Show: 23.07.08 with Clare Connolly and Melt-Banana plus Nick Stibbs on Walt Whitman

This show from 2008 is a real mixed bag with live music from singer-song writer Clare Connolly and an interview with Yako from legendary Japanese hardcore punk band Melt-Banana. You can read a more recent interview with the band here. Nick Stibbs explores the life and work of Walt Whitman and there's plenty more music and spoken word besides.

23.07.08 With music from Clare Connolly and Melt-Banana interview by Headstand on Mixcloud

Joe Arroyo - Rebellion 

The Bleechers - Check him out

John Guy - Wells next-the-sea

Moog Cookbook - Novacaine For The Soul
Mr Hopkinson’s Computer - Fools Gold
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Development
The 3 Amigos - Supersonic
Toma - Forever Flight Of The Friend
Luke Van Egmond - Moments of Colour
Melt-Banana - Free The Bee
Aidan Smith - Murder Ballad
Scott Walker - Jackie
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Canyons of Your Mind
Andre Mangeot - Cloud Burst
The Conservatives - Baby
Magic Phil - Sex, Drugs and Uncle Frank
The Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker
The Man From Uranus - Plastics

Show: 28.05.08 with The Pixiphones, Magic Phil, Hollie McNish and Nick Stibbs

This show from 2008 is a real classic with a live session from The Pixiphones an early band of Tom Adams – now a familiar name on the Cambridge music scene and beyond. There are also contributions from several local poets including an early radio broadcast from Hollie McNish.

28.05.08 with The Pixiphones, Magic Phil, Hollie McNish and Nick Stibbs by Headstand on Mixcloud

Drew Moon - Luke's Home
Manu Chao - Merry Blues
Aidan Smith - The Regret Rap
The Trenchparrots - Footprints
Porticillius Gate - Percyval Vanguard’s android wife
Clare Connolly - Your Hat
Melt-Banana - Spider Snipe
Magic Phil - Jack and The Genestalk
Hollie McNish - Fruit and Vegetables
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
Bjork - Alfur Ut Ur Hol
Radiohead - Life in Glasshouses 

Nick Stibbs on Walt Whitman
Lambchop - The Distance from Her to There
David Francis - Those Summer Chairs
The Morning People - They Did Something
The Rude Mechanicals - Frying the Neighbours
Tricky - Black Steel
Ivor Cutler - Bird Swing
Cream Cheese of Son - Lo to Hi

Show: 30.04.08 with Melanie Challenger

30.4.08 with Melanie Challenger by Headstand on Mixcloud

A show with poetry old and new. Melanie Challenger talks about her experiences in the Antarctic and shares some poems while Nick Stibbs talks about the life and work of Rumi. 


Captain Beefheart and the magic band - ElectricityThe Rude mechanicals - Beefheart's Greenhouse 
Amena Khan - Technicolour 
Aidan Smith - Morning was Your Picnic
Melt-Banana - Chain-shot to have some fun
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise
Lou Reed - Vicious
Ivor Cutler - A Bubble Or Two
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Moth Conspiracy - Dracula
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind the Mask
The Trench Parrots - My Ex-Girlfriend Walks In
Toma - Lost In The Night
Baby Shambles - Stone Me - What A Life!
Portico Quartet - news from verona
Nick and Cherif - Rumi
Aidan Smith - Lament of a Victorian Prostitute, London 1865
Kazoo Funk Orchestra - Walking Into Lamp posts
Clare Crossman - Fenlight
Belle and Sebastian - Space boy Dream
The Nice - Rondo (69)
Wynton Marsalis - You and Me
Anne Berkeley with Martin Figura - How we learnt to tie a piece of string from the rafter
The Sparkiovoggel - Y'ar what Y'ar
Mr Maps - Life Like Little Soldiers
Muxu - Hishiko

Show: 10.12.08 Christmas Show with Moth Conspiracy and Nick Stibbs

An archive show to suit the festive season including Patrick and Gez from Moth Conspiracy live in the studio, an interview with Tobias Hill and Christmas poetry read by Nick Stibbs.

10.12.08 Christmas Show with Moth Conspiracy and Nick Stibbs by Headstand on Mixcloud

The Pogues - Fairy Tale of New York
The Doors - Wintertime love 
Timmy Christmas - Christmas fever
Steph Brown - Sovereign Throne Room
Wild Billy Childish and The Musicians of the British Empire – Santa Claus
Man or Astroman - Frosty the Snowman
Morgan - Christmas in Waikiki
The Who - Christmas
Half Man Half Biscuit - All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit
Poetry read by Nick Stibbs:
Mike Harding - The Christmas Market
John Betjeman - Advent 1955
Spike Milligan - I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas
Edmund Hamilton Sears - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Los Hermanos Ayala - Jingle Bells Polka
Joseph Spence - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Christmas Eve
Pete the Temp - The Temp Song
The Beatles - Christmas record 1963
The Flaming Lips - Christmas at The Zoo
The Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer Boy
Dylan Thomas - A Child’s Christmas in Wales (part 1)