Fanatic. Hello from Perth Australia. So great to be back. One of the first things I did after landing in Melbourne a few days ago was schedule a visit to Strangeworld Records. Richie Ramone runs a great shop. He’s the reason why we’ve had so many great Australian bands on our show over the years. As I’d hoped, Richie had a great stack of records to play for me and I emerged hours later with quite a few which we’ll get into later in the summer. https://www.strangeworldrecords.com.au

On Friday, I had a long day of press and one of the interviews was on Michael Mulholland’s show Junkyard on 106.7 PBS. I haven’t seen Michael since I was here in 2016. He’s got a great show and just as he did in 2016, he switched me on to a few more bands I’d never heard of. I found the records and we’ll be getting into them as well as soon as possible. https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/junkyard

I got to meet members of Blonde Revolver at Triple R, which was really cool. I was on a show there called Neon Sunset, hosted by Annaliese. https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/neon-sunset/ She’s got a band called Lothario. We’ll be getting into tracks from their 7” soon. https://lotharioxx.bandcamp.com/album/drunk-fuck-black-hair-single

The prospect of such a large amount of new music coming into the show is very exciting. We’re always looking for new music to bring into the show and a trip to Australia always supplies. There’s a lot of record stores yet to be checked out on this run, so hopefully this is just the start.

In a breathtaking communication breakdown, I wasn’t alerted about the new Bobby Lees album Bellevue which came out last year (ow!). We would have been playing it since then. It’s really great. https://thebobbylees.bandcamp.com/album/bellevue

Algy Ward, bassist from the Damned’s Machine Gun Etiquette era has passed away. It’s a great album which I hope you have. Seeing him play with the Damned in 1979 was a highpoint for me.

As always, Fanatic, we’ve got what you will hopefully find to be a great two hours of listening as we settle in for the long bake of summer. More next week.

My Australian dates start this week.

Hydrate with care and stay Fanatic.

–– Henry