Indie Schmindie

12/12/2023

I chatted to Louis Elliot of Rialto Music for Phoenix FM, and you can listen to it again now here -

    We spoke to Louis Elliot about the return of Rialto after more than 20 years away, chatting about read more

27/01/2022

Back on Phoenix FM tonight for show 89 of Indie Scmindie

Brilliant 80s,90s & 00s Indie & Alternative, this week The Sandkings Elf Power Curve Official managed by Dean Massive Attack Recoil / Alan Wilder - Official Page Johnny Marr Cursive Carter USM Ida Maria Gemma Hayes Mystery Jets Official and loads more

Phoenixfm.com/listen-live to find out how to tune in. 10pm GMT Thursdays

20/01/2022

10pm tonight on Phoenix FM bring show 88 of Indie Schmindie. I'll be live in the studio way past my bed time to bring you marvellous Indie & Alternative from the 80s, 90s & 00s.

This week Crazyhead The Young Gods Morning Runner Architecture in Helsinki The Levellers 18 Wheeler The Replacements The Wonder Stuff The Postal Service Pugwash Skunk Anansie The Boo Radleys Howling Bells Frank Turner Beirut Cosmic Rough Riders and loads more

Listen all around the globe - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

And you can dip into the first 87 shows here - phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie/

06/01/2022

Join me live on Phoenix FM at 10pm tonight (Thursday 6th Jan) for another Indie Schmindie, simply brilliant Indie & Alternative from the 80s, 90s & 00s.

This week - The Popguns The Little Ones Les Savy Fav Gallon Drunk Art Brut The Rentals Kitchens of Distinction Goldfrapp The Duckworth Lewis Method Senser Animals That Swim R.E.M. Tilly and the Wall Spiritualized Blur Dashboard Confessional and loads more.

Listen wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

And you can catch up on any shows you missed from 1 through to 85 here - https://www.phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie/

04/11/2021

Join me on Phoenix FM from 10pm GMT tonight for Show 78 of Indie Schmindie. 2 more hours of brilliant 80s, 90s & 00s Indie & Alternative.

This week will include The Hives Charlotte Hatherley Wilco Absent Elk Hoggboy Belly Snow Patrol The Popguns Queens of the Stone Age Clint Boon Idlewild The Twilight Singers Carina Round The Chemical Brothers TheEnemy and a MGMT song you won't have heard on the radio before.

So tune in, on FM or online - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

16/09/2021

4 hours of Indie Schmindie? Including songs from Foo Fighters The Cure Badly Drawn Boy Hooverphonic CUD Duke Special Ben Folds Frank Turner The Hold Steady Swervedriver Garbage Guillemots Interpol Queens of the Stone Age Salad The Wannadies Revolver PJ Harvey My Life Story The Breeders Curve Official managed by Dean Mazzy Star Blur Suede The Jesus And Mary Chain Therapy? Senseless Things and loads more? Well yes, ok then.

Tune in from 8pm (for this week only) to hear me live in the Phoenix FM studio for show 71, and then from 10 till midnight, we go back to 2019 for the first ever show!

So for a celebration of Indie & Alternative from the 80s, 90s & 00s, tune in wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

09/09/2021

You know the drill by now. From 10pm this Thursday (tonight) I'll be playing approximately 2 hours of simply superb indie & alternative from the 80s, 90s & 00s on Phoenix FM. You can listen anywhere in the world, and why wouldn't you want to when I'll be playing music from the likes of Miles Hunt Curve Official managed by Dean Jimmy Eat World Santigold The Young Gods Weezer David Ford My Life Story Marion UK Radio 4 Carter USM Filthy Dukes Annuals & Morgan Nicholls

Here's how to listen live - phoenixfm.com/listen-live
Here's where you'll find the show to enjoy later - phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie/

02/09/2021

The start of September brings show 69 of Indie Schmindie, which you can be delighted by tonight at 10pm BST on Phoenix FM. So we have songs linked to the show number (not like that, get your mind out of the gutter) and the month, alongside linked bands, and just generally great Indie & Alternative from the 80s, 90s & 00s.

You'll hear Rocket From The Crypt Magnetic Fields Das Pop Green Day Blur Cinerama The Mission The Brobecks Cherry Ghost Depeche Mode echobelly (official) The Wannadies Luxembourg World Of Twist Delays Snow Patrol Dashboard Confessional Placebo and loads more.

So do tune in - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

26/08/2021

We're back at our normal time of Thursday 10pm BST on Phoenix FM so tune in to hear 2 hours of brilliant 80s, 90s & 00s Indie Alternative.

This week you'll hear Bernard Butler The Courteeners David Kitt R.E.M. Bang Bang Machine The Sandkings The Flatmates Air Traffic Camera Obscura The Wedding Present The Bluetones The Joy Formidable Ian Broudie and the Lightning Seeds The Blue Aeroplanes and lots more.

So tune in wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

19/08/2021

No Indie Schmindie on tonight, instead this week you can hear two hours of the finest 80s, 90s & 00s Indie & Alternative on Friday from 18:00! Back to the normal time next week!

12/08/2021

More 80s, 90s & 00s Indie & Alternative goodies for your listening pleasure tonight on Phoenix FM.

Join me from 10pm BST on FM or online (phoenixfm.com/listen-live) for 2 hours of fab stuff including Mumm-Ra The Divine Comedy Editors New Order Bloc Party Sea Power King Creosote Brett Anderson Julian Cope FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND The Orb Deftones Dinosaur Jr. Marion UK Low Flying Owls Coldplay, Manic Street Preachers and loads more.

It will be very good (well, I can guarantee the music will be)

05/08/2021

Sunshine or rain, you'll find me in the Phoenix FM studio tonight at 10pm (admittedly, there's always a distinct lack of sunshine at the time I get there, but you know what I mean).

So join me for another two hours of the finest 80s, 90s and 00s Indie & Alternative. This week you shall hear The Divine Comedy Bang Bang Machine Terry Hall The Cure PJ Harvey I Am Kloot The Shins Jane's Addiction The Twilight Sad The Music (UK) Death In Vegas Frightened Rabbit and loads more.

Loads of different ways to listen! phoenixfm.com/listen-live

15/07/2021

A double whammy of Indie Schmindie on Phoenix FM tonight. From 8-10 BST you can listen again to the best of shows 1-49, and then from 10pm it's Show 62, with more of the best 80s, 90s & 00s Indie & Alternative, including Camera Obscura Bell X1 Depeche Mode Juliette Lewis Ballroom Absent Elk Milburn The Man From Delmonte Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Rifles Screaming Trees Blessed Ethel Porcupine Tree Honey Smugglers Paris Angels The Bridewell Taxis The Boo Radleys and much more

Listen wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

08/07/2021

I'll be live in the Phoenix FM studio from 10pm BST tonight for another 2 hours of 80s, 90s & 00s Indie & Alternative, on the show that people are quite correctly calling Indie Schmindie.

Tonight you can hear Arctic Monkeys Scheer Bang Bang Machine The Popguns The Wannadies Foo Fighters Dogs Die In Hot Cars Teenage Fanclub Massive Attack Okkervil River The Pooh Sticks trashcan sinatras Goldfrapp Mercury Rev and loads more good stuff.

I can't promise not to mention the football, but it won't be too much!!

Tune in, wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

01/07/2021

10pm BST Thursday = Indie Schmindie on Phoenix FM

Fabulous 80s, 90s & 00s Alternative & Indie, this week including Editors David Devant & His Spirit Wife The Von Bondies The Divine Comedy King Adora The Dears Milburn Scissor Sisters Intastella The Duke Spirit The Wombats and before Victoria Hesketh became Little Boots there was Dead Disco, plus loads more.

Tune in now! phoenixfm.com/listen-live

24/06/2021

I'm sat here in my Glastonbury Festivals 2003 t-shirt thinking about what could have been, and what I would have been doing on Worthy Farm today! But it was not to be.

Instead, join me live at 10pm BST for a Phoenix FM Indie Schmindie Glastonbury special. Featuring Pyramid stage headliners from the 80s, 90s and 00s, including Blur Hawkwind The Chemical Brothers The Levellers Carter USM Primal Scream Skunk Anansie The Psychedelic Furs New Order Ian Dury (and the Blockheads) The Prodigy and many more.

You can tune in wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

17/06/2021

It's summer, and it's raining. Let's see if I can reference that in a couple of songs on tonight's Indie Schmindie on Phoenix FM.

You'll hear Kitchens of Distinction Therapy? The Long Blondes My Life Story Tegan and Sara Leatherface Turin Brakes (Official) Puressence Power Of Dreams PIXIES Primal Scream Chapterhouse Rilo Kiley The Charlatans Yeasayer China Drum Frank Turner Richard Hawley Luscious Jackson and loads more

So tune in, wherever you are from 10pm BST, because with music this good, it would be foolish not to! phoenixfm.com/listen-live

10/06/2021

Thursday seems to have arrived quickly this week. It's probably the amount of time I've spent sitting in the sun that's done that. But tonight, I'll be live in the Phoenix FM studio, to bring you another 2 hours of Indie Schmindie, the finest 80s, 90s & 00s Indie & Alternative.

This week, Super Furry Animals, SFA, Rocket From The Crypt Bang Bang Machine, Audioweb, Green Day, Tindersticks, The Wonder Stuff, Suede, The Kooks, The Vines, The Housemartins - Official, Longpigs, Martin L Gore, Menswear, The Good The Bad And The Queen, james and We Are Scientists to name a few!

So tune in from anywhere in the world at 10pm BST - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

Shows 1-56 can be found here for your repeat listening pleasure - phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie/

03/06/2021

It's Thursday, and at 10pm BST I will once more be live in the Phoenix FM studios, to play you lots of bloody good Indie & Alternative from the 80s, 90s & 00s.

This week you can hear Tricky New Fast Automatic Daffodils echobelly (official) The Cure Easyworld The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Dandy Warhols Do Me Bad Things The Courteeners Senser Mumm-Ra Turin Brakes (Official) Badly Drawn Boy and loads more.

You can tune in wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live so do join me.

Shows 1-55 can be found here - phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie/

20/05/2021

It's another Indie Schmindie night!! Tune in to hear the best Indie & Alternative from the 80s, 90s and 00s.

This week Manic Street Preachers Nick Heyward Gemma Hayes The Music (UK) R.E.M. Cinerama AC Acoustics Carter USM Interpol Lamb Nine Inch Nails RIDE Rialto Supergrass and loads more.

10pm BST, and here are all the ways you can tune in from around the globe - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

13/05/2021

It’s Thursday, which means that I will once again be “gracing” you with my presence for another Indie Schmindie. 2 hours of the finest 80s, 90s & 00s Indie & Alternative on Phoenix FM

So join me at 10pm BST. You can listen anywhere on this little rock we call Earth. Find out all the ways here - (phoenixfm.com/listen-live).

Tonight you'll hear lots of bloody marvelous music including Beth Rowley Sam Isaac Placebo Longview Gene Rocket From The Crypt Orbital The Mission The Temper Trap Jocasta INFADELS The Heart Throbs Molly Half Head dEUS Seafruit Hard-Fi Elcka Intastella and loads more

And the first 52 nuggets of joy can be found here for your listening pleasure- phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie/

06/05/2021

What goodness will you be giving us on tonight's Indie Schmindie I hear you ask. Well, you'll have to tune in (phoenixfm.com/listen-live) at 10pm BST to find out (and we have listeners in the US and Australia, so you have no excuse, apart from maybe it's quite late where you are, in which case, you can always listen later (phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie/).

Anyway, tonight on Phoenix FM you'll hear - I Am Kloot Clint Boon China Drum Mazzy Star Union of Knives Bellatrix PIXIES Carina Round Mclusky Luxembourg The Twilight Singers Brendan Benson Northside TheBeGoodTanyas Black Rebel Motorcycle Club The Sunshine Underground Teenage Fanclub Adrian Borland & The Sound and loads more

29/04/2021

I'll be live in the Phoenix FM studio from 10pm BST tonight for this week's Indie Schmindie. Quality Indie & Alternative from the 80s. 90s & 00s.

You'll hear the likes of The Coral Idlewild Mystery Jets Official Guillemots EMF Massive Attack The Orb Julian Cope Noah And The Whale System Of A Down 808 State Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Tegan and Sara Ladytron Does It Offend You, Yeah? milltown brothers The Mock Turtles and more.

Tune in wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

22/04/2021

Back to a normal show tonight. I'll be live in the Phoenix FM studio from 10pm BST for Show 50 of Indie Schmindie, 2 hours of the finest 80s, 90s and 00s Indie & Alternative. Feels like it was only a few weeks ago it was show 25!!

So for our half century, you'll hear lots of bloody good stuff, including The Divine Comedy The Wonder Stuff The Wannadies CUD The Dandy Warhols Depeche Mode The Blue Aeroplanes Senseless Things spearmint Manic Street Preachers Ash Jimmy Eat World Garbage My Life Story Radiohead Jack Penate PIXIES The Cure and loads more

So do tune in wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

15/04/2021

A look back on tonight's Indie Schmindie. I've chosen some of my favourite songs from shows 1-49 to play again for you. Less rambling, more music type of thing.

So from 10pm BST tonight, you'll hear the likes of My Life Story The Airborne Toxic Event bis Happy Mondays Power Of Dreams Skunk Anansie The Wonder Stuff The Frank and Walters Curve Official managed by Dean BOB The Heart Throbs The Wannadies Blur Okkervil River The Divine Comedy Bloc Party spearmint David Devant And His Spirit Wife Revolver and loads more

So tune in wherever you may be - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

08/04/2021

What fine treats can I hear on this weeks Phoenix FM's Indie Schmindie I hear you ask?

Well how about My Morning Jacket Baby Chaos Soulwax The Specials The Tunics The Supernaturals Revolver Bright Eyes Curve Official managed by Dean Skunk Anansie Earl Brutus Kitchens of Distinction Embrace Beth Orton Mystery Jets Official Echo and the Bunnymen and quite a few more?

Who wouldn't want to listen to that little lot. So tune in today (Thursday 8th April) at 10pm BST from wherever in the world you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

01/04/2021

Loads of bloody good Indie & Alternative for you on Indie Schmindie tonight at 10pm BST, live (yes really) on Phoenix FM.

You'll hear Ash Magnapop The Hours echobelly (official) Glasvegas SPACE the Band Official Ooberman The Primitives Coldplay The Beta Band The Charlatans The Boxer Rebellion Suede Blur Guillemots Super Furry Animals, SFA Power Of Dreams Dinosaur Jr. Bernard Butler and more

So tune in wherever in the world you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

25/03/2021

Join me at 10pm GMT tonight for this week's Indie Schmindie. I'll be live in the studio for 2 hours of simply the best 80s, 90s & 00s Indie & Alternative, with not a Tina Turner track in sight.

Tonight you'll hear CUD Doves Margot & the Nuclear So and So's Queens of the Stone Age MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT (Official), Scissor Sisters, The Pale Fountains SPRING OFFENSIVE Goya Dress stellastarr* official page Yo La Tengo The Polyphonic Spree The Wonder Stuff The Music (UK) Swervedriver Rocket From The Crypt and loads more.

Tune in wherever you are - phoenixfm.com/listen-live

And you can listen to the previous 46 shows here - phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie/

18/03/2021

Join me tonight for another 2 hours of Indie Schmindie, packed full of 80s, 90s and 00s Indie and Alternative goodness, live on Phoenix FM from 10pm GMT (phoenixfm.com/listen-live)

This week you'll hear - Salad Gary Numan The Subways The Vaselines Nine Inch Nails Blur Mew The Delgados Cardigans Nine Black Alps Starsailor Dashboard Confessional The Pains of Being Pure at Heart EMF Hundred Reasons Foo Fighters and loads more.

Shows 1 - 41 online here - phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie

11/03/2021

Thursday means 2 hours of brilliant 80s, 90s & 00s Indie and Alternative on Phoenix FM, so join me from 10pm GMT for another dose!

This week - Elbow bis Easyworld Okkervil River LowgoldOfficial Joy Division Pale Saints Pearl Jam Damien Rice Tears for Fears Moby Starsailor Jack LoveLikeFire King Adora Throwing Muses Rufus Wainwright Revolver Sabres of Paradise My Vitriol and loads more.

You can find out how to tune in here - phoenixfm.com/listen-live
And you can listen to the first 44 shows here - phoenixfm.com/category/indie-schmindie/