Podrophenia Acoustical Special

The latest Podrophenia is an acoustical special with Whom by Fire live and special guest Micky D, frontman with Grand Reunion (Lee brilleaux''s favourite Southend band) and entertainment correspondent for the Southend Standard through the sixties,. Micky joins us with tales of from his spell on the paper - meeting The Beatles and Stones at the Southend Odeon. a frisky and flirty meeting with Shirley Bassey at The Queens Hotel.

We spin in a playlist of acoustic tunes including: an early versh of Maggie May with Rod busking random lyrics, two acoustic pop quizzes, a Bowie Ziggy demo and acoustic Chas and Dave. All here for your listening ears...

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Radio Podrophenia - Thames Delta goes Southern Delta and Lil' Lost Lou live in session

Saddle up and settle in as Podrophenia takes a road-trip through the Southern Delta: swamp pop, southern rock, hillibilly boogie, cowboy noir - all this and a live session from Lil' Lost Lou - including two exclusive tunes - Plus there's all your Kitchen and Bathroom bands read out.

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Five, live years of Podrophenia nights

Tomorrow we celebrate five years of Podro live nights here

Our first being a team-up with Retro Man - featured Bif Bam Pow and the Len Price Three

Our last was Thee Cee Cees featuring Joe Strummer's drummer, Paul Weller's bass player and Billy Brentford of Thee Faction

Between both we've been visited by travelers to Southend from Yorkshire and Holland.

Had sleb punters, Mike Herbage, Paul Slattery, Wilko Johnson and Gaye Advert
And Stage invasions, three single releases and me depping on bass for one gig

If you've ever done anything Podrophonical: downloaded, appeared in, played on, contributed to, bought a single on our label, been to a live night We'd love to see you there - if you're a long time listener/first time caller - we'd love to see you there.

If you can make it come on down and dig in for a twin-fisted evening of post-punk and power-pop from Invaders and Treatment - at Peggy Sue's  Leigh on Sea

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Radio Podrophenia Easter Special - with Leo C live in session

For the Easter edition of Podrophenia we bring you Jack Bruce in a band that isn't Cream, a soul refit of Bowie's Starman, and Tom Jones covering The Archies.

A ton of puns based around chocolate/sweet/ Easter bands, news and tunes on our upcoming Podrophenia live night. Online dates and deets here

And listen in as 17 year old Leo C performs from his Woodstock style songbook, who joined us for a live Podrophenia session this month - and in a truly magical moment did an improv duet with his mum singing and harmonising on Goodnight Irene And there's new and tunes from our upcoming Podrophenia live night Dig into the Podrophonic hamper here

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Howling Black Soul's debut promo - Soul to Lay

If you've never been to a Howling Black Soul gig at Peggy Sue's - Carl Hawkins has distilled the essence and sweaty energy of our Saturday night shindigs there..

Huge salutes to Carl for the filming, editing and production - and to the assembled drinkers and dancers seen shaking their tail-feathers herein..


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Radio Podrophenia - Music for Mentalists

The March Madness edish of Podrophenia is up for download, and it's possibly our most eccentric session yet.. Mae West goes Rock ‘n’ Roll. Petula Clark goes disco, Reginald Bosanquet goes funky, Hawkwind get schlagerd and there's a space-pop nugget wherein aliens land looking for new life in Northampton!See the info-tainment clip on the single below...



Special guest Grant Philpott brings in some of his spoken word mash-ups (including Jimmy Smith meets Mark E Smith and Pam Ayres with Roy Ayres) and talks about his television work on The Word, the Big Breakfast and his ten years on TV Burp…





There's Essex Films, Kitchen bands and Shart songs - and an 8 bit quiz based around rock classics getting digitised All here, all yours and all free

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Podrophenia - break ups, shake up & make ups

The latest Podrophenia is up for grabs - and as it's the end of The Ends we're doing 'break ups, shake up & make ups' - with Joe Blamey from The Ends giving us the news on the band's new EP and their final gig.

Roll-out wise, there's cold bands, and some Trump-thumping with who said it - Partridge or Trump, fake music news and alternative rock 'n' pop facts... And possibly the worst album cover in history from a band who really should know better - all hereabouts and all free...

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Podrophenia best of 2016

The latest Podrophenia is up for download and features Piley and m'selfs fave finds of 2016, plus - an interview with Paul Fleming of Baltic Fleet on the new album (some of the tunes you may recognise from Top Gear and Grand Tour). We've Star Wars songs contributed by the Podrophonic Massive, a stage invasion from some SFOB chums, news on a Southend themed wallaper- and an unreleased Howling Black Soul rarity- grab your copy hereabouts

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Podrophenia with West Weston and Doug Kaye

The latest Podrophenia is up for download and features the twin team-up of harmonica legend West Weston (who's played with Wilko Johnson, Roger Daltry and Muddy Water's son Mud Morganfield) - and friend of Hendrix, Doug Kaye.

Both West and Doug bring in some faves to play from their impeccable record collections. All here for your listening ears...

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Podrophenia - Movember

Last night a DJ shaved my life: the Movember edition of Podrophenia from Piley and m'self, celebrates a medley of mustachioed musicians found across rock's sonic spectrum; from art.pop to punk, from retro to electro

Also a live session from Nathan Abbott with exclusive new tunes from his NATO album...


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