Original air date ~ 9th February 2023.

We talk to Leeds' post-punk yelpers Yard Act, touring Australia in support of their outspoken debut album "The Overload".

Stream the full program https://2ser.com/episodes/static-800pm-9th-feb-2023/

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 9th February was as follows ...

OPUS KINK "Dust" (Nice Swan)
THE GO! TEAM "Stay and Ask Me In A Different Way" (Memphis Industries)
YO LA TENGO "Sinatra Drive Breakdown" (Matador/Remote Control)
ROMY featuring FRED AGAIN.. "Strong" [PRETTY GIRL Remix] (Young/Remote Control)
SQUID "Swing (In A Dream)" (Warp)
KING TUFF "Love Letters To Plants" (Sub Pop)
YARD ACT "Tiny Dancer" (Zen FC/Island)
@ "Letters" (Carpark)
FRANKIE ROSE "Sixteen Ways" (Slumberland)
ROBERT FORSTER "Go Free" (EMI)
VERA ELLEN "Carpenter" (Flying Nun)
THE NUDE PARTY "Hard Times (All Around)" (New West)
IÑIGO VONTIER "Mental Letal" (Optimo)
THE VEILS "Bullfighter (Hand Of God)" (Ba Da Bing!)
DEUCE "Breathe" (Dinosaur City)
FLOODLIGHTS "Lessons Learnt" (Virgin)
SUMMER FLAKE "Barnacle Bill" (Rice Is Nice)
SLEAFORD MODS featuring FLORENCE SHAW "Force 10 From Navarone" (Rough Trade/Remote Control)
DJANGO DJANGO "Wishone" (Because Music)
THE GO! TEAM "Going Nowhere" Memphis Industries)
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA "Layla" (Jagjaguwar)

"Static" can be heard on 2SER (107.3FM) on Thursdays between 8pm and 10pm.
Or stream live online at www.2ser.com
Past episodes can be streamed on-demand at https://2ser.com/episode-archive-page/?show=static

Yard Act ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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Original air date ~ 9th October 2025.

We chat to Working Men's Club skipper Sydney Minsky Sargeant about his guitar-based debut solo album, the lucid "Lunga".

Stream the full program https://www.2ser.com/episodes/2025-10-09-20-00

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 9th October was as follows ...

PLANTOID "Dozer" (Bella Union)
UPCHUCK "Slow Down" (Domino)
SWEET NOBODY "I Don't Know When I'll See You Again" (www.sweet-nobody.bandcamp.com)
DAPHNI "Josephine" (Jiaolong)
MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER "In The Stars" (Domino)
GEESE "Au Pays du Cocaine" (Partisan/Play It Again Sam)
SYDNEY MINSKY SARGEANT "How It Once Was" (Domino)
UFOs "UFO" (Smugglers Way/Domino)
MOLLY NILSSON "Die Cry Lie" (Dark Skies Association)
BUMPY "Essence" (Astral People)
SHARP PINS "I Don't Have The Heart" (Perennial)
SUNSCREEN "Ultraviolet" (www.sunscreentheband.bandcamp.com)
GIFT "Wish Me Away" [THIS IS LORELEI Remix] (Captured Tracks)
HEMI HEMINGWAY "Wings Of Desire" (PNKSLM)
BETH & BLUE "Mystery Of Chains" (Impressed)
HATCHIE "Only One Laughing" (Secretly Canadian)
dust "Restless" (Virgin)
CATE LE BON featuring JOHN CALE "Ride" (Mexican Summer)
THE CORDS "October" (Slumberland)
FCUKERS "I Like It Like That" (Ninja Tune)
UPCHUCK "Kept Inside" (Domino)
MOMMA "Cross Your Heart" (Lucky Number)

"Static" can be heard on 2SER (107.3FM) on Thursdays between 8pm and 10pm.
Or stream live online at www.2ser.com
Past episodes can be streamed on-demand at https://www.2ser.com/programs/static

Sydney Minsky Sargeant ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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Germany’s @its_baeblade touches down on Hot Haus Recs with a head-turning fusion of electro-house and techno, ‘Power Play’, made up of two sharp new tracks.

Kicking off the EP, 'Freak' is a raw, playful and unapologetic cut, embracing the side of club culture where freedom means exposing your wildest edges.

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Almost fifteen years since the release of her self-titled debut LP on Mr Bongo, reggae’s orator of love Hollie Cook is returning to the label for Shy Girl, her fifth studio album and her most authentic yet. Woven with tight grooves, beautiful vocals and catchy melodies, Shy Girl hears singer and songwriter Hollie Cook revel in her contemporary lovers rock sound, more confident and open to vulnerability than ever before.
 
A sun-drenched exploration of love in all its guises, Shy Girl tells stories of the magical and the melancholy, the heart-lifting and heart-breaking, across 12 luscious, analogue reggae compositions - the culmination of a soft-hued and instantly recognisable “tropical pop” sound that Cook has made her own.
 
Put together across three years and four cities – from LA and NYC, to Vejer de la Frontera in Spain and Cook’s hometown London – Shy Girl was written with long-time collaborators, The General Roots Band, and features a contribution from legendary dub MC Horseman, who lends his voice to the album’s first single ‘Night Night’.
 
The album opens with the title track ‘Shy Girl’, a buoyant and elastic slice of lovers rock that was written in a moment of spontaneous intuition, and bubbles with a charisma and positivity that Cook radiates. “I’m not a natural show-off,” Cook explains. “The Shy Girl theme is me. It’s just about being my most vulnerable self and being as true to the music that Iove as possible.” It is this honesty which shines throughout, from the chugging deep dub of ‘Frontline’, complete with raking electric guitar lines, to the bittersweet roots ballad ‘We Share Love’, which closes out the album.

It's clear to see that Cook’s songwriting draws on a lifetime of musical influences and inspirations. From her father, Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook’s record collection and touring with post-punk icon Ari Up’s The Slits, to her love for strong female-led pop music and the bassweight of London’s sound system culture. Enamoured with the music of Janet Kay and Phyllis Dillon, Shy Girl represents a homecoming and a coming-of-age for Hollie Cook, distilling and refining a shimmering reggae sound that will capture your heart, as it first captured hers. 


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A collision of rave outsiders: Morris’s unlikely pop mystique meets Gramrcy and Loveless on the FWD dancefloor… lnk.to/GJLPH149

In Berlin where the bassweight bubbles bright, Lived Gramrcy and John Loveless, deviant and polite, They stirred a pressure-cooker full of electroclash stew, With ISDN-line scramble and a hint of something new.

“Oh!” cried Tony Morris (former teacher, taxi man), “I’ll hypnotize with repetitions, catch me if you can! I’m Scotland’s most unlikely pop sensation, don’t you see? A cult figure cabaret, as deviant as can be!”

They mixed it up on Phantasy Sound with textural delight, The earworming anchor bobbed and bounced all through the night, From FWD-era gumption to the disco esoteric, They created ‘Lucid’ madness, quite atmospheric!

The festival-rupturing Highdive had ruptured long before, Now ‘Feel So’ tipped the scales toward the ecstatic dance floor, With post-punk percussion prancing, hi-NRG in tow, From Chicago down to Rimini, watch the bassline grow!

Said Peggy Gou and Daniel Avery, “What a splendid sound!” While 2ManyDJs spun it ’round and ’round and ’round, And Moschino’s models strutted to the supreme release, As rave outsiders intersected in their bubbling masterpiece!

So if you seek the throbbing beat of something deeply odd, Find Gramrcy and John Loveless – that peculiar duo’s squad With Tony Morris chanting in his late-sixties prime, Making lucid nonsense music, one earworm at a time!

Three years after their all conquering ‘Highdive’, Gramrcy and John Loveless return to Phantasy with ‘Lucid’, a pressure-cooker of FWD-era bassweight and electroclash scramble anchored by the hypnotic vocals of Tony Morris.

Listen below, pre order here: https://lnk.to/GJLPH149

PREMIERE: Gramrcy & John Loveless  - Lucid feat. Tony Morris [Phantasy Sound]

Static is a weekly new music program on Sydney public radio station 2SER-FM, which debuted in 1992.
For over 30 years, hosts Berko and Mick have been at the forefront of championing new bands and music trends, with up-to-the-second fresh releases from around the world.
Each week's show blends everything from alternative pop to underground rock, eclectic electronica, post-everything and much more.
Every week Berko speaks in-depth to an artist on the show ... these are those interviews.
Stream full programs at www.2ser.com/static

Yard Act ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

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