Show: 17.09.08 With David Francis and John Guy

Here's another show from the archive featuring a terrific Cambridge poet, John Guy, and a poet and musician from further afield. David Francis from New York dropped in during a UK tour to chat and play a few tunes.

The Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Melt-Banana - Cat Brain Land

Gorillaz - Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head

The Psychotic Reaction - Hand-Me-Downs (made me the man I am)
Moth Conspiracy - Turbo Funk
Alex Brooke - Prapatang Grooves
Dan Deacon - Piggled
David Francis - The Penultimate Actual
Keith Dersley - Pulp
Tom Adams and Dan Jeffries - Iceland
Justin Grounds - Bird Wings
Hamell on Trial - John Lennon
Deerhoof - Green Cosmos
22-Pistepirkko - Don’t Play Cello
Alice Wroe - Sunny Inside
Lydia Mendoza - Palida Luna
Ivor Cutler - One at a Time
Dog Latin - The Way to The Way Back Home
Melted Rubber Humans - Coming Down to Ground

Show: 20.08.08 with Charles Billard

This show features a mix of experimental music with electronics and homemade instruments by Charles Billard - a Canadian artist and musician based in Osaka.

20.08.08 with Charles Billard by Headstand on Mixcloud

Cusp - Tic Tac Toe
Tom_A - Indie is dead
The psychotic reaction - what's under the stairs?
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Aidan Smith - happiness is a warm gun
People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz - A Chase posthaste
The Kazoo Funk Orchestra - Munky Nutz
Alex Millar - Lament for Tampon Boy
Sophie Hannah - No Ball Games
Matt Widgery - The Clock Ticks
David Harsent - Toffee
Portico Quartet - Kontiki Expedition
Jet Jaguar - news
Joanna Newsom - What we have known
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - The Magician's Assistant
Drew Moon - Erogenous Zone
Charles Billard - Cloneliness (half hour mix)
Dion Mcgregor - Midget City
Muxu - Seeing Snow in Summer

Show: 25.06.08

25.06.08 by Headstand on Mixcloud

The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Scroobius Pip - 1000 Words
Mozzy Green - Billy’s Ghost 
Toma - This is not a revolution
Dominic Mulvey - Brotherly Love
Nick Mulvey - I Didn’t Have Time
Tiger Force - Beat This!
Melt-Banana - The Call Of The Vague
The Man From Uranus - Barney’s Dream
Robert Gonzalez - Shoos
Boom Bip and Dose One - Slight
David Francis - Rain
Moth Conspiracy - Number Five
Charles Billard - Transition Shift Final
The Trench Parrots - Irrepressible Urges Of Spring
Norville Parchment - Freedom Breakes
Aidan Smith - Living On Allotments
Clare Connolly - Call You Home
Joanna Newsom - Bridges and Balloons
Dion McGregor - The Wet Parade
The Morning People - The Hardest Word
Niall Spooner-Harvey - Intolerant
Felix Kubin - Fernwarme Wien
Soyuzmultfilm - Chunga Changa
Ivor Cutler - Lemonade
Drew Moon - Transitional Days

Show: 2.4.08 with Judy Kendall and Elaine Cusack

2.4.08 with Judy Kendall and Elaine Cusack by Headstand on Mixcloud

Underworld - Moaner 
Felix Kubin - This is no dream
Jellica - I wld di 4 u 
Fantomas - 04/02/05 Saturday
Aidan Smith - Pockets
Rob Ellis - Parade in your palm
P J Harvey - Good Fortune
David Francis - In a Storm
The Broken Family Band - Honest Man's Blues
The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
Ivor Cutler - Go and Sit Upon The Grass
The Classic Buskers - Overture to the marriage of figaro
Muzikas - swineherd's dance
Richard McGuire - J'accuse
Keith Dersley - Roughneck Road
Steph Brown - Accidental Me
17 Hippies - Schattenmann
Cream Cheese of Sun - Hadashi no sorari
Max Tundra - Pocket
Amp Live - Nudez
Chris Morris - Club News
Portico Quartet - Too Many Cooks
Dion McGregor - Mr Crench
Harry Partch - The Wayward: I. U.S. Highball-A Musical Account Of A Transcontinental Hobo Trip

Show: 05.03.08 with Simon Pomery, Frances Leviston and Peter Howard

Another two hours of vintage Headstand including interviews with Simon Pomery and Frances Leviston live in the studio – Cambridge poet and Joy of Six member Peter Howard.

05.03.08 with Frances Leviston, Simon Pomery and Peter Howard by Headstand on Mixcloud

The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - The intro and the outro

David Francis - a closed mouth kiss and penultimate actual
Scroobius Pip - Freedumb 
Dan Le Sac - Rappers Be
Um - The Man's got me beat
The Man From Uranus - Accident Facts 22
Felix Kubin - Too Technical
Moth Conspiracy - Extra
Toma - 5 weeks
Ivor Cutler - Yellow Fly
A pain in the neck
A Wooden Tree
Interview with Simon Pomery and Frances Leviston
The Kazoo Funk Orchestra - Disco Disco Disco Theque
Ramapo Valley Chorus - Disco Medley
The Joy of six - Package
John Hayden - Nebra-ska
Public Enemy - Rebel without a pause
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - One leg too few
Dion McGregor - Scavenger Hunt
Lowney's Chocolates - The By Cracky Beat
Fantomas - Delirium Cordia

Show: 06.02.08 With Rychard Carrington

Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia 
Love - Alone again, or 
International Trust - Bruce Lee 
Peter Howard - Tomahawk
Steph Brown - The Argument Song
Jim Copp and Ed Brown - The Picnic
Mozzy Green - Blue Lullaby 
Echo and The Bunnymen - The Cutter
G Dog and the Pups - Sunshine
The Chinese Fighters - Hong Kong Lizzy
Hot Blood - Soul Dracula
Ronnie Aldrich - Close Encounters
Moth Conspiracy - Super Clean
Rychard Carrington - Poetry
Toma - Some Cities
Richard Mcguire - Learning to Fall
Aidan Smith - Drapes of Black
Harry Partch - The Wayward lll - The Letter
the broken family band - Honest Man's Blues
Half Man Half Biscuit - 24 Hour Garage People
J B Priestly - Women and the war
kazoo funk orchestra - Carnivale
Duro Jaiye - Buddha's Birthday
OOIOO - Moss Trumpeter
Woody Allen - The Moose
Portico Quartet - Zavodovski Island
Alex Brooke - Rattle Snake Baby
Tarika Sammy - Jono
Son House - Death Letter
The White Stripes - Jimmy The Exploder
John Guy - The co-existance question
Smouldering Door - Flirtations of the moth and the flame
John Hayden - That Ass is your meal ticket

February 2008 with Rychard Carrington by Headstand on Mixcloud

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: 24.6.14 with Mal Faloon

Local writer and performance poet Mal Faloon made a welcome return to the show. Despite not realising until the last minute the show was live she gave the most relaxed and wonderful reading of a selection of her poems I've ever heard her do.

We also marked the imminent return of Evening Under Lamplight to Cambridge 105 with some Bob Dylan and I shared Fenland Poet Laureate Poppy Kleiser's call for war poems for a new anthology she is producing. Email submissions to poetlaureatepoemsforpeace@gmail.com by 1st July.

Enjoy the show:

24.6.14 with Mal Faloon by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 10.6.14 Night Watch

New music and spoken word including some of the artists who will be keeping me awake at Night Watch at the Junction this Saturday.

Colouring Lesson - Mea Culpa Blues (It's My Fault)

Horse Party - In-between

Japp Blonk - Cadenza

Crookram - Balboa

Ergo Phizmiz - Consequences

The Breaches - Jesus Wept

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - We No Who U R

Euros Childs - Give The Girl A Hand

Kate Tempest - A Hammer

Mouth - Blood Beat

Gaze is Ghost - In Love of Post Apocalyptic Watch Towers

Hollow Mountain - Untitled

Meta-Ex - Spiked With Recursive Dreams [Live Coded Session}

Girl Band - The Cha Cha Cha (Peaks remix)

10.6.14 Night Watch by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 27.5.14

Richard Burton - Under Milk Wood (Extract)

Hyelim Kim - Shower of Sparks

Isis Wolf Light And Rob Shipster - Finca

Nick Mulvey - Nitrous Man

Kate Tempest - Marshall Law

Adam and Bones - Me And The Liquor 

Moulettes - Elegy

Ezra Furman - My Zero

Girl Band - The Cha Cha Cha

Melt-Banana - Then Red Eyed

Korean Drama - Shotgun Legs

Luke Wright - Nigel Farridge

Einhorn - Swing All Night

Ethan’s Bucket - Chosen

[Fragments] - Constellations

Kaseijin - Aquatic Sleepwalker

Deceived By The Sun - Grinding My Teeth

27.5.14 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: 17.3.14 with Sarah Howe and Fran Lock

This show features poetry recorded for the show by Sarah Howe and Fran Lock. Look out for an interview coming up. There is also music from local favourites Tom Adams, Nick Mulvey and Alicia Catling and not so local Korean Drama from Canada and Tokyo's Melt-Banana.

Next show will be on April 1st when I will be back on Cambridge 105 from 11-midnight.

17.3.14 by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 24.2.14 with Tim Clare

This show features the high energy, super funny performance poet Tim Clare recorded at Hammer & Tongue last year. There is also new music from Tom Adams, Shield Patterns and Wooden Arms and old music from Nick Mulvey and De La Soul.

24.2.14 with Tim Clare by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 9.2.14

This edition features Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip who recently played the Cambridge Junction and several bands who are playing the city in the coming weeks and months including Melt-Banana who play The Portland in May and Wooden Arms and Heart of a Dog who play Shindig next Friday (14th February)

9.2.14 by Headstand on Mixcloud