Assume The Position with David Randall
A weekly mix of new and classic rock
Sunday 22:00, Monday and Friday 22:00 repeat
A weekly mix of new and classic rock, signposting forthcoming gigs and tours. Broadcast live on Sundays.
In the first hour David announces the GRTR! Top 10 Albums for the week, based on website views, social media activity and radio airplay.
In the second hour ‘Anniversary Rock’ picks out some events this week in rock music history.
Shows are usually posted within five days of the last repeat broadcast.
2025
[09.03.25]
1. MASSIVE WAGONS Night Skies, Earth To Grace (2024) 5:25
2. VIRGINMARYS When The Lights Go Down, The House Beyond The Fires (2024) 3:34
3. THE SOUL REVIVAL Outlaw, Single (2025) 4:11
4. WHEN RIVERS MEET Addicted To You, Single (2025) 4:03
5. MOLLIE MARRIOTT Control, Truth Is A Wolf (2017) 3:03
6. WAYWARD SONS Can’t Take It Anymore, Score Settled (2022) 3:36
7. SOUTH OF SALEM Jet Black Eyes, Death Of The Party (2024) 4:33
8. LEAF HOUND Chain Gang, Once Bitten (2025) 4:27
9. THE VAPORS Hit The Ground Running, Wasp In A Jar (2025) 3:25
10. ENBOUND Maximized, Set It Free (2025) 3:30
11. JIZZY PEARL Wrath Of Love, Punk Rock Fiesta! (2025) 2:32
12. ROBIN McAULEY Wonder Of The World, Soulbound (2025) 3:29
13. PERFECT PLAN Too Tough, Heart Of A Lion (2025) 3:46
14. THEA GILMORE Dancing In The Dark, These Quiet Friends (2025) 4:12
15. BRKN LOVE Diamonds, Single (2025) 3:56
16. JETHRO TULL Puppet And The Puppet Master, Curious Ruminant (2025) 4:04
17. SOLSTICE Run, Light Up (2023) 6:41
18. MORGANWAY Surrender, Kill The Silence (2025) 4:35
19. BADFINGER Suitcase, BBC In Concert 1972-1973 (1998) 6:17
20. GHOST Satanized, Single (2025) 4:06
21. MARILLION Your Gone, Marbles (2004) 6:25
22. SIGN OF THE WOLF The Last Unicorn, Sign Of The Wolf (2025) 7:15
23. CHRIS REA Looking For The Summer, Auberge (1991) 5:01
24. NEIL YOUNG Cinammon Girl, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) 3:00
25. CREAM Badge, Goodbye (1969) 2:43
[02.03.25]
1. BLACK SPIDERS Never Enough, CVurses (2025) 3:32
2. JACK J HUTCHINSON Rip It Up, Single (2024) 3:46
3. GHOST The Future Is A Foreign Land, Single (2024) 3:45
4. DOROTHY Tombstone Town, The Way (2025) 3:14
5. ERJA LYYTINEN Smell The Roses, Smell The Roses (2025) 4:40
6. ROBIN TROWER with SARI SCHORR Burn, Joyful Sky (2023) 4:20
7. GRAHAM GOULDMAN Heart Full Of Soul, I Have Notes (2024) 3:22
8. MIKE + THE MECHANICS Underscore, Rewired (2004) 5:08
9. JOE BONAMASSA Shake This Ground, Single (2025) 4:26
10. ERIC BASS Mind Control, If I Had A Name (2025) 3:29
11. DORIS BRENDEL & LEE DUNHAM Hold On, Big Blue Sky (2025) 6:05
12. ROBIN McAULEY Soulbound, Soulbound (2025) 4:28
13. THEA GILMORE Crazy He Calls Me, These Quiet Friends (2025) 3:23
14. PERFECT PLAN Ready To Break, Heart Of A Lion (2025) 4:11
15. RUSS BALLARD Resurrection, Single (2025) 3:16
16. TYGERS OF PAN TANG Back For Good, Bloodlines (2023) 5:01
17. ARENA A State Of Grace, The Visitor (1998) 3:26
18. AIRBAG The Bridge, All Rights Removed (2011) 6:21
19. THE FLOWER KINGS How Can You Leave Us Now?, How Can You Leave Us Now? (2025) 5:55
20. JON ANDERSON Your Move/ I’ve Seen All Good People, Live: Perpetual Change (2025) 6:53
21. ALLY VENABLE Keep Me In My Mind, Money & Power (2025) 3:37
22. JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR Grayer Than Blue, Single (2025) 5:20
23. IAN BROWN F.E.A.R., Music Of The Spheres (2001) 4:26
24. LED ZEPPELIN Rock And Roll, The Song Remains The Same (1971) 3:40
25. ROBERTA FLACK Killing Me Softly, Single (1973) 4:50
[23.03.25]
1. KING KRAKEN Berserker, Single (2025) 4:07
2. ROYALE LYNN Battleground, Single (2025) 3:14
3. DISTURBED I Will Not Break, Single (2025) 4:52
4. TERAMAZE Ending Of All, Single (2025) 4:49
5. GOTTHARD Rusty Rose, Stereo Crush (2025) 4:08
6. SHINEDOWN Dance, Kid, Dance, Single (2025) 3:30
7. ROBIN TROWER A Little Bit Of Freedom, Single (2025) 3:09
8. SMITH KOTZEN Black Light, Single (2025) 4:33
9. EVERON Until We Meet Again, Shells (2025) 4:18
10. BLACK EYED SONS Cowboys In Pinstripe Suits, Cowboys In Pinstripe Suits (2025) 5:06
11. DORIS BRENDEL & LEE DUNHAM Long Long Time, Big Blue Sky (2025) 6:03
12. PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS Down The Darkest Road, Friend Of All Creatures (2025) 4:34
13. CRAZY LIXX Recipe For Revolution, Thrill Of The Bite (2025) 4:45
14. CARDINAL BLACK Holding My Breath, Single (2025) 4:00
15. ROBIN McAULEY Wonders Of The World, Soulbound (2025) 3:29
16. HERMAN RAREBELL Passion Rules The Game, What Is Love (2025) 3:56
17. ALLY VENABLE Do You Cry, Single (2025) 4:31
18. LIV KRISTINE Unzip My Love, Amor Vincit Omnia (2025) 4:37
19. THEA GILMORE Crazy Love, Loft Music (2004) 2:59
20. AVAWAVES Heartbeat, Single (2025) 5:38
21. CELTUS When Love Turns To Dust, Moonchild (1997) 5:37
22. AMPLIFIER Blackhole, Single (2025) 9:56
23. KIM CARNES Draw Of The Cards, Mistaken Identity (1981) 4:55
24. ALANIS MORISSETTE You Oughta Know, Jagged Little Pill (1995) 4:09
25. CHRISTOPHER CROSS Ride Like The Wind, Christopher Cross (1980) 4:28
[16.02.25]
1. SHAMAN’S HARVEST Rock N Roll Queen, Single (2025) 3:41
2. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT Three Bullets, White Bear (2016) 3:13
3. SCARLET REBELS Let Me In, Where The Colours Meet (2024) 3:40
4. BAD TOUCH Spend My Days, Single (2024) 3:31
5. THOSE DAMN CROWS Man On Fire, Inhale/Exhale (2023) 3:48
6. ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM In The Shade Of The Shadows, Single (2025) 5:18
7. GRAINNE DUFFY Well Well Well, Dirt Woman Blues (2023) 4:07
8. FM That Girl, City Limits EP (2010) 6:05
9. MANTRIC MOMENTUM Come Undone, Alienized (2025) 5:33
10. EVERON Guilty As Charged, Shells (2025) 6:32
11. DREAM THEATER In The Arms Of Morpheus, Parasomnia (2025) 5:22
12. THUNDERMOTHER Dead Or Alive, Dirty & Divine (2025) 3:44
13. CRAZY LIXX Highway Hurricane, Thrill Of The Bite (2025) 3:35
14. AMPLIFIER Invader, Single (2025) 5:27
15. OPETH S1, The Last Will And Testament (2024) 5:56
16. JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR Hell Of A Good Time, Single (2025) 4:26
17. TROY REDFERN The Fever, Invocation (2024) 3:32
18. MARTY WILLSON PIPER Tristesse 2025, Archaeological Dig Volume One (2025) 4:18
19. VON HERTZEN BROTHERS The Relapse, Single (2025) 3:34
20. SOLSTICE Light Up, Light Up (2023) 5:39
21. THEA GILMORE Dancing In The Dark, These Quiet Friends (2025) 4:12
22. LIV KRISTINE Amor Vincit Omnia, Amor Vincit Omnia (2025) 5:02
23. THE LAW Stone, The Law (1991) 4:17
24. FLEETWOOD MAC Dreams, Rumours (1977) 4:17
25. STEELY DAN Almost Gothic, Two Against Nature (2000) 4:09
26. AVERAGE WHITE BAND Pick Up The Pieces, AWB (1975) 3:54
[09.02.25]
1. BLACK SABBATH Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) 5:44
2. OZZY OSBOURNE Crucify, Scream (2010) 3:28
3. JETHRO TULL The Tipu House, Curious Ruminant (2025) 3:31
4. DREAM THEATER Bend The Clock, Parasomnia (2025) 7:24
5. EVERON No Embrace, Shells (2025) 5:08
6. JULIET’S NOT DEAD Double Life, The World Is Ours (2025) 4:08
7. DAYS OF JUPITER The World Was Never Enough, The World Was Never Enough (2025) 2:48
8. THE KARMA EFFECT Wild Honey, Promised Land (2024) 4:03
9. PEARL HANDLED REVOLVER Space Invader, Tales You Lose (2025) 4:38
10. THEA GILMORE End Of A Century, These Quiet Friends (2025) 3:39
11. THUNDERMOTHER Speaking Of The Devil, Divine & Dirty (2025) 3:46
12. LARKIN POE Bluephoria, Bloom (2025) 4:32
13. PATTERN SEEKING ANIMALS In My Dying Days, Friend Of All Creatures (2025) 4:42
14. DIRKSCHNEIDER feat. Doro Pesch Winter Dreams, Single (2025) 5:30
15. JOURNEY Who’s Crying Now, Escape (1981) 5:01
16. 10cc The Things We Do For Love, Tenology (2012) 3:30
17. ENGLAND DAN & JOHN FORD COLEY Love Is The Answer, Single (1977) 4:42
18. HERMAN RAREBELL & FRIENDS Love Is A Battlefield, What About Love (2025) 4:38
19. LIV KRISTINE Hold It With Your Life, Amor Vincit Omnia (2025) 4:09
20. RONNIE ROMERO Castaway On The Moon, Single (2025) 3:57
21. JOE SATRIANI Always With Me, Always With You, G3 Reunion Live (2025) 3:59
22. HUIS Crossroads, In The Face Of The Unknown (2024) 10:17
23. JANIS IAN At Seventeen, Between The Lines (1975) 4:42
24. GARY WRIGHT Dreamweaver, The Dreamweaver (2000) 4:21
25. LINKIN PARK Lost, Single (2023) 3:18
[02.02.25]
1. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE I Believe, This Consequence (2025) 3:53
2. JULIET’S NOT DEAD Double Life, The World Is Ours (2025) 2:48
3. THUNDERMOTHER So Close, Dirty And Divine (2025) 3:47
4. THE DAMN TRUTH Better This Way, Single (2025) 4:37
5. MOTORHEAD You Better Run, March Or Die (1992) 4:50
6. FISH Tara, Sunsets On Empire (2002) 5:10
7. BETH HART Machine Gin Vibrato, You Still Got Me (2024) 3:15
8. SHINEDOWN Three Six Five, Single (2025) 3:35
9. MAGNUM Wild Swan, Live At KK’s Steel Mill (2025) 6:34
10. BONFIRE Come Hell Or High Water, Higher Ground (2025) 4:55
11. THE FERRYMEN Mother Unholy, Iron Will (2025) 4:38
12. THIN LIZZY A Song For While I’m Away, The Acoustic Sessions (2025) 5:01
13. THEA GILMORE Wrecking Ball, These Quiet Friends (2025) 5:03
14. ERJA LYYTINEN Smell The Roses, Single (2025) 4:40
15. SHAMAN’S HARVEST Rock N Roll Queen, Single (2025) 3:41
16. SONS OF LIBERTY Well’s Run Dry, The Deatil Is In The Devil (2024) 3:16
17. MIKE & THE MECHANICS Out Of The Blue, Out Of The Blue (2019) 3:38
18. CHANTEL McGREGOR Walk On Land, Bury’d Alive (2019) 7:30
19. GRAINE DUFFY Dirt Woman Blues, Dirt Woman Blues (2023) 3:49
20. WISHBONE ASH Time Was, At The BBC 1970-1988 (2025) 9:49
21. LARKIN POE Fool Outta Me, Bloom (2025) 3:45
22. FROST* Western Atmosphere, Single (2025) 6:25
23. DEF LEPPARD Stand By Me, Single (2025) 3:10
24. SHOCKING BLUE Venus, Single (1970) 3:02
25. ZEBRAS DON’T SMOKE The Name Of The Game, Don’t Mention The Suedes (2020) 5:20
[26.01.25]
1. BLUE MURDER Out Of Love, Blue Murder (1988) 6:44
2. THIN LIZZY Cold Sweat, One Night Only (2000) 3:29
3. WHITESNAKE Looking For Love, 1987 (2017 ed.) 6:23
4. TOTO Fortune, XV (2015) 4:45
5. THE HEAVY SOULS Caught In Your Spell, Have You Got Soul (2025) 4:30
6. LARKIN POE Easy Love Pt.1, Bloom (2025) 4:10
7. JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR Grayer Than Blue, Black & Gold (2025) 5:20
8. WILDNESS Avenger, Avenger (2025) 3:57
9. MAGNUM The Day After The Night Before, Live At KK’s Steel Mill (2025) 4:26
10. BONFIRE Lost All Control, Higher Ground (2025) 4:10
11. THIN LIZZY Dublin, The Acoustic Sessions (2025) 2:28
12. TOKYO BLADE Don’t Bleed Over Me, Time Is The Fire (2025) 4:57
13. H.E.A.T. Disaster, Single (2025) 3:45
14. EVERON Guilty As Charged, Single (2025) 6:32
15. DREAM THEATER Midnight Madness, Single (2025) 7:59
16. ENVY OF NONE Under The Stars, Single (2025) 4:30
17. TARA NOME DOYLE Lighthouse, Single (2025) 4:03
18. AVAWAVES Nightdrive, Single (2025) 3:08
19. THEA GILMORE Sweet Child Of Mine, These Quiet Friends (2025) 4:31
20. RENDEZVOUS POINT Still Water, Single (2025) 6:06
21. ANGELIC FOE Amulet, Amulets And Charms (2025) 4:20
22. SWEET Circus, Full Circle (2024) 2:55
23. JEFF BECK Superstition Beck Bogert Appice (1973) 4:15
24. IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS, Inbetweenies, Do It Yourself (1981) 5:16
[19.01.25]
1. MAGNUM Stormy Weather, Sleepwalking (1992) 4:42
2. MAGNUM Lost On The Road To Eternity, Live At KK’s Steel Mill (2025) 6:25
3. TREMONTI Just Too Much, The End Will Show Us How (2025) 3:49
4. SEVEN BLOOD Monsters, Single (2025) 3:27
5. JULIET’S NOT DEAD Sinner Or Saint, The World Is Ours (2024) (2025) 4:08
6. JOANovARC Time, Escape The Fate EP (2025) 3:59
7. TRUCKER DIABLO Here’s To Heartbreak, Social Hand Grenade (2024) 4:39
8. THUNDERMOTHER Can’t Put Out The Fire, Dirty & Divine (2025) 3:16
9. BLACK OPAL Feel Free, Single (2025) 3:44
10. TIMSON AOR The Wind Whispers (Your Name), Next Level (2025) 3:44
11. MORGANWAY Feels Like Letting Go, Kill The Silence (2025) 3:16
12. THE BIG DEAL They Defied, Electrified (2025) 4:23
13. RINGO STARR Look Up, Look Up (2025) 3:18
14. THIN LIZZY Whiskey In The Jar, The Acoustic Sessions (2025) 3:19
15. KING KRAKEN Beserker, Single (2025) 4:07
16. ROBERT JON & THE WRECK Ashes In The Snow, Single (2025) 3:58
17. GOTTHARD Thunder And Lightning, Single (2025) 3:37
18. LANDFALL Wide Open Sky, Wide Open Sky (2025) 5:17
19. THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA Give Us The Moon, Single (2025) 3:45
20. EMPYRE My Bad (Live & Unplugged), Single (2025) 5:27
21. ENVY OF NONE Stygian Waves, Single (2025) 3:35
22. CHUCK WRIGHT Time Waits For Noone, Chuck Wright’s Sheltering Sky (2022) 3:00
23. ELLIS MANO BAND Count Me In, Single (2025) 3:12
24. LACUNA COIL Gravity, Sleepless Empire (2025) 4:13
25. FIREWIND Chains, Stand United (2025) 4:55
26. OHIO PLAYERS Fire, Single (1975) 4:35
27. RUPERT HOLMES The People You Never Get To Love, Partners In Crime (1979) 3:46
28. WHITESNAKE Is This Love, Love Songs (2020) 5:04
[12.01.25]
1. JETHRO TULL Curious Ruminant, Curious Ruminant (2025) 6:00
2. JETHRO TULL To Cry You A Song, Benefit (1970) 6:14
3. THIN LIZZY Slow Blues E.B., The Acoustic Sessions (2025) 5:16
4. URIAH HEEP Return To Fantasy, Return To Fantasy (1975) 5:53
5. TREMONTI The Mother, The Earth And I, The End Will Show Us How (2025) 5:06
6. TOTO I Will Remember, Tambu (1995) 6:06
7. DAVID PAICH Spirit Of The Moonrise, Forgotten Toys (2022) 4:52
8. GARFUNKEL AND GARFUNKEL Blackbird, Father & Son (2024) 2:22
9. RPWL Red Rose, Crime Scene (2023) 5:33
10. TOKYO BLADE Moth To The Fire, Blade Time Is The Fire (2025) 3:54
11. JESSICA LYNN Dusty Trail, All I Own (2025) 3:53
12. MORGANWAY Don’t Turn The Lights On Yet, Kill The Silence (2025) 3:49
13. PERFECT PLAN We Are Heroes, Single (2025) 4:22
14. H.E.A.T. Nationwide, Force Majeure (2022) 3:42
15. ELKIE BROOKS I Just Can’t Go On, Pearls II (1982) 3:54
16. JUDIE TZUKE I See You, Jude The Unsinkable (2023) 3:54
17. THEA GILMORE Wrecking Ball, These Quiet Friends (2025) 5:03
18. RIVERSIDE Friend Or Foe?, Live ID (2025) 8:35
19. STEVE HACKETT Jacuzzi, Live At Trading Boundaries (2025) 3:28
20. MAGNUM On A Storyteller’s Night, Live At KK’s Steel Mill (2025) 5:13
21. DREAM THEATER A Broken Man, Parasomnia (2025) 8:30
22. TINA TURNER What’s Love Got To Do With It, Private Dancer (1984) 3:46
23. THE DOOBIE BROTHERS You Belong To Me, Livin’ On The Fault Line (2011 ed.) 3:06
24. DIANA ROSS Love Hangover, Single (1976) 3:45
[05.01.25]
1. LARKIN POE Little Bit, Bloom (2025) 4:08
2. JESSICA LYNN Something ‘Bout You, All I Own (2025) 3:30
3. THUNDERMOTHER Bright Eyes, Dirty & Divine (2025) 3:31
4. SKAM Selfish Friend, Single (2024) 3:47
5. BLACK LAKES Dark Glass, Single (2024) 3:05
6. MAGNUM The Flood, Live At KK’s Steel Mill (2025) 7:23
7. LAURENCE JONES Out In The Distance, Bad Luck & The Blues (2023) 4:13
8. SMITH KOTZEN White Noise, Black Light/White Noise (2025) 4:18
9. TREMONTI The End Will Show Us How, The End Will Show Us How (2025) 5:46
10. THE HALO EFFECT March Of The Unheard, March Of The Unheard (2025) 2:59
11. MORGANWAY I Feel The Rain, Kill The Silence (2025) 4:41
12. WILLIE DOWLING Long Drop Down, The Simpleton (2024) 3:58
13. JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR I Gotta Stop Letting You Let Me Down, Single (2024) 4:53
14. THE BIG DEAL Fairy Of White, Electrified (2025) 3:47
15. BONFIRE I Died Tonight, Higher Ground (2025) 5:08
16. BLACK EYED SONS Foolin’ Yourself, Cowboys In Pinstriped Suits (2025) 3:50
17. RIVERSIDE Landmine Blast, Live ID (2025) 7:19
18. HAWKWIND The Golden Void, Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2025) 6:49
19. JOE SATRIANI Big Bad Moon, G3 Reunion Live (2025) 5:20
20. DEA MATRONA Every Night I Want You, Single (2024) 2:49
21. GRACE BOWERS & THE HODGE PODGE Holdin On To Something, Wine On Venus (2024) 4:38
22. NITRATE Live Fast Die Young, Single (2025) 4:52
23. IRON MAIDEN Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter, No Prayer For The Dying (1990) 4:44
24. CARLY SIMON You’re So Vain, Single (1973) 4:18
25. CHAKA KHAN We Can Work It Out, What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me (1981) 3:42
LINKS
Assume The Position Archive – Index (2017-2024)
David Randall Bio
New to GRTR!
In: