There is only one way to start episode 95, and that’s with a palet-cleansing blast of Zeke and their brand new single ‘Peterbilt’ out on 7″ vinyl from the most excellent Hound Gawd! Records. If only all shows began like that, no deaths, just loud, fast rock n roll. Then to follow it up with the brand new single from The Isle OF Wight punks Grade 2 with their brand new single ‘Cut Throat’ also available now on Hellcat Records.

We change the pace a bit and kick back as we introduce a second airing from the most excellent Fruit Tones and their recent single ‘Double Shot’ available from Chris’s favourite label Alian Snatch Records. These cats have got some serious swing with their garage rock n roll, and they hail from Manchester and sport some of Rock n roll’s finest facial hair and without doubt have one of the finest record sleeves this year. Get an eyeful of that beauty and on one of your five a day colour variants as well, and if they want to send us a copy, we’ll keep playing them, or so I’ve been told.

After reviewing the brand new Supersuckers album recently, there was a great take on the Lee Harvey Oswalds ‘Rocket 69’, so it’s a good time to play the original and what a treat it is too.

‘Inside Out’ from the Dogs is up next on the awesome Rum Bar Records who are prolific supporters of Rock n Roll and have an amazing output, of which the Dogs is the latest offering. Go check ’em out and tell Lou the RPM boys sent you.

Chris takes control for the next pick, and he Turns Up The Volume and drops one off the brand new Agnostic Front album. We do like a bit of NYHC, and there are none finer than Vinny Stigma and Roger Miret, and thankfully they are showing no sign of slowing down, still the kings of hardcore. If the Hardcore wasn’t your thing, how about some tip-top garage rock courtesy of the formidable Wild Billy Childish and his band Thee Headcoats with a track off their new record ‘And The Band Played Johnny B Good’ off the Damaged Goods album ‘The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm N Beat Venacular’.

Hotshots Hot Picks begin this week with the formidable and always excellent Ian Hunter and The Rant Band with ‘Bow Street Runners’ from the impressive ‘Fingers Crossed’ album. Hotshot has fallen head over heels for the Hunter catalogue, and we thought he’d gone underground, as we hadn’t heard from him in a while, as he delved into the incredible back catalogue of mr Hunter. I’m sure this wont be the last Hunter related offering from Hotshot.

Anyone who knows Hotshot is aware that his all time favourite is Elvis the pelvis Presley and his font of knowledge knows no bounds and he would easily win mastermind as his specialist subject which is a shame because his general knowledge is shocking othe rthan beer drinking and hellrasing but you can’t have everythign in life.

Hotshots third and final Hot Pick of the week is a brand new, I know its sounds a bit weird but T Rex have a new record out. Its unearthed recently which is amazing considering his passing was in 1977 Take it away Hotshot ‘I’m Dazed’.

One of the best new albums over the last 18 months happed to be the garage rock album courtest of Martin Savage and the Jiggers which cam e out on Damaged Goods. Before the Jiggers Martin was part of the Locomotions another brilliant album that was released on Alian Snatch Records and this is a track off their one and done LP entitled ‘Stockholm City Girls’. Ragged Rock n Roll that burned so brightly back in the early naughties go check em out. It’s loose but a real earworm.

Last week we brought a brand new track from The Sideshows, a three piece band featurign the awesome Sami Yaffa, Rich Ragany and Simon Maxwell. Considering whos involved in this project of course it doesn’t dissapoint and with the new year coming into focus theres a whole album coming down the track and all wrapped up. Not as full throttle as last weeks offering but its effortless cool and a real earworm but what else did you expect? head over to their social media page and get involved so you don’t miss out on any updates.

One of the greatest if not thee greatest punk rock n roller was the one and only Johnny Thunders who just has his epic ‘Que Sera Sera’ album released on two disc vinyl courtesy of Jungle Records who’ve always had thunders back and keep the flame burning. Its on a fetching pink vinyl 40th Anniversery edition with a clutch of outtakes and remixed brilliance. So what better way to remember Johnny than drop his track ‘Crime Of The Century’ from ‘Sticks And Stones Sessions’ that features Wayne Kramer maybe we’ll drop the original ‘Cool Operator’ in the next few weeks from ‘Que Sera Sera’.

Up next we drop a rare alternative recording of The Alarm Classic ‘One Step Closer To Home’ which happened to be Mike Peters favourite Alarm song and with Peters postumous autobiography coming out this week with the second instalment of three ‘Hope’ seems like the perfect time to remind everyone how bloody good this Dave Sharp song is.

Chris picks the excellent Bad Nerves with one o ftheir early single ‘Can’t Be Mine’. the band have been busy playing with th elikes of Green Day over in the States and also headlinging their biggest headline shows to date recently.

After releasing their latest album recently Ash began their UK Tour and Chris and myself were present its always a good time to play some Ash so Heres one off the new album ‘Ad Astra’ This is ‘Hallion’.

As we head into the homestraight the Mission recently announced a couple of dates for next year and their 40th Anniversery of their debut album. It seems fair that we play a track from their drummer Alex’s band Cheeks and a track ‘Transmission Interupted’ that fans should check out if they haven’t already.

The penultimate offering this week is Lemmy and his Black Flag cover ‘Thirsty And Miserable’ taken from the fund raising album for the west memphis three. Amazing story and how Rollins got involved you should go google the background but in the meantime the pick of the tracks on the album just happens to be Lemmy doign Black Flag and what a version it is too.

Finally this week we close the show with a track off the brand new Johny Vincent album Which is reviewed on RPM by Martin so watch out for that. Its a Glam slammin slice of snotty rock n roll. Johny explained it by saying, “This collection has been a long time in the planning. About 15 years ago Johny found a set of cassette demos of songs he wrote and recorded between 1983 and 87 using the overdubbing capability of a funky twin cassette karaoke machine from Argos. This was in the pre Skullknuckles days when he was known as plain old Johny Vincent.
These catchy little beauties were written for the band White Trash. Some of these songs would have made it onto the 2nd White Trash album (sadly the band fell apart before this happened). The large majority of this collection have never seen the light of day, until now that is.
These versions were recoded during the 1st three quarters of 2025 at Millionaire Mansion Studios (not using an Argos karaoke machine this time) and there you have it, the first instalment of “Songs Of Arrogance And Innocence”. the track off the album is ‘Two Time Train’ so enjoy and give us a listen and a save and if you’re feeling generous why not tell your friends about our little podcast as we hurtle towards 100 episodes which I might add has provided some amazing bands and we can safely say we’ve never played a bad song, yet. Go on give us a share on your socials and we promise to keep playing awesome music.

Diolch.