Now some news from Wreckers Radio
At long last here is a first newsletter from Wreckers Radio. These will go out about monthly and will list new music that has been added to the main playlist during the month together with update on programme & schedule changes, and other relevant news.
Schedule Notes:
What's On Programme: The weekly roundup of coming gigs across the region goes out on Sunday at 6pm, repeated on Monday and Tuesday at 10:30am and 6:30pm. It is also available to listen to online as a Podcast from https://wreckers.radio/whatson. (The podcast version does not include the tracks from some of the mentioned artists which are played following the broadcast)
If you know of a local live gig coming up in the next 3 weeks in Cornwall or Devon do let us know to include it either by direct email to
New Wreckers Slot: This goes out once a day for half an hour (except Sunday) starting a 7am on Monday and getting 3 hrs later each day till 10pm on Saturday. It runs for half an hour and features tracks added to Wreckers Radio in the last 4 weeks or so. The selection differs each day along with the time.
Elders & Classics Slot: Affectionately known as "The Old Gits Slot" (yes women can be old gits too) this is 30 mins featuring tracks recorded before 1990 (Roger wanted to make it before 1975, but he is an old git anyway, so 35 years old or more it is). It plays on alternate days at 9am or 3pm except Sunday. There's more than 12 hours of material in that list - so it takes 3 weeks plus to work through it all.
Featured Tracks: All the tracks in the library are in the general random rotation which plays when no programme is scheduled. Within that we pick some tracks that we currently like, or are topical, or new, or interesting, to be featured once every 15 songs. We try and keep less than 20 songs in that list so they should all get at least one play a day.
We have various other programme ideas in the pipeline, if you would like to suggest something or create a programme or playlist for a slot then do get in touch - email
New material playing on Wreckers Radio over the last month 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 Teignmouth based vocalist and conceptual artist with friends who form the Folk Preservation Society in Teignmouth
- Bob Fox - Dreams Never Leave You one of those old timers who have played and sung with just about everyone in both the pop and folk worlds. His 2000 first ever solo album after 30 years performing is now in the general playlist as well as in the Elders of Folk segment. And today he is still gigging 55 years after he started.
- Christine Collister - Children of the Sea - One of the Queens of Folk who form Daphne's Flight we have her solo album Childrfen of the Sea in the general playlist now
- All For Jolly - All for Jolly - originally from Penzance, now scattered across Cornwall, a brilliant high energy folk band. Fantastic live - but you'll be lucky to catch them as they are winding down. Buy their albums and give them a boost.
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' Ball”). Originally from Devon, going global and touring locally with Anna Anise.
- Liam Kinsley - I Struggle to Hold You & Under Burning Skies - a fresh new voice from Cornwall. Liam is still too young to buy his own pint, but is a highly talented singer-songwriter from Lostwithiel.
- Kello - 4 tracks - another new young Cornish voice from the far west making beautiful music
- Sound of Sirens - 4 tracks - from the opposite end of the region in Exeter (technically not West-theExe then? Ed.) Sound of Sirens is Hannah and Abbe who've been performing together since 2011. Great stuff
- Salt &Sky - 5 tracks - a dynamic Cornish folk band known for their infectious energy, rich cultural roots, and irresistible sense of fun.
- Dalla Duo - Hellen Rooz & A Richer Vein - Dalla, specialists in Cornish Celtic music from down Penzance way - has had various incarnations. The main band stopped touring back in 2017, but the founding duo of Neil Davey and Hilary Coleman are still going strong together with various other spinoffs
- Barratts Privateers - Light of the Lighthouse (live recording) - Gideon Barrett from Cargreen (love that village name. Ed.) has for several years been singing with a group of mates around the pubs of SE Cornwall and beyond. Fun time, singalong mostly a-cappella songs of the sea and this Cornish land.
- Steve Wigley - 5 tracks - Now based in Bideford down from the Black Country, this is his new solo 5 track EP. Watch out for him playing locally soon
All of individual tracks and a selection from each album are played in the half hour New Wreckers slot every day except Sunday - starting on Monday at 7am and 3hrs later each day until 10pm on Sunday.
That's it for March - looking forward to some fresh Spring Sounds. Various new facilities on the website should be rolling out this month - keep on listening at Wreckers dot Radio
