Hey Adam thanks for the vote of confidence but I'm done... I'm (& I hope that I'm not assuming too much) with Scotch & Gaie & therefore out. Big Babs is obviously non receptive to the notion of change albeit development of the programme's ethos & looks to "CBBC's" for mainstream influence! Christ! Just how long has it been since a generation of teenagers lead a change in popular music... Late 80's & RAVE ach, w.t.f. do I know.
Anyhow... Here's the reply to "their" email sent on Saturday past,
Given the dust now appears to be settling on your Facebook page I now wish to respond to your communication.
May I firstly be allowed to reply to your response to my Facebook comment and that I am a little surprised at your reaction to that particular remark.
Wednesday was surprisingly very popular (given Progressive Rocks usual perceived standing) and I noted more listeners than usual we're actually "chatting" on Facebook as opposed to merely registering requests. Being genuinely pleased I saw a similarity to the former blog and wished to share this thought in keeping with Facebook ethos. I suspect you (whoever you are given you contacted me whilst at work & without stating your relationship to GIO) have read something into that statement that simply wasn't there. However, having said that & as a licence payer I am entitled to express an opinion. GIO currently occupies a slot when I wish the be entertained by BBC Radio Scotland and so long as it is with due courtesy and respect I will continue to feel justified in doing so.
Having mentioned common courtesy, your long overdue explanation with regard to the decision re withdrawal of your Blog came as no surprise. It is my opinion this was a deliberate and divisive move to stimulating a reaction between your perceived audience groups.
In closing please don't contact me ever again without stating who you are and your relationship with the programme / BBC.
What did he say? I've never really bothered about lyrics. To me the voice is just another instrument in the overall arrangement of the song. Lyrics have to be pretty special for me to notice them. Moon and June won't cut it.
Interesting theme this evening. Anybody want to have a crack at Glen's predos record? I dont think Lee Marvin will count coz he was an actor not a singer.
It's actually surprising he lasted as long as he did - obviously, Jack Bruce's liver taransplant worked out somewhat better than Lou's - Jack played on lou's 'Berlin' album - I bought it but found it pretty unlistenable. the world is full of small coincidences...
Lou Reed leaves behind a body of work which would stand comparison with anybody (IMHO). All the Velvets albums, Transformer, Berlin, Coney Island, Street hassle, The Bells, Blue Mask, New Sensations, New York, Magic and Loss are all outstanding albums.
More affected Beeb Luvvies & their positive spin on how happy drive time radio can really be... "Non-theme?" please don't act surprised it's the same as when he finished up a couple of weeks back, lazy, unimaginative, unaccountable, speculative rubbish. It's one thing to claim you can sing a song word perfect, it's another to sing it in tune.
All this Sun, Sea & relaxing has really quashed any degree of tolerance!
I switched on for 10 minutes tonight just before the 7 pm news to hear giggling and silly comment. The Simpsons were on Channel 4 + 1 so it was Get It a Off I'm afraid.
tonites playlist...............adam ant.............johnny cash...............scritti politi (definitely sounds like a lie)..........unit 4 + 2 is definitely not true but a good tune so that's my shout....
I had no idea that the top 70s/80s toothy Radio 1 DJ had a kite sideline! http://www.peterpowellkites.co.uk I wonder if fellow DJs like Kid Jensen and Gary Davies had such things on the go?
People Are Strange - The Doors Monster - The Automatic Ghost Town - The Specials Amityville - Lovebug Starski Spooky - Dusty Springfield The Phantom of The Opera There's A Ghost In My House - R. Dean Taylor Devil In Disguise - Elvis Presley Spellbound - Siouxsie and the Banshees Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr. I Put A Spell On You - Nina Simone November Spawned A Monster - Morrissey Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon Thriller - Michael Jackson Scary Monsters And Super Creeps - David Bowie Grimly Fiendish - The Damned Devil Woman - Cliff Richard The Ghost In You - Psychedelic Furs Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant What Prescence - Orange Juice
Good effort Billy. Might need a couple of witches in there though.
Any early favourites on the other side? (see what I did there???). Trying to think if there are any Queen or Blondies titles that can be shoe horned in. Johnny Cash must have done a ghostie song.
BTW Ive been scanning the local Boston / Cambridge news channels for any reports of assaults on trick or treaters. I can imagine our Glen not getting into the swing of things up there.
He's On The Phone - St Etienne Cruel - St Vincent Saint Francis Songs – The Pearlfishers A Letter from St Paul – The Silencers The Saints Are Coming – The Skids Saint – Texas Goody Two Shoes – Adam Ant Promised You A Miracle – Simple Minds The Patience of Angels – Eddi Reader Never Ever – All Saints When The Saints Go Marching In – Louis Armstrong Something Good – Utah Saints Wake Up Your Saints – The National It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City – Bruce Springsteen Theme From The Saint – Orbital Bernadette – The Four Tops Joan of Arc – OMD St Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion) – John Parr Pure – Lightning Seeds Maria – Blondie True Faith– New Order I Believe In Miracles – Jackson Sisters
I'd request Martin by Soft Cell but no that was a cert for Halloween never mind All Saints... as if themes actually matter, yup Fish Thing it's still poor!
The general tone of this blog would indicate that GIO is still shite. Glad I stopped listening. I wish the BBC would bury this show and come up with something and somebody else. Glad you're all still here though. Mike Heron, Georgia Seddon and Trembling Bells at the Glad Cafe were excellent last week. Gaie would have liked them.
Thanks Billy. I’ve never been to FB and don’t intend to. Maybe if I did BB would close it down like he did with the blog because he didn’t like the comments. I like to think I was partly responsible for that along with the rest of the unsycophantic bloggers (I can’t think of an antonym). Still – the blog lives on and was always better than the programme anyway.
Never mind that Hannah youve nicked my MCC shout on facebook. You need a facebook manners lesson having upset our morningside correpondent recently..............
Hi Henri. I hope you're not one of the sycophants. I'm sure you're not. Greggary and Cynthia are doing well, thank you. Cynthia was very impressed with the Trembling Bells. The Glad Cafe is a good wee venue right enough.
Hello, Thing-Fish, good to see you back again. I don't know the Glad Cafe - where is it? There are all sorts of Glasgow venues springing up that I don't know. I just heard Arcade Fire were playing Glasgow this month, thought it a bit odd I'd not heard before, checked and found they're playing Barrowland as The Reflektors for - wait for it - £220 a ticket.
Listening to Roddy Hart show on iplayer as I write, and yes, he wasn't afraid to play The Witches' Hat.
or Heat Stew Hitch. Good to see the return of the anagram too.
Thing fish - I've been demoted considerably since I decided to edify the nation with my views of what constitutes prog rock. i wasn't attacking the programme, but they seem to have taken it badly I think. Bryan only refers to me by my sunday name, 'henri hannah', wheras previously i was simply 'henri' . The favoured, like norrie and fergie ( from aberdeen) are only ever referred to by their christian/pet names.
Currently enjoying the band Shearwater a new find from last week's RH show. Not too different from AMWWF, who I'm looking forward to seeing in December in the CCA, at nothing like £220 a ticket.
A while back early one Sunday morning when Tony Blackburn was standing in for someone or other on R2 he seemed to be having a conversation with a listener who was apparently phoning from the 'West End of Glasgow'....It was quite a bizarre conversation where Tony asked what the weather was like and the reply, oft repeated, was that it was a sparkling sunny day out my window......as I looked round through the windows of my car all I could see was cloud as clear as dishwasher right in the heart of the 'West End of Glasgow'....this conversation I found disturbing and I couldn't quite figure what was going on.....it was as if Tony was conversing with someone who was talking in tongues......well...........sometimes I get this same eerie feeling with GIO...there is a conversation going on for sure but not with everybody....there is some form of covert dialogue taking place........I am not a statistician but I can do hard sums.... I would have thought that the frequency of those who text in for a 'tune' only to find that they have just missed it stretches the meaning of 'statistically insignificant', as another example of this strange sort of conversation I heard with TB. I often think the programme is having a private joke, with who?,....so Jude the Obscure?.....two Jude songs plus the montage....seems a statistical anomaly too far, for me, as well - and not a very well concealed cryptic kind of nodding in some direction or other. So yes, there is a dialogue and it is *obscured* by the occasional bone to the listener(s)......so who for example is 'fergie in aberdeen'.......why always the emphasis on the whole name?...it may all be completely innocent, but I don't think so....which is one of the reasons those most coveted of jobs like the telephone boy are never publicly advertised to allow young people with the wrong postcode to get a job in the BBC.....not much accountability there....in fact as T_F observes make too much noise and you are banished.....I'm quite good at reading body language and I think I'm quite good at listening language too....I've spent a career doing just that.
Dale, you've got something there. I've often wondered what memorisation technique particularly the Disc Spinner adopts... perhaps Chunking being the oldest method works best when the order of the items is not important. Rhyming makes use of the fact that we have a natural tendency to remember rhymes and rhythms I.E. why "Madmac" got credited with too many mainstream titles back in the day? You've also got Mediation/Bridging & Austin Lafferty our "celeb lawyer" & Norrie's pal seems to match this technique. Lastly maybe in "their" sickly sweet world it's Bed-time Recital but given Ms Babs recent resistance to the suggestion of change to "Luvvies CBBC's nice radio" I can't see her sleeping after thinking about recent feedback problems and there being a chance of arriving at a solution the next day... do you?
I think, and I'm no statistician either but why should that stop me, statistics would show that GIO is as far from random as you can get. Statistics would show that a very small minority of the contributing listeners have their songs played, that some people are mentioned every single night no matter what, and that others, like Thing-Fish were routinely cold-shouldered and then made fun of by playing Cliff Richard, a little piece of playground bullying in response to criticism of the programme's unadventurous playlist. Statistics would show - where's Capt Ramius when you need him? that out of the song-base of, what did they say, 100,000 songs, they play a tiny proportion over and over and over and then massage the figures by throwing in at most one or two oddities to keep their boasted status of 'eclecticism'. And yet every so often they'd read out someone's plaintive cry that 'you never play any of my requests' - statistics can't make that any more easy to understand and I imagine that looking at the number of requests for certain artists on the banned list would throw the whole thing into even more confusion.
In fact I'm so confused I'd better have some breakfast.
Re jobs I concur entirely & again I'll cite MMfaeClydebank. The Disc Spinner worked at Radio Clyde & where's the studio Clydebank (bridging) however the Snr Prod. language always belittled shouts by MM by using innuendo .. never been to Clydebank ie saying something while apparently saying something else! She had no words left when I on the BLOG I reminder her that Jimmy Mac worked at Clyde after Beeb Scotland got shot of him.
Misheard lyrics again? FFS
ReplyDeleteHey Adam thanks for the vote of confidence but I'm done... I'm (& I hope that I'm not assuming too much) with Scotch & Gaie & therefore out.
ReplyDeleteBig Babs is obviously non receptive to the notion of change albeit development of the programme's ethos & looks to "CBBC's" for mainstream influence! Christ! Just how long has it been since a generation of teenagers lead a change in popular music... Late 80's & RAVE ach, w.t.f. do I know.
Anyhow... Here's the reply to "their" email sent on Saturday past,
Given the dust now appears to be settling on your Facebook page I now wish to respond to your communication.
May I firstly be allowed to reply to your response to my Facebook comment and that I am a little surprised at your reaction to that particular remark.
Wednesday was surprisingly very popular (given Progressive Rocks usual perceived standing) and I noted more listeners than usual we're actually "chatting" on Facebook as opposed to merely registering requests. Being genuinely pleased I saw a similarity to the former blog and wished to share this thought in keeping with Facebook ethos.
I suspect you (whoever you are given you contacted me whilst at work & without stating your relationship to GIO) have read something into that statement that simply wasn't there.
However, having said that & as a licence payer I am entitled to express an opinion. GIO currently occupies a slot when I wish the be entertained by BBC Radio Scotland and so long as it is with due courtesy and respect I will continue to feel justified in doing so.
Having mentioned common courtesy, your long overdue explanation with regard to the decision re withdrawal of your Blog came as no surprise. It is my opinion this was a deliberate and divisive move to stimulating a reaction between your perceived audience groups.
In closing please don't contact me ever again without stating who you are and your relationship with the programme / BBC.
Which particular remark was that Prof?
DeleteLeave it, Mac - they're not worth it.
DeleteAgreed. With events going on at Grangemouth it puts everything into perspective.
DeleteAt least it's still standing. No "careless cigarettes" for the insurance money.
DeleteIt a sad day to be honest. I cannot help but feel the relationship bloggers / producers has been on a steady decline.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't we invite them to our get-together. We could start afresh. I believe ACAS can provide a venue.
DeleteFor her own safety, Miss Babs would be on video lilnk.
DeleteTee Hee hee hee he.... then from afar the sound of semi automatic rifle fire and then silence.
DeleteHow did you get your nickname again?
DeleteIt's a play on words by a former colleague & inspired by a series of apocalyptic Australian moves circa 79 / 84.
DeleteBut hey you already knew that ;-)
DeleteThe first Crocdile Dundee film came out in 1986
DeleteSome of these punters need their hearing checked.
ReplyDeleteEh?
DeleteWhat did he say? I've never really bothered about lyrics. To me the voice is just another instrument in the overall arrangement of the song. Lyrics have to be pretty special for me to notice them. Moon and June won't cut it.
DeleteSnap.
DeleteDid they play the Queen song then??
ReplyDeleteBTW over on F***Book, if you pass the cursor over Margarhita Still's photo you'll see her in another photo with Rolf Harris.
Have you got some time on your hands?
DeleteRolf's didgeridoo is at present undergoing forensic testing.
DeleteIf you do the same with my picture you'll see a naked Hydro.
Of course.
DeleteWarren Zevon won a BBC listeners' lyrics competition and this show just will not play him.
DeleteV.E. Razor Wren
DeleteRN von War Zee
DeleteYou're mistaken Adam, that's not Rolf, it's Jack Vettriano (a famous Scottish 'artist').
DeleteI've just heard Rolf is lodging a defence of mistaken identity.
DeleteKin you till wot ee ees yit?
DeleteThey can't see anything for the smoke from the wildfires. As the Mayor of Blue Mountains actually said, "We're not out of the woods, yet."
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ReplyDelete
DeleteAh'm no' swallyin' that!
Photo shop?
Naw it's for real!
DeleteMeanwhile Billy and I are continuing to find a lot to like on "Sounds of the 80s".
ReplyDeleteThis is on the latest show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5UYO6drRRI
I've only heard the first show so far. It was pretty good.
DeleteI hope you enjoy PG tonight Norrie.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to it Billy! Same to you!
DeleteHope It's A Knockout
DeleteAny tips??
DeleteTracey Ullman is responsible for the Simpsons. If only shed asked for a percentage.
DeleteRight enough. Though I dont think she's hurting for money.
DeleteI trust David Dundas (his Lordship these days) got on tonight.
ReplyDeleteThere's a street in Glasgow named after him he must be a Tobacco Lord.
DeleteInteresting theme this evening. Anybody want to have a crack at Glen's predos record?
ReplyDeleteI dont think Lee Marvin will count coz he was an actor not a singer.
You can put the house on Johnny Cymbal
DeletePaddy Power owns my house
DeleteCash & Hurt on Farcebook again, it must be mainstream by now, btw what about the faux pas re Vincent Price... it really is amateur hour.
ReplyDeleteWhat did they do?
ReplyDeleteyeah...what did they say? Jx
ReplyDeleteBilly get lost on his way home from the Hydro?
ReplyDeleteI managed to escape from Glasgow. Sorry I wasn't on earlier to set your mind at rest (:-)
Deletenot good enough, Billy, and not even a review of the show as an excuse for tardiness.
DeleteConfused his birth with his death!
ReplyDeleteHydro spotted in US
Delete
ReplyDeleteNEWSFLASH!
Lou Reed is no longer with us. Condolences to Laurie Anderson.
That's a theme - performers who liked a drink.
DeleteIt's actually surprising he lasted as long as he did - obviously, Jack Bruce's liver taransplant worked out somewhat better than Lou's - Jack played on lou's 'Berlin' album - I bought it but found it pretty unlistenable. the world is full of small coincidences...
DeleteLou Reed leaves behind a body of work which would stand comparison with anybody (IMHO). All the Velvets albums, Transformer, Berlin, Coney Island, Street hassle, The Bells, Blue Mask, New Sensations, New York, Magic and Loss are all outstanding albums.
DeleteTransformer is OK but you didn't leave a Lou Reed show whistling the tunes.
DeleteI think this news would have pleased Lou
DeleteNae theme today?
ReplyDeleteI see you've been having a wee steer on FB, Glen.
Another non-theme show tonight.
DeleteNot half. Songs you can sing.
DeleteDon't think I can stand the return of the Bry & Babs Show, Adam.
DeleteMore affected Beeb Luvvies & their positive spin on how happy drive time radio can really be... "Non-theme?" please don't act surprised it's the same as when he finished up a couple of weeks back, lazy, unimaginative, unaccountable, speculative rubbish. It's one thing to claim you can sing a song word perfect, it's another to sing it in tune.
DeleteAll this Sun, Sea & relaxing has really quashed any degree of tolerance!
Better with Bry Nylon (:-)
DeleteNah "Booji Boy"
DeleteSounds like another fun filled show tonight. Songs you can't sing along to...
ReplyDeleteI'm remaining in my box.. dunno but think Mildred Ratched slipped me a Mickey!
DeleteJust over 20 entries on FB so far. I think that tells it's own story. I hope you recover soon!
DeleteUnbelievable!
Delete;-)
Wtf?
DeleteIt's a busy one on the phones tonight...
DeleteHere was me thinking it was slow in here!
DeleteYou try singing Wow by Ms Bush then!
DeleteSorry I was being thick! Wuthering Heights was easy to sing last night...
DeleteNo way... who's "spin" was that?
DeleteNo idea Prof. Obviously some poor deluded fool.
DeleteI see wor Julie is FB monitor today.
ReplyDeleteThe new VOR
DeleteThe morningside courier will have a letter
DeleteEZ doesn't bother with the Media.. he's got a direct-line to Big Eck apparently.
DeleteI've written to the Buckstone Bugle Jx
DeleteWhere's the moderator now?
ReplyDeleteFFS that was meant to be further up!
DeleteAye, the theme hasn't grabbed them today. Maybe the swearing has put them off.
ReplyDelete
DeleteFed up wi' Bryan Burnett?
Why not give T-Bone Burnett a try?
It seems to have picked up unfortunately.
Delete"Bryan plays bands that are not quite what they say"
ReplyDeleteeh? Lemon Jelly? the Beatles?
I really am begining to wonder.....
This could possibly be the worst theme idea ever!
DeleteNot only Graham Parker on Later but John Mayer too..and there's The Daughter in Aiberdeen withoot a telly...she lurves John Mayer. Jx
ReplyDeleteI switched on for 10 minutes tonight just before the 7 pm news to hear giggling and silly comment. The Simpsons were on Channel 4 + 1 so it was Get It a Off I'm afraid.
ReplyDeleteYou managed 10 minutes?
Deletetonites playlist...............adam ant.............johnny cash...............scritti politi (definitely sounds like a lie)..........unit 4 + 2 is definitely not true but a good tune so that's my shout....
ReplyDeletecheers frae the dale
I hope the killers dont really mean it...
ReplyDeleteOr The Stranglers?
DeleteAre there any bands that don't fit
Deletethis silly theme?
DeleteGoal.
DeleteThe Pet Shop Boys??
DeleteI had no idea that the top 70s/80s toothy Radio 1 DJ had a kite sideline!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.peterpowellkites.co.uk
I wonder if fellow DJs like Kid Jensen and Gary Davies had such things on the go?
What could our hero put his name to??
Bryan's Bunnets
DeleteGood grief where do you start, fun runner gear design, Aberdonian cuisine cookbook.
Delete"Forget Bowie, fire up a rouwie!"
DeleteBabs baps are the boys at Bryan's Bakehouse! They're all well cooked, "We don't Burnett!"
ReplyDeleteEvery time this theme comes around I request Baron Samedi - 10cc
Every time this theme comes around we get the same playlist.
This playlist does not include Baron Samedi - 10cc
But it probably should...
At least Glen might get Warren Zevon played (;-)
DeleteHe's on Radio 2 right now.
DeleteGlen?? I thought he was in Boston.
DeleteAnybody fancy having a pop at Glen's predo record?
ReplyDeleteAnything from Guise and Dolls
One Bad Apple or Dook of Earl
What was that Hot Chocolate song about spooks? A wooooooooooooo-in, surely.
GIO predictions:
DeletePeople Are Strange - The Doors
Monster - The Automatic
Ghost Town - The Specials
Amityville - Lovebug Starski
Spooky - Dusty Springfield
The Phantom of The Opera
There's A Ghost In My House - R. Dean Taylor
Devil In Disguise - Elvis Presley
Spellbound - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
I Put A Spell On You - Nina Simone
November Spawned A Monster - Morrissey
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Scary Monsters And Super Creeps - David Bowie
Grimly Fiendish - The Damned
Devil Woman - Cliff Richard
The Ghost In You - Psychedelic Furs
Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant
What Prescence - Orange Juice
The Phantom will be the ALW one not Iron Maiden!
DeleteGood effort Billy. Might need a couple of witches in there though.
DeleteAny early favourites on the other side? (see what I did there???). Trying to think if there are any Queen or Blondies titles that can be shoe horned in. Johnny Cash must have done a ghostie song.
I think ALW is banned from GIO.
DeleteWitchcraft - Frank Sinatra
DeleteWitchy Woman - The Eagles
Season of the Witch - Donovan
Ghost Riders In the Sky - Johnny Cash
DeleteA Kind of Magic - Queen
(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear - Blondie
Ghost of Love - The Proclaimers
DeleteWill I stop now?
That'll dae.
DeleteThink I might have gone with Witch Queen of New Orleans though.
A late entry for:
DeleteIs There A Ghost - Band of Horses
A cracking tune!
You'd have done alright on this show:
Deletehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03fqc3r
Outstanding Billy but no Alice & Feed My Frankenstein?
DeleteBTW here's my Halloween joke for Mr S Git...
"What's a pirates favourite shop?"
Arr...gos!
Looks about right...
ReplyDeleteWhat's the score to beat?
ReplyDeleteLooking hopeful...
DeleteI made that 10 and a half!
DeleteI know. Nothing to be proud of really...
ReplyDeleteDid they get it on... No Costume, No Candy ~ Swingin' Neckbreakers
ReplyDeleteOf course not.
DeleteDid you miss AC/DC's Highway To monotone Monotomy?
ReplyDeleteWhit's oor blog meister upto on Farcebook? Oi! Norrie you tryin' to pull Annie Mary?
ReplyDeleteSo, any good Guiser jokes?
ReplyDelete10 and a half!!
ReplyDeleteI've no even looked at the playlist yet but that's very well done.
Take that Mr Miller.
It's still less than half of the playlist. How could I have forgotten Mr Git's favourite The Devil Went Down to Georgia?
DeleteBilly well done I think you have the new record! I note you waited until Glen was out of the Country to usurp him!
ReplyDeleteNoe then where is your saints list...
Thanks!
DeleteI'll get back to you later. As noted above there's still scope for extra predictions.
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Deleteyour missing a pure belter B_i_A.........
ReplyDeletea wellie in nivver mind a shoe.
cheers frae the dale
Van The Man - St. Dominics Preview
ReplyDeleteThe Thin White Duke - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
The Master - Joan of Arc
Cruel - St Vincent
ReplyDeleteGoing for it again Billy??
ReplyDeleteNo St Etienne?
BTW Ive been scanning the local Boston / Cambridge news channels for any reports of assaults on trick or treaters. I can imagine our Glen not getting into the swing of things up there.
Amended prediction:
DeleteHe's On The Phone - St Etienne
Cruel - St Vincent
Saint Francis Songs – The Pearlfishers
A Letter from St Paul – The Silencers
The Saints Are Coming – The Skids
Saint – Texas
Goody Two Shoes – Adam Ant
Promised You A Miracle – Simple Minds
The Patience of Angels – Eddi Reader
Never Ever – All Saints
When The Saints Go Marching In – Louis Armstrong
Something Good – Utah Saints
Wake Up Your Saints – The National
It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City – Bruce Springsteen
Theme From The Saint – Orbital
Bernadette – The Four Tops
Joan of Arc – OMD
St Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion) – John Parr
Pure – Lightning Seeds
Maria – Blondie
True Faith– New Order
I Believe In Miracles – Jackson Sisters
I'd request Martin by Soft Cell but no that was a cert for Halloween never mind All Saints... as if themes actually matter, yup Fish Thing it's still poor!
DeleteBiA, well did you improve on your PB?
DeleteNo the playlist was too eclectic (;-)
DeleteSeveral years back Big Babs publicly stated she didn't like that word.
DeleteBack to Dale's language theory
DeleteThe general tone of this blog would indicate that GIO is still shite. Glad I stopped listening. I wish the BBC would bury this show and come up with something and somebody else. Glad you're all still here though.
ReplyDeleteMike Heron, Georgia Seddon and Trembling Bells at the Glad Cafe were excellent last week. Gaie would have liked them.
Hello Thing-Fish. As long as there are sycophantic followers on FB the show will carry on (or possibly curry on if that's what you're having for tea).
DeleteBTW good to see you back!
DeleteThanks Billy. I’ve never been to FB and don’t intend to. Maybe if I did BB would close it down like he did with the blog because he didn’t like the comments. I like to think I was partly responsible for that along with the rest of the unsycophantic bloggers (I can’t think of an antonym). Still – the blog lives on and was always better than the programme anyway.
DeleteWill an anagram do? stony chap
DeleteNasty chop
DeleteThe clad cafe is a good wee venue
DeleteGlen does get into the swing of things!!
ReplyDeleteSeen here celebrating Warren's appearance on GIO.
http://www.krystalnet.com/Picture%201275.jpg
Mac you might want to make this your picture on FB.
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ReplyDeleteOr a nearly anagram - pantyhose
DeleteGood to hear form you Thing - Fish, how's Ggreggery Peccery and Cynthia Plastercaster?
DeleteNever mind that Hannah youve nicked my MCC shout on facebook. You need a facebook manners lesson having upset our morningside correpondent recently..............
DeleteHenri actually requested Mary-Chapin Crapenter...
DeleteGood job I'm a good speler (;-)
DeleteBad speeling is my job
DeleteHi Henri. I hope you're not one of the sycophants. I'm sure you're not. Greggary and Cynthia are doing well, thank you. Cynthia was very impressed with the Trembling Bells. The Glad Cafe is a good wee venue right enough.
DeleteHello, Thing-Fish, good to see you back again. I don't know the Glad Cafe - where is it? There are all sorts of Glasgow venues springing up that I don't know. I just heard Arcade Fire were playing Glasgow this month, thought it a bit odd I'd not heard before, checked and found they're playing Barrowland as The Reflektors for - wait for it - £220 a ticket.
DeleteListening to Roddy Hart show on iplayer as I write, and yes, he wasn't afraid to play The Witches' Hat.
or Heat Stew Hitch. Good to see the return of the anagram too.
'Scuse me, the nagaram was never away, it was just havin a ewe pan
DeleteThing fish - I've been demoted considerably since I decided to edify the nation with my views of what constitutes prog rock. i wasn't attacking the programme, but they seem to have taken it badly I think. Bryan only refers to me by my sunday name, 'henri hannah', wheras previously i was simply 'henri' . The favoured, like norrie and fergie ( from aberdeen) are only ever referred to by their christian/pet names.
DeleteThere's an in for you Fish Thing. The disc spinner has even referred to some of us as legends... as in troll ;-)
DeleteAnd if you ever gain the accolade o bein one o BB's pals, he might just refer to you as his "Thing"!
DeleteSortet
H shin Git
DeleteHey Gaie funny where inspiration comes from.. http://thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/watch-arcade-fire-cover-devo-live-140607
DeleteBiA might also be interested ;-)
Thanks Prof. I'll check it out.
DeleteCurrently enjoying the band Shearwater a new find from last week's RH show. Not too different from AMWWF, who I'm looking forward to seeing in December in the CCA, at nothing like £220 a ticket.
ReplyDeleteListen to Roddy Hart's show after he plays John Prine...made me chuckle. Jx
ReplyDeleteHahaha, c wot u mean!
DeleteA while back early one Sunday morning when Tony Blackburn was standing in for someone or other on R2 he seemed to be having a conversation with a listener who was apparently phoning from the 'West End of Glasgow'....It was quite a bizarre conversation where Tony asked what the weather was like and the reply, oft repeated, was that it was a sparkling sunny day out my window......as I looked round through the windows of my car all I could see was cloud as clear as dishwasher right in the heart of the 'West End of Glasgow'....this conversation I found disturbing and I couldn't quite figure what was going on.....it was as if Tony was conversing with someone who was talking in tongues......well...........sometimes I get this same eerie feeling with GIO...there is a conversation going on for sure but not with everybody....there is some form of covert dialogue taking place........I am not a statistician but I can do hard sums.... I would have thought that the frequency of those who text in for a 'tune' only to find that they have just missed it stretches the meaning of 'statistically insignificant', as another example of this strange sort of conversation I heard with TB.
ReplyDeleteI often think the programme is having a private joke, with who?,....so Jude the Obscure?.....two Jude songs plus the montage....seems a statistical anomaly too far, for me, as well - and not a very well concealed cryptic kind of nodding in some direction or other.
So yes, there is a dialogue and it is *obscured* by the occasional bone to the listener(s)......so who for example is 'fergie in aberdeen'.......why always the emphasis on the whole name?...it may all be completely innocent, but I don't think so....which is one of the reasons those most coveted of jobs like the telephone boy are never publicly advertised to allow young people with the wrong postcode to get a job in the BBC.....not much accountability there....in fact as T_F observes make too much noise and you are banished.....I'm quite good at reading body language and I think I'm quite good at listening language too....I've spent a career doing just that.
cheers frae the dale
I'll hae a pint o the same please barman ....
DeleteFloyd wis good on BBC4 tonight btw
Again
Dale, you've got something there.
DeleteI've often wondered what memorisation technique particularly the Disc Spinner adopts...
perhaps Chunking being the oldest method works best when the order of the items is not important. Rhyming makes use of the fact that we have a natural tendency to remember rhymes and rhythms I.E. why "Madmac" got credited with too many mainstream titles back in the day?
You've also got Mediation/Bridging & Austin Lafferty our "celeb lawyer" & Norrie's pal seems to match this technique.
Lastly maybe in "their" sickly sweet world it's Bed-time Recital but given Ms Babs recent resistance to the suggestion of change to "Luvvies CBBC's nice radio" I can't see her sleeping after thinking about recent feedback problems and there being a chance of arriving at a solution the next day... do you?
Ah ken DC but still worth watching again.
I think, and I'm no statistician either but why should that stop me, statistics would show that GIO is as far from random as you can get. Statistics would show that a very small minority of the contributing listeners have their songs played, that some people are mentioned every single night no matter what, and that others, like Thing-Fish were routinely cold-shouldered and then made fun of by playing Cliff Richard, a little piece of playground bullying in response to criticism of the programme's unadventurous playlist. Statistics would show - where's Capt Ramius when you need him? that out of the song-base of, what did they say, 100,000 songs, they play a tiny proportion over and over and over and then massage the figures by throwing in at most one or two oddities to keep their boasted status of 'eclecticism'.
DeleteAnd yet every so often they'd read out someone's plaintive cry that 'you never play any of my requests' - statistics can't make that any more easy to understand and I imagine that looking at the number of requests for certain artists on the banned list would throw the whole thing into even more confusion.
In fact I'm so confused I'd better have some breakfast.
Re jobs I concur entirely & again I'll cite MMfaeClydebank. The Disc Spinner worked at Radio Clyde & where's the studio Clydebank (bridging) however the Snr Prod. language always belittled shouts by MM by using innuendo .. never been to Clydebank ie saying something while apparently saying something else! She had no words left when I on the BLOG I reminder her that Jimmy Mac worked at Clyde after Beeb Scotland got shot of him.
DeleteD'oh "reminded" is breakfast ready yet Gaie reckon I need some also ;-)
DeleteRouwies or Baps? We've had loads of requests for that this morning!
DeleteMorton's Rolls in this neck of the woods DC
DeleteI wis meaning the Ehburrdonian breakfast.
DeleteMorton's OVD rum here (but not for breakfast.....)
you're working in a bakery, DC? I'll have a couple of puggie-buns please.
DeleteYou wouldn't ask for that on Leith Walk on a Friday night.....
DeleteNawwww, I was imitating a certain DJ fae Furry Boot Toon
I'll stick tae the day job