Yellow Brit Road

Fun show this week, we celebrate the 40 year anniversary of the Smiths' debut album with some original vinyl, play you brand new releases, discuss music at the BAFTAs (Sophie Ellis-Bextor!) and talk to Sean from Courting about their new album, New Last Name! (Look out for the full interview soon 👀) Music by:

The Smiths, The Lovely Eggs, The Snuts, Drahla, KNEECAP, Nadine Shah, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Alfa Mist, Gillie, Amy Gadiaga, Dead Rat Society, Courting

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PS: The CFRC funding drive is still on! Donate to help keep our 101-year old station going!

Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)

Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

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Sean Murphy O'Neil is the singer and guitarist in one of Liverpool's most exciting new bands, Courting. The band released their second album, New Last Name, an album that is also a theatrical play if you want it to be, and Sean joined me on the Yellow Brit Road to talk all about the new album, their songwriting philosophies, on wanting to be pop stars and being unafraid to make exactly the sort of music they want to make.

We heard part of the interview on the live show this week, the full interview is coming your way on Wednesday morning, look out for it!

This was a fun one, thanks to Sean for dropping by!

PS: The CFRC funding drive is still on! Donate to help keep our 101-year old station going!

Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)

Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

PS: submissions, cc [email protected] if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Pan-Indian indie rock, shoegaze band Long Distances started during lockdown as a songwriting project between songwriter and guitarist Zubin Pastakia and singer Aarifah Rebello. They have since added a third core member in Apurv Agrawal (guitars, bass, synths, production), released their debut EP, been featured in Rolling Stone India, and have opened the Indian edition of the historic alternative music festival Lollapalooza.

Zubin and Aarifah joined me to talk all about the EP, How The Mighty Will Fall, about gigs, touring, influences, writing, and being a musician in India's rising independent music scene. Here's the full, uncut interview!

Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)

Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

PS: submissions, cc [email protected] if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

PPS: The CFRC funding drive is still on! Donate to help keep our 101-year old station going!

This week on the show, we had new releases across the spectrum of genres of music being made in the UK and Ireland, and Indian indie rock, shoegaze band Long Distances phone in to talk about their debut EP, Lollapalooza and the Indian independent music scene! Music by:

The Karelia, Bloc Party, Beth Gibbons, English Teacher, Goat Girl, IDLES, Walt Disco, Lime Garden, Gurriers, Lambrini Girls, Louis Carnell, Wu-Lu, Nubiyan Twist, Awen Ensemble, Long Distances.

Find this week's playlist here. Do try and support artists directly!

PS: The CFRC funding drive is still on! Donate to help keep our 101-year old station going!

Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)

Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

PS: submissions, cc [email protected] if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week, we celebrated Franz Ferdinand's indie dancefloor favourite (S/T 2004) turning 20, we discuss faux pas and getting it wrong on meeting your heroes (text in, I'm still here), we pay tribute to late Can singer Damo Suzuki, play brand new tracks, and Chris Barry tells us about being in bands in London with members of Sex Pistols, Generation X, Police, Pretenders (quite a supergroup!) Music by:

Franz Ferdinand, Little Simz, Shed Seven, Rowetta, Master Peace, Yard Act, Katy J Pearson, Fräulein, CAN, The Telescopes, ĠENN, Nubya Garcia, Tara Lily, girldad, The 222s, 39 Steps

Find this week's playlist here. Do try and support artists directly!

PS: The CFRC funding drive is still on! Donate to help keep our 101-year old station going!

Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)

Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

PS: submissions, cc [email protected] if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week was an experimental show: can you do a live radio show if you haven't slept in two days? If radio DJs marathoning shows for charity can, surely I, Rue can too! Cue a fun, loose, ever-so-slightly shambolic show where pulled out new CDs, did some on-air Bandcamp diving and had LIVE coverage of the Grammys from Hayden!

Music by: Pet Shop Boys, The Last Dinner Party, Nothing But Thieves, Rachel Chinouriri, Silent Forum, The Knife, Blur, George Gadd, The Maddocks, Lime Garden, Master Peace, Arab Strap, Dry Cleaning, Catatonia, Nadine Shah, The Get Alongs, The Wilderness.

Find this week's playlist here. Do try and support artists directly!

PS: The CFRC funding drive is still on! Donate to help keep our 101-year old station going!

Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)

Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

PS: submissions, cc [email protected] if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Lots going on this week on a 2 hour-long show! Many new UK and Irish independent music albums. Hayden, my cohost on Indie Wakeup Call, phones in to discuss the BRIT Award nominations. Chris Barry from the 222s tells me about being in Montreal's first punk band, and the 1979 punk riot.

Music by: Franz Ferdinand, The Zutons, Gruff Rhys, Courting, NewDad, Pillow Queens, Grace Petrie, Arab Strap, Yard Act, Sabatta, Crinc, Elpac and Grove, RAYE, Little Simz, The Last Dinner Party, Olivia Dean, Mahalia, Dave & Central Cee, The 222s.

Find this week's playlist here. Do try and support artists directly!

PS: The CFRC funding drive is still on! Donate to help keep our 101-year old station going!

Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)

Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

PS: submissions, cc [email protected] if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This one's a special show for me! For this show, Yellow Brit Road (I) was on the ground in Toronto, where I caught up with a personal hero of mine: Gruff Rhys, Welsh musician, former frontman of the band Super Furry Animals, one half of Mercury-nominated duo Neon Neon, storyteller extraordinaire and solo musician. Gruff was performing at the Drake Underground in Toronto on 17 October 2023, supporting indie-folk band This Is The Kit on tour across North America.

We talked about the Welsh music scene, the 90s, Super Furry Animals, Welsh pop culture, Super Furries' "lost techno album", and Gruff's upcoming solo album, Sadness Sets Me Free, out 26 January 2024! (tomorrow)

Find all the music played/mentioned on the show here.

PS: CFRC Live Sessions are now on air! And the CFRC funding drive is in full swing! Donate and help keep our 101-year old station going!

Live on CFRC 101.9 FM (Kingston)/cfrc.ca, Sundays 8-9:30 PM (Full shows in the archive)

Contact: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

PS: submissions, cc [email protected] if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Most of the music on this week's show is not on streaming services, but in case including it becomes a problem, here's an edited version.

This week on the show, we paid tribute to Emyr Willams, the late cofounder of 90s Welsh independent alternative label Ankst Records, who were at the heart of the emerging Welsh-language alt rock scene of the 80s and 90s. We also had part of my interview with singer of Montreal bands the 222s (Montreal's first punk band), new wave band 39 Steps, and many others, Chris Barry! Many of the Welsh artists on this show aren't on Spotify, so I'll link a playlist and have included some music in the pod. Music this week by:

The Libertines, English Teacher, Nia Archives, Yard Act, Cowboy Hunters, IDLES, Cassyette, Long Distances, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Catatonia,Tynal Tywyll, Ty Gwydr, Ectogram, Beganifs (Big Leaves), Tystion, Super Furry Animals, Datblygu, 39 Steps.

Find this week's playlist here. Do try and support artists directly!

PS: The CFRC funding drive is still on! Donate to help keep our 101-year old station going!

Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)

Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

PS: submissions, cc [email protected] if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week on the show, we paid tribute to Emyr Willams, the late cofounder of 90s Welsh independent alternative label Ankst Records, who were at the heart of the emerging Welsh-language alt rock scene of the 80s and 90s. We also had one part of my interview with singer of Montreal bands the 222s (Montreal's first punk band), new wave band 39 Steps, and many others, Chris Barry! Many of the Welsh artists on this show aren't on Spotify, so I'll link a playlist and have included some music in the pod. Music this week by:

The Libertines, English Teacher, Nia Archives, Yard Act, Cowboy Hunters, IDLES, Cassyette, Long Distances, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Catatonia,Tynal Tywyll, Ty Gwydr, Ectogram, Beganifs (Big Leaves), Tystion, Super Furry Animals, Datblygu, 39 Steps.

Find this week's playlist here. Do try and support artists directly!

PS: The CFRC funding drive is still on! Donate to help keep our 101-year old station going!

Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9 PM! (Full shows are available in the archive for 3 months from release)

Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email [email protected], Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠.

PS: submissions, cc [email protected] if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.