Eclectic Kettle

About Eclectic Kettle

Eclectic Kettle was a show hosted by Simon Batistoni and Ben Ward, our unintentionally-comedic duo of beardy Brits. Playing new and less new tunes from dirty lo-fi punk to airy ethereal dance, and geiger-counter–laced British electronica, with regular support from friends and guest DJs bringing their own strange and wonderful tastes to the air. Eclectic Kettle ran for five years: from December 2013 to December 2018.

Amateur professionals, veering closer to professional incompetents, Simon and Ben became sidetracked by rambling digressions about football (the proper kind, sometimes the other kind), cheese, linguistics, and lobster. One time they had a uninterrupted 20 minute argument about Britpop, but they promised never to do that again.

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  • Simon is off with a bad case of the sniffles, so instead Ben brings new music from many many people: Father John Misty, Slowdive, Los Camp!,…

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  • Tonight, on the penultimate episode of “America”, Ben and Simon get out their last protestations toward Donald Trump before he becomes “the government” and it becomes…

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  • We made it into 2017 alive, so we'll dare to glance back at the bloodthirsty Russian misinformation op that was 2016 and—more specifically—the music that came…

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  • Farewell, 2016, you total shitbag. You murdered our idols and now there are nazi's all over everything. As this show wraps up, the sentiment is not…

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