The show

The Friday show features Rock rubbing shoulders with Indie, as well as Psychedelia, Punk & New Wave, pre- and post-Punk, including Powerpop and Goth, as well as a respectful glancing back in time to Jazz, Blues, and Rock & Roll. Rock is an amalgam of many influences and styles, a genre with many fathers, and The Friday Show quite rightly sets out to acknowledge these sources over the course of the series, although not necessarily chronologically.

Expect to hear a ton of acts, from the 50s to the 2000s, from A through to Z.

In my youth, Saturday night was when you'd go out dancing, or else went out with a bunch of your mates to hook up with girls... who'd often already gone out.

The emphasis of the Saturday show is the role of dance within the prism of rock, and with an eye or two on the modern as well as the classic, it'll be provided by the likes of Sly & The Family Stone, New Order, The B-52's, James Brown, P.W.E.I.,The Gang Of Four, Red Hot Chilis, and many more, plus Reggae and erm, Stax of vintage Northern Soul tracks.

The Sunday show will close the week on a laidback and relaxed note, the strains of Eno, The Cocteau Twins, David Sylvian, Tangerine Dream and similar acts carrying us on clouds into another Monday of a brand new week.

How better to stand between what's gone and what is to come, to slow down, reflect, gird one's loins, take a deep breath and prepare for the upcoming week. The music therefore is less frantic, dropping down to Shoegaze, pensive, Ambient, in keeping with this slower, more thoughtful mood.