The Wildhearts

Dan Carter played them on the radio 1 rock show last night - he played 'unsung' from the covers album. Said some nice things about them too, bigging them up and plugging their shows.

you can listen again here http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/rockshow/index.shtml

skip to about 1hr 15mins in

thus the wildhearts are 'cool' again.

Very early Tuesday morning after Download, for the first time, I heard The Wildhearts on Kerrang Radio. Johnny Doom played Greetings From Shitsville. Great to hear it but a bit worried that in four years of the station broadcasting this is the first time I've heard The Widhearts on there.

2012, I believe Caffeine Bomb is scheduled.

I have only ever listened to Kerrang Radio twice.
1st time I tuned in Kaiser Chiefs were on....
2nd time The Killers were on...

Don't get me wrong I dont mind these bands, but surely Kerrang radio is not the place for them.

the thing with kerrap radio is that it has an fm license in the midlands so it has to play quite a bit of crap or it would be fucked.

Yes, I was most surprised when I recently got a DAB radio and heard Kerrang Radio for the first time - I was expecting it to be the type of music featured in the mag every week but it was mostly lightweight indie and NME type bands instead. Actually that's better than much of the crap they hype up the mag so it's not all bad. The sound quality isn't that good though as for some reason it's broadcast at a much lower bitrate than all the other DAB stations I listen to.

Yeah when I got my DAB radio I couldn't wait to listen to Kerrang, but it was a bit of a disappointment. Now I just listen to Planet Rock because it amuses me to wake up to Alice Cooper playing AC/DC at 7 in the morning. It's a bit dad-rock for the rest of the day though