The Paranoid Squirrel

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 574

So, two of the Invacar wheels fell off on last night’s show; I played the wrong side of a single, I realised my error whilst it was playing so apologised when it finished and I miss timed the length of the show, leaving me to ad-lib for 1 minute and 15 minutes. It’s not pretty. However, the previous 58 minutes and 45 seconds more than make up for it with
The Damned,
Mink Daggers,
The Fellow Reptiles,
Sulo,
The DeRellas,
The Electric Shakes,
The Curse,
The Lords of Altamont,
Jo Dog & the Desperados,
The Schizophonics,
Mean Motor Scooter,
Amplified,
The Cherry Dolls
and The Hellacopters occupying my Rock Radio UK time slot.

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 573

Another week has ended and to help you while away time, I’ve an hours’ worth of tunes to impart on The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show this week that originally aired on Friday 6^th October at 11pm on Rock Radio UK. Expect to hear tracks from these bands;
Motörhead,
UFO,
Dead Furies,
Plastic Tears,
Michael Monroe,
Dead Boys,
Doctors of Madness,
Suicide Bombers,
Backstreet Girls,
Helldivers,
Evo/Algy
and The Dollyrots

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 572

It’s Saturday and for some, yesterday was Payday. So, whilst you are thinking what to spend your hard-earned cash on over the next couple of days, have a listen to The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show that aired on Rock Radio UK yesterday at 11pm for, as usual, a whole hour’s worth of music that you should hear on the radio but don’t.
Lined up this week are tracks from these artists;

The Ramones,
The Heartbreakers,
Duncan Reid and the Big Heads,
Dirty Fences,
The Singles,
The Darkness,
The Bronx,
The Wildhearts, M rvel,
WolfWolf,
Escobar,
The Dahlmanns,
The Stanleys,
The Crazy Squeeze
and Grave Pleasures.

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 571

Last night’s show was sponsored by Night Nurse, Kleenex Tissues and copious amounts of Jameson, as I had “Man-flu”. I soldiered on, putting aside the achy joints and mild sore throat, to bring you a veritable smorgasbord of cool old and new tunes. The whole shebang is now, obviously, available to stream or Download where you will hear tracks from;
Edwin Starr,
Sonny Vincent,
Captain Sensible,
David Bowie,
The Shadows of Knight,
Peter and the Test Tube Babies,
Oh! Gunquit,
The Heavy Metal Kids,
Last Great Dreamers,
The Main Grains,
Warrior Soul,
Von Hertzen Brothers
and the Foo Fighters.

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 570

In a packed programme which aired last night on Rock Radio UK, I played tracks from these artists;
The Dirty Strangers,
Dirty Fences,
Razorbats,
The DeRellas,
The Hip Priests,
The Dead Boys,
The Damned,
Craggy Collide,
Four King Ace,
Deathtraps,
Jerry Williams,
Danny Frye & The Devil Dolls,
The Loyalties,
The Professionals
and Dig Deeper

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 568

As I was back behind the microphone at the requisite time, that was 11pm last night on Rock Radio UK, I was able to play, on Episode 568 of The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show, tracks from these learned artists;
The Hydromatics,
The Volcanics,
The Objects,
Grave Pleasures,
The Black Bullets,
Tunguska (featuring me on Bass…),
Sloppy Seconds,
Dangerbird,
Satan’s Little Helpers,
Johnny Moped,
Marvel,
The Fiascos,
Shark Island,
Spread Eagle
and Junkyard.

Although I miss judged my timings and had to fade out Junkyard’s live cover of Girlschool’s “Emergency” who were aided and abetted by two Fiascos. Fortunately, that was only on Rock Radio UK. Here you get the who shebang!

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 567

As I had to be up at the Underworld in Camden for 6:30 last night I had to dump the car and use the train. This means I got home after 11’o clock, the time I should’ve be Broadcasting, even if the curfew was 10’o clock. So I pre-record this week’s Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show, which aired at 11’o clock on Rock Radio UK yesterday. The bands that you will hear on this week’s show are;

Kid Slug,
The Blue Carpet Band,
Calva Louise,
White Ape,
The Fiascos,
The Empty Page,
Ming City Rockers,
Sly Persuaders
and Los Pepes.
All of which I saw last Saturday at The Windmill in Brixton. Basically, it’s my review of The Summer Weird Sin.

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 565

Last night’s Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show on Rock Radio UK seemed to go without incident. On it I played tracks from these artists;

Suicidal Tendencies,
The Damned,
Dead Cross,
Penetration,
Råttanson,
The Chelsea Smiles,
The New York Dolls,
Kadavar,
The Yorkshire Rats,
Richie Ramone,
Derrick Anderson,
The Darts (US),
Numb
and Motörhead.

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 549

A new band to The Paranoid Squirrel are The Black Angels who are first up this week with a track from their “Death Song” LP. The Chuck Norris Experiment have covered an Adam West track on their up and coming “Chück Me!” album that has also just been released as a 7” which of course I play. Swiftly following on are Jake Starr and the Delicious Fullness as Jake used to be the throatalist with Adam West. Peter Perrett, singer with The Only Ones, is just about to release his first solo album “How the West was Won”, the title track of which I play. TV Eye, a band that Duran Duran owes a couple of their hits to, have just released an album of studio and rehearsal material recorded between 1977-78, amongst their ranks are Dave Kusworth (The Jacobite’s), Dave Twist (The Black Bombers) and Andrew Wickett (Duran Duran). Of course, I play something from it. Over Easter Flash House, Scumbag Millionaire, Bitch Queens and The Hip Priests set off for a four date Tourette dubbed “The Furious, faultless, four headed sexed up, revved up Rock ‘n’ Roll revue that’s guaranteed to lose money” because you could see all four bands, two which had been flown in from foreign climes, for a fiver. And to lose them even more money; the first ten people through the door, at each gig, got a 12-track tour ep for free. Naturally a track form each band is played. Straight after The Hip Priests I play some Body Count. I’ve never really been into them. I think naively I shied away because of Ice-T’s Rap connection. It’s not a bad album to be honest, the Slayer medley sounded like Slayer with Ice-T on vocals, it all right but I was expecting something else/more. In a great piece of linkage, I managed to play the new Black Bullets single whilst talking about early curfews. South African based band Four King Ace, think about it, have a track played from their debut album “Never Aim to Please” but it’s Crazy Lixx and a track from their 5^th and new album “Rough Justice” that ends this week’s show.

The Paranoid Squirrel ep 535

Right, let’s get straight into the first Fan Funded segmentation of 2017. I have three artists for you to choose from; Up first is The Sly Persuaders, a London based 4 piece, gnarly, garage, surf, Rockabilly band that on the track I play from their self-titled debut has the most direst bass sound since Lemmy discovered distortion. If we’re talking distortion then Ginger Wildheart and Exit International’s Scott Lee Andrews in their Mutation guise take things to a different level with “Mutation III”. The final piece of the pledge jigsaw this week is Chris Catalyst and a track from his just launched “Life is Often Brilliant” campaign. If truth be told I actually sneak in a track from Hellbound Hearts’ non pledge album “Film Noir” between “Mutation III” and Chris’ tracks. Johnny Moped get honoured by a band called Hamsters, not to be confused with The Hamsters those fine purveyors of Blues/Rock and Hendrix/ZZ Top covers and a track called “Basically, Johnny Moped” which celebrates the legendary outsider status of Johnny himself along with Slimy Toad, Dave Berk, original bassist Fred Berk with his replacement Jacko, the mysterious Rock ‘n’ Roll Robot and Xerxes. Top Riffmeister Tony Iommi has just released a Classical Choral piece that he wrote for the Birmingham City Cathedral Choir. A bit of a departure I think you’ll agree. However, after listening to it, it works really well. I can’t help but think that the icing on the cake would’ve been Ronnie James Dio adding some vocals had he been alive. A Band that you might not be familiar with is The New Piccadillys who were/are to Edinburgh what The Beatles are to Liverpool. Now you may think that they wouldn’t even warrant a foot-note in the History of anything and you’d be right but for two things; 1960’s versions of two songs that The Ramones and The Clash would record for both their debut albums. Of course, as you’re all familiar with the Punk tunes I play The New Piccadillys. As I remembered it is The Backyard Babies that are preventing me seeing The Yorkshire Rats on the 17^th March (listen to last week’s show) I play a track from their “Four By Four” album. A band that got me all in a tis were The Empire Strikes from Finland who had me contacting their record label asking for mp3s even though said Record label had sent me an e-mail with all the links I needed. Naturally I play a track from their soon to be released “High Tide” LP. The Boys round this week’s show off with a track taken from their “Punk Rock Menopause” album whilst I discuss their 100 Club appearance on the 6^th January along with the fall and rise of Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog Magazines.