Retrosonic Podcast

In this special edition Retrosonic Podcast, Steve from Retro Man Blog talks to ex-Soundtrack of Our Lives band-mates Ian Person and Fredrik Sandsten about their forthcoming collaboration with Jerry Williams. The album “Ghost Rider” sees the 72 year old Swedish Rock and Roll legend, backed by a band including Ian, Fredrik and Kalle Gustafsson Jerneholm, covering songs by acts such as Suicide, The S...

In the build-up to the "Hipsville Weekender 2015", Steve from Retro Man Blog talks to Mr A, one of the event's main organizers, and the man behind the "You Got Good Taste" Podcast and "Weirdsville" club nights. Generously sound-tracked by many of the bands that will be playing over the weekend, Mr A gives us a fascinating insight into the world of the festival and gig promoter. Hipsville will be h...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery present a bumper end of year episode packed full of our pick of the best in classic and contemporary Garage Rock, Psych, Punk, Mod, Power Pop, Soul and more! From classics, overlooked oldies and hidden gems to brand new releases, exclusives and unsigned acts. In Episode 17 we have an exclusive unreleased new track from The Fallen Leaves...

Steve from Retro Man Blog picks out some of the best of the new music that's found it's way to the Blog over the last few months. It's not all retro at Retrosonic...! Full track-listing and links to all the bands to follow soon at http://retroman65.blogspot.co.uk/

Graham Day & The Forefathers were formed to “crank out choice cuts from four Graham Day-fronted bands - The Prisoners, The Prime Movers, The Solarflares and The Gaolers - distilling 30-odd years of high quality song writing, lo-fi production and high energy performance to their stripped down Garage-Rock essence”. Steve from Retro Man Blog meets up with Graham and his long-time bandmates Allan Croc...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery chat about a selection of gigs and events including Captain Sensible's Birthday Gig, Paul's time on the road with Oasis and his involvement in the "Chasing The Sun" photo exhibition. There's the latest "best gig ever" from The Fleshtones and a slight moan about The Fuzztones time keeping, praise for Eight Rounds Rapid, Galileo 7 and a w...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery visit Billy Childish in his Medway studio to chat about some of his musical influences and the effect they had on his own work. Along the way we discuss and play some tracks from a selection of his many line-ups including The Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Headcoats, The Buff Medways, The Musicians of The British...

Welcome to the Pubmonkey Podcast in which we are joined by the movie's writer Jamie O'Hara, who also acts in the film, and Glenn Page, the singer, songwriter and guitarist with The Len Price 3. The band wrote and performed the film's score, a fine selection of their songs make up the soundtrack and they also make a cameo appearance at the very end. We are pleased to announce that the Podcast featu...

Steve from Retro Man Blog, Rock Photographer Paul Slattery and Adam from The Jetsonics with an eclectic mix of goodies from the Retrosonic record box...In this Episode there's a track from The Monochrome Set's latest album and news about our gig with the band on May 24th at The Half Moon Putney, there's scary tales from Killing Joke gigs and a classic slice of KJ Dub. Paul and Adam talk about the...

Steve from Retro Man Blog, Rock Photographer Paul Slattery and Adam from The Jetsonics with the usual waffle, news and top tunes...This Episode features news about our exciting Medway Garage Rock gig on June 6th with Graham Day & The Forefathers, The Len Price 3 and Galileo 7 in conjunction with the new book "The Kids Are All Square" by Ian Snowball and Bob Collins about the Medway music scene. St...

Welcome to Part 2 of this bumper end of year episode! Over the two parts, Steve from Retro Man Blog, Adam from The Jetsonics and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery dig up some Psych, Garage Rock, Power Pop and Punk obscurities, favourites and other weird stuff. There’s an emphasis on French bands and artists, old and new, such as Marie Modiano, Stinky Toys, Little Bob Story, Metal Urbain, Les Kitsche...

Welcome to Part 1 of this bumper end of year episode! Over the two parts, Steve from Retro Man Blog, Adam from The Jetsonics and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery dig up some Psych, Garage Rock, Power Pop and Punk obscurities, favourites and other weird stuff. There’s an emphasis on French bands and artists, old and new, such as Marie Modiano, Stinky Toys, Little Bob Story, Metal Urbain, Les Kitsche...

Steve from the Retro Man Blog reports back from The Len Price 3 's new album "Nobody Knows" showcase party at the Half Moon, Putney. Featuring tracks from all four bands who appeared on the night - The Travellers, The Past Tense, The Fallen Leaves and a brand new Len Price 3 track. There were as many musicians in the crowd as on stage, so Steve picks out some of their bands to say thank you. We ha...

Steve from Retro Man Blog, rock photographer Paul Slattery and Adam from The Jetsonics play their usual mix of Garage Rock, Punk, Psych, New Wave, Power Pop and Soul - old, new, classic and downright obscure...We have The WitchDoktors, Dave Berry, a brand new and unreleased track from the forthcoming Len Price 3 album, Les Thugs, Pin Point, Frank Popp Ensemble, Dick Venom & The Terrortones, The Ch...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery welcome Chris Wilson, singer, songwriter and guitarist with the legendary, and recently re-formed, Flamin' Groovies. Chris takes us on a journey from his early teens watching and being inspired by some of the great Blues musicians in Massachusetts to LA and San Francisco where he joined up with ex-Charlatans guitarist Mike Wilhelm in Lo...

In Part 2 of this special edition of Retrosonic Podcast we are very pleased to welcome back Harley Feinstein, the original drummer with Sparks. Harley appeared on the band's first two Bearsville Records albums "Halfnelson/Sparks" and "A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing", and their very first visit to the UK back in the early Seventies. In the previous Episode Harley told us about how he first met Ron...

Steve from Retro Man Blog, Adam from The Jetsonics and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery with an eclectic mix of obscurities, overlooked classics, hidden gems and new releases plus the usual waffle, news and tales...In this Episode we play The WitchDoktors The Travellers, The Valves, PVC2, The Flamin' Groovies, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds, Duncan Reid, Thee Spivs and more...! For play-list,...

In this Special Edition of Retrosonic Podcast we are very pleased to welcome Harley Feinstein, the original drummer with Sparks. Harley appeared on the band's first two Bearsville Records albums "Halfnelson/Sparks" and "A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing", and their very first visit to the UK back in the early Seventies. In Part 1, Harley talks about the band's formative years, when they were known as...

Steve from Retro Man Blog, Adam from The Jetsonics and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery with the usual eclectic mix of tunes and waffle...In this Episode we have some Garage Rock from The Fallen Leaves, Les BOF! and Shocking Blue, raucous Punk Rock from The Phobics, The Cortinas, The Snivelling Shits and Adam & The Ants. Some classic Trojan Reggae from The Fabion, a hidden Power Pop gem from The To...

Steve from Retro Man Blog talks to Ian Ballard, boss of the legendary Punk and Garage Rock label Damaged Goods Records. In this second episode Ian talks us through some more pivotal releases including Fabienne Delsol, Buzzcocks, Billy Childish & The Singing Loins, Pete Molinari, The Cute Lepers, Cyanide Pills, Graham Day & The Gaolers and The Wolfmen featuring ex-Adam & The Ants guitarist Marco Pi...

Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery talk to Ian Ballard, boss of the legendary Punk and Garage Rock label Damaged Goods Records. In this first episode we play and discuss some of the label's pivotal early releases and discover how Ian started off in the business. Along the way Ian and Paul chat about their experiences with the Manic Street Preachers and Billy Childish, an...

Here's Side B of The Fallen Leaves story "Simple Songs for Complex People"...from their first gig at the home of London football to the Parliament Club featuring a guest appearance by a short Rolling Stone and using 5 hours rehearsal time in Pete Townshend's Eel Pie Island to record all of their first E.P. This episode is generously soundtracked by loads of great Fallen Leaves songs and some of th...

Welcome to the A-Side of The Fallen Leaves story: Steve from Retro Man Blog and Rock Photographer Paul Slattery chat to Rob Symmons and Rob Green from the band about their music and history. The two episodes are generously soundtracked with lots of Fallen Leaves songs, and we also discuss and play some of the band's favourite tracks and influences from Ramones, Trini Lopez, Buff Medways, The Who,...

Steve from Retro Man Blog, Adam from The Jetsonics and rock photographer Paul Slattery with the usual eclectic mix of tunes and chat. In this Episode we pick a classic DR. FEELGOOD number and raise a glass to WILKO JOHNSON. We try to banish the snow with the sunny sounds of ANSELL COLLINS and blast each others' ears with some Sixties Psychedelia from the Texan band HOMER and then some thoroughly B...

Steve from Retro Man Blog talks to Swedish singer-songwriter Mattias Hellberg about his eclectic, genre-defying career as he finishes off the recording for his new solo album. It's a varied and exciting journey - from his early days in Karlstad putting on gigs in the college canteen for bands such as Union Carbide Productions to forming his own bands including the influential Nymphet Noodlers alon...