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“Hey guys! How do you come up with those great ideas for The Monday Social Radio Show?’

So you want to know our secrets? Well settle down and I’ll tell you...
We plan, we plot and we prepare. We’re like Shakespearean witches around a cauldron. It may sound like we pop a pin into Time-Out while blindfolded but it’s really all our own work (for ‘our’ read ‘Trotter’)

The plan usually falls apart not long after the first song. Trotter will express excitement about an overrated 90s pop-combo that’s reuniting to which I’ll spit coffee all over the console. Then we’ll spend twenty minutes bickering about The Stone Roses (often with a badly impersonated ‘Mani’ accent from me...top one, sound).

After the bickering has settled down, we realise we’re behind schedule so it’s time to play a song to give us a chance to decide which item to drop from our rundown. For three weeks in a row we binned our review of the excellent film; The Artist. Expect it to coincide with its Film Four premiere in 2014.

Music choices tend to be varied. Trotter sways towards warbling girls or skinny boys in skinny jeans, I’ll usually pitch in with anything recorded before 1982. On the few occasions I bring something new to the playlist, it’s often by an artist whose last good recording was before that said year. We usually ‘double-track’ songs and mix between our choices. This leads to interesting couplings like John Cale followed by Django Django or Lana Del Ray and The West Coast Pop-Art Experimental Band (Actually I don’t think I’ve ever played any WCPAEB, I must pencil that in for next week).

It’s obvious to even the most casual listener that there’s a bubbling sexual tension between myself and Suzanne. While it’s not quite Burton and Taylor, we do have to suppress our urges. Suzanne is much better at this than I am, often flinching when I touch her and grimacing at the thought of such a prospect. It’s a well-known repression technique that she has honed to keep us professional and I for one am thankful that she’s so good at it. I perish the thought of what would happen if we gave into our animal instincts. For the good of The Monday Social and our listeners, we fight it! We both know that deep down our passion is simmering like a Heinz soup tin on a camping stove, tepid but tasty.

When all is said and done, I think our dynamic works in-spite of our personalities rather than because of them; Trotter is a prepped bastion-of-professionalism and I’m her annoying little brother, hiding her CDs and drawing phallic symbols on her notes.

Steve. 110512

Father's day takes on a sombre tone this June 17th as local communities demonstrate against deaths in police custody. Gail Hadfield, the partner of Anthony Grainger, an unarmed man who died after being shot by police, heads the campaign for justice in Manchester where Anthony died and calls for the general public to support families country-wide. Join Gail and the Anthony Grainger campaign, Picadilly Gardens, MANCHESTER at midday 12 o clock on Father's day.

INQUEST, the only organisation in England and Wales that provides a specialist, comprehensive advice service on contentious deaths and their investigation, states that the total deaths in custody or otherwise following contact with the Metropolitan Police Force amounts to 322 since 1990 and that deaths in custody or following contact with other forces during the same time period amounts to 1109. With those statistics in mind, RRR will hold a community discussion on Saturday May 19th that takes a closer look at the statistics, police methods, the effect of deaths in police custody and on families and the wider community. If you would like to participate then please email: hq@reelrebelsradio.com

Please check out the following webpages
https://www.facebook.com/groups/anthony.grainger/
http://www.inquest.org.uk/
http://uffc-campaigncentral.net/

Two hundred years ago this week, Spencer Percival became the first -and only- PM to be assassinated. One of Britain's more obscure leaders, he was gunned down on the threshold of the Commons chamber by a bankrupt businessman called John Belllingham.
Tune in, Friday 11th May, to "A Matter of Insignificance" and listen to the first half of an intriguing two-part documentary, written and produced by Andrew Wood Mitchell, revealing the story behind this mysterious assasination.

THE PUNK SHOW - SAT 3pm
(& THURS 10pm REPEAT IS UNDER SERIOUS DEBATE )
I WAS HOPING TO WRITE SOMETHING INTERESTING, NEH' DAMNED EXCITING THIS TIME, BUT I WAS SPARED THAT POINTLESS FLEETING EMOTION, WHEN THE WINTER CAME BACK FOR ITS 3RD, AND POSSIBLY STRONGEST SPELL - IN APRIL. IF PEOPLE WERE SCEPTICAL OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE PAST, THEY'D BE RAVING BONKERS NOT TO NOTICE THE GIANT TSUNAMI ABOUT TO CRASH THROUGH THEIR NORWEGIAN TOWN ANY MOMEN T NOW, OR JUST AS UNEXPECTANTLY, EARTHQUAKES IN APPLE-BLOSSOM ENGLAND. SO , I DONT REALLY SEE THE POINT IN UPDATEING OUR BLOG - EXCEPT FOR THE DIE HARD MUSOS (LIKE ME- NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF, REALLY). ONE THING WE'VE HAD IN ABUNDANCE THIS SEASON IS THE USUAL PLETHORA OF SIMPLY THEE BEST PUNK FROM THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS. THE LIKES OF 'SPEEDWOLF','NONE OF THE LIVING REMAIN', OR 'BOMBER'. THE RETURN TO THE TOP OF THEIR GAME FROM THE WHOLE OF THE METAL PUNK DEATH SQUAD , AS SHOWN IN THE LATEST 12" COMP. 'BLUDWULF', 'TIGER JUNKIES' & OF COARSE, 'CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY' . THE THEOLOGY OF LIFE AFTER ARMAGEDON IS GREAT, AND FOR MOST OF THE NEW BORNS OUT THERE IT WILL NO DOUBT BE THEIR REALITY.
WE'LL CONTINUE TO BROADCAST THE BEST METALLICRUSTHRASH PUNK - OLD AND NEW - THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. ONE POINT I MADE IN JANUARY WAS "...THATS THE BEAUTY OF BEING UNDEAD, I MAY NEVER SEEM HEALTHY, BUT NEITHER DO I EVER SEEM TRUELY UNWELL. SO, HOLD TIGHT , IF YOUR IN BLIGHTY, OR MID WEST USA. SHIT, WE DONT KNOW THE FIRST THING ABOUT SHOCKING WEATHER. BUNCH OF PUSSIES. THERE WAS HUGE ARTIC LORRIES BEING TOSSED AROUND LIKE A KIDDYS PLAY PEN. SO, HUGE LOG FIRES BLAZING IN THE HEARTHS OF SPYDER TOWERS. DRINKING MOLD WINE & IRISH COFFEE. THE BANSHEE WAILING ACROSS THE BLEAK NIGHT. "AND SALLY O'BRIAN AND THE WAY SHE MIGHT..." THANK SATAN FOR SMOKE AND STRONG WHISKEY, EH?
AND EVEN IF 'F.O.A.D.' HAS MET ITS DEMISE, I STILL THINK THE BEST BUZZ IS WHEN YOU'RE ON THOSE AMPS AND DECKS , (DEX), INNIT?

spyderspunkshow(AT)reelrebelsradio(DOT)com

F.O.A.D. -
....AND WITH THAT, ITS OVER.... NOT WITH A 'BANG!' BUT WITH A 'whimper'... AND WITH A WHIMPER, I'M SPLITTING, JACK...

DO AS THOU WILT .... OR F.O.A.D.