Just in time for August and the holidays, the Podcast no one has been missing is back with Episode 20 and a review of the August 2023 playlist! Sleeves are worn and Top 3’s are picked.

Meanwhile JMac takes a crash-course in European geography, Stuki shamelessly promotes a certain streaming service (presumably in hope of receiving some freebies) and retrospectively, Lowney well and truly gazes at his shoes.

The August playlist on https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48b7f8EwXfAm5hJlm87GUy?si=cbcff604762845db 

Track list:

1. Folly Group - Strange Neighbour
2. English Teacher - The World’s Biggest Paving Slab
3. Bilderbuch - Softpower
4. Yabba- Jawbone
5. A. Savage - Elvis In The Army
6. José González, Elias Araya & Tobias Winterkorn - Line of Fire (feat. Sharon Van Etten)
7. Flamingods - Dreams (On The Strip)
8. Hotel Lux - Vice
9. Slowdive - The Slab
10. Bullant - Perfect Shelving Technique
11. Holiday Ghosts - Vulture
12. Uh - Hit

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Episode 19 of The JLS Show finally arrives. The hosts select their usual Top 3 picks from July’s playlist.

Discussions revolve around the merits of instrumentals and the wide ranging influence of Prog, good and bad. While Stuki’s charity of choice sounds a bit dodgy. 

The July playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Gc9XK0ybTzydsv2BPM6sm?si=c8d504b69dc04552

Track list:

1. PIL - Car Chase
2. Black Market Karma & Tess Parks - The Sky Was All Diseased
3. Allah-Las - No Werewolf
4. Plank! - Longshore Drift
5. Treeboy & Arc - Midnight Mass
6. The Wytches - Maria
7. Tape Runs Out - Ark
8. Sluice - Centurion
9. Frankie And The Witch Fingers - Futurephobic
10. A. Savage - Thanksgiving Prayer
11. JIM - Across The Street
12. Sun’s Signature - Bluedusk (LUMP Remix)

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After an enforced hiatus and without fanfare, Episode 18 of The JLS Show is now here... and the hosts select their usual Top 3 picks from June’s playlist.

The June playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T3iOUhP93y59ve8659bS3?si=5c00f8220f9b4aa9

Track list:

1. Spirit Award - Guilt And Shame
2. Leathers - High Rise
3. Das Kolles - Nuffin Sandwich
4. Miss Tiny - The Beggar
5. Hong Kong Wigs - Fa Fa Fa
6. Media Giant - Afraid Of The Dark
7. Protomartyr - Polacrilex Kid
8. Stuck - Do Not Reply
9. John Parish & Aldous Harding - Three Hours
10. Prawn Prison - Ladies Who Lunch
11. Timmy’s Organism - Fly Your Red Flag
12. Clark - Medicine (feat. Thom Yorke)
13. Mock Tudors - Crypto
14. The Cleaners From Venus - The Beautiful Stoned
15. Confidence Man & Daniel Avery- On & On (Again)

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Episode 17 of The JLS Show has arrived, finally… and the hosts select their usual Top 3 picks from May’s playlist.

Meanwhile, Lowney continues to straddle fine lines, Stuki picks the ‘Oldest Goldie’ ever to appear on the show and David Coverdale makes a special guest appearance.

The May playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kh5VjYJXm9Lx7bczijGDk?si=2738778323e84c30

Morrissey comments on Sinead O’Connor’s death: Morrissey Slams 'Insultingly Stupid' Tributes to Sinead O'Connor

The Glove wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glove

Dear Prudence video (YouTube): https://youtu.be/M6rrTROoZIw?si=zEd2q3iKE0PvBvs_

Track list:

1. Motorpyscho - Patterns
2. Geese - Mysterious Love
3. The Oh Sees - Intercepted Message
4. You Said Strange - Eastern Side
5. Jim Jones All Stars - Gimme The Grease
6. BC Camplight - Kicking Up A Fuss
7. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Invisible
8. Quickly, Quickly - Falling Apart Without You
9. The Glove - Perfect Murder
10. Cinder Well - Two Heads, Grey Mare
11. Spitting Image - Devil’s Bloom
12. Oxbow - 1000 Hours

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After another enforced absence, the JLS show returns with the usual Top 3 selections from the Guntz monthly playlist, this time April. 

Meanwhile, jMac owns up to some dodgy gig going, Lowney drops some vowels and Stuki gets hot under the collar about the lyrical wisdom in one of the top picks.

The April playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3P4uozFRRb1ikFd0aioVVW?si=76060acd20284431

Kiss's Gene Simmons visits the Houses of Parliament: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gene-simmons-uk-parliament-kiss-ian-paisley-democracy-b2353172.html

Spotify makes up genres - Chamber Psych: https://www.nme.com/features/spotify-wrapped-what-is-chamber-psych-2837840

Track list:

1. Trip Westerns - Blame Charlie
2. Pozi - M6 Toll
3. Eades - Reno Pt 2
4. Kara Delik - Hayvan
5. Dommengang - Blue & Peaceful
6. Ishmael Ensemble & Rider Shafique - Reasons
7. Fews - Get Out
8. Tape Runs Out - 90 Deg C
9. Bdrmm - Be Careful 
10. William The Conqueror - Somebody Else
11. Craven Faults - Odda Delf
12. The Cool Greenhouse - Get Unjaded

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Back after a prolonged absence, Episode 15 is finally here. Along with more of the usual waffle and picking of Top 3's from the March playlist.

JMac is looking for value for money, Lowney succumbs to a few pet-hates and Stuki longs for the day that the machines take over…

The March playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3sAdV4wfEhc2OnNkMmb5gM?si=a71d3ad6218b4276

Track list:

1. Flyying Colours - Long Distance
2. The The - $1 One Vote
3. Meg Baird - Ashes, Ashes
4. Kassi Valazza - Watching Planes Go By
5. Gift - Here And Now (Time Floats By)
6. Egyptian Blue - Geisha
7. The Veils - No Limit Of Stars
8. Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention
9. Killing Joke - Full Spectrum Dominance 
10. Amos The Kid - Enough As It Was
11. Maps - Heya Yaha
12. Downpilot - Red Desert

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Recorded in late December 2022 when our beloved host JMac was otherwise engaged, this special episode features our collective favourite tracks from the first 11 JLS Shows. It was originally ’broadcast’ as part of the Guntzenanny listening party on New Year’s Eve eve, 2022. Enjoy. 

Track list:

1. Rubber Oh - Nothing
2. Dog Unit - Absolute Unit
3. Ghost Woman - Behind Your Eyes
4. Reigns - The Hoarder
5. Personal Trainer - Rugbusters
6. Mesh - Ur Dead
7. Jelly Cleaver - Black Line
8. Wunderhorse - Butterflies
9. Dactyl Terra - Tsunami Go!
10. Hollow Ship - Magic Mountain
11. Lewsberg - Six Hills
12. All Them Witches - 6969 WXL The Cage
13. Regressive Left - The Wrong Side Of History
14. Drive By Truckers - The Driver
15. The Smile - We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings

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Episode 14 belatedly arrives with the usual Top 3 picks from February’s playlist and some lengthy discussion about the welfare of session musicians. 

Lowney and Stuki both suffer some memory lapse regarding their so-called favourite band! And JMac dances around his handbag.

The February playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/037Qwr2yJ9WJWHZE5hXN4E?si=9c09c7ba59cd4a83

Robert Fripp’s dispute with the Bowie estate: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/king-crimson-robert-fripp-david-bowie-estate-dispute-heroes-scary-monsters-890139/

Track list:

1. Sweet Williams - Glass State
2. Mr. Bison - From The Abyss
3. The Black Delta Movement - Fourth Pass Over The Graveyard
4. Index For Working Musik - 1871
5. Samana - Two Wrongs
6. Cory Hanson - Housefly
7. LM.ORG, Robert Smith & Bjork Gudmundsdottir - Hidden Place Into A Forest
8. Squid - Swing (In A Dream)
9. BC Camplight - The Last Rotation Of Earth
10. Father John Misty - The Next 20th Century
11. Tamino - The Flame
12. Django Django - Complete (feat. Self Esteem)

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Episode 13 of The JLS Show is finally here.. and celebrating its first birthday with the usual Top 3 picks from January’s playlist along with the return of an old feature.

Also this month, Lowney breaks his own selection rules, Stuki becomes teacher once more - this time the subject is German colloquialisms & Shakespeare and JMac gets very hot under the collar with some magical thinking.

The January playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5A7PlwY8NMkcpAEoEIqrDN?si=xOCdObVpTli-a2uJl-33bQ

Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream) 

Magical Thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking

The Secret (book) on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/dpeYKtZ

The Graham Norton Show with Joy Crookes on YouTube (35:30): https://youtu.be/MwRCl9Q0F9I

Track list:

1. Air Show Disaster - Psychosis On The Run
2. The Church - C’est La Vie
3. Puck - Cottonmouth
4. Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation - Dunes
5. Magon - Emily
6. The Drin - Venon
7. Quasi - Nowheresville
8. Liela Moss - Come And Find Me
9. Gryningen - Radioskugga
10. Sloan - Magical Thinking
11. Joy Crookes - Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
12. Iggy Pop - The Regency
13. Fazerdaze - Thick Of The Honey

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In the long anticipated JLS Show season finale, the usual Top 3 picks are selected from December's Music Guntz playlist, with at least one of the hosts ‘under the influence’.

Meanwhile, Stuki hands over the offending baton and much to JMac’s dismay, Lowney picks something nice.

The December playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1fLt2MKw4WwlWueOceJoFl?si=b9aa543fa6a3491e

The Go-Betweens, Grant McClennan Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_McLennan

Mark E Smith attacks Mumford & Sons: https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-fall-2-8-1260879

Track list:

1. Ceramic - Follow
2. Mock Tudors - Bin Day
3. Robert Forster - Tender Years
4. Via Mardot - Jollity
5. The Heavy Heavy - All My Dreams
6. Trentemøller & The Ravonettes - Cops On Our Tail
7. Smirk - Revenge
8. Ghost Woman - The End Of A Gun
9. Modern Studies - Geese
10. Verdena - Chaise Longue
11. The Mary Wallopers - Cod Liver Oil & Orange Juice
12. The Orielles - Airtight

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