Show: 30.12.12

The last show of 2012 featured more festive tunes from artists including Aidan Smith and local band Beverly Kills who feature on the new compilation Rocket to Romsey. You can read my review of the compilation here. There is also a poem from Simon Mullen from one of the videos featured on the blog which you can see here and a song from Andy Buclaw recorded at a night that Tom Adams and I also performed at. You can find all the music from that gig and many others over the last year at shallowrecords.co.uk.

George Ezra - Let it Snow
Aidan Smith - Christmas Hangover
Beverly Kills - Walking in the Air
Porky the Poet - Father’s Christmas
William S Burroughs and Kurt Cobain - The Priest They Called Him
The Mountaineering Club Orchestra - Christmas at Godthaab (Absorb the Sun Remix)
Terry Edwards - The Christmas Song
Sam Hughes - Punks at The Cashpoint
Simon Mullen - Fire150
The Decapitated Hed - Kolendy Scięcie
Richard Wilbur - Year’s End
Starporn - The Ice Dropper
Andy Buclaw - The National Curriculum
Ghostpoet - Morning Ft Micachu
People Like Us - I’m Backwards
Ubik - I’m not myself

30.12.12 by Headstand on Mixcloud

Best of the Free Music Archive 2012

The Free Music Archive is rich source of music that I regularly turn to to keep the variety of music on Headstand fresh and interesting. Here is a mix of tracks featured on the show over the last year for you to stream and download for free.

'As another year comes to a close it's great to look back at all the music that's made it from the Free Music Archive onto my fortnightly show on Cambridge 105 (cambridge105.fm.) Starting with Auld Lang Syne played in traditional fashion on new year's day the mix takes a twisting route to the far reaches of the archive's diverse selection of music concluding with The Decapitated Hed beheading Christmas carols (according to Google Translate.)
FMA has been a constant source of inspiration during 2012 and this mix doesn't even include the music played in the FMA Special show in January. That music is available in a separate mix. I hope you enjoy this mix and listen to the show at headstandradio.blogspot.co.uk.
I look forward to sharing more music from the archive in 2013. Happy New Year to everyone at FMA!'