The Paranoid Squirrel

Sadly The Hellacopters start this week’s show off as Robert “Strings” Dahlqvist passed away yesterday at the age of 40. The Damned, who I very rarely play on the show, are up next as I apologise for making a mistake on last week’s episode with regards to The Ruts. Last  Saturday I popped up to The Dev to see Flash House and finally catch Asomvel live, two great bands in a great venue = a great nig...

Cor blimey Guv’nor, have I a packed show for you this week or what? The MC5 and The Damned kick things off with former Damned members Rat Scabies and Paul Gray re-uniting on the new Professor and the Madman single, then as I’m on the cusp of finishing Roland Link’s “Love in Vain – The Story of The Ruts and Ruts DC” book I naturally play some of the subject matter which is swiftly followed with som...

As I’ve just ‘finished’ Mick Wall’s Lemmy biography I kick things off with a Motörhead track. As it seems the right and fitting thing to do. New music comes courtesy firstly from Toulouse based Punkers Les Affektés with a track off their new album “Mode Critique” and then Daggerplay, from Helsinki with the first single from their as yet un-named album which is due for release later this year. Up n...

Right, let’s get straight into the first Fan Funded segmentation of 2017. I have three artists for you to choose from; Up first is The Sly Persuaders, a London based 4 piece, gnarly, garage, surf, Rockabilly band that on the track I play from their self-titled debut has the most direst bass sound since Lemmy discovered distortion. If we’re talking distortion then Ginger Wildheart and Exit Internat...

So, here we are; the first Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show of 2017 and I kick this year off with The Ramones, a choice I hope you agree is a good one. The first new music of the year comes courtesy of a new band to me called Yokocola who are Dutch with their debut album “Cellarsounds” hitting the real and virtual record stores on the 2nd January. The band has been described as “Proto Punk, Psychedelic...

Of course this week’s show could not begin, sadly, without some Status Quo. Also Wednesday marked the first anniversary of Lemmy’s passing which has not gone unmarked with the Bitch Queens, Hip Priests, King Mastino and The Chuck Norris Experiment releasing a split 7” of their favourite Motörhead track and Zen Motel issuing a mighty fine charity tribute song called “L.E.M.M.Y.”. I couldn’t let the...

Happy Chrimbo one and all! As it is the season this week’s show will be littered with festive songs but not the ones that are normally played on “Normal” Radio. The Damned and Vice Squad get things off to a flying start before The Sonic Beat Explosion, thanks to a post on the Hellacopters Community Facebook Page, are the first non-seasonable band with a track from their 2014 “Electrophonic Soul” a...

France’s Soggy get this week’s show underway with a track from their one and only album which has finally been released on CD. The band look and sound like a hybrid of The Stooges and the MC5 with frontman Beb sporting Rob Tyner’s hair and Iggy Pop’s stripped the waist torso, although I can also hear elements of Motörhead and Venom and in six degrees of separation The Shrine follow on who play the...

This week I try out a new intro by the “DEMONS” which I completely fail to edit correctly. The “DEMONS” also just so happen to be first up with a demo tune. Last Sunday I travelled down to Exeter to see The Damned (who knew?). Support came from Emptifish a track by them I play along with of course a song by The Damned as I review said gig. The Rolling Stones have a track from their just released “...

Penetration gets the show started this week as I talk about my Birthday gig up at the Brixton Academy seeing The Damned who I obviously play. I then bring you up to speed with the connection between Los Morüchos and Bone Talk, two bands I played tracks from on last week’s show. New music comes courtesy of Borracho with a track from their just released “Atacama” album before The Prehistorics also h...

It’s my Birthday today. Huzzah! To whit I’m not go to spend much time, if not thought, into this week’s show notes as I wish to lounge around in my Tracky Bottoms and Bath Robe being fed peeled grapes until I make way to Brixton to see The Damned who generously are playing at my Birthday Bash.......So, it’s The Divine Brown, The Hip Priests, Andrew J Gallagher, Los Headaches, Radkey, The Meeps!, T...

On this Man-flu induced show I start things going, through cups of Lemsip, with The Roolettes who I mistook for The Rubinoos, then the Rubinoos themselves. Last week I had three gigs all on the same day, one of which was on at the same time. The bands in question were The Electric Boys, The Fiascos and Warrior Soul. A track, plus a running commentary, from each is played, with The Fiascos being a...

As last week I played the Big 3 UK seminal Punk bands I thought it only right and proper to include my top 3 US Punk bands. Obviously The Ramones were at the top of my list, with The Dead Boys and then The Heartbreakers following. However it is Captain Sensible that starts this week’s show, before I turn my attention to the second wave of US Punk in the shape and form of new songs by Poison Idea a...

Continuingwith last week’s Punk tinged theme, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damnedstart things off this week with the Urban Dogs, that’ll be Charlie Harper,Knox, Matthew Best and Alvin Gibbs following in their wake. Up next, thanks to Dom Daley of Glunk Records notoriety, are Hunters with a track form their recently released “Dead End” CD then Dee Snider takes me by surprise with his new albu...

Welcome to this very special episode of The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show, which for this week only has been renamed The Paranoid Squirrel Punk Rock Show to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of “New Rose” by The Damned which was released on the 22nd October 1976. Last Saturday on the actual anniversary day Croydon hosted a celebration of thislandmark event at the end of St. George’s Walk under the Nest...

Today marks the 40th Anniversary release of the UK’s first ever home-grown Punk 7”. Of course it was “New Rose” by The Damned which obviously the playing of which gets this week’s show started. New music comes our way courtesy of the Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and a track from their 3rd album “Keep It Greasy” which is swiftly followed by The Mobbs who, even though they’re onto album number 5,...

It’s Saturday and once again due to my shifts at work I was able to do my weekly shop yesterday, meaning I got a lie in this morning. Not much of one as we’ve a house full of 15 year olds who are heading off to Fright Night at Thorpe Park and I was on Breakfast duty. Music…..The Hellacopters with a live MC5 track to drown the sound of said teenagers get the show moving this week. Then taking a lea...

MorningCampers! On this week’s show I have for your delectation, if not consideration,just over an hour’s worth of kick ass tunes (IMHO).  The Stents and Thee Blind Crows, who areboth on KOTJ Records, get things underway with a track from their album and eprespectively. Then to clarify a comment I made on last week’s show I play someNew York Dolls and a track from Pernilla Andersson. Spike & Tyla...

On this week’s show it’s The Black Bullets that get things Rockin’ an’ a Rolling with Canterbury troubadour Maximum Martin making his debut appearance on the show following swiftly on. The Breakdowns have just embarked upon a series of unreleased recordings under the “Opening The Vault” banner. Of course a track from “Volume 1” is aired. Up next are two artists that I never in a month of Sundays t...

The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell are the first band up on this week’s show with a track from their up and coming third album “Keep It Greasy” which is out on the 14th October. Two Canadian bands follow on in the shape and form of Jonsey from Montreal with more than a nod to The Heartbreakers and The Dead Boys with a track from their debut 7” and then Nerve Button who mix equal parts junkshop sto...

Well, that’s our Summer over, with supermarkets already stocking up on Christmas cards and the like. So for the next hour I’m going to make it seem like Christmas playing some, in my opinion, stonkingly good songs. The first track to make you forget the gloomy weather here in the UK is by The Ramones which has been taken from their debut 40th Anniversary box-set. The track in question is in mono....

Welcome to another episode of The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show. Starting this week’s show off are the Bullet Proof Lovers and a 7” track taken from their up and coming new album “Shoot To The Heart”. Turbonegro swiftly follow as I ‘forgot’ to play them on last week’s last week’s entire Scandinavian affair. Another apology track comes courtesy of The Phobics who thanks to the rebuilding of London Br...

An all Scandinavian show this week. “It’ll be easy” I thought. I thought wrong. Who do I play was easy, but as I was going along I kept remembering other bands that needed to be heard. I think I forgot all about Iceland! So it was a case of “What don’t I play”. Even so this week’s show stretchs to the 90 minute mark and I apoligise inadvance if I’ve left out a band you deemed should’ve been on. Ye...

I start this week’s show off with two classic tracks; firstly, Motörhead and then Whitesnake. New music comes in the shape and form of Indoria who feature Chuck Mosley on vocals, who contrary to what I said on last week’s show is now playing a London date this October. Swiftly following on straight after are Suicidal Tendencies and a track from their soon to be released “World Gone Mad” album. Off...

Starting the turntable going this week are the UK Subs and one of the tracks from their “November 1977 Demo 7”” I was hoping to play you on last week’s show but was thwarted by Royal Mail. Richie Ramone has just released his second album called “Cellophane” a track of which I play. I did heartily chuckle at the spoof news that the remaining Ramones were reuniting for one final t-shirt. After bumpi...