The Show: I’m sorry for eating calamari

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 01 February 2025

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

      • SAINT JUDE – No Angels
      • PAN AMSTERDAM – Day Out *
      • KNEECAP – H.O.O.D (Working Men’s Club Remix)
      • CLUB SHY & SHYGIRL – F*Me (featuring Yseult)
      • EDWYN COLLINS – Knowledge
      • MANNEQUIN PUSSY – Loud Bark
      • FKA TWIGS – Drums Of Death (choreography glitch)
      • ALABASTER DEPLUME – Oh My Actual Days
      • MIKE – Bear Trap
      • Myaap & Miah P – Do Yo Shi
      • CLUB SHY & SHYGIRL – True Religion (featuring Isabella Lovestory & PinkPantheress)
      • MIKE Q / SINJIN HAWKE – Thunderscanhall (DJ Kitkats Bootleg)
      • emotegi – first car (freewrite)
      • ANAMANAGUCHI – Territorial Pissings
      • PHIL GERALDI – Oklahoma After Dark
      • CLIPPING., DAVEED DIGGS, JONATHAN SNIPES & WILLIAM HUTSON – Change the Channel
      • PIT PONY – Vacancy
      • IMMERSION + SUSS – State Of Motion
      • ITOA – Oh No (Extended Mix) (featuring なかむらみなみ)
      • 2SDXRT3ALL – Frag
      • numün – Voices
      • CENTRAL CEE & 21 SAVAGE – GBP
      • OKLOU – choke enough
      • HAMDI – Counting (Taiki Nulight Remix)
      • SCOTCH ROLEX – Juice (featuring MC Yallah)
      • PATAKA BOYS – Glassy Junction
      • THE CURE – Endsong

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: The wrong way for the feng shui

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 16 December 2023

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

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #1]

  • SHIT ROBOT – Breathe (Looking At Gibraltar) (featuring Suzi Horn)
  • NORMAL BRAIN – M.U.S.I.C
  • FACETS – Breakable
  • BXKS – Back It Up

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #2]

  • FAT TONY – BKNY (featuring Old Money) (Redux)
  • BEYONCÉ – MY HOUSE
  • LORAINE JAMES – Glich the System (Glitch Bitch )
  • HONESTY – NIGHTWORLD

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #3]

  • LONG BLONDES – Christmas Is Cancelled
  • A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW – Shut Your Mouth, It’s Christmas
  • RUN THE JEWELS – A Christmas Fucking Miracle

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #4]

  • LIL UGLY MANE – orange over
  • A BAD DIANA – Behind The Curtain Of The Sun
  • BJÖRK – Oral (featuring Rosalía)
  • UNSCHOOLING – Excommunicated

Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #5

  • BLOCKHEAD – Mississippi (featuring Aesop Rock)
  • THE DIFFERENCE MACHINE – Car Key (featuring Denmark Vessey)
  • DUPPY GUN – Bomb Fi Dem (featuring Buddy Don)
  • STEVE MASON – Moss Side Fish Fry (featuring One Da)

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #6]

  • ALAN VEGA – No More Christmas Blues
  • ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL, THE – Black Christmass
  • PALE FOUNTAINS, THE – Benoit’s Christmas

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #7]

  • EYEDRESS – Sadie Hawkins Prom
  • PINKPANTHERESS – Mosquito
  • OPEN MIKE EAGLE – I bled on stage at first ave *
  • WURLD SERIES – Rearing Wesley
  • SV – 2 Drunk 2
  • bar italia – Jelsy

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #8]

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Well, Suck. On. This.

Never ceases to amaze us that, 20 years after the fact, media pundits who enthusiastically advocated for the Iraq war are still much sought after for their opinions by the likes of CNN, MSNBC, NYT, FOX ETC.

Thomas Friedman is a case in point.

I wouldn’t necessarily say that this:

disqualifies you from any future public discourse but how about, at the very least, a mea fucking culpa.

For a little bit more detail try RNZ’s Midweek Mediawatch at the 25s mark and the whole of this episode of NPR’s On The Media (but particularly from 11m 10s).

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 25 March 2023

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

  • CHRIS MORRIS – Bushwhacked
  • NEW ORDER – Procession
  • SLOWTHAI – Selfish
  • DOUBLE WISH – Know It All
  • CAROLINE ROSE – The Doldrums
  • KELVYN COLT – EYE4EYE
  • PAN AMSTERDAM – Rules
  • BAR ITALIA – Nurse!
  • STRAPONTIN & ZILLAS ON ACID – Reading Comments
  • SOFIA KOURTESIS – Madres
  • UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA – Meshugga
  • CHAMBRE DES COULEURS – in this lonely place
  • DAVID SYLVIAN – Late Night Shopping
  • EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL – Run A Red Light
  • THE MARY ONETTES – Pearl Machine
  • KOOL KEITH X REAL BAD MAN – FIRE & ICE (featuring Atmosphere) (with Ice-T)
  • MANDY, INDIANA – Pinking Shears

Thomas Friedman *

  • iSopod Nano – Prismatic Shard
  • CONFLICT AT SERENITY POOLS – Golden View
  • DEENA ABDELWAHED – Dîner
  • SKRILLEX, PINKPANTHERESS & TRIPPIE REDD – Way Back
  • CLARK – Clutch Pearlers
  • LOOSE ARTICLES – Chaos
  • THE JANSEN – Sore di Kebun Raya
  • DARE, THE – Good Time
  • DEPTH CHARGE – Bastard Swordsman
  • LILY ALLEN – The Fear
  • VANESSA WORM – Devils Game
  • BODYSYNC – Rhythm
  • TE’AIRE – AUDREY
  • THE NOMEN – The NoMen’s First Symphony in C Major
  • CHRIS MORRIS – Bushwhacked 2

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: R.I.P. It Up & Start Again

In our last minute rush to celebrate the lives of Cathal Coughlan and Andrew Fletcher we completely overlooked including a musical eulogy to Vangelis. If we had time for a do-over, extracts from the Bladerunner soundtrack would be sitting alongside tunes from Microdisney, Telefís and Depeche Mode.

R.I.P. Cathal Coughlan

R.I.P. Andrew Fletcher

R.I.P. Vangelis

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 28 May 2022

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

  • DEPECHE MODE – New Life
  • MICRODISNEY – Loftholdingswood
  • DEPECHE MODE – Enjoy The Silence (Hands And Feet Mix)
  • TELEFÍS – The Symphonies Of Danny La Rue
  • NU GENEA – Tienaté
  • BRIJEAN – Shy Guy
  • DUNNE – Espiral
  • SHORTCUT – Hope
  • UNLOVED – Mother’s Been a Bad Girl
  • LITTLE MISS CORNSHUCKS – Waiting In Vain
  • GWENNO – Tresor
  • AUTOMATIC – Skyscraper
  • SUDAN ARCHIVES – Selfish Soul
  • BOBAN PETROVIĆ – Djuskaj
  • DON ZILLA – Buziba
  • L’ÉPÉE – Springfield 61
  • MOONCHILD SANELLY – Cute (featuring Trillary Banks)
  • J ROCC – One
  • BUGZY MALONE – Daily Duppy
  • ALOOF, THE – Never Get Out The Boat (Flying Mix)
  • PINKPANTHERESS – Where You Are (featuring Willow)
  • HAAI AND JON HOPKINS – Baby, We’re Ascending
  • NEW ORDER – Such A Good Thing
  • THE WAEVE – Something Pretty
  • RICO NASTY – Intrusive
  • PANIC SHACK – The Ick
  • HEAVENLY – Intro
  • SUGA ROY & THE FIREBALL CREW – Nah Go Run (featuring Conrad Crystal & Zareb)
  • KODAK BLACK – Grinding All Season
  • HTRK – Kiss Kiss And Rhinestones (Eurodance Version)
  • JOVIALE – UW4GM
  • OLIVER SIM – Hideous

The Show: We’ll be dancing in that pale phone glow…

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 5 March 2022

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

    • CONFIDENCE MAN – Feels Like A Different Thing
    • !!! – Storm Around The World (featuring Maria Uzor)
    • THE LAZY EYES – Fuzz Jam
    • FAUX DÉPART – Fantôme
    • ALEXIS744 – Loving Up (featuring Sr. Noseybonk)
    • NA-KEL SMITH – CHALLEY ROCK
    • ERA C – beautiful
    • MAYLEE TODD – Infinite Program
    • SAINT ETIENNE – Relocate
    • PYROPHORIA – California
    • WEB RUMORS – Heaven
    • PINKPANTHERESS – All My Friends Know (ANZ Remix)
    • DOSS – Jumpin’
    • SEA POWER – Green Goddess
    • EWAN MCVICAR – Which Way To Go
    • RALPH CASTELLI – Morning Sex (Mochakk Remix)
    • WET LEG – Angelica
    • PAPERNIKS – Segment H
    • PORRIDGE RADIO – Back To The Radio
    • EVA B – Quarantine Baji
    • ERA C – we’ll have better days
    • HEAVENLY – I Want You However You Come
    • HUMMINGBIRDXYZ – Satellite Not A Kite
    • CHRISMAN – Mlinzi
    • MWANJÉ – Wildones (featuring Sampa the Great)
    • ICEBOY VIOLET – Are U Connected *
    • FANTASTIC TWINS – Twin Touch Test
    • YEULE – Perfect Blue (featuring Tohji)
    • DENZEL CURRY – Zatoichi (fetauring slowthai)
    • gglum – Tangled
    • EVA B – Bayani Rog
    • THE ALCHEMIST – Diesel (featuring Kool G Rap)
    • PYROPHORIA – We Need to Talk Never
    • BOARDS OF CANADA – Sir Prancelot Brainfire
    • PAPERNIKS – Segment A
    • THE FRENZIED BRICKS – (Can I) Bridge The Gap
    • THE SIMPS – Tesla
    • NIA ARCHIVES – Luv Like
    • GUERILLA TOSS – Famously Alive

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.