The Paranoid Squirrel ep 522

It’s Saturday and once again due to my shifts at work I was able to do my weekly shop yesterday, meaning I got a lie in this morning. Not much of one as we’ve a house full of 15 year olds who are heading off to Fright Night at Thorpe Park and I was on Breakfast duty. Music…..The Hellacopters with a live MC5 track to drown the sound of said teenagers get the show moving this week. Then taking a leaf out of Liar, Thief, Bandits’ book Rebel Harlot put a link to their Bandcamp site on the Hellacopters Facebook page to entice us. Entice they did with me airing a track from their just released “High Energy” long player. The Rolling Stones are up next with a track that I thought would be all over the airwaves like a Presidential Candidate’s hands. It wasn’t, so I do what others don’t. A new band to the show are The Featherz with their brand new single “Forget All You Know” and with a two Girl, two Boy line-up I think I might have finally found a band to realise my ABBA meets The Sex Pistols dream band. Sadly, Germany’s Radio Dead Ones after 12 years are calling it a day, but not before releasing one final album in the shape and form of the Rich Jones Produced “Celebrate The End”. Of course I play a track from it. Another new band to the show are The Citizens of Nowhere featuring former Godfathers Del Bartle, Grant Nicholas and Chris Burrows. If you are thinking “The Godfathers mk.ii” you would be so wide of the mark you could not believe it, as you will hear. Enuff Z’nuff have a new album out any week now. Not a new studio affair but a collection of demos and out-takes from yesteryear, all re-mastered and re-polished. One track has already been set free which I play. Following straight on afterwards it’s Mustasch with their brand new single “Midnight Rider”. The next four artists all have one thing in common; which is they’ve recently released cover albums, well one LP, two eps and a single. The bands in question are; The Dollyrots and The Descendents, Zen Motel and GOD, The Bellrays and Led Zeppelin and Joe Lynn Turner and The Kinks. Finishing things off for this week is a track from Chris Catalyst’s (The Sisters of Mercy, RoboChrist, Anti-Product, The Scaramanga Six, The Ginger Wildheart Band, The Eureka Machines and currently on tour playing guitar with Ugly Kid Joe) first solo album which is probably going to be called “Life Is Often Brilliant”.