Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 4 options:

1. Listen at our website: just click here! Or,
2. Right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser to save it to your computer. Or,
3. If you’ve got iTunes, just click here to listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio! Or,
4. You can get the show on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness featured in this week’s show includes:

1. The Razorbax, Better Plce
2. Silver Dapple, M’Sorry
3. Baby Godzilla, You’re Not A Love, You’re An Addiction
4. Circus Sands, Better Dead
5. Josh Weller, Lose You
6. Zeds Dead & Omar Linx, No Prayers

Some of the talkie bits covered in this week’s show includes:

• Hardly any chat at all!
• Six storming tracks from musical marvels who deserve our recognition and love!

How did it happen?

Six tracks of top quality musicianship, no commercials and your ears. What could be better than this?

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free!

Sometimes, when I rememnber, the show has a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:

The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:

All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/this-reality-podcast/dropbox

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

This Reality Podcast is a Fantastic Audio Production.

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 4 options:

1. Listen at our website: just click here! Or,
2. Right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser to save it to your computer. Or,
3. If you’ve got iTunes, just click here to listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio! Or,
4. You can get the show on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness featured in this week’s show includes:

1. Acres of Lions, Kids
2. Bear Cavalry, Aubrey Plaza
3. PS I Love You, Butterflies and Boners
4. Kate Voegel , Only Fooling Myself
5. Snow Mantled Love, Trying To Be Found
6. Gunning For Tamar, Astronaut-Abort

Some of the talkie bits covered in this week’s show includes:

• Hardly any chat at all!
• Six storming tracks from musical marvels who deserve our recognition and love!

How did it happen?

Six tracks of top quality musicianship, no commercials and your ears. What could be better than this?

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free!

Sometimes, when I rememnber, the show has a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:

The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:

All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/this-reality-podcast/dropbox

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

This Reality Podcast is a Fantastic Audio Production.

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 4 options:

1. Listen at our website: just click here! Or,
2. Right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser to save it to your computer. Or,
3. If you’ve got iTunes, just click here to listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio! Or,
4. You can get the show on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness featured in this week’s show includes:

1. Black Hats, Kick In The Doors
2. The Boxer Rebellion, Locked In The Basement
3. Alpines, Drive
4. The Attika State, Yosi
5. Last Lungs, Inglend Part 3
6. Missy Higgins, Where I Stood

Some of the talkie bits covered in this week’s show includes:

• Hardly any chat at all!
• Six storming tracks from musical marvels who deserve our recognition and love!

How did it happen?

Six tracks of top quality musicianship, no commercials and your ears. What could be better than this?

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free!

Sometimes, when I rememnber, the show has a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:

The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:

All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/this-reality-podcast/dropbox

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

This Reality Podcast is a Fantastic Audio Production.

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 4 options:

1. Listen at our website: just click here! Or,
2. Right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser to save it to your computer. Or,
3. If you’ve got iTunes, just click here to listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio! Or,
4. You can now get the show on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness featured in this week’s show includes:

1. Dark Furs, Concrete Corners
2. Snow Mantled Love, If You Want To
3. Brian Colburn, Once Upon A Time
4. Sydney Wayser, Atlas
5. Paul Dempsey, Safety In Numbness
6. Cari, Clara, Safe

Some of the talkie bits covered in this week’s show includes:

• Hardly any chat at all!
• Six storming tracks from musical marvels who deserve our recognition and love!

How did it happen?

Six tracks of top quality musicianship, no commercials and your ears. What could be better than this?

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free!

Sometimes, when I rememnber, the show has a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:

The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:

All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/this-reality-podcast/dropbox

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

This Reality Podcast is a Fantastic Audio Production.

Purity Ring perform a distinctive blend of vocal-based electro-synth, that paints blissed-out soundscapes that are, frankly, difficult to categorise.

Some arty-farty critics have coined the phrase ‘post dubstep’ to describe Purity ring’s unique sounds. But that’s a cop-out.

What you want, though, is an answer to the question ‘Are Purity Ring any good?’

Well yes, of course they are.

The thing is, though, Shrines – Purity Ring’s debut album – is not really an album-worth of listening, and here’s what I mean.

I caught Purity Ring on the Chevrolet Sound Stage at this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Purity Ring topped the bill – and all eight bands on the bill, with one notable flat spot – delivered five solid hours of live sounds. Live sounds that were one massive orgasmothrong of music.

When my copy of Shrines recently arrived I jumped on it like an excited schoolboy would jump on the latest fanzine. With sweaty palms I unwrapped the cellophane and carefully slotted the CD in to the drive bay of my laptop. I hit ‘import’. Then I hit ‘play’.

The first track, Crawlersout, awoke memories of Austin. I wanted more. Much more. The second track, the fantastically beautiful, Fineshrine had me jumping up and down, in the kitchen, the way I jumped up and down in the Sound Stage.

With my pulse racing I hungered for the third track. And here’s the unexpected thing. When I started to listen to it I began to feel, well, disappointed.

What? How?

Megan’s voice sounded as sweetly beautiful as it always has. The instrumentals sounded as freakily funky (in a high-tech way) as they always had. And yet something was missing.

I abandoned Ungirthed and flipped forward to Amenamy. And began to feel another tinge of disappointment.

And then I realised what was missing.

In Austin, Purity Ring were the top of the bill in a packed-out venue. They played to an over-full house. The realisation dawned on me that it had been the feedback from the crowd that helped to make that Purity Ring gig so awesome.

Simply put, the crowd reacted in such a strong way to the evocative other-worldliness of Purity Ring’s instrumental/vocal combination and oddly peculiar sounds; it was the crowd that made Purity Ring’s sound whole.

The live atmosphere added an extra dimension to Purity Ring’s performance, an extra dimension that Purity Ring can’t reproduce in the studio.

Shrines has a couple of stunning tracks on it; the breathtaking Fineshrine and the melodically haunting Obedear. But the album is not Purity Ring. It’s a part of Purity Ring.

If you want something better than Shrines, You need to see Purity Ring live.

And then buy Shrines.

That’s the way to do it.

Shrines by Purity Ring, exam result: B- 

Purity Ring – Fineshrine by Last Gang Entertainment

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 4 options:

1. Listen at our website: just click here! Or,
2. Right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser to save it to your computer. Or,
3. If you’ve got iTunes, just click here to listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio! Or,
4. You can now get the show on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness featured in this week’s show includes:

1. In Isolation, The Wrong Girl
2. The Magic Lantern, The Bridge
3. Simian Ghost, Wolf Girl
4. Paul Dempsey, Bats
5. Vixens, You Will Fall
6. Black Hats, Kick in the Doors

Some of the talkie bits covered in this week’s show includes:

• Hardly any chat at all!
• Six storming tracks from musical marvels who deserve our recognition and love!

How did it happen?

Six tracks of top quality musicianship, no commercials and your ears. What could be better than this?

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free!

Sometimes, when I rememnber, the show has a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:

The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:

All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/this-reality-podcast/dropbox

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

This Reality Podcast is a Fantastic Audio Production.

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 4 options:

1. Listen at our website: just click here! Or,
2. Right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser to save it to your computer. Or,
3. If you’ve got iTunes, just click here to listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio! Or,
4. You can now get the show on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness featured in this week’s show includes:

1. The CocknBull Kid, There’s A Mother In Our Bed
2. Suborno, Failure Magnifies
3. Squirrel Pelt, Let It Out
4. Miguel, Adorn
5. Kill Murray, Laser
6. Heartless Bastards, Marathon

Some of the talkie bits covered in this week’s show includes:

• Hardly any chat at all!
• Six storming tracks from musical marvels who deserve our recognition and love!
• (and remember, you can join us live on-air too! Skype us at ‘thisrealitypodcast’)

How did it happen?

Six tracks of top quality musicianship, no commercials and your ears. What could be better than this?

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free!

Sometimes, when I rememnber, the show has a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:

The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:

All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/this-reality-podcast/dropbox

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

This Reality Podcast is a Fantastic Audio Production.

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 4 options:

1. Listen at our website: just click here! Or,
2. Right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser to save it to your computer. Or,
3. If you’ve got iTunes, just click here to listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio! Or,
4. You can now get the show on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness featured in this week’s show includes:

1. Future Of The Left, Sheena is a T-Shirt Salesman
2. Caveman, Thankful
3. Capsula, Hit N Miss
4. Cage The Elephant, Aberdeen
5. Capybara, Late Night Bikes
6. Ki:Theory, Holiday Heart

Some of the talkie bits covered in this week’s show includes:

• Hardly any chat at all!
• Six storming tracks from bands I saw at South by Southwest 2012!
• (and remember, you can join us live on-air too! Skype us at ‘thisrealitypodcast’)

How did it happen?

Six tracks of top quality musicianship, no commercials and your ears. What could be better than this?

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free!

Sometimes, when I rememnber, the show has a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:

The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:

All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/this-reality-podcast/dropbox

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

This Reality Podcast is a Fantastic Audio Production.

And you try to calm yourself in to a state of false relaxation, to mask your anxieties, then the dentist’s head looms in to your field of vision.

You stare up in to the dentist’s cold, dark, soul-less, lifeless eyes; you are filled with utter despair, and your life flashes before you.

Or, if you want the same feelings, you could always pop to the cinema to watch the ‘musical’ film ‘Rock Of Ages’.

This artless, guileless, over-long (123 minutes? Really?) pile of cinematic rubbish has the capacity to be a Musical Weapon of Mass Destruction. It is not even clever enough to be called ‘a loose parody’.

It is really awful.

Tom Cruise uses his considerable acting skills to portray a very short rock wannabe who shouldn’t wear leather trousers.

Russell Brand is competent at playing Russell Brand, but why, in the name of Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell, does he attempt an Ozzy Osbourne-esque Brummie accent?

What a twat.

This film has more flaws than the current World Champion Stick-Shaker could shake a medium-weight stick at.

Please stay at home and save your money.

Or go and get a root canal; even that would be more fun than having to sit through 123 minutes of Rock of Ages.

Exam result: F

Brennig Jones

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 4 options:

1. Listen at our website: just click here! Or,
2. Right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser to save it to your computer. Or,
3. If you’ve got iTunes, just click here to listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio! Or,
4. You can now get the show on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness featured in this week’s show includes:

1. Feathers, Land of the Innocent
2. Spirits Of The Dead, Spirits Of The Dead
3. Future Unlimited, When It Calls
4. Fanfarlo, The Walls Are Coming Down
5. Peter Chung, Waiting
6. The Parlotones, Sun Comes Out

Some of the talkie bits covered in this week’s show includes:

• Hardly any chat at all!
• Six storming tracks from bands I saw at South by Southwest 2012!
• (and remember, you can join us live on-air too! Skype us at ‘thisrealitypodcast’)

How did it happen?

Six tracks of top quality musicianship, no commercials and your ears. What could be better than this?

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free!

Sometimes, when I rememnber, the show has a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:

The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:

All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/this-reality-podcast/dropbox

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

This Reality Podcast is a Fantastic Audio Production.