The Listening Club - 5th January 2020

Greetings folks.

Happy new year? We should be so lucky, eh? Already seems like there's been more than enough unwanted craziness, and we're only five days in.... *deep breath*

Still, the annual ceremonial #festivevortex should keep us all protected and positive for a good while. Thanks to everyone for chipping in their fave raves, and thanks also for the compliments about the resulting mix, glad everyone dug it.

Back to regular programming, a few weeks ago @brainspiritus was left holding the festive frisbee, and therefore is right here with the intro to the first pick of the year...

"Happy year of the banana, everybody!

(Because as with the old banana joke, I know how to write the year 202020, I just don't know when to stop.)

I hope you all made it here in one piece, avoiding all the missiles that have been flying for one reason or another, and any hangover you may have had is slowly subsiding.

Just in case there is any remaining headache, I decided against surprise metal guitars tonight, so you're getting something from my usual corner in the big sphere of music instead (sorry, xpollen).  Today's pick is somewhat of a classic: this group has been around for twenty-five years now, and their ancestor formation for another twenty-five years before that. So dig out your tie-dye t-shirts, blame that funky-smelling smoke on residual fireworks, and let your freak flags fly with me for one hour and five minutes. (I promise there's more than two songs in that.)"

Okaydoke, direct download is here, and the stream's below:

See you at 8pm GMT tonight!