Diverse Vinyl Podcast

Reviews of a bumper week's releases including new records from Waxahatchee, Adam Franklin, The Chats, Cable Ties, Green Gartside, Nap Eyes, Lilly Hiatt, Brian Fallon, Catholic Action, Euros Childs, Modern Rituals and reissues from De La Soul, Cat Stevens, Sugar, Kanye West, The Subways and Rowland S Howard. Along the way, Graham finds out how well we know any of them and whether they'll appear on his legendary solo soul album.

Special guest Eggsy reviews bands based on their name, does a very good John Peel impression and tells everyone to stream stuff. We all attempt to review Jim Morrison, Jim Noir, Gladies, Soccer Mommy, Toodles & The Hectic Pity and the Sound Of The Suburbs comp that we all remember from when we were kids.

Reviews, informed or otherwise, of new albums by Grimes, Al Lewis, Treacherous Three, Los Campesinos!, Courtney Barnett and Greg Dulli plus mentions for The Third Mind and Hayley Williams. Graham only just realises we're reviewing albums out the same week as the podcast, a new customer becomes a lovely guest and we do a Bruce Springsteen vs Public Enemy lyric quiz. Matt is too far away from his microphone.

A late guest appearance from Lily and reviews of Bryan Ferry, Billy Ocean, Nada Surf, Green Day, Seth Lakeman, Rod Stewart, Cerrone and La Roux with added amazing facts. Mentions for the Pixies, Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Pearl Jam and speculation as to whether Ke$ha is drunk on her new album and if Elon Musk is human.

No guests and a surprising amount of actual reviews including Thin Lizzy, Black Lips, Wire, Pet Shop Boys, Happy Mondays, Drive-By Truckers, Squarepusher, Tom Raybould, Frances Quinlan, Graham Coxon and Blossoms. I'll class this as 'relatively entertaining'.

Dude pops in as a guest and helps discuss Graham's guest-laden soul album, 'Bear, Hugs & Harmony'. Almost certainly containing members of Super Furry Animals, The Manics, The Darkness, Menswear, Los Campesinos!, Future Of The Left and De La Soul plus Shakin' Stevens, Charlotte Church, Connie Fisher and Richard Osman. Or not. A customer comes in to buy a Who album that he doesn't like and we do a sort of Bowie Top Trumps quiz in honour of the anniversary of his death.

End of year round up really. No guests to speak of, just Matt and Graham doing a run down of the Diverse albums and reissues of 2019. It's probably really boring. Have a listen anyway.

This week, we have Minty of Minty's Guide Guide To Cardiff as a guest. We asked Minty on to talk about the Welsh Music Prize as, alongside Matt, he was on the judging panel last Wednesday. As usual, things went off on a tangent, old Diverse owner John Richards walked in, we got carried away and totally forgot to talk about the prize. We recorded  a bit afterwards but it was too long to tag on here so there may be a standalone special!! We did remember to review stuff, including Prince, The Blue Nile, Fleetwood Mac, Funeral For A Friend and The Low Anthem though.

Guest Kate Mercer talks about Art On The Hill, Newport's very, very multi-venue art trail. We all review Queens Of The Stone Age, Leonard Cohen, Ben Lee, The Beatles, Danny Brown, The Beatles, Hefner and Shed Seven. No children, no crazy phone calls, no car parking madness. It's relatively sensible. Kind of.

We missed last week. Sorry! Back now with two guest in tow. Mim John, who's not listened to any music this year and author Richard King who only listens to Grateful Dead but also, paradoxically, thinks that all albums should only be 30 minutes long. In amongst this, there's a phone call from Adam Hussain and, to be honest, very lazy reviews of Toy, The Wonder Stuff, Right Hand Left Hand, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg & Taylor Swift.