The Whole Nine Yards Ep 293 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 7 September 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Freshly Plucked

The new guitar generation:

There’s something in the air again – the sound of guitars being picked up by people with something to say. After years of synths, beats and bedroom pop, a new wave of bands has emerged with six strings, fresh stories and an indie attitude. They are reinventors – folding Americana into indie, punk into pop, folk into widescreen dreamscapes. We’re showcasing bands who know a guitar can change the temperature of a room, crack open a memory, or send a crowd into orbit.

Hour One

The Broken Radios – Dark Highway (Single 2026)

Valerie June – Smokestack (Single 2026)

White Collar Crime – Words I Never Said (Words I Never Said 2026)

Westside Cowboy – Paperchains (It Goes On 2026)

Tooth – Age of Innocence (Age of Innocence 2026)

The Chats – The Price of Smokes (Get Fucked 2022)

Spacey Jane – All the Noise (Single 2025)

So Reverie – Close My Eyes (Andy Power · Dan Jones · Andy Power · Cain Garcia) (Single 2025)

Mark Knopfler – What it Is (Remastered 2021) (Sailing to Philadelphia 2000)

Strawberry Milk – Katherine the Great (Single 2025)

The Band Friday – Pink Lemonade (Homecoming EP 2026)

The American Dawn – Her (Single 2024)

Hour Two

SwIss Portrait – Photobooth (Single 2024)

Little Grandad – Tiny Feet (Speak Softly, Son 2026)

Spanish Horses – Hey Man (Hey Man!) (Single 2026)

Francis of Delirium – It’s a Beautiful Life (Run, Run Pure Beauty 2026)

Portraits – Glitch (Vaguely Western 2026)

Marlon Funaki – When Sunday Comes Around (Monterey Village 2024)

Hurray for the Riff Raff – Alibi (The Past is Still Alive 2024)

Weezer – Go Away ft Bet Cosantino (Everything Will Be Alright In The End lost track

Powers of the Monk – Sleepy Fields (Single 2025)

Civic Video – Wasted Days (Single 2026)

Willowake – Held My Hand (Single 2026)

Pamela – Better Than Before (It’s Nice to See You Here EP 2026)

ITHEMS – A Ghost Inside (Single 2025)

LP – Thirty 2nd Chances (Room 12 2026)