This may (or may not 🤣) appeal. I have a slot on my Freak Havoc show where I ask listeners to send in song titles that fit on this scrabble board. The highest scoring track gets played. As you can see, the board is now getting quite cluttered and it’s getting more challenging!
Message below if you have any ideas! It would be good to get some more indie tracks in there!
Freak Havoc plays on www.altzoneradio.com Mondays 8pm uk time
The latest Freak Havoc show was released on my own AltZoneRadio last night. Two hours of cutting edge new alternative music alongside cult and classic tracks by artists that influenced the genre.
You can hear this weeks episode from here - https://www.mixcloud.com/freakhavoc/freak-havoc-180526/
With the following track listing below. Particular things to listen out for - my track of the week is Bodega. Featuring again The Ingrid who do the most beautiful dream pop. A track of Bugeye’s electro punk infused album.
Anything there that “does it” for you? Let me know 🙂
Father John Misty - The Payoff
Cola - Hedgesitting
Brakes - Crush on You
The Who - Getting in Tune
Boston Spaceships - How Wrong You Are
Tooth Gore - Scum of the Sea
Troubles - Ghouls
The Ingrid - Lullaby
Bodega - Pick Up the Check
Emma Louise - Nothing Could Tear Us Apart
The Last Dinner Party - Big Dog
Flawed Theorem - Under
French Toast - Chaos
La Securite - Deny
Wild Pink - Amalfi
Bugeye - This is What I Want
David Bowie - Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
Nirvana - I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
Vanessa Van Basten - Dying in my Bed
Everyone Says Hi - Just Like That
Boards of Canada - Prophecy at 1420 MHz
The Sleights - Nose Dive
Lemon twigs - 2 or 3
Mike D - Switch Up
Prewn - Easy
War on Women - Feels Good
Little Grandad - Sleepwalking
Daily Thompson - Heart of Bones
Headphone Jacks - Them Zombies
Frank Zappa - Excentrifugal Forz
So these are the tracks featured in Freak Havoc this week https://www.mixcloud.com/freakhavoc/freak-havoc-110526/ . It’s the usual mix of cutting edge new music alongside cult and classic tracks by artists that Influenced the genres:
Car Seat Headrest - Destroyed by Hippie Powers
Modern Woman - Johnnys Dreamworld
Irked - Who Asked?
Thee Headcoatees - Davy Crockett
Tom Emlyn - A Series of Misunderstandings
Worn Thin - For Myself
American Football - No Feeling (feat Brandon Yates)
PVA - Enough
Smashing Pumpkins - Rhinoceros
Ratboys - Light Night Mountains All That
Tropical Fuck Storm - Chameleon Paint
Black Flag - Black Coffee
Fig Dish - When Shirts Get Tight
Adrian Belew feat David Bowie - Gunman
Beak> - Yatton
Benton - Wanna Be Like You
Jefferson Airplane - Young Girl Sunday Blues
Alexis Taylor & Mike Simonetti - Perfect Kiss
Aldous Harding - Venus in the Zinnia (feat. H. Hawkline)
Billy Fuller - Three Blind Mice
Ora Cogan - High Noon
Kim Gordon - Play Me
Deary - Seabird
Roxy Music - More Than This
Weird Nightmare - Where I Belong
Folk Bitch Trio - Foreign Bird
Hannah Cohen - Golden Chain
Anita Lane - The Next Man That I See
Wickr Spgt - Francois Mitterrand
Anything in there that you like?
I was really impressed with this. It was about an hour long, and included some clips that I hadn’t seen before. The hour shot by. There were clips that made me chuckle, moments where I felt goosebumps. But more than anything, great to sit in a room with other Bowie fans and just sit in awe at the guys talent
At least to some extent filling the void left by the Beastie Boys. I really like this. How about you?
#beastieboys
So my track of the week this week is Aldous Harding and Venus in the Zinnia. I’ll be playing it in my Freak Havoc show on Monday at 7am, 8pm, 1am https://youtu.be/g1DiJEEpulE?si=xIjLp4CJxalbA4Co
What do you think of the track?
And what would be your track of the week?
I started my Freak Havoc show to act as a gateway for listeners to hear new alternative music. In the same way that whilst I was growing up I religiously listened to John Peel and was introduced to so much new music.
https://www.mixcloud.com/freakhavoc/freak-havoc-030526/
This weeks playlist -
Kurt Vile - Chance to Bleed
Sludgeworth - Hold Steady
Sex Mask - Curse
Loose Articles - Cringe of Hinge
Martin Carr - What Future
Tom A Smith - Put on a Record Tommy
Warren Zeven - Werewolves of London
Dirty Trainload - Bend the Spoon
Television - See No Evil
Kidsmoke - I’m Always Getting Carried Away
Daniel Avery with Yune Pinku - Lazy Dreams
Pigeon - Black James Dean
Not Richard and Her Majesty - A Song About Being a Parasite
David Bowie - Blackout
Headphone Jacks - Them Zombies
Bugeye - These Walls Will Fall
Dry Cleaning - Sliced by a Fingernail
Rusty Shackle - Your Arrows
Los Bitchos - Hi!
Velvet Underground - There She Goes Again
Belly - Feed the Tree
Belly - Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Mary in the Junkyard - Candelabra
Doug Gillard - Face of Smiles
Robert Pollard - Psychic Pilot Clocks Out
Guided by Voices - Don’t Stop Now
Tobin Sprout - Water on the Boaters Back
Wire - Outdoor Miner
Anna Erhard - Cut It Out
Mott the Hoople - Through the Looking Glass
Horsegirl - Beautiful Song
Silver Jews - New Orleans
Anyway, it plays out Mondays uk 7am, 8pm, 1am and midday Saturdays on www.altzoneradio.com
I thought people may be interested to hear my interview with Mary Middlefield about her new album “Will You Take Me As I Am?”. We had a chat before her sell out Hackney show and play four of her tracks (three from the new album). I’m really excited about her and her band.
https://www.mixcloud.com/freakhavoc/marc-freak-interviews-mary-middlefield-080426/
If you haven’t heard Bugeye, go check them out. A refreshing electro-punk edged band with eighties sound tendencies. Loads of energy and great hooks! #bugeye #alternativemusic #indie
Top Shortage, first on the bill at The Exchange in Bristol. 10 April 2026, before Tony Stills and Cheerbleederz
Cheerbleederz at the Exchange in Bristol, including a stage invasion by Tiny Stills. 10 April 2026
A few clips of Tiny Stills at The Exchange in Bristol, including a stage invasion by Cheerbleederz.
This was Laura Groves alongside Hinako Omori and others, doing an improv set at Club Cheek, Bristol on 9th April.
I’m thinking of running a new slot on my show called “soundtrack to my life” where I invite listeners to name three songs that they think soundtrack their life, and I play them with either some supporting text that I read or recorded dialogue from the person submitting.
So trying it out….. three tracks that soundtrack your life, and why?
Hey everyone! I'm Marc Freak, a founding moderator of r/AltMusicintheAltZone - host of Freak Havoc show on www.altzoneradio.com .
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