The Listening Club - 21st September 2025

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing OK. Back from my travels with thanks extended to @corin_ja for holding the fort last week, very much appreciated. Returning to a very blowy and rainy Amsterdam, which is a bit of a shame, but par for the course given the time of year. So it goes...

And not just time of year, but time of month, which is nearing the end (already!) therefore we'll be needing a #vortex theme - suggestions welcome in the chat if you have them, thx!

Last Sunday, that very same @corin_ja was pulling double duty, not just hosting, but also treating the assembled to "Fire Escape In The Sky: The Godlike Genius Of Scott Walker", which, as I wasn't around, I'm hoping went down pretty good with the assembled. Thanks again to Corin for the tunes, and for sailing the frisb across South London to @ogili, who is here with tonight's intro...

"Well, it’s going a bit pearshaped in Britain I fear, so some ‘“Post-Brexit apocalypse disco” from a duo putting Minehead on the map feels appropriate.  

Imagine a pinch of artists like T-Rex, Chaz and Dave, MC Pitman, Goldie Looking Chain, LCD Sound System, The Fall, Happy Mondays, Denim, low rider era War, mixed with British bravado/ennui, and then stirred into an ill-advised couple of pints of take out lager, which has been left out of the fridge while everyone’s been playing Mario Kart in the living room. 

The irony of this pick, for me, was that there was no dithering about which artist this time.  But a HUGE amount of dithering about what to pick by them. Do I go for the first album with its opener which sounds a little like LCD Soundsystem featuring MC Pitman, or the more recent and more introspective stuff?

So I tossed a coin, and went for this."

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

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