During the 1980s, there was a short-lived and not-too-well-known (at least not here on the West Coast of Scotland) musical genre called...

Song eight of 2025 comes from a London band that began life in 1977 and was formed by the Butler brothers: Vocalist Rochard and Bass...

Given the sad news that Paul Richard Buckler passed on the 17th of February this year, we wanted to pay tribute to him, so Iona’s Song of...

For week number six of 2025, we are heading back twenty-seven years to 1998 when we first encountered a “Madchester” band who were...

During the week that the sixties icon Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull passed on, aged 78, Iona felt it appropriate to pick one of her...

Next up for Iona’s Song of the Week takes us back to June 1979 when a Salford band released their debut album. Their second and final...

Next up for Song of the Week is an 8-minute and 52-second gem from an album that was released 50 years ago on 20 January 1975, and I was...

2025 has arrived, and with it comes a plethera of songs. Some new, some familiar, some old, but, hopefully, all enjoyable! We shall...

And so, here we are at the end of Iona’s Song of the Week 2024; it has been a pleasure to share some of the music that ‘“floats our boat”...

Story of My Life  is our Song of the Week this week, and it comes from the American punk rock band Social Distortion  who were formed in...

And so, as the clock ticks down on Iona’s Song of the Week 2024, we come to week number 23 of Part Two (or 49 in total)! Our choice this...

Wow, how did that happen? This week’s song of the week is No 48 of 2024; there are only four more to choose! It has also, bizarrely,...

This week’s song is by Cary Ann Hearst, half of a band called Shovels and Rope  who we first encountered about ten years ago. The band is...

As this week started on November 11th, Rememberance Day here in the UK, we have chosen, as Iona’s Song of the Week, a song written in...

This week, for our Song of the Week, we go back forty-seven years to 1977. The song is the title track from the debut album by the...

This week's song is from a band who first appeared as the 15th choice in Part One, The Drive-by Truckers. It is the eighth track from...

Faded Flower of Broadway  is our Song of the Week, and it comes from Willie Nile’s 5th album, released in 2006. Willie, born Robert...

If you have been listening to any of our Songs of the Week over the year, there will be a few tropes that you might have noticed. In...

Our next choice for Song of the Week is Bean Fields  from the live album When in Rome…  by the enigmatic ‘collective’ The Penguin Cafe...

So, this Week's Song was chosen several days ago, and we were looking forward to introducing you to a new act on the scene. Then we heard...