Show: The Final Headstand

After nearly 7 years on community radio in Cambridge I'm moving on to new things. I was joined for the last show by three guests offering a variety of touching and entertaining contributions. First JS Watts with an evocative set of poetry then Rychard Carrington plunging us into his bizarre yet intellectually stimulating world. Finally Maciek Pawlikowski from Cambridge 105 show Polish Waves turning the spotlight on me with a recording I did for the show whilst living in Poland. There wasn't enough time for everything I wanted to include in the final hour but I've added on a song by An Echo November recorded for the show while I was based in Poland.

Headstand may be ceasing regular broadcasting but I'm always coming across new and interesting music and poetry which I will share here from time to time or maybe via a new show or platform I may develop over time. Thank you for listening and reading over the years. I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have.

19.08.14 Finale with Rychard Carrington, JS Watts & Maciek Pawlikowski by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 5.8.14 with Karmadillo

This show features a live session by Rishi Nag otherwise known as Karmadillo singing songs about scientists, cassette tapes and a good old-fashioned love. He will be performing at CB2 along with me as part of Romsey Art Festival on Saturday 9th August. The show also features some of the other performers you can catch during the two-week festival.

5.08.14 With Karmadillo by Headstand on Mixcloud

Oysterband - When I'm Up I Can't Get Down

Loudon Wainwright III - Spaced

Bo Diddley - Nursery Rhyme

Nikki Marrone with Wooden Arms - Thanks for Listening

Karmadillo - Live

Tom Adams - A breath

Mouth - Leadership

T E Morris - Memorial Day

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett - Body Talk

Karmadillo - Live

Dr Peabody - Michael Bay

Jet Jaguar - Tram Lines

R. Seiliog - Peripheral Thermal (left)

Show: 24.7.14

A random mix of music and spoken word including some of the acts at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival. Also a song by Karmadillo aka Rishi who will be live on the next show on August 5th. He will then be doing a gig with me on August 9th at CB2 as part of the Romsey Art Festival.

The Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy

Loudon Wainwright III - Brand New Dance

Balloon Ascents - Cutout

We Were Evergreen - Eggs

Laura Mvula - Like The Morning Dew

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Entity

Anna Binkovitz - Asking For It

Moulettes - The Observatory

Richard Dawson - The Brisk Lad

The Antipoet - Ere’s One For The Kiddies

The Glass Set - Luckiest Girl

Sassparilla - Overture

Matsuki Ayumu - Two of Us

Fujiya and Miyagi - Artificial Sweetners

Karmadillo - Variations on a theme of DNA

Ivor Cutler - One Of The Best

Jet Jaguar - Hoops

22.7.14 by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 8.7.14 with Tom Adams

It was great to be joined by musician and composer Tom Adams who talked about his soundtrack to the forthcoming film The Knife That Killed Me and played a few songs including a couple of new songs from his new solo album, due to be released next year.

8.7.14 with Tom Adams by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 13.5.14 with The Pastafarians

Marc and Phil, The Pastafarians, came into the studio to play their music and some other favourites. If you can identify their mystery track let us know in the comments.

Cockney Rejects - I’m Not A Fool

Dub Colossus - Madmen

The Pastafarians - ACPD

Haley Bonar - No Sensitive Man

Patrick Roche - 21

Chen Firsel - Scnds

The Pastafarians - Legover Dub (Sheeple Mix)

Captain Ska - Back to 1979

Unknown - Unknown

Prisoner of Mars - Baby, Why do you gurn?

Ergo Phizmiz - Smells Like Timperley Spirit

Nick Gray And My Tricksy Spirit - Free Of Stars

13.5.14 with The Pastafarians by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 29.4.14

29.4.14 by Headstand on Mixcloud

A show with some of the many great tunes I've received recently including a beautiful new single from ex-Brazilian Girls singer Sabina and a couple of tracks from artists on Erased Tapes.

The Fall - Mother Sister (Peel Session)
Ezra Furman - Anything can happen
Edith Sitwell - A Man From A Far Countree [From Façade]
Motor Tapes - Sunshine Moment
David Youngs - Follow My Footsteps
Mincemeat or Tenspeed - Circle Crazy
Melt-banana - Lefty Dog (run, caper, run)
Sabina - I won’t let you Break Me
Fay Roberts with Wooden Arms - Turning Point
Russell J Turner with Wooden Arms - The Dead Start Fires
Elbow - Fly Boy Blue / Lunette
Richard Dawson - The Ghost of a Tree
Malportado Kids - Soy La Pocha
Luka Lesson - 5th Season
Tom Adams - The End
Douglas Dare - Swim
Rival Consoles - Odyssey

Show: 15.4.14 Prisoner of Mars

Local musician Prisoner of Mars was in to talk about his new crowd funded album. Listen to his past albums here and find out how to support the next one here.

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Yellow Brick Road

Ethan’s Bucket - Crown me King

Sunday Driver - Nammoora Dariya

Moulettes - Constellations

Mutual Benefit - Statue of a Man

Prisoner of Mars - I only need just you

David Bowie - Beauty and The Beast

R. Stevie Moore - Free Pussy Riot

Luke Wright - National Service

Crookram - Biggles

Patience Agbabi - Countdown to Zero

Nudybronque - No Wives, No Children

Duologue - Memex

Laraaji - Celestial Music

15.4.14 with Prisoner of Mars by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 1.4.14 with Poppy Kleiser

Thanks to everyone who tuned in live as Headstand made its return to Cambridge 105. The show featured an interview and poetry from the new Fenland Poet Laureate Poppy Kleiser. There is also a poem from her predecessor Leanne Moden and music old and new from near and far.

1.4.14 with Poppy Kleiser by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 29.12.13

It was great to be back in the studios of Cambridge 105 for the final show of 2013. There are some favourites from the last year, some new music and spoken word from local poets and Raymond Antrobus plus a look ahead to a great music-spoken word event coming up in Cambridge next month.

29.12.13 Back on Cambridge 105! by Headstand on Mixcloud

Aidan Smith - Joni
Kimberley Rew - All I Want Is You For Christmas
Peel Carol Concert 1970 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Robyn Hitchcock - Fix You
Melt-Banana - Lie Lied Lies
Pete Um - DVLA
The Handsome Family - Gulls
Hannah Floyd and Alex - Poetry at Romsey Poets
Ian Fisher and The Present - Regret
Holograms - Meditations
Raymond Antrobus - The Town in This Dream
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Nur zur Erinmerung
Sound Menagerie - Find The Line
Hella Better Dancer - Sleeptalking
Bemba Trio - Melô Do Vatapá
Jet Jaguar - Rollige 2013
808 State - Atlas 7
Dementa - Dementia

Show: 25.8.13 with Afrodita Nikolova

25.8.13 with Afrodita Nikolova by Headstand on Mixcloud

On the last show on Cambridge 105 for the time being I was joined by Macedonian poet Afrodita Nikolova who read one of her poems and the winning entries of a poetry competition I judged for Macedonian magazine Sh.

Here is the winning entry:

The Archive

Old ambered men,
rotting in vanilla,
are bound together
and numbered
in open coffins.
And a mist of dust
protrudes through
their wooden prison;
conspiring with the
ever tempting dark
shining from above.
White paper roses bud
below ladders that end
where shadows begin;
there silk webs spread
over this waste of heads
that thrust upwards
towards the bars.

Dushko Talevski

Congratulations also to runners up Sara Jovanovska and Zorica Petkoska.

Playlist:

Blur - Sunday, Sunday
Peter Galub - Reacquaintance
Rob Auton - Rollerball
Alba Asensi - Dragons
Hella Better Dancer - Sleep
Bernard and Edith - Dagger
Moth Conspiracy - Hands and Feet
Jacqui and Geoff  - Unlucky Charm
Magic Arm - Is History
Romanian Village Musicians - Batuta Lui Oprica
Robert Frost - Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Malty Media - Good Night Kiwi (Beyond The Infinite Mix)
Daft Punk - Verdis Quo

Show: 11.08.13 with Ian Patterson

This show features poetry from Cambridge poet Ian Patterson reading at CB1 cafe as part of Romsey Art Festival and a varied selection of songs and spoken word old and new.
Don't miss Shindig this Saturday where you can hear Gaze Is Ghost featured on this show along with other artists and musicians.

Doves - Sea Songs
The Love Language - Kids
The Handsome Family - Lizard
Aphrodita Nikolova - A pack of Cigarettes
Gaze is Ghost - Magnus
Ian Patterson - At Romsey Poets
Rue Royale - Crater
Rebecca Clamp - Ghostly Tram Song
Golden Suits - Swimming in ’99
Ivor Cutler - Alone
Six by Seven - More
Walter De La Mare - Nod
Nick Mulvey - House of Saint Give Me
Montano - Undertones (Tim Koch’s Blundertones mix)

11.08.13 with Ian Patterson by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 28.7.13 with Stephen Morrison-Burke

This show features poetry by Hammer and Tongue Poetry Slam Champion Stephen Morrison-Burke recorded in Cambridge at Allographic: Other Voices. There is also a poem from H&T founder Steve Larkin along with a variety of music and news of The Romsey Art Festival.

The Fall - The League of Bald-Headed Men
The Doozer - Fen Drayton
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Still Smiling
August and After - Set Sail
The Hogweed And The Aderyn - The Pariah
Steve Larkin - London Eye
Stephen Morrison-Burke - Poetry
Halo Halo - Sunshine Kim
Blue Sausage Infant - What The Parrot Saw
Ross Sutherland - Autopsy
maD and Alg0rh1tm - MaD - Nanits
Hyelim Kim - Scattering Rhythms

28.7.13 with Stephen Morrison-Burke by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 14.7.13 with Richard Harding and Jessica Leach

I'm joined by Richard Harding and Jessica Leach who play some of their disco music and read work produced at their regular object writing workshop. Find out more at freakaholicproductions.blogspot.co.uk.

Peter King - Jo Jolo
The Breaches - Once More into the Breaches, Dear Friend
The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Fuzzy Lights - Rituals
Wooden Arms - Chariclea
Dent May - Don’t Wait
Richard Harding and Jessica Leach - Thorough Lover
Richard Harding and Jessica Leach - Bored By My Desire
Ross Sutherland - Ox
Jet Jaguar - Agave Fox (feat. Jeremy Hunter)

14.7.13 with Richard Harding and Jessica Leach by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 30.6.13

A mix of music and spoken word old and new including Gaze is Ghost who starred at the last Shindig and August and After who will be at the next one.

Beck - Where it’s At
Demis Couscous - Rough on Rats (Beck cover)
Public Enemy - Get Up Stand Up
Raymond Antrobus - Conversation with Grandma
Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld - Come Up and See Me
Darren Hayman - I Live Not Where I Love
Gaze is Ghost - Grounding Exercise No. 1
August and After - Waltz for Marie
Half Man Half Biscuit - The Coroner’s Footnote
Ivor Cutler - Baked Beetles
Six By Seven - The Rise And Fall And Decline Of Everything
The Love Language - Hi Life
Phil Odgers - Through the Morning, Through The Night
Leftfield - Original

30.6.13 by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 16.6.13 with Fake Maria

My guests on this show Fake Maria are playing 2 shows next weekend. On Saturday 22nd they are playing Shindig on Mill Road with Clorinde and Gaze Is Ghost and in Sunday they are at Allographic: Other Voices with Hollie McNish. You can hear pieces from all those other acts along with their live session in this special 2-hour show.

Playlist

Magazine - Shot From Both Sides
Darren Hayman - Seven Months Married
Hollie McNish - Mathematics
Fake Maria - in Session
Gaze is Ghost - Cloud Hidden
Stephen Morrison-Burke - Strings and Stars
Half Man Half Biscuit - Running Order Squabble Fest
Fake Maria in Session
Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
Nick Mulvey - River Lea
Hyelim Kim - Pochagi
Fake Maria in Session
Clorinde - Pollen
Orbit over Luna - Asahi
Jet Jaguar - Poster Child
Raymond Antobus - The Town in This Dream
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - A quiet life
The Breaches - So Tell Me What Is Left
Six By Seven - Fall Into Your Arms
The Love Language - Calm Down
Tim Clare - Pub Stuntman
The Rolling Stones - Doom and Gloom
The Handsome Family - Woodpecker
I am a Man With a St Tropez Tan - There is No Death
Zombi - Shrunken Heads
Halo Halo - Is It Shiny
Memoryloop - Saturate
Lubomyr Melnyk - The Six Day Moment


16.6.13 with Fake Maria - 2 Hour Edition by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 2.6.13 with Riaz Moola

Javelin - The Marimba Song
Nick Mulvey - Fever to The Form
Riaz Moola - Poetry
The Breaches - She Says
Ray Antrobus - My Hunger!
Fuzzy Lights - The Hour
Riaz Moola - Poetry
The Handsome Family - Eels
Hefner - I took Her Love For Granted
Hour Hands - Door Without Hinges
Riaz Moola - Poetry
The Beguilers - The Little Boy Lost
Jet Jaguar - Re-De-Beso
Sunwolf - Breach

2.6.13 With Riaz Moola by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 19.5.13 with Mark Niel

This show opens with guests from the last show The Breaches and features poetry by Mark Niel from Milton Keynes - www.akickinthearts.co.uk

The Breaches - Vodka Jelly
Savages - City’s Full
Hour Hands - Design The Colours
The Handsome Family - Flies
Oh Standfast - footsteps
Tim Clare - The Girl From Donkey Kong
Mark Niel - Poetry
Teen - Paradise
Shawn Waters - Get on Home Mama
Tom Adams - A Sudden Break in the Clouds
Steve Moore - Light Echoes 1

19.5.13 with Mark Niel by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 5.5.13 with The Breaches

The Breaches talk about their music and new album which you can purchase via their website. There's a variety of music and spoken word as usual including some music recorded by Patrick during a brief trip to Morocco. You can read more about that trip here.

Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc. - Caballo Negro
April March and Aquaserge - Black Bars
The Handsome Family - Octopus
Nick Jaina - Don’t Come To Me
Robert Wyatt - Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road
Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge - The Dope On Perelman
The Breaches - Interview
The Breaches - Jesus Wept
Leanne Moden - Take Me Out
Public Sector - Ego
Nathan Leigh - Oh! What a Captain of Industry
Moroccan Musicians - Unknown
The Impossebulls - AmeriKan Indle
Memoryloop - Levitate Jet Jaguar - Will Shred (feat. Clare Wieck)

5.5.13 with The Breaches by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 21.4.13 with Ian Keteku

This show features and interview with performance poet Ian Keteku who made a triumphant return to Hammer and Tongue this month.

The Specials - Ghost Town
Ivor Cutler - Women of the World
Darren Hayman - Henrietta Maria
Nick Jaina - I’ll do the time
Ian Keteku - My Name is Ian
Ian Keteku  - Interview
Dur-Dur Band - Doo yo
Talk Normal - Shot This Time
Nikki Marrone - I Carry The Fire
Inja - Flex
The Doozer - Fold Up Chair
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
Solar Fields - Surface

21.4.13 with Ian Keteku by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show 7.4.13

Oasis - Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
Just William and The Outlaws - Caroline
Rue Royale - Parachutes and Lifeboats
Charly “The City Mouse” Fasano - Job Seeker
Ian Keteku - Kay
Konsumprodukt - Divorcio Robot
Mwahaha - Swimmer
Nathan Leigh - Tightrope
The Bitter Springs - My Life As Dog in a Pigsty
Little Machine - The Lake Isle of Innisfree (WB Yeats)
Marika Hackman - Bath Is Black
Chris Abrahams - Stabilised Ruin
Jet Jaguar - Single-Digit High
Matthew Shaw - Dans Maen

7.4.13 by Headstand on Mixcloud