From the album All My Own Work, a collection of pocket gods songs that span their first 12 years of their existence – from 1998 to 2010. Features the mercurial songwriting talents of Mark Christopher Lee. Indie pop...

Episode number 84 of Insomnia Radio UK. Twice The Answer (To Life, The Universe, And Everything) Recording Date: Saturday 17 April 2010 TRT: 51:20 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk84.mp3] Download...

Episode number 83 of Insomnia Radio UK. A Special Episode featuring Sarah Morrison’s exclusive interview with Martin & Stuart of M1 Connect, and five tracks by the band Recording Date: Sunday 21 March 2010...

From their new EP The Last Place You’ll Look on  Fat Cat Records 2009 saw We Were Promised Jetpacks storm the US from their native Edinburgh, releasing debut These Four Walls to a #12 debut on the Billboard...

Episode number 82 of Insomnia Radio UK. A special Episode featuring ANTIQCOOL Recording Date: Friday 05 March 2010 TRT: 32:16 Rating: Work Safe Note: All tracks in this episode are available as free downloads, see the links...

Episode number 81 of Insomnia Radio UK. A special Episode featuring The Pocket Gods Recording Date: Saturday 06 February 2010 TRT: 42:57 Rating: Work Safe Note: All tracks in this episode are available as free downloads,...

From their 2008 album Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Originally from a small town North of London called St Albans, The Pocket Gods have been together since 2005. Since then they have released a vast array of material (seven albums in the...

Episode number 80 of Insomnia Radio UK. Back to the old format for this one. Seven tracks by UK artists and one guest artist. Recording Date: Friday 29 January 2010 TRT: 40:00 Rating: Work...

Episode number 79 of Insomnia Radio UK. Three songs each by two UK Artists Recording Date: Thu 21 Jan 2010 TRT: 34:06 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk79.mp3] Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in...

Episode number 78 of Insomnia Radio UK. Recording Date: Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 TRT: 29:18 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk78.mp3] Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes | Subscribe to The...

Episode number 77 of Insomnia Radio UK. Kind-of an IR: UK Triple Shots. Three songs each by two UK Bands Recording Date: Thursday 07 Jan 2010 TRT: 30:55 Rating: NOT Work Safe (NSFW) Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in...

Here’s a short blast of a song before the decade ends, an important list as put together by Cardiff’s LOS CAMPESINOS!   Rarely do you see lyrics for songs that earn several stars on the...

Happy Christmas (or Bah Humbug) from the UK’s The Joy Formidable. This is their free Christmas single. Check their MySpace for tour dates between now and April...

We had originally discovered the originality of the musical duo RUE ROYALE a few short years back via our Chicago show here at the network. Named after a road running through the Chicago suburbs, the duo of Ruth and Brookln...

Episode number 76 of Insomnia Radio UK. 12 Tracks, a good mix I reckon Recording Date: Friday 04 December 2009 TRT: 57:32 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk76.mp3] Download | Subscribe | Subscribe...

From their 2008 album Folk Songs Today we bring you a song by Insomnia Radio: UK favourites Plunkett, the independent alternative folk rock duo formed in 2004 by singer-guitarist Ian Plunkett and ex A&R and producer...

Episode number 75 of Insomnia Radio UK. To mark my three years of Podcasting, here is the last of three retrospectives, ten of the best tracks from shows 51 to 72 in 2008 and 2009 Recording Date: Saturday 31 Oct 2009 TRT:...

Episode number 74 of Insomnia Radio UK. To mark my three years of Podcasting, here is the second of three retrospectives, ten of the best tracks from shows 34 to 50 in 2007 and 2008 Recording Date: Thursday 22 Oct 2009 TRT:...

AMPed: Show #200 – Part 2 This show’s host: Alan Carr from Darkhorse Radio Show: Audio Gumshoe Song: Set the Music Free (Geoff Smith) Show: Indie Music Sampler Song: Becoming (The Brilliant Mistakes) Show: The...

Episode number 73 of Insomnia Radio UK. To mark my three years of Podcasting, here is a retrospective of ten of the best tracks from shows 11 to 33 in 2006 and 2007 Recording Date: Sunday 20th Sept 2009 TRT: 49:42 Rating:...

“Furious new addition to the Brighton [UK] Post Hardcore Artrock scene” “Heels Catch Fire produce angular off-kilter songs that walk the tricky tightrope between post hardcore noise and danceable indie...

A Special Episode of Insomnia Radio New York and UK, presented jointly by Sarah Morrison and Stuart Morrison. Effectively, IR: NY #9 and IR: UK #72 Recording Date: Sunday 02 Aug 2009 TRT: 42:26 Rating: Work Safe Cheese...

Episode number 71 of Insomnia Radio UK. Eight songs by UK artists. An interesting mix. Recording Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 TRT: 38:14 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk71.mp3] Download |...

Betty and the Werewolves are three girls and one boy from London who whoop and howl through the night as sweetly sung melodies collide with glitter-struck punk guitars. Taking inspiration from luminary lycanthropes Virginia...

Australian band Howling Bells formed out of the ashes of the group Waikiki, moving to the UK shortly thereafter for purposes of recording, where they released their highly praised debut “Bella Union” in 2006. The...

The Papertiger Sound is a transatlantic project created in 2006 by Dan Gelder who is from England’s Eastern shore. Hailing from the Eastern shores of Canada, Kerstin Wilson later joined when both Dan and Kerstin were...

Episode number 70 of Insomnia Radio UK. Welcome to this somewhat delayed episode. Seven songs from UK artists, and one US. And a CD give-away contest! Recording Date: Tuesday 16 June 2009 TRT: 44:35 Rating: Mostly Work Safe...

To celebrate the third birthday of Insomnia Radio: UK we’ve reposted Episode One, originally released on 1st June 2006. So if you want to hear how it all started, with Phil Coyne at the helm, head over to the original...

Episode number 69 of Insomnia Radio UK. Welcome to this somewhat delayed episode. Eight songs from UK artists. Recording Date: Friday 29 May 2009 TRT: 36:40 Rating: Work...

Today’s episode warms us up a bit with a healthy dose of rock from UK, Canada, New York, Mexico City (and beyond) before our founder, Jason Evangelho takes over the controls for IR #165. The name of this episode has...

Episode number 68 of Insomnia Radio UK. An interesting mix of hard rock and some downtempo, dubstep and post rock Recording Date: Sunday 10 May 2009 TRT: 54:37 Rating: Work...

I have no idea what to say about these guys. What can be gathered from their decidedly minimalistic website are these decidedly vague facts: The list of people who haven’t helped them is much longer than the list of...