The Offbeat Hour on Boston's 107 Endeavour FM

15/10/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT

Our Kev has been stricken with some vulgar lurgy and so, dear listeners, we are unable to bring you a show tonight.

We'll be back next week.

Get well soon, Bruv

JC

12/10/2025

Greetings, disciples of the groove, and welcome to the latest episode of The Offbeat Hour. In this show Boris advises on potential timepiece calamities and how to resolve them, Rory has a cautionary driving tale to tell, and Kev'n'Johnny bring their best behaviour and a shedload of belters. Plus a really rather splendid trip in The Offbeat Hour Time Machine back to 9th October 1996.

You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire – Queens of the Stone Age
All Systems are Lying – Soulwax
Cissy Strut – Trinidad Steel Drummers
F-‘oldin’ Money – The Fall
White Lightnin’ – The Big Bopper
This Perfect Day – The Saints
24-24 – Cabaret Voltaire
Smash the System – Luke Haines
God’s Gonna Cut You Down – John Grant
Wonderful Night – Lizard Brain
55 – The Puncturists
Jake on the Make – Gallon Drunk
Young Livers - Rocket from the Crypt
One Way Spit – Debris
Downpressor Man – Peter Tosh
Wish – Nine Inch Nails
Wang Dang – Bob Destiny
Wang Dang Doodle – Koko Taylor
Kudoro! feat. Yemo Bolatiwa – Obeka
Gimme Soul – X Ray Ted
Girlfriend is Better (live) – Talking Heads
I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody Got a Thing – Funkadelic
Worrying Over You – Bobby Charles - 1965
Y Sin Embargo Tu Estabas Ahi – Pippo Spera
Alles in Allem – Einsturzende Neubauten

The Offbeat Hour - a veritable feast for the broad musical palette

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07/10/2025

Join us tomorrow night (that’s Wednesday) for another sure to be splendid episode of The Offbeat Hour. Bulletins from our esteemed overseas correspondents, witty badinage, and so much good music it’ll make your head spin.

The Offbeat Hour - you want onions with that?

05/10/2025

Here be a rare show. Rare in as much as a) it went out on a Thursday not a Wednesday and b) it's a solo Lockyer joint (Cabbage being unattainably devoid).

It's a belter though - dig in... and both Kev and Johnny will be back on Wednesday x

Love Song – Simple Minds
Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio – Joe Boot & the Fabulous Winds
Rigor Mortis Radio – The Hives
Falling Down – Tiny Forehead
Life During Wartime – Talking Heads
No Confusion – Ezra Collective (feat. Kojey Radical)
Rise Up With Fists – Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins
Crash Course in Brain Surgery – Budgie
Always Crashing in the Same Car – David Bowie
Babylon No Badda Haul and Pull Me – Devon Edwards
Rukumbine – Shenley Duffus
Headbutt – Igorrr
Seasons in the Sun – Black Box Recorder
When Doves Cry – The Be Good Tanyas
That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate – Mission of Burma
Gotta Gettaway (single version) – Stiff Little Fingers
Marcus Garvey – Burning Spear
Kick in the Eye (single version) – Bauhaus
The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke) (single version) – Hawkwind
Hey! (Rise of the Robots) – The Stranglers
President Gas – Psychedelic Furs
L' Homme À Tête De Chou – Serge Gainsbourg
The Young Ones – Vivian Stanshall & Kilgaron

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02/10/2025

Don't worry, if you were busy yesterday, you haven't missed us. For one week only, we are on air tonight at 7pm on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM. Different day, but same mix of groovy tunes, intellectual chat and contributions from our award winning international correspondents.

The Offbeat Hour - where enthusiasm beats competence.

21/09/2025

Yer tis, my lovelies, the latest episode of your favourite radio show.

Boris' attempts to learn to play the harp are thwarted, Rory encounters ocular difficulties, there's a trip back to 1976 in the Offbeat Time Machine, and Kev'n'Johnny bring the tunes.

ANNOUNCEMENT - No show next Wednesday (24/09) cos of the footie (up The Pilgrims).

We will be back on *Thursday 2nd October* with more of what you're funkin' for.

The Offbeat Hour - determined to carry on, despite everything.

We Are Your Friends – Justice vs Simian
Schadenfreude – Baxter Dury
Burning Down the House (live) – Talking Heads
King of the Grass – Aerial Salad
California Man – The Move
Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) – Parliament
Roof Over Mi Head – Sister Nancy
Ambition – Subway Sect
No Sell Your Soul – Capleton X The Ligerians X Irie Ites
You Gonna Get It – Coachwhips
Left Right Left Right (N**i March) – The Chats
Fly the Flag – Stiff Little Fingers
Complete Control (live) – The Clash
Indian Rope Man – Brian Auger & the Trinity & Julie Driscoll
Helicoptere – Mireille Darc
Mercy Me – Alkaline Trio
V Tings – Level 2 X Inja
It’s Going to Happen! – The Undertones
Foggy Notion – Velvet Underground
Black Coffee – Peggy Lee
Harpies – The Utopia Strong
We Have All the Time in World – Tindersticks
Les Aventures Extraordinaires D'Un Billet De Banque – Bernard Lavilliers
Freddie’s Dead – Curtis Mayfield
Jungle Justice feat. Kabaka Pyramid – Jesse Royal

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16/09/2025

It’s almost time for another Offbeat Hour.

Wednesday 17th September. 7pm BST. Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM.

Let us help you over that weekend hump with great music, bulletins from our decorated overseas correspondents, and another trip in the Time Machine.

The Offbeat Hour - where enthusiasm meets curiosity, and Abbot & Costello meet The Wolfman.

15/09/2025

RIP Hermeto Pascoal

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13/09/2025

Hungry for good music? Here's this week's show, specifically designed to sate the fiercest hunger. Boris has a bit of a day with white goods, Rory makes an astonishing culinary discovery, and Kev'n'Johnny bring the noise. One hell of a trip in the Offbeat Time Machine, too.

The Offbeat Hour - stick us in your ear and dig us.

Wait For the Blackout – The Damned
Rock Yer Butt – Experience Unlimited
Saint Nick – Akim Bamboo
Brown Eyed Handsome Man – Chuck Berry
First it Giveth – Queens of the Stone Age
Funky John – Johnny Cameron & the Camerons
Concrete, Concrete (feat. Kay Kwong) – Cornershop
Gara – Songhoy Blues
Pyjamarama – Roxy Music
Cool it Down – The Velvet Underground
Sin City (with Beck) – Emmylou Harris
Ballroom Blitz – Motordamn
Outside View – Eater
Won’t You Be My Baby, Baby? (feat. Luca Santucci & Gabriel Walsh) – Leila
You Got Good Taste – The Cramps
The Bottle – Brian Jackson (feat. Omar)
Oh Well, part 1 – Fleetwood Mac
Harvest For The World - The Isley Brothers
Georgia (J Most Remix) – Brittany Howard
Sipple Out Deh (Jamaican mix) – Max Romeo
London – DJ Zinc & Rico Dan
Two Sevens Clash – Culture
Dance Across the Floor – Jimmy “Bo” Horne
Oh, France – Mdou Moctar
Initials BB – Serge Gainsbourg

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09/09/2025

Francis wearily munches a sandwich and wistfully wonders where his next fix of great music is coming from.

Well, if he wasn't already dead he could do no better than to to tune into The Offbeat Hour on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM tomorrow night.

Why don't you give it a go? Every Wednesday from 7pm til 9pm, with great music, avuncular hosts, regular features and award-winning overseas correspondents.

The Offbeat Hour - It's what Wednesday night was made for.

05/09/2025

Wednesday's show, in case you were busy washing your hair on the night. Boris offers his own idiosyncratic review of Green Man festival, with a particular focus on the culinary delights on offer, Rory is confused about squash, and the boys provide a soundtrack of singular quality. It's all here folks, dive in.

Oh Bo***ge! Up Yours! – X-Ray Spex
Bellbottoms – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
The Way I Walk – The Cramps
Keep on Knocking – Death
Rebels Without a Pause – Public Enemy
You Left the Water Running – Ken Boothe & Jah Wobble
Firetime – Mr Williamz & Shy FX
Lady Day and John Coltrane – Billy Valentine & the Universal Truth
Lady Day – Frank Sinatra
Sastanaqqam – Tinariwen
Shoo-B-Doop and Cop Him – Betty Davis
I’ll Keep Holding On – The Action
Wake Up – Roy Wood
Teenage – UK Subs
Teenage Dream – T-Rex
Gotta Getaway – Stiff Little Fingers
Computer Games – Yellow Magic Orchestra
Paisa – Manic Hispani
Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow – Felt
Why Does the Rain – The Loft
Ymaelodi A’r Ymylon – Super Furry Animals
Voodoo – Tubby Hayes
Her – Tindersticks
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Hank Williams
Under Heavy Manners – Prince Far I
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Dark Night – John Cale
American Idiot – Green Day

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