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Packed show today on the Yellow Brit Road! We bring you reviews from seeing The Charlatans live in Toronto, review the new Pulp documentary, What Do You Do For An Encore? We've got live performances and reviews from Second Summer Festival in Toronto last weekend and joined Montreal post punks Ribbon Skirt for a live session recorded at the Monarch Tavern during the festival. We also looked ahead to Project Nowhere fest taking place this weekend (1-3 Oct). Music by: The Charlatans, Tricky, The Big Moon, Oliver Pinder, Mhaol, about-face, Gen and the Degenerates, Alien Chicks, Pulp, Concrete Vehicles, PISS, Ribbon Skirt Other bands mentioned: Death, High Vis, Folk Bitch Trio, Dambe. Cover art: The Charlatans @ Danforth Music Hall, Toronto. This week's playlist with available live sets can be found here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Coming live to you from Canada's biggest campus radio station, CIUT at the University of Toronto! I sat in for a two-hour show of new releases, live shows and such: we talked upcoming (and some now-past) shows by The Charlatans, Lip Critic, Yard Act and more, and we were joined by co-founder of Project Nowhere, Desiree Das Gupta to talk about the festival taking place across downtown Toronto from 1-3 October. Music played on the show: Chopping Spree!, Ace of Wands, Deaf Dogs, The Charlatans, Electric Lemonade, The Rebel Riot, knitting, Bebe and Oona, Rahgozar, Thunder Queens, Lip Critic, pest., liz uninvited, The Warning, Balu Brigada, Self-Cut Bangs, Yard Act, TOBi, Piner, Shiv and the Carvers. Desiree's Project Nowhere picks: Head Crack, Kill Alters, Still Depths, Bibi Club, Tony Price. Playlist here, support artists independently through Bandcamp, merch, going to shows and such. Cover picture: Lip Critic live at East End United church, Toronto, 16 Sept 2026. Interview coming soon :) **I was mistaken, Truck Violence were not on the Show Me The Body bill in Toronto. Don't email me about this. Email me for other things though! I'm usually live on CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM. Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we review Peter Hook and the Light's Toronto show on the 25th anniversary of their 2001 album Get Ready! We also bring you live highlights from Reading festival, Lauren phones in from Leeds fest to bring us the boots on the ground report and some of her favourite acts at the festivals this year, and we are joined by Brendan McCarney, the artistic director and co-founder of Second Summer Festival, a must-attend fest for anyone that enjoys the artists we play and talk about on this show. Live music this week by Dave, Loyle Carner, Keo, Jade Thirwall, Skye Newman, Lola Young, Kneecap, Cleopatrick, Fontaines D.C., Raye. In the background, you heard music by Kettama, Bleech 9:3, Cardinals, Geese, New Order/Peter Hook and the Light, Adéla, Florence and the Machine, Charli xcx. Cover art: Peter Hook @ History, Toronto by Nolan McBride. This week's playlist with available live sets can be found here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we're rested and back from Toronto Folk Festival, so I have to tell you all about the best music I caught over on Ward's Island last weekend! We also review Getdown Services' new album Massive Champion, look ahead to Reading Festival, one of the biggest moments of the UK music summer, and celebrate New Order's 2001 album Get Ready, which turned 25 on Thursday. We are also joined by Willie Stratton, frontman of Nova Scotian blues and punk trio The Boojums, who I caught up with after their show in Toronto supporting The Bug Club recently. Music this week by New Order, Arlo Parks, Johnny Marr, Florence Road, The Mary Wallopers, Gaffa Tape Sandy, Nothing But Thieves, The Big Moon, mary in the junkyard, Getdown Services, Walt Disco, The Boojums. Cover art: The Boojums @ The Garrison, Toronto, 18 June 2026. Find this week's show playlist here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

He was born a day before 9/11. He is an alcoholic, a diabetic with a string of chronic conditions, anxiety and a sense of civic activism in his native Manchester, he's only 19 and he's taken the world by storm. Meet Jim E. Brown, the internet's new favourite sad English teenager. He likes 3 bands: Coldplay, Phish and Kraftwerk, and the world has been drawn to his downbeat post punk music, singing about the pains of his everyday life. We join him far from home in Toronto, Canada, for a little chat about the Beatles, sports, alcohol and his new album Dirt. He also answers some questions from you, the fans! You can watch the full interview on YouTube here. Cover art: Jim E Brown @ The Lakeview Diner, Toronto, 11 July 2026 by Owen Forbes. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we have some eclipse-related chat and music, discuss the state of music journalism in light of brital layoffs by Veeps at major indie magazines, play you some of the best in up-and-coming music in the UK and Ireland lately, and are joined on the show by 19-year-old Mancunian boy wonder Jim E Brown for a chat recorded before his show in Toronto. Music this week by: Pet Shop Boys, PJ Harvey, Royal Blood, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Double Negative, Cherry Chain, Peter Xan, Banríon, Mother Suspiria, Master Peace, GWEN, Jorja Smith, Really Good Time, Stay Lunar, Playlunch, Concrete Vehicles, Jim E. Brown. Note: Support independent journalism!! I found out about Mother Suspiria through NWM Magazine in Wales, so I'm linking them so you can follow and support them. Cover art: Jim E Brown @ The Garrison, Toronto, 11 July 2026 by Owen Forbes. Find this week's show playlist here. Watch our full interview with Jim here! Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Jules Henry believes music should be fun. It is a principle written all over his musical project Super Plage, which started in 2019 in Montreal. We caught up with Jules at Osheaga Festival this year to talk about his music, collaborating with friends, opening the main stages at Osheaga, his latest single about the energy and community he felt when attending protests to save Montreal's historic music venue, La Tulipe. And more! Cover photo: Super Plage (and a frazzled-looking me) @ Osheaga, 31 July 2026 by Jess Manchenton. See more of Jess' photographs from our Friday coverage on her website. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

It's Osheaga weekend! Yellow Brit Road brings you boots-on-the-ground coverage from our favourite Canadian music festival with reviews and updates, and live performances from many of the artists here that also played at Lollapalooza festival over at Chicago this week. We're joined backstage by Super Plage, a funky Montreal-based musician who opened the River Stage at Osheaga on Friday. And some new releases as always! Music this week by The xx, Charli xcx, Wet Leg, Blood Orange, AJ Tracey, Wolf Alice, Suki Waterhouse, Olivia Dean and Sam Fender, Kefaya, TV For Cats, Hill Collective, Super Plage. Cover photo: Wolf Alice @ Osheaga, 31 July 2026 by Jess Manchenton. See more of Jess' photographs from our Friday coverage on her website. Find this week's playlist, including live performances from Lollapalooza here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we review new albums by Charli xcx and Yard Act, it's our Osheaga preview and we're joined by Natalie from the Toronto-based rock band Loviet! We caught up with Natalie after Loviet's set at NXNE back in June. Music this week by The Pipettes, The xx, Tricky, Charli xcx, Yard Act, Jetstream Pony, Lava La Rue, Black Bordello, Wet Leg, Keo, Knats, Robo, Loviet. Cover photo: Loviet @ NXNE 2026 by Milo Martin, 13 June 2026. Find this week's playlist here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Good afternoon, Canada! The Yellow Brit Road is now on your airwaves in broad daylight: 1 in the afternoon! Join us for our first daytime show, as we throwback to Razorlight's huge 2006 album, which turned 20 last week. We also review Muse's huge comeback album, The Wow! Signal, and seeing them live last week, when they brought their unique live spectacle to Toronto and Quebec City. Also, I managed to get last-minute Angine de Poitrine tickets, and I was delighted with what I witnessed. So of course you'll hear all about it. In the mood for more live music? We are joined this week by Phillip and Stephen, organisers of Toronto Folk Festival, which takes place on Toronto Island from 21-23 August this year, to give us the lowdown on the festival and why you should consider attending. Music this week by: Razorlight, Muse, Nia Archives, Saint Clair, Kitty Crocker, Opus Kink, Angine de Poitrine, Yazmin Lacey, BILK, Big Fear, Raffy Bushman, Mwsog, Tom A. Smith, The Mows, No Museums, Abigail Lapell. Cover art: Muse by Michelle Beatty @ RBC Amphitheatre, 15 July 2026 Find this week's playlist here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.) Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Nova Twins are your favourite rockstars' favourite rockstars. For close to a decade now, the London rock duo have been changing what it means to make guitar music, conjuring up layered, interesting and innovating new sounds with their army of pedals. While their 2020 debut album, 'Who Are The Girls?' introduced the girls to the world, by the time their second album, the bulletproof 'Supernova' released in 2022, they were conquering Glastonbury, had avid fans in Tom Morello, Muse, Elton John and more. Their third and latest album, 2025's 'Parasites & Butterflies' shows a more vulnerable side to the duo, and finds strength in the vulnerability. Now on their biggest North American tour supporting Evanescence and Spiritbox across amphitheatres, singer-guitarist Amy Love and bass wizard Georgia South joined me at Toronto's RBC Amphitheatre to talk about the album, live shows, Tiny Desk, their visual and musical inspirations and much more. Thanks so much to Amy and Georgia for taking the time! Cover art: Nova Twins by Michelle Beatty @ RBC Amphitheatre, 29 June 2026 Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

The final Yellow Brit Road in the Sunday 8 PM slot! Starting from next week, the Yellow Brit Road will move to a daytime radio slot, Thursdays from 1-2:30 PM. This does mean we won't have the post-watershed slot to play explicit music uncensored anymore... so we made the most of it tonight ;) In other parts of the show, we also are also joined by the incredible Nova Twins, who were so kind to do an interview with us when they dropped by Toronto, supporting Evanescence at RBC Amphitheatre on tour a few weeks ago. Music this week by Muse, Nothing But Thieves, Beabadoobee, Theatre, Gurriers, Karen Dió, Master Peace, The Mary Wallopers, Jessie and the Revolvers, Picture Parlour, Chalk, Webmoms, Nova Twins, Super Furry Animals. Cover art: Nova Twins by Michelle Beatty @ RBC Amphitheatre, 29 June 2026 Find this week's playlist here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Cardiff's bubbliest, most energetic and irreverent punk rockers Panic Shack dropped one of my favourite debut albums last year with their self-titled album. Covering lyrical ideas as far ranging as women's trouser pockets, running personal bests, buying toothpaste, eating disorders and working class roots, all with a sense of fierce fun and their tongue firmly in cheek, the album felt like a celebration of life and like a night out in Cardiff put down on tape. It's why even the album cover was shot at the City Arms pub in Cardiff. Now on their first headline tour of North America, singer Sara and bassist Em joined me to talk all things album, blowing up on TikTok, being a working class band at a time it is becoming increasingly harder to do so, Welsh music and so much more! Find the self-titled album as well as their latest single on their Bandcamp page. And they're back in North America this September (Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal in Canada) supporting the reunited Sex Pistols on tour! Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we celebrate 20 years of the Hot Chip album The Warning, ponder Charli xcx's latest blink-and-you'll-miss-it release, cover new music from across the UK and Ireland and are joined by Cardiff's most energetic punk band, Panic Shack, who stopped by for a little chat on their debut North American tour last month. Music this week by Hot Chip, Charli xcx, Bloc Party, Adult DVD, Domi Hawken, Fleur De Lys, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Monjola, Kokoroko, Blood Red Shoes, Le Boom, Panedeni, Shark School, BitchCraft, Hyphen, Magi Merlin, Panic Shack. Find this week's playlist here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Hailing from Vancouver, The Hausplants are a band with a truly international sound: between singer and bassist Anna Zeleny, guitarist Amir Alav and drummer Sondor Mendbayar, the trio brought in influences from the US, Iran and Mongolia onto the latest EP, Into Equilibrium. A few years ago, Sondor put out a Craigslist ad looking for musicians to form a synthpop band. Zel and Amir were the only people in Vancouver to answer the ad, and a new band was born. By the time we saw the band a few weeks ago at NXNE, their sound had evolved into a complex and layered sound showed notes of jazz, postpunk, prog rock and dreamier shoegaze. We caught up with singer Zel after the band’s incredible NXNE set at Collective Arts Taproom to talk all about the band’s origins, influences, the exploding music scene in British Columbia, filming music videos their complex jazz-postpunk-prog rock-shoegaze sound and their upcoming debut album! Cover: The Hausplants at NXNE, Toronto, 13 June 2026 by Milo Martin. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going! Get in touch with the show: email ⁠[email protected]⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠. PS: submissions, cc ⁠[email protected]⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.