Oi! from South East London,

A little more put together this time around, and perhaps you can tell? March's show has a particularly good selection of both new selections and familiar discs, an hour so stacked it made the deck "collapse the files". Never seen that before, never want to again, but at least we've done this long enough to smooth things over.

There are a few related events for your diary, should you want to see what makes us two tick:

• Vic DJs Dalston Superstore for a Filton 24 support fundraiser April 9th. As yet unofficially announced but the newsletter waits for no man (in drag).

• Ben's paper round persists: he'll be the guest on the next Heads on Sticks radio show, broadcasting live on Aaja Radio this Easter Sunday (5th April, at 3pm).

• The day after, the house band Rubber will be playing at the Shacklewell Arms with JJ & the As, Grazia and Keno. A calming bank holiday activity, as I'm sure you'll agree. Monday 6th April, 7pm sharp, a tenner please.

  

Listen: Voices Radio • 15.03.26

01. Daniel Bachman - A Threshold for All Life
02. xin - indoors in time
03. Esplendor Geométrico - Metallum (Atom TM Remix)
04. Dhangsha - Resilience
05. Barcelona - No Hay Sociedad
06. Kaleidoscope - SIGINT --> E.K.I.A.
07. Sharp Pins - Queen of Globes and Mirrors
08. Bill Orcutt - Or Difficult to See
09. Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartet - This Old World Is in a Bad Condition
10. Abigail Snail - Stay Rad
11. Hiroyuki Onigawa - Sacrifice
12. Surgeon - Krautrock Version III
13. V.I.V.E.K. - Asteroids
14. Dot Rotten - Rowdy Riddim
15. LL Cool J - I Shot Ya (Remix)
16. Shinichi Atobe - The Red Line
17. Fauzia - The Way
18. CCFX - Venetian Screens (Long Dark Tunnel Remix)

You can hear the show on our Mixcloud and Soundcloud. Links to tracks available on Bandcamp can be found on our Buy Music Club.

We will be broadcasting live again on Voices Radio next month on Sunday 19th March 2026 at 20:00 UK time.

Yeah, I’m First In The Rave

Spent an inordinate amount of time reading about Spanish anarchism for school this month and my brain briefly vacated my body, so only just coming back to earth right now. Anyway turns out everything bad there is the same everywhere else, who knew! Bizarre side fact I found out: the Wapping Autonomy Center that pops up in the 1980s period of Penny Rimbaud’s autobiography was founded by the bloke who produced Top Boy. I was also introduced to the writing of Albert Meltzer, who had some real zingers:

Graphs that show a red line steeply declining aside, I recently played for friends of the show Sunday School. Got to see Kute at last, who do a very sick “hardcore band played by Nirvana tone freaks” thing. Sadly I didn’t get to meet Loefah, but can’t win them all. Sunday School’s next instalment is extremely soon, with the kind of out-there lineup I expect from them. Catch me in the Schwefelgelb pit.

Show wise, I gotta re-emphasise how much I love that new Daniel Bachman record. He has consistently put out amazing work way, way beyond the cosmos of boilerplate “American Primitive” guitar stuff – and as I alluded on the show, I highly recommend the video of him displaying the cantareel he partially used to make the record.

Things I didn’t play on the show but did play in the club last weekend: the incredibly anonymous work of SM-LL Records, a label (and corresponding tape sub-label) with no artist names, no information and no artwork. Repetitive Strain approves of all manners of commercial suicide. A huge amount to dig into – more than I could get to in a 72 hour time span – but I played the clanking, Unwound-referencing UAN0024. Alongside that, I’ve been partial to the Drexciyan freakout of UAN0031, the inverse sub-rattlers of UAN0027 and the dub disintegrations of UAN0021.

Finally, RIP to Dot Rotten and Motorhead’s Phil Campbell. Two of the greatest.

I hate that diamond bastard

I am at once keeping up with the Horrors and watching two hour videos about the history of scanners, so you could say it’s been a typical time?

Inevitably, the full release of that Station Model Violence LP has captured my full attention this month, a whipsmart rock record that trusts in twelve-strings and perhaps a little more unashamedly open about wearing their influence on their sleeves. KWISIS.

It’s both mine and Vic’s birthday season between this show and next, and being around the earth long enough to see fashions and sounds come back around is no longer a novelty - what remains exciting is seeing friends, fellow travelers you’ve known for decades evolve and refine but still making the good stuff as they go. I fully expect DX to be in that cohort, and Henge Beat to have a revival amongst a new generation of cybernetic mega-greebos as we reach retirement age.

It will be amusing to see which bands, D-I-Y and stadium alike, will end up on a reunion tour in 2056, running through a decades-old roster in a holographic New Cross Inn.

One of my favourite album titles from a veteran band? The Voltarol Years.

Speaking of soothing balms: glad to receive a DM from a friend of the show alerting me to GEL, or Grassroots Events London, a new listings and ticketing website that launched this week. An anti-RA, moored in the D-I-Y electronic scene but open to all fellow travelers, venues and promoters, so have a nosey.

They should really get that logo of theirs on a baseball cap, too.