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Old Fruit 13th February 2026
Leonard Cohen & Sonny Rollins – Who By Fire This week’s journey through some vintage musical selections has a theme of unlikely or, as is the case with all six choices, very welcome collaborations. It was spurred by my chance encounter with our opening offering, a 1989 TV collaboration between a song writing icon and… Read more
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Fresh Juice 9th February 2026
Ginger Molasses – Heidi Fleiss New music is not necessarily better if it sounds like old music but neither does it have any less relevance if it happens to be built around a design classic in sound. Ginger Molasses definitely fall into the retro rock category in terms of their style but this Nevada City… Read more
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Old Fruit 6th February 2026
Teleman – Dusseldorf This week’s selection of older tunes focuses on the theme of wonderful bands and artists who do not get the kind of exposure on mainstream television that their music and talent warrant. It was inspired by a recent episode of TV comedy quiz show ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks,’ in which Teleman’s main… Read more
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Fresh Juice 2nd February 2026
The Marsh Family Group – Minnesota This weeks batch of new music recommendations are dominated by artists responding in song to events that have unfolded in Minneapolis over the past couple of weeks. To start with we have a family group from Kent who first found themselves an audience posting humorous internet song parodies during… Read more
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February 2026 Playlist
Among the more surprising inclusions on this month’s playlist are a brace of authentic sounding, traditional in form, new protest songs by a pair of prominent artists. Both Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Streets Of Minneapolis’ and Billy Bragg’s ‘City Of Heroes’ arrive at a moment when the daily news bulletins are awash with shocking reports of civilians… Read more
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Old Fruit 30th January 2026
The Charlatans – One To Another This weeks’ selection of vintage music focuses in on great bands of the 1990’s playing their classic material to a present day mid 2020’s audience. And still sounding amazing if not even better than in their heyday. It also maybe highlights the difficulty so many bands have in matching… Read more
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