Thursday, 11 December 2008

Tom Robinson Introducing (08.12.08 edition)

BBC 6 Radio podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/trintro/.

This is actually the first time I’ve listened to TRI since starting this blog and, looking back, the last time I heard it was back in May, when it featured the brilliant neo-progressive Future Kings of England (see http://www.myspace.com/thefuturekingsofengland).

This time there isn’t anything quite as special, although 7 Dollar Taxi and their muscular guitar-based Britpoppish rock are worth a mention. I thought their singer’s mockney accent sounded a bit dodgy, before we were informed that the band were (at least originally) from Switzerland. But if they are working on their second album do they actually belong on TRI? Also good were the guitar atmospherics of Two Skies (yet another band from Sheffield).

Worth mentioning for sheer awfulness was the grand guignol of Fireworks Night.

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