The Offbeat Hour on Boston's 107 Endeavour FM

24/01/2025

Morning folks

Well, we'd like to give you some good news, but sadly the technical issues which have prevented us from bringing you a show so far this year are still weaving their evil spell.

We don't like it any more than you do, but rest assured that our team of expert technicians and boffins are working around the clock to get us back on the air.

We can't tell you when we'll be back, but by jiminy we will be, don't you worry about that.

Meanwhile, play nice. More news as and when we get it.

18/01/2025

Announcement part the second.

Unfortunately, the studio maintenance continues, so we will not be able to bring you a show tomorrow night. More news as soon as we get it.

04/01/2025

We are sorry to be the bearers of bad news, but due to essential maintenance to some of the studio equipment, we will be unable to bring you a show tomorrow or next week. We hope to be back in action on Sunday 19 January.

We will miss you.

24/12/2024

Here's our final show of 2024 on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM. It's a special one, as Johnny finally makes it out from under his rock and into the studio, and it features (some of) our favourite 2024 stuff, plus bulletins from our esteemed overseas correspondents and one heck of a Desert Island Album.

Thanks to everyone who has listened in, contacted us, or supported us in one way or another - it really means a lot to us.

See you in 2025, it'll be a gas.

The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy
She Cleans Up - Father John Misty
Le Risque - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Ist Ist - Einsturzende Neubaten
Same 24 Hours (As Beyonce) - Aerial Salad
Dues Paid (Now I'm Overdrawn) - Kid Acne
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Streets Is Calling - Ezra Collective (feat M.anifest & Moonchild Sanelly)
All That School For Nothing - John Grant
Tin Pan Sound - Jah Mason & Irie Ites
A Shared Sense Of Purpose (Vince Clarke Remix) - Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan
End Of Innocence - Shabaka
Expander - Bonobo
The Thickest Skin - Wonk Unit
Chewing Gum - Amyl & The Sniffers
Bliss - Arab Strap
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Marvin Gaye
Help (DJ Version) - Paranoid London
Sleep When I'm Dead - Jack Kays
Kolesom - Molchat Doma
Dance - Vadym Khrapachov
Bullet Train - Hayeminol
Hot Sun - Wilco
Walking Contradiction - Sunny War (feat Steve Ignorant)
Burial At Sea - Tucker Zimmerman
Shame - Chatpile
GREY RUBBLE - GREEN SHOOTS - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Silent Night - The Dickies

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22/12/2024

22/12/2024

Join Kev and Johnny tonight at 8pm on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM for a rather special episode of The Offbeat Hour.

Not only are they going to be playing some of their favourite music of 2024, but they will be in the same room as each other! Lordy.

After years of remotely broadcasting from his underground lair. Johnny will be an actual physical presence in the studio. And about time too.

So, expect the usual fair - great music, badinage unsurpassed in its wit, bulletins from our overseas correspondents, and lots more.

The Offbeat Hour - it may be winter outside, but in our hearts it's spring.

17/12/2024

If you missed Sunday's show, all is not lost. A veritable smorgasbord of musical nutrition, a belting desert island disc, an overly "refreshed" Rory B Jampickle and a journey through the looking glass with Boris. And, if all that wasn't enough, a very special guest presenter in the form of Dylan Taylor Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM's undisputed king of breakfast.

The Offbeat Hour, it's better than Ready Brek.

Inspection (Check One) – Leftfield
Phantom Island – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
If You Don’t Like the Effect, Don’t Produce the Cause – Funkadelic
Lenny Valentino – The Auteurs
Thirteen – Big Star
Lion Rumpus – Mogwai
The Aerospaceage Inferno – Robert Calvert
Breathe – Prodigy
Broken English – Marianne Faithfull
007, a Fantasy Bond Theme – Barry Adamson
Panther Dash – The Go! Team
Supernaut – Black Sabbath
Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight – The Rezillos
Happy Hour – The Housemartins
Walking Contradiction – Sunny War (feat. Steve Ignorant)
Khala My Friend – Amanaz
Firestarter – Prodigy
Outa-Space – Billy Preston
Copa Sete No Samba – Copa 7
Musst Musst (Massive Attack Remix) – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Downtown Train – Tom Waits
I’m Going Home – Arlo Guthrie

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15/12/2024

It's Sunday and the Offbeat Hour is back on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM, spreading love, joy and all that sort of jazz. No Johnny this week, but Kev is joined in the studio by an extra special guest presenter, who has brought his own desert island album. And, oh, what a belter it is.

So join us at 8pm for all of your musical needs, plus the latest from Long Beach and Spain with our team of award-winning international correspondents, nutritional advisers and lifestyle gurus.

The Offbeat Hour, radio so good that you'll grow a moustache, just like Lee.

08/12/2024

As we mentioned on last week's show, we're having this weekend off. Back next Sunday, so don't fret...

03/12/2024

It's Tuesday (today) and that means that the latest show from Sunday (the other day) is now ready to thrust itself into your willing ears.

THRILL! as Boris goes subcutaneous!

GASP! as Rory tells tales of Thanksgiving and driving lessons!

SIGH! as Kev and Johnny bring the tunes, as per.

Plus a classic Desert Island Album, a sample for the collection right out of the top drawer, earworms aplenty, AND a Christmas Quiz to boot...

Please excuse the intermittent sound issues. We have our best people on the case.

Rapture - Blondie
Help (DJ Version) - Paranoid London
A Good Idea - Sugar
Moroccan People's Revolutionary Bowls Club - Blur
Wild Wood - The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians feat Paul Weller
Wilmot - Sabres of Paradise
Survol - Francois De Roubaix
Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers
Good Old Gospel Music - The Meditation Singers
I Get Lifted - George McRae
Bad Boy Steppa - Rahmanee
What's Going On/Mercy Mercy Me - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Work It out - Sarah Webster Fabio
Konta Chorus - The Utopia Strong
The Villain - Lieutenant Pigeon
Theme - Sabres of Paradise
Blue Light - Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience
See All Color - The Goodwin Club
A Noisy Place (AKA A Quiet Place) - King Tubby
Theme From 'Dave Allen At Large' - The KPM Music All Stars
Bring It On Home - Sonny Boy Williamson
Snake Song - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Brave Child Of A New World - bananagun
Pretty Soon There'll Be Nothing Left For Everybody - Harry Nilsson
Was Ist Ist - Einstürzende Neubauten
Follow Me (Was Männer Nicht Für Möglich Halten) - Gert Wilden & Orchestra

The Offbeat Hour - we're not perfect, but we're yours

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01/12/2024

It's Sunday (today) and that means that The Offbeat Hour will once again soar into the ether on gossamer wings, spreading joy like butter on burnt toast.

You can be part of this if you tune into Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM at 8pm tonight (2 minutes past eight if you want to avoid the news, and who would blame you?).

Your avuncular hosts Kev and Johnny will once again bring you more good music than is healthy, their esteemed overseas correspondents will keep you both abreast and enlightened, there's another sample for the collection, a stupid amount of earworms, a absolute beast of a Desert Island Album, and a chance to win A PRIZE in the Endeavour FM Christmas giveaway thing. Mate, it's all going off like Frank Bough.

Listen on 107 FM, online, on your smart device, or via the brain waves of a higher being that oversees our collective consciousness. Up to you, really.

The Offbeat Hour - A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

25/11/2024

What a tonic. Get it in yer.

The latest show in all its majestic glory is here for the ears. Boris has another encounter with Gerard The Circumspect Arbiter, Rory's cooking joins the list of weapons banned under the Geneva Convention, and Kev'n'Johnny bring the tunes. Every one a Maserati.

Respectable - The Rolling Stones
She Cleans Up - Father John Misty
Do It Clean - Echo & The Bunnymen
Thumbsucker - Soul Glo
Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
X-Ray Eyes - LCD Soundsystem
Identity - X-Ray Spex
Better Must Come - Delroy Wilson
How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise? - Brother D & Collective Effort
Plan B - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Got Myself A Good Man - Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
El Rey y Yo - Los Angeles Negros
The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) - Sunn O))) & Boris
Liars A To E - Dexys Midnight Runners
30th Century Man - Scott Walker
Caffeine Bomb - The Wildhearts
Exaltation of Larks - Earth
Changes - Black Sabbath
Overwhelmed - Wonk Unit
Laminated Cat - Jeff Tweedy
Sin In My Heart - Siouxsie & The Banshees
I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass - Nick Lowe
Tomahawk Cruise - T.V. Smith's Explorers
Di Eagle An' Di Bear - Linton Kwesi Johnson

The Offbeat Hour - not to be sniffed at

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24/11/2024

If your usual rescue remedies are having no effect, and you feel flatter than a pancake, then why not tune in to The Offbeat Hour for some free musical therapy?

Our group session begins at 8pm tonight on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM.

There will be bulletins and lifestyle tips from our overseas correspondents, witty badinage from your hosts Kevin and Johnny, a frankly sublime Desert Island Album, and more earworms than are permissible in polite company.

Listen on FM, online, dijickal, all that.

The Offbeat Hour - charms to soothe the savage beast

20/11/2024

Listen to the latest episode of the Offbeat Hour and find out why Duane is feeling so good...

Little Fluffy Clouds (Ambient Mk 1) – The Orb
Birth 4000 – Floating Points
Dope For Guns – The Ruts
Eisbär – Grauzone
Gefärliche Clowns – Der Plan
EVA – Jean-Jacques Perry
Mi Cyaan Believe It – Michael Smith
Floorshow – Sisters of Mercy
The Whistleblowers - Laibach
Love You – Syd Barrett
Shimmy Ya Version – Chopstick Dubplate
Observatory Crest – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
With Tomorrow – Gene Clark
Temple of Love (extended mix) – Sisters of Mercy
Corre Riba, Corre Baixo – Abel Lima
Slim’s Return - Madlib
Birdhouse in Your Soul – They Might Be Giants
The Mouthchew – Stars of the Lid
She’s My Old Time Used to Be – T Bone Walker
He’s Frank (Slight Return) – The Monochrome Set
Wot’s For Lunch Mum? (Not Beans Again) – The Shapes
Voy Caminando Feliz – Daniel Grau
Private Revolution – World Party
Visions of a New World (Phase II) – Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes
Burning Bridges – Pink Floyd

Listen to The Offbeat Hour, Episode 218 by The Offbeat Hour

17/11/2024

Duane is feelin' good! And why? He's discovered the remarkable restorative powers of The Offbeat Hour, that's why.

Find out just how wonderful life can be by tuning into Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM at 8pm tonight for another dose of aural medicine, designed to put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip.

Your hosts Kev and Johnny will bring the sweet sweet music, and their esteemed Pulitzer Prize winning overseas correspondents have bulletins and lifestyle guidance that you simply cannot ignore (if you know what's good for you).

Plus more samples for the collection and a Desert Island Album that is positively Proustian.

So, be like Duane. Join The Offbeat Hour family and start "feelin' good!"

The Offbeat Hour - defiantly cheerful in the face of, well, everything.

11/11/2024

Howdy doody. Are you ready for healthy lifestyle tips from our guru, Boris? Will you embrace Rory's tales of water zoos? Can your body withstand not one, but two sample collections? Dare you wallow in the melancholy genius of our Desert Island Album?

Are you prepared to face an uncertain future with a smile in your heart and a pasty in your pocket? We are. Join us.

Town Called Malice - The Jam
There She Goes, My Beautiful World - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley
I Was Dancing In The Le***an Bar - Jonathan Richman
To Go Off And Things - Cardiacs
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song - The Flaming Lips
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! - Peggy Lee
Shame - Chatpile
Voices Through Rubble (feat Saul Williams & NARCY) - The Halluci Nation
Plainsong - The Cure
Sentado na Prachina - Americo Brito
The Jezebel Spirit - Brian Eno & David Byrne
Babylon No Badda Haul And Pull Me - Devon Edwards
Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf
Gladiator - The Jesus Lizard
We're Only Gonna Die - Bad Religion
Lullaby - The Cure
How Long Do I Have to Wait For You? (Ticklah Remix) - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Electric Counterpoint III: Fast - Steve Reich, Pat Metheny
106 Beats That - Wire
Trouble So Hard - Vera Hall
No Peace For The Wicked - The Only Ones
Samba De Una Nota So (One Note Samba) - Quincy Jones
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) - Frank Sinatra
The Communists Have The Music - They Might Be Giants
I Had A Dream - The Long Ryders
The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train) - Half Man Half Biscuit

Listen to The Offbeat Hour, Episode 217 by The Offbeat Hour

10/11/2024

What’s tonight’s Desert Island Album? Tune in to The Offbeat Hour on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM to find out.

The jollity commences at 8pm, when Kev and Johnny bring you another ragbag of assortments and such, lovingly compiled and curated just for you.

Plus bulletins from our international correspondents, another collection for the sample pot, and earworms galore.

The Offbeat Hour - a soothing balm for today’s troubled mind