HUMAN PLEASURE RADIO

Bill Bird’s legendary Human Pleasure show brings you 120 minutes of the newest in underground trend-bucking tunes from some of the greatest labels in the world.

Bill has curated a free-form radio show from Christchurch, New Zealand since 1994. In that quarter of a century he has broadcast, supported, and showcased unknown and unsigned indie, alt, post-punk and independent music from around the globe, or as Bill puts it he plays “various genres and styles at different speeds”.

 

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Human Pleasure radio, 2nd February 2026……she needs to change her mind to explain this.

08.02.2026

A DIY radio show, just scratching the surface of what is deemed “underground music”. Various styles at different speeds and genres, since 1992.

DEADLETTER – It Comes Creeping [Existence is Bliss LP]
Good Day Father – Sonic Amadea [single]
Harvey Rushmore & the Octopus – Cloud Driver Mindsuckers
CATALOGUE – Thwarted Dance [CATALOGUE – Index LP]
Georgeanne Kalweit – Tiny space [single]
Middleman – Carry The Lie [Following the Ghost LP]
Hey Colossus – Clock [Heaven Was Wild LP]
Vero – 100 Calls [Razor Tongue LP]
Tigers In Cairo – That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate [as told by… EP]
Stimmerman – Outer Planets [Challenging Music For Difficult People LP]
Newt. – Acetoned [Voider LP]
Prism Shores – Kid Gloves [Softest Attack LP]
Season 2 – Abundance Of Power [Power Of Now LP]
Das Druid – Freedom [Das EP]
Itchy and the Nits – Secrets [Greetings From… LP]
SPRINTS – Deceptacon [single]
Leo Vincent – Hello, it’s me again [single]
Melting Palms – Maze [Head In The Clouds LP]
Dewey – Outside Of The Lines [Summer On A Curb LP]
Fort Not – Stationary [You On Repeat LP]
Hopscotch – Where You Are [Ride Home b/w Where You Are EP]
Landowner – Rival Males [Assumption LP]
Shesgot – The Return [A House Into a Body LP]
100%WET – Delete Forever [single]
Esya – Heaven [Chasing Desire LP]
TV Star – Texas Relation [single]
Scattered Purgatory – Wunai [Post Purgatory LP]
Ghost Enclave – Father Pain [Toten Danse LP]
AW – Decent Prey [The Nerve LP]
Station Model Violence – Heat [Station Model Violence LP]
Institute – The Shooter [Institute LP]
Sonic Punter – Cloud Indigo [Cloud Indigo LP]
Chalk – I.D.C. [Crystalpunk LP]
Shaking Hand – In For A… Pound! [Shaking Hand LP]
Royal Commission – Emotional Support Australian [single]
Westside Cowboy – The Wahs [So Much Country ‘Till We Get There LP]

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Human Pleasure radio, 12th January 2026……the world didn’t end.

16.01.2026

A DIY radio show, just scratching the surface of what is deemed “underground music”. Various styles at different speeds and genres, since 1992.

Heavenly – Excuse Me [Highway To Heavenly LP]
EarthBall – Seeing Doors Unlock [Outside Over There LP]
The Hellp – Country Road [Riviera LP]
Soft Bait – Sooner [Life Advice LP]
Far Caspian – End [Autofiction LP]
Prostitute – All Hail (Pressure) [single]
Quality Used Cars – Endless Void [One Hundred Million LP]
Welcome Strawberry – Cheek Scratchers [Desperate Flower LP]
Sharp Pins – Popafangout [Balloon Balloon Balloon LP]
Daily Toll – Fleeting [A Profound Non-Event LP]
Park Walker – Strong Suit [The Extra Mile LP]
Another Dancer – Time Sense [I Try To Be Another Dancer LP]
Chris Imler – Let’s Not Talk About The War [The Internet Will Break My Heart LP]
ODDLY – (In) Mates [Swerve LP]
all fall down – black grattan [all fall down live LP]
BSÍ – Þar ert þú<33 [sendu mig LP]
Hey Colossus – Cannibal Forecast [Heaven Was Wild LP]
Dewey – City Has Come to Crash [Summer On A Curb LP]
Lucid Express – Instant Comfort [Instant Comfort LP]
Music City – Pretty Feelings [Welcome To Music City LP]
Large – Worth Repeating [Marine Life LP]
Blackwater Holylight – Bodies [Not Here Not Gone LP]
Middleman – Vacant Days [Following the Ghost LP]
Celestial Bums – A Dream (Guide Me From The Stars) [Minutes From Heaven LP]
Would-Be-Goods – Dr Love [Tears Before Bedtime LP]
Whitelands – Blankspace [single]
Dog Chocolate – Green Stuff [So Inspired, So Done In LP]
Added Dimensions – Preoccupied [Jane From Preoccupied America LP]
The Lovely Basement – Black Jumper On [Lowlands LP]
quannnic – Torch [Warbrained LP]
Nick & June – Dark Dark Bright [New Year’s Face LP]
The Just Joans – Here Come The Rugby Boys [Romantic Visions of Scotland LP]
Joanna – Gardeners’ World [Hello Flower LP]
Howling Bells – Melbourne [Strange Life LP]
Dry Cleaning – Let Me Grow And You’ll See The Fruit – Tascam Version [Secret Love LP]
The Science Of Words – Volunteer [The Science Of Words LP]
Low Harness – Hands that Shake [Oblivion LP]

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Human Pleasure radio 8th December 2025…..not long to go now.

16.12.2025

A DIY radio show playlist, just scratching the surface of what is deemed “underground music”, various styles at different speeds and genres.

Swansea Sound – Dreamland [All Is Calm LP]
Plosivs – Lady For A Day [Yell At Cloud LP]
Art School Girlfriend – The Peaks [single]
Buzz Kull – Just A Memory [Deep Hate LP]
Tacoblaster – Toxic Surfer [single]
Dewey – Jinx [Summer On A Curb LP]
These Sleeping Hands – Ruby Had a Mirror [Only When I Sleep LP]
Piggietails – CDs [Piggietails LP]
Problem Patterns – Boring Songs for Boring People [Boring Songs For Boring People EP]
pôt-pot – Hot Scene [Warsaw 480km LP]
Milo Korbenski – Gone Fishn [Sex Angel LP]
Josie – If You [A Life On Sweets Alone LP]
Golden Apples – Feliz [Shooting Star LP]
Geese – 100 Horses [Getting Killed LP]
Chatterton – Bite Down [Tiny Empire LP]
bloom effect – suspendo [oscilón LP]
Portugal. The Man – Tyonek [SHISH LP]
Whitelands – Glance [Sunlight Echoes LP]
Voka Gentle – Cheddar Man [Domestic Bliss LP]
Strange Pilgrim – One Day [Too Bright Planet LP]
Silk Daisys – Someday [Silk Daisys LP
AFAR – Something Special [Changing Rules LP]
Terra Pines – Scatterhead [Gazed and Bemused: Hazy Sounds from the Meanjin Underground LP]
Locust Revival – Second Soul [Gazed and Bemused: Hazy Sounds from the Meanjin Underground LP]
dust – Swamped [Sky is Falling LP]
Bratmobile – Make Me Miss America [The Real Janelle + The Peel Session LP]
Bruiser and Bicycle – Syd Barrett’s Disaster Picnic [Deep Country LP]
cootie catcher – Straight drop [Something We All Got LP]
Hotel Lux – The Fear [The Bitter Cup LP]
Leatherette – You Never Go Outside [Ritmo Lento LP]
The Science Of Words – Life Is A Breeze [The Science Of Words LP]
Sword II – Under the Scar [Electric Hour LP]
Tacoma Radar – Getting Dark (Live at the 13th Note) [No One Waved Goodbye LP]
GANS – In Time [Good For The Soul LP]
adele dazeem – Misère [Metanoia LP]
bis, Art Brut – Opposites Attract (Paula Abdul Cover by bis and Art Brut) [Sorry About That LP]
Breakup Haircut – Spite! Spite! Spite! [No Worries If Not! LP]
DEADLETTER – To the Brim [Existence is Bliss LP]
MEMORIALS – In The Weeds [single]

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