This week we dig deep...deeper than the purple valleys the guy above with the dark guitar would later explore.

We'll take a drive through the British Beat era, with this week's journey allowing stops for a rare BBC performance of a song the band never made a record of...and the B-side that wouldn't go away.

This week we pay tribute to a recently departed musician, hear a rare 1965 Donovan track released only in France at the time, and have new trivia.

Mark my word, part of this episode centers around the dawn of creation.

The Meek shall inherit at last one track of this week's episode.

This episode also features a trivia question unlike any we've ever done.

This week's show features a few songs you know well, but maybe not these particular versions. The above gents emerge from their caves to provide one such case.

Check your coat with the lady above, then come join us for this week's episode.

It's our first episode of 2008! HOORAY!

Henceforth, new episodes of 'READY STEADY A GO GO' will be posted on MONDAYS.

The last episode before the leap year.

Happy Chrimble from READY STEADY A GO GO.

Some holiday tunes mixed in with regular great tracks from the British Beat Era, 1962-66.

The Chants (pictured above at The Cavern) are just one of the British Beat Era bands you'll hear in this week's episode.

We call on the men above, and others to help us mark an anniversary. Trivia too.

We place this episode first and foremost...because not only will you hear The Fourmost, you'll also learn of how this episode brings about a very interesting first in 'Ready Steady A Go Go' history.

And along the way we pay tribute to the man above, whom we lost this week in 2001.

The band above is without question one of the Best Bands of the 1960s.

Wanna know where The Action is? They're in this week's episode, along with many other great British Beat artists.

Despite the above picture, this week's show is not completely Sorrowful.

More great British Beat.

This week's edition of READY STEADY A GO GO will give you the creeps!

This week, the British Beatmakers on TV.

This week, tucked in alongside some fine picks from released output of the British Beat Era will be a BBC recording of a classic song, a songwriter's demo, a set worth saying up all night to hear, and trivia.

A freakbeat classic, a bit of British Beat-folk, and a rare live Beatles recording are just some of the treasures awaiting you in this week's show.

Hey...what's wrong with this picture?

This week's forecast...Kinky and dandy, but with some raindrops expected near Springfield.

How did John Lennon "help" the Yardbirds? Where did Birmingham group The Strangers have a strong fanbase...or so legend claims? What old standard was revitalized in the early 1960s, prompting several Northern groups, including The Beatles, to put it in their act? The answers, plus trivia and lots of great British Beat, can be found in this week's episode.

Some of the featured folk in this week's episode are in a League of their own.

 Another cellarful of noise and joys from the British Beat Era, 1962-66

This week...

* Some British covers of the songs of Elvis Presley, in honor of the 30th anniversary of his passing.
* A full length recording of a song released on record in much truncated form.
* A rare live recording of a British Invasion classic.
* A trivia question.

This week's batch of British Beat 1962-66 includes some requests, dedications, rarities, a British tribute to a recently departed American music legend, and trivia.

Ready Steady A Go Go is a year old! Hooray!

Let's begin our second year of playing lots of British Beat, 1962-66.

Closing in on 'Ready Steady A Go Go's' first anniversary, several surprises and oddities are featured this week, and several requests. And we really ham it up with this week's trivia question.

Much thanks to Willy in Holland and also to Jim Witty of Podomatic's "Jim's Child of The Sixties" for supplying some of the tracks included in this episode.

A theme set, a Beatles rarity (to non-Americans), and a special song in honor of something that happened in New York last week that made fans of '60s music quite happy. And trivia, of course.

Our fiftieth show...our fiftieth collection of British Beat, 1962-66. As the guys in the picture above would tell you, to stop now would be a Cryin' Shame.

This week, we celebrate The Fourth Of July with a musical trip across the USA, as British bands sing about various American locations.

These three lovely ladies wish to sing to you...how could you possibly have the heart to refuse them the chance? These gals and several other fine British Beat era groups are all waiting inside Episode #48 to entertain you. What are you waiting for?

You won't hear the guys above singing "Time Of The Season," but you will hear them, and others, singing some timely seasonal songs to help us into Summer. Plus, we celebrate the birthdays of three important musical folk (two British, and one American represented by way of a British cover version) and have a tricky trivia question, a real mindbender (though it has nothing to do with Wayne Fontana's old group.)

Lots of rock and roll this week, though there's one acoustic interlude. Trivia as usual.

Our virtual musical trip to England 1962-66 continues.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of SGT. PEPPER, let's paint a full picture of where British rock was at upon its release, by featuring a full hour of OTHER British records released in June 1967.

Hear how some bands were not too far behind The Beatles in terms of studio production, psychedelia and Eastern influence. Hear many future legends of rock in their lesser known bands. Hear music being made at EMI Studios just down the hall from where The Beatles were creating PEPPER.

Here's a chance to place PEPPER in its proper context, instead of simply as a Summer Of Love symbol like Monterey Pop, love-ins and "Light My Fire" and "Somebody To Love." Instead, here are their fellow countrymen.

(And yes, I know the background music didn't come out until August 1967. I just thought it was a fitting backdrop.)

There's another British Beat bonanza within this episode.

Things are really kickin' in this week's show.

The latest random assortment of British Invasion and British Beat, including a Roy Orbison cover, Julie Driscoll helping some friends out, and some good ol' '64 Merseybeat from the same man who a decade later wrote a huge hit about someone named Billy being warned not to use his heroic potential.

Back to the mixed bag. Some great tracks, some rare live recordings, some Leiber-Stoller tunes, an unlikely template for The Velvet Underground, and a band tries to turn a Broadway song into an R&B tune...and fails. Plus trivia as usual.

It's our 40th episode! This week, a second look (the first was back in October) at Motown's influence on the British Beat groups, with an entire show of the Brits delivering their versions of Motown favorites...including some rare concert, TV and BBC radio performances.

This week...some rarities, trivia, a well known recording engineer trying his luck as a singer...and a theme set that may not be able to completely understand.

This week's show includes...

* A British recording that a popular American garage band copied to the letter for a hit single.
* A song performed by a group who named themselves after that very song.
* Perhaps the longest titled song ever played on 'Ready Steady A Go Go.'
* Some novelty discs.
* Trivia.

Lotsa British Beat packed into this week's show...including a Beatles recording long presumed lost for good, a rare demo recording, a DC5 soundalike record, and we'll look at the early pre-fame days/bands of a particular singer.

A smashing good time to be had this week. In addition to another mix of British Beat, hear how the man above nearly missed out being part of this episode.

Jump for joy, because it's another great mix of British Beat music...including these leaping Liverpudlians.

THINGS YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S SHOW:

* Great British rock music from 1962-1966
* A band that had no hits in England or America but nonetheless appeared on a popular American TV show in 1964.
* A rare recording of a well known song performed by a well known band who never issued the song on record.
* A trivia question

THINGS YOU MOST DEFINITELY WILL *NOT* FIND IN THIS WEEK'S SHOW (as opposed to a certain British Invasion themed episode of a popular TV show from Hollywood which aired the other night)

* Much attention paid towards a girl crying
* The implication that Shirley Bassey counts as a British Invasion artist
* The implication that songs from 'Oliver' count as British Invasion hits.
* Zombies songs done beat-box style.
* Guest appearances from Lulu and Peter Noone (actually, this we despair not being able to present.)

Got a hankering for some 1960s British Beat? It's just a click away. Lost goodies, rarities, trivia, and a London-style salute to the Irish.

Another musical journey from the cellars of Liverpool to the streets of London, with stops along the way in Manchester, Birmingham, Tottenham, Muswell Hill, and other points of interest. We even join some of our British friends on a visit to Germany.

This week, in our usual mix of British Beat, we celebrate someone's recent 60th birthday (the lady before the camera above,) remember someone who would have turned 65 this past week, hear a rare performance of a classic American hit sung by a famous Brit who never made a record of it, and offer a new trivia question.

From Dave Berry to the Rockin' Berries, who, despite their name, play more softly than Mick Softly, who has a song that is, lyrically, anything but soft. Along the way, the winners of the 'Sound Of '64' competition, a band whose success matched their name. Plus a rare live recording...and a new trivia question.

Another stack of British Beat records awaits you. The men above will greet you upon entrance.

Happy "Valentine's" Day.

We don't promise a lot of love songs for Episode 28, as instead the focus this week is primarily straight ahead rock and roll (though there's one bit of melodic melancholia in the mix too). There's also "nostalgic" theme set, a trivia question, a track by the band that *should* have been played last week...and a song to acknowledge the most important event in the history of the British Invasion.

This week, yet another British Beat buffet, featuring a few forgotten charted hits, some flips, some true rarities and surprises, and this week's trivia question. Sound good? Then woncha come on in!

Why was John Lennon disappointed regarding The Mamas & Papas' cover of "I Call Your Name?" What early 1964 Manfred Mann recording received an extra-special dose of British TV exposure, and how?

Learn the answers and hear a healthy crop of British Invasion/British Beat Era recordings in this week's episode of...

READY STEADY A GO GO: FROM MERSEYBEAT TO MOD

What record did Keith Richards, in 1965, cite as "The worst record of the year?" Who did The Mindbenders borrow a song from and record a year before that band did their own version? What American band were England's Tony Rivers and the Castaways particularly good mates with?

Answers to all of the above...alongside 30+ minutes of great music from the British Invasion / British Beat Era (1962-66) and the weekly trivia question...can be heard in this, the latest episode of...

READY STEADY A GO GO: FROM MERSEYBEAT TO MOD

Another crop of nonstop Mop-Top Pop...Tasty tunes from the British Invasion and British Beat Era, with a few rarities, a special theme set, and a trivia question stirred into the mix.

The first READY STEADY A GO GO of 2007!

This week, the usual mix of British biscuits, plus some great B-sides and even some unreleased gems from top tier bands thrown in as well.

For the last show of the year, READY STEADY A GO GO pays tribute to noted musical people we lost in 2006: We'll hear British musicians who passed over this year, as well as the songs of departed American artists as done by British 1960s singers/groups...including a special UK-slanted tribute to James Brown.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM READY STEADY A GO GO!

Happy Holidays. Various British Invasion and Beat Era names sing and wish you Season's Greetings in this special Holiday edition.

So why not come and join us at the Christmas party awaiting you in READY STEADY A GO GO: EPISODE #21.

Yes, even more British Invasion and British Beat.

If you're the kind of person who digs a certain
Sixties music era
Where the bands played proud with their Vox amps loud
And their heads were mops of hair

And it seems to you that radio plays too little from these years
And though you try, you just can't find it
And you're full of tears

You better stop, and look around...

Here it comes...Here it comes...
Here it comes...Here it comes...
Here comes your 19th episode of...
READY STEADY A GO GO: FROM MERSEYBEAT TO MOD

Another grab bag of British Invasion and Beat Group delights...including a couple of Harrisongs in memory of the Quiet Beatle, whom we lost five years ago this week.

Golly gee, another mix of 1960s British Invasion/Beat Group platters.

Sweet Little (Episode) Sixteen...This week's journey through the British Invasion includes not only some cool tunes, but also a trivia question that's sure to drive you mad!

Another stack of British Invasion goodies, another weekly trivia question, and a salute to the recently departed Art Wood.

Another BRITS-krieg...from the era of collarless suits and Cuban boots, long hair locks and amps of Vox.

WARNING: This week's episode of READY STEADY A GO GO is not for the faint of heart. Beware of monsters, witches, wolfmen, voodoo dolls, spellbinders, graveyard mayhem, Count Dracula, various devils, creatures from outerspace, and some weirdo in love who shouts like a maniac for two minutes (no, not me.) The British Invasion Of The Bobbie Snatchers? Could be. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Let us once again have a British Invasion/Beat Group party...The usual mix of 1960s Brit bits, and along the way, recognition of a mile-Stone birthday.

Another mixed bag of British Invasion / British Beat Era of the Sixties.

This week, a special edition of READY STEADY A GO GO...

An entire episode of...The Songs Of Motown, as sung by British Invasion/Beat Era bands and singers.

I took my PC mouse to Podomat,
You know, where Mod and Merseybeat are at.
They've got a show of the British Beat so fine
In a little podcast called...
Ready Steady A Go Go Number Nine

I'm told they play the rockin' sounds of Brits
'Bout 'Sixty-Two to Nineteen Sixty-Six
To give you a break from the modern grunge and whine
Have a little sample of...
Ready Steady A Go Go Number Nine
Ready Steady A Go Go Number Nine
Ready Steady A Go Go Number Nine
Ready Steady A Go Go Number Ni-i-i-i-ine

It's Ready Steady a Go Go VIII, it is
Ready Steady a Go Go VIII, it is, it is
We've got lots of Brit Invasion in store
Maybe stuff you 'aven't 'eard before
With Mod and Freakbeat and Merseybeat (Merseybeat)
And trivia to see if you're a whiz (a whiz)
It's our eighth ol' podcast episode
Ready Steady a Go Go VIII, it is

R-S-AGG
Ready (ready) Steady (steady)
Ready Steady a Go Go VIII, it is, it is,
Ready Steady a Go Go VIII, it is
(yeah)