BAIBS Friday 25/10/13

Manic. That's the only way to describe today's show. I was joined by Anastasia Walker, best singer in Donny, front lady for one of Donny's finest - Bang Bang Romeo, good friend and, it would appear, famously gay. I've always liked to think that me and Starsie have a good line in banter. Today we covered man crushes (mine's Grohl, her's is Catfish And The Bottlemen), the use of eggs in war instead of guns, the history of coca-cola and how Starsie's is an unsackable barmaid. The usual format of the show went out the window and given how loose that format is kinda says it all really.

When I first started on the show, November 2009 I believe, there were 3 of us presenting. Actually I just sat in a corner reading bits out from the paper such as a story about strange things found in sewers, the strangest being a horse, a definite two flusher, and moaning about the music, JLS, Cheryl Cole etc. Dreadful. We then became 4, then briefly 5, back to 4, then 3, then 2 and then just me. That was when the music changed and the show took on the 'no other bugger plays this at breakfast' format. I've said many a time all I do is play music I love and hope I'm not the only one. But I do miss having someone to feed off. The times Mark Kelly has joined me are always fun and today's show showed me just how much I do miss a co-host. But, as it is, I'm in sole charge of the play list and that suits me perfectly. If I thought for one minute Stars could get to Sine FM Towers for 7am in the morning she'd get the gig but as awesome as she is she travels in a wake of unreliability. Love her to bits though.

Last night's pub snippet:

It's very nice. Is it carrot cake?

One regular's response to trying some of Lady Punka's chocolate concrete. It's gorgeous stuff and immensely dunkable. Carrot cake!! Prat!!!

Well I've gotta go. Need to do some office shenanigans, get some real ale flowing, nap, see the lovely Tracey, work and rock out to The AVIT Blues band later. In that order I think too. Oh and shop as well. The two missed items from yesterday's shopping trip, the two I really needed, remain unbought.

Before that though I have to remove a dead gazelle from the pub car park. Probably brought down by a herd of majestic wildebeest sweeping in from Printing Office Street.

Hang on.

Scratch that.

It's a dead gazebo. Probably brought down by wind and rain sweeping in from the East. Nowhere near as exotic.

Don't use guns, use eggs.

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 25/10/13

The Mighty Ship - The Housemartins

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Kings For The Weekend - Missing Andy

Bubbles - Biffy Clyro

Talking Woman Blues - The AVIT Blues Band

Made Of Stone - The Stone Roses

La La Love You - Pixies

Geraldine - Glasvegas

Friday Night - The Talks

Shout To The Top - The Style Council

You Are The Everything - R.E.M.

Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club

Medicine Show - Big Audio Dynamite

Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay (with apologies to Jackie Sherwood AND Nicole Harper)

Theme From PSB - Public Service Broadcasting

Kennedy - The Wedding Present

New Rose - The Damned

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

I Don't Feel Amazing Now - Guillemots

Spies - Famous Villains

Everything - The Darlingtons

We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen

Gone, Gone, Gone - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Friday, I'm In Love - The Cure

The Dead Of Night - The Tricks

Common People - Pulp

Lead The Way - The 48ks

Cemetry (An Ode To The IRS) - Bang Bang Romeo

Sidewinder - Catfish And The Bottlemen

Chipping Away - Middleman

Parklife - Blur

Lies - Deap Vally

Bring On The Dancing Horses - Echo And The Bunnymen

Hit The North - The Fall

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers