The Show: So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 15 June 2024

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

• • • bar italia – drumstart
    • WILL HOFBAUER – Diiing
    • NOURISHED BY TIME – I Guess I Got My Answer
    • PRETTY SICK – Headliner
    • DISCLOSURE – She’s Gone, Dance On
    • salute – saving flowers (featuring Rina Sawayama)
    • bar italia – The only conscious being in the universe

Jonathan Pie on Rishi Sunak

• • • CINDY LEE – Government Cheque
    • RHYS LANGSTON & STEEL TIPPED DOVE – polyglot on chloroform
    • MAX RICHTER – Movement, Before All Flowers
    • NORMANI – Candy Paint
    • ICEBOY VIOLET  & NUEEN – Heartbreak of a Broken Stitch (featuring Harriet Morley)
    • MEEKZ – Jummah
    • SMOKINGSKUL – Jenga
    • OPÉRA MORT – Le Monde
    • MERCURY REV – Patterns
    • FAT DOG – I Am The King
    • BLACK DRESSES – I STILL SEE EVERYTHING
    • DENZEL CURRY – HOT ONE (featuring TiaCorine & A$AP Ferg) *
    • RHYS LANGSTON & STEEL TIPPED DOVE – casino petit bourgeois (featuring Fatboi Sharif)
    • CINDY LEE – Diamond Jubilee

Nish Kumar on Rishi Sunak

• • • JOHN GLACIER – Steady As I Am
    • ICEBOY VIOLET  & NUEEN – SM_FID
    • HOMIXIDE GANG – SIDE EFFExT (featuring Lil Yachty)
    • ELSY WAMEYO – Umva
    • THE NEW EVES – Astrolabe
    • TRABANTS – Mantra
    • GWAR – West End Girls / People Who Died

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.