Sombrero Fallout delivers you alternative music intriguingly themed every fortnight.
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A tribute episode to the iconic female bass players - and also some you may not have heard of.By Ian Deeker Forth
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When will I be famous? Me, probably never, which is fine because, as these tracks show, it is very much a double-edged sword.By Ian Deeker Forth
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You snooze, you lose, or so they say. Not on this episode though. Alternative tracks about sleeping and dreaming.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0152 The Enduring Legacy of The Kinks
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Hundreds of groups have been influenced by The Kinks. Here's a few of them plus some original tracks themselves.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0151 - Money: Too much or not enough
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An episode about the perils of either striving after too much money or not having enough of it.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0150 - 150th Retrospective Episode
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A cherry picking exercise from the archives on the occasion of the podcast's 150th episode.By Ian Deeker Forth
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An episode about music itself - the songs, the singers, the radio, the ballroom, the dances.By Ian Deeker Forth
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We lost some fine musicians in 2023. Here's an episode paying tribute.By Ian Deeker Forth
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The final countdown of the best tracks in 2023, according to Sombrero Fallout.By Ian Deeker Forth
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The second of three shows rounding up some of the best alternative tracks from 2023.By Ian Deeker Forth
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The first of 3 episodes dedicated to the best tracks of 2023. Well, some of them.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0144 - Neutral Milk Hotel 25 years later
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It's a quarter of a century since Neutral Milk Hotel effectively stopped. Here's a celebration plus some bands who owe a debt to their unique sound.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0143 Same band, same song, different version
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What happens when artists first demo a familiar song or re-imagine it years later.By Ian Deeker Forth
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The thrill of the open road. An episode about cars, roads and motorways.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Ending up in the same band as your sibling. Here's some of the best tracks that combination can produce.By Ian Deeker Forth
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As 'Stop Making Sense', the Talking Heads live concert film is re-released and given the IMAX treatment, we look back on the group and their legacy.By Ian Deeker Forth
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An outstanding selection of alternative love songs from the 2020s.By Ian Deeker Forth
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I was stoked when Gideon Haigh, one of the world's pre-eminent cricket journalists, joined me to share his love for alternative music. A brilliant on-brand tracklist inevitably resulted.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Tracks with false endings, codas and late changes of direction from a variety of genres.By Ian Deeker Forth
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There's a brand new alt-scene in 2020s Chicago and here's some great examples of what's happening there.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Refreshed and back from its holidays, Sombrero Fallout wants to share some classic alternative tracks about returning with you.By Ian Deeker Forth
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An Ocean's Eleven of songs. Well, an Ocean's Fourteen, to be accurate.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Renowned music critic and author Simon Reynolds joins the podcast to choose some of his favourite tracks.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Paying tribute to the great Tom Verlaine and some of the groups his band Television influenced.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0131 Tara Emelye Needham, Guest Host
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Tara Emelye Needham, an integral mover within the Millennial Long Island music scene, introduces us to some tracks which have influenced her - and some of her own bands' tracks as well.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Young Marble Giants left a slim volume of work but a disproportionately large legacy. Here we listen to their music and its influence.By Ian Deeker Forth
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An open top bus tour around the best alternative tunes from Liverpool and MerseysideBy Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0128 30 Years On - 1993 Revisited
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None of the smash hits, but some of the alternative tunes from 1993.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Alternative songs about friends and friendship from 1968 to 2022By Ian Deeker Forth
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Where folk meets electronics, that's folktronica, folks.By Ian Deeker Forth
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A commemoration of the alternative music artists we lost in 2022.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0124 Festive Forthy 2022, Pt 3, #14-#1
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So, here it is: the best tracks of 2022. And it's the best year for music ever, as always, with all these songs to add to all the ones from every other year.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0123 Festive Forthy 2022 , Pt 2, #27-#15
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Part Two in our trilogy of episodes celebrating the best tracks of 2022.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0122 Festive Forthy 2022, Pt 1, #40-#28
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Part One of three episodes rounding up the best in alternative listening for 2022. Not definitive, not meant to be.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0121 Before they found their sound
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The sounds before the sounds. What successful bands sounded like before they sold out stadiums. Often better.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0120 RIP Mimi Parker (Low) and Keith Levene (PIL)
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A tribute to Mimi Parker of Low and Keith Levene of early PIL and founder member of The Clash.By Ian Deeker Forth
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John Cale is 80: no second invitation needed to celebrate the Velvets, his solo work, his musical contributions and his production as well.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0118 Don't let our youth go to waste
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Braces, tire swings, then love and other catastrophes. Songs about the indignities and thrills of being young.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Perth, a thousand miles from anywhere else, and West Australia more broadly have always had their unique thing going on. Here's their unique musical thing.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0116 25 years of Mogwai (plus their influences)
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25 Years of living under the reign of Mogwai. Interlaced with some influences on the band themselves.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Tributes, hymns, odes to. Songs for, Homages about. Not people though. Binoculars, divorce and androids amongst others.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Songs about the class system, about the bourgeoisie, about unfairness, about inequality. But with humour too.By Ian Deeker Forth
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The inheritors of the '60s psychedelic bands are the latter-day Neo-Psychedelia practitioners. Here's an episode featuring them.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0112 - Bonus Episode: Bands Listeners Are In
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The conch is handed to listeners of the podcast who feature here in the bands they play in.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0111 Songs about Actors and Movies
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Songs about actors, songs about movies, songs about actors in movies.By Ian Deeker Forth
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Great tracks from TV shows, good, bad and indifferent.By Ian Deeker Forth
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More songs about cameras and photography.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0108 Jowe Head (Swell Maps), Guest Host
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Guest host this episode is Jowe Head, veteran of many groups and especially beloved by post-punk aficionados for his time in the legendary Swell Maps.By Ian Deeker Forth
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SF0107 Two Tone and its Jamaican Origins
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Now there's a Two Tone museum in Coventry, here's a celebration of the label and the original ska sound from Jamaica in the '60s that inspired it.By Ian Deeker Forth
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To celebrate a certain milestone, the first letters of the these favourite Sombrero tracks spell out BIRTHDAY EPISODE.By Ian Deeker Forth
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