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Welcome back to an all studio Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show. It only feels like yesterday that I was talking to you……… The Damned get things going with a track from their Black Album with Paul Gray’s latest venture in the form of the Monte Dons following on. Up next is Goy Division featuring former Adam West and current Delicious Fullness throaterlist Jake “The Suit” Starr along with Dan-O Deckelman...

Well it’s Friday and I’m glad we made it to the end of the week. To celebrate for your listening enjoyment I have for you The Professionals live from The 100 Club. Now for those of you who are unaware, shame on you, The Professionals were the band that Paul Cook and Steve Jones put together after the demise of the Sex Pistols. The gruesome twosome were joined by Ray McVeigh and Paul Myers for the...

Welcome to Episode 463 of The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show which pretty much is the finale of Monday’s show. So on today’s episode it is the turn of The Michael Monroe Band to *Rock Like Fuck out of The Electric Ballroom in Camden on the last night of their UK co-headlining tour with Hardcore Superstar. The Monroes latest album “Blackout States” was only released just under week before this London...

Welcome to Episode 462 which is the first of three Podcasts this week, four if you count next Saturday. The others will be on Wednesday and Friday. But let’s concentrate on what I have on offer for you today, which is Hardcore Superstar recorded on their last date of their co-headlining UK tour with Michael Monroe, who will be the subject of Wednesday’s Podcast. It always seems that Hardcore Super...

Another trip up to The Borderline last week saw me seeing Finnish based apocalyptic post-punks Grave Pleasures who up until the beginning of this year were known as Beastmilk. However a departing guitarist saw the band adopt a new name and a new record label in the form of Sony. I did wonder at the bands rational at the name change as although Beastmilk might not have been a household name the two...

All the way from Atlanta, Georgia the Biters descended on the UK at the end of last month as part of their “Warriors Worldwide” tour in support of their full length debut album “Electric Blood” which is out now on Earache Records. The tour started off at the Barfly in London on the 25th September and ended yesterday in Sheffield. I caught them at the Borderline in London on the 6th October and wha...

As you know The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show airs on The Wall Rock Radio for the East Midlands every Saturday for an hour at 7’o clock with a repeat Tuesday evening. As Episode 459 was nearly 1¾ hours long for The Wall listeners the show ended after “Condition Hüman” by Queensÿche. So instead of a Tuesday repeat I rerecorded the last 45 minutes, shuffling songs in the process, The BossHoss are now...

Well today got off to a great start with the Gas Board digging up our side path to fix a Gas leak at 12:30 this morning. No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith indeed. Consequently if I sound like I’m on speed towards the end of this nearly two hour show, you’ll know why. On the musical front Russkaja, the Austrian equivalent to The Leningrad Cowboys, start things off, then it’s some Classic Backyard Babies in...

Following on from The Bermondsey Joyriders Mid-Week Special comes the headlining Walter Lure; the last remaining member from the classic Heartbreakers, recorded at The Jazz Café 17th September. Joining Mr Lure were Jez Miller, Darren Birch and Ozzie (although I mistook him for Martin Ashton) with, from The Jim Jones Revue, Jim Jones himself and Robert Orton who joined in for a couple of numbers. J...

Welcome to Wednesday and what a better way to get over the middle of the week by listening to The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show and a live gig featuring The Bermondsey Joyriders. The band are relatively new forming around 2007 and at one time Rat Scabies was their drummer of choice. Chris Musto formerly of Johnny Thunders is now the sticksman with Gary Lamin, ex Cock Sparrer, on guitar and vocals wi...

As a tribute to Bassist Bryn Merrick who passed away last Saturday The Damned open this week’s show. Keeping it in a “Punk” mood; Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers along with The Ramones, well it would’ve been Dee Dee’s Birthday yesterday, sweep us along into Type O Negative. This week’s clashing gig situation involves The Boys at The Pipeline in November. As Honest John Plain will be back playi...

It’s Wednesday; the middle of the week and it’s a peak not a trough. To celebrate I bring you Gunzo recorded at the Underworld in Camden last Friday. “Who are Gunzo?” I hear you cry. As the name implies the band feature Tracii Guns and Rudy Sarzo, two real bone-a-fide heavyweight musicians whose collective CV reads like a fantasy; LA Guns, Dio, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns ‘n’ Roses. Joining ou...

So last Friday, that was the 4th September, the Von Hertzen Brothers hot from their Prog Award acoustic appearance, played the Underworld in Camden. I did think this was rather a strange choice of venue as the last time I saw them, which was only in April; they played the much bigger Dome in Tufnell Park. I did challenge their Record label boss as to why, and the short and easy answer was that it...

Welcome to this Paranoid Squirrel Mid-week special otherwise known as “The Armitage & Moose Show” (hence the quickly cobbled together Rocky & Bullwinkle artwork) or to call it by its actual real title “The Team Rock Breakfast Show Friday 4th September 2015”. So last Friday I sat in with Moose on the Free Spin Friday part of his and JRock’s Breakfast Show. J Rock unfortunately was sided lined which...

For all the wrong reasons Motӧrhead are making the headlines at the moment, however I play what I think is a rather relevant track from the band’s new album “Bad Magic”. The Breakdowns, who were played live on last Saturday’s show, as promised have a track from their soon to be released Record on Ghost Highway played. Staying with Ghost Highway; the label in October will be putting out a live albu...

On today’s show the “Taking Liberties” Tour which rolled into London yesterday was recorded for your listening pleasure. With a rotating headline of The Sick Livers (Wales) and The Disconnects (New Jersey) The Breakdowns were brought in to get everybody Power Popped up. After The Breakdowns The Disconnects came to the fore. You know in “Back To The Future” where Marty McFly does Johnny B Goode? Th...

Welcome to the Thursday Night Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show Special. On today’s show I talk about gigs that finish late without coming to a conclusion on why. Feel free to throw in your two pennies worth. Maybe I’m too old to “Rock ‘n’ Roll”? One thing I’m too old to do is untrained Roof repairs two stories up in the rain. The main, and much more interesting, part of today’s show comes courtesy of t...

It’s Tuesday, nowhere near the Weekend. So to cheer you up, as almost promised, here’s the Mid-Week Special, minus 1. Kicking things off are The Beatles with two tracks that you probably haven’t heard on the Radio; one old and one new. Iron Maiden have a new album out in the form of “The Book Of Souls”, naturally I air a track from said album. Imperial State Electric released their fourth album la...

Yesterday was the Glunk Records Release Party for the Role Models Album “The Go To Guy”. Which was held at The Black Heart in Camden with obviously the Role Models headlining. Joining Rich Rags and the rest of the Role Models was Michael Monroe guitarist and former New York Doll Steve Conte. A hot and sweaty night was had by all, but don’t take my word for it…….

Welcome to Episode 447 of The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show and on this week’s show we have another new track from the Biters’ brand new album “Electric Blood” which seems to have been a permanent fixture in my stereo at the moment, although I have found time to listen to the new Ghost album “Meliora” and play you a track from it which unfortunately skips at the beginning (poxy CD). Continuing on fr...

The Last Great Dreamers are first up this week with a brand spanking new Motörhead track from “Bad Magic” swiftly following in their wake. The Biters have a track from their just released “Electric Blood” album aired with Thundermother **erm** Thundering in afterwards interspersed with Gigs I have already booked for next year and upcoming clashing gig stories featuring The Wildhearts, Danko Jones,...

This week I ventured out of the Studio into the realms of gigland and found myself at The Forum in Kentish Town to see a band so influential that without them the Garage scene as we know it today wouldn’t exist. Who am I talking about? The Sonics of course. Influencing everybody from Bruce Springsteen through The Cramps, Nirvana, The White Stripes and The Damned.  If you’re not familiar with the b...

As Slade finished things off last week I start this week’s show with them. Continuity at its finest. The Black Bullets from Basingstoke have a tune from their new EP “Bulletproof” aired. Think Zodiac Mindwarp and classic Anti-Nowhere League. Evo/Algy from Warfare and Tank respectively have got it together and released a six track EP of three originals and three covers. The covers being R.A.M.O.N.E...

This week I celebrate 8 years of The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show. Joining in me the party are The Hydromatics, well they were the first band that I played on Episode 1. New music comes courtesy of Spam Javelin who hail from North Wales. Keeping with the innuendos, Pink Cigar’s new single also gets an airing. Next I take you back to the sixties with some Graham Bond Organisation as last week I watc...

The Damned get things moving this week with The MC5, or to be exact The MC2, live from Helsinki in 1972 following on after. Peter Mensch has been bemoaning about the lack of great new bands, I beg to differ and to underline it I play a brand spanking new track from the Sick Livers new album “Mid Liver Crisis” and a tune from the last Chuck Norris Experiment album. Both, coincidently, just so happe...