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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXXI featuring Kitty Von Crypt

This edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show features a special guest star as part of my push to getting more diverse voices and interesting people on the show – fire performer, model, Circus freak, piercer, Paddle Mag Awards winner 2024, Sexual Freedom Awards Finalist 2025, and Alternative Awards nominee 2025, Kitty Von Crypt. As usual with guests on the show, Kitty also gets to pick some music to��

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXX

Welcome to the new edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show! Life got in the way again and I had a mental system crash last weekend, so that delayed everything. That’s one of the things that happens when you’re dealing with depression and anxiety. I hope that by being open with my own fight, we can normalise talking about it. That’s one of the reasons I’m teaming up with Heavy Metal Therapy for a night…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXIX

This week’s Wyrd Ways Rock Show comes at a time when our trans siblings are under attack from TERFs like that poisonous, vile woman who wrote the Harry Potter books, the UK Supreme Court and even our Health Secretary, Wes Streeting.  Please, if you are in the UK, write to your MP expressing your disgust at the way this marginalized community is being treated.  This is especially despicable from a…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXVIII

Apologies for the lateness of this “week”‘s edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show – I just totally ran out of spoons.  I’m only just now starting to be recovered enough to be doing all the stuff needed to put a show together. If you’re wondering why I’m referring to cutlery and what that has to do with anything, click on this link for an explanation.  It explains quite nicely while people like me…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXVII

Welcome to the latest edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. This week’s show is packed to the proverbial gunwhales with the usual blend of top quality brand new Rock and Metal, as you’d expect. We’ve got brand-new music from Vanitas and Bloodywood, a taste of Ward XVI’s upcoming album Id3ntity, and a guest appearance from FFDP‘s Ivan Moody on The Funeral Portrait’s Holy Water. But it’s not just…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXVI

It’s been a little more than a week since the last edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show, but there is a reason for that.  I had an anxiety attack at the pole class I attend on Saturday mornings.  That basically meant that Saturday (where I do most of my planning for the new show) was a write-off, with Sunday being mostly about getting my head back together for Monday. The good news is that the…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXV

This week’s (oops…) edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show was going to be released before International Women’s Day, but unfortunately the number of spoons I had available weren’t up to the task.  Especially after the emotional kick in the balls I received midweek.  There’s a few more details on my Insta, if you’re intrigued, but that’s limited to close friends. Anyway, as is sort-of traditional for…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXIV

Welcome once again to The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. This week, as usual, loads of new releases from bands from all over the planet, showing just what a diverse genre Rock and Metal truly is, despite the best efforts of gatekeepers I like to call The Metal Taliban (there’s even an article I wrote about that on The Wyrd Ways Rock Show website in the Blog section if you want to have a read). As well as…

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Trying to be more authentic

So I’ve spent the vast majority of my life trying to please other people in one way or another.  I was born in the 70’s and grew up in the 80’s in a conservative family.  The only real rebellion I had to my name was listening to Metal.  Beyond that, I was just as conservative as my upbringing. Admittedly, things started to change a little when I went to University.  I started reading comics.…

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A Proposal

Here is our proposal for the first part of the Bradford Gothic Revival. Please let us know if you have any questions. THE EXHIBITION What is it? An exhibition (preferably in a covered and accessible open space), all about the Alternative communities in and around Bradford and the North. We are currently collecting testimonies, quotes, photos, memories and memorabilia from the Alternative scene…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXIII

Welcome to the new edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. Apolgies for their being no show last week.  The first week in February is a massively busy (and expensive) one for me – both my wife and my son have birthdays.  So I literally didn’t have the headspace or time to do all the necessary work to put a show together.  This week’s different.  I’ve actually had some time this week. Not that this…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXII

Yet again proving Gene Simmons wrong, here’s another edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. Seriously, if he was right, I wouldn’t be finding so much new stuff to enjoy and play for you.  I’d be stuck to playing the “old favourites”, and that’s when I’d probably give up.  What keeps me going is all the new stuff that either arrives in my Inbox or I find on Instagram and Bandcamp.  There’s loads of…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXI

What’s in this week’s new edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show? Two hours of quality hot-from-the-studio Rock and Metal. Except for the opening track. That’s a total classic. Hard to believe it’s 35 years oid this year. OK, make that almost impossible. There’s also news about a new pole championship, organised by Rude Studios supremo, Enya Torres. It’ll be taking place in Liverpool in September. If…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXX

It’s a bit heavier this week.  It’s also a bit late.  I know.  I’ve been somewhat tired the last few days and a bit out of sorts mentally (long-time listeners will know that me and my brain don’t get on), so the editing and mixing have been not happening. Something I will mention is that I’m looking at setting up a Discord and a Patreon to make it easier for you to get in touch, ask for songs,…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXIX

CONTENT WARNING: This week;s show contains adult themes and content. Alongside the usual plethora of new music, I stole at least part of the format for this week’s show from the Come Curious podcast. So it’s all about looking back on the last year and looking forward to 2025. I also get to have a bit of a rant about transphobia and whorephobia. Just to give you a clue, I’m not on the sides of the…

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Journalling (prompted by Come Curious)

As you know (if you listen to The Wyrd Ways Rock Show podcast), I’m a regular listener to, and admittedly a bit of a fanboy for, the Come Curious podcast presented by Florence Bark and Reed Thomas-Litman. I’ve signed up as a Patreon and everything. It’s a really good listen and I very much recommend it. But they do talk frankly about sex and various other things, so I suppose I have to add a…

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Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXVIII

So here it is. The last Wyrd Ways Rock Show of 2024. This one focusses on the bands I discovered in the last 12 months, so may not be what you might have expected.  Then again, with me, what’s “the expected”? Thanks for listening during this year and I hope that continues into 2025. Here’s the Acast player:   Here’s the playlist: Unbowed – Delay Deny Depose Frau Fleischer – Out Of Control The…