Due to a weird combination of events, especially the fact that we moved from Saturdays to Tuesdays at the start of the year, today is Off The Chart‘s third birthday! Join Steve and Julian for a celebratory trip back to this day in 1989 for another two hours of hits, headlines and hurrahs with all the usual features: forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from a featured album, a review of the day’s events, a sneaky look at the Polish top 20 and the top five singles in full. Which future alt-rock star was enjoying her first top 40 hit this week? Who thought a mashup of Queen and Simple Minds would be a good idea? And which band suffered an unfortunate Spinal Tap moment when their drummer fell asleep with gum in his mouth? Tune in at 9pm and find out! (Cake not included.)
Listen to Off The Chart on Mad Wasp Radio at 9pm every Tuesday, or catch the repeats at 3pm on Thursday or 10am on Saturday. You can stream Mad Wasp Radio via their website, their apps for iOS or Android, or through TuneIn – and don’t forget to tweet along using the hashtag #OffTheChart. If you’re somehow not around for any of the radio broadcasts, catch up on Mixcloud from 5pm on Thursdays.
If you enjoy Off The Chart but find it’s just not long enough, why not head over to our Patreon page and subscribe to us for a teeny amount of cash every month? You get access to the exclusive deluxe edition of the show with bonus 12″ mixes, additional chatter and the week’s top ten singles in full, as well as all sorts of other bonus content including regular Further Off The Chart shows where we play some of the records that come up in conversation on the regular shows. You can have all this for as little as $1 a month – we really appreciate it and it all goes towards the running of the site.
If you’ve missed a previous edition they’re all on our Mixcloud page, or for a taster of the music we play, listen to our Spotify playlist Way Off The Chart including one track from each show!
We also have a Spotify playlist for our #ICEOTWF feature, including all (well, most) of the international hits we’ve played since the feature began in March 2017. There are all sorts of oddities in here, all of which were hits somewhere in the world but not in the UK!
