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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, Esteban joined us live in the Studio to perform some acoustic tracks (and sample some cupcakes )

You can check out Esteban and their music at their website and check out when they’re playing a gig near you soon.

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

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 night before a show is always a bit strange. Preparing the playlist, sorting out the links for strange news and choosing the two new acts for the Indie FA Cup take a lot of work but there’s always a lot of anticipation to it all. Will the show go well? Will I be on time? Will I remember who I am? These are all things that run through my head around this time on a Friday night.

Since we mixed up the show a little bit at the start of the year, it’s been really refreshing to be able to play whatever we like and still champion new music by getting bands in to play acoustic sets and talk about their new releases. Add that together with the Music News, Film stuff and our new features and it’s all starting to come in to place.

There’s a lot in the pipeline for Midsweep in the next few months, next week being a big step in getting us, and Rhubarb Radio into the ears of lots and lots of new listeners. You can do you bit, of course – sign up to our Facebook group and help promote the station, follow us on Twitter and start spreading the word about the wide range of shows we’ve got on air and coming up.

Rhubarb is growing, and we’d love you along for the ride.