After Eight Show - New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else!

As usual, our show was stacked full of innovative, creative, extraordinary new music - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. This was the final time that we produced a show as a playlist with no intros. Playlist: Amber – Maria BCDevices – Kaidi AkinnibiBabel – Marina HerlopOnly Nineteen – Caleb FrancisThe Tower – Future IslandsSleeper – BADBADNOT...

Another great show stacked full of innovative, creative, extraordinary new music - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. At this time, we were producing the show as a playlist with no intros - that changed soon after this one. Playlist: Passenger – Will Epsteinwitches’ brew – Luna ShadowsTime Lost – New Age Doom, TuvabandCalibrate – SloweMinerals...

Another great show stacked full of innovative, creative, extraordinary new music - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. Playlist: Lanterns Lit (Among The Living) – Son LuxRight or Wrong (Moortega! Remix) – Camp Claude, Diane SagnierHoly Mountain – GrandammeA Barely Lit Path – Oneohtrix Point NeverSibomandi – Alabaster DePlume, Falle NiokeAll The...

More innovative, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's episode - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. Playlist: A Closer Touch - AVR  Animals – The Bones of J.R. Jones  Rag Child – Allison Russell  More Than A Love Song – Black Pumas  Perfect Heaven – 15 15  shanty – Slowdive  Can’t escape from the sun – The Burning Feathers  Kakariki...

More innovative, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's episode - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts: Crocodile – Uma Swedish Water – Chartreuse Café Godot – Stefano Mastonardi Holy Dazed. (radio edit) - TANGO GOLF TANGO Colour Code – Breakfast Cat There Is No End – New Age Doom Apples For My Love – Praises Marriage – The Bug Club Hur...

More innovative, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's episode - mostly by artists and bands that struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts: Sugar – Yellow BellyA Little Bit Of Love – Duo DecadI Say Not As I – Palm Skin ProductionsTanzania – TurtleBringing Murder to the Land – Anton Newcombe, Dot AllisonShark – SharkyGone – So BelowLogika - Thee MarloesHead Down – Steven...

We're back! It's been just over 2 years since we last broadcast our show. It will be a different show now - just a playlist of wonderful new music that has been sent in to us. That and a few new releases by well known artists to us - maybe not so well known to our listeners. It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful, innovative, stunning new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and...

The FINAL episode of the After Eight Show for radio. But don't despair - we will be making the occasional podcast in the future with, as before, an eclectic mix of new music that you just don't hear anywhere else! This week's show was a 'Best of the Best of the Best' compilation - some favourite tracks from more than 8000 we've played since the first episode in January 2014. And the VERY final tra...

*** BEST OF 2021! *** This episode comprises some of our favourite tracks selected from more than a thousand that we have played during the year. It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful, innovative, stunning new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio. With the exception of a short intro and outro, it is uninterrupted music. Playlist: Liquidity – Gyða V...

This week's show was a 'BEST OF THE BEST' compilation - our favourite two tracks from each of the last ten shows. It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio. New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else! Playlist: Bad with time – Sun JuneMeet Ya – Full Flower Moon BandOliver – Gal MusetteSomething / Anything – Zac...

This is the final *weekly* episode of The After Eight Show thougfh we are doing three 'Best Of''s in the coming weeks. Lots of beautiful new music that we've been saving up over the past 12 months. It really is a fabulous selection this week! In our LUVVA COVER feature, we played a stripped back version of one of Tori Amos's most amazing songs. Jo Beth Young was asked to contribute a cover version...

 More fabulous inventive, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's show. In our LUVVA COVER feature, we played a 'hard rocking' version of one of Björk's best known songs. It's by Chuck Wright - bass player with Quiet Riot. He has assembled a stellar band including the magnificent vocalist Whitney Tai who is the singer on another of tonight's tracks which could not be more different , in m...

More great New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else! in this week's episode. Our our ALBUM OF THE WEEK  actually comes from last year but we have only just become aware of it and it is sensational! The album is 'Two Of Me' and it's by Momma. They're a brilliant 4-piece indie rock band from LA."Momma's Two Of Me is a twisted, enchanting carnival ride ... the music itself, which draws you in with...

Lots more New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else in this week's show! This week, our ALBUM OF THE WEEK was 'Invisible Things' by Mari Conti. "Mari Conti’s new album delves into the darkness and light that can be found in life and the invisible ties that connect us all. It’s refreshing to listen to an album that pushes the boundaries on what constitutes the mainstream way to create a song. The...

Our ambition every week is to introduce you to the music of at least 3 artists / bands who are new to you and whose music you'll want to explore. Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK, this week, is 'Area 52 Truck Stop' by Sylvia Bullett. "I have been visualising post plague dance parties spinning this!" It features two members of iconic band Television – Fred Smith on bass and Richard Lloyd on guitar. The album...

More New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else in this week's show! Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK, this week, is 'Half Mirror' by Chorusing. "From his home in the hills of North Carolina, recording as Chorusing, Matthew O’Connell has created a piece of music that manages to create new language and meaning by meticulously crafting the sounds and lyrics that make Half Mirror something totally unique." Fol...

Our ambition every week is to introduce you to the music of at least 3 artists / bands who are new to you and whose music you'll want to explore. Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK was 'Technicolour' by Geo Jordan. Haste magazine: "Multi-instrumentalist, producer, writer and, let’s face it, musical expert, Geo Jordan just keeps getting better and better. Piano, bass and jazz drums are just some of the musical...

Lots more innovative, melodic, fascinating new music in this week's show! Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK is the amazing debut album of Gal Musette. She is a musical prodigy who began writing piano based lyrical compositions and performing at open mics in her home city of San Clemente, CA at the age of 10. 'Backwards Lullaby' explores the pangs of hopeless romances and unrequited love, what it’s like to mov...

A festival of new music again this week. With, perhaps, a bit of an electronic / nu jazz feel about it. This week, our ALBUM OF THE WEEK is 'somewhere' by Sun June. Sun June is an American indie pop band from Austin, Texas. "Somewhere showcases a gentle maturation of Sun June's sound, a second record full of quiet revelation, eleven songs that bristle with love and longing. It finds a band at the...

This week's show was a ' Best of the Best' compilation - our favourite two tracks from each of the last ten shows. It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio. Playlist: Stretch Armstrong – Dead AnywayDifferent Kind Of Love – Adia VictoriaBossa Nova Hangover – StablesSofia – Askjell, iris, AURORABoogie Woogie – On...

More incredible creative, inspirational, innovative new music you just don't hear anywhere else! In our ALBUM OF THE WEEK feature, we play three selected tracks from a really interesting, newly-released album and invite the artist(s) to introduce it themselves. This week, it's 'Daystar' by Minneapolis's All Eyes. They are a duo (Alicia & Joe Christenson) and they describe their music as, "Dark...

Truck loads of really interesting new music again in this week's show (see the playlist below). In our ALBUM OF THE WEEK feature, we play three selected tracks from a really interesting, newly-released album and invite the artist(s) to introduce it themselves. This week, it's 'Morning Drops and Lemon Seeds' by Nana M. Rose. She is a soulful singer-songwriter from Rotterdam."We have all gone throug...

Stacked full of exciting, innovative, creative New Music this week as per usual! Music from Iceland, USA, Sweden, Belgium (from a Dutch, Scottish and Indonesian background), Hungary, Korea, Nigeria (indirectly), Poland, New Zealand and the UK. Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK is 'Mundane' by Fiona Brown. She was born in the Netherlands to a Scottish father and Indonesian mother and now lives in Antwerp. A mu...

A flood of truly exciting NEW music, yet again, in our show this week. Our Album of the Week is TRY IT...YOU MIGHT LIKE IT! introduced by  GA-20 themselves on the show. GA-20 are "Raw, passionate and honest" - a trio of 2 guitars, vocals and drums. On this album, they have taken 10 songs from Chicago blues legend Hound Dog Taylor and let rip - exciting, fresh and LOUD!"Play this loud enough and yo...

Masses of new music in our playlist again this week! Album of the Week is 'Monthly Friend' by Wyldest. While Monthly Friend is a self-contained concept album about the joys, woes and confusion of femininity and womanhood, it’s also a next step in the growth of a singer-songwriter who refuses to be pinned down by genre labels or traditional categorisation. Zoe Mead (aka Wyldest) wrote, mixed and pr...