the tracks played – please support the artists!

MATTACHINE – SISYPHUS (ISOLATION IS A FORM OF TORTURE)

https://mattachine.bandcamp.com/album/isolation-as-a-form-of-torture

AMY CUTLER – A WASTE OF SUN AND SNOW (GUTTER)

https://amycutler.bandcamp.com/album/gutter

QUIMPER – SLEEPY (OUNCE OF PREVENTION)

https://quimper.bandcamp.com/album/ounce-of-prevention

(PETE COWARD – SUNDAY IN REHAB)

TERRITORIAL GOBBING VS DEREK PIOTR – GABRIEL’S TRUMPET (S/T)

https://tqn-aut.bandcamp.com/album/territorial-gobbing-vs-derek-piotr

PETRINE CROSS – L’HEURE D’OR

https://petrinecross.bandcamp.com/track/lheure-dor

IMPERIAL VALLEY – PLAINS EAST OF HOLTVILLE, IV, 8:30PM, MAR 8, 1937 (S/T)

https://otherforms.bandcamp.com/album/imperial-valley

Thank you very much for listening.  These shows can be heard via the embedded player below, downloaded as podcasts from a variety of providers and streamed on Mixcloud, where you will also find links to the music played.  Remember: spreading the word about this project adds massive karmic bonuses to your day.

Episode illustration by Thomas Hayler.

With love,

Rob

Episode 44 on Mixcloud

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rob presents the radiofreemidwich show episode 43!

the radiofreemidwich show episode 43

Hello comrades!

Well, I have to say I was touched by the messages of support welcoming back this little project, so heartfelt thanks for all that.  In response I am committing to continuing the show, even if the schedule has to be erratic.  This episode features scouring punk, feet confounding bass and skitter, furious noise, twanging gurglecore, skeletal meta-pop and the kind of all-encompassing magnificence that makes my day.  All packed into an efficient 28 minutes – so short that even those working from home can listen on their commute.

Tracks played, please support the artists:

DEATH GOALS – GENDER TRAITOR

https://deathgoals.bandcamp.com/album/gender-traitor

YERBA TERPS – PIANO SQUEEZIN’

https://yerbaterps.bandcamp.com/track/piano-squeezin

:M:1:9: – SHEEP DEIFY THEIR BUTCHERS (CONTEMPT PROVIDER)

https://m19anarchonoise.bandcamp.com/album/contempt-provider

(PETE COWARD – DISTANCE)

CHIK WHITE – SOLO11 (NEW MOODS FOR ANTIQUE IRON JAW HARP)

https://chikwhite.bandcamp.com/album/new-moods-for-antique-iron-jaw-harp

IGNATZ HÖCH & HANNAH MOUSE – A WISH TO BE WRITING POP SONGS FOR HANIF ABDURRAQIB

https://ignatzhoch.bandcamp.com/track/a-wish-to-be-writing-pop-songs-for-hanif-abdurraqib

KELLY JAYNE JONES – A FIRE THAT HAD TO BURN FOREVER

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/kelly-jayne-jones-the-reed-flute-is-fire/

Cheers for listening, as ever.  These shows can be heard via the embedded player below, downloaded as podcasts from a variety of providers and streamed on Mixcloud, where you will also find links to the music played.  Any plugging that you might wish to do on that social media is always much appreciated.

With love,

Rob

Episode 43 on Mixcloud

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rob presents the radiofreemidwich show episode 42!

the radiofreemidwich show episode 42

Hello comrades!  Long time, no see, eh?  We all know the reasons why, so I won’t get into it here.  Suffice to say that I hope – wholeheartedly – that your year has been as painless as could be hoped for in the circumstances.  If you’ve been struggling, then I’m very sorry to hear it.  You’re not alone, friend, and I hope this modest podcast provides a moment of relief or distraction.

Some housekeeping: I do intend to produce these again on a semi-regular basis, but I am not sure what the schedule will be.  I recommend being pleasantly surprised whenever one of these drops and not thumbing ‘refresh’ on your podcast app.  I’m also keeping the floodgate marked ‘submissions requested’ firmly closed.  I am amazed and grateful for the generosity people show – providing download codes and the like – but if you send stuff, I’ll likely put it to one side until I have the mental strength not to get burnt out by obligation.  Everyone in any DIY scene knows how that goes…

OK, that’s the business end dealt with.  Let’s have a little dance, shall we?  Tracks played, please support the artists:

CONVERSION – AFFIRMATION (BLOOD)

https://conversionnh.bandcamp.com/album/blood

HELICOPTER QUARTET – FOUR (RUNES)

https://helicopterquartet.bandcamp.com/album/runes

SOPHIE COOPER – A CHANCE (A CHANCE / STRUCK)

https://sophiecooper.bandcamp.com/album/a-chance-struck

(PETE COWARD – CLOSE TO YOU)

HUMAN HEADS – YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE MET (IN THE AFTERNOON)

https://fractalmeat.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-afternoon

A/C REPAIR SCHOOL – Lá Vem (Órfãs)

https://acrepairschool.bandcamp.com/album/rf-s

JOINED BY WIRE – DISSOLVFTSEQUENCE29 (DISSOLVED SEQUENCE)

https://joinedbywire.bandcamp.com/album/dissolved-sequence

Thank you very much for listening.  These shows can be heard via the embedded player below, downloaded as podcasts from a variety of providers and streamed on Mixcloud, where you will also find links to the music played.  As I’ve been away for ages, would you mind spreading the word via Twitter etc.? Cheers!

With love,

Rob

Episode 42 on Mixcloud

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