Bats Squids and In-Between

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...

15/07/2025

The 39th 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 Black Sabbath, Tony Cosmo, Magpie Salute, Split Persons, Tim Buckley, Anna Mieke, Ian Roland, Lulu, Brigitte Fontaine, Sroeng Santi, Charlie Musselwhite 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 “Jivin’ at the Drive-In” kind of way...🙄🕺

14/07/2025

The 38th Bats Squids and In Between show, originally broadcast on Radio Free Marseille last Tuesday 8th July 2025, is now on Mixcloud.
Don't forget Bats 39 will arrive tomorrow evening at 7PM (UK)

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-38-080725/

Tracklist:

1 Mott the Hoople
Thunderbuck Ram
2 Brent Cobb & The Fixins
Even If It's Broke
3 Lake Ruth
Potalaka Listening Station
4 Larry Dale
Let the Doorbell Ring
5 Eddie King & 3 Queens
Shakin' Inside
6 Typhoons
Gueneca
7 Chapterhouse
Mesmerise
8 Electric Prunes
Great Banana Hoax
9 George Maharis
Hard Day's Night
10 Strawberry Blue
Familiar Eyes
11 Gilbert Becaud
Monsieur Le President Directeur General Et Le Lapin
12 The Hep Stars
Wedding
13 I Giganti
Tema
14 The Crests
Isn't it Amazing
15 Patti Smith
Gimme Shelter
16 John Cale
Big White Cloud
17 Musketeer Gripweed & The Troop
How I Won the War
18 Fairy Tale
Guess I Was Dreaming
19 Bill Evans & Willie Nelson
For What It's Worth
20 Jack Cardwell
Whiskey Women and Loaded Dice
21 The Carefrees
We Love You Beatles
22 Caretaker Race
Anywhere But Home
23 Daniel Melingo
En Un Bosque De la China
24 Gong
I Never Glid Before
25 Lancashire Hustlers
For the Best
26 Mighty Rootsmen
I Won't Back Down
27 The Slits
Man Next Door
28 Stradyvarius
Heidi
29 Wandering Hearts
Helpless

The 38th Bats show from Radio Free Marseille. Another varied selection of overlooked gems

08/07/2025

The 38th 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 Mott the Hoople, Brent Cobb, Electric Prunes, Strawberry Blue, Hep Stars, Gong, Lancashire Hustlers, Mighty Rootsmen, Stradyvarius, Daniel Melingo, Patti Smith 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 “Whiskey Women and Loaded Dice” kind of way...🙄

07/07/2025

Here's the 37th Bats Show, originally broadcast on Radio Free Marseille on Tuesday 1st July 2025, and now on Mixcloud...

The equally eclectic Bats 38 will arrive at 7PM (UK time) tomorrow evening...

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-37-010725/

Tracklist:

1 Rolling Stones & Steve Riley
Zydeco Sont Pas Sales
2 Lucas Haynes & Peter Buck
56 Nervous Breakdowns
3 Golden Earring
No For an Answer
4 Bill Johnson
My Bobaloo
5 Johnny Ray Harris
Cajun Weekend
6 Doug Warren
If the World Don't End Tomorrow
7 Endless Boogie
Tarmac City
8 Howlin' Wolf
Smokestack Lightning
9 Rock Hudson
Open the Windows and See All the Clowns
10 John 'Daddio' Clarke
Set Your Soul To Music
11 Peter Maffay
So Bist Du
12 Cold Chisel
Shipping Steel
13 Alberto Fortis
Milano E Vicenzo
14 The Clique
Sparkle and Shine
15 Jack Hues
A Long Time
16 Noel Coward
20th Century Blues
17 Charif Megarbane
The Invisible Cut
18 Donovan
Poor Cow
19 David Cassidy
For What It's Worth
20 Glen Mason
Love Love Love
21 Masqueraders
Love Peace and Understanding
22 Masterminds
She Belongs To Me
23 Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band
The Gremlin Song
24 After All
Blue Satin
25 Durand Jones & Indications
Lover's Holiday
26 Big Love Car Wash
If Everything Were Free
27 C Daniel Boling & Tom Paxton
Send the Old Men To Fight
28 Emmanuelle Parranin
Plume Blanche Plume Noire
29 Mary Hopkin
International

the 37th Bats show from Radio Free Marseille. Another 2 hours of Highlights and Lowlife...

01/07/2025

The 37th 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 Luke Haines & Peter Buck, Howlin’ Wolf, Jack Hues, John ‘Daddio’ Clarke, Big Love Car Wash, Noel Coward, Emmanuelle Parranin, Charif Megarbane, The Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band, Golden Earring (not that song!) and lots more! Oh, the Rolling Stones are in there too…
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 “Send the Old Men To Fight” kind of way...🤔

30/06/2025

If you don't already listen to Radio Free Marseille then you really should give it a try y'know. Lots of people are on there, some of them quite famous, and they play lots of different music instead of the same, tired old stuff.
The only drawback is that I'm on there too, and this was my modest contribution to the past week's schedules, the 36th Bats show. It's now on Mixcloud.
Why just play old music when you can play new music too? Why play just one genre of music in a show when you can play whatever you like? Why bother reading this when you could be listening?
Here we go...
Don't forget that the 37th Bats show will be (dis)gracing the cyber-waves tomorrow evening (Tuesday 1st), between 7-9PM (UK)...

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-36-240625/

Tracklist:

1 La Flemme
La Fete
2 The Scruffs
Tragedy
3 Michael Robert Murphy
Prometheus Fountain
4 Night Raiders feat. Mickey Hawks
Screamin' Mimi Jeannie
5 Higgs & Wilson
Manny Oh
6 Buddy Knox
Stormclouds
7 The Feelies
Crazy Rhythms
8 The Feelies
Nobody Knows
9 Beach Boys
Busy Doin' Nothin'
10 Sly & The Family Stone
Luv 'n' Haight
11 Lou Christie
Canterbury Road
12 Nana Mouskouri
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
13 Rachel Lowrie
Home Town
14 Marc Almond
Lord of Misrule
15 Bethlehem Steele
Hold Onto Your Mind
16 Ozzy Osbourne
For What It's Worth
17 The Rainbows
Balla Balla
18 The Outsiders
Summer is Here
19 Larry's Rebels
Painter Man
20 The Charmettes
Please Don't Kiss Me Again
21 Lancashire Hustlers
I Killed a Mouse
22 Green Diesel
Hymn For the Turning Year
23 Caroline Carter
Ballad of Possibilities
24 Jean Carter & The Centerpieces
No Good Jim
25 John Carter & Russ Alquist
Laughing Man
26 Abigail Lapell
Rattlesnake
27 Spirit
Fresh Garbage
28 Jorma Kaukonen
Genesis
29 Bridgit St John
Happy Day

The 36th Bats show from Radio Free Marseille...another patchwork quilt of music, woven into two hours of radio...

24/06/2025

The 36th 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 La Flemme, Michael Robert Murphy, Higgs & Wilson, Rachel Lowrie, Larry’s Rebels, Lancashire Hustlers, Green Diesel, Abigail Lapell, Jorma Kaukonen, The Feelies, Ozzy Osbourne (🫣) 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 “Balla Balla” kind of way...🤷‍♂️

23/06/2025

The Bats have returned...so have the Squids...and everything In Between. Here's the 35th Bat(ch) of Oddities and hidden gems, old and new, originally broadcast on 17th June 2025, and now on Mixcloud...

Don't forget that the 36th Bats show will be broadcast tomorrow, Tuesday 24th June, at 7PM (UK) on Radio Free Marseille

https://www.mixcloud.com/mickcapewell5/bats-squids-and-in-between-35-170625/

Tracklist:

1 Nick Frater
I Know You Know I Know
2 Steve Barton
Dandelion
3 Pretty Things
She Says Good Morning
4 Jimmie Lee
All of My Life
5 Ron Willis
Someday You'll Want Me To Want You
6 Sonny Fishback
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
7 Motchat Doma
Sudno
8 Eight Rounds Rapid
Channel Swimmer
9 Suzanne Vega
Witch
10 Jaywalkers
The Radio
11 Windows
How Do You Do
12 Vicki Leandros
Apres Toi
13 Lucio Battisti
I Giardini Di Marzo
14 Carroll Brothers
Sweet Georgia Brown
15 Picturebox
Utility Contractors
16 Louis Armstrong
Give Peace a Chance
17 Cab Calloway
Re**er Man
18 Roge
Eu Gosto Dela
19 Wailing Souls
For What It's Worth
20 Jimmy Rushing
How Do You Want Your Loving Done
21 Lonnie Russ
Something Old Something New
22 Thane Russell & Three
Security
23 Rita Tushingham & Lynn Redgrave
Day Out
24 Television Personalities
Smashing Time
25 Johnny Young
Unconscientious Objector
26 Mike Zito
Stay
27 Band of Wynand
Day Time Night Time
28 Liverpool Scene
Let Me Die a Young Man's Death
29 Laura
Baisers D'Orlio
30 Anoushka Shankar
We Return To Love
31 Michel Polnareff
Mais Encore

The Return of The Bats...and The Squids....and everything else