Is This Thing On Podcast

  What a show with top independent sounds from the usual array of amazing artists. This is your favourite independent music podcast isn’t it? Marvin B Naylor – Blue World, Daniel Roure – Le Baleines Bleus, No Snow Now Alps – When Rockets Bloom, The Cadbury Sisters – Quarry, Nick Tann – Don’t, Josh Savage […]

   Would be nice if you could click this big ITUNES button and give the podcast a glowing review (or a rubbish one if you hate it) THANKS  Nick xx Yes poppets, another fine collection of independent music from some of the best artists on the planet including Alloise – Tell Me Of Fire, Smilex […]

A slightly different format for the podcast this week but you’ll have to listen to find out how and why. Some great music as per…. Antoine Architeuthis – So Alive, Duffy’s Gypsy Band – Barking Mad, Steve Lawrence Sinking Ship, King Never – Mr No, Damn Vandals – Cities of a Plastic World, Van Der […]

Please rate this podcast on The pictures aren’t getting any better are they? Never mind, the music is top notch with artists that I have met at various festivals plus a few folk that have sent me their tunes direct. In no particular order I played Where Fires Are – Isabella, LB The EMCEE – […]

It’s all hands to the bridge this week as we boldly go on a quest exploring the world of brilliant music, well worth a listen if you are one of those moany types banging on about how music is all rubbish nowadays Edd Donovan & the Wandering Moles – House on Fire, Rawshawn (ft Omitot […]

This week it is a BLISSFIELDS Festival Special

Yes, it has been a while but I am back and explain everything in this weeks episode as well as play tracks by Steve Lawrence – Sinking Ship, The Infatuations – Tonight We Celebrate, Dan Whitehouse – My Heart Doesn’t Age, Coast – The Caller, Lucy Kitchen – Stolen Crown, The Fierce and the Dead […]

Well my lovelies, against al the odds I have managed to pull together some great music for this weeks episode. Some marvellous tunes from 2010 as well as a new one from me, Nick Tann – Coming home, Tom Bishel – The Feeling of Home, a special recording from Matt Stevens, Snow 3, Amaya Huntly […]

Funny little show this week...Great tunes though

Better late than never eh? As I explain on the show, things are a little busy at the moment and I just managed to grab some spare time to bring you a new episode with some cracking tunes including Nick Tann – Can’t Stop Missing You, Dead On TV – Back at the Start, Anja […]

As I am away in the lovely country of Morocco, I am giving you all another chance to enjoy episode 78. Ahhh, those heady days….Enjoy    Thanks to the mighty podcasting guru Pete Cogle , I can now bring you Is This Thing on Podcast 78. This week I am joined by my mate Drew Harris […]

This week I play my usual mix of great independent artists including Nick Tann – Coming Home, Ted Z and the Wranglers – Chasing The Wind, Such Sights – Seeing is Believing,  This City Limits – Amputate, Hana Pirana – Back Again, Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 – How many Many’s, Smilex – Wasted […]

  Here we go with another collection of fine independent tunes from around the world. This week my playlist looks like this Nick Tann – Don’t, Field Studies – Mothertongue, April Maybe May – Don’t Go Sadly, Ryan Peel – What am I Missing, By The Rivers – One Word, E.A.R.T.H. – Keep Rising, Andrew […]

A shorter, more diverse collection of music I defy you to find. This week I play Josephine and the Artizans – Dies Irae, Sam Page – I Don’t Not Love You, Joe Kemp – It Ain’t Easy, Ellen Wade – All I ever Wanted, Crayon – Argue With Myself, Nick Tann – 3 AM 3 […]

Glass the Tramp, King Never, Foot Long - Crow Orchard Road, Marley Blandford, Nick Tann - 3 AM, Dan Whitehouse, Matt Stevens, Lucy Kitchen

Ahoy hoy campers, a short and sweet show this week with the winner of last weeks poll Helen Sanderson ~ Without You getting a repeat play. Will she do it again or will one of these lovelies beat her to the finish. Autumn Electric – Ride The Rogo, Jen Olive – Death of Me, Anja McCloskey and […]

Here we go again kids. Here are the listings for this weeks show. Inherit The Stars ~ Here at the Edge, Plastic Barricades ~ Shine, Dirty Proper ~ Not Turning Back, Gums & Callum Baird ~ Grangemouth at Dawn, Bon Saints ~ Bravado, Helen Sanderson-White ~ Without You, Dan Whitehouse ~ My Heart Doesn’t Age […]

Yes, 218b I have forgone 217! This weeks artists include Static in Verona ~ Bitter Branches, Marvin B Naylor ~ The Pirouettist, Taliia ~ Fiesta, Capture ~ Pink, Mummy Short Arms ~ Face Full Of Sand, Josh Savage ~ Mountains in Hurricanes, Lucy Kitchen ~ Autumn, Dark Eyes 55 ~ Winter Vibe, K Anderson ~ […]

  In this weeks lovely show we have songs from Lucy Kitchen ~ Autumn, Little Brother Eli ~ Awkward Positions , Polly and the Billets Doux ~ Hold Fast, Nick Tann ~ How Can It Be Wrong?, The Cherry Bluestorms ~ Just a Kiss, Presley Johnson ~ Anitas Last Dance, Avital Raz ~ Blues of […]

Great tunes as per usual this week with some great tracks from   Alberta ~ Tumbleweed, Richard Maule ~ How Do You See Me?, Raphael Novarina ~ Loin Des Fous, Planes Over Paris ~ Alibi, Liz Longley ~ Rush, Scott Turchin ~ Cornucopia, Nick Tann ~ Crazy Momma. A little chat about some new shows, […]

An award winning show this week....geddit? Never mind, great music from Glass the Tramp ft Nick The Barber ~ Fun Fun Fun, Sam Page ~ Shine Your Little Light, Dan Whitehouse ~ Still Thinking of You, David Garlitz ~ I Like The Way You Move, The Travis Waltons ~ Heartbreaker, Emily Wolfe Lionheart, Nick Tann ~ Falling My new shows, that I mentioned, go out on Splash Radio this weeke

In this weeks short and very sweet show I played one of my new tracks for the first time, namely  Nick Tann ~ Never Did Me Harm, Mummy Short Arms ~ Face Full of Sand, Jamie Hamilton ~ Churches, The Lovely Lost ~ I Live Alone, Super Square Cloud ~ Hana Bi (Lighterthief remix), George […]

Hi all and welcome to another episode of possibly the best music podcast on the planet. This week I have a hidden theme to some of the songs I play. If you spot it then you can stroke your beard  (you do HAVE a beard don’t you?) and nod knowingly to yourself. BUT did you […]

This week I play a tracks by among others, the Betsey Rosses. One of the best tracks or one of the worst? Also a reworking of a Tom Caulfield classic by me..

In a frankly shambolic show, I mumble my way through the introductions and fortunately play some great music in the gaps! Gary Granger ~ Seagulls, Monster Jaw ~ Get a Tattoo, Kill Kasper ~ Start The Revolution, Aurora ~ Rain, April Maybe May ~ Lost, April Maybe May ~ High Tide, Matt Stevens remixed by […]