Join Kate as she brings you 2 hours of the best unsigned music from the UK and around the world. Each hour has its own theme bringing a very unique show every week. Airs live Tuesdays and repeats Saturdays at 1-3pm Philadelphia, USA (EDT)/ 6-8pm London, UK (BST) on Gashouse Radio
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Sunshinecast Ep 51 - Animals with Amazing Disguises, Two Blondes and a Threesome
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 5th June 2012
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Animals with amazing disguises, two blondes and a Threesome in today’s show, as I chat with the manager of scottish band Stanley about their forthcoming 7” vinyl release, interview beautiful Leeds based singer-songwriter Jen Armstrong about her EP, due to be released this Friday, and play tracks by the lovely Kentish singer-songwriter Kelly Stanley.
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In today’s Sunshinecast, I’ll be chatting with the manager of awesome Scottish band Stanley about their album ‘Animals With Amazing Disguises’ and playing their song ‘Threesome’, about which manager Steve Amos told me yesterday:
“This song is NOT available on the album “Animals with Amazing Disguises” but will be on our 7” single re-release of “Sandwiches & Tea”. You can go down in history as playing it first :)”
Well, huzzah! I’ve played tracks from the album, and I especially love ‘Edit The Night’ as regular listeners will know, but I am a teensy bit excited (okay, very excited) about playing ‘Threesome’ in today’s show. With all the wit of Jarvis Cocker, the charm of The Divine Comedy, an exceptional lead vocalist and lush arrangements, Stanley will inspire and entertain the most discerning of listeners.
You can buy Stanley’s music on their website : www.stanleytheband.com And visit their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/stanleyaberdeen
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Also in today’s show, beautiful Leeds-based singer-songwriter Jen Armstrong will be back for a chat about her forthcoming EP ‘Cyber Girl’, which is to be released on Friday 8th June.
I interviewed Jen on May 15th about her adventures in LA and her plans for her music, and today I’ll be asking her how the visa application is going and playing some tracks from the forthcoming EP. The title track is being released on Thursday 7th June as a single. Here’s a teensy taste of the new single:
You’ll be able to buy it from Jen Armstrong on Bandcamp
Check out Jen Armstrong’s website: www.jenarmstrong.tv
And visit her Facebook page: www.facebook.com/jenarmstrongmusic
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I’m pleased to be able play some tracks today by young singer songwriter Kelly Stanley, who I met recently when I payed an acoustic set at a Jubilee weekend music festval that she organised.
Visit Kelly Stanley’s facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Kelly-Stanley
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Sunshinecast Ep 35 – Dark Valentines
It’s love Jim, but not as we know it
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 14th February and Saturday 18th February 2012 You can subscribe to the rss feed for the show, grab it with a bunch of podcatchers, you can get it with iTunes, or from right here, right now. Download (right-click & save as)
For this Valentines Day Special show, I had a plan.
I knew exactly how it was going to go, and it went perfectly started off well. I’d collected buckets full of love songs and songs about love by UK independent artists, none of the same tired old tat the mainstream stations have been playing to death for you, my dear and lovely radio-listening friends. There was going to be an hour of happy romantic love songs and an hour of songs about love for the anti-valentines crowd, remember me saying that? Yeah. That didn’t happen. 
What did happen was that I played two hours of love songs and songs about love in no particular order. Some were exquisitely lovely and sweetly romantic, some rather disturbingly dark, some triumphant “Thank you for the pain” anthems, and some sad and sorry tales of betrayal and broken hearts. In conclusion, Valentines Day is a schmaltz-fest invented to sell cards; flowers and pink-plastic-red-fluffy-chocolate-covered-heart-shaped-whatever; UK Independent artists write s0me great songs about lurrrve; and I am a rrrubbish radio presenter. Good songs though. Enjoy. With love, but perhaps not so much sunshine as you might like, Kate.
Sunshinecast Ep34 - Eclectic Electric with added Picturebox
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 7th February and Saturday 11th February 2012
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This week, my plans for the show changed suddenly, so I asked the good people of Facebook what they thought I should play this week. However, the good people of Facebook were all out having a dirty weekend in Google+ so the only person who answered me was Robert Halcrow from the band Picturebox. He said that I should play a bit of everything and (this part shocked me) “especially some Picturebox. They’re so groovy”. I’d already decided not to play acoustic stuff this week, because I’ve played a lot of that lately, so there you have it then. An eclectic electric playlist, with added Picturebox.
Picturebox describe their sound as lo-fi pop, melodic music from the cathedral city of Canterbury. They have songs about hedgehogs, football, French pop, tennis, girls, tennis girls, cakes and tea parties. I don’t know why.
As an extra treat, here’s Picturebox’s latest EP ‘YouSay No’, to brighten up your day. You Say No EP (now available to download at Bandcamp) by Picturebox for the bargain price of £2 ($3.16)
Sunshinecast Ep33 - Girls Go Wild!
Well, perhaps not quite wild. In fact, we might have just played some acoustic tunes and chatted a bit about stuff. Y’know.
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 31st January and Saturday 4th February 2012
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In this episode of Kate’s Sunshinecast, there’s a chat and some tunes from Suffolk-based singer-songwriter Ellie Jamison, who’s working on her first EP at the moment. I chatted with Ellie on Thursday of last week, via Skype and it was rather a grown-up, sensible presenter and musician talking about music type of interview (albeit with a little bit of me cooing over the fact that Ellie has twin toddlers) and all in all, fairly dignified.
Then, on Monday night, Katy Haymer came over to the studio to play an acoustic session and ‘have a little bit of a chat’. H’mmn. This picture (left) is of Katy playing live. See how sensible she appears to be? And they say the camera never lies…
I chatted with Katy about her new acoustic EP which is due for release in the next month and the album she’s currently working on, and she played a few songs. Then we set the world to rights, as you do.
There’s also new music from sixteen year old singer songwriter Emily Sargant, female-fronted alternative acoustic band Hook and superb jazz and blues vocalist Claire Simone. It’s got some songs by bands featuring the male of the species, too, because not all boys are smelly.
Sunshinecast Episode 32 - New friends and old favourites
Weee! Two podcasts uploaded in one day! The (seemingly insurmountable at the time) electrickeral difficulties I encountered last week mean that there’s no podcast for that week, but fear not, Ian Button (the musical hoe) has promised to come back on February 7th. The week before last I was all, “Boo-hoo, my life s a wasteland of misery” and this week I’m a bit more, “Wa-hey, my life is a paradise filled with good friends and good music”. You know how it is. There aren’t so many miserable songs in this week’s podcast, consequently, and I’m please to report that all technical gremlins appear (for the time being being) to be sleeping, if not dead. Yes, I know - I waffle too much and you just want the podcast, right? Here it is then:
Sunshinecast Episode 32 - New friends and old favourites
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 24th and Saturday 28th January 2012 You can subscribe to the rss feed for the show, grab it with a bunch of podcatchers, you can get it with iTunes, or from right here, right now. Download (right-click & save as) It’s got some super-shiny new songs in it and some well-worn, cosy comfy old faves. Yummy.
Sunshinecast Ep 31 - Whenever you’re down, mate
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 10th and Saturday 15th January 2012
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Songs for when you have no fizz. In this show, as well as the song that gives the show its title: ‘Whenever Your down Mate’ by Endeavours, there’s jazz-rock from The Reign of Kindo, exquisite guitar-picking from Troy Faid, hauntingly beautiful vocals from Emily and Simon, downbeat electronica from Mooli and rock for tearing your hair (and your heart) out to from Machine OEM, and more. 
Best of 2011 Part 2
Podcast - Sunshinecast Ep30 - Best of 2011 Pt2
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 3rd and Saturday 7th January 2012
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This is part two of the Best (well, my favourite) of 2011, filled with rock, pop, acoustic, ska, nova-romantic, anti-folk, stripped-down punk, electronica, easy-listening, alternative rock, a tiny bit of random jazz and some tunes that just defy categorisation (my favourite and my best).
Next week, we’ll start to explore some of the newest independent music of 2012. The week after (on January 17th) we’ve got Ian Button in the studio (Thrashing Doves, Death in Vegas, David Cronenberg’s Wife and about a dozen other bands) to chat about his adventures in independent music as a musician and a producer.
Complete playlist for this show (and last week’s show) with links to artists’ pages/websites to follow.
Good luck with those New Year’s Resoultions!
Love and Sunshine, from Kate. x
Best of 2011 Part 1
Podcast - Sunshinecast Ep29 - Best of 2011 Pt1
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 27th December and Saturday 31st December 2011
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Did Santa not leave you anything nice? Never mind, take this - in the last week of the year, a mixtape of all my favourite of the tunes by independent artists played on Kate’s Sunshinecast during 2011.
There was WAY too much awesome tuneage to cram into one show, so the ‘Best of 2011′ show turned into a two-parter and this is part one, filled with rock, pop, acoustic, ska, nova-romantic, anti-folk, stripped-down punk, electronica, easy-listening, alternative rock, a tiny bit of random jazz and some tunes that just defy categorisation (my favourite and my best) and another two hours of the same excellent stuff to look forward to next week.
Complete playlist with links to artists’ pages/websites to follow. Love and sunshine and best wishes for a brave new year, from Kate. x
Christmas Sunshine!
Podcast - Sunshinecast Ep28 - Christmas Special
Broadcast on Gashouse Radio Tuesday 20th December and Saturday 24th December 2011 You can subscribe to the rss feed for the show, grab it with a bunch of podcatchers, you can get it with iTunes, or from right here, right now. Download (right-click & save as) It’s Christmas! This cracker of a show is packed with Christmas songs from UK independent artists (plus a couple from the US and one from Oz) - songs you’re not sick of, unike the usual festive fare blasted at you by every mainstream commercial station on TV & Radio and on the PA in every shop in your local mall and high street. It also has jokes from sparkling co-host of the show, crown princess of comedy Niamh Lynn-Devere. 
Next week’s show will be a ‘best of 2011’ Special, on the last Tuesday of the year. I’ll be playing all my favourites of the artists I played on the show during 2011, but I’m open to listener suggestions - leave a comment here or on the facebook page for the show.
*News Flash*
There’s no poetry segment in this week’s show but - drum roll - there’s a new monthly poetry show called ‘Ode to Nowhere’ starting right here on Gashouse Radio in January 2012. English poet Simon Smith will be along for a chat about all things poetical in the first edition of the show, there’ll be guest readings from Joe & Bliss of The Blissful Mop, we’ve got digital beat poetry from Poet and the Loops and contemporary spoken word tracks from To love Sophia, as well as a host of other exciting contemporary poetry from unpublished or less than widely known poets.
In the meantime -
Merry Christmas, love and sunshine!
Sunshinecast Episode 27 - Getting Jingly With It
Podcast (made to replace the technical glitch afflicted live show broadcast on Gashouse Radio on Tuesday 13th November) aired on Saturday 17th December 2011, 1 - 3pm Eastern/6pm UK.
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This show is full of new tunes from UK independent artists and more than a few Christmas songs to get that tingly, jingly feeling started. Next week’s show will be non-stop Christmas and party tunes from independent artists. If you’re looking for Christmas party music and you’re bored of the same old Christmas numbers that get played to death on mainstream radio and TV and in shops, year after year, you’ll want to take a listen to the show, this week and next week. 
