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  • Welcome to Radio Free D’ni!

    Welcome to the homepage of Radio Free D’ni. You will find here both our current announcements and our past playlists. Our links to the music stream are at the top, just above this post. And there’s a stream player right here when the stream is on.

    Generally speaking, we present a new show every other week, at 1300 KI time, with remastered versions of our shows from five years ago in the intermediate weeks. We have pre-show music usually starting 30 minutes earlier (so getting on the stream at 12:30 KI time might be a good idea), and also a good bit of music after the show proper.

    See you in the Cavern
    Malaclypse

    13:00 KI is 8 pm in the UK, 9 pm in CET. KI time is Mountain Time in the US, and it follows DST… I can only assume that when Victor Laxman got the KI’s working again he synch’d them to surface time in New Mexico…

    AlanDJ

  • 186R Robert Wyatt

    A hop, skip and jump through some highlights of the career of Robert Wyatt, prog drummer and vocalist turned art rock and somewhat experimental musician.  21 listener connections, which is very encouraging for a Remastered show.

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  • The One Who Stopped

    This week’s show has a look at a Mole. OK, a former Matching Mole. Also formerly of Soft Machine. Also formerly able to walk. He credits having broken his spine with saving his life. If that’s not weird enough for you, wait until you hear about the rest of Robert Wyatt’s career!

    See you in the Cavern,
    Malaclypse

  • 308 Merseybeat

    A trip back in time to the Sixties and the place and style that founded the popular music genre for the next years, The Mersey Beat which took its name from a newspaper started in July 1961. Bill Harry derived the name from an allusion to a policeman’s beat. The city of Liverpool was already a melting pot of musical talent, with a cosmopolitan population including a large number from Ireland, and much musical influence coming direct off the transatlantic ships whose crews would bring in records from the US.

    It was the era of three-minute (or less) singles, and so we had a lot of tracks in the show.   Up to 20 listener connections, which was a good number for a decidedly niche show.

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  • Beg for Mersey!

    Well, we’re not beating about the bush, eh? This week’s topic will be Merseybeat (a name that popularly gets shortened to just “beat”), a northern English take on American popular music as imported via Liverpool, which was popularised by bands such as Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Merseybeats, The Searchers, the Quarrymen… the latter sort of monopolised the name after two name changes and a stint playing clubs in Germany.

    See you in the Cavern,
    Malaclypse

  • 185R Curved Air

    A Seventies prog band who never quite hit the big time, despite having a couple of hit singles and some album success, and a great stage show – Curved Air.  Tech issues meant we had to switch stream hosts at the start, but we were able to announce the change and we got everybody back 🙂

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  • Summerfest 2026 Story Show: Espedair Street

    Late on a midweek night so I did not expect big numbers, but peak 13, 7 still on at the end, so I’m happy with that.

    Espedair Street is Iain Banks’ story of a working class boy achieving success, a bit like Iain himself did, only for the protagonist of the novel, the success is in the rock music business, and comes with a price.

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  • Turbulence Ahead!

    Formed in 1970 from the leftovers of Sisyphus, this week’s subject did what every good british Prog band did: Disband. And reform. And disband. Three times. Mind you, not in total (that number is quite a bit higher), but within three years.

    In between re-forming and re-breaking-up, they also managed to record some music, which we will be featuring. Oh, the name? We’re talking about Curved Air!

    See you in the Cavern,
    Malaclypse

  • 307 Edison’s Review of the Year for 2025-6

    And it was a very good year, replete with good tracks and one that even Ed found hard to select from.   The show went down well, with up to 21 listeners, and lots of banter on the plaza.

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  • It’s That Time of Year Again…

    Yes, it has been another year of Radio Free D’ni, and that means that EdisonRex gets to put together a show for a change. As usual, it is an overview over the last year’s highlights.

    See you in the Cavern,
    Malaclypse

  • 183R Herbie Hancock

    Music in a great variety of styles from a master of the keyboard.

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