Yellow Brit Road

Good afternoon, Canada! The Yellow Brit Road is now on your airwaves in broad daylight: 1 in the afternoon! Join us for our first daytime show, as we throwback to Razorlight's huge 2006 album, which turned 20 last week. We also review Muse's huge comeback album, The Wow! Signal, and seeing them live last week, when they brought their unique live spectacle to Toronto and Quebec City. Also, I managed to get last-minute Angine de Poitrine tickets, and I was delighted with what I witnessed. So of course you'll hear all about it. In the mood for more live music? We are joined this week by Phillip and Stephen, organisers of Toronto Folk Festival, which takes place on Toronto Island from 21-23 August this year, to give us the lowdown on the festival and why you should consider attending. Music this week by:Razorlight, Muse, Nia Archives, Saint Clair, Kitty Crocker, Opus Kink, Angine de Poitrine, Yazmin Lacey, BILK, Big Fear, Raffy Bushman, Mwsog, Tom A. Smith, The Mows, No Museums, Abigail Lapell.Cover art: Muse by Michelle Beatty @ RBC Amphitheatre, 15 July 2026Find 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, Thursdays 1-2:30 PM! Full shows in the linked archive for 3 months from broadcast. (Owing to the time change, the night shows are not on this page. You'll have to enter the date/time into the archives manually to find them.)Like what we do? ⁠Donate⁠ to help keep our 103-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.

Nova Twins are your favourite rockstars' favourite rockstars. For close to a decade now, the London rock duo have been changing what it means to make guitar music, conjuring up layered, interesting and innovating new sounds with their army of pedals. While their 2020 debut album, 'Who Are The Girls?' introduced the girls to the world, by the time their second album, the bulletproof 'Supernova' released in 2022, they were conquering Glastonbury, had avid fans in Tom Morello, Muse, Elton John and more.Their third and latest album, 2025's 'Parasites & Butterflies' shows a more vulnerable side to the duo, and finds strength in the vulnerability.Now on their biggest North American tour supporting Evanescence and Spiritbox across amphitheatres, singer-guitarist Amy Love and bass wizard Georgia South joined me at Toronto's RBC Amphitheatre to talk about the album, live shows, Tiny Desk, their visual and musical inspirations and much more. Thanks so much to Amy and Georgia for taking the time!Cover art: Nova Twins by Michelle Beatty @ RBC Amphitheatre, 29 June 2026Touch 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.

The final Yellow Brit Road in the Sunday 8 PM slot! Starting from next week, the Yellow Brit Road will move to a daytime radio slot, Thursdays from 1-2:30 PM. This does mean we won't have the post-watershed slot to play explicit music uncensored anymore... so we made the most of it tonight ;) In other parts of the show, we also are also joined by the incredible Nova Twins, who were so kind to do an interview with us when they dropped by Toronto, supporting Evanescence at RBC Amphitheatre on tour a few weeks ago. Music this week byMuse, Nothing But Thieves, Beabadoobee, Theatre, Gurriers, Karen Dió, Master Peace, The Mary Wallopers, Jessie and the Revolvers, Picture Parlour, Chalk, Webmoms, Nova Twins, Super Furry Animals.Cover art: Nova Twins by Michelle Beatty @ RBC Amphitheatre, 29 June 2026Find 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.

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.Cover picture: Panic Shack by Isabel Glasgow, Hard Luck Bar, Toronto, 16 June 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.

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.