At the Mansion this week, new music from Temples, Father John Misty and a track from former Kinks front man Ray Davies’ excellent new album, a pop flashback with Roy Orbison, NZ sounds from Headless Chickens, early grunge from Temple Of The Dog and a whole lot more .. ..

PLAYLIST: PROGRAMME #493 (Original air date: 11 May 2017)

1. Interpol ~ Evil

2. Graham Parker And The Rumour ~ Hotel Chambermaid

3. Temples ~ In My Pocket

4. Headless Chickens ~ Gaskrankenstation

5. The New Pornographers ~ High Ticket Attractions

6. Roy Orbison ~ Running Scared

7. Laura Mvula ~ Lucky Man

8. Father John Misty ~ Total Entertainment Forever

9. The Courtneys ~ Virgo

10. Rhiannon Giddens ~ Better Get It Right First Time

11. Ray Davies ~ The Mystery Room

12. Sampha ~ Under

13. Temple Of The Dog ~ Hunger Strike

14. Edgar Broughton Band ~ Hotel Room

15. Methyl Ethel ~ Ubu

This week at The Mans!on, new tracks Laura Marling, Future Islands, Spoon and Wire; NZ sounds from Mel Parsons and The Mutton Birds, The Tempations take us to Cloud Nine, there’s some sweet folk sounds from Jake Xerxes Fussell, noise from Mastodon and whole lot more ...

PROGRAMME #492 (Original air date: 4 May 2017)

1. Mel Parsons ~ Non Communicado

2. Ron Gallo ~ Kill The Medicine Man

3. Laura Marling ~ Next Time

4. Bop English ~ Struck Matches

5. Spoon ~ Whisperi’lllistentohearit

6. The Temptations ~ Cloud Nine

7. Gemma Ray ~ We Do War

8. Wire ~ Playing Harp For The Fishes

9. The Handsome Family ~ Back In My Day

10. The Mutton Birds ~ Giant Friend

11. Future Islands ~ Cave

12. Jake Xerxes Fussell ~ Jump For Joy

13. Camera Obscura ~ French Navy

14. Feral Ohms ~ Living Junkyard

15. Mastodon ~ Precious Stones

At the Mansion this week, we look back at an important year in music: 1977. Listen out for The Clash, The Jam, Devo, Sex Pistols, X-Ray Spex and a whole lot more .. ..

PLAYLIST: PROGRAMME #491 (Original air date: 27 April 2017)

1. The Clash ~ 1977

2. The Skids ~ The Saints Are Coming

3. The Stranglers ~ No More Heroes

4. David Bowie ~ Sound And Vision

5. The Jam ~ In The City

6. Ian Dury And The Blockheads ~ Sex And Drugs And Rock ‘n Roll

7. The Tom Robinson Band ~ 2-4-6-8 Motorway

8. Blondie ~ Rip Her To Shreds

9. Fleetwood Mac ~ Second Hand News

10. Elvis Presley ~ Moody Blue

11. Devo ~ Jocko Homo

12. The Damned ~ New Rose

13. Eddie And The Hot Rods ~ Do Anything You Wanna Do

14. Talking Heads ~ Uh-oh, Love Comes To Town

15. Elvis Costello ~ (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes

16. X-Ray Spex ~ Oh Bondage Up Yours!

17. Sex Pistols ~ God Save The Queen

This week at The Mans!on, new tracks from Robyn Hitchcock, Real Estate and Hurray For The Riff Raff, a pop flashback from Martha Reeves And The Vandellas, NZ sounds from Mint Chicks and The Clean; Public Enemy welcome us to the Terrordome and a whole lot more ...

PROGRAMME #490 (Original air date: 20 April 2017)

1. Peter Gabriel ~ Moribund The Burgermeister

2. The Avalanches ~ Frankie Sinatra

3. Hurray For The Riff Raff ~ Living In The City

4. Martha Reeves And The Vandellas ~ Jimmy Mack

5. Robyn Hitchcock ~ I Want To Tell You About What I Want

6. Real Estate ~ Diamond Eyes

7. House Of Love ~ Shine On

8. Townes Van Zant ~ Snake Mountain Blues

9. Small Faces ~ Afterglow (Of Your Love)

10. The Clean ~ Beatnik

11. Mint Chicks ~ Don’t Turn Me On Just To Turn On Me

12. BNQT ~ Restart

13. Ride ~ Polar Bear

14. The Saints ~ Know Your Product

15. Public Enemy ~ Welcome To The Terrordome

At the Mansion this week, new music from Son Volt, Mark Lanegan Band, British Sea Power and Japandroids, NZ sounds from Hopetoun Brown and Chris Knox, older tracks from Curtis Mayfield, Penetration and Joan Armatrading plus a whole lot more .. ..

1. Kitty, Daisy And Lewis ~ Goin’ Up The Country

2. Curtis Harding ~ I Don’t Wanna Go Home

3. Son Volt ~ Static

4. Mark Lanegan Band ~ Nocturne

5. Joan Armatrading ~ Love And Affection

6. Haley Bonar ~ I Can Change

7. The Courtneys ~ Tour

8. Chris Knox ~ Not Given Lightly

9. British Sea Power ~ Bad Bohemian

10. Curtis Mayfield ~ Superfly

11. Wire ~ Short Elevated Period

12. The xx ~ Lips

13. Hopetoun Brown ~ Look So Good

14. Penetration ~ Don’t Dictate

15. Japandroids ~ Near To The Wild Heart Of Life

This week at the Mansion listen out for Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Suede, Leon Russell, NZ sounds from The Chills and Toy Love, new music from Jesca Hoop and Circa Wavers, a pop flashback with Lulu plus a whole lot more .. ..

PROGRAMME #488 (Original air date: 6 April 2017)

1. Sandie Shaw And The Smiths ~ Hand In Glove

2. Suede ~ Pale Snow

3. The Shins ~ Rubber Ballz

4. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds ~ The Curse Of Milhaven

5. Lulu And The Luvvers ~ Shout

6. Jesca Hoop ~ Simon Says

7. Hayes Carll ~ Good While It Lasted

8. The Chills ~ Molten Gold

9. Charles Bradley ~ Change For The World

10. Chuck Berry ~ Maybellene

11. Jens Lekman ~ Wedding In Finistere

12. Rag ‘n Bone Man ~ Ego

13. Leon Russell ~ Delta Lady

14. Toy Love ~ Photographs Of Naked Ladies

15. Circa Waves ~ Wake Up

So much new music this week at the MansIon; listen out for fresh tracks from NZ’s French For Rabbits and Nadia Reid, plus new sounds from Real Estate, Depeche Mode, Cherry Glazerr, Spoon and Temples plus a whole lot more .. ..

1. French For Rabbits ~ One And Only

2. Samantha Crane ~ Oh Dear Louis

3. Cherry Glazerr ~ Moon Dust

4. Real Estate ~ Darling

5. Son Volt ~ Sinking Down

6. Gene Pitney ~ The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

7. Ron Gallo ~ Young Lady, You’re Scaring Me

8. Foxygen ~ Upon A Hill

9. Nadia Reid ~ I Come Home To You

10. Ryan Adams ~ Haunted House

11. Christina And The Queens ~ Tilted

12. The Beatles ~ Because

13. Hurray For The Riff Raff ~ Nothing’s Gonna Change That Girl

14. Spoon ~ Shotgun

15. Temples ~ Roman God-like Man

16. Depeche Mode ~ Eternal

17. The Fall ~ Hot Cake

It’s another of our Hmm, Wot’s This Then Specials this week at The Mansion – more lost, old and forgotten tracks from the past: Joni Mitchell, The Beat, The Drifters, Sly And The Family Stone, Spizzenerrgi, Blondie and a whole lot more .. ..

1. Boomtown Rats ~ Mary Of The Fourth Form

2. The Sweet ~ Fox On The Run

3. The Drifters ~ Kissing In The Backrow Of The Movies

4. The Waterboys ~ The Whole Of The Moon

5. Rick Nelson ~ Windfall

6. Spizzenergi ~ Where’s Captain Kirk?

7. John Hanlon ~ Apple Wine

8. Dead Kennedys ~ Holiday In Cambodia

9. Sly And The Family Stone ~ Everyday People

10. Joni Mitchell ~ Raised On Robbery

11. The Contours ~ Do You Love Me?

12. The Guess Who ~ No Time

13. Jimmy Buffett ~ My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don’t Love Jesus

14. Blondie ~ Dennis

15. The Beat ~ Tears Of A Clown

16. Deep Purple ~ My Woman From Tokyo

This week at The Mans!on, new tracks from Nadia Reid, The Shins excellent new release, Tim Darcy and Vagabon, a pop flash back with Focus, Texas rock from The Fabulous Thunderbirds and a whole lot more .. ..

1. Canned Heat – Let’s Work Together

2. Miranda Lambert – For The Birds

3. The Ginger And Sarah Band – Buddha Belly

4. Courtney Barnett – Debbie Downer

5. Vagabon – The Embers

6. Focus – Hocus Pocus

7. Tim Darcy – You Felt Comfort

8. Muttonbirds – Dominion Road

9. Brian Jonestown Massacre – Third World Pyramid

10. Nadia Reid – Ain’t Got You

11. The Shins – Mildenhall

12. Lucinda Williams – 2 Kool 2 B 4gotten

13. Mitski – My Body’s Made Of Crushed Little Stars

14. The Fabulous Thunderbirds – Twist Of The Knife

15. The Pogues – Wild Cats Of Kilkenny

This week at the Mans!on listen out for new music from The Courtneys, iconic NZ band The Bats, Elbow and Ryan Adams, a pop flashback with The Casuals, British spoken word artist Kate Tempest, an oldie from Sinead O’Connor and a whole lot more .. ..

1. Ry Cooder ~ El Corrido de Jesse James

2. Elbow ~ Gentle Storm

3. The Bats ~ Looking For Sunshine

4. Kate Tempest ~ War Music (After Logue)

5. The Casuals ~ Toy

6. Michael Chapman ~ Sometimes You Just Drive

7. St Vincent/David Byrne ~ Who

8. Strait Jacket Fits ~ She Speeds

9. The Felice Brothers ~ Frankie’s Gun

10. Julia Jacklin ~ Coming Of Age

11. The Courtneys ~ Silver Velvet

12. Sinead O’Connor ~ Mandinka

13. Travis ~ Driftwood

14. Ryan Adams ~ Outbound Train