A Way From Home

The first in a weekly series, with Jon Hillcock1. Hen Ogledd - Sky Burial (Domino)2. Dean Blunt - BEEFA (ft Poison Anna) (-)  3. Fielded - Baby Boys (Deathbomb Arc)4. Gregor - Something Irrelevant (Chapter)5. Sauna - Over (Idée Fixe)6. Low Leaf - Yah Yah (Fresh Selects)7. Duval Timothy - First Rain (Carrying Colour)8. Anna St. Louis - Understand (Woodsist)9. Connie Kaye Trio - I’m A Woman (Tramp)

“If I wanted to annoy the other Chelsea players, I’d put The Fall on”My fifth guest on A Way From Home is Pat Nevin.Pat is a former footballer who made over 600 professional appearances over a 20 year career, playing for the likes of Chelsea, Everton, and Scotland. He is now a well respected radio and television pundit.Described by the NME as ‘the first post-punk footballer’ - and by his Chelsea team mates as ‘weirdo’ - in the 1980s Pat gained notoriety for both his eclectic taste in music and literature, and for his skill as an intelligent, pacy winger.During an hour or two spent in a Salford studio we shared and talked about lots of new and old music, and discussed films, celebrity culture, nerves, loneliness, punditry, the World Cup and Pat’s close friendship with John Peel.Even if you’re not a football fan, there should be something here for you.All songs on the downloadable version of this podcast are edited due to rights reasons. A full unedited version can be streamed at Mixcloud (search: “A Way From Home”)The A Way From Home podcast supports CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably.email: awfhpod@gmail.comtwitter/instagram/bandcamp: @jonhillcockAWFH #5: Pat Nevin1. Virginia Wing - Eight Hours Don’t Make A Day (Fire)  2. The Tractors - Pat Nevin’s Eyes (Peel Session, Feb 1988)3. Cocteau Twins - Musette & Drums (4AD)4. Camera Obscura - Happy New Year (Andmoresound / Merge)5. Camera Obscura - A Red, Red Rose (Elefant)6. The Fall - Bill Is Dead (Fontana)7. The Fall - Spoilt Victorian Child (Beggars Banquet)8. Justified Ancients of MuMu - All You Need is Love (KLF Communications)9. The Fall - Theme From Sparta FC (Action)10. The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before (Sire)11. Mogwai - Black Spider / 7.25 (PIAS / Wall of Sound)12. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (Blanco y Negro)13. Air - Alone in Kyoto (Emperor Norton)14. The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir - Pritouritze Planinata (Chant from the Thracian Plain) / Polegnala e Pschenitza (Harvest Chant from Thrace) (4AD)15. Tracey Thorn - Femme Fatale (Cherry Red)16. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (Columbia)17. The Spook School - I Want To Kiss You (Fortuna Pop!)18. My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Creation)19. Women - Eyesore (Flemish Eye)20. The Wave Pictures - Jim (Moshi Moshi)

Kojey Radical is my fourth guest on A Way From Home.London-born multi-disciplined musician Kojey and I spent an hour or two chatting and listening to music in East London in December 2016.We talked about identity, London, creativity and rejecting hip hop history, and about political consciousness, cross-cultural controversy, Saul Williams and Scrubs.We shared a lot of different music, though it might make for a better listen if you don’t know what’s coming next.Our conversation begins with Kojey telling me about his worst ever show, in Oxford. Songs have been edited due to rights reasons. A full unedited version can be streamed at Mixcloud (search: “A Way From Home”)The A Way From Home podcast supports CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably.This podcast is dedicated to Scott Hutchison.email: awfhpod@gmail.comtwitter/instagram/bandcamp: @jonhillcockAWFH #4 Tracklist1. Kamaal Williams - Situations (Live in Milan) (Black Focus) <music bed>2. Khalab - Dense ft. Shabaka Hutchings & Tommaso Cappellato (On The Corner)3. Kojey Radical - Bambu (PUSHCRAYONS)4. Kojey Radical - Rent’s Due (PUSHCRAYONS)5. Kojey Radical - Gallons (ft PW) (PUSHCRAYONS)6. A.CHAL - GAZI (Empire/GAZI World)7. Jamie T - If You Got The Money (Pacemaker/Virgin)8. Kojey Radical - Gallons (ft PW) (PUSHCRAYONS)9. Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (Static)10. Tekno - Pana (Columbia)11. Pat Thomas & Ebo Taylor - A, Obi Pe Me (Pan African/PMG)12. Kojey Radical - Plucking Petals Chase The Dragon (ft Miraa May) (PUSHCRAYONS)13. Kojey Radical - Selfish (ft Bobii Lewis)14. Saul Williams - All Coltrane Solos At Once (Fader Label)15. Daniel OG - I Wanna (Neverland)16. Kojey Radical - If Only (PUSHCRAYONS)17. Jackson C Frank - Blues Run The Game (Ba Da Bing!)

This week I nip down the Northern Line to visit esteemed sonic adventurer Nick Luscombe in his flat near Waterloo. Nick and I met when we worked together at Xfm a decade or so ago, where he presented his acclaimed electronic music programme Flomotion (which now lives on Resonance). Along with a huge variety of art, music and sound-related projects, Nick’s deep, optimistic passion for discovery led to him joining the regular roster of presenters on BBC Radio 3’s flagship experimental outpost Late Junction, alongside roles as a senior music editor at iTunes and, for a time, Director of Music at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. He is also the founder of Musicity, an international sound project that fuses music, architecture, memory and experience.For a man with a CV of such depth Nick would be fully entitled to parade about the place like some sort of unassailable music leviathan, but I’ve always found him to be nothing less than disarmingly polite, warmly encouraging and incredibly friendly, as he was when we spent time chatting and listening to records in his home.We discuss the challenges of staying true to whatever passion you believe in, no matter how niche, along with talk of radio heroes, early musical passions, architecture, and the difficulties of existing and living London. Even Normski and Paul O’Grady get a nod.A full tracklist of everything we play is below, though I think it might work better if you listen without actually knowing what’s coming next.All songs on the downloadable version of this podcast are edited due to rights reasons. A full unedited version can be streamed at Mixcloud (search: “A Way From Home”)A Way From Home is in association with CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably.email: awfhpod@gmail.comtwitter/instagram/bandcamp: @jonhillcockAWFH#3: Tracklist1. The Goon Sax - She Knows (Wichita/Chapter)2. Nina Simone - Baltimore (CTI)3. Diana Ross - Love Hangover (Motown)4. The Remains - Don’t Look Back (Epic)5. Creative Source - You Can’t Hide Love (Sussex)6. New Order - Blue Monday (Factory)7. Steely Dan - Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (ABC)8. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (Capitol)9. Nina Simone - Baltimore (CTI)10. Donna Summer - I Feel Love (GTO)11. Glenn Underground - Israelee Night Falls (Peacefrog)12. Nummer - Second Sight (Going Good)13. group A - Liar Lier (self-released)14. Nabihah Iqbal [formerly Throwing Shade] - Hashtag irl (Ninja Tune)15. Alice Coltrane - Galaxy in Satchadinanda (Impulse!)16. Blossom Dearie - I Like London In The Rain (Fontana)

This week Jon Hillcock travels down to Wimbledon to drink tea and delve into the heaving record shelves belonging to Nicole Mckenzie. Formerly head buyer/manager at one of London’s finest record shops - Sounds of the Universe in Soho - Nicole also worked as an A&R/label manager for the iconic associated Soul Jazz label, and now runs her own label, MIC, and works as a music consultant, DJ and programmer.As you’ll hear, she has the record collection. And the best laugh.Along with killer music by the likes of Gloria Ann Taylor, Dog Eat Dog (not that one) and releases on her MIC label from Sun Palace/Mike Collins and Lord Tusk, there’s all sorts of different stuff, including a heap of vintage dubstep, given Croydonite Nicole was right there buying in the records in at the start of the mid-noughties movement. Could a scene like that ever happen again? Is it a wrench finally leaving Sounds of the Universe behind? Is having broad taste a good or a bad thing? What do you do if you get musical burnout? Is the Motown museum in Detroit really any cop?The music on this podcast is edited due to rights reasons. A full unedited version can be streamed at Mixcloud (search: “A Way From Home”)A Way From Home is in association with CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably.email: awfhpod@gmail.comtwitter/instagram/bandcamp: @jonhillcockAWFH#2: Tracklist1. Mahalia - Proud of Me (ft Little Simz) (Atlantic)2. Locate, S1 - Owe It 2 The Girls (Sybaritic Peer)3. Lord Tusk - Shyne Eyed Gal (MIC)4. Stevie Wonder - Bam (UMG)5. Batsumi - Itumelang (Matsuli Music)6. Gloria Ann Taylor - What’s Your World (Selector)7. Kode 9 - Magnetic City (Soul Jazz) 8. Burial - Unite (Soul Jazz)9. Joker - Gullybrook Lane (Soul Jazz)10. Digital Mystikz - Stuck (DMZ)11. Sun Palace - Rude Movements (BBE)12. Mike Collins - Phat Back Beats (MIC)13. Dog Eat Dog - Rollover (Claremont 56)14. Dog Eat Dog - Jail Space (Claremont 56)15. Blank Square - Bangers (Castleface)16. Once & Future Band - Rolando (Castleface)17. Mica Levi - Lee Harvey Oswald (Milan)18. LAPS - Who Me? (MIC)19. Dean Blunt - 100 (Rough Trade)

A Way From Home #1: Tom RavenscroftOn the inaugural episode of A Way From Home, Jon Hillcock shares music with BBC 6 Music presenter Tom Ravenscroft in a bedroom Tom uses to store both records and - temporarily - his son. Alongside music by Virginia Wing, Skee Mask, Danny Brown, Rats on Rafts, Count Ossie and lots of others the pair also discuss radio, failing to listen to songs for pleasure, musical blindspots and playing techno to children.The music on this podcast is edited due to rights reasons. A full unedited version can be streamed at Mixcloud (search: “A Way From Home”)A Way From Home is in association with CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably.email: awfhpod@gmail.comtwitter/instagram/bandcamp: @jonhillcockTracklist1. Haley Heynderickx - Show You A Body (Mama Bird)2. Sunwatchers - The Works (In The Red)3. Mighty Atlas - Nyama Kala (Feat. Baba Sissoko,Bruno Xavier Da Silva, Tristan Driesenaar) (Fremdtunes)4. Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - Rainbow Lollipop (Rocket)5. Skee Mask - Meltzcop 2 (Ilian Tape)6. Virginia Wing - ESP Offline (Fire)7. OKZharp & Manthe Ribane - Bu (Hyperdub)8. The Goon Sax - Sweaty Hands (Chapter Music)9. Zeroh - Sorted (Hit + Run)10. Danny Brown - Ain’t It Funny (Warp)10. Rats On Rafts - Swan Song (Fire)11. Count Ossie & The Mystics - Way Back Home (Dub Store)12. Sam Evian - Health Machine (Saddle Creek)