The Listening Club - 14th January 2024

Hey folks, 

Hope you're all doing good - Pretty standard grey / wet here, with a little touch of clear / cold occasionally, but we're pretty much bedded into winter, which seems like a perfect time to head off to a different part of the world or two, which is what we're about to do - first decent trip away for a good few years, thanks to pandemics and other real world concerns, so we're seriously looking forward to it. Major thanks to @EmmaPrice & @Saucer who have offered to take over management here whilst we're away - never know though, we might be tuning in from a distance if we get a chance, will have to wait and see... either way, see you in a month or so!

Last Sunday, we marked the changing of the years in customary #LC style with the 2023 #FestiveVortex, 33 slices of super-varied sounds, the mixing of which always causes no end of furrowed brows for me, so thanks for the post-playback props, it's always very much appreciated!

Looking back into '23, we see the aforementioned @EmmaPrice was left holding the frisbee, so over to her for the first #LC intro of '24...

"Evening all, hope 2024 is treating you well so far.

You know when you start getting to know someone better and realise you've found a musical sibling who reacts in the same way you do to the music that's within your soul. Someone who reminds you why you love a certain track or the way someone makes a guitar sing. It opens the door to the very heart of who you are and what's important in your world. I've had that experience recently and it's intoxicatingly glorious. My first gig with this person was this artist in an intimate London venue late last year and it was one of my gigs of the year. I've not done the final tally yet but my band count for last year is 150+ so you can understand why I'm so excited to share tonight's artist with you.

When the frisbaton landed I instantly knew I was picking this album. It was such a refreshing change to not have pickers angst/doing the whole shortlisting process.

This artist was a Boomtown Festival discovery thanks to a late night chat backstage with someone I met in a mosh pit due to his most excellent band shirt. Once I'd recovered from going to bed at 10am on the final day I started listening to this artists work and was immediately hooked. This album came out in October and has been on pretty constant rotation for me since. Only reason I didn't put a track into the best of 2023 vortex was not spoilering tonight.

Drinking Club is something yellow - White wine/beer/cider all count by my reckoning :)"

Right then, download's here, stream's below:

See you 20:00 GMT tonight!