Vox & Radio 1 presents The Mark Radcliffe Sessions
We stray outside of the main box again this week, with a cover mount cassette courtesy of Vox magazine that I’ve hung on to over the years for whatever reason. I was a big fan of Mark Radcliffe’s late-night Radio 1 show the Graveyard Shift, as to me it was pretty much the perfect radio show. Radcliffe and his sidekick, Marc ‘Lard’ Riley, were basically given free reign to do whatever they fancied. A typical playlist might feature psychedelia and garage rock from the sixties, punk from the seventies, electronica from the eighties, and Britpop and ambient music from the nineties. But it wasn’t just about the music, there were regular guests such as poets Simon Armitage (now, rather wonderfully, the poet laureate), Joolz, Ian McMillan and John Hegley, cult TV reviewer Kim Newman, cult film critic Mark Kermode, broadcasters Stuart Maconie, Andrew Collins and Katie Puckrik, authors Caitlin Moran and Will Self, BMX Bandits frontman Duglas T. Stewart, former Orange Juice drummer Steven Daly, ...