Yellow Brit Road

Ooh, it's all happening on the Yellow Brit Road this week: we had an eclectic show, covering more than just the best of music making round in towns! This week, we had music from England and Wales (and beyond), in English and Welsh, chat about music and gaming, and we had our first ever special guest on the show! The music this week was from Everything But The Girl, Datblygu, Jack Cheshire , Bitw ,...

It's the album pick of the month! This week, we listened to post punk band Magazine's debut album Real Life . Grab your copy of the record and join in! Catch the Yellow Brit Road live on your dials every Sunday at 8 PM ET on  cfrc.ca ! Get in touch with the show: email  yellowbritroad@gmail.com  or tweet @ YellowBritCFRC .

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we've been testing the very limits of what's possible (and permissible) on radio! It's only healthy to keep radio on its feet every now and then... with great music! Featuring the bands Black Honey , Death Cult Electric , This Becomes Us , Superfood, Reuben James , Slum of Legs , Those F*cking Snowflakes , F*ckshovel , Sweaty Palms , Dear Boy , and Curling , besi...

It's finally here! I sat down for a full-length interview with Montreal-based punk band, Super Punk, whose debut album Kim Jong Goes To Cégep is out now! The band talked to me about the album, their origin and plans to take over as the best punk band in the world... and going beyond just being a punk band, to being a Super Punk band. Catch the Yellow Brit Road live on your dials every Sunday at 8...

Montreal-based punk band Super Punk dropped by the CFRC hideout to talk to us about their new debut album, Kim Jong goes to CEGEP. We chatted for nearly an hour in a full-length sit-down interview for my other radio show on CFRC, What The Punk?! that's coming out soon! They also did these two lovely station IDs for us... consider this a teaser for a great interview. It's worth the wait and worth t...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road... a chance to wind down, relax and forget the world, temporarily. Primarily the last of those. Drown out your anxiety with the tales and mishaps of cute bear cubs, a great interview and... merch?! We had music old and new; one of the best alternative bands in the world, Velvet Underground on this week, 7-year-old Welsh singer and guitarist Arianwen , Czech-label-...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, music that gives you the chills, music that gives you the thrills! Catch classics like The Cure, Siouxie and the Banshees, David Bowie, Bahaus , Duran Duran, The Cramps, The Specials , Garbage, Muse and great indie, alternative and goth music from The Filthy Tongues and the Gabbling Ghouls ! Masala chai was spiked with international goth, courtesy of Dutch dark s...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, hair metal fiascos, tight punk, and AC/DC meets disco! We paid tribute to guitaring legend and solo champion of two-handed tapping, Eddie Van Halen and revisited the Rezillos' satirical Top of the Pops. We had incredible new music from Diving Station , Bears In Trees , George Riley , NOISY , Deadletter , IDLES , Gwenno , Royal Blood and Sonar Pilot , topped by a...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road... punk! Rock! RnB! Indie! The list is endless! (Well, actually not, we had to stop after an hour) This week's show featured the wonderful artists, Scottish rockers Black Cart , London-based indie songstress Connie Constance , Mancunian dance-funkers Porij , Liverpool garage rock trio Oya Paya (who reminded me in part of Jet in a good way... where are Jet these da...

This week, the Yellow Brit Road is drawing rings around the world! You read that right, it's that time of the month: album listening party! This month's record of choice is the Super Furry Animals' 2001 album, Rings Around The World . We listened to the Welsh band's fifth studio album and first venture into bold-faced pop music in it's unabashed exploratory entirety. Pop the record on and follow a...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, lost tapes, Cardiacs, rock and poetry! We had old-new music from the Rolling Stones, aided by Mick Jagger having some extra time on his hands to dig through the archives to find a lost cassette of a recording the band did with Jimmy Page, which manifested itself into a new release! We also paid tribute to Tim Smith of Cardiacs. RIP. This week's new music was from...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, acoustic performances, loud girls, Satanic experiences and ukuleles! We started off with acoustic performances from Muse's Matt Bellamy, covering Simon and Garfunkel's moving Bridge Over Troubled Water, only to have a live performance from the OGs from way back in 1967. New music on this week's show, Yorkshire band Guru , Bristolian trio Svalbard , and a compilat...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, new indie, Martian fallacies, and those big gay hands. We opened this week with Joni Mitchell's dive through the archives. She released a radio performance of her covering "House Of The Rising Sun" at the CFQC AM Radio Station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1963 - the earliest known recording of Joni Mitchell. Our second song, David Bowie's Life on Mars? p...

On this week's Yellow Brit Road, old music, new music, unsigned artists who should be stars, crazy headlines and much more! Bringing you a multi-genre show, we delved into the best that's new and underground with unsigned artists from across the country. Find Lord Kagemusha (North Yorkshire), Kynsy , We Cut Corners , Somebody's Child (Dublin, Ireland) and Amaroun (South London) on this week's play...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we had another album listen! Oasis' stellar debut album Definitely Maybe turns 25 this August, and for that and many other reasons, it is an album that deserves a revisit. We talked a bit about the recording process and the history surrounding the album, and listened to stone cold classic sounds. Definitely Maybe a good show! Catch the Yellow Brit Road live on ai...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, Decolonise fest, live music, Peel sessions and more! We heard new albums from Jehnny Beth and the Fratellis, whose album Half Drunk Under A Full Moon is out in October. Decolonise Fest, a music festival in London "by and for punks of colour", ran its 2020 edition online with performances that can be found on their Twitter and Bandcamp . We listened to DeLila Blac...

If you wanted to know what it takes to recreate one of the largest music festivals in the world for the radio masses, for the lockdown generation, this is the bonus content for you! I answer some questions about the production and polishing of the show, as well as the bill (so many brilliant acts to choose from!) The Yellow Brit Road returns Sundays from 8 to 9 PM on CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston, or...

This week was August bank holiday weekend, which means ordinarily, it should have been the weekend that the Reading and Leeds festival, one of the longest running and largest music festivals in the world, took place. While the physical festival was called off for 2020 owing to health concerns over COVID-19, the Yellow Brit Road managed to secure passes to a very special edition of the festival: on...

John Reith, the famously uptight director of the BBC in the 1930's, took it upon himself to be the upholder of Britain's morality as director of the nation's airwaves. As we heard in the Lancashire episode from earlier, Lancastrian actor, comedian and musician George Formby often fell afoul of the BBC's standards under Reith with his cheeky and playful lyrics.  In time, the often unreasonable...

This week's Yellow Brit Road follows the rise of the Thin White Duke, in our first-ever album listen! We listened to David Bowie's seminal art-pop album, Hunky Dory . Cutting a portrait of a young Bowie in 1971, on the brink of stardom, a year before 1972's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars catapulted him firmly into the public eye, Hunky Dory gives us a glimpse of Bowie setting out his pla...

This week, we followed the Yellow Brit Road all the way up to the north of England, to the county of Lancashire. Between old music, local dialect, accent, culture (and chips) and poetry, this was possibly the most fun show I've ever done, and I hope you enjoy it too! The artists played this week were Lancashire folk bands The Houghton Weavers, Oldham Tinkers, Lancastrian actor, comedian and musici...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we dive through new music and old, discuss guitaring faux pas, and talk about identity. We opened with a solid set by Siouxie and the Banshees, and in a curveball for this show, American singer Andy Williams. His version of Can't Take My Eyes Off You can be heard here , and Muse's jazz cover for a BBC performance in 2002, here . Rock music is not dead, and this s...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, history, geography and modern rock epiphanies! We looked at the history of Canadian music's obsession with British bands during the British Invasion and the height of Beatlemania, particularly the interesting story of 60's Winnipeg rockers the Guess Who? Bringing in the fast-paced bangers, we played the latest synth rock single from Percy , whose catalogue can be...

This week, the Yellow Brit Road trekked down the paths of the current and happening in the world of music, both in the UK and globally. We listened to some classic bands and music, discussed the trends and workings of music streaming, cheered on an emerging charts battle with a front view, and sipped some masala chai from Montreal. We heard some classic Led Zeppelin and the last EP from Gang of Fo...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we took our foot off the pedal and coasted down the chill road. No good taste was harmed or compromised during the recording of this show, with our mixtape (can we a call a playlist that?) featuring the likes of Good Dog from Glasgow, Gorillaz, John and Jehn, Courting , Muse, Shingai , a brilliant cover by acclaimed guitarist Antoine Dufour . We also celebrated o...