Halloween Listening Party on FOTW Radio

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Welcome to the Halloween Listening Party on FOTW Radio, an online radio station that runs all through October – with a special live broadcast on Halloween night.

I hope you enjoy it – and thanks for listening!

— IJ Wilson 🎃

A Spotlight on Spooky Season programming 🔦

There are thirteen special theme hours that repeat through the 24-hour cycle. Here are some to listen out for!

• • Halloween Assortments (All the classics – and some you’ve never heard before!)
  • From Beyond the Stars (eerie ambient)
  • Spooky Japanese Double-Hour of Listener Requests
  • The VHS Aisle (eighties horror & synthwave)
  • Goblin Mode (the best of Horror’s own rock band)
  • Storytime (spooky stories)
  • The Deadbeat Disco (dance music)
  • Lost in Time (haunted jazz & rockabilly)
  • The Roky Erickson Memorial Hour (graveyard rock, punk & metal)
  • Queens of the Night (all female artists)
  • From the Field (hauntology & folk horror)
  • Cassettes and Chocolate Milk Hour (indie rock, synth-pop & Italo disco)
  • The Classical Hour (orchestral soundtracks & the literal classics!)

Ways to listen 🎧

Besides here on our website, you can listen through the fantastic Radio Garden app (android / apple / browser)

You can also request the Halloween Listening Party through a smart speaker.

“Hey, Google, play Halloween Listening Party”

“Alexa, play the station ‘Halloween Listening Party’ on TuneIn.”

Song Requests 🎵

If you have a song request, send it in, and we’ll play it.

Submit securely through the form below, or by email.

Spirit Channels 👻

Talk to us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook – or send us an email.

Goblin Mode is a special new programming hour for Halloween 2024, paying tribute to the music of Goblin, the prog-rock band who were the sound and life-blood of Dario Argento movies.

Starting out as Cherry Five in the early 70s, they eventually signed to the Cinevox label and landed a gig with composer Giorgio Gasalini on a brand new thriller set in Rome. After Gasalini fell out with the director, the band was left holding the musical baby, so to speak — and re-christening themselves as ‘Goblin’, they spent the first year of their new life in the Italian music charts with the ‘Profondo Rosso’ (Deep Red) theme, quickly selling over a million copies and making them a house-hold name with a generation of Italians.

But their masterpiece would be for Argento’s next film — Suspiria — a film and soundtrack that is much beloved by horror fans. Goblin has also created iconic scores for other directors, including George Romero’s legendary Dawn of the Dead, and the Australian psychic thriller Patrick by Richard Franklin.

So make sure you catch Goblin Mode sometime through October — it will be playing a few times a day. Thanks to Luke ‘Wordtweak’ Applebee for the title idea.

For our 10th anniversary, illustrator Zhenya Artemjev has created a special version of our logo in the style of Japanese kawaii (かわいい) graphics, which we’ve screen-printed onto Fairtrade cotton messenger bags. We’ve also used a few variations to create fridge magnets and stickers which are available through our Ko-fi page.

FOTW Radio also supports the Literacy for Life Foundation, which is an Australian Aboriginal-run charity training Aboriginal people to bring literacy to their communities, and we make a small donation each year.

I’d like to say please support all the great musicians who contribute music to the Halloween Listening Party. They spend a lot of time creating this fantastic music, putting as much effort into their releases as someone who builds a house, or runs a company – yet musicians and other creative people like them are so undervalued in our society. The streaming platforms pay them a dribble of money – and often it’s a kind of one-sided deal with the Devil; as at the end of the day, a creative person only wants someone to find their work and enjoy it — and they’ll do anything they can to make this happen!

So, you can always say thank you by purchasing any of the songs that you hear and enjoy on FOTW Radio – and platforms like Bandcamp (where many of our releases comes from) make sure at least 90% of the money goes directly back to the creator. Thank you for reading! 🎃