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This week was all about the Vintage fair at The Custard Factory, so not only did we talk about all the great stuff going on around the studio, we also played some scorching choons. New Music FA Cup is back with two fantastic tunes for you to vote for. Get tweeting!

• Hawkwind – Silver Machine
• Hole – Celebrity Skin
• Tin Tin Out – Where the Story Ends
• Band of Skulls
• Stereophonics – Bartender and The Thief
• The Verve – Sonnet
• Sunshine Underground – Commercial Breakdown
• The Travelling Band – Only Waiting
• Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
• Cha Cha – The Fellowship
• We All Need Heros – Devil Roads
• Otis Redding – I Can’t Turn You Loose
• The Buzzcocks – Even Fallen In Love
• Kool and The Gang – Jungle Boogie
• Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro
• The Courteeners – You Overdid It Doll
• Ellie Goulding – Guns and Horses
• Henry’s Children – What’s Wrong With You?
• Two Door Cinema Club – Undercover Martyr
• Morning Runner – Up In Flames
• Bloc Party – Helicopters
• Deep Purple – Hush

This week we had the legendary Brian Travers in the studio to talk about growing up in Birmingham, being part of the World’s most successful and instantly recognisable Reggae band and their latest album, Labour of Love IV.

Thank you to everyone who listened on the day and submitted questions before we went live. Although we had a few problems on the day, there’s been a huge response on Listen Again already which will hopefully raise the profile of not only The Midsweep, but also Rhubarb Radio as a whole.

Remember to Tweet in your selection for this weeks New Music FA Cup by visiting our Twitter page or tweeting @midsweep. We’ll see you all at 10am next Saturday!

• The Heavy – How You Like Me Now
• Ash – Girl From Mars
• The Kleptones – Welcome Back
• Thin Lizzy – Boys Are Back In Town
• The Smiths – Girlfriend in a Coma
• Huey Lewis and The News – Power of Love
• Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
• Free – All Right Now
• The Who – Baba O’Reilly

New Music FA Cup

• Sol Pilot – From Seed to Bait
• Gumshen – Since the Sun Shines on Me

Brian Travers in the House

• Junior Mervin – Police and Thieves
• The Allman Brothers – Midnight Rider
• Desmond Decker – It Mek
• UB40 – Close To Me
• Richard Hawley – Open Up
• Sam Cooke – A Change is Gonna Come
• UB40 – Bring It On Home

Morning all! It’s now just two hours until perhaps our biggest show since taking to the airwaves in July last year.

What started off as a conversation with Brian Travers on Twitter has snowballed in to something so exciting it’s left me shaking.

Comments from UB40 fans from all over the world have been left on this here blog and we’ve been scurrying away to pick out the best ones to ask him.

Today’s show will obviously be slightly different to our regular ones. Still playing the very best tunes from the last 40 odd years, in the second hour we’ll be handing over the tuneage to Brian. So expect even more classics!

Tune in from 10am at RhubarbRadio and Twitter us @midsweep or email team at midsweep.com.

In a bit!

A slightly subdued show for you this week, but still with all of your normal features. Strange, Movie, Music and Film news with a generous helping of classic tunes to get your weekend off to the best possible start. Remember to join us for next week’s big interview with Sir Brian of Travers and get your votes in now – Marina and the Diamonds or Patrick Wolf for the Indie FA Cup.

• Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
• Kula Shaker – Hush
• Boston – More than a Feeling
• Squeeze – Cool for Cats
• Toto – Africa
• The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
• Marina and The Diamonds – Mowgli’s Road
• Peter Wolf – Hard Times
• Violent Femes – Blister in the Sun
• Boo Radleys – From The Bench of Belvedere
• Cast – Walkaway
• Sparks – This Town ain’t big enough
• The Trogs – Louie Louie
• Roxy Music – Love is the Drug
• Ben Rusch – Until the Coast is Clear
• The Stones – She’s a Rainbow

The band are back together! Join us as Tammy returns from over a month off the airwaves. There’s music news, strange news (which Phil didn’t make up) the winner of last week’s crunch New Music FA Cup tie between Esteban and Ellie Goulding and CSI:Birmingham?

Vote now for the winner of this weeks tie by tweeting @midsweep or sending an email to phil [at] midsweep.com. There will be a prize at the end of it all

• The Heavy – No Time
• House of Pain – Jump Around
• David Bowie – Life On Mars?
• White Town – Your Woman
• Monaco – What Do You Want From Me?
• Weezer – My Name Is Jonas
• Groove Armada – Crazy For You
• Kasabian – Where Did All The Love Go?
• Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up
• Iggy Pop – The Passenger
• Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way?
• The xx – Crystalized
• The Amateurs – Homesick
• The Offspring – Want You Bad
• Kasabian – Much Too Young
• Oasis – Up in the sky

We’re back with another belter of a show for you, including a now infamous rant from @SteveTea about the shocking Brit nominations.

• The Knack – My Sharona
• Status Quo – Pictures of Matchstick Men
• The Supernaturals – Smile
• The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode
• The Kinks – A Well Respected Man
• Marmaduke Duke – Rubber Lover
• The Killers – Mr Brightside
• The Smiths – This Charming Man
• The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
• The Stranglers – Peaches
• Supergrass – Alright
• FA Cup face off
• Esteban – She Goes Out
• Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed
• Brits
• David Bowie – Moon Age Day Dreamer
• Deep Purple – Smoke on The Water
• Various Artists – Everybody Needs Somebody to Love

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Back again with another two hours of great music for your delectation. Classics mixed in with new stuff, some strange news and the latest music goss, this is how you kick off a Saturday.

• Foo Fighters – Everlong
• New Order – Blue Monday
• Republika – Ready To Go
• Iggy and The Stooges – No Fun
• Kasabian – L.S.F
• Primal Scream – Rocks
• Squeeze – Up the Junction
• The Cure – Close to Me
• Aretha – Respect
• The Small Faces – Itchykoo Park
• Ash – Burn Baby Burn
• Stereophonics – Innocent
• Phoenix – 1901
• Delphic – Clarion Call
• Passion Pit – Sleepy Head
• Talking Heads – Same As It Ever Was
• James – Sit Down
• Jimi Hendrix – Foxey Lady
• Blur – Country House
• The Jam – A Town Called Malice