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Yes that’s right, I’m back baby!
Bring it on next Saturday night, four February, from 11pm Eastern, that’s 4am Sunday in the UK and 5pm Sunday here in New Zealand.
As it will be a long weekend in New Zealand, the show will be pre-recorded, however the annual Waitangi Kiwi Special is back.
It’ll be four hours of marvellous, magnificent, wonderful, incredible, amazing, Kiwi music to look forward to, and I’m asking for your help.
Do you have a favourite Kiwi Song or songs?

We've had a lot of departures from our normal format lately on Come By The Hills, but never fear. It's business as usual this week. We've got all our usual features, and of course, there's the usual mandate to play the usual three hours of the usual best in usual Celtic music from around the world. (Hmmm... I think I got carried away for a second.)

 This week, we travel back 70 years with our ol’ Rockola Jukebox to spotlight the biggest Rhythm & Blues jukebox hits from 1947. In part one, we’ll focus on the biggest jukebox jivers from the first half of 1947, including the first charting hits for T-Bone Walker, Hadda Brooks and the original Sonny Boy Williamson. 1947 was dominated by Louis Jordan, who held the top spot for 40 weeks with 4 #1 records. We’ll hear two of those on this week’s program along with a B side that went to #2.

This Thursday at 9 PM Eastern, Mushroom FM launches our new global call-in show, A Cuppa at the Mosens, hosted by Jonathan and Bonnie. This message tells you a bit about the show and what led up to it, as well as looking ahead to what you can expect on the first edition.

My holidays are over and I’m back in the saddle again, re-energised and looking forward to another exciting year ahead.

The Smorgasbord is back with you on Mushroom FM every week day at 3 AM Eastern, 8 AM UK.

What is a smorgasbord, I hear you cry? Well, it’s really a fancy word for buffet. When you visit a smorgasbord, there’s usually a wide selection of food from which to choose. On Mushroom FM’s smorgasbord, I serve up plenty of tasty mushroom morsels from the 1950s through to the 1980s. It’s an eclectic mix of music with a healthy helping of friendly chat.

And when you hear the dying strains of Van Halen's Happy Trails signalling the end of The Mosen Explosion for another week, don't touch your PC, your device or your internet radio and join me in The Early Years on Mushroom FM.
Hello, I'm Steve Cutway and my musical focus is the 50s and 60s.

Isn’t it funny how language keeps evolving? Recently in new Zealand, they’ve started talking about this weather phenomenon known as a “weather bomb”.

The “Juke In The Back” digs deep into New Orleans Rhythm & Blues this week to focus on Bobby Mitchell & The Toppers, one of the few vocal groups to come out of a city best known for its blues, jazz and cajun roots. The Spiders were the best known vocal group to come out of 1950s New Orleans, but Bobby Mitchell & The Toppers were probably more versatile in the sense that they could not only shout the blues, like Roy Brown or Wynonie Harris, but they could also harmonize like a top notch doo wop group.

January 25 is Robby Burns day both in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora. Indeed, many people have taken this farmer poet to their hearts, and Burns Nights are held all over the world nowadays.

When you hear the dying strains of Van Halen's Happy Trails signalling the end of The Mosen Explosion from the future, don't touch your PC, your device or your internet radio and join me in The Early Years on Mushroom FM.
Hello, I'm Steve Cutway and my musical focus is the 1950s and 1960s.
Elvis Presley was born Jan. 8, 1935, 110 years ago last Sunday (we're still in 2045, aren't we?) Few artists before or since have had the impact that he had on the first two decades of rock, which by now feels like ancient history.