Shindig! Magazine on the Radio

Yes indeed. This Sunday (May 31st 2009) sees the two main men from Shindig! magazine invading the studios of BBC 6 Music. Editors Jon ‘Mojo’ Mills and Andy Morten join Stuart Maconie on his weekly Freakzone show, where the weird, the obscure, the underground and the unnaturally freakish collide head-on in a cloud of phased guitars, far-out sounds and communal hairiness.

Topics of discussion are, naturally, Shindig magazine, its origins as Gravedigger fanzine, its more recent history and rise to being the magazine for people in the musical know to be seen with. Also the plans for the future and the road down which Shindig magazine is headed.

Of course, there will also be the spinning of a few Shindig flavoured tunes, so expect a heavy psychedelic presence, with The 13th Floor Elevators, The Pretty Things and the West Coast Pop-Art Experimental Band already promised.

The show goes out at 5.30pm and will be the perfect accompaniment to a post-Sunday roast crash-out on the settee. There’s even been talk of Shindig getting some sort of regular feature on the show.

If you happen to miss it, the show will be available on Listen Again on the BBC 6 Music Freakzone website.

The next issue of Shindig! magazine (July-August) goes on sale on the 25th of June and might be of passing interest to regular readers of this website. More on which, closer to the time.

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