The Offbeat Hour on Boston's 107 Endeavour FM

08/08/2025

This was a good 'un. From 70s glam to 50s jazz, via 1920s blues, 2025 4am techno, and late-70s Tunisian disco, this show decidedly runs the gamut.

Listen again as Boris visits his dentist and Rory discusses petrol station etiquette, and your very own children of the revolution Kev'n'Johnny snigger and cackle like the naughty boys from the flats.

And the music. Oh, the music...

Children Of The Revolution - T Rex
Ramblin' Rose - MC5
Highway Man - The New Eves
Eat Fire - Men From Spectre
Black Night - Deep Purple
Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad - The Clash
Mayfair - Millie Small
Sheldon Churchyard - Larry Jon Wilson
Soul Brothers Testify, Part 1 - Chester Randle's Soul Senders
Yello – Limbo (Marcel Dettman Version 2 Remix)
Stalin Wasn't Stallin' - Robert Wyatt
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Brian Jackson & Masters At Work
Dread Beat An' Blood - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Three Piece Suit - Trinity
Dreamer - Dennis Wilson
S*x & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll - Ian Dury
Little Laura Blues - Sleepy John Estes
True Faith (7" single edit) - New Order
Alech - Carthago
Ice Sold Here - Aesop Rock
It's Over Now If We Run Out Of Love - David Holmes (feat Raven Violet)
Death Cab For Cutie - Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Mother Stands For Comfort - Kate Bush
Never Can Say Goodbye - Isaac Hayes
In A Sentimental Mood - Sonny Rollins & The Modern Jazz Quartet

Listen to The Offbeat Hour, Episode 237 by The Offbeat Hour

06/08/2025

Jump fi happiness an jump fi joy - we're back, babies.

Join Kev and Johnny at 7pm BST tonight (Wednesday) on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM for another edition of The Offbeat Hour. Two hours of prime musical nutrition, and that's an Offbeat Hour promise.

Another trip in the time machine, bulletins from our celebrated overseas correspondents, and more earworms than an ear full of worms.

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

25/07/2025

We are off next week, visiting sunny climes (or summat), back on Wednesday 6 August. To keep you going until then, here is this week's absolute extravaganza of a show, featuring everything from the King of Libyan reggae to the mighty Black Sabbath.

The Offbeat Hour: full of essential vitamins and minerals.

Supernaut – Black Sabbath
Getting Up – Pigbag
Old Pot Still Cooks Good Rice – Ros Serey Sothea
Friends And Buddies - Milton Wright
Panda Beef ft Sirius Soundz - Sam Binga & Sister Zo
A Sober Conversation – BC Camplight
What She Said – The Smiths
The Motor City Is Burning - John Lee Ho**er
Looking At You - The Damned
Run Through the Jungle – Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Cutter – Echo & the Bunnymen
(I'm) Stranded - The Saints
I've Changed My Address - The Jam
The Field – Blood Orange (feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek & Daniel Caesar)
Stopover Bombay – Alice Coltrane
Mosquito Bite - Chairman Maf
I Never Knew Joy - The Seven Brothers
Jumpin’ Jack Flash – Ananda Shankar
Do You Really Want My Love – Mave & Dave
Tsugaru Jongara Bushi - Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans
Picture Or No Picture - Michael Smith
Deep Calls to Deep – Ruth Finlay
Moveable Feast – Joe Hall & Eyeball Wine Co
Tayr Al Salama - Ibrahim Hesnawi
Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
Life is a Minestrone – 10cc

Listen to The Offbeat Hour, Episode 235 by The Offbeat Hour

23/07/2025

That was fun

22/07/2025

Don't forget, we are back tomorrow night with another two hours of musical nutrition, erudite chinwaggery, and bulletins from our prize-winning overseas correspondents.

The fun starts at 7pm BST on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM.

The Offbeat Hour - we don't need this fascist groove thang.

18/07/2025

Well, now. What a treat. Kev and Johnny were joined this week by Simon, Liz and Terry from the Boston Original Bands Initiative to discuss the triumphs and challenges of promoting original grassroots music, amongst other things.

PLUS Boris' Glastonbury report!

AND Rory blowing our musical minds (again).

ALSO a really quite enjoyable trip in the Offbeat Hour Time Machine.

NOT TO MENTION Kev getting excited when he finds out about the Father of Libyan Reggae.

AS WELL AS more good music than anybody thought possible.

It's all here, my lovelies - dig in.

Summon The Fire - The Comet Is Coming
List of Demands (Reparations) - Saul Williams
Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again - Lyn Collins
Everybody Laughs - David Byrne
Last Laugh - BADBADNOTGOOD
Sid Redad - Fadoul
The Guillotine - The Coup
Man Made Of Meat - Vi**ra Boys
Jungle Lion - Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters
Bad Boy - L-Side X Selecta J-Man X Inja
HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES (feat. Hajra Waheed) - Thanks Joey
Valhalleluja - Nanowar of Steel
Invocation - Damon Albarn & Africa Express
All Lined Up - Shriekback
Oh Lord Why Lord - Horace Andy
Am I Black Enough For You? (single version) - Billy Paul
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
Grits and Gravy - The Fame Gang
Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds - The Mountain Goats

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16/07/2025

If you've got a hankering for some decent music of a Wednesday night, you could do a whole lot worse than tuning in to Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM tonight at 7pm for another splendiferous episode of The Offbeat Hour.

Tonight Kev and Johnny will be joined by the masterminds behind the Boston Original Bands Initiative, to talk all things BOBI related. Plus the usual wealth of wonderment that is the music, and bulletins from our Pulitzer Prize winning overseas correspondents.

12/07/2025

Greetings! Here is the latest show, all ready for your weekend. Great music as ever, a Boston Original Bands Initiative update, another trip in the Offbeat Hour Time Machine, and a positively life-affirming message from Rory in Long Beach.

Stick us in your ears and dig us.

Sons of the Stage - World of Twist
Love Song - The Damned
Being Around - The Lemonheads
Bostich (N'Est-Ce Pas) - Yello
Clampdown - The Clash
This Must Be Hell - Horace Andy
Just A Dub - Wrongtom Meets The Ragga Twins
I'm Bored - Iggy Pop
Shing-A-Ling - The Cooperettes
He's Got His Mother's Hips - John Grant
Shakin' Sugar (American Aquarium Version) - Wilco
Shut Up Ya Dub - The Vendetta Suite
Fancy Up A Dub - King Tubby
African Rhythms - Oneness of Juju
Move On Up (single edit) - Curtis Mayfield
Promises - Buzzcocks
California Love - 2Pac feat Dr Dre
Fight The Power (Part 1) - The Isley Brothers
Lost Spirit - Feiertag
The Cat - Jimmy Smith (Lalo Schifrin)
Words of Advice - Material feat William S Burroughs
Extralude (Wyndham Earl's More-Than-An-Interlude Remix) - Wax Machine
How Am I To Know - Billie Holiday
Second Hand Store - Joe Walsh
No More Ghettos in America - Stanley Winston

Listen to The Offbeat Hour, Episode 233 by The Offbeat Hour

08/07/2025

Here is your weekly reminder that The Offbeat Hour will be taking to the ether on Wednesday night on Boston’s 107 Endeavour FM to help ease you through that midweek hump.

Join Kev and Johnny at 7pm BST as they present another diverse two hours of music for you to stick in your ears and dig. Everything from to and back again.

Add bulletins from our legendary overseas correspondents and witty badinage to put Oscar Wilde to shame, and you have a fierce pancake indeed.

The Offbeat Hour - we delight in all manifestations of the terpsichorean muse, innit.