The Paranoid Squirrel ep 513

As I finished last week’s episode with some Slade I decided to hammer home that the fact that the band were more than just one Christmas Record and a handful of badly spelt song titles by starting this week’s with the live version of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Preacher” taken from the “Ruby Red” double 7”. Once again the UK Subs are the subject of “Waiting for The Postman to deliver my stuff” with regards to their November 1977 4 track 7” Demo. Instead I play a demo track from their Cleopatra “Endangered Species” Deluxe 2CD re-issue. New music firstly takes us to the streets of my former neighbourhood Croydon, (I moved a whole quarter of a mile to the next borough) to the first release by The Fiascos. “Who are they?” I hear you cry. Well I shall enlighten you; Richie Hudson, guitar vocals, Keef Gibbs, guitar vocals, Robin Guy drums and Ben Lawson on bass vocals. Who released yesterday the aforementioned new release in the form of a single “Built For Speed” / “Olivia”. As I’ve already played the a-side on Episode 503 it’s the b-side that gets aired. Stand by for some great Powerpop magic! And if you’re quick off the mark the band are playing the Odd Shoe in Croydon tonight. A band that I didn’t get to see on the last Ginger Wildheart tour was, apart from the Main Grains, Massive Wagon. To readdress this I went out and got the band’s latest offering “Welcome To The World” and thoroughly enjoyed what I heard. Elements of Volbeat but without James Hetfield on vocals. Moving over to Italy for The Leeches and the b-side of their current 7” gets an airing. A bad I knew nothing about were Thee Oh Sees, but as I got sent their new CD “A Weird Exits” I thought I’d give it a spin. I’m sure Henry Rollins is a big fan. A band I do know a lot about are The Cadillac Three who have just released their new album “Bury Me In My Boots”. If you like Deep Southern Rock you’ll love them. Staying with the deep South, but this time the South in question is South London, it seemed only right and proper to play some Peckham Cowboys. Redd Kross’ Jeff McDonald’s 1999 solo album has just been re-released on vinyl, as the original which came out as a CD-R is rarer than rare thing, on the Bang! Record label. Of course I play a track from it. Crowd Funding Fan funded releases are up next with The Lords of Altamont kicking things off who are swiftly followed by the voice of The Bay City Rollers Les McKeown, who in turn is topped off by Sweet Creature who sport Martin Sweet from Crashdiet  and Tin Star from Gemini Five. Rounding things off for this week is a rough and ready demo from Billy Rath’s Street Pirates as it would’ve been the former Heartbreakers Birthday last Monday.