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News 2nd May 2026
Details of New music this month, the current schedule of playlists (the default between specific playlists is a random selection from all available tracks) and some changes to the website.
Firstly an important item - we are approaching a financial crunch as the PRS and PPL licences fall due. We will be launching an appeal specifically to cover these costs later this month with some extra encouragement thrown in. Details will be in the next Wreckers Radio email (probably not until I am back from an Irish road trip in mid-May, RCO) .
In the meantime you can, of course, buy us a coffee to keep us going.
News 5th April 2026
New music this week:
Full Albums - for local artists we'll usually include the ful album, for visitors it dependsl
- Fable - An Tir Orth Penn (The Land at the End) - this lovely duo from mid Cornwall desrve a wider audience
- Fairport Convention - Roadworks - still touring after all these years, this is a live recording from their Autumn 2025 tour. Back with Dave Mattacks as a 5 piece giving a more Folk-Rock feel.
- Police Dog Hogan - Westward Ho! - a very definitely westcountry themed album although the band are based in the metropolis.
- Seize the Day - The Tide is Turning - protest folk group based in Somerset - voted winners of the BBC Folk Awards 2004, then disqualified by BBC for being political. No longer touring.
Selected tracks from albums. If an artist is prolific then we'll often select our favourites from their catalog, or if there are particular songs which are relveant to us West-the-Exe we'll selected those.
- Seize the Day - Alive - selected protest songs off this live double album
whoops - this one didn't get published until 2 weeks late. My mistake, RogerCO
News 29th March 2026
New material playing on Wreckers Radio this fortnight includes:
Full Albums
- Steve Knightley - The Winter Yards. His most recent album post Show of Hands, a very mature Devonian songwriting talent
- Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne - Play Up the Music. Extraordinary squeeze box player who recently visited us from the Black Country. Catch him when he returns.
- Ulrika Igraine - The Whispering Bones. A solo album by this Peruvian-Swedish Tiegnmouth based vocalist and conceptual artist with friends who form the Folk Preservation Society in Tiegnmouth
Individual Tracks
- The Stone Ryders - Hold on to You (live recording). Live trio/quartet from Truro-ish area. Great fun live.
- Jon Fazal - Borderlands (from the album "Insomniacs' Bal"l). Originally from Devon, going global and touring locally with Anna Anise.
New wreckers are given higher priority in the selection so you should hear one about every 6 songs. New local artists stay in the featured list for a couple of months, established artists from elsewhere will have newly added tracks featured only for a week or so. For more details see our Playlist Policy page
News 12th March 2026
Emma's weekly Whats On programme is bedding in nicely. It goes out every Sunday at 6pm, and is repeated on Monday and Tuesday at 10:30am and 6:30pm. It is also available to Listen Again on the Whats On page from 7pm on Monday.
News 22nd February 2026
Some new tracks and a complete album by an old stager this week:
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