Yellow Brit Road

Cardiff's bubbliest, most energetic and irreverent punk rockers Panic Shack dropped one of my favourite debut albums last year with their self-titled album. Covering lyrical ideas as far ranging as women's trouser pockets, running personal bests, buying toothpaste, eating disorders and working class roots, all with a sense of fierce fun and their tongue firmly in cheek, the album felt like a celebration of life and like a night out in Cardiff put down on tape. It's why even the album cover was shot at the City Arms pub in Cardiff. Now on their first headline tour of North America, singer Sara and bassist Em joined me to talk all things album, blowing up on TikTok, being a working class band at a time it is becoming increasingly harder to do so, Welsh music and so much more! Find the self-titled album as well as their latest single on their Bandcamp page. And if you missed them, they're back in North America this September (Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal in Canada) supporting the Sex Pistols on tour.Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast.Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going!Get in touch with the show: email ⁠yellowbritroad@gmail.com⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠.PS: submissions, cc ⁠music@cfrc.ca⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we celebrate 20 years of the Hot Chip album The Warning, ponder Charli xcx's latest blink-and-you'll-miss-it release, cover new music from across the UK and Ireland and are joined by Cardiff's most energetic punk band, Panic Shack, who stopped by for a little chat on their debut North American tour last month. Music this week byHot Chip, Charli xcx, Bloc Party, Adult DVD, Domi Hawken, Fleur De Lys, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Monjola, Kokoroko, Blood Red Shoes, Le Boom, Panedeni, Shark School, BitchCraft, Hyphen, Magi Merlin, Panic Shack.Find this week's playlist here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above.Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast.Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going!Get in touch with the show: email ⁠yellowbritroad@gmail.com⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠.PS: submissions, cc ⁠music@cfrc.ca⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

Hailing from Vancouver, The Hausplants are a band with a truly international sound: between singer and bassist Anna Zeleny, guitarist Amir Alav and drummer Sondor Mendbayar, the trio brought in influences from the US, Iran and Mongolia onto the latest EP, Into Equilibrium. A few years ago, Sondor put out a Craigslist ad looking for musicians to form a synthpop band. Zel and Amir were the only people in Vancouver to answer the ad, and a new band was born. By the time we saw the band a few weeks ago at NXNE, their sound had evolved into a complex and layered sound showed notes of jazz, postpunk, prog rock and dreamier shoegaze. We caught up with singer Zel after the band’s incredible NXNE set at Collective Arts Taproom to talk all about the band’s origins, influences, the exploding music scene in British Columbia, filming music videos their complex jazz-postpunk-prog rock-shoegaze sound and their upcoming debut album!Cover: The Hausplants at NXNE, Toronto, 13 June 2026 by Milo Martin.Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast.Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going!Get in touch with the show: email ⁠yellowbritroad@gmail.com⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠.PS: submissions, cc ⁠music@cfrc.ca⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

While Glastonbury festival takes a fallow year, we're not stopping with the live music. This week, we head up to Scotland to bring you live performances from TRNSMT festival, alongside a few other new releases. We're talking about Angine de Poitrine's incredible homecoming as the first of their Canadian dates kick off (and that 200,000-strong crowd at Montreal International Jazz Fest!?), and we're joined by the rising post punk trio from Vancouver, The Hausplants, who we caught up with after their set at NXNE! Music byArlo Parks, CMAT, Nia Archives, Keo, Madra Salach, Luvcat, Aziya, Rianne Downey, Jacob Alon, The Cliffords, Chasing Abbey, Westside Cowboy, The Snuts, Medieval Found Footage, The Hausplants.Cover: The Hausplants at NXNE, Toronto, 13 June 2026 by Milo Martin.Find this week's playlist with the live performances linked here. Full BBC Scotland TRNSMT playlist here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above.Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast.Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going!Get in touch with the show: email ⁠yellowbritroad@gmail.com⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠.PS: submissions, cc ⁠music@cfrc.ca⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

On their first trip to Canada, we caught up with Brighton punky two-piece band Snake Eyes, made up of guitarist-singer Jim Heffy and drummer Thomas Coe-Brooker, while they were in Toronto to perform at NXNE festival last week. "The root of the record is environmentalism," the duo tell us of their recently released debut album 'cash rich'. The album cover is what they call a business-fish: "the only kind of businessperson that'll be left if we continue business as usual". Cognisance of the state of the world runs through the whole album, as Snake Eyes tackle capitalism, anxiety, interpersonal relationships, distractions and more with loud guitars and lyrics that elevate everyday observations to something that warrants noticing, even romanticising. And evidenced by the number of fans that have taken the time to praise their song 'slugs', something about it deeply connected with fans. The band joined me on the show to talk album themes, their famously DIY spirit, their electrifying live shows, which we witnessed at Sneaky Dee's, about collaborations, filmmaking, Scott Pilgrim and more. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!Cover: Snake Eyes at Sneaky Dee's, Toronto, 11 June 2026 by Nolan McBride.Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast.Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going!Get in touch with the show: email ⁠yellowbritroad@gmail.com⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠.PS: submissions, cc ⁠music@cfrc.ca⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

One of this show's favourite weeks of the year is whenever North By North East (NXNE) festival is taking place. Over the space of a week, emerging music and artists take over the city of Toronto, with venues putting on showcases of some of the most exciting names in the Canadian underground, along with a number of international artists as well. The cooler, more underground cousin of SXSW. And by goodness, is Canadian music having a year.Tune in to hear our coverage from over 4 days of the festival, bringing you a few highlights and music from some of the artists we managed to see, running between venues. We've also got exclusive interviews with the bands Black Paint, The Satisfactory and Neon Bloom!Apart from NXNE, we also have an interview with the irreverent Welsh rock trio The Bug Club, who are undertaking a pretty extensive Canadian tour starting this week! If you spot me at the Toronto show on 18th, come say hello, as most bands in small venues say, I don't bite. Note: the podcast version of this show mentions a few more NXNE bands we had to cut for time on the live show, but I'll include link to here. The magic of podcasting. Music this week by:Angine de Poitrine, Angelique Dancel, Black Paint, Teenage Joans, The Satisfactory, C. Ruth and the Mango Street Trio, Neon Bloom, The Bug Club.More interviews to come next week, and look out on the Yellow Brit Road socials for Milo and Nolan's photography from NXNE. Podcast cover's a proxy until we get stuff edited.Find this week's playlist here. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above.Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast.Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going!Get in touch with the show: email ⁠yellowbritroad@gmail.com⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠.PS: submissions, cc ⁠music@cfrc.ca⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

This week's show is all and only live music! From festival stages across Europe, we're bringing you some of our favourite (available) performances from Primavera Sound in Barcelona this weekend and BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Sunderland a few weeks ago. Back home, we're also looking ahead to Canada's signature new music showcase festival, North By North East, that runs 10-14 June next week! We're also joined in session by one of the artists performing at the festival on 11 June, Toronto's BBQ Pope! You'll hear 3 songs recorded from their set at the Monarch Tavern in April: 'Pool Hall', 'Face The Future' and 'Pop Punk Song From 1994'. Music this week by:The Cure, Ezra Collective, Pa Salieu, Lola Young, CMAT, Niall Horan, Rachel Chinouriri, Florence Road, DC3, FLO, BombayMami, BBQ Pope.Find this week's show, with the available live performances and all other artists mentioned but not played on the show, in this week's YouTube playlist here. NXNE recs (a VERY incomplete list) also added to the playlist. Try and support artists independently through buying their music, merch, going to shows! Bandcamps/websites linked above.Cover shot: BBQ Pope in interview by Michelle Beatty, Bitondo's Pizzeria, 10 April 2026.Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast.Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going!Get in touch with the show: email ⁠yellowbritroad@gmail.com⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠.PS: submissions, cc ⁠music@cfrc.ca⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.

American punks Vundabar never expected their 2015 album Gawk to take off the way it did. Stemming from success in the indie world, the album took on a life of its own online during the pandemic, leading the band to bigger stages across the world, TV and festival appearances and more. Even at the time, "we felt like it was a good record," singer and writer Brandon tells us. Even still, the album's legacy continues to introduce new fans to the world of Vundabar. A decade on, the Boston trio have taken the album out on the road once more for a 10-year anniversary tour. Fig caught up with the band to talk all things Gawk, touring, live shows and their latest album, 2025's Surgery and Pleasure. Cover shot: Vundabar @ The Mod Club, Toronto, 13 May 2026, by Cece Tang. Touch that dial and tune in live! CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston or cfrc.ca⁠, Sundays 8-9:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast.Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 102-year old radio station going!Get in touch with the show: email ⁠yellowbritroad@gmail.com⁠, IG @⁠⁠yellowbritroad⁠⁠.PS: submissions, cc ⁠music@cfrc.ca⁠ if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well.