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The Roolz

An eclectic, carefully dayparted mix of Indie, Rock, Pop, Dance & Chillout - played in real time. Great music for grownups who are young at heart.

The Roolz

An eclectic, carefully dayparted mix of Indie, Rock, Pop, Dance & Chillout - played in real time from SW France. "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else"
(Albert Einstein)

28/05/2026

Warm enough for you? 32°c at 9.00 am here today (NB Tory Blair & Fat Donnie). Anyway, The Roolz has some bangin’ new tunes to greet summer proper.

A brief diversion. Suno is an AI programme which allows any idiot to make a great sounding track in minutes. No musical experience needed. Therefore I hate it. But, BUT… there are exceptions to every level of hate. Benny Rivers is a bot; I have no idea whether or not his creators used Suno, but ‘Step By Step In Time’ is so darn good that I challenge you to tell me it’s not real. When holography is added to such sonic brilliance, music as we know it will be dead. But so shall I.

Lola Young. Where shall I start? The girl from Croydon has won EVERYTHING: a sort of British Billie Eilish – Ivor Novello, PRS, Brit, ASCAP and Grammy awards. The day after winning her 2026 Grammy for ‘Messy’ Lola sat down and wrote a new song. It’s called ‘From Down Here’ and it’s totally brilliant.

Mollie Elizabeth is a young lady from the Pacific northwest. She’s just released her first EP ‘Dirty Blonde’ and I’ve chosen her take on ‘Run Rabbit’ to cheer your sundowner!

It’s hard to keep a band together these days – especially an 8-piece. However, The Revivalists from New Orleans have somehow managed to put food on the table for all and their new song ‘Heart Stop’ might even allow for a digestif. Maybe they should have called themselves the Survivalists.

These are just notes on a few of the additions to The Roolz for the summer of 2026. To hear them all will require a lot of listening. Bon courage, mes amis.

I am now stepping away from Facebook for a while. I may be some time.

08/05/2026

After a bit of a hoo-hah with the host server things appear to be relatively normal - although that word is on my most-hated list. A whole bunch of new songs has been added to greet the summer of 2026. I'll leave you to discover them for yourself, but worthy of special note are two from veteran performers: LeAnn Rimes's 'Wild Things Run' and U2's 'In a Life'. It has become fashionable for young things to slag off U2, and Bono in particular. I wonder how many of them have actually seen the band live? It's quite some experience and, boy, are they loud!

Enjoy the summer, and try to ignore the pretend fascists on both sides of the Atlantic.

03/05/2026

Server problem at The Roolz. Will get it sorted asap.

24/02/2026

So it’s not so odd about Odd Marshall. The man’s been listening to The Roolz (yes, miracles do happen) and he’s sent us a bio. Just wow. From high school in Canada to open mic nights in London. In Shepherd’s Bush he watched a kid with looping pedals and a million words play for 90 minutes without breaking a sweat. Odd sheepishly approached and asked if they might do something together. The kid said he was off to Los Angeles, but maybe they could hook up when he got back.

That kid was Ed Sheeran.

Odd travelled to Bollywood to direct TV commercials, moved to Beijing and then back to Brooklyn before retiring to a family cabin in the woop-woops. He has written four novels and fifteen screenplays. Odd says ‘’I’m building my audience, even if it’s one person at a time.”

I totally get that. Listen to ‘Outta Here’.

And now to the magnificent, Grammy award winning, cancer surviving, professed le***an Melissa Etheridge. What a life. In partnership with film director Julie Cypher two children, Bailey Jean & Beckett, were produced with s***m donated by David Crosby. In 2020 Melissa announced via Twitter that her son, Beckett, had died from opioid poisoning at the age of 21.

From her new album ‘Rise’, due for release next month, Melissa celebrates the joy of ‘Bein’ Alive’.

12/02/2026

The Roolz has been down for more than 12 hours. We are sending signal just fine to the server - which is remote and beyond my control. The guy who operates it is either drunk or dead.

This breaks my bloody heart.

21/01/2026

I know blowing one’s own horn is a bit naff, so please forgive me...

This week’s UK #1 is Djo – ‘End of the Beginning’ which first aired on The Roolz in April, 2024. Here you will find six and a half thousand tracks by three and a half thousand unique artists. You are bound to hear something you’ll like and you will never be bored by repetition.

The Christmas songs are slowly sliding over the horizon and new talent is beginning to spread its wings. Asira X DrINsane is a Japanese electro pop group and I’ve managed to find an English version of ‘Just a Boy’. It’s unadulterated fun.

It’s been hard to discover much about Odd Marshall other than he hails from Toronto, Canada, although his mix of rock & blues makes him sound like he’s from the American south. Cop an earful of ‘Outta Here’. Speaking of rock, Sons of Legions is a duo, Adam McInnis and Daddy Jack, who hail from opposite coasts of the US. I’ll look for more of their material (which is outstanding), but for now I offer an amuse bouche with ‘Stand and Deliver’.

What else? A new song from old masters James, Sam Ryder pounding ‘The Treadmill’, Zach Bryan puffing on a plastic cigarette (gross!) and a new single from the ageless Dion. How does he do it? There are other octogenarians out there who should have retired long ago. I should know, because I’m one of them. But Dion is timeless. There are more new tracks to explore with your shell-likes, but I’ll conclude with a mention for Mumford & Sons’ ‘Banjo Song’. I’m not sure which is the greater urge in my playing it – the song’s laudability or its likelihood to annoy my friend David Mindel.

05/01/2026

Well... we seem to have got by the worst two months of the year in terms of music programming. Only two new titles this month – ‘Kumbaya’ by JERUB, a Nigerian from Nottingham who wrote this song for the charity Stand Up To Cancer. Kumbaya is pidgin English for a plea to God to ‘come by here’. I think you’ll like it.

Tano Jones is a proud Detroit-born singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and founder of The Tano Jones Revelry. His music is for anybody who can’t contain their lust for life and dreams for a better tomorrow. ‘What About Me’ is pure Americana: a song that’ll compel you to bust out your Christmas air guitar.

Happy 2026.

05/12/2025

December is quite the hardest month to programme. Research has taken as long as ever; this month I have found only four new tunes to add. ‘Barbed Wire’ by the Cardinals is due for release next February – they’re an Irish group and the song is a fine rocker. Sebastien Tellier is a French singer/songwriter who represented France in the 2008 Eurovision contest with a song called ‘Divine’. He actually sounds like a woman, but the addition of Nile Rogers on ‘Thrill of the Night’ compensates for any lack of Seb’s testosterone.

Ashe hails from San Jose. She recently was forced to cancel a tour down under in order to preserve her sanity, but it was ‘Fun While It Lasted’. Emmett Jerome was born some way north of Ashe – Alberta, Canada, in fact – and he graces The Roolz with a style of authentic country rock on ‘Come Down’ which I think you’ll like.

And that’s it for new releases.

And so to Christmas. All the charts and music lists are littered with the same old tired stuff. I actually take the meaning of Christmas seriously and I really can’t do the Noddy, Roy, Pogues, Sirs Paul & Elton thing all over again. It seems extraordinary that no-one has come up with a meaningful new Christmas tune in more than half a century. The only one that has snuck through is John & Yoko’s: this year perhaps more relevant than ever. Instead, I have broadened the musical scope to include choral and orchestral works, folk, gospel and even some traditional French Christmas songs.

Careful with those mince pies, Eugene.

13/11/2025

The Roolz back to full service at last - I hate to imagine how many listeners we've lost. Keep on keeping on... and recruit a few friends.

13/11/2025

Server trouble at The Roolz. Trying desperately to contact the operator ☹️

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