A real mix of stuff added to the playlist this month from several, possibly unlikely sources.

From the Channel Islands there are tracks from Guernsey’s WaterColour Matchbox who put out their new album Pathways and from Jersey there are new singles from Hot Plastic (Time Bomb) and Hot Juice (Small Town Blues).

There are a few blasts from the past courtesy of Bruce Springsteen (and the new film Blinded By The Light) and Mötley Crüe as they mark 30 years of Dr. Feelgood.

There’s brand new stuff from Ghost’s new EP Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic, 3TEETH’s METAWAR and Tiger Army’s Retrofuture.

And from the abundance of live wrestling shows this month is Ayumi Nakamura’s Kaze Ni Nare, the theme of Japanese legend Minoru Suzuki, and my first classic selection for the playlist, Swan Lake Op 20 (if I’ve titled that correctly), the entrance theme for upcoming British wrestler, Cara Noir.

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

• Bruce Springsteen – Blinded By The Light (from Greetings From Asbury Park and the movie Blinded By The Light)

• Hot Plastic – Time Bomb (single)

• Watercolour Matchbox – The Reckoning (from Pathways)

• Tiger Army – Death Card (from Retrofuture)

• Ayumi Nakamura – Kaze Ni Nare (theme of Minoru Suzuki as heard at RevPro Summer Sizzler and NJPW Royal Quest)

• Hot Juice – Small Town Blues (single)

• 3TEETH – Pumped Up Kicks (from METAWAR)

• Mötley Crüe – Dr. Feelgood (from Dr. Feelgood)

• Ghost – Kiss The Go-Goat (from Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic)

• Swan Lake, Op 20 – Tchaikovsky (theme of Cara Noir as heard at PROGRESS Wrestling’s Natural Progression Series and Chapter 95: Still Chasing)

And for my bonus video this month its one from the Mercury Prize ceremony that is, unfortunately, somewhat cut but it still gives the idea as Slowthai makes a statement with Doorman (which also has a Guernsey link as the album version was produced by Mura Masa):