Retrosonic Podcast

Steve from Retro Man Blog chats to Serge and Gabriela from French Boutik and Bobby from Dr Bird about their influences, favourite songs and musical histories. We start off with their recent collaboration, along with Toby from Tiny Flaws and percusionist Graham Lentz at the Pelton Arms in Greenwich and from that throughly entertaining afternoon show, play an exclusive live version of "This Is Londo...

Buddy Ascott from The Chords joins me, Steve from Retro Man Blog to discuss the band's new definitive 5CD retrospective "Re-Chordings 1978-1981" box set. In this episode Buddy reads some extracts from his liner notes and plays a couple of rare Chords tracks from the box set. There's news of two upcoming launch parties to promote the release and he looks back on his successful Budstock birthday par...

Joy Division at Strawberry Studios - Photography by Paul Slattery: A New Book of Iconic Photos Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of "Unknown Pleasures". My Retro Man Blog & Retrosonic Podcast colleague rock photographer Paul Slattery, talks to Lee McFadden about his brand new book of Joy Division photography out now via Legends Publishing. The book not only includes his iconic photo session of the...

Steve from Retro Man Blog with a selection of new releases from his pick of the recent Hipsville Soho-A-Go-Go Weekender including the brand new single from The Night Times along with Autoramas, The Deadly Spirits and Das Clamps. There's two new singles from the Spinout Nuggets label by The Voo-Dooms and Treasures of Mexico and new songs from two bands who will appearing at the Beatwave Weekender,...

Steve from Retro Man Blog is joined by Buddy Ascott drummer with The Chords and The Fallen Leaves to discuss the Retro Man Blog Night with Fay Hallam at the Half Moon Putney on Feb 9th, his upcoming Budstock birthday gig at The 100 Club, The Leaves Marc Riley Session, his production work, new books on Mod Art and Modzines and we pay tribute to Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks. Along the way we play a sel...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock photographer Paul Slattery discuss the Union Carbide Productions reunion, Damaged Goods Records 30th anniversary and Paul's experiences in the Summer of 1968. There's news on our upcoming London show for ex-Soundtrack of Our Lives & UCP front-man Ebbot Lundberg (The Half Moon Putney on October 13th) and we have an EXCLUSIVE unreleased track from Ebbot & The Indig...

Steve from Retro Man Blog presents a decidedly 'non-retro' episode featuring only new and recent music from the best international contemporary Punk, Psych, Mod, Beat, Soul and Garage Rock acts. There's a report on the fantastic Hipsville Jungle-A-Go-Go weekender including some highlights from The Parkinsons, The Oddballs, The Schizophonics, Les Lullies, Black Mambas and an unreleased track from T...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery discuss Mark E Smith, the Small Faces musical "All or Nothing", King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard at Brixton Academy, Mike Stax's book on Craig Smith, The Monochrome Set's 40th anniversary shows and Tours long-awaited reunion gig. There's breaking news and music from Billy Childish & CTMF, The Loons and Union Carbide Productions. Paul pi...

Steve from Retro Man Blog talks about his trip to Sweden to see the Nymphet Noodlers reunion show and plays a pick of great new music that's made it's way to the Blog recently. We bring back some cool Scandic sounds from Cat & The Underdogs, Arvidsson & Butterflies, In Deed, Stupidity and Flight Reaction. There's new solo music and projects from a host of current and ex-members of some pretty big...

Damian O'Neill, guitarist with The Undertones, That Petrol Emotion and The Everlasting Yeah talks to Steve from Retro Man Blog about his new solo album "Refit Revise Reprise" under the name Damian O'Neill & The Monotones. Comprising 12 tracks recorded at home and at Press Play Studios in South London. Co-produced, engineered and mixed by Damian, Andy Ramsay (ex Stereolab) and Paul Tipler with musi...

In a decidedly non-retro Retrosonic episiode Steve takes a look at some of the new music that's found it's way to the Retro Man Blog over the past few months including Gerry Bright & The Stokers, Joss Cope, The Galileo 7, King Salami & The Cumberland 3, Oh! Gunquit, The Jack Cades, Jetstream Pony, Groovy Uncle, French Boutik, Popincourt & The Kite Collectors. There's a look back at our recent reun...

Rock photographer Paul Slattery & Steve from Retro Man Blog with the usual waffle and eclectic mix of music. In this episode we are blown away by The Skids reunion tour and Paul's first chance to photograph the band since they last met almost 40 years ago. There's news on our SolarFlares show and some French Cold Wave from Kas Product, an EXCLUSIVE track from The Galileo 7's forthcoming album, rar...

Legendary drummer Buddy Ascott chats to Steve from Retro Man Blog about his life in music - from being inspired by The Who's Keith Moon and Quadrophenia and witnessing the early Punk Rock explosion to playing the Roxy. There's encounters with The Undertones, Paul Weller and Jimmy Pursey and of course the story centres around his time with The Chords at the height of the Mod Revival. Buddy also exp...

Steve from Retro Man Blog talks to photographer Derek D'Souza in the build up to the release of his new book "In Echoed Steps: The Jam and a Vision of The Albion" in conjunction with Simon Wells and Paul Skellett. Derek chats about how he got to meet The Jam and eventually shooting the cover photography for the "Absolute Beginners" single. Along the way we talk about his early days down the front...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and rock photographer Paul Slattery with the usual eclectic mix of Psych, Punk, Power Pop, Mod, Indie and well...just good old fashioned Rock 'n' Roll. Plus waffle and chat about Paul's forthcoming photo book on The Skids and working with Mark E Smith and The Fall. There's music and reports on recent gigs with Michael Head, The Fall, The Blue Aeroplanes and lots of brand...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery with the usual rock 'n' roll waffle and pick 'n' mix of brand new releases and weird old stuff from the worlds of Garage Rock, Psych, Punk and Indie. In this episode we have an exclusive track from The Masonics forthcoming album in the build up to our launch party at The Half Moon Putney on November 18th and chat about our recent sold o...

Steve from Retro Man Blog is back with a decidedly "non-retro" episode featuring all brand new, and in some cases, unreleased music that has found its way to the Blog over the last few months. With spotlights on The Putney Club, Weirdsville/Hipsville, Sweden and the new Ice Cream Man compilation there's a superb selection of Punk, Garage Rock, Psych, Mod, Soul and Power Pop from Ruts DC, Ian Perso...

Rock photographer Paul Slattery and Steve from Retro Man Blog chat about some recent gigs, events and releases. There's a report on Billy Childish at The Lexington and a track from his new CTMF album "Sq 1". We take a look at new releases and gigs by the legendary Long Ryders and The Flamin' Groovies. Then there's 40 years since ''76 Punk' with an exhibition at the British Library and a classic fr...

Steve from Retro Man Blog talks to Raymond Gorman, Damian O'Neill and Ciaran McLauglin of The Everlasting Yeah in the build up to their gig at The Half Moon Putney on May 12th. There's a comprehensive look into The Everlasting Yeah's excellent debut album "Anima Rising" and a frank and in-depth journey back through That Petrol Emotion's career and impressive back catalogue. The Podcast is generous...

Steve from Retro Man Blog looks at two great upcoming Weekenders - "Medway Legends" in San Sebastian in Spain and "Hipsville Carnival-A-Go-Go" which is a bit closer to home in Hampshire. This hour long special is crammed full of raw R'n'B, Garage Rock and Beat from some of those acts appearing at the two events. Firstly from the small cluster of Medway towns that spawned The Prisoners, The Milksha...

Steve & Adam from Retro Man Blog are joined by Rock Photographer Paul Slattery to discuss how Lemmy influenced his choice of career, his work with Billy Childish and of course the untimely death of David Bowie. Along the way we chat about some upcoming gigs and play tracks from The Pretty Things, The Downliners Sect, The Long Ryders, Rezillos, That Petrol Emotion, Motorhead and The Stompin' Riff R...

Steve from Retro Man Blog introduces a decidedly "non-retro" episode featuring a pick of the best new and recent releases that have caught our ear. We even have an exclusive as yet unreleased track from the forthcoming Senior Service album, the new chapter in Graham Day's outstanding musical career, and news on the launch party at the Half Moon Putney on January 30th 2016. Steve also spins some sp...

Steve from Retro Man Blog talks to Rock Photographer Paul Slattery about his recent trip to France to see two gigs from his favourite band of the past 40 years, The Flamin' Groovies. Paul also spins some tunes by some other French bands such as The Sharpers, Kas Product and Les Grys Grys and picks some highlights from the Canadian/French Canadian Punk scene such as NoMeansNo, D.O.A., Corrigan Fest...

Steve from Retro Man Blog talks to the ex-Soundtrack of Our Lives and Union Carbide Productions singer Ebbot Lundberg at the beautiful Slussens Pensionat in Sweden following a superb gig with The Indigo Children. Ebbot tells us all about his new band and their forthcoming album as well as some of the eclectic choices of cover versions in their set. He also explains the effect of becoming a house-h...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock photographer Paul Slattery with their pick of some recent gigs, events and happenings...Including reports on May's Retro Man Blog Night at the Half Moon with new singles from The Galileo 7 and The Len Price 3. Hipsville Weekender featuring Les Grys, Giuda and The Autoramas, Weirdsville with The Jackets and The Shook-Ups! Sweden's Stupidity at Garageland and Spide...