Playlists
126R Rarities and What-ifs 9
A substantially remastered show that originally ran long and we managed to make into one that ran short. Oh well. Lots of listeners, very gratifying. I even sang… and nobody complained.
The postshow was extended to compensate for the short main show.
254 All At Sea
Sea-related tracks assembled by Hugh from his impressive collection, including movie soundtrack items, Classica, folk and all varieties of rock. Over 20 listener connections – a good number for us recently 🙂 Thanks folks, and join us again.
125R Be-Bop Deluxe
A trip through the recording career of Bill Nelson’s Be-Bop Deluxe, a Yorkshire band from the Seventies, but with music that has lasted very well. Malaclyps was away from home so I was reduced to flying solo – something I quite like now and again.
253 Mike Stern
A great show featuring jazz fusion guitrist Mike Stern, assembled by Hugh drew a decent crowd despite coinciding with Mysteriium and the UEFA cup final in which England were playing. To the rest of you, you missed a great show, guys 🙂
124R Miles Davis: The Warner Brothers Years.
A good show put together by Hugh for us – he’s got more Miles, you see. Up to 16 listener connections, a good number for a holiday weekend, we think.
252 Transports of Delight part 1: Trains
An idea that was sparked by the Dionne Warwick Gamble and Huff track Trains and Boats and Planes, and got its series title from the classic Flanders and Swann song about London buses. Both were in the preshow.
The Blues often makes references to trains, as a means of escape, as a route to a loved one, or taking a loved one away. we had lots of blues, in many and various forms, along with some other stuff.
123R Summer Dance Set
Holiday time for many and a hot day too for most, and we had a dance set, some fast and some slow, which was well appreciated.
251 Santana part 3: The Road to Supernatural
Hugh’s examination of the recording career of the band Santana took us through a lesser-known part of his hisotory, with quite a few changes in style, culminating in the hugely successful album Supernatural.
122R John Wetton part 2
The second part of the history of John Wetton got off to a slow start with some long tracks and a lower than usual audience, but did pick up more and more listeners as we went along. Root Beer’s voice was suffering and we helped her out with announcements later in the show.
Lots of good prog, and later pop rock stuff to finish off the set of shows about the four members of the band UK.
250 The Ones That Got Away
For our 250th show we hit on the idea of selecting tracks that had been shortlisted for previous shows but left out for reasons that now seem poor, and that really were good enough to play to you.
Also, being a celebration of sorts – 250 shows over nearly ten years is a fair achievement after all – we extended the show to 2½ hours, and even then could not fit in all the tracks we’d shortlisted for this show.
For whatever reason the audience was slower than usual to assemble – I’m sure it being late Spring had something to do with it – but we were rewarded with 21 listener connections in the end, a good number in recent terms.
At this point there’s no reason to doubt that we can go on for another 250, although some of us may have to hand the torch over to new people eventually. Before that, in ten weeks time, show 255 will be our Tenth Anniversary show. More on that later.