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

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