The Listening Club - 17th August 2025

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing well and good. Been a lovely hot week here, which has been very pleasing for m'self and Hype Cat to name but two, as we're getting to that point in the summer where the end is in sight, so a little more attention is paid to getting out there and making the most of it. Still plenty more to do, tho, including the arrival of a whole ton of tall floaty things next week as Amsterdam does it's SAIL thing (cap letters mandatory, apparently) for the first time in ten years. I admit I'm not the most nautical person by a long chalk, but I do like a boat or ten (thousand), and I do like a spectacle, so quite looking forward to seeing what it's all about I'd say...

Last Sunday, chez #LC, we saw @SimonLandmine getting cinematic with his pick of Barry Adamson's "As Above, So Below" from 1998, which resulted in a goodly amount of thumbs up from the assembled, I'd say. Thanks to Simon for the pick and for sailing the frisb over to @FaberFedor, who's right here with today's intro...

"I've got a dozen or so CDs, EPs, and digital tracks sitting on my desk waiting to be vetted for y'all.

You'd think being laid up on my back for a month+ would be a great time to catch up on all of this (and other things you can do while lying on a couch all day), but NOooo. These drugs don't help out at all with that kind of music (and you can listen to just so much Pink Floyd).

So I give you one of my \#LC fallback choices; an OST for a decent film iirc, apropos for its times but maybe not today. Although, if you look around and squint just right..."

Right then, download's here in m4a, or if you want an mp3, click here and get it from HearThis, or just play the stream below, it's all bacon...

See you 20:00 BST (GMT+1) later today.