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Near Perfect Pitch
Hosted by Dara Mottahed · EN
🎙️A Music Podcast like no other, featuring the best in Indie, Alternative, BritPop, C86, Shoegaze, Madchester, Punk, Post-Punk, New Wave, College, New Releases, Covers, Peel Sessions, Guest Interviews and Regular Show Features
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 169 (September 25th. 2022) ‘KEELEY’ + ’JANET WEISS’
Sep 26, 202203:54:43Tap to summarize'KEELEY' and 'JANET WEISS' Wanderlust - #Delays Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before - #TheSmiths Every Beat That Passed - #LostHorizons #KaviKwai [NR] Autumn Leaves - #TheBlueHerons theblueherons1.bandcamp.com [NR] What's It All About? - #JockStrap [FEATURE PEEL] JULY 18 2001 86 TV's - #IAmKloot #JohnPeel #PeelSession [HATTRICK] [NR] Isolation - #TheBoysWithThePerpetualNervousness #MaryLouLord Anti Midas Touch - #TheWolfhounds Pushing Up The Daisies - #TheColourfield #TerryHall [NR] Can't Forget - #Gloder gloder.bandcamp.com Razorblades & Honey - #BMXBandits #AntonNewcombe [ESSENTIAL WAX] THE SUGARCUBES - LIFE'S TOO GOOD Motorcrash - #TheSugarcubes #Bjork Coldsweat - #TheSugarcubes #Bjork [NR] Human Replacement - #BillieMarten [CHOON THIS] Jeremy Parker - #Swirlies Sand On Fire - #KitchensOfDistinction Cherry Tree - #10000Maniacs [NR] Honeybear - #PaleBlueEyes paleblueeyesmusic.bandcamp.com Les Fleurs - #4Hero [COVER ME] I Wanna Be Adored - #TheRaveonettes #TheStoneRoses #CoverVersion Diving Woman - #JapaneseBreakfast Time To Live - #Blankenberge blankenberge.bandcamp.com Days - #CIEL [NR] Looking Backward - #MelodysEchoChamber KEELEY INTERVIEW FEATURE keeleysound.bandcamp.com DRAWN TO THE FLAME [NR] Travelling In The Opposite Direction - #Keeley [NR] Dead On Arrival - #Keeley From A Motel 6 - #YoLaTengo [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] Blood Outta Stone - TheFall #MarkESmith [NR] There Is No News - #EuropeanSun skepwax.bandcamp.com JANET WEISS INTERVIEW FEATURE theeslang.bandcamp.com [NR] Wilder - #Slang #JanetWeiss [NR] Cockroach In A Ghost Town - #Slang #JanetWeiss
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 168 (September 10th. 2022) ‘THE HOUSE OF LOVE’
Sep 10, 202203:01:57Tap to summarizeGUY CHADWICK - 'THE HOUSE OF LOVE' Big Wave - #JennyAndJohnny [NR] I Don't Mind If You're Right - #CharlieClark charlieclarkmusic.bandcamp.com [NR] Call - #YouNothing younothing.bandcamp.com Indian Zone Drum Killer Inc. - #TandyLove #AndyVotel [COVER ME] This Charming Man - #Stars #TheSmiths #CoverVersion [NR] Lurve - #Lurve [NR] Wanderlust - #ArcticLights arcticlights.bandcamp.com [ESSENTIAL WAX] THE HOUSE OF LOVE - BABE RAINBOW Burn Down The World - #TheHouseOfLove #GuyChadwick High In Your Face - #TheHouseOfLove #GuyChadwick Waiting For The Angels - #TheDarkside [NR] Anna Calls From The Arctic - #DryCleaning drycleaning.bandcamp.com The Staunton Lick - #LemonJelly Ancestors - #TheFrankAndWalters [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] The Rhinohead - #VonSudenfed #MarkESmith #TheFall [NR] Dedicated - #MountainHead mountainheadmusic.bandcamp.com Vanity Fair - #TheOceanBlue [HATTRICK] Mind Contorted - #LeVolumeCourbe #TerryHall #NoelGallagher Hallow - #DrabMajesty drabmajesty.bandcamp.com [NR] Maybe You Didn't Know - #TheNinthWave theninthwave.online [NR] This Is Something - #SummerIsleSix outre-mer.bandcamp.com/releases Cuts Across The Land - #TheDukeSpirit Pristine Christine - #SeaUrchins [FEATURE PEEL] AUGUST 26 1988 Hedonist - #TheHouseOfLove #GuyChadwick Smile - #Levitation [CHOON THIS] Jimmy‘s Fantasy - #RedKross Temple Head - #TransGlobalUnderground Cali - #Ride Revolution (In The Summertime) - #CosmicRoughRiders Wish You Were Upstairs - #MinorAlps #JulianaHatfield THE HOUSE OF LOVE INTERVIEW FEATURE GUY CHADWICK thehouseoflove.co.uk cherryred.co.uk/artist/house-of-love [NR] In My Mind - #TheHouseOfLove #GuyChadwick [NR] Dice Are Rolling - #TheHouseOfLove #GuyChadwick [NR] Into The Laughter - #TheHouseOfLove #GuyChadwick
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 167 (August 22nd. 2022) ‘LOVE TRACTOR‘ + ’NIGHT SWIMS’
Aug 23, 202204:23:58Tap to summarize'LOVE TRACTOR' + 'NIGHT SWIMS' [NR] Quicksand - #Hatchie Tally Ho - #TheClean Now I Understand - #TheProperOrnaments [COVER ME] [NR] I'm On Fire - #SoccerMommy #BruceSpringsteen #CoverVersion [NR] New Religion - #PeteAstor Untitled Building Society Introduction - #Types [ESSENTIAL WAX] WHITEOUT - BITE IT Jackie's Racing - #Whiteout No Time - #Whiteout Kolob Canyon - #AssembleHeadInSunburstSound Albatross - #BesnardLakes Hoppipolla - #SigurRos Angie - #Shame [NORTHERN HATTRICK] [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] Hit The North Part 1 - #TheFall #MarkESmith North Of England - #TheCribs Up Here In The North Of England - #Icicleworks #IanMcNabb [NR] Hearts Underground - #Tallies tallies.bandcamp.com [NR] Ring True - #Milly Trouble - #HenOgledd Man In The Corner Shop - #TheJam Generation Game - #TheLoungeSociety Horror Head (Single Remix) - #Curve [CHOON THIS] Evangeline - #MatthewSweet Early - #JustMustard [NR] Feathers - #Florist [FEATURE PEEL] APRIL 21 1995 Babies - #Pulp [NR] Shadows - #Honeyglaze facebook.com/honeyglazemusic [NR] Supermarket - #PitPony pitponyband.bandcamp.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOVE TRACTOR INTERVIEW FEATURE MARK CLINE lovetractor.com I Broke My Saw - #LoveTractor Themes From Venus - #LoveTractor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [NR] The Zodiac Lights - #ReaperOnRed It's A Good Thing - #ThatPetrolEmotion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NIGHT SWIMS INTERVIEW FEATURE MICHAEL THOMAS nightswimsband.bandcamp.com [NR] Neverless - #NightSwims [NR] Rose Pools - #NightSwims
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 166 (July 24th. 2022) ‘DOT ALLISON‘
Jul 26, 202202:52:00Tap to summarizeDOT ALLISON The Rattler - #GoodbyeMrMacKenzie Narcissus - #TVAM [NR] Daydreaming - #Shackites facebook.com/theshackites Start Again - #TheElectricSoftParade E102 - #BMXBandits Right Here - #TheGoBetweens [CHOON THIS] Jet Fighter - #TheThreeOClock [ESSENTIAL WAX] ONE DOVE - MORNING DOVE WHITE - 1993 Fallen - #OneDove #DotAllison Why Don't You Take Me - #OneDove #DotAllison [NR] Time - #Sheer glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/and-then-there-were-four [NEW RELEASE HATTRICK] [NR] Ship Beneath The Floor - #TheatreRoyal theatreroyal.bandcamp.com [NR] Pamela - #RobertSekula #14IcedBears 14icedbears.bandcamp.com [NR] What's In A Name? - #TheBrianJonestownMassacre Give/Take - #PorridgeRadio [COVER ME] Groove Is In The Heart / California Girls - #Crocodiles #DeeeLite #CoverVersion Carnival - #Mercvrial mercvrial.bandcamp.com [NR] Serpentine - #SilverOwls silverowls.bandcamp.com [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] Living Too Late - #TheFall #MarkESmith Leave The South - #Blanketman blanketman.bandcamp.com [NR] Alligator - #KatyJPearson katyjpearson.bandcamp.com Ballad Of The Band - #Felt Commodore Rock - #Ladytron [NR] This Boy Is A Mess - #TheOrchids Nothing - #FrazierChorus [FEATURE PEEL] 9 DEC 1987 Coldsweat - #TheSugarcubes #JohnPeel #PeelSession Big Mess - #FlyyingColours flyyingcolours.bandcamp.com Emily Kane - #ArtBrut [INTERVIEW FEATURE] DOT ALLISON dotallison.bandcamp.com [NR] The Haunted - #DotAllison [NR] Can You Hear Nature Sing? - #DotAllison [NR] Ghost Orchid (Lomond Campbell Remix) - #DotAllison [TARA]
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 165 (May 21st. 2022) ‘MICHAEL HEAD‘
Jun 17, 202203:01:08Tap to summarizeMICHAEL HEAD & THE RED ELASTIC BAND Lazyitis - #HappyMondays China - #RedRockers [NR] Wound Up Tight - #Tallies talliesband.com Last Day On Earth - #Swervedriver [CHOON THIS] Dark Therapy - #Echobelly [NR] Hot And Heavy - #LucyDacus [NR] Different For Once - #PaleSeas The Breaking Hands - #TheGunClub [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] Cheetham Hill - #TheFall #MarkESmith [NR] Now You're Gone #MidnightRodeo facebook.com/wearemidnightrodeo C.U. - #bdrmm Nothings To Be Done - #ThePastels [ESSENTIAL WAX] SHACK - ZILCH - 1988 Emergency - #Shack #MickHead High Rise Low Life - #Shack #MickHead Pass It Along - #Chumbawamba [PATREON] [HATTRICK] 1. Sunspots - #JulianCope 2. Uptown Invisible - #Moose 3. Into The Wake, Mystified - #NightPalace nightpalace.bandcamp.com Lights - #WynonaBleach wynonableach.bandcamp.com [FEATURE PEEL] OCTOBER 25 1994 Inbetweener - #Sleeper #JohnPeel #PeelSession American Trilogy - #TheDelgados [NR] Backwards 36 - #Crush crushbanduk.bandcamp.com Blondes Have More Fun - #FrancisLung francislung.bandcamp.com Imagination - #SadLoversAndGiants Gathering Dust - #ModernEnglish [COVER ME] Ceremony - #Galaxie500 #NewOrder #CoverVersion Feeling Alright - #Warpaint [INTERVIEW FEATURE] MICHAEL HEAD michaelheadofficial.com The Prize - #MichaelHeadAndTheStrands #MichaelHead #MickHead [NR] Broken Beauty - #MichaelHeadAndTheRedElasticBand #MichaelHead #MickHead [NR] Kismet - #MichaelHeadAndTheRedElasticBand #MichaelHead #MickHead Newby Street - #MichaelHeadAndTheRedElasticBand #MichaelHead #MickHead [TARA] [PATREON]
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 164 (April 15th. 2022) ‘JIM SHEPHERD + JACK FRANCIS‘
Apr 17, 202203:21:26Tap to summarizeJIM SHEPHERD + JACK FRANCIS Sweets - #WorldOfTwist Colour Me - #TheBlueAeroplanes [NR] Another Passing Day - #Seatbelts wearseatbelts.bandcamp.com [NR] Southwesterly - #TheFishJohnWestReject Cactus Cat - #LookBlueGoPurple (I Am) What I Am Not - #Idlewild [NR] Do It Now - #TheHorn [NR] I Left A Light On - #TeenageFanclub [SKY HATTRICK] [NR] Outlaw - #Skylights [NR] Skydiving - #DeathByDenim deathbydenim.com.au All My Life - #CIEL cielcielciel.bandcamp.com [FEATURE PEEL] DECEMBER 15 1991 High In Your Face - #TheHouseOfLove #PeelSession #JohnPeel Popshop! - #Courting courtingband.bandcamp.com [ESSENTIAL WAX] MANIC STREET PREACHERS THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS 1998 Ready For Drowning - #ManicStreetPreachers Nobody Loved You - #ManicStreetPreachers [NR] Again - #JohnDArc Hometown - #SeaGirls sonicseagirls.bandcamp.com [CHOON THIS] The Voice - #Ultravox [NR] Loose Canyon - #GabrielsDawn gabrielsdawn.bandcamp.com [COVER ME] [NR] The Crystal Lake - #Piroshka #Grandaddy #CoverVersion americanlaundromatrecords.bandcamp.com [NR] Rearview Mirror - TheChurchhillGarden thechurchhillgarden.bandcamp.com All For The Best - #MiracleLegion [NR] One Year On - #Fine subjangle.bandcamp.com [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] Entitled - #TheFall #MarkESmith Little Glimmer - #Dianas dianasband.bandcamp.com [INTERVIEW FEATURE 1] JACK FRANCIS lnk.to/JackFrancis [NR] Wild Eyes - #JackFrancis [NR] Helena - #JackFrancis Hello - #SPINN soundcloud.com/spinn-band Fast Boyfriends - #GirlsAtOurBest! [INTERVIEW FEATURE 2] JIM SHEPHERD jimjasmine.bandcamp.com spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com [NR] Stand Up (Beautiful Note) - #JimShepherd [NR] Opposites Attract - #JimShepherd [TARA]
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 163 (March 27th. 2022) ‘Jane Savidge‘
Mar 28, 202202:43:03Tap to summarizeJANE SAVIDGE Let's Pretend We're Not In Love - #TheRedsPinksAndPurples [CHOON THIS] I Want You Back - #HoodooGurus [NR] We Should Be Together - #TheWeddingPresent #LouiseWener [NR] Running On Fumes - #TheJazzButcher [NR] Echo For Ingrid - #Thyla O Man, Won't You Melt Me - #HootonTennisClub [NR] Lost In The Middle - #SecretShine The Places We Go - #MarkGardener #RobinGuthrie [NR] Blame - #Blushing #MikiBerenyi weareblushing.bandcamp.com [ESSENTIAL WAX] THE VACCINES - WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM THE VACCINES? If You Wanna - #TheVaccines Wetsuit - #TheVaccines White Love (Radio Mix) - #OneDove [NR] Up Granville - #PeachPit [COVER ME ONCE] Laid - #ThePainsOfBeingPureAtHeart #James #CoverVersion Wise Up! Sucker - #PopWillEatItself #PWEI Crazy - #Pylon [NR] Fixer Upper - #YardAct [FEATURE PEEL] MARCH 1 1982 Love Song - #SimpleMinds #JohnPeel #PeelSession [NR] The Fourth Day Of November - #JesseDKora facebook.com/jessedkora/ [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] [COVER ME TWICE] ¡Che, Estudiante! - #KrupoViesa #CoverVersion krupoviesa.bandcamp.com Send My Heart - #TheAdventures Year Zero - #MoonTaxi [SWAN HATTRICK] Wild Swan - #Lowlife Saved - #Swans Bible Dreams - #WildSwans [NR] Hay Fever - #Urbanparcs Don't Talk To Me About Love - #AlteredImages [INTERVIEW FEATURE] JANE SAVIDGE https://linktr.ee/JaneSavidge Floodlit World - #Ultrasound #JaneSavidge This Is Hardcore -#Pulp #JaneSavidge Repetition - #TheFall #MarkESmith #JaneSavidge [TARA]
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 162 (February 14th. 2022) ‘Brix Smith‘
Feb 19, 202203:26:27Tap to summarizeFlower To Hide - #CatherineWheel Too Late Now - #WetLeg wetleg.bandcamp.com I Say Nothing - #VoiceOfTheBeehive Lovely Crawl - #FleetingJoys fleetingjoys1.bandcamp.com [UNITED NATIONS HATTRICK] [NR] What To Make Of You - #Screens4Eyes [NR] North Acton - #LucidExpress lucidexpress.bandcamp.com [NR] La Nuit - #RoyalArch [NR] Flourish - #CaoilfhionnRose caoilfhionnrose.co.uk You Should've Gone To School - #BCCamplight bc-camplight.bandcamp.com [ESSENTIAL WAX] THE CHURCH - STARFISH 1988 Reptile - #TheChurch Under The Milky Way - #TheChurch To You - #IAmKloot If I Could Talk I'd Tell You - #TheLemonheads [CHOON THIS] Visage - #Visage #SteveStrange Embers - #NightFlowers nightflowers.bandcamp.com [NR] Happy Christmas To Me - #SwanseaSound swanseasound.bandcamp.com [FEATURE PEEL] FEBRUARY 14 1978 The Light Pours Out Of Me - #Magazine #PeelSession #JohnPeel [NR] (How Will We Ever) Work This Way - #FiatLux fiat-lux.co.uk [COVER ME] There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - #DumDumGirls #TheSmiths #CoverVersion Pressure To Party - #JuliaJacklin juliajacklin.bandcamp.com [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] Gross Chapel - British Grenadiers - #TheFall #MarkESmith Missing The Moon - #TheFieldMice The 15th - #Wire [NR] American Football - #Kitten Jesus Says - #Ash It's Obvious - #AuPairs Skyrocket - #TheMurlocs More - #TheSundays [INTERVIEW FEATURE] brixsmith.com [NR] Backwards - #BrixSmith #MartyWilsonPiper [NR] Little Wounds - #BrixSmith #MartyWilsonPiper [NR] Super Softy - #BrixSmith #MartyWilsonPiper [TARA]
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 161 (January 8th. 2021) ‘Constant Follower‘
Jan 8, 202202:48:21Tap to summarizeCONSTANT FOLLOWER Every Beat Of The Heart - #TheRailwayChildren Speedbumps - #Luna [NR] So Strange - #Crush crushbanduk.bandcamp.com [NR] Krampus - #TheLathums Chamber Of Hellos - #WireTrain [NR] U - #ArcticLights arcticlights.bandcamp.com [A FEUDING BRACE] 1. Bill Drummond Said - #JulianCope 2. Julian Cope Is Dead - #BillDrummond My Loser - #ThFaithHealers Stoned And Starving - #Parquet Courts Into The Ether - #SecretShine [NR] The Pressure Is Mine - #Ethics [COVER ME] Ashes To Ashes - #BoiseCoverBand #BuiltToSpill #DavidBowie #CoverVersion [PATREON] Space Age Love Song - #AFlockOfSeagulls El Presidente - #Drugstore #ThomYorke [ESSENTIAL WAX] BRIAN - BRING TROUBLE UNDERSTAND - 1992 Setanta Records Understand - #Brian KenSweeney You Don't Want A Boyfriend - #Brian KenSweeney Doin' My Utmost - #TheBigBelieve thebigbelieve.bandcamp.com [FEATURE PEEL] 14 SEPTEMBER 1999 Richard III (Live from Peel Acres) - #Supergrass #JohnPeel #PeelSession Tangerine - #BeachFossils #RachelGoswell Wait Your Turn - #ChimeSchool [CHOON THIS] Only Shallow - #MyBloodyValentine [NR] The Days In Between - #InEarnest inearnest.co.uk [NR] Hard Man - #4000000Telephones 4000000telephones.bandcamp.com [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] Twister - #TheFall #MarkESmith [NR] #PenelopeIsles penelopeisles.bandcamp.com Keep It Together - #PipBlom pipblom.bandcamp.com [INTERVIEW FEATURE] Stephen McAll - Constant Follower and Kathleen's Coconut Choccy Chip Biscuit 'Neither Is, Nor Ever Was' constantfollower.com [NR] The Merry Dancers On TV - #ConstantFollower [NR] I Can't Wake You - #ConstantFollower [NR] Set Aside Some Time - #ConstantFollower [TARA] [PATREON]
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Near Perfect Pitch - Episode 160 (November 18th. 2021) ‘Robin Guthrie‘ + ‘Hamish Hawk‘
Nov 22, 202103:52:00Tap to summarizeROBIN GUTHRIE & The Breakaway HAMISH HAWK & The Custard Cream Special One - #UltraVividScene #KimDeal [NR] Bad Cells - #TheSwells [NR] Alleyways - #TheInstitutes Good To Be On The Road Back Home - #Cornershop [HATTRICK] [NR] Since Bowie Died - #Spearmint [NR] Dig - #Barrie barrie.bandcamp.com [NR] Gold - #Jaguwar Strange Powers - #TheMagneticFields [NR] So We Won't Forget (Mang Dynasty Version) - #Khruangbin [WEEKLY PEEL] JULY 29 1989 Time Thief - #PaleSaints #JohnPeel #PeelSession [NR] The Rain - #Drive Run Through The Jungle - #TheGunClub [COVER ME] I'm On Fire - #Electrelane #BruceSpringsteen #CoverVersion [NR] Down The Street - #LaLuz #AdrianYounge [NR] Gd Tym - #WHLung [ESSENTIAL WAX] LUSH - SPLIT 1994 Hypocrite - #Lush Lovelife - #Lush Hey Hey You Say - #PapasFritas [NR] Under Fire - #DjangoDjango Years Later - #CactusWorldNews [NR] This Enchanted - #Hatchie Guilt - #RingoDeathstarr Sad Movies - #StillCorners [CHOON THIS] I Travel - #SimpleMinds [INTERVIEW FEATURE 1] ROBIN GUTHRIE robinguthrie.bandcamp.com [NR] Castaway - #RobinGuthrie [NR] Copper - #RobinGuthrie [NR] Kerosine - #RobinGuthrie Super-Electric - #Stereolab Romeo - #Wipers [INTERVIEW FEATURE 2] HAMISH HAWK hamishjameshawk.bandcamp.com [NR] This, Whatever It Is, Needs Improvements - #HamishHawk [NR] Calls To Tiree - #HamishHawk [NR] The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion 1973 - #HamishHawk [TARA] [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] The Knight The Devil And Death - #TheFall #MarkESmith
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