For as long as I can remember, I’ve made radio shows, whether that was manhandling my brother’s punk records on to a C90; nervously introducing songs I’d taped off the radio on our local pirate *sorry* community station; or doing actual broadcasting on student radio or the internet station Soul 24-7.

But truth be told, I’m not especially good at serious jocking. It is genuinely difficult to turn your enthusiasm for the music into cogent chat. That’s why I remain in awe of the likes of Roger Scott, Coldcut, Rob Da Bank, Cerys Matthews, Sean Rowley, Jarvis Cocker and David Hepworth-when-he-was-on-GLR, to name a few.

For the past few months I’ve been putting together monthly playlists in Spotify that play an hour and a half’s-worth of my favourite Old. Being on the world’s favourite streamer, they have the added benefit of enabling you to instantly explore some of the musical avenues traversed; and also I don’t have project my voice over the kids playing FIFA downstairs.

Since it has been moderately indulged by my Facebook friends (21 likes, some nice threads), I’ve now decided to share the “show” more widely. Many of these songs will be familiar » Continue Reading.