Harvest of Highlights

  • Old Fruit 26th September 2025

    Billy Bragg – Between The Wars For this edition of Old Fruit we are jumping back forty years to 1985 and a few tracks that show an often maligned period in popular music had some seeds of hope in the margins away from the thin-synth dominance of the mainstream. I am kicking off with Billy… Read more

  • Fresh Juice 22nd September 2025

    Scott Lavene – Cars Scott Lavene took some time to find his voice, having busked extensively before retreating to solitude on a boat via stints in bands around France and New York, his breakthrough came around the time he attended a music workshop for recovering addicts. That awakening brought us a singer and writer with… Read more

  • September 2025 Playlist

    I have fallen well short of my aim to publish the monthly playlist on the first of the month this time around. The past two weeks have been packed with music festival shenanigans ahead of travels from southern Dorset up to the Inverness coastline of Scotland via stopovers in Cumbria on the way up and… Read more

  • Fresh Juice 25th August 2025

    Eve Adams – Get Your Hopes Up Growing up alternating between the rural farm idyll of Oklahoma and more urban surroundings in Los Angeles, Eve began writing music at a very young age and was already showing considerable emotional depth in her songs by the age of twelve. Her latest release is called ‘American Dust’… Read more

  • Old Fruit 22nd August 2025

    Ottilie Patterson & Chris Barber Band – Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean For this edition of Old Fruit I am looking back at half a dozen vintage jazz selections all of which are cooking, boiling, frothing, fizzing and fantastic. The late fifties and early sixties were overflowing with undeniable jazz music, it is probably… Read more

  • Fresh Juice 18th August 2025

    HONK – Vine-Glo Well, this weeks first offering takes about three handbrake turns in the first sixty seconds leaving you wondering what the hell is going on here? But in the best possible way. It starts off like a hillbilly cousin of Telstar by the Tornados before launching into space with a disturbed yeouch of… Read more