The PopCulteer
April 11, 2025

Radio delayed is NOT radio denied as we bring you the new shows intended for last Friday on The AIR this afternoon.  Mel Larch’s MIRRORBALL and Sydney Fileen’s Sydney’s Big Electric Cat return with new episodes, Friday on The AIR.  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.

Weather and other technical issues prevented us from bringing these to you last week.

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, we have a new episode of MIRRORBALL where Mel Larch once again presents a selection of the best and brightest of the classic Disco era.

Don’t believe us? Check out the playlist. It’s got Disoc out the wazoo…

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Ralph MacDonald “Calypso Breakdown”
Nicolette Larson “Lotta Love (Disco Mix)”
Peter Brown “Dance With Me”
Hot Chocolate “Every 1’s A Winner”
Five Special “Why Leave Us Alone”
Phreek “Weekend”
Slave “Just A Touch of Love”

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 mini-marathon that includes the latest episode Saturday nights at 9 PM

At 3 PM, it’s Big Electric Cat time as Sydney Fileen delivers a special NEW mixtape edition of her show that collects the New Wave hits and deep album gems of Sheffield’s letter men, ABC.

With Martin Fry out front and Trevor Horn orginally in the producer’s chair, ABC lit up the charts in the New Wave era with their post-punk blend of soul, dance, synth-pop and jazz.

For her two hours Sydney will bring you the sublime sophisticated music of ABC from the New Wave era that made them darlings of the MTV crowd and favorites on the 80s revival circuit.

The band is still around and making new music and touring, but The Big Electric Cat will focus on the music from the first of their five decades and present the Lexicon of ABC.

Check out this killer playlist…

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ABC
“Poison Arrow”
“The Look of Love”
“Show Me”
“Tears Are Not Enough”
“The Look of Love Part 4”
“Overture”
“Many Happy Returns”
“Valentine’s Day”
“All of My Heart”
“Alphabet Soup (12″ Mix)”
“That Was Then But This Is Now”
“S.O.S.”
“King Money”
“How To Be A Millionaire (Bond Street Mix)”
“Be Near Me”
“Vanity Kills”
“Ocean Blue”
“Tower of London”
“So Hip It Hurts”
“When Smokey Sings”
“The Night You Murdered Love”
“King Without A Crown”
“Rage And Then Regret”
“One Better World”
“The Real Thing”
“The Greatest Love Of All”
“Where Is The Heaven”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon,  Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

That’s it for this week’s PopCulteer, check back for all our regular feature, with fresh content, every day, even wehn we’re out of town on a secret mission.