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FROM THE VAULT: The Remote Part by Idlewild

2017 was a much simpler time. Both for society and for this podcast. Every Thursday we'll be putting out an old episode and to mark the occasion we thought it'd be good to revisit the very first episode: The Remote Part by Idlewild. The episode lengths were shorter, we were all younger, fresher, more naive. Oh and we still had three hosts. Dave was a fixture from the very beginning and we miss him dearly. We used to record four episodes in one night at a friend's recording studio in the south side of Glasgow. We also miss that place dearly, too. We also didn't do as much of a deep dive into our chosen artist like we do now. Like we said, a simpler time. Hope you enjoy this insight into the early days of Unsung.

Patreon Bonus Episode Unlocked: Sound is a Pound - Episode 4

We’ve taken a week off this week because we had a bunch of admin stuff to catch up with at Unsung HQ, but we will return next week with something real fun. This week we thought unlock a Patreon bonus episode, and it is the latest instalment of our Sound as a Pound series. The concept is simple: we each buy an album from Poundland for our fellow two hosts and then we must listen to it and report back. On this episode Mark has A Grand Don’t Come for Free by The Streets, Chris has Razorblade Suitcase by Bush and Dave has The Defamation of Strickland Banks by Plan B. So it’s a real gauntlet of nonsense for each of us this week. Dave gets raging at how beige Plan B is, Mark is weirdly enamoured by The Streets and Chris…well he was a big grunge fan back in the day so you can imagine how it goes for him and Bush. If you thought this was brutal, wait until you hear next as we fulfil a longstanding promise to Mark’s flatmate and enter the doldrums of early 00s nu metal/post grunge. You’ll love it. Just a reminder to all of those who missed it: we’ve started a record club! That’s right, we’ve updated our Patreon and you can now get hand curated records delivered to you every month by signing up to our the Unsung Record Club. Find out more here.

Introducing...The Unsung Record Club

Hello, Unsungers! We hope you had an excellent festive season. We’ve been hyping some changes to the subscription levels for a few months. So here goes. We feel that via our extended musical family (that’s you), Unsung has the potential to materially help under-recognised artists whilst also becoming a more interactive experience for yourselves. First and foremost, all of our main shows will remain free. Unsung is available to anybody that wants and can access it. You are under no obligation to pay and, as we have said many times, if you can’t afford the commitment but want to show your appreciation, reposts, shares and simple word of mouth go a long long way. Anyway… first off, we’re simplifying our Patreon tiers and reducing the number of options to three from Feb 1st 2022. (please note, prices do not include VAT) In Tier 1, you can pay £4 a month and get the same bonus episodes and early access you’ve become accustomed to. We know a lot of people subscribe around this level, and our recent survey of listeners has shown that most people are happy to pay a minimum of £4 a month (less than £1 per episode). So, this is the new minimum tier. Next : introducing The Unsung Record Club. This is the new bit. We talk about a lot of great records on the show, many of which are damn near impossible to find, or which you might otherwise never encounter. Both of the options here mean that, for your subscription, in addition to all the features of Tier 1, you also get to look forward to specially selected albums, EPs and singles (some very limited edition) dropping into your inbox or - in the case of the ballers in Tier 3 - even your real life mailbox! Exciting eh? A little present to yourself once a month and a way to show support for the podcast, the underground music scene and also discover new mind-blowing art. So, in Tier 2 - The Digital Club, for £15 a month (all territories), you get all the features of Tier 1, plus we will send you at least one digital album by a specially chosen unsung artist/label. Those albums will be purchased directly from artists/labels and will all be releases that we consider unsung, thus benefiting their creators and (hopefully), the audience. We will also throw in the occasional freebie that we think you might like. In Tier 3 - The Analogue Club, for £34 a month (UK), £42 (Europe) or £50 (rest of world), we will send you one vinyl unsung album* from an unsung artist/label AND one digital release**. This price includes all postage and packaging via Royal Mail. *see DETAIL #9 below **see DETAIL #10 below Next, since not everyone has the same taste… Each month you can either put your fate in our hands and take pot-luck, or choose a specific flavour curated by the show-hosts. This means reaching into the… Bucket o’ Chris: If you know the show you know the script. A release from a band in the alt rock, noise rock, electro, post punk and post rock genres (and all sub genres therein). Bucket o’ Mark: A release tending to be from a band in the punk, hardcore, hip hop, folk, acoustic, country and perhaps even some crusty/metal genres (and all sub genres therein). There will be no Prince and very little pop punk. There may be some funk though. Bucket o’ Dave: A release from the pop, dance, metal, doom, experimental and electronic genres (and all sub genres therein). Bucket o’ Pals: Selections curated by our regular guest hosts. So those are the basics. If you want a little more detail including an explanation of the thinking behind the new record club …read on. DETAILS 1: There are so many terrific artists and imprints putting out amazing material without worldwide distro, making it likely you will never encounter them. Our ability to buy in bulk for this Record Club means we can actually put some cash in their pockets. 2. There are many

Demolicious #1 - We review our own demos from our first bands

Well, it was going to strike one of us down eventually. It just so happened to coincide with our fourth birthday and our 200th episodes… That’s right folks, one of us went got the ‘rona. Chris was struck down with COVID-19 just a few days before we were due to record our Xmas special on December 10th and as a result, we were left with no episode, and our plans to release our 200th episode on our 4th birthday were deposited right in the bin. But fear not. We have something else for you. Something new. Something hilarious. A while ago we decided to listen to and critique our own music. So each of us sought out our the first demos from our first bands (Dave had to RIP HIS from a CD!) and thought it’d be funny to tear them apart. After we recorded the episode, we promptly forgot about it until recently. So here it is - the three us listen to, and pass judgement on, the following three demos: Dead or American (from Chris), Always Until Victory (from Mark) and Dimmer (from Dave). We had a lot of fun doing this and we want to do more. Would you like to send us your first demo so we can review it? If so, get in touch! Enjoy!

Split 7" - Our Perfect Festival Line Ups (Patreon Bonus Episode Preview)

We’re going to be 4 years old soon and for pretty much every single week of those 4 years (with the sole of exception of around this time last year when a technical issue made us lose an entire episode) we’ve been able to release an episode a week. However, this week we just couldn’t. Some life things got in the way and we had to take care of that. We couldn’t just leave everyone hanging though, so we decided to reach way back into our vault of bonus content and excise this little gem from back in October 2019. One of our subscribers, Chris Hynd, asked us what our perfect festival line-up would be and we duly obliged. So enjoy as Chris, Mark and Dave talk about who would play their festivals. We will return next week with special guest Neil from The Accordion Podcast as we talk about Finelines by My Vitrol.

Sound is a Pound - Episode 3

Two episodes in a week?! Yes, this week herald’s the return of our Sound is a Pound feature! In it, we each go to the pound shop, by two albums each and then gift them to one another. And boy we have some real doozies for you. NOTE: This is actually BONUS CONTENT - y’know the kind of thing we give to our subscribers on a regular basis. if you like this and want to hear more, consider signing up to our Patreon. So what albums are we covering this week? Well, we’re going to take you on a whistle stop tour of some primo £1 albums such as: Mosley Shoals by Ocean Colour Scene Trailer by Ash God Shuffled His Feet by Crash Test Dummies They are, by all accounts, quite the selection. We had real fun with this one, even if there was no outright anger for any of them. We hope you enjoy it! We return to our regularly scheduled programming next week. Dave is bringing Paranoid and Sunburnt by Skunk Anansie to the table. It is delicious.

BONUS CONTENT PREVIEW: Unsong - Episode 1: Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny by Dimmu Borgir

We were on holiday this week so we’ve gone deep into our catalogue of bonus content and unearthed the very first in a series that we’re calling Unsong. If you like what you hear, consider subscribing here. It’s basically THE UNSUNG SINGLES CLUB. In it, we breakdown a single song to talk about why it works so well. On this episode, Weaver has chosen Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny by Dimmu Borgir. TRVE KVLT BLACK METAL. Taken from the Norwegian black metallers’ fifth album Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia it’s as pure an example of “symphonic black metal” as you’ll get. Complete with electro interlude and mental piano sounds. Let us know what you think of this episode. We’re doing more of these in future and we enjoyed the hell out of this! We're welcome to lots of feedback on this. Wanna see more of it? Can we do it differently? What can we improve? Bring on your comments! We’ll have ANOTHER EPISODE coming your way this Wednesday too, so keep your eyes on your feeds…

In Session 3 - Steve Von Till (Neurosis, Tribes of Neurot, Harvestman, Neurot Recordings, Solo) Side A

It sure took us a wee while to get around to doing another interview, eh? Well, we’re taking steps to resolve that and (hopefully) bring you more in future. The first of those steps is this two parter with the influential Steve Von Till. The truth is that we weren’t actively planning interviews - it was just one of those things where we would occasionally float the idea of doing one but would never follow it up. So when we got asked if we’d like to interview SVT, being fans of Neurosis, we thought we’d be daft to pass up the chance to do it. And the rest is history. Steve has a new solo album landing on August 7th called No Wilderness Deep Enough. We won’t say much about the album itself in this here blog (cause you totally need to listen to the podcast to get the lowdown) but suffice to say, it’s rather good, and also a bit of a different vibe for him. Alongside the new album he’s releasing his first collection of poetry called Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics. It’s very good. We also chat about it on this very episode. Steve fills us in in on the inspiration for the album and poetry book, and as is tradition with out interviews, we chat to Steve about some of his back catalogue. Part two will drop later this week. We’re stoked to share this with you. Enjoy!

Split 7" - Episode 1: Bad Records by Good Bands (Patreon Subscribers Preview)

Chris was ill this week so we were unable to record. As a result, we thought we'd share with you an episode that, until now, was for subscribers only. This is the first episode of our subscriber’s only series called the Unsung Split 7”. As this is our first episode, we decided that we would pick an album by a band we’ve previously nominated that’s actually terrible. The hope is that after this you guys will ask us some questions or give us some topics to discuss and we’ll do our best to tackle them. Enjoy

Sound is a Pound - Episode 2

This is…three weeks late? We apologise. In our quest to offer you PREMIUM CONTENT at ROCK BOTTOM prices we’ve slung together the second episode of our new feature Sound is a Pound. This week, David takes the reins and dives deep into the Poundland catalogue to produce something which one can definitely describe as an album.

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