The Dazzle Rebel Show on TBFM TONIGHT!

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Tonights show on TBFM Online Radio aims to take you back to your school days with a Back to School Special! Playing a diverse range of tracks, many of which chosen by TBFM listeners, ranging from Joy Division to Madness, Supertramp to Van Halen plus some great music from emerging bands such as Exit StateBlack Belt KarateTitans & KingsNew Generation SuperstarsJettBlack and Agenda. Also TBFM’s very first play of the new single “Here We Stand” by New Device!

It’s such a jam-packed, hoot-tootin’, banjo-shootin’ show you’ll forget that you’ve got school in the morning!

Tune in 9pm – Midnight

See you in the chatroom,

Daz

Tapestry of a Natural Woman ~ or ~ Happy 70th Birthday Carole King

Today (February 9th) marks Carole King’s birthday, she’s the big Seven-O, which is the new sixty, I hear. ‘Tapestry’, her first top 10 album that will be celebrating its own 40th birthday tomorrow (Feb 10th) is considered one of the definitive albums of the early 70s and in 1972 it received four Grammys including Album of the Year.
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Excitable Boy

Today (January 24th) is Warren William Zevon’s birthday, he would have been 65 had this ‘Excitable Boy’ not shuffled off this mortal coil aged 56 in 2003.  My first and for years only experience of Warren Zevon was the near-novelty ‘Werewolves of London’ but after a conversation with a rock journalist I started to probe deeper. Continue reading “Excitable Boy”

Blurring the Edges ~ or ~ are musical genres are blending into one?

The Twitterverse was awash with controversy yesterday but not because of the US Censorship debate, oh no, this was much more serious – it was the announcement that Chase and Status are on the bill for the Download Festival! Continue reading “Blurring the Edges ~ or ~ are musical genres are blending into one?”

Thermonuclear Apocalypse ~ or ~ Why we’re not out of the radioactive water yet

Since I can remember I’ve had recurring dreams about the “Dying Day”. As soon as I could talk I would give detail descriptions about my nightly escapades in this hellish scene to my worried Mum who no doubt wondered if she had given birth the reincarnation of Nostradamus or even possibly the Anti-Christ. These apocalyptic dreams would come and go in bouts throughout my childhood leaving me a bit obsessed with the Cold War and post-apocalyptic sci-fi themes. This could also explain why I became so enthralled in the thrashing guitars and doom-mongering lyrics of Megadeth but this post isn’t about psycho-analysing my childhood it’s actually my argument as to why we should still be wary of nuclear war. Continue reading “Thermonuclear Apocalypse ~ or ~ Why we’re not out of the radioactive water yet”