The PopCulteer
February 14, 2025

Love is on The AIR on Valentine’s Day as Mel Larch serves up some well-seasoned Peaches on MIRRORBALL and Sydney Fileen returns with a new episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat devoted the New Romantics club scene, 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.

We wrap up a whole week of new music specialty programs on The AIR, and for the first time in ages, every episode managed to adhere somewhat to a cohesive theme. This week it was love.

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, we have a special Valentinish episode of MIRRORBALL where Mel Larch devotes her hour of Disco to the music of Peaches and Herb.

It’s an hour of the lovey-doviest Disco songs we can find from the loving couple themselves, Peaches and Herb.

As Mel says, “Never mind that Herb actually had seven different Peaches over the years. We are assured that he was deeply in love with every one of them.”

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

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Peaches and Herb
“Love Is Love Is Love”
“Love It Up Tonight”
“Love Lift”
“Lovey Dovey (Girl and Guy)”
“Howzabout some Love”
“That’s The Way I Love You”
“Our Love Will Never Change”
“When I Fall In Love”
“Love Is Here Beside Us”
“All Your Love (Give It Here)”
“We’ve Got Love”
“We’re Still Together”
“One On One Situation”
“Red Hot Lover”
“Reunited”
“Shake Your Groove Thing”

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 pays tribute to the innovative and still-resonating New Romantic movement.

This was the underground club scene that emerged in London and Birmingham in the late 1970s, as club kids at The Blitz and Billy’s embraced the fashions of glam rock and the synthesizers of experimental music and combined them with the mentality of the early 19th Century Romantic movement, creating a dance/fashion/music cultural force that left a lasting mark on New Wave music and set the tone for much of the 1980s.

If you ever saw a New Wave band with big hair, tailored suits, androgynous make up and attitude, synthesizers, electric drums, or giant hats, your life has been touched by the New Romantic movement. This show brings you the hits played in the underground clubs that formed the sensibilities that the MTV crowd took into the mainstream.

Check out this killer playlist…

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Visage “Fade To Grey”
Telex “Moskow Diskow”
Tubeway Army “Down In The Park”
Magazine “Permafrost”
The Human League “Being Boiled”
Fad Gadget “Back To Nature”
Sparks “The Number One Song In Heaven”
Kraftwerk “Radioactivity”
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius “Broken Head”
Grace Jones “La Vie En Rose”
Landscape “Japan”
Taxi-Girl “Mannequin”
Gina X Performance “No G.D.M.”
The Normal “Warm Leatherette”
Throbbing Gristle “Hot On The Heels Of Love”
John Foxx “Burning Car”
Dalek I “Destiny (Dalek I Love You)”
Shock “R.E.R.B.”
Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark “Electricity”
Barry De Vorzon “Theme from the Warriors”
Suicide “Dream Baby”
Hot Chocolate “Put Your Love In Me”
Lori And The Chameleon’s “Touch”
Metro “Criminal World”
Roxy Music “Angel Eyes”

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.