Bats Squids and In-Between

26/08/2025

The 45th Bats Squids and In Between show is broadcast on Radio Free Marseille this evening 7-9PM (UK)
Repeated:
Wednesday 1-3AM
Saturday 6-8PM
Sunday 9-11AM
Monday 2-4PM

2 hours of top tunes from The Backdoor Society, Fust, The French 8083, Christine & The Queens, Africa, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck, Big Thief, Eddie Cochran, Dead Star Boys, The Doors, Les Rencards and lots more!
An experience from a different kind of station.
Requests are most welcome:
[email protected]

Listen in at:

https://24.radio-free-marseille.online

Splendid! In a “Living in the Space Age” kind of way...🙄

25/08/2025

It's my solemn duty to inform you that the 44th Bats Squids and In Between show, originally broadcast on Radio Free Marseille on 19th August 2025, is now preening itself on Mixcloud...

Don't forget that Bats #45 takes flight (and probably plummets alarmingly) tomorrow evening 7PM (UK)

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-44-190825/

Tracklist:

1 Headsticks
Keyboard Warriors
2 Davey Woodward
Silver Button Purple Loons
3 Flaco Jimenez
Open Up Your Hearts
4 Lazy Lester
Bye Bye Baby
5 Peppermint Harris
Ain't No Business
6 Cartrell Dickson
Why Didn't You Tell Me
7 Slobberbone
Tilt a Whirl
8 Magazine
Shot By Both Sides
9 Charlatans (US 60s)
Codeine
10 First Class
Wake Up America
11 We Found the Wreck
Clouds
12 Aphrodite's Child
I Want To Live
13 Millennium
5AM
14 Los Naufragos
Otra Vez En La Via
15 ZZ Hill
You Were Wrong
16 The Raconteurs
Carolina Drama
17 Robert Plant
If I Were a Carpenter
18 Out of Phase
Light My Fire
19 Procol Harum
Salad Days Are Here Again
20 The Church
You're Still Beautiful
21 The Penrose Web
In Her Darkened Room
22 The Quik
I Can't Sleep
23 Paul Quinn & Edwyn Collins
Pale Blue Eyes
24 Quintessence
Cosmic Surfer
25 The Mo Dettes
Paint It, Black
26 Stackridge
Lummy Days
27 The Mystic Tide
I Search For a New Love
28 C.O.M.A
Verre
29 Matt Benson
The London Line

The 44th Bats show from Radio Free Marseille. Another compilation of completely cool cuts from the crypt...plus some great new stuff too!

19/08/2025

The 44th Bats Squids and In Between show is broadcast on Radio Free Marseille this evening 7-9PM (UK)
Repeated:
Wednesday 1-3AM
Saturday 6-8PM
Sunday 9-11AM
Monday 2-4PM

2 hours of top tunes from Headsticks, Flaco Jimenez, Slobberbone, We Found the Wreck, Raconteurs, Robert Plant, The Penrose Web, Stackridge, Peppermint Harris, The Church, Matt Benson and lots more!
An experience from a different kind of station.
Requests are most welcome:
[email protected]

Listen in at:

https://24.radio-free-marseille.online

Splendid! In a “Silver Button Purple Loons” kind of way...🙄

18/08/2025

Sigh...here we go again...the 43rd Bats Squids and In Between show, originally broadcast on Radio Free Marseille on 12th August 2025 has now been passed fit for Mixcloud...

Don't forget Bats 44 will all a-flutter tomorrow evening at 7PM (UK)

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-43-120825/

Tracklist:

1 The Black Watch
Achilles Past
2 Mayflies USA
Railway Spine
3 Super Mighty Glue
60s Tune
4 The Mascots
Do the Wiggle
5 Jolly Boy Shepard
You Care
6 James Brown
This Old Heart
7 Great Lake Swimmers
Palmistry
8 Velvet Opera
Anna Dance Square
9 Big Brother & The Holding Company
Flower in the Sun
10 Cilla Black
Sleep Song
11 Alabaster Orphans
Head On
12 Willie Rosario Y Su Orquesta
Superman
13 The Cats
Magical Mystery Morning
14 Skaldowie
Narodzi Si Czowiek
15 Bobbie Gentry
Louisiana Man
16 Thievery Corporation
Facing East
17 Soig Siberil
Ram Dam
18 Charlie Harper
Light My Fire
19 Lord Huron
Bag of Bones
20 Minor Gold
Moonlight Silver Highway
21 Peter Cook
Bedazzled
22 Dave Goodman & Friends
Justifiable Homicide
23 Good Missionaries
Attitudes
24 Good Rats
The Hobo
25 Doug Paisley
Mister Wrong
26 Jackson Browne
These Days
27 Leitmotiv
Helle Stimme Ruhe
28 Terry Reid
Faith To Arise
29 Nick Drake
Fruit Tree (Take 4)

The 43rd Bats show from Radio Free Marseille, resuscitating lifeless oldies, and sprinkling sparking newies...

12/08/2025

The 43rd Bats Squids and In Between show is broadcast on Radio Free Marseille this evening 7-9PM (UK)
Repeated:
Wednesday 1-3AM
Saturday 6-8PM
Sunday 9-11AM
Monday 2-4PM

2 hours of top tunes from The Black Watch, Super Mighty Glue, Great Lake Swimmers, Thievery Corporation, Alabaster Orphans, Terry Reid, Soig Siberil, Lord Huron, James Brown and lots more!
An experience from a different kind of station.
Requests are most welcome:
[email protected]

Listen in at:

https://24.radio-free-marseille.online

Splendid! In a “Magical Mystery Morning” kind of way...🤗

11/08/2025

Hey Di**le Di**le...here's the 42nd Bats Squids and In Between show, originally broadcast on 5th August 2025 on Radio Free Marseille, the Thinking Person's Radio Station...on Mixcloud now...

Don't forget the 43rd Bats spree will be assaulting (and insulting) eardrums tomorrow evening at 7PM (UK)

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-42-050825/

Tracklist:

1 The Gentlemen Rogues
Children of the Revolution
2 Wednesday
Elderberry Wine
3 Wednesday Week
Why?
4 Rhythm Aces
Mohawk Rock
5 JB Lenoir
Oh Baby
6 Cornell Blakely
Tell Me More
7 The Beloved
Rock To the Rhythm of Love
8 Primary 5
Off Course
9 Deadbolt
Patches the Clown
10 Jim Dale
Dubious Circus Company
11 Colonel Mustard
Hangin' Around
12 World of Oz
The Muffin Man
13 Simple Image
Spinning Spinning Spinning
14 Quentin E Klopjaeger
Lazy Life
15 Aretha Franklin
Try a Little Tenderness
16 Quicksilver Messenger Service
Dino's Song (live)
17 Barcella
Coccinelle
18 The Silent Companions
Boat Party
19 Common Culture
Facing a Storm
20 Webs
This Thing Called Love
21 Chase Webster
Life Can Have Meaning
22 Deena Webster
You're Losing
23 Clarence Carter
Light My Fire
24 Free
I'm a Mover
25 Andy Ellison
It's Been a Long Time
26 Sunny Sweeney
Diamonds and Divorce Decrees
27 The Tubes
TV is King
28 Beausoleil
Parlez Nous a Boire
29 Alex Chilton
The EMI Song (Smile For Me)

The 42nd Bats show from Radio Free Marseille. 2 more hours of fun, Fun, FUN! Or maybe not...

05/08/2025

The 42nd Bats Squids and In Between show is broadcast on Radio Free Marseille this evening 7-9PM (UK)
Repeated:
Wednesday 1-3AM
Saturday 6-8PM
Sunday 9-11AM
Monday 2-4PM

2 hours of top tunes from The Gentlemen Rogues, Wednesday, The Beloved, World of Oz, Colonel Mustard, Silent Companions, Free, Demis Roussos, Alex Chilton, Beausoleil, Clarence Carter and lots more!
An experience from a different kind of station.
Requests are most welcome:
[email protected]

Listen in at:

https://24.radio-free-marseille.online

Splendid! In a “Diamonds and Divorce Decrees” kind of way...🤔

04/08/2025

Woo and, indeed, Hoo! The 41st Bats Squids and In Between show, originally broadcast on that jaunty Radio Free Marseille on Tuesday 29th July 2025, has now qualified for Mixcloud...

Don't forget Bats #42 flies around while squeaking loudly at 7PM (UK) tomorrow evening...

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-41-290725/

Tracklist:

1 Family
Larf and Sing
2 Golden Earring
Lonesome DJ
3 Robert Jon & The Wreck
Sittin' Pretty
4 Scott Brothers
Lost Love
5 Johnny Darrow
Don't Start Me Talking
6 Billy (The Kid) Emerson
I Never Get Enough
7 John Miles
Glamour Boy
8 Killer Larry
Swamp Rascal
9 Rogue Wave
In the Morning
10 Connie Francis
Delilah
11 Mark Lees
Roundabout
12 Savage Rose
Dear Little Mother
13 Earth & Fire
Love of Life
14 Drupi
Piccola E Fragile
15 Tennessee Ernie Ford
Glad Rags
16 Paper Fortress
Butterfly High
17 I Gens
In Fondo Al Viali
18 Vashti
Winter is Blue
19 Johnny Mathis
Light My Fire
20 Tom Henry
Be Mine, Forever
21 Catherine Parr
You Belong To Me
22 Dean Parrish
Turn on Your Lovelight
23 Parrish & Gurvitz
As If I Were Blind
24 Sissoko Segal Parisien Peiran
Ta Nye
25 The Silent Companions
Arbol De La Meurte
26 Thalassa
The Portrait
27 Eliza Gilkyson
Dark Ages
28 Chris Stamey
Au Revoir and Goodbye

The 41st Bats show on Radio Free Marseille...two more hours of cuts that are more than just deep...

29/07/2025

The 41st Bats Squids and In Between show is broadcast on Radio Free Marseille this evening 7-9PM (UK)
Repeated:
Wednesday 1-3AM
Saturday 6-8PM
Sunday 9-11AM
Monday 2-4PM

2 hours of top tunes from Family, Killer Larry, Earth & Fire, Eliza Gilkyson, Chris Stamey, Johnny Mathis, Billy (The Kid) Emerson, Silent Companions, Mark S Lees, Golden Earring, Robert Jon & The Wreck and lots more!
An experience from a different kind of station.
Requests are most welcome:
[email protected]

Listen in at:

https://24.radio-free-marseille.online

Splendid! In a “Butterfly High” kind of way...🤔

28/07/2025

The 40th Bats Squids and In Between show, originally broadcast on Radio Free Marseille on Tuesday 22nd July 2025, has now matured enough to be allowed onto Mixcloud...

Don't forget Bats #41 will be on RFM tomorrow evening 7PM (UK)

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-40-220725/

Tracklist:

1 The Zombies
Whenever You're Ready
2 Speaker Wars
You Make Every Lie Come True
3 PHK
I'm Not a Number, I'm a Free Man
4 Joe Maphis
Water Baby Boogie
5 Alan Knight
Chills
6 Cliff Gleaves
Long Black Hearse
7 Massive Attack
Teardrop
8 Adrian Raso
Swing Sagarese
9 Stone Roses
Made of Stone
10 Twiggy
Ruby Tuesday
11 Nick Lawrence
The Day the Heathens Came
12 Rocky Roberts
Stasera Mi Butto
13 Michel Polnareff
Ame Caline
14 Palito Ortega
Que Importa La Gente (Happy Together)
15 Easybeats
St Louis
16 Penny Gain
Kick the Upper Class
17 Surf Report
The Trooper
18 The Majority
All Our Christmases
19 Sugarfoot
Time Will Show the Wiser
20 Band of Joy (feat. Robert Plant)
For What It's Worth
21 Chubby Checker
Two Hearts Make One Love
22 Checkmates
Sticks and Stones
23 Cheeky
Get Outta My 'Ouse
24 Gary Higgins
Telegraph Towers
25 The Who
Relax
26 Midnight Rodeo
Dixon
27 British Birds
Mother of Jeanne
28 Bunker (AKA Bunker Strasse)
Mirror
29 Taj Mahal & Keb Mo
Thicker Than Mud
30 REM
Talk About the Passion
31 Abigail Lapell
Down By the Water
32 Strawbs
Grace Darling

The 40th Bats show from Radio Free Marseille. A selection of Nice Stuff from the belly button of music history...

22/07/2025

The 40th Bats Squids and In Between show is broadcast on Radio Free Marseille this evening 7-9PM (UK)
Repeated:
Wednesday 1-3AM
Saturday 6-8PM
Sunday 9-11AM
Monday 2-4PM

2 hours of top tunes from The Zombies, Speaker Wars, Stone Roses, Chubby Checker, PHK, Surf Report, British Birds, Nick Lawrence, Sugarfoot, Taj Mahal & Keb Mo, Penny Gain, Michel Polnareff, The Strawbs and lots more!
An experience from a different kind of station.
Requests are most welcome:
[email protected]

Listen in at:

https://24.radio-free-marseille.online

Splendid! In a “Stasera Mi Butto” kind of way...🫣

21/07/2025

The 39th Bats Squids and In Between show, originally broadcast on Radio Free Marseille on 15th July 2025, is now on Mixcloud for your further annoyance...
Bats #40 will be unleashed tomorrow evening 7PM (UK)
Requests are very welcome...

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-39-150725/

Tracklist:

1 Black Sabbath
Looking For Today
2 Charlie Musselwhite
Ready For Times To Get Better
3 Sunny Smiles Three
Toys
4 Tony Cosmo
Teenager For President
5 Lawrence Shaul
Tutti Frutti
6 Barry Russett
Can't Get Enough
7 Magpie Salute
Fearless
8 Sroeng Santi
Pai Na Pai
9 The Blue Things
La Do Da Da
10 Anita Harris
Eleanor Rigby
11 Split Persons
Split Persons
12 Michel Delpech
Pour Un Flirt
13 Daddy Cool
Eagle Rock
14 Los Barbaros
Pecado Mortal
15 Spencer Davis Group
Time Seller
16 Murray Head
Say It Ain't So Joe
17 Brigitte Fontaine
Une Fois Mais Pas Deux
18 Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
Our House
19 Lulu
Stealing My Love From Me
20 Fresh Air
For What It's Worth
21 Mark Valentino
Jivin' at the Drive-In
22 Valhalla
Coming Home
23 Valkyries
Rip It Up
24 Anna Mieke
Mountain Song
25 Tim Buckley
Sweet Surrender
26 Ian Roland
Some Way of Life
27 Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman
At The Bar San Calisto
28 Farm
Sunshine in My Window
29 Phaume
Liberte
30 Love Axe
Blue Skies Above

The 39th Bats show from Radio Free Marseille. 2 hours of tracks that usually lurk in the background...