Playlists
146R Lights! Camera! Music!
A show from Hugh, who is a huge movie fan as well as a music fan and musician and has an impressively large stash. Notable movie music from famous composers and it drew a good audience in the cavern and out of it, up to 28 at one point, with 23 most of the time. Thanks for coming back, folks 🙂
271 Here Comes The Sun
An equinoctal celebration, with sunny tracks from our stashes, woven together really quite well. Gratifyingly well attended too, with a lively crowd in the cavern and many listeners on the stream too.
This was a sequel to the Sun Arise show we did a few years ago, with no carryovers, and it went together well, and entertained people, which is all that really matters.
145R Bruce Hornsby
A remastered show updated with tracks from albums released since the first broadcast. True to form, the new stuff is different from what’s gone before, from this veritable chameleon of musical talent. Lots of fun had in the cavern as well.
270 Johnny Winter – In Performance
A show full of high-energy Blues performances from a master of the craft, this one was another of Hugh’s making, and very popular too, with a good attendance in the Cavern and outside. Some great music was heard and appreciated. A Johnny Winter in the Studio show will be fortcoming later in the year.
144R Not Dark Yet
Subtitled “The Songs of Bob Dylan” we had a selection of cover versions and originals from a most significant source of music. A slight technical hiccup meant we lost the stream for a few minutes, but our audience numbers show that most of you held on and reconnected once we had things back on the air. Thanks for your patience 🙂
269 Ladies of Metal
A show from Hugh’s friend Nigel, and fortuitously timed to arrive when we needed a show to go with the week of International Women’s Day. In the words of the Monty Python sketch, and now for something completely different – Ladies of Metal, all-female and female-led bands playing the the metal genres.
The preshow was different, filled with bands playing songs with metals in their titles. The Postshow was from The Heaviest Metal Band, Mammoth, whose members (all male) are very large around the waist area.
A truly international show as well, with examples from all over the world, the US, Japan, the far East, Africa and Europe. Some of these artists have struggled against more than simple musical prejudice as well, particularly the ones from Indonesia and Madagascar, and it showed in their angry songs.
143R Georgie Fame
The British R&B and jazz musician gets the Radio Free D’ni treatment, with two hours of tracks from his fifty-year career. The big hits from the Sixties, some jazzy numbers and some bluesier ones kept our audience interested. Over 20 listeners at one point.
268 Zawinul!
An examination of the work of Joe Zawinul outside of Weather Report, for the most part, with tracks from his earliest recordings and his last ones. Well attended with an appreciative audience including some new faces.
142R Peter Hammill
One of Hugh’s shows this one, as he’s the one with the big stash of stuff. A quirky performer, Mr Hammill, but one who nevertheless appealed to our audience, up to 22 at one point. Good numbers for us on a cold February night.
267 A Winter Warmer
Tracks with warmth as a common factor, and mostly quiet ones too, although we did get a bit rowdy towards the end. Very effective – we almost sent our audience to sleep – although they say they were just listening quietly. A successful show.