Another busy month for music with a load of new music topped off with the longest running festival in the Channel Islands, the Vale Earth Fair, means another packed playlist.

From and inspired by the Earth Fair is music from The King Blues, The Wakes and Lifejacket.

Byzanthian Neckbeard is here after a storming live show earlier in the month while I have some Mayhem after a screening of Lords Of Chaos and Black Sabbath after I finally got around to watching their final concert, The End.

On top of that there’s brand new stuff from IDLES and Frank Turner and to mark 50 years of Woodstock there’s Joan Baez.

And simply because I heard it for the first time this month Eels’s punked up version of their own I Like Birds.

You can listen to all of those and the rest of my playlist for the year on Spotify by clicking here or it’s embedded below.

Playlist

• Idles – Mercedes Marxist (single)
• Byzanthian Neckbeard – Doppleganger (from From The Clutches Of Oblivion)
• Lifejacket – No Show (from Let’s Get This Out Of Our System And Move On and as heard at Vale Earth Fair)
• Mayhem – Freezing Moon (from De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas and Lords Of Chaos)
• Frank Turner – Sister Rosetta (from No Man’s Land)
• Joan Baez – Joe Hill (live) (from Live At Woodstock)
• The Wakes – Never Again (from The Red And The Green and as heard at Vale Earth Fair)
• Eels – I Like Birds (live) (from Royal Albert Hall)
• The King Blues – Lets Hang The Land Lord (live) (from Live at The Roundhouse and as heard at Vale Earth Fair)
• Black Sabbath – Hand Of Doom (live) (from The End)

And the usual bonus video goes back 25 years to the Woodstock 25th anniversary and this mesmerising and vicious version of Closer by Nine Inch Nails: