Is This Thing On Podcast

Bang Bangs – In Arms, Vendor Defender – Golden Shivers, Tom Slatter – Without Your Hand, an interview with local man Grant Sharkey from Toupe, The Cherry Bluestorms – A Kiss Away, Duffy’s Gypsy Band – Budapest, The Mafia Kings – Two Years Gone, Isaw – Massimo, The Milkmen – Like a Drug and a […]

Kid Russell ~ Broke DJ, Bobby Good ~ Just Words, Thom Cross ~ Standing on the Edge, The Penny Red ~ Thelma, Son of Eagle ~ Bones, Jon Gomm ~ Love Proof, TWO tunes from No Snow NO Alps ~ Elixzabeth I and Cherry Tree and a demo from me. Paul from Unplug The Jukebox […]

That’s me in that picture, back when Izzy was just a few hours old….ANYWAY the podcast this week played music from Streaming Lights ~ Wait a Minute, What is Life for ~ The Rush, SandRiver ~ Goodnight Goodnight, Rieg ~ The Histrionic, Fit & The Conniptions ~ Sweet Sister Starlight, Laura Day Heaven in Youth, Jonathan […]

In an influenza fueled podcast I played great tracks from Michael Sharpe ~ Breakout, King Never ~ Sorrow, Salme Dalhistrom ~ Popwreck, Martha’s Man ~ Already Hurting, Gideon’s Demise ~ Everything Must End, Groundfloor ~ Counting the Days,  Scott Turchin ~ Jah Creation, Coast ~ The Caller and a new working of an old track by […]

Merry Xmas one and all and welcome to an Is This Thing On Podcast,  Matt Stevens Xmas special. An interview interspersed with some of Matt’s music. We cover topics such as babies, how Matt writes songs, the loneliness of a solo artist, will Matt EVER sing? to what kind of guitar does he use and […]

The last podcast before my Xmas special featuring the talents of ‘Til Dusk ~ Honey Just Walk It,  Mike Gatto ~ Silent Outrage, By the Rivers ~ Take Control, Gray Smith ~ Peach, Jesta ~ Back Chat, Flearoy, Holding up the World, Heidi Kole ~ Lay Me Down With Your Hands, Mohatra ~ Buzz, Mak […]

In a better late than never episode I play Bad Bad Meow ~ Wheel, Covergeist ~ the Loneliest Boy in the World, Jebo ~ Diamonds, Kick to Kill ~ Black Kisses, Mahoney and the Moment ~ The Next Love, American Hollow ~ Operator, Liz Longley ~ Unraveling, April maybe May ~ Sugar and Mess,  Good […]

  Did you miss me? Well I’m back with a bucketfull of the best independent music you have ever heard. In no particular order I played The Cherry Bluestones – By Your Leave, Catfish & The Bottlemen – Sidewinder, Vivid Nation – We’re Not The Same, We Steal Flyers – Our World, Sigurdor Gudmunson ~ Naem, Killing […]

A bumper crop of fine music this week featuring in no particular order Clara Barker ~ With You, Owen Hackett ~ Come Back To me, Son of Eagle ~ Another Song, White Bone Rattle ~ The Feryman, The Scene Continental ~ Stranger, Black Mamba ~ To Be Honest, Leibowitz ~ So Fla So Good, Isaw […]

A faintly folkie ripple to this weeks ice cream sundae of music…please yourselves . Great music from Last Child Dancing ~ The End Of Summer, Matt Stevens ~ Scapegoat, Terry Etherington ~ A Time to Go, No Snow No Alps Far In To The Night,Light Garden Antoshka, Clean Marlin ~ Ramjet, Badgers Stew ~ A […]

A lovely band episode this week featuring in no particular order Burning Shapes ~ Silence Amplifies, The Carousel ~ Thelma, Jamie & The Portraits ~ What a Croc, Haunted Stereo ~ Can You See My Side?, Indigo Earth ~ Cold Light of Day, These Fine Galleons ~ The Entity, Shoulders of Giants ~Code of a […]

Nice and early this week and some amazing tunes. In no particular order Salwa Azar ~ White Horse, Bus Stop Dreams ~ The Big One, By The River _ One Word, Marvin B Naylor – Carousel, Lite ~ Image Game(UK TOUR DATES!!), Stereo Sound Future ( NOT FUNK AS I SAID IN THE PODCAST) ~ […]

Yes this is how I want you to listen to Burn ~ Happy, The Wilton Project ~ Diana, Matt Stevens ~ Relic, Marc Philippe ~ Red Tears, Kidd Russell ~ Backyard Heroes, Captain Backfire ~ the Dice, Andrew Foster ~ Panic Moon, The Travis Waltons and me singing the demo of Going Around My Head. […]

Now the dust has settled on episode 100, 101 is biting at its heels with some of the best music on the planet! in no particular order I played Mummy Short Arms ~ Change, No Snow No Alps ~ Lumerino, Catscans ~ Killing Fields, For Abel ~ Yorkshire, Miniature Dinosaur (not Alligator!), Ryan Peel~ What […]

So here we are, episode 100! Recorded live at The Cellar Southampton and what an afternoon Paul (Unplug the Juke Box) and I had! Sadly no live video stream ( I broke the internet!) but some great live performances from Anja McCloskey, Marvin B Naylor, The Lost Boys, Mike Vaughan and Gideon Towers from Gideon’s […]

In this weeks episode I played Rebecca Mcintee ~ Goodbye, Transmission Party ~ You’re My Lighthouse, Y(G) Lyamking ~ Ancient Spy, Black Mamba ~ Head Space, Woven Bird ~ Saw You In Two, Paul Liddell ~ Boots, Steve Swindell ~ Spinning Around, Tony Wallace Turtle & Crab, Shoulders of Giants ~ Code of a Madman, […]

Back from my hols all tanned (yes…I know) and beardy!! This week I played Hi Sonorous ~ Break the Cycle, The Dots ~ Honey, Atari Pilot ~ Game Change, Coloured Lines – Feed Me To The Vultures, Thinking For Tuesday ~ Unsung Hero, Broken Valves ~ What is Right, Flearoy ~ Hey Brother, Gideon’s Demise […]

Indeed I can… Still away on holiday I carry on in a similar vein from last weeks episode. I play a new tune from Coloured Lines ~ Love Lost Light pt2, then some older tracks from Haunted Stereo ~ Cant You See My Side, Late Riser ~ Dick Logic, May KB ~ Conquer, King Never […]

I am away on holiday so this podcast is appearing through the magic that is time travel. As I haven’t had many new tracks sent, I have taken the opportunity to go back and play some of the tracks that I played at the very start of the podcasts history. I played The Wilton Project […]

In no particular order I played Isaw ~ Massimo, Last Child Dancing ~ Balcony, Big Block 454 ~  Pyjamgeddon, Matt Erion ~ In From The Cold,  Indigo Earth ~ Cold Light of Day, Matt Stevens ~Burned Out Car, Pierre Masse’ ~ Give The Word, Marvin B Naylor ~ Alice & Mariane and the demo track […]

A positive cornucopia of musical and comedic delights await you this week with Hot Vamp Club ~ Always Always, The Modests ~ Don’t Hold Back, Marc Philippe ~ Red Tears, Liebowitz ~ Chasing Pompano, Titty Bingo ~ To Forget You, Black Mamba ~ Childish Ambitions and a demo slide guitar track from me!. Hot Potatoes […]

The Rising ~ Thinktank, Isla ~ Love Like That, Jonathan Whiskerd ~ Life Line, KTS ~ Inside Out, Wax Ersatz ~  Out In The Cold, Juana Ghani ~ Breathing, Macdaddy ~ Hurry Hurry and a summer instrumental track from me Dream… That nice Mr Paul Lane from Unplug the Jukebox came along and talked about […]

Schnauser ~ Everything is Nice, Scott Turchin ~ Jah Creation, Lost Souls Club ~ Leave a Light On, Vendor Defender ~ Justin, Will & The People ~ The Game,  Anja McCloskey ~ And Her Head, Eggshell Egoz ~Funky Poets, Rob Warren ~ Good For You, A Man Called Son ~ Sand River ~ A Letter (to […]

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A kind of Eastleigh Festival of Music Special….. Paul Lane and myself discuss the event and play music form some of the people who played including Andrew Foster, Anja McCloskey, The Real Raj, The Last Child Dancing, Toupe, Steve Lowis, Woven Bird and good old me, Nick Tann. Should be a normal show next week, […]