The Listening Club - 6th July 2025

Greetings folks,

Yes indeedy, @kleptones here, back again from my travels, and in typical "need a holiday to get over the holiday" mode. It was worth it though, of course. Major thanks to @corin_ja, @saucer, @holette & @akx for keeping the boat afloat whilst I was away, really grateful to you all. Sadly the weekend here has been full of overcast soggy weather, which is fine for the greenery, but not so fine for Amsterdam Roots Festival, which is happening today and always seems to get the unluckiest weather forecast, year after year. Hoping it clears up before the end of the day so we can pop down for a bit, therefore tapping this out early just in case...

Last Sunday, as I was communing with many other folks of a certain age (including one Stewart Lee, celeb-spotters), watching the very legendary Roy Harper at Glastonbury, back here in #LC land twas the annual solstice-driven #LiveVortex, which looked like a mighty wide ranging selection as always. Many thanks to everyone for chipping in tunes, and to @akx for the mix. Back in regular programming mode, we find @ThatNewSound holding the frisb with this to say by way of introduction to tonight's pick...

"The pattern so far has been old, new, old and so this one was meant to be a brand new one but Ive been feeling out of the groove recently and havent heard many really fresh releases that tickled me. Scanning my slowly growing collection of pre-saved maybes wasnt inspiring me too much either, there's some good stuff there but none of it felt right this time. For a brief moment I thought maybe something chilled and sunset ready would be good, but the weather looks like it might be a bit crap here this weekend.

Instead what Ive ended up doing is just picking something I like... again. This record is pretty noisy so you're owed a fair warning. It was released in 2025 but right back at the beginning and so I've given it a fair few spins since then and even seen the artist live which I will encourage you to do after the revel. There's a song on it about the commodification of queer culture and they've been pretty outspoken about the many forms of bigotry. It being Pride weekend this felt like it could be a winner and so it was chosen.

Non drinkers grab yourself something colourful but those attending drinking club should absolutely get themselves in a few cans of 'Existence As A Radical Act' from Queer Brewing... I'll probably be nursing a hangover they caused on saturday - hopefully this LC pick will bring me back to life."

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

See you 20:00 BST (GMT+1) tonight!