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CTP - Pod 1 - Battle

60:00 minutes (54.93 MB)

CTP - Pod 2 - New Moscow

60:17 minutes (48.3 MB)

CTP - Pod 3 - The Pipettes

60:00 minutes (54.94 MB)

CTP - Pod 4 - Tom Brosseau

60:04 minutes (48.12 MB)

CTP - Pod 6 - Transgressive Records

59:58 minutes (48.12 MB)

CTP - Pod 7 - The Mules

60:00 minutes (68.67 MB)

CTP - Pod 8 -Jeremy Warmsley

Jeremy Warmsley
60:00 minutes (54.93 MB)

The show this week Jeremy Warmsley in the studio in London discussing his music and playing a live version of his next release I believe in the way you move. Padraic chats to Alexis Petridis of the Guardian about the Mercury Music Prize, and they pick their winners. There’s also a competition, a single of the week and a great british classic. The music is of the usual high standard from the British music scene, with a slight bent towards female artists.

CTP - Pod 5 - Absentee

59:59 minutes (54.92 MB)

CTP - Pod 10 - Action Plan

Action Plan
60:01 minutes (54.95 MB)

The Tenth Show. We have Action Plan in the studio in London talking to Padraic and Ayden about their tendency to give money away, communal drunkeness and much more. Padraic also catches up with Fear of Flying (and their mum) at their debut single launch party, as well as a disastrous headphone hijack and, of course, a hefty wedge of some of the best music to be found on the British music scene.

CTP - Pod 11 - Unsigned Artists

64:42 minutes (74.05 MB)

We celebrate our step into the bleakness beyond 10 shows with a show celebrating the talent of three of London's best untapped music makers. We have Little Death and Stephen Jowett in the studio, as well as catching up with Laura Groves straight after her first ever London gig. All of that as well as the usual finely tuned collection of exciting British music, and some silly banter.

Pod 3 - The Pipettes by CTP

60:00 minutes (54.94 MB)

CTP - Pod 12 - Emmy the Great

66:55 minutes (61.27 MB)

This week Ayden and Padraic are as wistful and erratic as ever, getting lost in conversation with the frank Emmy the Great. She reveals a tendency to stalkerish behaviour and some toilet difficulties as well as playing us a couple of acoustic tracks live. Padraic has a chat to the boys from Memphis Industries and we throw at you our usual collection of intriguing, intelligent and impressive British music.

CTP - Pod 13 - The Immediate / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club

68:08 minutes (77.98 MB)

This week Padraic stepped back onto his Irish homeland and caught up with The Immediate, a Dublin fourpiece he tips for this years Album of the Year. Ayden went on his travels too, talking to The Victorian English Gentleman's Club on their countrywide tour. There's the usual collection of great British music, and it's all presented by our generally microphone shy producer, Thomas Muirhead.

CTP - Pod 14 - Darren Hayman & Tim Ten Yen

59:58 minutes (68.62 MB)

This week we have the ever eclectic ukelele mastery of Darren Hayman live in the studio with Ayden, as well as Tim Ten Yen talking about his live karaoke sessions to Padraic. There's the usual amalgamation of widely sourced British music and much more.

Pod 13 - The Immediate / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club by CTP

68:08 minutes (77.98 MB)

CTP - Pod 15 - Messiah J & The Expert / Rotary Ten

60:00 minutes (68.67 MB)

This week in our continual striving to find something worth listening to we've strayed outside our normal bounds and stumbled across Messiah J & The Expert, a hiphop duo whom Padraic chats to on a train. Also, we put some questions to Rotary Ten and there's the usual studio banter, as well the accompaniment of quality British music.

CTP - Pod 16 - Martin Jondo

60:22 minutes (69.09 MB)

Continuing on from our Irish hiphop adventure, we go even further afield than Dublin this week, with a visit to Hamburg, where John talks to Martin Jondo, a reggae artist that’s catching ears beyond Germany’s shores. Ayden heads down to Dub Vendor in the mysterious depths of South London…Clapham Junction, and educates himself on a genre he’s less than authoritative in. Have a listen, you might even learn something. Mixed in there is the customary collection of interesting and eclectic British music.

CTP - Pod 17 - GoodBooks

60:12 minutes (55.11 MB)

This week sees GoodBooks talking about an ear for a tune and ringtone music with one of their biggest fans, Padraic. Ayden catches up with the men behind the 50 singles charity compilation that has some of the best artists around working their magic on one minute tracks and there's the usual blend of beautiful music and much more.

CTP - Pod 18 - Barker Band and Jill Barber

60:16 minutes (55.18 MB)

This week we have an Americana double header, but without any Americans. The bluegrass Barker Band are in the studio chatting to Ayden and Padraic, and treating us to a couple of songs on their vast array of twangy instruments as well as stories of canon-led funerals. Also, John caught up with Canadian folkster Jill Barber when she dipped briefly into London recently and finds out about her mute muse film performance. Intertwined with those we have the usual collection of new and intriguing British music and more...

CTP - Pod 19 - Guillemots

59:56 minutes (54.87 MB)

A while back we received an email from a listener who'd passed a few sick hours sleeping to the sound of our voices and was eager to be on the show. That keen listener was Fyfe Dangerfield of Guillemot fame, who is in the studio this week, to inform you about the best Indian restaurant in Stoke Newington, and more. He also plays an acoustic session, including an impressive rendition of If The World Ends, which you can hear on the show or on our acoustic session pop up player. The show also features a collage of Young and Lost records, the single of the week and more.

CTP - Pod 20 - Dead Disco/Foals/Rumble Strips/The Blood Arm

60:00 minutes (54.94 MB)

In this our twentieth show, we have done something slightly different. Thomas and Padraic headed down to The Insomniacs Ball, a musical extravaganza with 3 stages, 17 bands and lots of dancing. As well as listening a lot, we chatted to Dead Disco, Foals, Rumble Strips and The Blood Arm...and a few of the revellers.

CTP Pod 21 - Sunny Day Sets Fire

43:56 minutes (40.23 MB)

Our Twenty-first show sees Ayden manning the ship alone. But, unsurprisingly, he does a damn good job of things, bringing one of his faves, Sunny Day Sets Fire, into the studio for a chat, and digging out a world exclusive acoustic version of Guillemots’ Sao Paolo from when Fyfe Dangerfield came in. Alongside all that there’s the usual collection of astoundingly listenable British music…Enjoy your Christmas turkey listening to something other than Cliff and Bing.

CTP - Pod 22 - An end and a beginning

45:16 minutes (41.45 MB)

CTP - Pod 23 - Field Music and The Gorgeous Colours

60:13 minutes (55.13 MB)

Hear what happened when Padraic got into the back of a van with Field Music, and we've been told that a particularly light fingered fan out there is in need of answering for the whereabouts of a hat that once belonged to the Gorgeous Colours. All that chat is submerged and reclining in a deep and frothy bath of carefully chosen music.

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CTP - Pod 24 - James Yuill and Little Death

60:20 minutes (55.25 MB)

CTP Session - Johnny Flynn

33:13 minutes (30.41 MB)

Johnny Flynn came in for a Crossthepond Session. He chats to Padraic about providing context for an album, dying his hair and how there most certainly isn't a revival folk scene. He also plays a couple of tracks including penning 'The Wayne Rooney Song' right in our studio.

CTP - Pod 25 - Napoleon III

50:36 minutes (46.34 MB)

Napoleon III talks to Adyen and Padraic

CTP26 - End of the road festival

49:41 minutes (45.5 MB)

CTP Acoustic Sessions

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Fireworks Night - A Black Eye



Johnny Flynn - Brown Tramp Blues





James Yuill - This Sweet Love

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