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Music: 500 Miles To Memphis - All My Friends Are Crazy Download "All My Friends Are Crazy" (mp3) from "Sunshine In A Shot Glass" by 500 Miles To Memphis Deep Elm Buy at iTunes Music Store Thrash Madolas - All My Friends Are Crazy Aaron English - Anywhere End Up Street Madagascar - When We Last Herd Of Gentlemen Download "When Last We Heard of Gentlemen" (mp3) from "Goodbye East, Goodbye West"by Ma...

Podcast For A Rainy Day Music: Mad Caddies - Tired Bones UMEED - Can't Tell The Difference Alyssa Hendrix - Good Summer Rain Anna Coogan And North 19 - When It Rains Andy Guthrie - Come Out Of The Rain Phillip Mitchell - Soul Thomas Dolby - Europa And The Pirate Twins Spoken Word: Mike Bennett - The Entertainment and Monster (A Poem). Check out Mike's Podcast Novel One Among The Sleepless

This weeks Podcast is dedicated to the memory of Diane Treadwell 1942-1997 Music: Inner Voices - Ice Breaker Alternate Routes - Time Is A Runaway Farewell Redemption - Please Stay Mice Parade - Double Dolphins On The Nikel Tom Nunn - Mothicfolk Dirt City Radio - The Train Song Tom Ze - Cara-cua - Revolta Nago-Oio 1830 Roscoe Chenier - A Mothers Love The Alice Project - Happy Mothers Day David Gilm...

The Perfect Antidote To Eurovision Music: Gary Dunne - American Folksong Linda Draper - Shine Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ending Tall Pony - I'm Your Girlfriend Now ( cherryade music ) Martin Bresnick /Bang On A Can Allstars - Be Just Elliott Smith - High Times Spoken Word/Music: Rev Porl - Tumour, Dr Thirsty

This weeks programme features a great mix from the rock/pop of Swedish Roenik to the foot-tapping Mali troupe Tinariwen, the 60's inspired folk of The Story, beautiful celtic harp of Hermione Swinford and the down right Ye-ha country music of Asleep At The Wheel. Enjoy. Music: Roenik - Everything That's New Casey Desmond - Save Me Now Tinariwen - Mano Dayak The Story - Watch Out Hermione Swinford...

Music: Bad Love Junkie - Glitter Town Dave Moreman - Richard And Judy Slot Car Racers - International Play Doh Dntel - Dumbluck Three More Shallows - 2AM Roger Cline And The Peacemakers - Maybe We Should Fall In Love     Poetry: Chuck Clenney - Tomorrow Is A New Day, Amercian Frankenstein, ABCs of Persistence

Music: Sheila Swift - Feel Like I Do Andy Stone - In The Coffee Shop When Zak Palmer - Fixed Watermelon And The Workers - The Wheelman Aaron Yorke - Remember The Days A F Harold - Song About Being Shy Tall Firs - The Woods Phil Ayoub - River To Ocean   Poetry: Fred performs Your Insane , Just An Illusion, Write My Own from his CD I Can't Believe I'm Not Buddha

Meditation For Financial Gain   Music: Birdy Nam Nam - Violins Part 2 (Live) No Fixed Abode - What Did I Do Shauna Burns - Hello Rescue Party - Driving Mark Dunn - Be My TV Elliott Smith - Between The Bars Sonny Coombs And The Kitty Kats - Anymore   Spoken Word: Frank Burton performs Bognor Regis Headlock / Epiphanies / Kev's Got A New Satellite / Office Prick   Mentioned in the programme - Slam I...

Music: Tinariwen - Cler Achel tiger mcs - lillie bee The Shakes - Better Life   Spoken Word: Andrew Newsham reads The Electric Cuspidor (with bed music by Blazej Lindner - Dark Dreams) Read Andy's blog at beebay Also Mentioned Slam Idol Open Writing Challenge - Voting    

The I Have A New Drill And I'm Gonna Use It Show A pocket size edition as I play with my new power tool!   Music: Little Yellow Perfect - For Your Safety And The Safety Of Others Seth Martin - I Consume Olwen Ringrose - Who I'm Meant To Be   Spoken Word: Eva - Tower

As I am deep in polyfiller, paint and plaster, decorating the house, I present a Low Maintenance Edition of Homegrown. All of this weeks artists have featured in this years SXWS Festival in Austin Texas, which has been running from 9-18th March 2007 Music: Matt And Kim - Yeah Yeah Beruit - Elephant Gun Bret Dennon - Ain't No Reason The Mountain Goats - Onions Tokyo Police Club - Shoulders And Arms...

Music: Andy Stone - What You Believe Blabbermouth - Amnesia BluestoneJones - Cosmic Thought Lisa Redford - Universe MEG - Kelly, You're The Teacher Poetry: Tony Morris - Health Warning, Slow Dancer, Road Rage   Homegrown may be a bit sporadic and Lo Maintenance over the next couple of weeks due to other commitments but will be putting out something, however small. Stay subscribed via ITUNES and ke...

This programme is a compilation of my audio blogs from 24th Feb till 5th March 2007 while I have been participating in the Slam Idol Open Writing Challenge. The premise of the competition is to get 6 poets to create an original poem over 10 days, while audio blogging their creative process and progress. You can find out more about the competition by following the link below to the Slam Idol websit...

Music: Kemp Harris - Sweet Weeping Jesus Kelly Sweet - Raincoat Sektor - Blue Alex Quinn - Dreams Martyn Joseph - Love Is Ian Babington - Learning To Fly The Dreams - Lost In The Music Poetry: Helen Gregory - Touch Paper, Tea's Up, Treading Gingerly, S Love And Peace Innit Mentioned in the programme : Bum Rush The Charts , Slam Idol Open Writing Challenge , Podcast Peer Awards

Music: Shadow Machine - Save Me Mary Beth D'Amico - Jimmy Bad Astronaut - The F Word Seth Martin - Individuality Melinda Thorpe - The Memory Listen With Sarah - Tempus Trumpus     Poetry: Adele Ward - La Casa Al Mare / Eclipse / The Last Time I Wore Fur / Silence  

This week I hosted AMPed, the weekly podcast from the Association of Music Podcasting, which features some of the best independent music being played by podcasters both in the UK, the States and beyond. I thought I'd present the podcast here for your consideration, slightly revised with a break for some spoken word material half way through. More information on AMP can be found at www.musicpodcast...

Music: Seagull Strange - Sullas Return Mark Wilson - Realise Sahib Radio - Jacks Home David Elias - River Of Dreams Barry Mcloughlin - Fifth Avenue Ryan Affenberg - Under All The Bright Lights   Poetry: James Stewart - The Quiet , Letting Go. Check out James's podcast The Underground

Music: The Perfects - Shipwrecked Frankie Roe - Red Rivers Syngularity feat Alexis Vaneeckhout - Ocean Chris Garneau - Babys Romance Lisa Redford - Dragon Fly Ergo Phizmiz - Pangolin   Poetry: Richard Bruce Clay - The Buts, The View From Saturn, Venus   Mentioned in the programme: Audio Blogging... My own Live From Storyville , Andy Taylor's Rantings Of A Northern Bloke , Simon Toon , John Buckley...

Music: The Yampy Werewolves -Big Spliff Cult Of Wedge - Louder Listen With Sarah - Ramblin' Andy David Minder - Step On The Wheel Tea For Two - Out In The Sun   Poetry: Dominic O'Rourke - 56K and Danish Pornography (adult content)   Plus I venture down to Digbeth in Birmingham to get a taste of The Go Club , a new venue for the cities bands and artists.   Additional links: Cherryade Music

Special studio guest Giovanni Esposito aka Spoz the 11th Birmingham Poet Laureate 'Spoz' being the bit between the 'E' and the 'ito' (kind of). Spoz describes himself as a sort of poet. The sort, in fact, that has been published, recorded, been on the radio, won awards, is a member of the renowned 'New October Poets', taken part in so many festivals, he's lost count and even had a commission from...

Music from: David Francis - Reflections Of The Life I'm Wearing Joan Osbourne - Holy Waters Heise Bros - The Revenge Of The Self Imposed Hero Aarrah And The Ferns - Emo Phillips Big Big Car - Oh Lets Race   Poetry: Paul Rafferty - The Day The Aliens Came, I Wanna Be, The Scientologists Don't Want Me   And  a little skit: Can't Date Won't Date - by Nic Treadwell   Next weeks special studio guest wi...

Our Prague New Year Special Over the festive period I travelled to Prague, with mini-disk in hand, this weeks podcast is an audio diary of that holiday, with recordings of folk - blues and gypsy performers on Charles Bridge,church recitals, our mystery ghostwalk and other interesting facts on the history of this beautiful town.    Music from Czech Republic:   Lindsay D'Arcy - Life Sized   Pan Svah...

Music from: Ryan Smith - All I Want Jimmie Bratcher - Midnight Clear Moses - Breath Of Bells Twinmaker - I Hate Christmas Roadside Attractions - What Santa Wants    Spoken Word: Elvis McGonagall - Driving Over A Cliff At Christmas Nic Treadwell The Parsons At Christmas (Part Two) (bed music on Parsons by Julie Melton - Silent Night / Doug Boldt - Everyday Has It's Key aka The Twelve Days Of Christ...

Music from: Tom Shad - A Podcast Christmas Theme The Hot Rods - Dear Santa Claus Cult Of Wedge - Exploiting Christmas Alison Crowe - In The Bleak Midwinter Rag And Bone - Maria Daines Lord Weatherby - Santa Claus Is Freaking Me Out   Spoken Word: Elvis McGonagall - Christmas In The Country No.1 & No.2 Nic Treadwell - The Parsons At Christmas (Part One) (bed music used on Parsons by Julie Melton -...

Music from: Michelle Hotaling - Underestimate Triplanetary - Every Monkey Is A Star Listen Wih Sarah - Windmill Eric Saitz - Let Me Love You Samba Mapangala & Orc Virunga - Siku Ya Mwisho Alice Peacock - Only A Memory Andy Doonan - What I Once Had   Poetry from: Ann Wilson - The Designer , The Resting Bench , Smoking and The Sanctuary. More information on Ann's collaboration with band Clutter @ Ea...