Katie plays yet more beautiful new music in the first hour of today’s show – 2020 has given us some good things … This batch comes from Melbourne, Sydney, northern New South Wales and Nashville. There’s also an award-winning song from early 2020 by Irish artists Mick Flannery and SON, and a song for Hanukkah by queer American Jewish singer-songwriter SONiA Disappear Fear. Here is the playlist:

* Light in You – SONiA Disappear Fear

* Devilling Kind – Dan Challis

* Suburbia – darby

* Dying Star – Jordie Lane with Lollies

* Michelle Cannane – Rob Snarski with ‘Evil’ Graham Lee & Shane O’Mara

* The Gift – Coco’s Lunch

* Hope You Try – Neon Pattern Sundial

* Nana Joy – Ashleigh Bo

* All You Fascists – Bruce Hearn & The Machinists

* Baby Talk – Mick Flannery & SON (Susan O’Neill)

* Jeremiah – Sierra Ferrell

Above: darby’s Suburbia album cover