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Show 5 is available to listen to right now! Each week I am playing about an hour’s worth on the kind of music that I would love to hear on the radio. I find it more and more difficult to find stations that cater for my own musical tastes, so I am doing it myself. The programme is free to listen to on MixCloud and you can even listen to the show directly at the top of this blog!

As show number 5 features some of my favourite tracks ever, it will be a hard track list to better, not that that will stop me from trying. Eventide by The Faith Brothers is perhaps a dessert island disc track for me. The dilemma was whether to play the “hymn for change” version or the more upbeat guitar version. In the end I decided to play both back to back! Another all time favourite is One Step Closer To Home by The Alarm. The live version I am playing is from the BBC in Concert recording from the Hammersmith Odeon in May 1985, which I went to. I’ve still got my cassette recording of the broadcast, so I transferred it to digital and the used my music recording software to do a DIY remaster on it. Some more great tracks as first heard on the PUNK AF show on Mixcloud. Plus plenty of great tracks from my favourite artists over the last 40+ years. This week’s closing track is the epic Porrohman by Big Country. You can check out the full playlist below. So please give it a listen and let me know what you think, and if there is a track that you would like me to play, then drop me a line.

Always interested in getting some feedback and thoughts on each week’s broadcast, especially on how I might improve the show…