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JOY’s AGM and awards night of 2024!
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The old me – Show #354 (part 2), 1 June 2025
This hour’s artists make music in the genres of folk-rock, singer-songwriter, pop-folk, alt-folk, Americana, blues, indie-pop, contemporary R&B/soul, and alt-country. Whatever their genre is called, they’re all awesome! Here is…
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What happened to the movie Theme Tune. Those tracks that only existed as a promotional tool for an upcoming film where the video featured bits of the movie and we…
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