The Rider: Badly Wiggins

A guest! We love a guest and this week The Rider is overjoyed to be Mike Carney from Bantam Lions to talk about his fabulous new album Short Stories and the making of that record and why he doesn’t just released things. It’s a fascinating insight into the...

The Rider: A Full House

Everyone is in! Imagine the scenes. Neil Atkinson hosts John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia as they get back to basics. There is all the news of Australia from Adam (they are alright, you know) more on Beyonce and Gaga obviously and news of birthdays and...

Rewired: Trees/Lust

As ever Stephanie Heneghan isn’t 100% about this – as ever she produces the best recommendations and longest chat. Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons reduced to making up the numbers but the gig recommendations from John are especially on point –...

Back Page: Can You Click It?

GARETH Roberts is joined by Stephen Evans, Josh Sexton and Jay McKenna for another look at football’s relationship with the media. Are managers forced into holding too many press conferences? What does a good one and a bad one look like? And is it all getting a...

The Rider: Restart

The Rider has all the chaos you get used to this week. And still no Adam. Has he left? has he been sacked? Thankfully we have the HR department in. Elsewhere Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons and Stephanie Heneghan work through the week’s issues, much of which are...

The Rider: Wham!

The songs are all bangers this week. All killer. No filler. Except the wham. Which gets talked up. As does aborted stargazing, Chinese Supermarkets, The Doomsday Clock (now out of date). Neil Atkinson hosts with John Gibbons and Stephanie Heneghan all do the business....

The Rider: Swanning Off

No Adam Melia again. He’s Swanning off around the globe. Gets slaughtered in his absence obviously. He and you would be disappointed otherwise. So there are nine tunes and nine helpings of wham. What tunes. What wham. It shows no sign of abating. Atkinson,...

The Rider – Negative Feedback

Everyone in the same room – YES! The Rider are all together and happy to be all together. We have talk of Golden Globes and negative feedback. We have ten great songs. We have Adam about to leave again to go to Australia. We have all the fun of the fair. It is...

The Rider: One Down

The Rider this week has no Stephanie Heneghan. She has lost her voice. But Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons and Adam Melia certainly haven’t. They are full throatedly behind 9 excellent songs. John has got stuck into BBC Introducing; a yearly tradition for The Rider....