Formed in the depths of lockdown, South Wales ONE (formerly known as ACJ Radio) is a community radio station for South Wales broadcasting online to the world. We have an eclectic mix of presenters and shows broadcasting most evenings and an ad-free music stream running through the day playing the best in 80s, 90s, and 00s music.
You can hear me live on South Wales ONE most Thursday from 9 until 10 presenting The Soundclash Show with Lee Jones. Every week we choose a theme for the show and pick five songs each that fit the theme as closely as possible (we are not always successful!). We play our songs head to head and ask our listeners to vote on which songs they like the most!
It’s a winner takes all musical battle royal with no prizes except bragging rights for the following week!
Official South Wales ONE glutton for punishment Rob Costello is back to take another crack at ripping the Soundclash crown from Lee and I’s collective heads. Tough challenge this time as Rob dares us to use only the best songs from 2021. Can we steal victory from the jaws of
Taking a break from challenges to go head to head with Lee again this week! Given that I’m pretty confident that nothing happened musically after about 1999 (more on that in the week or so!), I challenged Lee to only play songs released in the year he was born. I
In a massive tactical error, I play right into Lee’s sweaty little hands and agree to a Boy Band Challenge. Possibly my worst Soundclash ever and the worst musical day of my life having to wade through endless Boy Band tracks trying to mine out some gold. At least we
After the triumph that was Girl Groups two weeks, we plumbed the depths of Boy-Band-dom. I’m going to be honest and warn you – that was not my best week. This week I’m back on form with songs from Liverpool. “Soundclash is like Thunderdome but with less violence and more
Another blast from the Soundclash past with our “Girl Groups” special. After some quite detailed and nail-biting negotiation over the rules, we put some of the all-time greats head to head. This episode includes music from Spice Girls, The Supremes, The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Go-go’s and more. “It really
A brand new challenger entered the (virtual) ring this week with novelist Louise Mumford facing Lee and I in the musical battle that is Soundclash. Louise picked the theme of “sleep” (this girl is never off-brand, seriously) and it threw up a very eclectic range of tracks. There are some
Soundclash Challenge is back! Lee and I welcome back special guest Pete Rogers for his second visit to the South Wales ONE virtual studio. Pete absolutely demolished us last time around, giving us a lesson on Prog Rock. This time, we’re determined to win back some pride as Pete challenges
“Can you smell burning? Lee must be thinking again…” Kate (Lee’s wife and producer of Soundclash) It was a safe bet that after we’d tackled 80s movies we would head straight into the 90s. Some absolute classics this week including songs from Pulp Fiction, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Clueless, and
With Lee three-quarters of the way through a bottle of cider, we were already on dangerous territory. “I nearly called you Christopher Jones then!” “That’s what you write on your pencil case over and over again.” Me / Lee This week we tackled 80s movie soundtracks – as long as
“People aren’t tuning into the Soundclash for professionalism, Lee. That’s not what the people are looking for.” Me Soundclash! Or not, as this week we steal the theme of Smells Like Kevin Bacon and created a chain of songs where every song we played had to link to the song