Festival Days is off to Wales for the Green Man festival and can you guess what other band Robert Smith was in?

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I reckon the cover version in this show is my favourite yet, it's of a Carpenters song, can you guess who does it?

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July 22nd's show features a trip to Butlin's holiday camp to listen to bands playing at the Shine On Weekender, a music festival featuring classic 80's and 90's indie bands

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Rock Werchter! I'm going to be playing tracks from the bands that played, headliners as well as the smaller bands

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Let me transport you back to the rain, mud and more rain that was Glastonbury 1997. But what a line-up!

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Whistling?! Yes, the middle hour features songs that all have whistling in them!

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On this show in the middle hour I'm doing a Periodic Table special (and yes I will play Nirvana's Lithium), other elements to feature are Chlorine, Neon, Oxygen, Copper and of course Gold

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The middle hour of this episode is a tribute to Steve Albini almost 2 years after his sad death. I play tracks from bands he recorded as well of course as his own music.

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The year 2000 is the featured year, as well as all the usual bits I chat to Alex about the appeal of vinyl

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We reach the end of the century and listen to tracks from some of the top rated albums of 1999....

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