This is the latest instalment of the GIG LIFE RADIO show which runs in conjunction with the GIG LIFE CRISIS group on Facebook.

The playlist was created with the aid of people from the GLC family who sent in requests ahead of the show going out as well as your trusted DJ's (Steve & Rich) who use their 'spidey senses' to tell you about bands that will be topping festival bills all over the world in a few years time (well, maybe...)

Here's the playlist;

1. Rats Eat Rats - Nezumi
2. Venice Treacle - The Glass
3. The Lilacs - Calling it a Night
4. Pet Needs - Ibiza in Winter (acoustic)

Dickie Dunn's Divergent Discovery
5. The Youth Play - If We Just Ever Were
6. Chalk - Afraid
7. Stella Rose - Beautiful Twenty Something

8. The Howlers Interview Feature part 1

9. Haunted Mouths - Further 'til We Disappear
10. Neriah - Red Flag
11. Brooke Combe
12. Sunwheel - Northern Lights
13. CLT DRP - Until You Showed Me
14. Pit Pony - Vacancy
15. Alex Spencer - Do What I Wanna
16. Hot Wax - Rip it Out

17. The Howlers Interview Feature part 2

18. Youth Lagoon - Speed Freak
19. Sprints - How Does the Story Go?
20. Bleach Lab - Drown

Dickie's Dinosaur
21. The Waterboys - Hopper's on Top (Genius)

22. Snakes with Tits - Tyranny
23. Priddice Brothers Band - Wanderlust
24. Ewan Sim - Lost & Found
25. Mother Vulture - Slow Down
26. The Vive - Life Goes On (World Exclusive First Play)

We'll be back on 23 February with another trunk full of tracks for you as well as an interview with a tremendous punk band called The Threats, until then....

Steve & Rich aka your GIG LIFE RADIO presenters.

GIG LIFE RADIO 9 FEBRUARY 2025

This is a show dedicated to the amazing bands who are appearing at the Sound Factory Festival at The Depo venue in the heart of Plymouth on Saturday 8th March, 2025.

We have interviews with The Rhodes and Lissy Taylor.

Tickets available from https://www.seetickets.com/event/sound-factory-festival/the-depo/3182166

Be there!

Sound Factory Festival - Plymouth - March 8th 2025

Steve from Gig Life Radio chatted to Nothing Rhymes With Orange at the Gig Life Gathering event that took place in Cheltenham on 18 January 2025.

Nothing Rhymes With Orange - Gig Life Gathering Interview Jan 2025

Steve from Gig Life Radio chatted to The Rosadocs at the Gig Life Gathering event that took place in Cheltenham on 18 January 2025.

The Rosadocs - Gig Life Gathering Interview Jan 2025

This is the latest instalment of the GIG LIFE RADIO show which runs in conjunction with the GIG LIFE CRISIS group on Facebook.

The playlist was created with the aid of people from the GLC family who send in requests ahead of the show going out (mainly Gerald the Gimp) and we did receive a number of tracks that were included on the playlist so a massive thanks to all of you that suggested them.

Here's the playlist;

Erotic Secrets of Pompeii - Speak Medieval 

Billy No Mates - The Test 

Honeyblue - Rain Check 


Dickie Dunn's Divergent Discoveries

Whitehorse - Doesn't Come Close

Jopy - Head Hunters Pub and Grub

Bashful Billy - Lyre Lyre


SlamDunk Festival Feature 

Hot Milk - 90 Seconds to Midnight 

Delilah Bon - Not the President 

Wargasm - Circle Pit 


Dinosaur Pileup - ‘Bout To Lose It 

Dinosaur Pileup - It's Tricky


COSM Interview Part 1


Léa Sen - Level 6 - Video Games

Incubus - Drive 

The Castros - 50 Pence 

Webmoms - Salsa Verde


The Big Feastival Feature 

The Waeve - Love is All Pain

Faithless - Insomnia 

Rizzle Kicks - Bad Tattoo


Dickie's Dinosaur

The Damned - See Her Tonite


COSM Interview Part 2


Counting Crows - Spaceman in Tulsa 

Rocketsmith - Stiff Upper Lip


We’ll be back on Sunday 6th April with another batch of new tracks for you to enjoy, we’ll also be chatting to a band called HUNNY BUZZ who will be appearing at Gig Life Gathering II in Coventry, until then…

Lots of love - Steve & Rich (and Gerald)

GIG LIFE RADIO 23 MARCH 2025

With a reunion show planned for 2nd August in Wolverhampton, I caught up with Glenn Dodd, the guitarist from Sandkings about getting the band back together, their new vocalist Vince Cocker, new material, set lists, favourite tracks and future plans.

Sonic Nomads in conversation with GLENN DODD of The Sandkings

Welcome one and all to the debut edition of the SONIC NOMADS podcast.

We exist to bring you the FINEST in alternative music from every nook and cranny of this planet we call earth.

On this show, we feature 16 incredible bands and artists and hope that you'll enjoy our offerings.

Here's the playlist

Billy Nomates - Plans 
Yogi-G and the Family Tree - Shine on Brother
Lip Filler - Haircut
Heart Attack Man - Spit
Dope Lemon - Golden Wolf 
Saint Leonard - Martini Symphony
Post Malone - Breed ft Travis Barker **
Panic Shack - Gok Wan
Penfriend - The Life of the Party
Oswald Slain - Kiss me on the Mouth
The Pale White - Lost in the Moment
Oslo Twins - Tresor
Spin Class - Bagel Bagel Bagel 
The Cult - Vendetta X
Sorry - Jetplane
Bush - 60 Ways to Forget People

We'll be back very soon with episode 2 of the show that is pretty much all ready to go, just a few nips and tucks and it'll be out for you to enjoy (or tolerate...)

Until then, be good, stay safe and we'll be back filling your ears with some wonderful new music and the usual amount of pointless banter.

Much Love, Steve & Rich

SONIC NOMADS Podcast - Episode 1

Welcome to the third edition of the SONIC NOMADS podcast.

We exist to bring you the FINEST in alternative music from every nook and cranny of this planet we call earth.

On this show, we feature 20 incredible bands and artists and hope that you'll enjoy our offerings.

We also chat about the Summer Sessions that are taking place in Plymouth in mid June 2025.

Here's the playlist.

Softcult - Pill to Swallow
Lunar Paths - Lifesong
Erotic Secrets Of Pompeii - Bring Me Back from the Black Beyond
Absolutely Anytime - A Little Bit Real
CMAT - Take a Sexy Picture of Me
Fugazi - Long Division
Basht. - Burn
Teen Creeps - No Show
Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom
Max Ginnel - Uncertain Confusion
Sleeps Under Beams - My Mister Goodbye
Tom A. Smith - Get Me Started
Hot Milk - Insubordinate Ingerland
Dea Matrona - Red Button
Somebody's Child - Last Night I Held Your Hand
Audio Obscura - Held on Air
Peter Murphy - The Artroom Wonder
Joe La Truite - Light Speed
Yungblud - Lovesick Lullaby
Shadows of a Silhouette - No Matter Where I Go

We'll be back in a couple of weeks with episode 4, I have a few gigs to attend before then so will have plenty to tell you all about and of course we'll hopefully have Andy G's audio postcards from this year's Bearded Theory Festival.

Until then, be good, stay safe and we'll be back filling your ears with some wonderful new music and the usual amount of inane banter.

Much Love,

Steve & Rich

SONIC NOMADS Podcast - Episode 3

Ahead of DOWNLOAD 2025 taking place, we wanted to showcase 12 of the acts performing this year that YOU should definitely make a beeline for.

We selected acts playing on the DOGTOOTH and AVALANCHE stages which are launch pads for bands just breaking through into the mainstream and stages that host a few old dogs who want to play a more intimate set.

Playlist

1. The Haunt - Teeth
2. The Meffs - Stamp it Out 
3. Battlesnake - Murder Machine
4. Opeth - §1
5. Holy Wars - Cult Classic
6. Twin Atlantic - Stuck in a Car With You 
7. Split Chain - I'm Not Dying to be Here
8. Kittie - Fire
9. Cattle Decapitation - Scourge of the Offspring
10. Me First and the Gimme Gimmies - Who Put the Bomp 
11. Harpy - Born to Destroy
12. Sikth - Cracks of Light (ft. Spencer Sotelo)

If you're off to Download in early June, please consider the above acts as well as your main stage faves.

Download 2025 Takeover Feature

Welcome to the fourth edition of the SONIC NOMADS podcast.

We exist to bring you the FINEST in alternative music from every nook and cranny of this planet we call earth.

On this show, we feature 21 incredible bands and artists and hope that you'll enjoy our offerings.

Here's the playlist.

Fazerdaze - Motorway
Wylderness - Big Idea
Hotel Mira - Dancing with the Moonlight
The Gulps - The Kings House
White Lies - Nothing on Me
Youth Sector - The Ball
The Kowloons - I Don’t Care
Pop Will Eat Itself - Bruiser
Fat Black Cats - Area 51
Perspex - Chainsaws
Pale Blue Eyes - Shifting
Panic Shack - Girl Band Starter Pack
Dinosaur Pileup - Big Dogs
The Pill - Bale of Hay
Heavy Lungs - Yes Chef
Sons - Do My Thing
Pigs x7 - Blockage
Aerial Salad - L.A.
Kate Nash - Germ 
Psychedelic porn Crumpets - Another Reincarnation
Black Honey - Dead

We'll be back in a couple of weeks with episode 5.

Until then, be good, stay safe and we'll be back filling your ears with some wonderful new music and the usual amount of inane banter.

Much Love

Steve & Rich

SONIC NOMADS Podcast - Episode 4

Welcome to the 5th instalment of the SONIC NOMADS podcast.

Rather than play new music this time, we decided to delve back into the annals of history and play tracks from bands with quirky names.

I hope you enjoy our 21 track playlist which is chock full of bands that you may have heard of but may not have heard in the past.

Here's the playlist.

Naz Nomad & The Nightmares - Nobody But Me
Butthole Surfers - Lonesome Bulldog I, II, III & IV
Hoobastank - The Reason (acoustic)
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head - Beard Lust
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Is it for Me?
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Deadstick
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - Girl Sports
Death by Milkfloat - Breakbone
The Mr. T Experience - Even Hitler had a Girlfriend
Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
Crispy Ambulance	- Travel Time
Erotic Secrets of Pompeii - Truth Coming out of her Well
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - House Fire
The Lonely Biscuits - San Francisco
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - The Firesky
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - The Alpha The Omega
The Shania Twainsaw Massacre - Bleed Me
Naz Nomad & The Nightmares - Just Call me Sky

We'll be back in a couple of weeks with our regular new music show, stay tuned for more news on that.

Thanks for listening, keep on rockin'

Love Steve & Rich.

SONIC NOMADS Podcast - Episode 5

Welcome to the sixth edition of the SONIC NOMADS podcast.

We exist to bring you the FINEST in alternative music from every nook and cranny of this planet we call earth.

On this show, we feature 22 incredible bands and artists and hope that you'll enjoy our offerings.

Here's the playlist.

Bob Vylan & Amy Taylor - Dream Bigger
Kae Tempest - Know Yourself
Black Foxxes - Ha Ha Ha
Billie Marten - Feeling
Hot Milk - The American Machine
Spaceacre - Only a Lifetime
LEAP - Sinking Feeling
Spite House - Desert
Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins
Slow Crush - While You Dream Vividly
U.S. Girls - No Fruit
Young Martyrs - Everyone Else Disappears
Spin Class - Cake
Krooked Tongue - You Don’t Need a Sun Tan
Sprints - Descartes
Grace Hayhurst - Take Off
Joseph Simon - Final Flight
LORDE - Hammer
Yungblud - Zombie
Billy Idol - Still Dancing
HAIM - Gone
3 Days of Wonder - Damned and Wonderful

We'll be back in a couple of weeks with episode 7.

Until then, be good, stay safe and we'll be back filling your ears with some wonderful new music and the usual amount of inane banter.

Much Love

Steve & Rich

SONIC NOMADS Podcast - Episode 6

Welcome to the seventh edition of the SONIC NOMADS podcast.

On this show, we feature 20 FAB tracks performed by bands that didn't write the original versions, we call these COVER VERSIONS and we had a great time pulling them together fo r your listening pleasure!

Here's the playlist.

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
The Cure - Hello, I Love You (The Doors)
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust (Davie Bowie)
The Wedding Present - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel)
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (Ednaswap)
The Ataris - Boys of Summer (Don Henley)
Deftones - No Ordinary Love (Sade)
The Damned - White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
Ice Nine Kills - Someone Like You (Adele)
The Fall - Lost in music (Sister Sledge)
The Futureheads - Hounds of Love (Kate Bush)
Limp Bizkit - Faith (George Michael)
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson)
Lenny Kravitz - American Woman (The Guess Who)
Patti Smith - Gloria (Them/Van Morrison)
The White Stripes - Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Carter U.S.M. - Rent (Pet Shop Boys)
The Sundays - Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones)
Everyone You Know - Play God (Sam Fender)
MUSE - Feeling Good (Nina Simone)

We'll be back in a couple of weeks with episode 8.

Until then, be good, stay safe and we'll be back filling your ears with some wonderful new music and the usual amount of inane banter.

Much Love

Steve & Rich

SONIC NOMADS Podcast - Episode 7

We chatted to Tom and Tom from HOLY YOUTH MOVEMENT moments after they left the stage at ELECTRIC BAY FESTIVAL in Torquay where they opened for the mighty BLOC PARTY.

We had a good chat about the show, their forthcoming album, new singles and their very own signature cocktail called 'The Tranquilizer', you'll have to listen to the interview to know what is in it!

HOLY YOUTH MOVEMENT interview at Electric Bay 11 July 2025

We chatted to a superb Oxford based quartet called KANADIA ahead of their performance at The Underground on Mutley Plain in Plymouth where they were opening for the mighty BLACK FOXXES.

We had a good chat about the tour, their forthcoming 3rd studio album which is set to land in September, their new single and their favourite cheese, which yielded some interesting responses.... Listen in to find out who favours what!

KANADIA interview at Plymouth 20 July 2025

After their set at ELECTRIC BAY FESTIVAL, I caught up with PATTERN PUSHER to chat about whether a popular AI bot knew its stuff when it came to the band, weddings and meeting their heroes....

Pattern Pusher interview at Electric Bay Festival 11 July 2025

Welcome to the eighth edition of the SONIC NOMADS podcast.

On this show, we feature 18 FAB tracks performed by bands that you might not be familiar with, you may well have heard of a few of them but we hope there are some new ones in their for you to fall in love with.

Here's the playlist.

Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs
Bar Italiaa - Cowbella
The Hives - Legalize Living
Henrique Tome - Rope
Shame - Quiet Life
New Dad - Roobosh
Hot Wax - Tell me Everything’s Alright
Sunrose - In Waiting
Geese - Taxes
Royel Otis - Car
Wet Leg - Mange Tout
Lunch - Hinge Date
Bronski Beat - Small-town Boy Extended
Kanadia - Too Late Now
Jehnny Beth - No Good For People
Marc Almond - Worship me Now
Adult Leisure - The Rules
Ash - Give Me Back My World

We'll be back in a couple of weeks with episode 9.

Until then, be good, stay safe and we'll be back filling your ears with some wonderful new music and the usual amount of inane banter.

Much Love

Steve & Rich

SONIC NOMADS Podcast - Episode 8

After their set at Boardmasters 2025, I caught up with Bailey and Jordan from Bailey Tomkinson & The Locals to chat about their set, new material and what Boardmasters means to them as local Cornish musicians. They also asked each other questions and took part in our world famous Boardmasters Olympics. To learn what this consisted of, take a listen!

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