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A festive Rathole Radio this time, broadcast on December 26th. I even performed a Shakin Stevens Christmas song that won the live vote, you won’t hear that again soon. I had an eclectic mix of tracks as always and lots of fun chat was had in the IRC channel. I hope you all enjoy the show and have a great New Year

A BIG thanks to Heeed for the Xmas cover art!

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, I probably won’t be around much, but if people want to hang around in there and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

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Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song.

The rest come from the following sources: Jamendo.com

Rathole Radio by Dan Lynch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

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Apologies for the slightly poorer sound quality than usual, this was due to the live setting.

Welcome to another live edition of Rathole Radio. I was asked back to do another show at the Nerve Centre in Liverpool (that doesn’t happen often hehe), I was happy to oblige of course. This time I brought my band 20lb Sounds and we rocked the place with drums and bass. I hope you enjoy it.

That PISO group I played last time are Italian and not Spannish, language FAIL! I’m an ignorant Englishman.

Check out the new Software Freedom Day 2010 mix CD at RatholeRadio.org. Download it, burn it, share it with friends.

My band 20lb Sounds Live!!

Friend and fan of the show @mjjzf posted this rather amazing video of young Matthias listening to the show all the way from New York. This was posted right after we finished playing. I love it! Possible future guitarist or drummer there.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, I probably won’t be around much, but if people want to hang around in there and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

Subscribe to the show and get it delivered to your virtual door for free: Mp3 feed – Ogg Feed – iTunes

Support the show: if you’d like to leave a tip and help pay for the cost of making the show please use the Paypal button in the sidebar of the site.

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song. The rest come from the following sources:

Jamendo.com

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A very very special Rathole Radio this time as I present some of the action from the live gig in Liverpool on Friday April 30th. It was a great night and I’m really pleased so many people came along and joined us. We had great live music from the Reflect Harmony Group to open the event. Sadly I don’t have a recording of their set and I can only apologise for that. I will try to get them to do a session in future to make up for it. So next it was onto Attila The Stockbroker and David Rovics.

Next up I took the stage with my unnamed band. We asked the audience to suggest possible band names as we went along, we had varying success to that. Some of the names were very funny though. As this set consisted mainly of cover songs I don’t think I can put it under a CC license. It’s possibly illegal for me to share this with you but sod it, you only live once right I hope you enjoy the set.

A BIG thank you to everyone who came to the gig and supported the event. As requested by some people on email I’ve added a Paypal donation link to the sidebar of the site, so if you want to help me cover costs you can do but there’s no obligation. A special thank you to Adrian, Andy, Jon, Anna and my mum for helping out on the night. I couldn’t have done it without them. I’ll be back with a more normal show very soon. Take care of yourselves.

Reflect & Me On Stage (pic by @rosiebunny)

Videos: More video to follow but here is some footage taken by my mate H and uploaded to YouTube.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, I probably won’t be around much, but if people want to hang around in there and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

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Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song. The rest come from the following sources:

No sources this time, it was all live!!

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Welcome to a very special Rathole Radio. We have our first guest session this time from the fabulous I Am Not Lefthanded, a band I’ve played on the show a few times before. I really like them and as you’ll hear in the interview they’re great folks and very funny. I also found time to play my usual eclectic range of music before and after the interview. There’s less tunes than normal an more waffle but I wanted to take the chance to really get to know the guests. I hope you enjoy the show!

I mentioned Guru’s health situation and wished him well. Take care man, hip hop needs you.

I talked about our fabulous New logo. Big thanks to Scott from Bad Format for making it.

Their Latest EP

20:12 – Interview – I Am Not Lefthanded – I was delighted to be joined live by Daniel and Kathryn from the band for a chat about music, life, the Internet, keeping drummers quiet, slicing up pies, rhinos and much more. Check out their fantastic videos on iamnotlefthanded.com and also support their effort to raise money and record an album if you like what you hear.

I mentioned Pete Cannon’s Cool Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down reviews

PLEASE BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE: The Rathole Roadshow gig is on Friday April 30th 2010 in Liverpool. Find out more details and crucially buy tickets on the gig page. Get em while they’re hot. £5 per ticket (plus £1.50 handling per order) and space is limited, once they’re sold out there’s nothing I can do. Featuring a headline set from David Rovics and Attila The Stockbroker. You don’t wanna miss it!

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, I probably won’t be around much, but if people want to hang around in there and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

Subscribe to the show and get it delivered to your virtual door for free: Mp3 feed – Ogg Feed – iTunes

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song. The rest come from the following sources:

Jamendo.com

RatholeRadio.org

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This episode of Rathole Radio marks something of a landmark for us, our first live guest on the show. We’ve had interviews before but always pre-recorded rather than live. I was privileged to be joined on the phone by American singer/songwriter David Rovics. We had a great long chat, played some records and generally had fun. I also played some eclectic music picks and drew the winner of the competition. So I hope you enjoy the show.

Competition Winner: The winner drawn at random was Ian Folland, an old friend of mine. I feel a bit guilty about that but it was purely random I promise. Ian lives down South now so I’ll have to post the CD off to him ASAP.

David Rovics

16:51 – Special Phone Guest: David Rovics. I was delighted to be joined live on the phone from the States by singer / songwriter David Rovics. I saw David play live supporting Billy Bragg in Liverpool back in May. He’s a great singer and a powerful songwriter who discusses political issues in the best tradition of rebel song. We discussed his new album “Ten Thousand Miles Away”, which was released this month. You can find David’s music on Jamendo, and also at Soundclick.com

David mentioned his book on distributing your own music and singing for you supper. You can find more details on that and buy other bits of merchandise from his online store. David is also currently on a tour of mid-west with Anne Feeney, so I advise you to catch them live if you can. At the time of writing his website has been hacked but you can find tour details here.

Feedback: I read an email from George De Bruin, who actually met David Rovics at a concert in the last week and took some video of the event. I was really pleased too hear that. Thanks George. Thanks also to Ed Fonseca, Mjjzf, Steve, Taiyo Rawle and Liam McCombes for their emails.

I also talked about the new Mixcloud account I created for the show. Please head over there and show your support, I’d appreciate it.

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, I probably won’t be around much, but if people want to hang around in there and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

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Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song. The rest come from the following sources:

Jamendo.com

thesixtyone.com

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Episode 3 is upon us, and this time I’m writing to you from lovely Bonn, Germany. I’ve been here for the last week and I pre-recorded this show before leaving. At the time I should be doing the live show I’ll actually be on a plane heading back towards England from Amsterdam. This jet set life style is fun, but also very tiring. I think I’ll sleep most of next week. Anyway, this show is a little different as we have our first guests, Professor Kliq and his manager. Here’s the vital details:

Interview: Professor Kliq & Dan Costalis. I had a great chat with Professor Kliq (AKA Mike) and his manager Dan (good name). We discussed how he makes his music, how Creative Commons affects it, lab coats and much much more. I also got him to pick a couple of his tracks for us to play and discuss.

From the album The Scientific Method Volume 2. Licensed under CC BY-SA

News Story: Mother of 4 fined 1.9mil dollars for sharing 24 songs

Professor Kliq

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show.  Thanks also to Mike and Dan for joining me, I had great fun talking to them. Don’t forget if you’re a musician or you’re in a band, I want to hear what you do. If I like it, I’ll play it. Simple, them’s the rules! I don’t care what style it is, how professional or un-professional you are, send it. Take care till next time folks. I’ll be back with a live show on Sunday 12th July at 9pm. Please join me and contribute to the live show, it’s a lot of fun.

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Feedback and suggestions: The show is only possible thanks to your involvement and help. If you play music or you know someone who plays music, send it to me and I’ll have a listen. If I like it, I play it. It’s that simple. If you hear something you’d like to suggest for the show please do, I’m always happy to hear from you.

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song. The rest come from the following sources:

Jamendo.com

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So, here it is, the first episode. I recorded this last night, Sunday 31st May 09, at 9pm UK time. It was a learning experience and trying to chat to people online at the same time is tough. You can hear a couple of moments when a song finished abruptly and nearly caught me out. I’m nothing if not professional… so that’s nothing then. I hope you enjoy this eclectic ride of music and waffling anyway. I also played a live acoustic tune which I’ll describe in more detail later. For now here’s all the information you need on the tracks I played:

Live Track: 33:55

The live track for this episode is “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out” an old blues standard performed by me with my trusty acoustic guitar. I’d like to dedicate it to a friend of mine who sadly passed away not too long ago. A truly amazing blues and jazz singer in his own right, and a guy who taught me a hell of a lot – Ken Dickenson.

That’s if for this time, I hope you enjoyed my first attempt at this. I could certainly use some practice with mixing and presenting at the same time, but it’s early days. I could also do with learning not to say “errm” every other word. I’ll try and work on that.

Feedback and Suggestions:

My Studio

In the excitement of recording and streaming my first show I neglecting to say this properly on air, if you have any suggestions for music or any other comments, please send them to me. Maybe you play music yourself, you’re in a band and would like to be on the show. That’s great. Send me a demo or whatever you have. I’m ALWAYS interested in new music. As long as I can play it on the show legally. If there’s someone you’d like me to interview or perhaps a song you’d like me to learn and play live, just send it in.

It just remains for me to say thank you very for taking the time to listen. I hope there was at least one new artist in the bunch you’ll be persuing, but not like a stalker, that wouldn’t be nice. I hope you’ll join me for another show in 2 weeks time. It’ll be Sunday June 14th at 9pm UK Time. You can get involved live and help me make the show, this all relies on listener input so please don’t be afraid to speak up. Details of how to listen to the live show are over on the live page.  I hope to see you there next time. Take care all

Dan

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song. The rest come from the following sources:

Jamendo.com

Magnatune.com

Slamjamz.com