Summer Of 2025

One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: IGGY POP’s Unsatiable Lust For Life

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2 August 2025

Back in 2016 the indestructible Godfather of punk IGGY POP (now aged 78) released
his 17th album, named Post Pop Depression, produced by Queens Of The Stone Age‘s mastermind Josh Homme, who also played on some tracks, something Dean Fertita (also from QOTSA) and Arctic Monkeys‘s drummer Matt Helders did too.

With those guys Pop performed on the British Later With Jools Holland show that year to promote the album. Besides a couple of new ones they also, of course, played this classic.

See you on Monday at Lokerse Feesten Belgium,
Mister Pop with some other punk oldtimers.

One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: ALANIS MORISSETTE Thanking Her Fans At Glastonbury 2025

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28 July 2025

Canadian songstress celeb ALANIS MORISSSETTE (aged 51
now) released 10 successful albums between 1992 and 2022.

She scored one of her greatest hits in 1994 with supreme pop pearl
THANK YOU from her 4th LP Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.

She sang it at this year’s Glastonbury Festival in June.

Top-hole performance!

Instagram – All Albums

One Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: Indies ENGLISH TEACHER And RICHARD HAWLEY Dance To The Radio

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Holey moley. What a surprising team-up doing a surprising cover.

Last year British indies ENGLISH TEACHER won the renowned
Mercury Prize with their debut LP This Could Be Texas played
a gig for BBC Radio 6 last March. They were joined by Sheffield
crooner RICHARD HAWLEY.

Together they performed a bold and sterling cover of
Joy Division‘s bone-chilling debut single Transmission
from 1978.

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio

One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: SNOW PATROL With A Massive Choir At TRNSMT 2025 Last Week

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I’ve never been a follower of Norther Irish/Scottish rockers SNOW PATROL,
but just like half of this planet, I also know their giant 2006 hit Chasing Cars.

Scrolling around on YouTube to find fitting stuff for these ‘Summer Of 2025‘ series,
I found this pretty impressive live version as performed at Scottish festival TRSMT
last week. A choir of thousands and thousands of fans cause goosebumps.

Well, well. Kudos to SP and, of course, their countless vocal fans.

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One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: Irish Starbusters FONTAINES D.C.

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19 July 2025

Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Who: The by now global
Irish post-punk stars.

Track: STARBUSTER
One of the singles and standout tracks of their
4th LPRomance which came out last year.

Watch their tremendous live version at the
Scottish TRNSM Festival last weekend.

Instagram – Linktree

One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: New RICHARD ASHCROFT Single

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17 July 2025


Photo by Dean Chalkley

Artist: RICHARD ASHCROFT

Who: The former charismatic frontman of The Verve (1990–1995, 1997–1999,
2007–2009) who had their biggest triumph, commercially and critically, with their
3rd album Urban Hymns, which topped the UK Charts. So did its timeless single Bittersweet Symphony (more than 1,2 billion streams on Spotify).

Ashcroft, who is one of the support acts for his buddies Oasis on their reunion tour,
recently announced details of his upcoming 7th solo full-length. It’s titled Lovin’ You
and gets its premiere on October 3. More info here.

With the news came the first single LOVER.
An uplifting earworm for all romantic souls.

Below, you can enjoy a riveting live version,
performed for BBC Radio 2. Ashcroft still is
a lucky man.

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One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: NILE & RODGERS CHIC And A Full Dancing Security Team

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16 July 2025

Band: NILE RODGERS & CHIC
Track: LE FREAK

One of those memorable tunes that still resonates loud and proud (more than
222 million streams on Spotify) years after it was released. The single came out
in 1978 and topped the charts in the US, Canada and New Zealand and went
top-10 everywhere else.

Nile Rogers, 72 now, keeps on touring and touring and playing that
dance classic. This is how it sounded at the Isle Of Wight Festival last
June.

Shake your booty along with the cool security team. Glorious!

One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: Disco Punk Warriors FAT DOG

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14 July 2025


Photo by Turn Up The Volume, Brussels, 2024

Band: FAT DOG
Who: Disco-punks from South-East London who gathered during
the Covid-19 depression. They released their smashing debut LP,
named WOOF.
last year.

Track: PEACE SONG

The band said, jokingly, that they want to compete at the Eurovision Song Contest of 2035 with this song. The big question, of course, is ‘will the world still turn in 2035?‘ as devastating wars destroy lives every single day on half of our planet and the future doesn’t look bright whatsoever. One can only hope… and sing/dance/jump along.

Instagram – WOOF.