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Well, the news was finaly released on Friday that my Fresh On The Net radio shows will end on 6 Music this Easter after four and a half years. I'll blog about what it all means on another occasion, but in its time the show has picked up a good many friends in the independent music community. Having first played them in 2008 we've had a longer relationship with tonight's guests The Scholars than most.

Earlier this year they pulled off the tricky but vital trick of turning a classic much-loved demo into a single that actually trumps the original. Originally from Banbury, three fifths of them went to Uni in Birmingham, but they're perhaps best known on the Oxford scene.

Their entire current lineup came in to visit us in the studio. L to R: vocalist and bassist Adrian Banks, drummer Leigh Taylor,Ìý lead guitarist Chris Gillett, keyboard player Josh Herring and their second guitarist, digital spokesman and all-round interactive specialist Tim Mobbs...

TOM COPSON - Afraid To Fall


EXIT PURSUED BY BEAR - And I You Yours


THE BRUTE CHORUS - My Testament


TESS - Lullaby for Maisy Jane


INTRODUCING ROULETTE
CAPTAIN KENNEDY - Paper Cut


SUPER SQUARECLOUD - JMPTHNFLYNW


THE BARBARELLATONES - Sperm Whale


INTERVIEW GUESTS
THE SCHOLARS - This Heart's Built To Break


THE GANG - All Spoon No Fork


MYHEADISABALLOON - Movie Love


ORLANDO - So Much To Explore (Countryside Mix)


SESSION TRACK
PEGGY SUE - Boxes


DELTA/ALASKA - Vancouver


AMONGST THE PIGEONS - The Inherent Racism Of Doves


BRNS - Here Dead He Lies


MR SHAODOW - Look Out There's A Black Man Coming


MWEN - Summer Solitude [2011]


UNDER THE DRIFTWOOD TREE - If Only If


THESE GHOSTS - Footsteps On A Frozen Lake


NEDRY - Violaceae


JIMMY DAVIS - This Is England


STRAYLINGS – Carver’s Kicks


BELLA WILDE - Without You


SESSION TRACK
PEGGY SUE - Funeral Beat


POST WAR GLAMOUR GIRLS - Suburban Barbarian


LISTING SHIPS - Equus Ager