Episode 79: Best Of The Year 2024
Last night’s best-of-the-year episode of The Scene with me your host Thom with an H, was another banger of a show featuring the likes of Lakes, Happy Accidents, and The Menstrual Cramps as well as unsigned spotlight tracks from incaseyouleave and Sunny Side Down.
I kicked off the show with “Starchild” by Sweet Pill. Sweet Pill not only produced one of the year’s best EPs and have very correct views about Greggs but they are this year’s most spun artist featuring in a staggering 67% of all shows. After “Starchild” by Sweet Pill, the first half of the show showcased tunes from Soot Sprite x Muttering, gürl, Carly Cosgrove, and our first unsigned spotlight track the brilliant “Arrhythmia” by incaseyouleave. The London based scream punks are set for a massive 2025 with appearances at festivals like Portals. Before the news break, I wrapped up the first half with the stunning and beautiful “Football” by Youth Lagoon. Based on “Football” and the other singles that Trev released this year we have a feeling that something truly special will be coming from him in 2025.
Post-news break, I resumed with “Sequence 03” by M.A.G.S. After “Sequence 03” by M.A.G.S., the second half of the show packed the punches with tracks from Defences, Meryl Streek, PEOPLEVIOLENCE, and our second unsigned spotlight the awesome “Maths Exam” by Sunny Side Down. “Maths Exam” can be found on the band’s second EP scrapbooking, bleeding which came out back in July. I wrapped up last night’s episode with a heavy dose of post-rock epicness in the form of “Any Joy” by And So I Watch You From Afar.
Listen back to Episode 79 - from 28 December (Listen live on Castledown FM, Saturdays 9 pm to 11 pm).
1st hour
Starchild - Sweet Pill
Stitches - Lakes
Pulling Teeth - Slow Joy
Canada Water - ME REX
Burn The Leaves - Soot Sprite x Muttering
I Can't See Anything I Dont Like About You - Bears In Trees
Boys In The 90s - gürl
Real Juicer Hours - ACTION/ADVENTURE
Arrhythmia - incaseyouleave (UNSIGNED SPOTLIGHT)
Here’s A Fork - Carly Cosgrove
47. - Common Sage
Blood Red Camry Dance Party - Kaonashi
Dog Day (Ft. Sophie MacKenzie) - Happy Accidents
Their Shining Path - Johnny Foreigner
Moscow is Silent - itoldyouiwouldeatyou
Spilling Ink - MILLY
Football - Youth Lagoon
2nd hour
Sequence 03 - M.A.G.S.
Pool Day - Only Twin
0% - Hello Mary
I Think You Should Leave - Problem Patterns
Class War - The Menstrual Cramps
The Order of the Seasons - Los Campesinos!
Merch Girl - FRESH
ryan, write me a poem, would you? - nathy sg
Maths Exams - Sunny Side Down (UNSIGNED SPOTLIGHT)
Bad Seeds - Shooting Daggers
Red Wine And Discontent - SeeYouSpaceCowboy
Shadowlight - Defences
Farm Games - Other Half
Many Thanks - Supermilk
Paddy - Meryl Streek
The Great Escape - Sløtface
Swear To God That I'm (FINE) - Winona Fighter
HALF AND HALF - PEOPLEVIOLENCE
Any Joy - And So I Watch You From Afar