The PopCulteer
September 26, 2025

The AIR FRIDAY!

Friday afternoon both of our Friday music specialty are new and exciting and cool and nifty, even! Mel Larch’s MIRRORBALL and Sydney Fileen’s Sydney’s Big Electric Cat return with new episodes.  The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear our shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, we have a new episode of MIRRORBALL where Mel Larch once again presents Disco songs from the club days, before Disco invaded and took over mainstream radio, back when only the cool people knew where to go and how to get in. It’s historical, and it’s got a good beat that you can dance to.

Don’t believe us? Check out the playlist.,,

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Alec R. Costandinos And The Syncophonic Orchestra “Romeo And Juliet”
Cosa Rica Band “Baila”
Judy Cheeks “Mellow Lovin'”
MTL Express “Dance All Night”
Orlando Riva Sound “Moon Boots”
The Richard Hewson Orchestra “Touch My Love”
Fist O-Funk Orchestra “Dance All Over The World”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays Sunday night at 11 PM and throughout the following week Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM plus there’s a four-hour mini-marathon that runs through the whole series in chronological order every Friday at 8 PM.

At 3 PM, Sydney Fileen graces us with a terrific new episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat that presents a timely look, season-wise, at a prolific band that never quite managed to crack into mainstream success, The Fall.

From their debut in 1976 to the death of their main creative force, Mark E. Smith in 2018, The Fall carved out a niche in the UK’s post-punk landscape with their ever-changing line-up and stylistic approach. They embodied the spirt of New Wave music without ever embracing the label or breaking into the mainstream.

Still, The Fall are considered one of the most prolific and influential bands of the period, and for the next two hour we are going to demonstrate why, by bringing you a mixtape collection of the best of their music from the New Wave era. Sydney brings you a veritable boatload of the best music the band released during the New Wave era.

Check out the playlist..

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The Fall

Bingo-Master
It’s The New Thing
Rowche Rumble
Fiery Jack
How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
Totally Wired
Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul
Look, Know
The Man Whose Head Expanded
Kicker Conspiracy
Marquis Cha-Cha
Oh! Brother
c.r.e.e.p.
Draygo’s Guilt
Couldn’t Get Ahead
Cruiser’s Creek
Frightened
No Xmas For John Quays
Two Steps Back
Music Scene
Living Too Late
Mr. Pharmacist
Hey! Luciani
There’s A Ghost In My House
Hit The North Part 1
A Figure Walks
Repetition
A Day In The Life

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays  Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Classic episodes can be heard as part of the Haversham Recording Institute marathon overnight Monday/early Tuesday.

And that is this week’s PopCulteer. Check back every day for fresh content and all our regular features.