Left Of The Dial

Left Of The Dial is a weekly show on Glasgow's Subcity radio named for the Replacements song about college radio, first broadcast in September 2008. In its first year, it was co-hosted by Chris Ward and Danny Abbasi; now, it's just Chris, with occasional guest hosts, live bands and other interjections. Most episodes take a loose theme as a starting point, with the playlist compiled like a mix-tape and the links between songs functioning as audio liner notes. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

Left Of The Dial is a weekly show on Glasgow's Subcity radio named for the Replacements song about college radio, first broadcast in September 2008. In its first year, it was co-hosted by Chris Ward and Danny Abbasi; now, it's just Chris, with occasional guest hosts, live bands and other interjections. Most episodes take a loose theme as a starting point, with the playlist compiled like a mix-tape and the links between songs functioning as audio liner notes. Regular features currently include '#1 Records' - a classic albums slot named for the Big Star record, often featuring albums overlooked by standard all-time greats lists - and 'Chris Defends', in which Chris attempts to find some kind of redeeming value in targets of muso ire. As of the end of the 2009-2010 broadcast year, sixty-seven episodes have been broadcast. Guests over the two seasons have included Admiral Fallow (formerly Brother Louis Collective), French Wives, United Fruit, Popolo, Rodge Glass, Dirty Keys and the John Knox Sex Club, whose frontman, Sean Cumming, described the experience as 'like being on an old John Peel show. Like, one of the ones where he'd play the record at the wrong speed, but it was alright, 'cause he meant well.' Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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