Lost Immortals and Radio Hieroglyphics with Roy Stannard and Matt Staples

The Whole Nine Yards 15th August 2021 3-5pm  with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM Burgess Hill Community Radio   www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive   Episode 29 Rapture and Verse – Poetry converted to music by women.  Poetry is everywhere and in some ways you can find it in every song. Pause and listen to the lyrics of the next song you listen to. Sometimes the wo...

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 125 Sunday 15th August 5-7pm on www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive 103.8FM Burgess Hill Community Radio with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples   Another seriously good selection of music from listeners in Burgess hill and less important places around the world. Listen live on Radioplayer or 103.8FM in Mid Sussex for loads more classics...

The Whole Nine Yards 8th August 2021 The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 8th August 2021 3-5pm with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive Episode 28 The girls with Sun in their Hair This week we explore the jazz origins of Route 66 before unleashing the Stones version on you. We play you an electrifying 80s track by Then Jerico, the band fronted by the troubled M...

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS​ Ep 123 broadcast Sunday 1st August 21 5-7pm with Roy Stannard​ Burgess Hill Community Radio​ 103.8FM Your music. Your show. Find our what happened to Raissa Khan-Panni​ solo artist and lead singer of Brighton collective The Mummers​ - apart from having her name misappropriated by a young Anglo-Malay popsicle also called Raissa. We played someon...

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 122 Sunday 25th July (AKA Roy's 65th) on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples On this landmark show we explored the lost genius of Daniel Johnston across 3 tracks written by the man himself, one performed by him. We checked out Foy Vance and the links between him, Pete Townsend and Rachel Fuller - and som...

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS   Ep 121 Sunday 18th July 21 5-7pm on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples Listen Live: www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive Music selected by you. St. Vincent & David Byrne; Sufjan Stevens; the Russian segue with The Waterboys and the Blow Monkeys; Blind Faith and Rory Gallagher; the return of Dot...

The Whole Nine Yards broadcast Sunday 18th July 2021 3-5pm with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive Episode 25 The Importance of Small Things Why are small things important in life? It’s your choice to engineer positive change in your life. When you sit down and look at the world around you realise you can't change how people treat you or what they say...

The Whole Nine Yards 11th July 2021 On The Whole Nine Yards this Thursday 8th August 7-9pm with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive Aliens This week we play songs written to explore the plight, the fights, the heartache and the sheer will to live of refugees. As they arrive in dinghies, via country-long treks across deserts, seas and mountains, avoiding...

Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples presented the 119th episode of THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM Sunday 4th July 21 5-7pm. Featuring the dark side of Leeds in the 80s with post punks Gang of Four and Delta 5 and the Sex Pistols without Johnny Rotten - the surprisingly good Professionals plus the unusual pairing of Chvrches and Robert Smit...

The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 4.7.21 3-5pm Show 23 with Roy Stannard originally broadcast on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM roy.stannard@burgesshillradio.co.uk Being Boring You’re bored, I’m bored. We’re all bored. No hugging, kissing, crowding, concerting, congregating. Restricted weddings, funerals, life on Zoom, holidays in Torquay. Boring. So this week we are celebrating boredom. On and on...

Lost Immortals Ep 118 with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples this Sunday 27th June 5-7pm  on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM on https://www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive Not world music but superb music from around the world delivered on the winds by our 828 Lost Immortals Facebook followers. Not all great music comes from the US or UK. Symphonic pop from Denmark; progressive music fr...

The Lost Immortals Ep 117 Sunday 20th June 5-7pm on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM  with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples Unexpected music from years ago and yesterday that will require a re-set of your ears.  Soul searching and soul finding. Playlist Buffalo Tom – Soda Jerk (Buffalo Tom 1988) The Clash – Somebody Got Murdered (Sandinista! 1980) Big Soul – Le Brio (Branchez la guitare) (Long...

The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 20.6.21 3-5pm Show 21 with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive Songs that Matter We are all so used to listening to the disposable, committee written pop hits played on other less discriminating stations, that we sometimes forget that some songs have changed the way we think, act and feel. There are probably no more...

The Lost Immortals Ep 116 Broadcast on Burgess Hill Radio Sunday 13th June 2021 With Roy Stannard​ and Matthew Staples​ with a journey through the great lost songs of Guy Chambers​ - our best songwriter since McCartney? Commemorating the 5th anniversary of the passing of indie band Viola Beach, playing music library king Andy Quin's unique take on Indian jazz and the unsung queen of New York singe...

The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 13.6.21 3-5pm Show 20 with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive . Flora and Trauma Like music, flowers bring happiness, but can also mark times of grief and loss. For as long as people have been writing songs, they’ve been using flowers as metaphors, props and symbols for life, love and death. Flowers in music often...

Broadcast on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM Sunday 30th May 2021 5-7pm With Roy Stannard and Matt Staples Tricky, Morcheeba, new undicovered megastar Hider; the link between Andra Day, Gun and yacht rock, new female artists, our own Jez Gates releases another monster and much more. Musically diverse, sleevenotable didacticism, assembled with dedication. Radio as it used to be and still could be.. The...

The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 30.5.21 3-5pm Show 18 with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive . The Rotterdam Incident Last weekend I tuned into Eurovision. That’s what lockdown does to you. The Italian winners were Red Hot Chilli Peppers fronted by a young Michael Hutchence. The runner up was a delicate Edith Piaf flower re-potted. However two a...

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 113 23.5.23 broadcast on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples Ever wondered who performed the Old Grey Whistle Test theme? Ever wonderd what a 60ft Doll sounds like? How about a Japanese Garage rock band? Bryan Ferry on a dance track? Was Dave Edmunds the best Welsh guitar player ever? The best unsampled...

The Whole Nine Yards with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio broadcast Sunday 23rd May 21 3-5pm:  Serendipity in music, long intros and the UK's next superstar 'Self Esteem' ; KD Lang re-imagined as disco with with some real throwback soul funk from the reincarnation of Curtis Mayfield, Jungle . Plus our own Jez Gates with his superb new song 'Man Missing in the Great Outdoors' sque...

The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 16.5.21 3-5pm Ep 16 with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive I want a word – songs with spoken word parts There’s nothing like a good talking to on a record. If you want to create a memorable moment and preserve it for dramatic effect, then pause the music and subdue it and let the charismatic lead singer talk over the melo...

The Whole Nine Yards 9.5.21 Show 15 Burgess Hill Radio.co.uk/listenlive Classic Pop tunes that passed you by Ever heard of Mondo Grosso, a Japanese band from Kyoto? I thought not. How about the similarly named Mondo Kane featuring Georgie Fame on a Latin jazz release produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman? Or the British electronic duo Mono? What about the long forgotten Scottish band, The River De...

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Originally broadcast Sunday 9th May 5-7pm on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples https://www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive We play, amongst much else, Marianne Faithfull's title track from her new album #SheWalksinBeauty Plus the hippest band to say you're listening to - SAULT; two live Fleet Foxes trac...

The Lost Immortals Episode 110 originally broadcast on Sunday 2nd May 2021 With Roy Stannard and Matt Staples A fond look back at the legendary Pillows and Prayers Cherry Compilation of 1982 with music from three of the bands featured on it - The Monochrome Set, Felt and Thomas Leer - along with similar vintage tracks from Wire and Captain Sensible. We play Ukrainian rock about the plight of nativ...

The Gospel Truth Gospel music has its origins in the hymns, spirituals and sacred songs in Afro-American culture in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Gospel songs were sung by African slaves about escaping to freedom, and giving thanks to God. Its music features prominent sections for solo singers. The lead vocalist improvises around the melody while the rest of the choir sing backing vocals, often wit...

The Lost Immortals Ep 109  Broadcast Sunday 25th April 5-7pm on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM with Roy Stannard and Matt Staples The best tracks from over 830 contributors including 2 lost gems from Bridget Jones's Diary + two of the all time great covers from Patti Smith and Brandi Carlile plus a range of great music selected by 830 music lovers from around the world. Tracklist Slam Cartel – Su...