Yellow Brit Road

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we talked about the 80s, stadium rock and roll disappointments, murders and great music: A full-packed show! We had music from X-Ray Spex, Black Grape, b lack midi , Pillow Queens , Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard , Dry Cleaning , whose new album New Long Legs comes out 2 April;   Billy Nomates , Ms. Mohammed , Ghostpoet and Yazz Ahmed . Masala Chai artists this wee...

Album listen party time on the Yellow Brit Road! This week, we're celebrating the proficiency and talent of pioneering post punk stab-jab guitarist and producer Andy Gill by listening to Gang of Four's second studio album Solid Gold (1981). Grab your copy and listen along! Masala chai artists for this week were Washington DC based indie punks Sheila and Canadian punks Joncro and Doctors Hate Her ....

Quality hit the airwaves again this week, as we had great music, music history and deep dives into journalism of yore! We had music this week from CHVRCHES, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci (recommend, and I don't normally put my biases into the playlist descriptions), Public Practice from New York, Leeds punks Yard Act, psychedelic punk band Squid ft. Martha Skye Murphy ; Oslo, Norway-based Pom Poko , Cultd...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we talked about the ongoing changes in the music industry (I'm hopeful!), and also heard some great music from Happy Mondays, The Pipettes , Amsterdam fuzzy alt band Global Charming , London indie duo Happy Accidents , had new releases from Goat Girl and Shame , listened to great music from Oscar Jerome , north Walian hip-hop brass band Band Pres LLareggub (featu...

On this week's Yellow Brit Road, we basically just missed festivals . Yeah, those open mud pits where you get icky, no showers, overpriced everything, too much music to sanely choose from (especially when two of your favourite bands are playing right across from each other), and a 27-hour drive home... we miss them. Any live music, really. Artists on this week's show were Marcy Playground, Mogwai...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we paid tribute to the greatest showman on Earth and had some incredible music, and as always, lots of fun. The bands we played were We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It (or as America came to know them, simply Fuzzbox), Mush form Leeds, The Lizards from Birmingham, Gwilym from Caernarfon in NW Wales, the explosive Sniffany and the Nits , Charmpit , Irish p...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road: Oscar Wilde, and the greatest show on Earth! ... maybe the greatest show all year. Musically, this one slaps. We listened to some classic tunes from Eurythmics and the Small Faces, along with great new music from Dry Cleaning , DITZ , Courting , Ama Lou , Martha Hill , Nothing But Thieves , Hallan and the Debris ! Masala Chai this week was in from Soweto, South A...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, Christmas cheer, Viral Queens and lots of great music! We got into the holiday spirit listening to some great themed music... but with a sneering punk twist to them. We listened to music from Alice Bag , The Fall, post punk band Shame , 80s underground pop rock mavericks The Cleaners from Venus, female punks Child's Pose and Trash Kit , Welsh punks The La La Lett...

Ooh, it's all happening on the Yellow Brit Road this week: we had an eclectic show, covering more than just the best of music making round in towns! This week, we had music from England and Wales (and beyond), in English and Welsh, chat about music and gaming, and we had our first ever special guest on the show! The music this week was from Everything But The Girl, Datblygu, Jack Cheshire , Bitw ,...

It's the album pick of the month! This week, we listened to post punk band Magazine's debut album Real Life . Grab your copy of the record and join in! Catch the Yellow Brit Road live on your dials every Sunday at 8 PM ET on  cfrc.ca ! Get in touch with the show: email  yellowbritroad@gmail.com  or tweet @ YellowBritCFRC .

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we've been testing the very limits of what's possible (and permissible) on radio! It's only healthy to keep radio on its feet every now and then... with great music! Featuring the bands Black Honey , Death Cult Electric , This Becomes Us , Superfood, Reuben James , Slum of Legs , Those F*cking Snowflakes , F*ckshovel , Sweaty Palms , Dear Boy , and Curling , besi...

It's finally here! I sat down for a full-length interview with Montreal-based punk band, Super Punk, whose debut album Kim Jong Goes To Cégep is out now! The band talked to me about the album, their origin and plans to take over as the best punk band in the world... and going beyond just being a punk band, to being a Super Punk band. Catch the Yellow Brit Road live on your dials every Sunday at 8...

Montreal-based punk band Super Punk dropped by the CFRC hideout to talk to us about their new debut album, Kim Jong goes to CEGEP. We chatted for nearly an hour in a full-length sit-down interview for my other radio show on CFRC, What The Punk?! that's coming out soon! They also did these two lovely station IDs for us... consider this a teaser for a great interview. It's worth the wait and worth t...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road... a chance to wind down, relax and forget the world, temporarily. Primarily the last of those. Drown out your anxiety with the tales and mishaps of cute bear cubs, a great interview and... merch?! We had music old and new; one of the best alternative bands in the world, Velvet Underground on this week, 7-year-old Welsh singer and guitarist Arianwen , Czech-label-...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, music that gives you the chills, music that gives you the thrills! Catch classics like The Cure, Siouxie and the Banshees, David Bowie, Bahaus , Duran Duran, The Cramps, The Specials , Garbage, Muse and great indie, alternative and goth music from The Filthy Tongues and the Gabbling Ghouls ! Masala chai was spiked with international goth, courtesy of Dutch dark s...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, hair metal fiascos, tight punk, and AC/DC meets disco! We paid tribute to guitaring legend and solo champion of two-handed tapping, Eddie Van Halen and revisited the Rezillos' satirical Top of the Pops. We had incredible new music from Diving Station , Bears In Trees , George Riley , NOISY , Deadletter , IDLES , Gwenno , Royal Blood and Sonar Pilot , topped by a...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road... punk! Rock! RnB! Indie! The list is endless! (Well, actually not, we had to stop after an hour) This week's show featured the wonderful artists, Scottish rockers Black Cart , London-based indie songstress Connie Constance , Mancunian dance-funkers Porij , Liverpool garage rock trio Oya Paya (who reminded me in part of Jet in a good way... where are Jet these da...

This week, the Yellow Brit Road is drawing rings around the world! You read that right, it's that time of the month: album listening party! This month's record of choice is the Super Furry Animals' 2001 album, Rings Around The World . We listened to the Welsh band's fifth studio album and first venture into bold-faced pop music in it's unabashed exploratory entirety. Pop the record on and follow a...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, lost tapes, Cardiacs, rock and poetry! We had old-new music from the Rolling Stones, aided by Mick Jagger having some extra time on his hands to dig through the archives to find a lost cassette of a recording the band did with Jimmy Page, which manifested itself into a new release! We also paid tribute to Tim Smith of Cardiacs. RIP. This week's new music was from...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, acoustic performances, loud girls, Satanic experiences and ukuleles! We started off with acoustic performances from Muse's Matt Bellamy, covering Simon and Garfunkel's moving Bridge Over Troubled Water, only to have a live performance from the OGs from way back in 1967. New music on this week's show, Yorkshire band Guru , Bristolian trio Svalbard , and a compilat...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, new indie, Martian fallacies, and those big gay hands. We opened this week with Joni Mitchell's dive through the archives. She released a radio performance of her covering "House Of The Rising Sun" at the CFQC AM Radio Station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1963 - the earliest known recording of Joni Mitchell. Our second song, David Bowie's Life on Mars? p...

On this week's Yellow Brit Road, old music, new music, unsigned artists who should be stars, crazy headlines and much more! Bringing you a multi-genre show, we delved into the best that's new and underground with unsigned artists from across the country. Find Lord Kagemusha (North Yorkshire), Kynsy , We Cut Corners , Somebody's Child (Dublin, Ireland) and Amaroun (South London) on this week's play...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we had another album listen! Oasis' stellar debut album Definitely Maybe turns 25 this August, and for that and many other reasons, it is an album that deserves a revisit. We talked a bit about the recording process and the history surrounding the album, and listened to stone cold classic sounds. Definitely Maybe a good show! Catch the Yellow Brit Road live on ai...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, Decolonise fest, live music, Peel sessions and more! We heard new albums from Jehnny Beth and the Fratellis, whose album Half Drunk Under A Full Moon is out in October. Decolonise Fest, a music festival in London "by and for punks of colour", ran its 2020 edition online with performances that can be found on their Twitter and Bandcamp . We listened to DeLila Blac...

If you wanted to know what it takes to recreate one of the largest music festivals in the world for the radio masses, for the lockdown generation, this is the bonus content for you! I answer some questions about the production and polishing of the show, as well as the bill (so many brilliant acts to choose from!) The Yellow Brit Road returns Sundays from 8 to 9 PM on CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston, or...