Episodes
Friday Jun 10, 2011
The Anoraks: European Adventures and Tenacious Tunes
Friday Jun 10, 2011
Friday Jun 10, 2011
The Anoraks return with a show more packed than your auntie’s suitcase before a week in Marbella. The trio examine perceptions of a mainland European music in the UK, where next for Battles and why sailing a boat named Titanic Two might just be ill-advised. Great music from the likes of La Bionda, The Sonics, Benji Boko and Tinariwen accompanies Cyril’s next stop as he traverses America; the life of the late, great Pinetop Perkins is debated in a Dead Good that looks at Delta Bluesmen and the City Shanty Band are the latest in our series on bizarre collectives in the capital. Tune in…
Friday Jun 10, 2011
The Anoraks: The Wire Magazine special with Derek Walmsley
Friday Jun 10, 2011
Friday Jun 10, 2011
The Anoraks have the pleasure of inviting The Wire magazine’s reviews editor Derek Walmsley into the studio to talk new releases, trends and beautifully obscure music. The likes of Dalglish, DVA and Fatima, Samamidon, Addison Groove and Sufjan Stevens provide aural delights providing the soundtrack to an episode fact with facts, analysis and silliness. The Anoraks will be puzzling over Real Fake, heading to the US via Adventuring Anorak Cyril and featuring a report from The Great Escape festival.
Wednesday May 04, 2011
The Anoraks: Trojan Records Special
Wednesday May 04, 2011
Wednesday May 04, 2011
The Anoraks set a virtual course for Jamaica to profile the legendary reggae label, Trojan Records. One of the most influential musical outputs of all time, Trojan has been synonymous with great reggae, rock steady and dancehall among a plethora genres and sub-genres. Starting with its roots in 1967, The Anoraks will guide you from the label’s foundations at Duke Reid’s liquor store right the way through its catalogue featuring Robert ‘Dandy’ Thompson, Dennis Walks, Lee Perry, Louisa Mark and many more with the help of Earl Gateshead, the selector heading up the mighty Trojan Soundsystem.
Friday Apr 08, 2011
The Anoraks: Fats, Facials and Rising Stars
Friday Apr 08, 2011
Friday Apr 08, 2011
The Anoraks return with zips up to the max for a stonker of a show. Tom Bonnett, Alex Lawson and Alex Burnard profile Fats Waller in the tastlessly-titled feature Dead Good, the Sony Awards are profiled with Ronnie Wood dubbed a rising star at 63 and adventuring Anorak Cyril reaches Mexico on his musical map of the world. Music comes from the likes of Panda Bear, 2562, Milton Hamilton and non-other than the Hackney Colliery Band. The Anoraks is a bi-weekly show on Shoreditchradio.co.uk, check the website for more.
Thursday Mar 10, 2011
The Anoraks: Plugger, potting sheds and The xx
Thursday Mar 10, 2011
Thursday Mar 10, 2011
The Anoraks don their snazzy jackets for another broadcast full of cheery banter, over earnest musical chat and down right glorious music. This week Jamie from The xx tells the Anoraks about his reworking of Gil Scott-Heron’s album I’m New Here in an in-depth interview, the Nerd-Js discuss the new Tempo Explosion dancehall album and we discuss plugger Scott Piering in our tastelessly-titled feature, Dead Good. Elsewhere there’s music from the likes of Toro Y Moi, Hercules and Love Affair, Hempolics, Sugar Minnott and Adventuring Anorak Cyril continues his musical map of the world.
Friday Feb 18, 2011
The Anoraks: Glam, goth and fishy tales
Friday Feb 18, 2011
Friday Feb 18, 2011
The Anoraks return, broadcasting from deepest, rainiest north London spinning their usual mix of chirpy chat and tectonic-plat shifting tunes. This week the likes of The Rulers, Julio Bashmore and The Bullitts soundtrack a show which answers some pressing questions. How can you deal with a plethora of fish-related shows? Would you rather be a glam rocker or a goth? Do we care that Radiohead are back? And how can you get a good night’s sleep while drifiting off to something top notch? Oh, and what happened to Adventuring Anorak Cyril after his brush with the clink.
Wednesday Feb 02, 2011
The Anoraks: Dastardly downloading and measurement conundrums
Wednesday Feb 02, 2011
Wednesday Feb 02, 2011
The three nerDJs return with a fistful of aural delights and jovial spring in their step. Louis Armstrong, Flying Lotus, Madvillian, Yo La Tengo and Wagonchrist are some of those muscling in between the chirpy chat. This week, The Anoraks discuss bizarre ways of downloading, the how Ali Farka Toure became a legend in his own time and how one may measure the ring size of a sleeping woman in our profile of the excellent podcast, Answer Me This
Wednesday Jan 19, 2011
The Anoraks: Mole men and hookers
Wednesday Jan 19, 2011
Wednesday Jan 19, 2011
The Anoraks welcome in the new year by digging our hands deep in our pockets to offer up a fistful of great tunes. The Mighty Threes, Tom Waits Mount Kimbie, Forest Swords and Moderat are among those offering aural accompaniment to excitable chat and reggae revolutionary Alex Bunnard rounds up his top ten reggae singles. This week, we receive both a postcard from Germany and a Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis – guess which one we read first? Also we take a look at the mysterious mole man of Hackney, William Lyttle.
Tuesday Jan 04, 2011
The Anoraks: Elektra Records, Sound Art and Hynagogic Pop
Tuesday Jan 04, 2011
Tuesday Jan 04, 2011
This week Anoraks Tom Bonnett, Alex Burnard and Alex Lawson tie up the toggles on their macks for a blockbuster show as wide in musical scope as a Mexican skiffle quartet attending a rap battle. The Shoreditch Radio trio used some serious shoe leather in covering the launch of a new book on Elektra Records featuring the musings of head honcho Jac Holtzman; braved the winding corridors of one of Shoreditch's most interesting new venues XOYO, to secure an interview with hynagogic pop starlet Oneohtrix Point Never and profiled Sound Fjord, the gallery at the forefront of the Sound Art movement. What with all that, and music from the likes of Dennis Brown, Girl Unit, Chris Carter, as well as a tribute to the legendary Gregory Isaacs, there's plenty to get your lugholes into. More info at shoreditchradio.com
Thursday Dec 02, 2010
The Anoraks on Shoreditch Radio
Thursday Dec 02, 2010
Thursday Dec 02, 2010
This week The Anoraks of Tom Bonnett, Alex Burnard and Alex Lawson don their macks for a deluge of musical mightiness. The Nerd-Js discuss the new compilation Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers - Alternative Takes On Congotronics featuring Juana Molina, Andrew Bird, Kasai Allstars, Juana Molina and more, go down to the bottom of the garden to find out what's in Micah P Hinson and decide how best to an achieve an orgasm at the Christmas dinner table.