Sounds From The Wilderness

09/06/2024

One mans fish is another mans poisson, as they say, and never has this been more true than in the world of music.

Tonight at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com repeated on Thursdays and available to listen again, SFTW promotes the wyrd, the uncategorisable and casts a beady eye over the local music and gig scene in West Wiltshire and Somerset.

01. The 180Gs - Frownland
02. The Lanky Divas - Cut Loose
03. John D Revelator - Shoot the Wounded
04. The Bucky Rage - Be My Bride
05. Kitchen Lover - The Force Inside
06. Mimi and the Miseries - Movin' Out
07. Bully Bones - My Girl
08. The Water Gypsies - Caravan
09. Maxi Rai - Yuh Mumma
10. Malarchy - Mrs P's Froliks and My Lovely Dancing Horse
11. Zena Harper - You'll be Here
12. Fake - Peppermint Jet
13. Eat Your Own Head - The Trawler
14. Lords of Form - No Fear Here

02/06/2024

Tonight on www.westwiltsradio.com at 21:00, SFTW is once again tickling the belly of the spindly killer fish in order to bring you the best and brightest tunes from the west wilts area and further afield.

01. J4FB - BB Bass
02. Lee Christian - The Horror (Coppola Mix)
03. Alan Randall - Catching My Breath
04. John E Vistic - The World That I Once Knew
05. Astorothica - Excalibur
06. McClure and Whyte - In My Head I have Created a Barn
07. I Smell Burning - Do You Remember?
08. Ninotchka - Shosanna's Revenge
09. Stoned Lemur - Smooth Marmalade
10. Kuxan Suum - Molecular Explosion
11. Ceremony DnB - Break the Sound
12. Sir Freddy Flip Flop and His Extratone Orchestra - For Una Nina Tan Hermosa
13. Distraxi - Recovery Hours

26/05/2024

Not all superheroes wear capes. Sometimes they are dressed as Wombat Man and Owl Boy. Tonight at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com SFTW exclaims "Holy Local Music Scene" before dropping the needle on some great new tunes...

01. Chumbawamba - Always Tell the Voter what the Voter wants to Hear
02. Nataraja - Raag Sarang - Soul Shard
03. Renmei - Bitmask
04. Alan Randall - Watching the Ghetto Grow
05. My Blue Extremes - Flicker of Recognition
06. Ozric Tentacles - Yaboop Yaboop
07. Kavus Torabi - Heart the Same
08. Alias Molombo feat The Nicewun JM - Boom Bap 8:16 Posse Cut
09. BVA - Charge it to the Game
10. Blue Lavinia - Don't Take it
11. Brian Eno - From the Same Hill

Available to listen again in all the usual places after the first broadcast

12/05/2024

Oompa Loompa doobedee do, I've got a great radio show for you...

All the best local music from Wilts and Somerset, and all the best gig news all of the time.

01. Big Black - Kerosene
02. Wegg - Slug
03. Ushti Baba - Pas De Passport (Komboloi Star remix)
04. Astorothica - Arising Realm
05. BVA - Desire
06. Jah Warriors - Post Truth Skank
07. Black Wendy - 2 pills
08. Hatepenny - Punk Rock S*x Tourist
09. The Weeds - Punch Drunk
10. The Exact Opposite - What we do at Night
11. Parker - Ruin My Life
12. Mother Vulture - Homemaker
13. Steeleye Span - Cold Haily Windy Night

www.westwiltsradio.com 21:00 on Sundays, repeated Thursdays at 14:00 and on the old listen again thereonafter.

05/05/2024

Having been touched by His noodly appendage earlier this week, tonight's show has all gone a bit Pastafarian. Local tunes, gig news for Bradford on Avon and Frome, and a challenging 01:50 of polyrhythmic chaos to open with.

www.westwiltsradio.com Sundays at 21:00, repeated on Thursdays, and available to listen again forever until the noodly apocalypse is upon us.

01. Captain Beefheart - Frownland
02. The Ullulators - Unearthly Beings
03. BVA - Dreamer
04. Unconscious Collective - Robot Brian Forever
05. Common Sense Kid - Know My Name
06. Oliver William Olivers - Boney Dog on a Stoney Beach
07. I Smell Burning - 4.17
08. Strange Folk - Glitter
09. You Mum - Say Say
10. Rioghnach Connolly - The Miner
11. Carsick - Gig Tax
12. Zion Train - The Freedom Files
13. Peatbog Faeries - Folk Police

28/04/2024

The elephants that gather here, upon this road shall cast no fear, as they used to sing in the olden days.

Trampling over the airwaves like a crazed pachyderm, SFTW will be trumpeting the very best in music that Wiltshire and Somerset has to offer on www.westwiltsradio.com at 21:00 tonight.

01. League of Joy - Smiling Buddha
02. Oliver William Olivers - Living in the Bubble of a Spirit Level
03. Shaun Robert - The Locks and Spears That Awake Us
04. Lee Christian - Caned and Able
05. Around About Dusk - The Sea
06. Sandy Denny - The Sea
07. Teeth of the Sea - Magmafragma
08. Facing the Ocean - The Selkie
09. Lytupp - Crafty

available to listen again afterwards at https://westwiltsradio.com/play-again/

21/04/2024

Well, we've been witness to a rare astronomical event recently, where the sun was observed to pass over the Wilderness area. Here in the Shed of Dubious Endeavour we're continuing to mine the seam of local music and have got fair few golden nuggets for you this week.

www.westwiltsradio.com on Sundays at 9pm and repeated Thursdays 2pm. Available to listen again after tonight's show.

01. Alborosie - Herbalist
02. Fields of Few - Dreaming in Confined Spaces
03. The Setbacks - Paint The Town
04. Bramwell - Sun Seize Script
05. Around About Dusk - Orchard Fruits
06. Neck - Star of the County Down
07. James and the Cold Gun - Chewing Glass
08. Annie Dressner - Dance We Do
09. The Exact Opposite - You Work For Us Now
10. Deadlight Dance - Nice Things
11. tAKX - Cley Hill Hollow
12. Shoun Shoun - We Woke The Monster
13. Scott Lavene - Disneyland in Dagenham
14. The Upside Down Clinic - Running Running

14/04/2024

Get yer meaty spectacles on and prepare to be dazzled by a whole load of great sounds from the West Wilts area. As an added treat in accordance with our Reithian principles, there's some good old country blues fingerpicking to get stuck into as well as some German proto-techno and gig news for April and May.

Sundays at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com and thereafter on the old listen again.

01. Headnoise - Doing Science
02. League of Joy - Temple of the Sengakuji
03. Lytupp - Fatty
04. John Fahey - Requiem for Mississipi John Hurt
05. Mississipi John Hurt - Frankie
06. Mr Whittler the Miniature Man - Outside Tap
07. John E Vistic - Every Purpose Under Heaven
08. Mighty Magic Animal - Come Away
09. Cantaloop - Jim Atkins (ITF Remix)
10. Super Blue Moon - Competition
11. I Smell Burning - Igaloo
12. Tangerine Dream - Thru Metamorphic Rocks

31/03/2024

Tonight on www.westwiltsradio.com at 21:00 and repeated Thursdays, catch up with all the great new music being created in Wiltshire and Somerset. The aural equivalent of taking a squeegee to the old pineal gland and getting those chakras looked at and sorted out.

01. An Dannsa Dub - Kick up the Dust
02. Phoxjaw - This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us.
03. Eat Your Own Head - Chest Pains
04. FFTP - Wild Atlantic Way
05. Facing the Ocean - Maroma
06. Nataraja - Raag Joh - Ganges Delta
07. Lytupp - Toze
08. Mr Whittler the Miniature Man - The Magpie/ The Bridge Man
09. Ultramodern - Dashing Away 2021
10. BMH - The Tape is in the Machine
11. Pale Arcadia - Matriarch

24/03/2024

Once upon a Sunday dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"Tis Sounds from the Wilderness" I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more."

Tonight on www.westwiltsradio.com at 21:00 and then to listen again afterwards via the website. Get stuck into the local Somerset and Wiltshire scene.

01. Horses of the Gods - Ostara
02. Renmei - Migrant
03. Manif - A Quiet Question
04. Nataraja - Spirit at Play
05. FFTP - Sweaty's Reel/Trad Galician
06. John E Vistic - Athens and Rome
07. Aqaba - Looper
08. Hatepenny - Muppet Vomit
09. J4fb - Badman Sound
10. The Electric Pentacle - Locus Solus

17/03/2024

As you can see, the powers that be have mended the Meta servers, and we can tell you about tonights show.

Last weeks show was sadly missing, for reasons that will be disclosed at the End of All Days. Loads of great new tunes from the Wilderness as always, and a bit of a look at gigs in Bradford on Avon and Trowbridge for the next month or two.

Tune in at www.westwiltsradio.com at 21:00 tonight, repeated on Thursdays and on the old listen again.

01. Killing Joke - The Wait
02. Whistling Treason - Beer, Bread and Butter
03. Samantics - Not My Cup of Tea
04. Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons - Vampire Sugar
05. Hatepenny - Big C Little C
06. Boothill Allstars - Tiny Jesus
07. The Lost Trades - Fireflies
08. Nothing Rhymes With Orange - Butterflies
09. Teenage Halloween - Start The Sirens
10. League of Joy - Out of Place Artifact
11. Sergeant Thunderhoof - Absolute Blue
12. Kavus Torabi - Snake Humanis
13. Steve Hillage - Pentagrammaspin

03/03/2024

Strap up, strap on and strap in for a thrill ride through the local music scene of Wilts and Somerset. New tracks from the likes of Zion Train, League of Joy, Beth Porter and Gurt Dog Old tracks from the likes of Smart Pils, Facing the Ocean and a downright weird track from the 180Gs.

Tonight on www.westwiltsradio.com from 21:00 and repeated Thursdays at 14:00. Also available to listen again until the earth is consumed by the Sun.

01. Zion Train - Militant Sound
02. League of Joy - Success
03. Smart Pils - mystery track
04. Gurt Dog - Trowbridge Cells
05. J4fb - Way You Move
06. Facing the Ocean - Mist Covered Mountains of Home
07. 180 Gs - Dirty Boy
08. Ichikne3 - Energy
09. The NBOs - Voort-ex
10. Beth Porter - Too Much Time
11. Johnny Dowd - Mystery Woman

25/02/2024

Life is all gravy in the Wilderness tonight. new tunes bursting out of everywhere in all kinds of styles, and your host gets a bit excited about Glastonbury Calling in early March.

www.westwiltsradio.com at 21:00 tonight, repeated on Thursdays at 14:00 and available to listen again at https://westwiltsradio.com/play-again/ until the inevitable heat death of the universe.

01. Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
02. Fields of Few - Mind
03. Beaulieu Porch - Giant Supermen
04. Whistling Treason - 1312 Overture
05. Military Surplus - Unknown Soldier
06. Pale Arcadia - Chain
07. Ravetank - Elvis Depressedly Blues
08. Les Talismans - L'interplanetaire
09. Manif - The Last Weekend
10. Gurl - Skyscrapers
11. Ushti Baba - Herze Bulgar
12. Onika Venus - Turn it Up
13. Scott Lavene - Debbie
14. The Cure - Carnage Visors (excerpt)

18/02/2024

Loads of bangers at 21:00 tonight on www.westwiltsradio.com and repeated on Thursdays and up on the play again feature on the website as soon as we can.

There's a load of tracks from bands playing in Bradford on Avon and Trowbridge in the next month or so, and the show is bookended with a couple of tracks to remember Damo Suzuki of Can so settle back and give your ears a treat.

01. Can - Vitamin C
02. Whistling Treason - Skip Song/ Bin Skankin
03. Culture Shock - Found it in a Skip
04. The Gulps - The Kings House
05. Astorothica - Witchcraft
06. Samantics - Keep Music in Mind
07. The Derellas - Don't Tell Me What I Did Last Night
08. Ruzz Guitar R***e - Spag Mambo
09. Brasher - Eagles
10. Eat Your Own Head - Denied
11. Bad News First - Jobsite Parasite
12. toodles and the Hectic Pity - Religious Experience on the Bristol to Bath Railway Path
13. Can - Oh YeahLoads of bangers tonight at

09/02/2024

Well, I'm being put into Holiday Club next week for half term, so I thought I'd get ahead of things by posting details of this weeks show early. As usual, loads of great new songs to prove that the local scene is full of life.

www.westwiltsradio.com at 21:00 on Sunday, repeated on Wednesdays and on listen again for your convenience.

01. Toby Spin - Cogs of War/ Techno Trapper
02. Whistling Treason - Longa Farahfaza
03. Rubber Bus - See You Down Washouse Mix
04. Kuxan Suum - Molecular Exploration
05. Pale Arcadia - Stay
06. Cracked Machine - Into the Chronosphere
07. Mighty Magic Animal - Come Away
08. The Lost Trades - Long Since Gone
09. Creation Rebel - Dub from Creation
10. Donette Forte - Jah See and Jah Know
11. Nimbostrata - Synth Medley 1
12. What Joy There Is In Living - Ancient Farming Techniques

04/02/2024

As we reach the heady heights of episode #125, we have plenty of treats and goodies for your aural interest all with some sort of local connection to the Wilderness area...it's the best way keep up to speed with your local music scene.

01. The Scribes - Shipwreck
02. The Scribes - The Desert
03. Lytupp - Toze
04. Rubber Bus - Assassin Squizz Mix
05. Zion Train - Shining Light Steppers
06. The Beaulieu Porch - The Carmelite Divine
07. The Brew Band - The Urge
08. The Ullulators - Mangonian Forest Muzik
09. Whistling Treason - Merrivale
10. The Hotcakes of Wildfire - Arp Odyssey

Tonight at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com and thereafter on listen again until the mountains crumble into the sea.

28/01/2024

Space is the place...tonight is the night...Episode 124 of SFTW in which we give our Chakras a bit of a rub and give the old astral cord a bit of a tug.

01. Slift - Weavers Weft
02. The Ullulators - Where the Wild Things Grow
03. Lytupp - Screeb
04. Soy Fuego - Mar de Musicas
05. Soundtrack Workshop - Work in Progress
06. Dit - Man on the River of Sand
07. Jon Turner - Content
08. Muleskinner Jones - Death Row Hoedown
09. Johnny Dowd - Another Mule / L*D

Loads of great local music and gig news broadcast on Sunday evening at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com and repeated Thursdays at 14:00.

21/01/2024

Some of these yoga poses are much harder than they look. The Praying Mantis is pictured here for the adventurous devotee. You can always lose your head more figuratively in the best sounds that Wiltshire and Somerset has to offer. There's a bit of a focus tonight. on what Sheer Music are putting on at the Trowbridge Village Pump in the next month or two

01. Frank Sidebottom - Panic on the Streets of Timperley
02. Augustus Pablo - Rockers Rock (Ghetto Funk remix)
03. Thought Bubble - Layer Cake
04. Richard Wileman - The Last Book of English Magic
05. Kavus Torabi - The Sentinel
06. Borrowed Atlas - Keep it Low
07. Semantics - Think of a World
08. Travis Waltons - A Damn Fine Cop
09. The Worried Men - Meadow Stone
10. The Sunnies - Veridity
11. Young Francis Hifi - Julia
12. Eat Your Own Head - Come Undone
13. Brasher - Scorpions

Loads of great local music and gig news broadcast on Sunday evening at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com and repeated Thursdays at 14:00.

13/01/2024

The short lived My Little Ktulu range never really caught on , possibly due to the toys having a habit of driving their owners into an eternal torment of madness and devouring their souls.

Here in the Wilderness though, we are safely inured from such Lovecraftian apparitions and are just getting on with the music while we wait for January to drift into February...

Loads of great local music and gig news broadcast on Sunday evening at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com and repeated Thursdays at 14:00.

Be there, or be trapped within R'lyeh for all eternity...

01. New Model Army - Young Gifted and Skint
02. Beaulieu Porch - Man Green
03. Thought Bubble - Eclipse of Reason
04. Midnight Zone - Dissolve
05. Ushti Baba - Rootless
06. Billy in the Lowground - No Chance for a Slow Dance
07. Separation Street - Water Hymn
08. Cara Dillon - Blackwater Side
09. Nothing Rhymes With Orange - Butterflies
10. Subharmonic Ensemble - Fading Colours
11. RSVP - Love Cure (DnB mix)
12. The Ambrosiacs - Annie and Alex
13. Nucleus - Song for the Bearded Lady

07/01/2024

While it might be as wet as an otter's or***ce out there, here in the wilderness we are drying off nicely with the glow of loads of hot tunes from Wilts and Somerset, bookended with some olde world tunes about floods.

Tonight at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com and repeated Thursdays at 14:00 and uploaded to listen again for all eternity.

01. Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks
02. Joam - La Bale
03. Kuxan Suum - S U N G
04. Billy in the Lowground - Fallen Queen
05. Man Green - Tick Tock
06. Beaulieu Porch - Thorneywood
07. Creeping Line Ahead - BS
08. Skulls Awake - Space Race
09. Noble Jacks - The Blacksmith Stomp
10. Langan Band - Old Tom's Waltz/ Reel Valencia
11. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

31/12/2023

Tonight at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com Sounds From the Wilderness is all about the Wilts and Somerset music scene. See out the last of 2023 with some banging tunes. Repeated Thursday daytime and on listen again after tonight. Token NYE track at the start.

01. Band of Gypsies - Auld Lang Syne/Who Knows
02. Dan Lambert - This Crazy Christmas
03. Jon W Turner - Bed
04. An Danssa - Air on Turas
05. Benjamin Zephaniah - Roots and Culture
06. Spum - The Squeeze
07. Kuxan Suum- Melting
08. Zion Train - Revolution sounds
09. Great Imperial Yoyo - Now We're There We're Here

24/12/2023

Tonight at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com there's a change to our regular fare. It's all about the xmas tunes tonight.

Normal service will be resumed next week, so rack up another egg nog, tip that party hat to a more jaunty angle and get blotto in the grotto

01. Libidos - Evolution
02. Marcel - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
03. SAHB - There's No Lights on the Xmas Tree Mama, They're Burning Big Louie tonight.
04. Jimmy Smith - Sant Claus is Coming to Town
05. Can - Little Star of Bethlehem
06. Half Man Half Biscuit - It's Cliched to be Cynical at Xmas
07. Stiff Little Fingers - White Xmas
08. The Ramones - Merry Xmas (I Don't Want to Fight)
09. Misfits - Blue Xmas
10.Jr and the Soulettes - Rock and Roll Santa
11. The Fall - Hark the Herald Angels Sing
12. Johnny Clarke - I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus
13. Lee Scratch Perry - Merry Xmas, Happy New Year
14. Prince Buster - Jingle Bells Ska
15. Byron Lee and the Dragonaires - Winter Wonderland Reggae
16. The Specials - Enjoy Yourself

10/12/2023

tonight at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com Sounds From the Wilderness brings you all the news on local tunes and gig news. You're either on the bus or you're off it. repeated Thursday daytime and on listen again after tonight.

01. John Francis Glynn - Mole in the Ground
02. Motorik Road Trip - Champa Moon
03. Electric Wizard - L*D
04. The Ullulators - Space Migration Dub
05. Lords Of Form - Yakbatters Last Stand
06. Jump Jump Joan - This Night
07. Borrowed Atlas - Keep it Low
08. Ravetawnk - Lois's Magic Sweater
09. Samatics 0 Keep Music in Mind
10. Complex Karma - Halo
11. The Financial Year - Serpenti Serpenti
12. Kitchen Lovers - Birthday Suit
13. RSVP - Jugni

03/12/2023

Tonight at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com and repeated on Thursdays at 15:00, Sounds From the Wilderness brings you all the best music from West Wilts and Somerset.

After a few week of exclusive live shows and interviews, we're getting stuck into the backlog of new releases in the Wilderness area...new tunes from Midnight Zone, Ushti Baba, Billy in the Lowgorund, Lytupp, Manic General and we also pay tribute to Shane MacGowan and Killing Joke's Geordie Walker who both sadly died in the last week.

1. The Pogues - The Dark Streets of London
2. Monkey Bizzle - C U Next Tuesday
3. Midnight Zone - Consumption
4. Ushti Baba - Pas de Passeport
5. Billy in the Lowground - So The Story Grows
6. Killing Joke - Requiem
7. Lytupp - Dread
8. Boot Hill All Stars - Lovelling the Land
9. Manic General - Action Man
10. Frank Zappa - Black Napkins
11. Velocity Pattison - Hell Inspires
12. The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes

26/11/2023

Out here in Wilderness Land we've been tracking down the best music in West Wilts and Somerset like a latter day Alan Lomax.

This week we've got tracks from Avon and Cara Means Friend before we get stuck into an exclusive chat and a few tunes with Gavin Ullulator ahead of their headline show at Kozfest Xmas Party in Glastonbury on 10 December

Tune in on Sunday at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com or catch it afterwards at https://westwiltsradio.com/shows/sounds-from-the-wilderness/

Cara Means Friend The Ullulators Avon Desert Rock Kozmik Kens Psychedelic Dream Festival

21/11/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/West_Wilts_Radio/115-sounds-from-the-wilderness-19-nov-2023/

As regular as reincarnation, tune in every Sunday at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com to discover the latest sounds in the Wilderness. All the best bits of West Wilts and North Somerset can be found here... Continuing the Wilderness Proms series, episode #115 features 45 minutes of Life in Mono recor...

19/11/2023

As regular as reincarnation, tune in on Sunday at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com to discover the latest sounds in the Wilderness. All the best bits of West Wilts and North Somerset can be found here...

Continuing the Wilderness Proms series, tonights show features 45 minutes of Life in Mono recorded at the Village Pump in Trowbridge on 11 November, but we've still time for a few new releases before the main event.

01. Billy in the Lowground - Small-town Blues
02. Littlemen - Visions
03. Astorothica - The Haunting
04. Life in Mono - Live at the Village Pump

repeated Thurdays at 15:00 and available to listen again at https://westwiltsradio.com/shows/sounds-from-the-wilderness/

12/11/2023

Tune in on Sunday at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com to discover the latest sounds in the increasingly damp world that is the Wilderness. All the great and the good from West Wilts and North Somerset can be found here...

Tonight we've got an exclusive recording of bubblegum punk pop tarts Young Francis Hi-Fi live at the Royal Oak in Bath earlier this month, as wall as new tracks from the 'hood.

01. Almagrey - Tunnels
02. Cerminara - Trip to Tomorrow
03. Dry White Bones - Hippocandy
04. Parker - Ruin My Life
05. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Swan Song
06. Young Francis Hifi - Live at the Royal Oak 04 November 2023

repeated Thurdays at 15:00 and available to listen again at https://westwiltsradio.com/shows/sounds-from-the-wilderness/

05/11/2023

Tune in on Sunday at 21:00 on www.westwiltsradio.com to discover the latest sounds in the increasingly damp world that is the Wilderness. All the great and the good from West Wilts and North Somerset can be found here...

01. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Rainy Day, Dream Away
02. Kuxan Suum - From a Distant Star
03. Joam - Intrumental, 18th September 2020
04. Palooka 5 - Radio Telescope
05. RDF and Youth - Food Bank
06. Billy in the Lowground - All Hail the Clown
07. The Bucky Rage - Snails
08. Future Plan - untitled
09. Charlton Lane - My Name
10. Birdman Cult - Housecat
11. Far Cue - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
12. The Upside Down Clinic - The Remedy
13. The Hotcakes of Wildfire - Tinned Okra

Repeated on Thursdays at 14:00 and on listen again at https://www.mixcloud.com/.../112-sounds-from-the.../