As I am away in the lovely country of Morocco, I am giving you all another chance to enjoy episode 78. Ahhh, those heady days….Enjoy

 Thanks to the mighty podcasting guru Pete Cogle , I can now bring you Is This Thing on Podcast 78.

This week I am joined by my mate Drew Harris as we trawl, yes TRAWL, through the music. In no particular order we Listen to The One and the Many ~ Come Around, American Hollow ~ Operator, Rieg ~ Runaway, Kay ~ To The Holy, Dead Sea Apes ~ Soy Dios-1, The Milkmen ~ Like a Drug, Mike Vaughan ~ Will We Ever get to Mars?, Pineross ~ Ruins, Fledder John ~ Evolution Song, Wax Ersatz ~ Make a Man out of Me and a little sitar song of mine called No Take Away which is only available here.

I was also chatting to Paul Lane via Skype about some band or other, you’ll have to visit his site for details. This is a pic of us chatting….

I mentioned a gig I had played at The Fighting Cocks, I blogged about it here https://nicktann.co.uk/2011/04/the-fighting-cocks-best-laid-plans/

Here we go with another collection of fine independent tunes from around the world.

This week my playlist looks like this

Nick Tann – Don’t, Field Studies – Mothertongue, April Maybe May – Don’t Go Sadly, Ryan Peel – What am I Missing, By The Rivers – One Word, E.A.R.T.H. – Keep Rising, Andrew Foster – Memory Maze, Atari Pilot – Stay Yourself, Bela Takes Chase – Take What’s Mine, The Deadline Shakes – Sweeten the Deal

A shorter, more diverse collection of music I defy you to find.

This week I play Josephine and the Artizans – Dies Irae, Sam Page – I Don’t Not Love You, Joe Kemp – It Ain’t Easy, Ellen Wade – All I ever Wanted, Crayon – Argue With Myself, Nick Tann – 3 AM

Vote for which track you want repeated in next weeks show

Vote below for your favourite in this weeks poll, the winner with the most votes will get played in next weeks episode.

Ahoy hoy campers, a short and sweet show this week with the winner of last weeks poll Helen Sanderson ~ Without You getting a repeat play. Will she do it again or will one of these lovelies beat her to the finish.

Autumn Electric – Ride The Rogo, Jen Olive – Death of Me, Anja McCloskey and Dan Whitehouse – Stille, Glass The Tramp – Dazed and Confused, George Wilding – Backwards Head, Goldstar – Darken Day

Here we go again kids. Here are the listings for this weeks show.

Inherit The Stars ~ Here at the Edge, Plastic Barricades ~ Shine, Dirty Proper ~ Not Turning Back, Gums & Callum Baird ~ Grangemouth at Dawn, Bon Saints ~ Bravado, Helen Sanderson-White ~ Without You, Dan Whitehouse ~ My Heart Doesn’t Age (it just gets old),  Matt Stevens ~ Oxymoron, Travis Waltons ~ Homewrecker, Emily Wolfe ~ Lionheart

Please vote below if you want me to play any of them again in next weeks show.

Yes, 218b I have forgone 217!

This weeks artists include Static in Verona ~ Bitter Branches, Marvin B Naylor ~ The Pirouettist, Taliia ~ Fiesta, Capture ~ Pink, Mummy Short Arms ~ Face Full Of Sand, Josh Savage ~ Mountains in Hurricanes, Lucy Kitchen ~ Autumn, Dark Eyes 55 ~ Winter Vibe, K Anderson ~ 14 year old me, No Snow No Alps ~ N.E.W., Morrison ~ Calico Jack and a truck load of jingles to finish off. All good nothing bad. Please Please Please like my Facebook music page, there’s good folks…

In this weeks lovely show we have songs from Lucy Kitchen ~ Autumn, Little Brother Eli ~ Awkward Positions , Polly and the Billets Doux ~ Hold Fast, Nick Tann ~ How Can It Be Wrong?, The Cherry Bluestorms ~ Just a Kiss, Presley Johnson ~ Anitas Last Dance, Avital Raz ~ Blues of the Ugly Sister, Bubonik Funk ~ Position of Power, May KB ~ Conquer, Kevin Fisher ~ Losing you

Great tunes as per usual this week with some great tracks from

Alberta ~ Tumbleweed, Richard Maule ~ How Do You See Me?, Raphael Novarina ~ Loin Des Fous, Planes Over Paris ~ Alibi, Liz Longley ~ Rush, Scott Turchin ~ Cornucopia, Nick Tann ~ Crazy Momma.

A little chat about some new shows, gigs and my new album. Tidy!