Radio Free D'ni

Excellent show put together by Mal.  Preshow and postshow contained more tracks from the history of this short-lived but influential group.  19 listeners at maximum, 16 for most of the time. Preshow Born On The Bayou Creedence Clearwater Revival  The Concert 1970 Radar John Fogerty  Deja Vu All Over Again 2004 Bad Bad Boy John…

Show 68 was a celebration and a fast trip through the musical career of George Martin, the ‘fifth Beatle’ A man who became the head of the Parlophone label when it was EMI’s second string and turned it around with a wide range of artists, chief of which were The Beatles. A musician too, who…

The show was mainly about instrumentals that had been made by vocal bands, with a few others that were unexpected in other ways. The preshow was all tracks that missed out on being in the main show, because they were’nt unexpected enough or because we’d played them recently.  The version of Soul Sscrifice from Woodstock…

This was an idea I’d been working on for a while, with alternative titles such as ‘Songs I can’t sing’ – because I can’t get through them without choking up.  Eventually we made it to air, but to remember (slightly too late) that May 1st is a holiday throughout Europe and most of our audience…

I did a set for Earth Day, as part of the MOUL celebrations that were crowned by a wonderful dance set from the NULP dancers.  I played for an hour before they began, and chatted to you as well.  Here’s the playlist. Acres Wild Jethro Tull Heavy Horses 1978 Catching the Sun Spyro Gyra Catching…

Broadcast on Easter Sunday, proving that none of us looked at the public holiday dates before we announced the show time…  Nevertheless, a maximum of 29 with 22 – 24 all the way through.  Thank you all for listening, and this time it was something away from the mainstream.  Our skipping trip through Dave Swarbrick’s…

A good crowd joined us to remember the career of Robert Stigwood and the artists and shows that he was responsible for. He more or less invented the role independent record producer, changing the way that popular music was created and marketed, and was an important part of the development of both bands and shows…

Yoda put on another light show for us in Magic Tolesa and we followed up with a dance party, as is traditional 🙂  The Kadish bay was a great place for the light show, with lots of space for the audience to spread out along and a big flat area to perform on.  The dance…

A second set of Covered Up songs, where we find the original versions of songs and then play one or two covers that are interesting and different from the original.  A bit nerd-ey perhaps, but fascinating if you are into that sort of thing. Preshow Title Artists Album Year Roll over Beethoven Electric Light Orchestra…

Radio Free D’ni provided some of the music for the St. Patrick’s Day parade and post-parade bop, and here is the playlist :). The preshow was, as usual, designed to let people find the broadcast channel and get tuned in to the music.  Unfortunately, I had not created the playlists, and doing so took up…