The Pete Feenstra Feature
Interviews and the Blues...
Sunday 20:00
This weekly show gives listeners the opportunity to explore in more depth an artist or album.
Pete chats to a variety of artists, sometimes discussing (and featuring) their own favourite tracks that have inspired or influenced them over the years.
Please note that if you are in the USA, for copyright reasons, you might not be able to listen again via our Mixcloud player. Where possible, we have used an alternative inline player.
Due to licensing restrictions many of these shows are edited versions of the original broadcast.
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The Pete Feenstra Feature Archive (Index, 2016-2024)
2025
Sunday 20 April JIMMY OWEN
Jimmy Owen is an electric and acoustic virtuoso/ singer songwriter who is now forging a path as a solo artist following the well received Lethbridge Owen album in 2019.
Plans are underway for Jimmy to cut his first album under his own name in Austin, Texas on invitation from Chris Maresh, bassist of the legendary Eric Johnson, with whose harmonic wizardry and dexterity Jimmy is often compared.
Jimmy first picked up a guitar aged 16 and felt an instant affinity to the instrument – in his words, he “couldn’t sleep because it was time away from playing”. A few months later Jimmy was honoured to be invited to David Gilmour’s house and given the run of his instruments, including his famous Fender Strat, from which point his future career was fixed in his mind.
At 18 Jimmy was given an unconditional offer to study at the British Institute of Modern Music where he was taught by and subsequently performed with world-renowned guitarist Guthrie Govan (Hans Zimmer). He is now delighted to call some of his former tutors band-mates in Lethbridge Owen or colleagues at BIMM where he now holds a lecturer post.
The range of his influences helps explain the variety in his own songwriting: from Eric Johnson and Hendrix to Pat Metheny, Alan Holdsworth and David Gilmour, and – beyond guitar – from John Coltrane to Chet Atkins and from Rachmaninov to Bach.
Sunday 13 April DENNIS GREAVES (Tuesday 15 April, 21:00 repeat)
Dennis Greaves, the Nine Below Zero front man, chats to Pete about a 29 track double acoustic album with harp ace Mark Feltham- called ‘DenMark – The Definitive Nine Below Zero Acoustic Collection’.
As Dennis explains; “These intimate DENMARK shows really highlight the virtuosity of Mark and proves why he is considered one of the best Harmonica players in the world. We also get to show where and why we formed a blues band in the middle of the Punk scene back in the 70’s and we get to make a trip together with the audience, through the history of black culture and the legacy of Blues Music and the influence it’s had on world music.”
https://www.ninebelowzero.com/
Sunday 6 April A.J.CROCE (Monday 7 April, 16:00; Thursday 10 April, 23:00 repeat)
After 10 studio albums and 30 years of touring the world establishing his own career, in the early 2000’s, A.J. Croce taught himself guitar and several of his father’s (Jim’s) classics. He then debuted a concert that celebrated the legacy of his father’s songs, stories and music; as well as his own. The show featured two generations of Croce music and many songs by other artists which connect father and son as performers. A.J.’s “Croce Plays Croce” tour has sold out performing arts centres across America.
In 2025 A.J. is celebrating two of his father’s legendary albums, 1973’s ‘Life and Times’, and his final release, ‘I Got A Name’; in addition to songs from ‘You Don’t Mess Around With Jim’. The much-anticipated Croce Plays Croce 50th Anniversary Tour,” commences on October 27, coinciding with the October 13 release of The Definitive Croce collection, and includes performances at historic venues like New York City’s Town Hall and Detroit’s Royal Oak Music Theatre.
Aside from the tributes to his father’s music, over the past three decades A.J. Croce has established his reputation as a piano player and vocal stylist
Sunday 30 March MARTIN TURNER
A new interview coinciding with the release of the box set “Wishbone Ash At The BBC 1970-1988” and a new feature “GRTR! Greats”.
Sunday 23 March: MARTIN TURNER
Pete chats to Martin in 2018 about Wishbone Ash. He is currently playing UK dates.
Sunday 16 March INSTRUMENTALS
Sunday 9 March CHAZ JANKEL (Monday 10 March, 16:00; Thursday 13 March, 23:00 repeat)
Chaz Jankel is a musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, record producer, vocalist, multi instrumentalist, solo artist and core member of Ian Dury & The Blockheads, with whom he wrote songs like ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll’ and Reasons To Be Cheerful.
Chaz talks about his re-imagined and remastered film score called ‘D.O.A.’ (Dead On Arrival), as well as the 25th anniversary of Ian Dury’s passing,
Sunday 2 March PAT FULGONI (Tuesday 4 March, 21:00 repeat)
Pat Fulgoni is a Huddersfield based baritone vocalist, producer, DIY musician, band leader, promoter of the Honey Bee Blues Club and social activist.
His musical background stretches from blues to the drum and bass and the dance scene, which has seen him tour the US, China, Europe, as well as place many songs in films and TV series.
He’s explored a variety of musical style in bands and projects such as Kava Kava, Zion Train, Camo & Krooked, Technimatic, Nu:Tone, Logistics, London Elektricity, B Complex, Erick Morillo’s Subliminal Soul (USA) etc.
And now comes a debut blues studio album, simply called the Pat Fulgoni Blues experience and a compilation album called A Taste Of Honey: a tribute to the former Sheffield artist, promoter and musical catalyst Martin Bedford. The latter is a selection of 35 artists who have played Honey Bee Blues Club in Sheffield.
https://patfulgoni.bandcamp.com/album/pat-fulgoni-blues-experience
Sunday 23 February DORIS BRENDEL
Doris Brendel released her latest band album, Pigs Might Fly, in September 2023 on Sky-rocket Records recorded in conjunction with producer and multi-instrumentalist Lee Dunham.
The daughter of famed classical pianist Alfred Brendel, her distinctive vocals were the driving force behind 1990s alt-rockers The Violet Hour, who were signed to Sony when they released their classic album ‘The Fire Sermon’ in 1991.
Various projects followed in the following years but it wasn’t until 2010 that Brendel released ‘The Last Adventure’. This was closely followed by the highly acclaimed ‘Not Utopia’ released in 2012, and the first project with guitarist and producer Lee Dunham, followed by ‘Upside Down World’ in 2015, ‘Eclectica’ in 2017 and ‘Mass Hysteria’ in 2020.
Brendel has worked with some notable musicians over the years, including Alvin Lee, Gary Moore, Sam Brown, Joe Brown, Herbie Flowers, and has toured extensively with Marillion as well as Nils Lofgren, John Farnham and Steve Marriott. Doris has worked with Marillion’s Fish, singing backing vocals for him live and on his double-album ‘Weltschmerz’ .
A new album – Big Blue Sky – is scheduled for April release with a launch show at Magnolia Park, High Wycombe, 24 April.
Sunday 16 February Struttin’ The Blues (Tuesday 18 February, 21:00 repeat)
Sunday 9 February Little Village (Tuesday 11 February, 21:00)
Tonight we showcase the Little Village Foundation record label, started in 2014 by keyboard player Jimmy Pugh (Robert Cray/Boz Scaggs/BB King/ Santana etc)
Sunday 2 February GRAHAM GOULDMAN (Monday 3 February, 16:00, Thursday 6 February, 23:00)
Graham Gouldman is one of our most durable songwriters who has achieved success as a solo artist and with his band 10cc.
Influenced by The Beatles, he wrote for several major artists in the 1960s before decamping for a time to the USA as part of the Kasenatz Katz production company. Returning to the UK he teamed up with Lol Crème, Kevin Godley and Eric Stewart to form Hotlegs then 10cc with their debut album released in 1973. Since that time the band enjoyed major chart success with songs like ‘I’m Not In Love’ and ‘Rubber Bullets’.
For the past 20 years Graham has continued with the latest iteration of 10cc and touring regularly, plus his own solo show ‘Heartful Of Songs’ which is essentially a career retrospective. His latest UK shows take place in March 2025.
He has also released several solo albums during this period whilst appearing for a time with Ringo Starr’s ‘All-Starr Band’. Ringo Starr has contributed to a track on Graham’s 2024 album ‘I Have Notes’.
Sunday 26 January INSTRUMENTALS
Sunday 19 January LET’S ROCK!
Sunday 12 January MARCUS FLYNN (Tuesday 14 January, 21:00 repeat)
Marcus Flynn is an acclaimed session and touring guitarist whose busy CV includes countless TV shows such as BBC- Match of the Day, The One Show and ‘Jackass -The Movie’.
He’s also played on ‘Ice Truckers’ and ‘Bear Grill’ for the Discovery channel and documentaries on Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton & Led Zeppelin for the History channel.
He’s a singer songwriter, solo artist, two handed tapper and mainstay of The Guitar Legends.
His colourful career has included sessions with the likes of Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich and even Beyonce.
Aside from The Guitar Legends his live work has included Mike & The Mechanics, 10cc & Fun Loving Criminals.
He’s currently touring the UK with The Guitar Legends and Johnny Warman’s Magic Bus.
He’s released a couple of singles from his forthcoming solo album called ‘Aint Nothing But The Blues Again’ and guested on Voodoo Ramble’s new single called ‘4000 Years Old’.
Sunday 5 January EDDY BONTE (Tuesday 7 January, 21:00 repeat)
Eddy Bonte is the co-founder member of Belgium’s alternative Radio 68.
Eddy’s background is in Higher Education, but music was always his main passion, followed by poetry and philosophy. He was a freelance writer while in his early 20’s, and between the late 70’s and ’83 he broadcast on local FM radio. It wasn’t until the 90’s that he started writing for various musical publications.
In 2012 he co-founded Radio 68 to realise the dream of independent broadcasting, on a radio station completely free from playlists, advertising and given over to interesting music outside of the mainstream.
While his brother Dan, concentrated on art and prog rock, Eddy broadcast two shows called ‘My Generation’ and ‘Keepers of the Blue Flame’ – with both shows spanning that arc that took blues into rock and roll and pop.
LINKS
The Pete Feenstra Feature Archive (Index, 2016-2024)
The Pete Feenstra Rock & Blues Show
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