Music played:
As Serious As Your Life – Four Tet
Travelin’ Man – RetroElectric Big Band
Give Me – The Child of Lov
Bankrobber – Rainy Milo
LineUp – Elastica
She Will – Savages
Grippo – Saul Williams
Look for the Woman – Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip
Heal – The Child of Lov
Fly – The Child of Love
Feeling Good – Nina Simone
Woman – Neneh Cherry
Me and My Friend the Cat – Loudon Wainwright
Get Up, Stand Up – Bunny Wailer
Jessica – Major Lazer
Wor (Adrian Sherwood Hey Gringo Rmx) – Django Django
Culture Shock – Roommate
Bad Peopel – Twilight Circus Dub
Three Minute Hero – Selector
Special Brew – Bad Manners
Freedom – Rchie Havens
Mambo Schmambo – Phase 5 Stereo
Lagos Speedway – Captain Planet
Hey Diggity – Blackstreet
Crazy in Love – Emeli Sande
Snake Charmer – Benny Berigan

Featuring special guests Becky White & Nathan Pundt of Firekeeper and Emma Cape from the Bradley Manning Support Network, plus a Thatcher-inspired 2Tone Ska set

Music Played:
Blue Room – The Orb,
Lime Juice – Unkle Ho,
Warm Shadow – Fink,
Crystal Mountain – Becky White,
Whine & Grine / Stand Down Margaret – The Beat,
This is Ska – Bad Manners,
Guns of Brixton – The Clash,
Ghost Town – The Specials,
Mafia – Bad Manners,
Thatcherites – Billy Bragg,
WOR – Django Django,
Say Yes – Wax Tailor,
Politick Society – Quantic,
Alocatel – Mexican Institute of Sound,

Firekeeper Live & Exclusive on Radio Valencia (1h03m)
Your Mind,
One True,
I Surrender,

I Shall be Free – Kid Beyond,
Home – Marc Broussard,

Interview with Emma Cape, Bradley Manning Support Network,

Treat Me Mean I Need The Reputation – Xploding Plastix,
Meccanik Dancing – XTC,
Hold The Day – X-Cabs,

Playlist:
Claptone – Wrong
Mt Kimbie – Made to Stray
Kid Koala – 8 Bit Blues
Scroobius Pip – The Struggle
Major Lazer – Wath Out For This
Congo Natty – UK Allstars
Disclosure – White Noise
Yeah Yeah Noh – See Through Nature
Yazoo – Don’t Go
Yello -Bostich
Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix – Summertime
The Beatles – Strawberry Fields
Koby Israelite – Subterranean Homesick Blues
The Shpil – Bad Romance
Gadjo – De Vous a More
Bombino – Amidinine
Lotek – Rebel HiFi
The Coup – 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO
Handsome Boy Modeling School – Modeling Sucks
Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
The Refugee All Stars – Living Like a Refugee
Leila Lopez – Good & Plenty
Orishas – Boricua
Ozomatli – La Misma Cancion
Ratatat – Mi Viejo
Sean Hayes – Dolores Guerrero
Red Stick Ramblers – Evenin’
Old Blind Dogs – The Ritual
Afrikoko – Mana Pools

Featuring a new series, ‘John Peel’s Backwards Alphabet’.

This week: Z is for Zappa, (Les) Zazous and Zion Train

Music Played:
History of Now – Asian Dub Foundation
No Man’s Land – Balkan Beat Box
Warm Shadow – Fink
Too Sick To Pray – Alabama 3
Cirrus – Bonobo
Phemy – Miguel Baptista Benedict
Purge – Miguel Baptista Benedict
Soldier – Amatorski
Follow Me – Maia Vidal
La Choutte – Lonely Drifter Karen
Crystal Mountain – Becky White & the Secret Mission
The Ride of the Valkyries – Chicha Libre
Teenage Kicks – The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain
Peaches En Regalia – Frank Zappa
Chain Gang – Les Zazous
Kilamanjaro – Zion Train
Little Fluffy Clouds – The Orb
Let’s Have A Kiki – Scissor Sisters
No Guns to the Wedding – Fanfara Tirana vs Transglobal Underground
Kibori – Mahala Rai Banda & Gaetano Fabri
Balkan Reggae – Mahala Rai Banda vs JStar
Doctore – Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs
Festive Spirit – Amelito Bokayo
Dunia Watu – Jagwa Music
As We Gather Together – Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir
Blue Monday – Côr Meibion y Brythoniaid
Bill Oddie’s Body – The Don Bradmans
Thriller – The Shpil

Music Played
Born Bred Corn Fed – Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Mêlée ouverte – Zebda
Summer Days – Radio Citizen
MakeMeBetter – Little People
The Leopard and the Lung – The Joy Formidable
(One Stop) Thrift Shop – Out of the Closet (Macklemore Parody)
Culture of Fear – Thievery Corporation
Ubuntu (Water Into Wine) – Sage Francis
Se Baila Así – Mexican Institute of Sound
La Princesa de Cumbia – Superpendejos
Tequila – Tape Five
Jimmy’s Gang – Parov Stelar
Hole In The Universe – The Destroyers
Papa Chajes – Amsterdam Klezmer Band
Prodigy Medley – Hackney Colliery Band
Banana Skank – Roots Manuva
The Only Alternative (ft Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry) – Dub Syndicate
Alliance (ft Crispy Horns) – Dub Syndicate
Come On In My House (Stafano Gama rmx) – Rosemary Clooney
Weapon of Choice – Fatboy Slim (ft Bootsy Collins)
Nzeembo Feta – The Cuomba Collective
Kooya Neoka – Dakar Spirit
Sean Lennon – Don’t Frack My Mother
Ochimi – The Spam All Stars

Music Played
Close to Me (Closest Mix) – The Cure
Around the World – Daft Punk
WOR – Django Django
Skank – RDX & Dreadsquad
America Nativa – Nueva Alianza
The Blend – The Herbaliser
Funky Tamazula – Nortec Collective
Are You Gypsified? – Olaf Hund
Sheitan – Zebda
Boots On Loan – Gadjo
Pope Song – Tim Minchin
Plastic Jesus – Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon
Savannah – Docteur Agogo
Bristol Brooklyn Bridge – Up, Bustle & Out
K?Saltmalar – Baba Zula & Mad Professor
Chevere Que Chevere – Joe Bataan
Politick Society – Quantic
Djen Magni / Transitory World – Sali Sedibe & The London to Africa All Stars
Zambesi Crossing – Afrikoko
Peek-A-Boo – Siouxie & The Banshees
El Hechizo – Bitman & Roban
Ohio – Justice
Skirmish – Filastine
Let Em Come – Scroobius Pip
Something Good – Alt J
Schlawiener – Dunkelbunt
Get up Carmen – Walbeck
Zerrin Os Un Odas? – Baba Zula & Mad Professor

Music Played
Then – The Charlatans

Bang On – The Breeders
In These Shoes – Kirsty Maccoll
The Wedge – Boom Pam
Crystal Balling – Jackie Onassis
Banana Skank – Roots Manuva
Memories – Dunkelbunt
Ever Fallen In Love – Nouvelle Vague
Beautiful Tango – Hindi Zahra
Sister Kate – The Ditty Bops
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott Heron
One Way – The Levellers
Lexy Macaskill – Peatbog Faeries
Ghost Ship – Bonobo
I’m In The Mood For Ska – Lord Tanamo
Napoleon Solo – Lynn Taitt & The Jets
Al Capone – Prince Buster
Rudy, A Message To You – Dandy Livingstone
Train To Skaville – The Ethiopians
James Bond – Roland Alphonso
Return Of Django – The Upsetters
Dance Crasher – Alton Ellis
Faberge – Baba Brooks & His Band
Hold You Jack – Derrick Morgan
Don De Lion – The Skatalites
Alipang – Don Drummond
Simmer Down – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Miss Jamaica – Jimmy Cliff
The Night Doctor – Lee Perry & The Upsetters
Pressure Drop – Toots & The Maytals
I Won’t Let You Go – Keith & Ken
The Tide Is High – The Paragons
Skinhead Moonstomp – Syramip
One Step Beyond – Prince Buster
Whine & Grime – Price Buster

Music played:
Say Yes – Wax Tailor
A Thousand Tiny Pieces – Sean Hayes
The National Anthem – Guante & Big Cats!
True Life Blues – Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens
Uhura & MLK
Ya Rayah – Dahmana El Harrachi
Bella Ciao – Chumbawumba
Rap Wars: Tampon vs Mooncup
Tongue-Tied Jill – Charlie Feathers
Two From Alpha – Headley Bennett
Meditation Dub – Nucleus Roots
Ball of Fire – The Orb ft Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Abballabba – Lino Cannavacciuolo
Stars – Roses Gabor
Booo! – Sticky ft Ms Dynamite
Skirmish – Filastine
Your Drums Your Love – Aluna George
Rio De Hackney – The Correspondents
Njoka – Mokoomba
Mi Kolombia – Systema Solar
Storm – Django Django
Waiting Is A Drug – K’Naan

Back on the air with 2 hours of aural pleasure, inspired by my holiday trip through Mexico.

It’s my last show of the year, so I played my favourite tracks from 2012 plus some tunes to honour the musical legends who left us this year, including: Earl Scruggs, Etta James and MCA.

Music played:
Something for Nothing – The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man? – Carolina Chocolate Drops
Country Girl – Carolina Chocolate Drops
Thrift Shop – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Politico – Mexican Institute of Sound
Elephant – Tame Impala
Want It Back – Amanda Palmer
Storm – Django Django
Reckoning Song – Asaf Avidan & the Mojos
Eiggy Sea – Cate Le Bon
Chained – The xx
Oblivion – Grimes
Song for Mabel Glave – Mist Giant
Something Good – Alt J
Time to Go – Wax Tailor
Stars – Roses Gabor
All Night – Parov Stelar
The Princess – Parov Stelar
2 Bit Blues – Kid Koala
Njoka – Mokoomba
Devils Look Like Angels – The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Mexico – Mexican Institute of Sound
Foggy Mountain Breakdown – Earl Scruggs
The Land Down Under – Men At Work
Sure Shot – Beastie Boys
Namaste – Beastie Boys
Jive Talkin’ – Bee Gees
I Feel Love – Donna Summer
At last – Etta James
Skyfall – Adele