Somebody should point out to B Doig on Facebook that "Mama Told Me Not To Come" was a hit in 1970. Plus "Handbags and Gladrags" was only released as a single by Rod in the USA and that was 72. Maybe his first album wasnt the greatest hits of 1973 after all.
Dear Mr dantic - we prefer not to let facts get in the way of a good story. For example it is good that Parallel Lines has recently (last night) been declared the greatest debut lp of all time.
Ah, I see... Miss B used to tell the story about how DLT stayed over one night at her parents’ place when she was a lass. I think conversations at the coffee machine have been coming to sudden halts since he was charged.
Meanwhile on the other side... Wor Julie is asking but no one is listening and it looks like the Liquid Entertainer has made an early start to the weekend.
Oops, misread the theme. So no, Adam I won't be going for Tom or anyone else, it's another dud, barrel-scraping nae imagination idea. No, it's not even an idea.
Dearame Glen, I see what you mean. Their grasp of functional English is as bad as their grammar. How did it go in the end? Did they manage to get enough genuine offers? What was Paolo's shout?
Caught the last half hour of the BB King documentary on BBC4. Wish I'd seen the first hour - it'd better turn up on iPlayer, though not everything seems to.
So what inspired this theme then Julie? Coz you know it'll be some bloke in Dalkeith that has spaghetti hoops on toast for his tea that'll be credited with it.
I really don't know Adam. It just popped into my head and I thought it might appeal to BB etc over some of the facebook clan's suggestions hehe. I don't even have a song-suggestion. Maybe I'll be assembling a croquembouche while simultaneously stirring a béarnaise sauce and keeping an eye on the baked alaska. Jx
Can i just say, having dropped in and read back, and made sense of Scotch's texts last week, that I didn't get a theme played last week...unless they found Gaie's jotter from the last decade. . In fact I haven't suggested a theme or a request or managed a listen since the bygone days of Englandshire being a dry country. What's the themes this week then? Have we done a referendum theme yet? there's loads of referendum songs.
I listened tae about an hour of the show tonight. What a load o guff about recipes an weird meals fae folk who haven't been on before. Even the Meek family have stopped telling us their eating habits.
It's about time Aggie fae Hawick came back wi her hedgehog pies.
I remember the day Runrig played Balloch. I was driving to scarborough with a wife and three weans in the car whilst all the pals I had converted to Runrig were heading for balloch. Having seen them at the QM hall of residence, Tiffany's, Night Moves and best of all barrowland, I missed out on ther finest hour and lost interest in them soon afterwards.
I couldn't begin to choose just one, but certainly Runrig at Barrowland are always brilliant. Donnie's farewell at Stirling Castle was obviously memorable and then our first post-Donnie gig in Greenock Town Hall kicked off a whole new and vastly enlivened era. . The Silencers Burns Night gig for Cha Burns (ABC) shortly before he died will always be a stand-out memory - the atmosphere was unbelievable. Tribes at Òran Mòr last year were first-rate and they'd have been brilliant at Barrowland. Sadly they're no more. Didn't see that one coming.
There's so much discussion on FB on the Apollo page and so many folks with happy memories, but though I saw the Stones there and I'm sure must have been blown away at the time, I can't actually 'feel' what it was like at all any more it was so long ago. Eric Clapton, Edinburgh Playhouse - that was good. So was BB King with Robert Cray. And so it goes.
My all-time stand-out gig will surely always be Tom Petty at RAH. But then that's not in Scotland.
well they'd better play Siobhan Wilson's A Case of You this time. I know they've got it, Roddy Hart's already played it, but it was Bryan who asked her to send a recording. Of course if Billy'd like to ask for it that would avoid them having to mention me.
jist sayin' there pure hunners of requests for The Proclaimers over by. Some folks must like them.
You can diss Runrig if you like, Julie, but if I tell you, if I thought I were going to a gig with them at Barrowland tonight, I'd be singing in the rain already :0)
Have a good time Norrie. Does that mean you wont be over for the WC?
ReplyDeletePreviously on the Blog from Big Eck:
"By the way have any of you lot got a Plan B fur me an' Fish Hied"
You've lost me. Can you explain a wee bit?
Not looking good I am afraid Adam...
DeleteCurrency union... No!
DeleteThe Yes campaign now have to try to answer some of the detailed arguments or come up with a Plan B and stop claiming to be the victims in all this!
Ah kain. About time we stood up tae bullion
DeletePlan B: Pledge to close down Radio Scotland and start a new station with Henri Hannah and Glen Miller in charge.
DeleteYou've got my vote
DeleteCan you stop bullying me now.
DeleteSomebody should point out to B Doig on Facebook that "Mama Told Me Not To Come" was a hit in 1970. Plus "Handbags and Gladrags" was only released as a single by Rod in the USA and that was 72.
ReplyDeleteMaybe his first album wasnt the greatest hits of 1973 after all.
Dear Mr dantic - we prefer not to let facts get in the way of a good story. For example it is good that Parallel Lines has recently (last night) been declared the greatest debut lp of all time.
Delete......and, according to 'our hero', a graaayyyyt track in itself
DeleteMiss B will be relieved that the Hairy Cornflake got off then.
ReplyDeleteWhy's that like?
DeleteNot enough convincing evidence I suppose.
DeleteAh dinnae understand, what's that tae dae wi Miss B???
DeleteAh, I see...
DeleteMiss B used to tell the story about how DLT stayed over one night at her parents’ place when she was a lass.
I think conversations at the coffee machine have been coming to sudden halts since he was charged.
Don't
DeleteLike
Thinking
about that......
He's not quite in the clear yet.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile on the other side...
ReplyDeleteWor Julie is asking but no one is listening and it looks like the Liquid Entertainer has made an early start to the weekend.
Is she fannying about again?
DeleteYou'll have had your DL tea?
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ReplyDeleteMONDAY
Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day - Jethro Tull
The best chance so far this year to get the Mighty Tull played!
I'm not convinced the producer will consider that fits in with the theme of 2 hours of essential music.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm glad you're still such a cheery optimist.
:0)
DeleteO, ye of little faith! Monday's theme is the Winter Olympics
Jethro Tull are a shoo-in!
>8-D
that'll be the thin ice of hell having frozen over, then?
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DeleteIndeed! Tuesday's show will be the usual suspects, with a glimmer of hope for Wednesday!
>8-D
Percy SLEDGE
ReplyDeleteBronSKI Beat
I Only Have ICE For You
I've been struggling for a rhyme for Olympics and can only come up with gym tricks and dim pr****s.
DeleteOh Adam you've missed the obvious... "Adamski"
DeleteThis mine, shout that is...
DeleteStompin' Tom Connors & his NHL favourite "The Hockey Song."
ReplyDeleteDC is on the piste with his skiin' doo...
Ah wish ah wis a pigeon,
DeleteAh do,
Ah do.............
Warren Z popular tonight I see.
ReplyDeleteThey might be struggling with the theme tonight. How many "cold"s can they put in? Its no even that cauld in Sochi. 10C today.
At least they got most of the buildings finished.
DeleteAt least everyone is coming.
DeleteWarren didn't write the bloody song... Don't you hate it when your elders blag your ideas!
DeleteKeep it country!
They're still looking for people for the opening ceremony - they've got a jazz trio at the moment.
DeleteIf that comment is targeted at me, Mac - it's a different song. I'm quite hurt, in fact I resemble that remark.
ReplyDeleteNot the song Faither .. the sport!
ReplyDeleteSo did Tull and Warren get on?
ReplyDeleteaccording to this
Deletethey were sonic soulmates
Tonight, friends, I am going to suggest The Dark, Dark Bright by There Will Be Fireworks.
ReplyDeleteWhit a terr.
Adam will be able to hear the laughter.
DeleteI am going for Bohemian Rhapsody.
DeleteThey're looking for the best Greatest Hits album so it might be an evening of Queen.
Delete"These Are The Days"
DeleteWhats all the racket???
DeleteGaie, I'm surprised you're not going with something from Tom and Ken's live anthology?
I almost asked a stupid question. Got you now Adam.
DeleteOops, misread the theme. So no, Adam I won't be going for Tom or anyone else, it's another dud, barrel-scraping nae imagination idea. No, it's not even an idea.
DeleteSpot on Gaie.
DeleteBTW how did Vannesa Mae qualify for the Olympics?? Sounds like a fiddle to me.
just another string to her bow
DeleteAt least she isn't doing it for the money.
DeleteOh behave and give poor girl a break you lot, there's a movie and film score in the experience somewhere.
DeleteWhat do you think Mr Git?
ReplyDelete
DeleteI lasted 38 seconds. Is this a record?
No, I think it's a CD.
Deleteor else it's how long I stood Miss B's cackling for, before switching to radio 2.
So what theme was the one referred to tonight as one suggested by Paolo? I'm sure I heard him mentioned. Jx
ReplyDeleteOffers you can't refuse is tonight's theme. Paolo was credited with coming up with this.
DeleteSheesh! He'll do anything to get the Bellamy Brothers on.
DeleteIt isn't a roaring success. There seems to be a basic lack of understanding as to what constitutes an offer e.g. Van Halen's Jump.
DeleteWe need more songs that are a sordid exploration of fecklessness and misery © HH (;-)
DeleteEscapism from the bliss that is real life.
DeleteDearame Glen, I see what you mean. Their grasp of functional English is as bad as their grammar.
DeleteHow did it go in the end? Did they manage to get enough genuine offers? What was Paolo's shout?
Who's Paolo?
DeleteFine, last time I spoke tae him
DeleteI watched the Olympics. Don't know if he got a shout. David Bowie wants us to stay in the UK.
DeleteOsborne, Barroso, Balls, Alexander and now Bowie, we're all doomed I tell ye!
DeleteApparently as an expat I can opt to remain British if you lot do do something daft.
Deleteif anybiddy does anything daft i'm movin tae hastings.....you get the papers on new years day
Deletecheers frae the dale UKOK
Albeit gey soggy anes
DeleteEven worse news
DeleteYou must have been thrilled your favourite girl singer got and award last night, Glen?
DeleteIt's a little bit funny...
DeleteThe world is now run by diddies.
DeleteNOW! Have I won?
DeleteNot yet Eck!
DeletePhew, that's a relief. Nikki the Fish is still working on Plan Zee
DeleteOdd theme for a Friday.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone asked for The Persuaders yet?
Or this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7x5aIifokw
Better still
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vERE274OdFc
I don't know. It's all gone a bit mental over on the other side. Should be a busy show....
DeleteI'm Mad no Mental f.f.s!
DeleteWey hey! It's my theme on Monday...hope there are no Queen or Blondie songs about mirrors/reflections. Jx (there will be though)
ReplyDelete
DeleteAs I reflect on the last time we had this theme, I cannot help but wonder if Monday's playlist will mirror it.
V good SG. Have we had this theme before? Jx
Delete
DeleteIndeed! I got this played. Nuthin' since, mind.
Well done Julie x
DeleteJfE, Can I take you to a restaurant
Delete
ReplyDelete"I can't wait to look in the mirror, coz I get better lookin' each day..."
Is it a fairground mirror (;-)
Delete
Delete
ReplyDeleteAnither yin fae Mac Davis.
Glen, nothing to do with mirrors, but thought this might be of interest?
ReplyDeleteSaw him at The Ferry. He has enormous hands.
DeleteCaught the last half hour of the BB King documentary on BBC4. Wish I'd seen the first hour - it'd better turn up on iPlayer, though not everything seems to.
ReplyDeleteFine apart from Bono.
DeleteOnob
DeleteSo what inspired this theme then Julie?
ReplyDeleteCoz you know it'll be some bloke in Dalkeith that has spaghetti hoops on toast for his tea that'll be credited with it.
I really don't know Adam. It just popped into my head and I thought it might appeal to BB etc over some of the facebook clan's suggestions hehe. I don't even have a song-suggestion. Maybe I'll be assembling a croquembouche while simultaneously stirring a béarnaise sauce and keeping an eye on the baked alaska. Jx
Delete
ReplyDeleteDouble-Whammy!
I'm having a strong premonition about Heart Of Glass.
ReplyDelete
DeleteShe farts. GOAL!
Disallowed. It's mine.
ReplyDeletethe goal, I mean.
Delete
Deleteyou've not got much to say for yourself this weather, Mr G
Delete
DeleteGaie,
I am incapable of raising a single eyebrow à la Roger Moore, and find myself envious of those who can.
The best I can manage is a blank comment box.
puir wee git
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ReplyDeleteo o
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Roll over Vettriano
DeleteI'm not a fan either I much prefer " Roll Over Beethoven" by Chuck.
DeleteI don't know much about art, but I do know what I don't like. However, I absolutely love Glasgow's murals. City's looking great
Delete
DeleteTo the Dark Side you would tempt us!
Devious you are!!!
but think what fun you could have posting photos of your dinner along with your suggestions to GIO.
DeleteThese murals are usually on gables exposed by demolition. Some think we'll be the next Detroit.
DeleteCan i just say, having dropped in and read back, and made sense of Scotch's texts last week, that I didn't get a theme played last week...unless they found Gaie's jotter from the last decade. . In fact I haven't suggested a theme or a request or managed a listen since the bygone days of Englandshire being a dry country.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the themes this week then? Have we done a referendum theme yet? there's loads of referendum songs.
TV themes, best of Best ofs, short songs - I think our jotter rose above all that guff.
DeleteReach Out - Oil Be There
Deleteit was mentioned that they've found the themes list...must've raided the Broadcaster's Hall Of Fame! Jx
DeleteIs that a telephone box?
Delete
ReplyDeleteCheck it out!
Here's a song that won't be played tonight
ReplyDeleteHow did you guess that?
Deletejust a weird premonition, Billy.
DeleteI listened tae about an hour of the show tonight. What a load o guff about recipes an weird meals fae folk who haven't been on before. Even the Meek family have stopped telling us their eating habits.
ReplyDeleteIt's about time Aggie fae Hawick came back wi her hedgehog pies.
ReplyDeleteStill cannae believe a show on the theme of chat-up lines didnae' include this.
scunnered git
Well I'd have gone for a Brad Paisley too, possibly this
DeleteWell its mankini time again. Doesnt seem a year since it last got an airing.
ReplyDeleteOh and given Kate Perry's latest scandal, maybe blasphemy in pop could be a good tea time theme.
And see what we're doing on Monday in London.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.royalalberthall.com/press/pressreleases/release.aspx?id=30270
Now that a RAH Band!
Looks good.
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ReplyDeleteTricky theme tonight. Songs featuring colours FFS.
ReplyDeleteA McCafferty night.
Delete
DeleteI hope no-one asks for mauve.
Men don't know what mauve is.
GIO don't know when an appropriate list of B sides is posted on Farcebook.
DeleteGet It Alba & Rabo Direct Pro 12
ReplyDelete1st. Monday in March is acoustic night.
Yet another opporchancity to hear Nirvana murder "The Man Who Sold the World"
Surely they must be getting bored by how often their repeated themes are being featured.
ReplyDeleteJeff needs to review his Performance Management process.
Have we had Myths + Legend? Jx
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteMy Lords, Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you
The Holy Grail
Put it somewhere safe.
A topic for discussion?
ReplyDeleteI remember the day Runrig played Balloch. I was driving to scarborough with a wife and three weans in the car whilst all the pals I had converted to Runrig were heading for balloch. Having seen them at the QM hall of residence, Tiffany's, Night Moves and best of all barrowland, I missed out on ther finest hour and lost interest in them soon afterwards.
Delete
DeleteKinky Friedman at King Tut's, 24 - 6 - 1992
I couldn't begin to choose just one, but certainly Runrig at Barrowland are always brilliant. Donnie's farewell at Stirling Castle was obviously memorable and then our first post-Donnie gig in Greenock Town Hall kicked off a whole new and vastly enlivened era. . The Silencers Burns Night gig for Cha Burns (ABC) shortly before he died will always be a stand-out memory - the atmosphere was unbelievable. Tribes at Òran Mòr last year were first-rate and they'd have been brilliant at Barrowland. Sadly they're no more. Didn't see that one coming.
DeleteThere's so much discussion on FB on the Apollo page and so many folks with happy memories, but though I saw the Stones there and I'm sure must have been blown away at the time, I can't actually 'feel' what it was like at all any more it was so long ago. Eric Clapton, Edinburgh Playhouse - that was good. So was BB King with Robert Cray.
And so it goes.
My all-time stand-out gig will surely always be Tom Petty at RAH. But then that's not in Scotland.
But just think how tickled you were.
Deletewell go on, then Adam, tell us about the time you saw Showaddywaddy in Auchtermuchty.
DeleteWhere's everyone?
ReplyDelete
DeleteDeh ken!
What's there to say but we're withering on the vine.
DeleteBeaten by middle of the road drive time radio.
Let's all target Simon Mayo's blog.
DeleteDC you going to Murrayfield on Saturday?
ReplyDeleteIn the Guildford, West Register St from 12:00
DeleteI often go tae the Cafe Royale, next door, before rugby games
DeleteNut a chirpy chirpy cheep cheep fae some of the regulars here.
ReplyDeleteI won't be at Murrayfield, I did my penance a few weeks back. Bon chance mon ami, nous needons it......
Thought I'd mention it, I've witnessed two Calcutta whitewashes at Murrayfield now, first time I was 15!
DeleteThe Daughter's going. I can't afford it but she's a poor student and can. Jx
DeleteHello, just reporting in.
ReplyDeleteThats Carnaval ower for another year. Mankini dreepin on the line.
ReplyDeleteLIfe on here is like watching a mankini dry (;-)
ReplyDelete'Life'is a bit of an exaggeration, is it not?
DeleteI guess I got carried away (;-)
Delete
ReplyDeleteFRIDAY
Pinball Wizard - Saint Andrew
well they'd better play Siobhan Wilson's A Case of You this time. I know they've got it, Roddy Hart's already played it, but it was Bryan who asked her to send a recording. Of course if Billy'd like to ask for it that would avoid them having to mention me.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, I've asked for it.
Deletecheers!
DeleteThe mole will of course give them the heads up.
Deleteyou'd have to hope they find time for it in amongst all the Proclaimers requests
DeleteOi Gaie...I resist the temptation to diss Runrig on many an occasion ;o)
DeleteJx
jist sayin' there pure hunners of requests for The Proclaimers over by. Some folks must like them.
DeleteYou can diss Runrig if you like, Julie, but if I tell you, if I thought I were going to a gig with them at Barrowland tonight, I'd be singing in the rain already :0)
Well, did you get Ms Wilson on?
Deleteyep.
DeleteJulie, you've no been asking for the Twins have you???
DeleteI've not been asking for them but I like them and they've provided a substantial part of the soundtrack to my life. Jx
DeleteHow come Norrie is appearing twice daily on the other side but doesnt have time to pop in here for a bit of gardening?
ReplyDeleteAnd where's Glen?
was wondering that too.
Delete
ReplyDeleteMONDAY
Country Bus - Jake Thackray
Tuesday made me laugh. How are they going to get round that one?
DeleteIndeed
DeleteYup. Tuesday should be classic. You fancy a Predo. Bill?
DeleteIf Radio Scotland banned the use of 'you know' from all its interviews, there'd be time for a lot more music.
ReplyDeleteAdd
Delete"to tell you the truth"
"to be honest"
and
"at this moment in time"
every day we could have 2 hours of songs you never hear on the radio.
Delete
DeleteI know.
And some interviewers have the extremely irritating habit of putting words in the mouths of the interviewees.
Pure rips mah knittin', by the way!
Now you're just being silly Gaie (;-)
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