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OUR NEXT LIVE BROADCAST: Friday 19 March - 9pm UCT @ BBC Radio Merseyside
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The Popular Music Show team (L-R): Rory Ballantyne, Roger Hill, Karen Timms, Andrew PM Hunt, George Maund.

PMS is the longest-running specialist music programme of its kind on UK radio, starting in 1977 with Roger Hill at the helm since '82.

Programme Hyperlinks 5.3.21

Alostmen's record Kologo out now on Strut
Always-happy Bristol all-female queercore trio Grandmas House
Mark Greenwood's Prison Behaviour EP: 'Snake Fever'
Astryd are on Instagram and Dialogue is the name their events series & record label
Ty Citerman with Bop Kabbalah+voices
​Our friends in Berlin Psycho & Plastic sent us their recent studio track Asche
Meril Wubslin with a new acoustic-ish, non-electric release here​

Programme Hyperlinks 19.2.21

La Chica - https://www.lachica-belleville.com/
Klezmer-ish have shared information about their Lockdown Songbook 
Find out more about  the Outlands Festival
New venue alert, Future Yard in Birkenhead's Black Country New Road event ​
China Crisis at The Brindley 
LGBT+ Month in Liverpool info can be found here 
Learn about The Unsound Festival
ACT Grey Matter
More about Sonic Yootha
Programme Hyperlinks 5.2.21

Watch the full Murga Contrafarsa Carnival Performance from Uruguay, 2002
Kalbell's release Max Heart becomes available on NNA Tapes in March
Everything you need for Mondo Trasho online
Joel C Murray's The Moon Is A Fake Moon performance video on Tommy Husband's site
Liverpool Independents Biennial 2021 opens on 20th March
Dialect's new album Under ~ Between on label RVNG Intl.
Veteran jazz composer Michael Wimberley's forthcoming record Afrofuturism features Joss Stone (who knew?!)
More sessions like Sing For Your Supper's Don't Drain Me
Bill Callahan, Bonnie Billy, Six Organs of Admittance Arise, Therefore
For that lost Afro-Latin reissue on Vampisoul records - Al Valdez by Gozalo

& listen again to this episode of the programme on BBC Sounds


Programme Hyperlinks 22.1.21

Listen again to the show on BBC Sounds

Machuca Cumbia and The Afrosound of Columbia Vol 2 Compilation 
Straight Arrows have a Bandcamp page
Find out more about PMS's 'Spoken Word Short' artist Felix Mufti
The event details for Milapfest  are here
Lookout Zoomout  - event details 
Chemtrail Third Birthday Party Event  and Projective Vomit TV
CTM Festival website

Some recommendations from Andy Hunt's Trawl:
Tone Glow
Wendy Eisenberg
Bunny Hoova
Slow Dance Records website and Bandcamp
Christos Chondropoulos
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Walk tall with Queen Esther Marrow
Find out more about Cabit at Felmay Records


Don't forget our Local and Global supplements among "In Exile" mixes

Programme Hyperlinks 8.1.21

Hear the programme again on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p093b1vv
Madalitso Band on bandcamp & facebook
J Mascis comp on Cherry Red Records
Light Night Liverpool 2021 theme is 'Play'
Futurama festival later in the year
Africa Oyé festival online for now at africaoye.com
The 'North Will Rise Again' Liverpool & Manchester bands live streamed gigs
Positive Vibration festival scheduled for June in the Baltic Triangle
Bido Lito! continuing publication through lockdown: www.bidolito.co.uk
a.P.A.t.T. offering full catalogue for a limited time
Our Local and Global supplements among "In Exile" mixes
Strange Motorways: The Aleph's EP Cheshire Cat
The Sessions section of our website for more like Ólöf Arnalds

Links for the time of COVID-19:

PMS archived here, alongside contemporary "PMS in Exile" shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/pmsradio
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List of Mutual Aid groups: freedomnews.org.uk/covid-19-uk-mutual-aid-groups-a-list/
Liverpool COVID-19 Mutual Aid: www.facebook.com/groups/258198425178188/
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Stream live and listen back to the programme here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7mc
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And click here for "PMS Extra" – our sixty-minute monthly podcast: melodicdistraction.com/shows/pms-extra/

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