Internet Radio - Finally ...

Welcome to Fuzzy's Indie Radio (UK)

Well I finally got round to working out the SHOUTcast server. You, The discerning Indie radio listener out there can now tune into my station. The latest addition to my blog is a "Listen" button found at the top of the right hand frame. This is a simple but cute enhancement - If the button shows "online" then it's streaming live cool Indie / Alternative / Unsigned Band's tracks for your listening pleasure.

I am going to try and be streaming between 5pm and Midnight UK time, and most of the weekends - if their is demand, I can arrange for different schedules. The key is feedback - let me know!

The station should stream perfectly well in your Media Player of choice - when presented with the .pls file, simply clicking "open" should connect to the Fuzzy Indie Radio. If your player is not configured, just associate .pls files with the player and your done.

Why not check it out - it's free!

BANDWIDTH NOTE: Hey, its limited to 32 concurrent listeners at the moment - If you are experiencing choppy or intermittent sound, please LET ME KNOW - I can get hold of more bandwidth for a small fee, but not until its necessary. I am also applying for a royalties license which all costs: So TUNE IN, CHILL OUT & KEEP THE FEEDBACK COMING.

I need to know what your listening experience is like: Good or Bad!

This could be your Station of choice if you're interested in any of the following Styles / Record Labels / Bands:
Indie, Alternative, New Wave / Punk. Sub Pop, Transgressive, Young & Lost Club, Domino, Mute, Creation, Moshi Moshi, Fierce Panda, Beggars Banquet, 4AD, Fiction, Pub Rock, Doll By Doll, Elvis Costello, Dogs, Senseless Things, Muse, Indie mix tapes, Vinyl, Punk Pop, 1990's, Air Traffic, Aliens, Animal Maths, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Automatic, Baddies, Biffy Clyro, Birdmonster, Bloc Party, Bombay Bicycle Club, Brakes, Brinkman, Bromheads Jacket, Burningpilot, Cinematics, Constantines, Copter, Cribs, Crimea, Damone, Death Set, Deerhoof, Delorentos, Draytones, Driveby Argument, Dykeenies, Early Years, Editors, Electric Soft Parade, Enemy, Field Music, Fields, Foals, Fratellis, Futureheads, Good Shoes, Harlem Shakes, Heights, Holloways, Kids In Glass Houses, Long Blondes, Maccabees, Mighty Roars, Morning Runner, Muffs, The Forensics (Nathan White), Noisettes, Paddingtons, Pigeon Detectives, Rakes, Reuben, Rumble Strips, Lethal Bizzle, Shiny Toy Guns, Spoon, Switches, The Answering Machine, These New Puritans, Tunics, White Man Kamikaze, White Rabbits, White Rose Movement, Windmill, Winterkids, Wolf Parade, Wolfmother, Yourcodenameis:Milo (R.I.P), Ladyfuzz, Battles, Battle, Young Knives, Audioslave, Angular Recording Company, Cherry Red, Criminal Records, Crossflow Recordings, Damaged Goods, Fantastic Plastic, Household Name, Island, Kitchenware, Nude, One Little Indian, John Peel, Jackie Leven, Rough Trade, Surbia Records, Tigertrap, Too Pure, Warp, Artrocker, Shifty Disco, The Punk Mod Pop Archive

Records to shape a life ...

From the age of ten, until my mid twenties (and this must be true for most of you out there too) was the most enlightening musically for an impressionable lad. Looking back now is a privelige that rests easily on older shoulders despite the trials and memories of a former time, when everything required effort, dedication, and single-mindedness on a scale, thankfully, rarely required since. The small black discs appeared like a bountiful treasure (much to the annoyance of plural parents) and were collected with vigour, stashed carefully, and only withdrawn from their pristine sleeves when a musical discovery was imminent. A discovery, that, looking back, must have happened in slow motion and yet appeared, at the time, to be a journey being undertaken at breakneck speed. Teasing the fabulous sounds from the invisible grooves was a revelatory experience, when peers were still musically buried in seventies "adult" rock, the aural delights were (even then) self evident to impressionable ears. What on earth was going on? Surely these sub 3 minute blasts of shambolic irreverence and anarchy could not be "The future"? It was all about the "now", the instant gratification and the knowledge that this was not (at the time) music for the masses. It was personal.

I still have many of these rabid, visceral, rough hewn slices of life affirming discs, and have recently begun to un-earth many of them. Although now not so pristine, having survived more house moves than I care to recount; I can honestly say that there are still those that make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. So here, then, is the rebirth of the journey which started some 3 decades ago.

I dont know, what shall we call it? "Part 1" or something equally ridiculous?

The Stranglers - Something Better Change. Like many of these early singles, I have only a vague idea how they managed to fall into my hands. This one was on Pink vinyl - something that just didnt happen! I mean - PINK? These four tracks were So different to anything I had heard: The snarl, the walking bass, & attitude! Not a duffer among them. I snuck this one into the treasure chest with no hesitation at all! .... Peachy.

Mp3: Something Better Change

Stiff Little Fingers - At The Edge. I was always acutely aware of the problems going on in Ireland at the time, but the Rigid Midget Digits (as they were affectionately known) brought the angst and aggression of that province right into my bedroom. The political theme was a whole world away, but in the safety of a teenage bedroom it was just something magical. This was by no means the SLF's first attempt at world domination, but for some reason the memories of the time gravitate towards this cut. Filthy gorgeous.

Mp3: At The Edge

XTC - Take This Town + The Ruts - Babylons Burning. Again, how I managed to get hold of this without any money eludes me. I think possibly that an older brother of a friend was discarding stuff that didnt fit his pre-conceptions. Either way I loved Babylon's Burning from the get go - I had never noticed the "From Times Square soundtrack" label on here, such was the desire to "fill brain through ears with noise". XTC were to feature heavily later as one of my favorite bands of all time, and much underrated even today. Sussed.

Mp3: Babylons Burning

X Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents. Amazingly listening to this track today, it feels like nothing has changed. A throw-away single at the time, this one just gets under your skin in all the right ways and plants itself. Time has been kind to the grooves here - from a bygone age when people called themselves Poly-Styrene and sneered a lot! And yet I still feel myself muttering "They dont make them like this anymore ...!". Toothpaste-tastic.

Mp3: Germ Free Adolescents

Simple Minds - Chelsea Girl. Dont get me wrong here, The Simple Minds that were to take over the stadiums of the world in the eighties were a million miles from the sub-cultural vibe that got me into this in the first place. Lets be blunt - I ended up loathing the monolith they became! However before the Lord came down and stole their credibility, this perfect slab of punk(ish) synthesiser punctuated with power riffage had already blown me away. Cred for the song (forever) and the group (for about 6 months). Bite me.

Mp3: Chelsea Girl

The Fly's - A Bunch Of Five EP. I've had this record since forever. Its insanely hard to find these days, and rightly so (issued on their own Zama Records). Back then it was dismissed as pseudo punk clap-trap. The band sold out to EMI later, but man oh man! These grooves are ALIVE! Holy crap Batman, I think its music from another planet! "Can I Crash Here?" is (for me) timeless ... I defy anybody who leans remotely towards the pub rock punk of the day not to be emotional about this one. Crackles and all. No contest.

Mp3: Can I Crash Here?

The Jam - In The City. What can I say about The Jam? I absolutely loved this record, and I didnt care who knew it! I was not the sweetest of teenagers (sorry mum) but to me the very essence of everything good in the world was hidden in the very grooves of this sub 3 minute masterpiece. "... A thousand things I wanna say to you ..."

Mp3: In The City

Doll By Doll - The Palace Of Love. I couldnt understand at the time why no-one had heard of Doll By Doll. Now, of course, I am familiar with the Jackie Leven story, but back then life was whizzing by so fast that any story or background to the people making the music would have to wait. This, for me, was the stuff of legend. Check the drawn out, rough cut, even shambolic beginning of this track .. marvel at Leven's vocal majesty ... and then die a thousand deaths at the train-crash of an ending that refuses to come to a halt. This was the greatest record ever made, and nobody I knew, was aware of its existence. I made it my own personal crusade to seek out anything and everything that resembled the vision of anti-excellence, that was being presented so urgently in these grooves. That crusade had begun in my formative years and still continues to this day. Thank you Mr Leven, and the band. Ssssshh ... dont tell anyone.

Mp3: The Palace Of Love

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Transgressive Impressive

For over 3 years now, the likely lads (Tim & Toby) at Transgressive HQ have been pushing out some immense aural product to delight and tantalise our collective consciousness. They are about to release TRANS0068 (Probably Foals' "Cassius", taster single for the soon-to-be-mega "Antidotes" LP from Oxfords finest...) The story started way back in 2004 with a debut release from The Subways - 1am - a 3 track gem of a record for which you would probably need to stump up £50+ for on E-Bay (If you can find a copy for sale anywhere!). In a sort of homage-come-celebration to the prodigious output of this fledgeling label, I am providing, for a short time only, a few links to some of their finest vinyl moments. If these whet your appetite, then climb aboard the Transgressive groove-wagon and go buy some product. Beware! Some of these tracks may seriously twist your melon, man!


TRANS013 The mind bending bass riff of "Monster" first assaulted our senses back in December 2005. Sadly Ladyfuzz are no longer with us ..
Ladyfuzz - Monster








TRANS030 Lurking on the second single of a 2 disc release was this awesome rework of the headline track. Spine tingler...
Battle - Children (Union Of Knives Remix)








TRANS014 B-Side of "Two Words Two Syllables" by the most enigmatic of all the bands on the Transgressive roster, BurningPilot. In the words of the label management - we dont really know who they are. They just send us songs and we put them out ..
BurningPilot - Meat Product







TRANS018 The sound of Kate Bush for the noughties ... Miss Spektor arrived as one of the finest female singer/songwriters of the century. Its contagious.
Regina Spektor - Us







TRANS001 Track 3 on the debut release - Time will reveal this as a seminal moment in recorded rock history ...
The Subways - You Got Me









TRANS008 Hardly prolific in their output, Duels occasionally release blistering tracks like this one. Quality over quantity - 'nuff said ...
Duels - Potential Futures








TRANS004 Question: How many bands have listed father and son among their personnel? The Mystery Jets are one such outfit. This is probably one of the most eclectic, gender defying, slabs of art-rock ever to be cut in vinyl .. make up your own mind.
Mystery Jets - Zoo Time







TRANS034 Another 2 disc release on the Transgressive roster - "Headshaker" continued the trend of "B sides that could have been A sides". This sounds like it was recorded in a bedroom, and is all the better for it ...
Polytechnic - Headshaker







TRANS062 New Zealand's "So So Modern" released 4 singles in 4 weeks back in October 2007. This is a taster from the awesome 8 track synth-fest that collected under the banner of "Friendly Fires"
So So Modern - Vulture Kisses








TRANS046 The Shins are licensed to Transgressive in the UK from Sub Pop in the US. Sounding like The Beach Boys on a day trip to Transylvania, The Shins have released some of the biggest selling records on Transgressive to date ...
The Shins - Phantom Limb






TRANS042 "The Decision" was originally released on TRANS015 in November 2005. On its re-release a year later, it was another Transgressive 2 disc set, with the fabulous "Life To The Letter" as the B side to the 2nd of the 2 singles.
The Young Knives - Life To The Letter







TRANS049 The impossibly rare "live" 12" from Foals highlights a band in their creative prime with a gig at the Liars Club in Nottingham. Set closer "Mathletics" finally escaped from a cage somewhere in Oxfordshire as the bands second single - here it is a raw yet refined genre defining gem of a track .. Ride the moment in 2008
Foals - Mathletics (live)