Come for the pun, stay for the music. Yellow Brit Road is CFRC's weekly British music show on Sundays from 8 to 9 PM on CFRC Radio Queen's. We delve into music history, past interviews, bizarre reviews and media, discuss band lore, and do the occasional themed show: eras, regions, dialects, albums, poetry; everything is on the plate! The podcasted version of this show contains all your favourite band trivia and stories, but the music can be found on posted playlists that accompany each…
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He was born a day before 9/11. He is an alcoholic, a diabetic with a string of chronic conditions, anxiety and a sense of civic activism in his native Manchester, he's only 19 and he's taken the world by storm. Meet Jim E. Brown , the internet's new favourite sad English teenager. He likes 3 bands: Coldplay, Phish and Kraftwerk, and the world has been drawn to his downbeat post punk music, singing…
This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we have some eclipse-related chat and music, discuss the state of music journalism in light of brital layoffs by Veeps at major indie magazines, play you some of the best in up-and-coming music in the UK and Ireland lately, and are joined on the show by 19-year-old Mancunian boy wonder Jim E Brown for a chat recorded before his show in Toronto. Music this week…
Jules Henry believes music should be fun. It is a principle written all over his musical project Super Plage , which started in 2019 in Montreal. We caught up with Jules at Osheaga Festival this year to talk about his music, collaborating with friends, opening the main stages at Osheaga, his latest single about the energy and community he felt when attending protests to save Montreal's historic…
It's Osheaga weekend! Yellow Brit Road brings you boots-on-the-ground coverage from our favourite Canadian music festival with reviews and updates, and live performances from many of the artists here that also played at Lollapalooza festival over at Chicago this week. We're joined backstage by Super Plage, a funky Montreal-based musician who opened the River Stage at Osheaga on Friday. And some…
This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we review new albums by Charli xcx and Yard Act, it's our Osheaga preview and we're joined by Natalie from the Toronto-based rock band Loviet! We caught up with Natalie after Loviet's set at NXNE back in June. Music this week by The Pipettes, The xx , Tricky , Charli xcx , Yard Act , Jetstream Pony , Lava La Rue , Black Bordello , Wet Leg , Keo , Knats , Robo ,…
Good afternoon, Canada! The Yellow Brit Road is now on your airwaves in broad daylight: 1 in the afternoon! Join us for our first daytime show, as we throwback to Razorlight's huge 2006 album, which turned 20 last week. We also review Muse's huge comeback album, The Wow! Signal, and seeing them live last week, when they brought their unique live spectacle to Toronto and Quebec City. Also, I…
Nova Twins are your favourite rockstars' favourite rockstars. For close to a decade now, the London rock duo have been changing what it means to make guitar music, conjuring up layered, interesting and innovating new sounds with their army of pedals. While their 2020 debut album, 'Who Are The Girls?' introduced the girls to the world, by the time their second album, the bulletproof 'Supernova'…
The final Yellow Brit Road in the Sunday 8 PM slot! Starting from next week, the Yellow Brit Road will move to a daytime radio slot, Thursdays from 1-2:30 PM. This does mean we won't have the post-watershed slot to play explicit music uncensored anymore... so we made the most of it tonight ;) In other parts of the show, we also are also joined by the incredible Nova Twins, who were so kind to do…
Cardiff's bubbliest, most energetic and irreverent punk rockers Panic Shack dropped one of my favourite debut albums last year with their self-titled album . Covering lyrical ideas as far ranging as women's trouser pockets, running personal bests, buying toothpaste, eating disorders and working class roots, all with a sense of fierce fun and their tongue firmly in cheek, the album felt like a…
This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we celebrate 20 years of the Hot Chip album The Warning, ponder Charli xcx's latest blink-and-you'll-miss-it release, cover new music from across the UK and Ireland and are joined by Cardiff's most energetic punk band, Panic Shack , who stopped by for a little chat on their debut North American tour last month. Music this week by Hot Chip , Charli xcx , Bloc…
