Yellow Brit Road

This week's show is a listening party to mark 20 years of an astounding piece of art in the British music canon of the 21st century: Muse's 3rd studio album Absolution (2003). An album with an expansive and career-defining sound that launched Muse worldwide as a force to be reckoned with in rock music in the modern age, even while the album itself is hard to cage into a single genre: class...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we had strong comebacks from experienced artists, we talked about new trends in music: Billboard's brand-new TikTok singles chart, and had a lovely interview with The Wytches, whose album Our Guest Can't Be Named comes out 22 September! Music this week by: The Rolling Stones Slowdive Kula Shaker YUNGBLUD Dream Nails FIZZ Aoife Nessa Frances Gotts Street P...

This week was fun and happening! We had new releases out of the UK and Ireland, Hayden, a friend and new volunteer at our station CFRC dropped by to discuss the Mercury Prize and and cool live shows we've seen in Kingston, and I got to speak with Charlie, guitarist in the exciting new pan-European band taking their homebase of London, the UK, and Europe by storm: The Gulps! We heard about thei...

This week on Yellow Brit Road, we had amazing brand-new submissions, new releases from your favourite acts, and a review of the gig that capped off my summer: Sheffield alt rock giants Arctic Monkeys supported by rising, articulate Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. We also had one of indie rock's biggest stars as the subject of our Mic Room chat this week: Snow Patrol, and their album Final Straw...

This week's show brings you all the coverage of Reading festival, between the brand new artists to listen out for, and live performances from this year's edition of the festival. Music by: ALT BLK ERA Soft Play Frozemode Yard Act Mimi Webb Bakar Easy Life You Me At Six Rina Sawayama Nothing But Thieves Wet Leg Declan McKenna Arlo Parks Loyle Carner Knucks Becky Hill Sam Fender Billie Eilis...

This week, we look back at a great summer of shows and festivals by reliving the highs of Kingston's own Spring Reverb festival, that took place in June for only the second time this year! Listen on for highlights, recaps, live clips and music from the city's finest. And tune back in next week as we cap off the summer festival coverage with live music from Reading and Leeds! Music this wee...

This week marks the 50-year anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, far away in Bronx in NY, USA. It has since grown in legitimacy to become one of the most popular genres of music around the world. So what's happening right now in the UK and Ireland? We dove into the modern UK and Irish hip hop scenes, looking at some of the unique subgenres hip hop has spawned through collaborations and shared...

This week's show was packed: your favourite British musicians at Montreal's Osheaga that happened this weekend, a friend and guest bringing in some math rock, a radio live session by Kingston band Exogen, and Portsmouth, UK band The Straights phoning in to premiere their brand new single, The World Weighs More Than Before. Catch up for music by: Ffa Coffi Pawb Ash Beabadoobee Skindred SLIX...

This week we were on air for two hours, and had brand new releases, talked about the 2023 Mercury Prize shortlist that was released earlier in the week, and had an in-depth interview with Belfast post punk band Enola Gay, whose brand of unapologetic political post punk caught the world's attention in 2020. They are coming to North America (Toronto - 17 Sept at the Drake Underground) this fall,...

Great music from the 00s, and brand new releases and submissions on this week's show! It's been 22 years since one of my favourite albums, Super Furry Animals' Rings Around The World came out in 2001. Also this week on Meet Me In The Mic Room, sharply dressed Scottish dance-punk indie icons Franz Ferdinand! Music by: Super Furry Animals Shingai , Bryan K Bombay Bicycle Club , Holly Hum...

This week we talked all about Foo Fighters' secret show at Montreal's Verdun Auditorium to just 4000 fans, had Kingston indie rock band girldad drop by to talk to us about their newly released debut EP Wide Eyed Kids, and played brand new music! Les Shirley Teenage Fanclub Slowdive Big Joanie Fresh Lemon Wipes, NOVACUB Death Cult Electric girldad The Wood Burning Savages Fräulein Tough Age...

It's been a big week for nostalgic band tours, and we talked all about it. Plus new music, and a guest, Clara in the studio bringing in some cool music picks, plus joining me in the Mic Room to talk about The Horrors (the band, not like... existential horrors. Not the Horrors. The Horrors (band), and their debut album, 2009's Primary Colours.) This week's podcast is horrendously late b...

We're bringing you an hour of highlights from Glastonbury this week! To really get into the live experience, live performances are available on the BBC Music YouTube page, or the BBC iPlayer in the UK. Music by Caroline Polechek Arctic Monkeys The Pretenders (with Johnny Marr and Dave Grohl ) Nova Twins The Big Moon Gwenno Cat Burns Obongjayar Lizzo Elton John More Glastonbury is over on BBC M...

This week, we touched just the tip of the Glastonbury iceberg, listening to live performances from the festival – more on that next week! We also continued our celebration of Pride in music by examining the relationship between music and queer identity with some lovely guests from the music community. This week's show had music by: Greta van Fleet Grove , Bob Vylan Christine and the Queens Pal...

This week, we promised bangers and anthems, and that's what we delivered for an hour. Indie, rock and pop bangers, queer anthems, plus Meet Me In The Mic Room returns, with an artist I admire a lot: Bloc Party! Music by Romy Mika Yungblud Rina Sawayama Tom Robinson [ live 2018 ] Snake Eyes Chroma Lava La Rue Firestations Bloc Party Jónsi / Sigur Rós Vivek Shraya Jann Find this week's playl...

This week, news from the NCRA CRABO awards in Calgary, recaps from Spring Reverb festival, Pride (17 June in Kingston!) and an interview with Brighid Fry from Toronto indie band Housewife! Music by: Alison Goldfrapp Bloc Party , KennyHoopla Problem Patterns Church Party Housewife Arlo Parks Max Taylor Find this week's playlist here . Do try and support artists directly, all Bandcamp links abov...

This week was all about Spring Reverb 2023 , Kingston's most exciting summer music festival now in its second year of existence! Catch music from this year's performers from over five venues and four packed days of incredible live music, including by Almond Milk Keaton The Astros Moon King Electric Six Luscious Housewife New Friends Hotel Mira Mint Simon The Wilderness The Meringues Cam Ka...

We had guests in the studio this week! Ben and Andrew from Kingston indie rock band The Astros as well as singer songwriting Laura Carson joined me on air on Sunday to talk about their music and upcoming shows during Spring Reverb next week (Laura Carson at the Toucan on Thursday, The Astros at the Ale House on Friday). Music this week: Royal Blood PJ Harvey The Astros Spiral Drive Oracle Sisters...

This week on Yellow Brit Road, we paid tribute to bassist Andy Rourke of the Smiths, who died following a battle with pancreatic cancer. No better way than to honour his legacy than by bringing out the vinyls the band sent to our station in the 1980s, to listen to his fine bass work as it was recorded and intended to be heard. We brought out some CDs sent to us by Iceage as well (for the story beh...

Let the Yellow Brit Road coverage of the Eurovision Song Competition 2023... begin! Our favourite multinational, multilingual, multi-genre, multicultural festival of music, culture, fun, silliness, campness, learning an insane amount about a country in particular and bopping along to banger pop tunes, Eurovision is upon us! Hosted in Liverpool, UK last weekend, you were only bound to find the most...

This week, a show I've wanted to do for three whole years: a dive into the Welsh language music scenes in the 80s and 90s! We covered the Welsh alt and rock scenes of the 80s and 90s, y sîn roc (ac alternatif) Gymraeg, the Cool Cymru movement of the 90s, and basically played some of my favourite bands ever. To make it easier to find the bands, this week's playlist is a YouTube playlist, wi...

Exams are done, school's out for summer, and this is our lives on holiday! It's our second week of summer holidays on the Yellow Brit Road, as we continue to take a trip around the world for a global musical experience. To make things sweeter, we had a guest and good friend join us on our trip! Setlist: Half Moon Run (Montreal, Canada) Poppy (USA) Hoirong ( Bangalore, India) Shalom (South...

This week, the Yellow Brit Road leads you down the path to adventure: we're taking you on holiday! My good friend Grace and I take you on a trip around the world of music, with releases from international artists all over. A globe-trotting holiday, from the comfort of your room! Listen along for: dEUS (Belgium) Special Interest (New Orleans, USA) Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers (Canberra, AUS)...

What did we learn from this week's show? First, that not every week is going to be your week, and second, that won't stop the music from being absolutely smashing. We had a few hiccups on air this week, but still, lots of great new music, plus not one but two artists to discuss in the mic room this week! Music by PVRIS Nothing But Thieves POST (Daddy G from Massive Attack ), Ghostpoet Chwa...

What wasn't on this week's show?? We had a live guest! Cyndy from CFRC's own Indie Wakeup Call dropped by as our first live guest on Meet Me In The Mic Room... our first live guest on the show ever! We played vinyl! We talked about The White Stripes! We listened to great new music! Artists this week: Depeche Mode The Lottery Winners , Shaun Ryder Fräulein DEADLETTER Beach Riot Arlo Par...