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Indie Love Songs

  • The Whole Nine Yards Episode 239      With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 24th August 2025 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Arc (Mixtape of a day in Brighton) This week we’re trying something a little different. The show will be a journey through a day in Brighton for a couple (Jane and Seb) who have been Read more

  • The Whole Nine Yards Episode 236 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 3rd August 2025 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Uncharted On the show this week, which I’ve called ‘Uncharted’, I’ve delved into the forgotten corners of my musical cupboard, starting from when I started seriously listening to music. From 1969 to 1994 – half Read more

  • The Whole Nine Yards Episode 225 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 18th May 2025 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Gold Standards Gold. It’s a word that carries weight, prestige and power. It has fuelled ambition, ignited wars, and forged dreams. So, when an artist is brave enough to put ‘gold’ in a song title, Read more

  • https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/roy-stannard/episodes/The-Whole-Nine-Yards-Ep-131-30-7-23-Carried-by-the-Wind-on-Mid-Sussex-Radio-103-8FM-e27ht3q The Whole Nine Yards Episode 131 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 30rd July 2023 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Carried by the Wind Throughout the globe, both wind and our words can either connect people or send them fleeing for physical or emotional safety. They can comfort or devastate. Whether a gentle ocean Read more

  • Songs to make you cry

    More Indie love songs, but this time the emotional dial has been turned up to maximum. Here are 35 songs that will make you cry. It’s time to reflect on life, death, the loves you lost and the fast cars you drove past the people and the places you’ve left behind. Nick Clegg has used… Read more

  • It’s January 2011 and the Atlantic rain is driving in on the unlimited causeway of my mind as I sit in one of the quieter moments of another new start, new year. As always at these times, I have the music. Read more

  • How a song by Ricky Gervais (Seona Dancing – More to Lose) helped me fall in love in 1984 – and sixteen other great love songs compiled here – http://wp.me/pCEKG-7t Read more

  • ‘You and me gonna be fine’. Exit hand in hand walking into the sunset. In love? This is your soundtrack. Vol 4 of the Greatest Indie Love Songs of all time. Read more

  • You’ll have yours. I’ve got mine. Sixteen British Indie pop songs and one Swedish classic that changed the world. Inside my head at least. Some are deleted and impossible to find, one or two are recent and surprisingly capable of making a veteran Indie roller catch a little tear somewhere back in the throat. Geneva,… Read more