BAIBS Thursday 18/04/13

A very quiet walk through town today. Not the usual bustle of Donny town centre. Maybe everyone's been blown away. Does anyone know where I can get an English spell check thing? Bloody Americans and their wacky spelling. I've just woke up so maybe a bit ratty but that red line under centre is really annoying me. Where was I?

Oh aye. Donny. Quiet. Not even one busker. On Tuesday I had the obligatory piper. (I still intend to stand next to him with a kazoo one day). A violinist who's backing track was louder than his fiddle, just as well really. He was giving it some Celine Dion. Surely an arrestable offence. And there was what appeared to be a Peruvian jazz band. Think The Fast Show with a clarinet. Very odd. Still, at least it's diverse. Better than the solo acoustic guitarist who only knows 3 songs, 2 of which are Here Comes The Sun, and he doesn't know any of them all the way through. Actually that particular busker used to stand outside a pub I worked at in Liverpool every afternoon til the regulars attacked him with pickled eggs. I think they just threw them but you never know with a group of Scousers armed with pickled eggs.

'Just woke up?' I hear you say. Well working again tonight so thought I should get a couple of hours in. Can't see it being as tense a night as Tuesday was. The Leopard vs The Railway at pool. It was like the Auld Firm on green, sorry black, baize. It gives me great pleasure to announce The Leopard triumphed. So work calls and I've yet to shower, eat or sort tomorrow's show out so a reduced blog again.

I'd get through this quicker if my phone wasn't going mad. In the last 10 minutes I've been offered car insurance (I don't drive), home insurance (I don't own property), pet insurance (have a guess), several loans, compensation for my driving accident (see first set of parenthesis) and penis enlargement (I, er, oh OK then).

As I said, another shortened blog. Gotta fly.

Laters

SS

Playlist Thursday 18/04/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Pump It Up - Elvis Costello And The Attractions

James Dean - The Pilots

Tonight's The Kind Of Night - Noah And The Whale

You And Your Ego - Hail To The Eskimo

See Through - Auction For The Promise Club

Pelican - The Maccabees

No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper

Don't Forget Who You Are - Miles Kane

Aubrey - Stone Ugly

Union City Blue - Blondie

Everything - The Darlingtons

Regret - New Order

So Far Away - Dire Straits

Summer's Child - The Coopers

I Want Everything - The Godfathers

The Zephyr Song - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Geraldine - Glasvegas

Don't Let Me Down - The Beatles

Time To Pretend - MGMT

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll - The Rolling Stones

Nothing Our Way - Frankie And The Heartstrings

My Girl - Madness

Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow

Chemical - Bang Bang Romeo

Start To Run - Dexters

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

Goodbye Kiss - Kasabian

Gods Are Bored - The Datsuns

Lola - The Kinks

45 - The Gaslight Anthem

I Got You - Split Enz

Diane Young - Vampire Weekend

When You Were Young - The Killers

Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega ft DNA

Step On - Happy Mondays

Lip Up Fatty - Bad Manners

It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream

Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Crocodiles - Echo And The Bunnymen

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Tuesday 16/04/13

There is every chance that I will be a hypocrite today. Sheff Utd take on Brentford tonight and the best result for Rovers would be a Blades victory. There's lots of maths to be done but I think I'm correct in saying if United win then Rovers would need 4 points from 2 games. If United win tonight but drop points on Saturday and Rovers win then we're up. Just let me check that again! Yeah that's the easiest mathematical way at the moment. Could all change tomorrow.

I blogged earlier this season about what a detestable player Dave Kitson is. I always try to be sportsmanlike and give credit where it's due and I try not to be a bad loser but in a Portsmouth shirt at The Keepmoat last season Kitson cheated. Simple as. I abhor cheats in any sport. This season in a Blades shirt he performed one of the most disgraceful and inflammatory goal celebrations I've ever seen. But if Blades win tonight and it turns out the winning goal involves Kitson garotting the last defender, poleaxing the 'keeper, picking the ball up and throwing it in the net will I celebrate? Of course I will. I may say it's a disgrace but I'll be beaming from ear to ear as I say it. I'm like all football fans. When it really, really comes down to it we're hypocrites. So maybe I'll just look for the result and not examine it. Of course if Brentford win I'll blame Kitson.

I've decided I live just the wrong distance from town. Too close to merit a bus journey but far enough out for the walk to be a drag. Especially today. Working at The Leopard tonight so that'll be 4 walks up and down Balby Road. It's a horrible road. Constant traffic and it would appear that the pavement is the approved place for dog owners to let their mutts do their business. Lovely. And very dusty too. The wind is well up for it today. I've mentioned before wind is my least favourite weather. I don't mind a stiff breeze that makes my hair look all enigmatic, like it's escaped from a Fleetwood Mac video, but today it's blowing a gale. I had a full on wrap around going on with my hair. Couldn't see a thing. When the wind did blow my hair back it felt like the Sahara had been dropped in my eyes. A family of four walking the opposite way who seemed to share one tooth between them told me to watch where I was going. Fat chance of that.

Anyway, I must dash. Like I said work tonight and I've a funeral to pay for tomorrow.

Laters

SS

Playlist Tuesday 16/04/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire

Hersham Boys - Sham 69

The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - David Bowie

Back Home - The 48ks

Rose Tattoo - Dropkick Murphys

Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros

Hands Off She's Mine - The Beat

Ready To Die - Famous Villains

Sing For The Deaf - Missing Andy

Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

Columbia - Oasis

Hey Girl - Dashboard Confessional

One Way - The Levellers

Lust For Life - Iggy Pop

Red Cortina - The Saw Doctors

Just Came Back - The Avit Blues Band

Start To Run - Dexters

Bones - Bang Bang Romeo

Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode

The Small Print - Muse

Destiny Calling - James

Maybe In The Dark - The Crookes

Nothing Our Way - Frankie And The Heartstrings

One Way Or Another - Blondie

Part Time Lover - The Tricks

To Be Like - China Rats

Stand - REM
I'll Be Fine - White Valentine

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite

Juxtaposed With You - Super Furry Animals

Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

Don't Forget Who You Are - Miles Kane

The Pink Panther Theme - Henry Mancini

Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

My God Is The Sun - Queens Of The Stone Age

Chevy Thunder - Spector

Transmission - Joy Division

Vicar In A Tutu - The Smiths

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Monday 15/04/13

24 years ago today I was walking home from work after a Saturday morning shift. No football that day. Rovers had played Friday night and I'd had a ticket for that days big game but sold it to a mate who had a more vested interest in one of the teams playing. My mate Mark was, is thankfully, a lifelong Liverpool fan but had failed to get a ticket for the FA Cup semi final against Notts Forest at Hillsborough that day. I knew how I'd feel if I missed a big Rovers game so didn't begrudge him my ticket.

It was a beautiful sunny day and I treated myself to a few beers in the Hallcross beer garden before heading home to watch grandstand. Just gone 3pm and the news starts filtering through of trouble at Hillsborough. The first thought is automatically one of hooliganism. The so called '80s curse that this weekend has shown is far from over. But as the events unfold it becomes clear that this is something different. Already the police are blaming drunken fans turning up late breaking a gate down and storming into the centre pen on The Leppings Lane End. The police ordered the gate opened and herded the fans down the central tunnel. In previous years this tunnel was closed as soon as those pens were full. The cover up had already begun.

96 football fans never came home. As if this wasn't tragic enough the behaviour of the police, some politicians and certain sections of the media post Hillsborough were, and sadly in some cases still are, abhorrent. It took til last September for the truth to finally come out. Hopefully 2013 will be the year that finally sees justice for the 96. As a football fan in the '80s it was a 'there but for the grace of God' moment. Even following a small lower league club like Rovers you can look back on certain instances that could have lead to tragedy, notably the FA Cup ties at Norwich and Everton when far too many fans were crammed into cages. As football fans we were always third class citizens and the authorities used Hillsborough to force that image home. I don't believe Thatcher and the Tory government had an active hand in the cover up but I firmly believe they were aware of the whole truth and she takes that to the grave this Wednesday. In a week when the taxpayer forks out several million on an undeserved ceremonial funeral for the most divisive leader this country's had in living memory we should remember those that suffered. Today make it the families of the 96.

On a personal footnote I sat at home that day fretting til the phone rang later that evening and Mark said he needed a pint. He's never really spoke of Hillsborough since that night.

I was summoned to the office after today's show. I thought I may be in trouble. After playing You'll Never Walk Alone I voiced out loud, 'Sod Wednesday. Justice for the 96.' Not the most impartial bit of radio ever. I was actually summoned to ask if I wanted to go to Strasbourg in June to a European conference on commercial radio. Sine FM's cultural attache at your service.

So another weekend gone. Rovers a step closer to promotion as we all get out the calculators and brown trousers after coming from behind to win at Crewe. Nice one Chickenman. Donny beer fest on Friday night. A great atmosphere and some quality real ales on offer. I even managed to enjoy the band despite the poor Pogues covers and predictable Wild Rover ending. Saturday saw me back behind a bar as I started work at The Leopard. A steady introduction back but it felt good to be doing what I do best.

Laters

SS

Playlist Monday 15/04/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Holidays In The Sun - The Sex Pistols

Chipping Away - Middleman

Making Plans For Nigel - XTC

Fictional State - To Kill A King

David Watts - The Jam

Burn - Iggy And The Stooges

Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet

Marlene On The Wall - Suzanne Vega

Police And Thieves - The Clash

Permanent - Section 60

Walk - Foo Fighters

Skinny Genes - Eliza Doolittle

Song 2 - Blur

Possessed - Vegas

Ceremony - New Order

Flick Of The Finger - Beady Eye

Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces

Uptown Top Ranking - Althea And Donna

Feel Like This - Missing Andy

You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry And The Pacemakers

The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys

Diane Young - Vampire Weekend

Spread Your Love - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

What's Up - 4 Non Blondes

Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones

Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - The Ramones

Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie

By Your Hand - Los Campesinos

Stay - Rita Payne

Pork And Beans - Weezer

Peggy Sang The Blues - Frank Turner

It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream

Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Ripple - The Coopers

Elephant Stone - The Stone Roses

I Hear You Knocking - Dave Edmunds

Shadow - Gringo Star

Shiny Happy People - REM

American Slang - The Gaslight Anthem

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Friday 12/04/13

That thing that I did last week, you know the long radio thing that I said I wouldn't talk about. It's still taking it's toll. I'm off for a nap!

I did promise to not mention the show again but I'm still waking up confused every time and still convinced there's a webcam constantly on me. Bit worrying. And every dream is somehow linked to the show. The latest was that my sleep would use up more of my allotted break time.

Started working through the play list for the biggest show today. I'm up to 284 songs and I think I'm 30 hours through! Might post the full play list next week.

And I've woke up hungry. God bless the crisp sandwich. I'm not a massive fan of the crisp but stick em between two slices of buttered bread and I'm all over it. Why is that? And what happened to the sandwiches of my childhood. Tomato sauce was a favourite. As was sugar. Sugar sandwiches. Sounds awful but I may have to try one just for old times sake. I've been lead to believe that it's the sign of being a proper working class child in which case I shall embrace the said sugar sandwich (don't try that if you have a lisp) for all my worth.

This week has flown by but as is the way of these things it's the weekend again. Celebrating Cherry Blossom's birthday tonight down at The Hub for The Doncaster Beer Festival. No Tom Harking tomorrow, Rovers away at Crewe. I'm not gonna call it a must win game but we really must win! Tomorrow night sees me back behind a bar at The Leopard. Paid employment again. Such a good feeling. Especially as the DWP had come up with at least 7 flimsy reasons not to pay me benefits for the last 10 weeks. (Visiting a very ill parent and charity fundraising will get you a sanction on your benefits. Nice). Ah Ian Duncan Smith, not so much the quiet man these days, more the silent assassin. She'd be very proud of your persecution of the least well off, the disabled and the sick. Hope your dreams are as f***ed up as mine!

Think my mandate at The Leopard will be to pour pints, get involved with the band nights and generally educate the masses on tunage. I've spoke at length with boss Paul about the venue's plans, specifically as regards live music and it looks like exciting times ahead.

And The Hallcross re-opens tonight keeping the live music scene going. I wish them all the best. I know just how hard it is.

So this late blog is just about done. See you Monday.

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 12/04/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

Do You Realise - The Flaming Lips

I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye

Mr. Grieves - Pixies

It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream

War Baby - Tom Robinson

The Distance - Funeral For A Friend

Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles

Flick Of The Finger - Beady Eye

Gotta Get Out - The 48ks

Banquet - Bloc Party

Like A Dancer - The Enemy

Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen

Two Princes - The Spin Doctors

Diane Young - Vampire Weekend

Acquiesce - Oasis

Gold On The Ceiling - The Black Keys

Is This Our Day In The Sunshine - Section 60

Go Right Ahead - The Hives

Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie And The Banshees

Burn This City - Famous Villains

Recovery - Frank Turner

Brand New Friend - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

Chance - Big Country

Vienna - Ultravox

Weather With You - Crowded House

Kings For The Weekend - Missing Andy

Every You, Every Me - Placebo

The Only Living Boy In New Cross - Carter USM

Let The Day Begin - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Drinking In L.A. - Bran Van 3000

Boy In The Photograph - Stereophonics

You And Your Ego - Hail to The Eskimo

See Through - Auction For The Promise Club

Bring On The Dancing Horses - Echo And The Bunnymen

I Will Steal You Back - Jimmy Eat World

Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys

To Be Like - China Rats

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers 

BAIBS Thursday 11/04/13

I'm gonna talk about two things that I'll attempt never to talk about on here again. Thatcher and the 80 hour show. I was gonna leave the Thatcher thing well alone but a few comments have riled me somewhat, out of their naivety if nothing else.

'It's only men having a go because of she was a woman'

Yes, that's the only reason. Nothing to do with politics at all. And there are no women criticizing her policies at all.

'She saved the country' and this from, amongst others our glorious shiny faced Eton twonk of a leader.

If by country you mean a square mile in the heart of London then you're quite right. And let's not forget that when Shiny Dave's party unceremoniously dumped her in 1990 there was no great leader who saved our country comments then.

'She's only hated because she won.' from some faceless Tory MP daring to raise her head above the parapets.

Won? That statement should just be left to hang there and pick up all the contempt it deserves on it's own with no help from me.

'It's only people with dead end jobs who are Thatcher bashing.'

Yes the double Oscar winning MP Glenda Jackson must be wondering where it all went wrong.

Right, hopefully I won't get wound up again and can stop talking about her. This blog's becoming another rant.

There's a smokefree stress ball languishing next to the laptop. Maybe I should start using it. Then I wouldn't be ably to type though. It's a dilemma.

Started work on the paperwork for the Even Bigger Show today. It's a mammoth job. Probably another 80 hours worth of work. OK, maybe not that much but with 40 witness statements and logs to go through plus checking every song was correctly taken note of you can see it's gonna be more than a 5 minute job. I reckon we probably played about 750 tunes during the show. All the video evidence needs uploading too. 18 breaks (start and finish), the beginning and end of the show plus the moment we broke the record. That's 39 clips to find, edit and catalogue. Then making sure that all the video evidence and witness logs tie up with timings. Any media coverage needs including too. It's another reason why I've said never again. And I shall mention the show no more. Well maybe when we get confirmation of the record but that's it. I promise.

Spellchecker is insisting catalogue is wrong but only offering cantaloupe as an alternative. Maybe we need to send the bods at Guinness a melon as well. They didn't mention it though. I hope we don't miss out on the record for not sending them large fruit.

We still have plenty of bananas if they'll do. I'll ask.

Laters

SS

Playlist Thursday 11/04/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Down At The The Doctors - Dr. Feelgood

Return Of Django - The Upsetters

Signal 30 - Public Service Broadcasting

Can't Stand Losing You - The Police

Follow Baby - Peace

Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen

Hold Me - Tom Odell

Mary's Prayer - Danny Wilson

Pelican - The Maccabees

Right Now - Bang Bang Romeo

Recover - Dexters

Love Her Madly - The Doors

Lorelei - The Pogues

Not Too Young - The Tricks

The Rockafeller Skank - Fatboy Slim

All Together Now - The Farm

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen

Madness - Madness

It Ain't What You Do - Fun Boy Three ft Bananarama

A Message To You, Rudy - The Specials

No Hope - The Vaccines

I Want It All - Queen

Feel Like This - Missing Andy

Molly Gray - The DN Allstars

Island In The Sun - Weezer

She Will - Savages

Summer's Child - The Coopers

Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters

Graceland - The Bible

Bats - The Darlingtons

Blue Collar Jane - The Strypes

Made Of Stone - The Stone Roses

Road Rage - Catatonia

524 Fidelio - The Wedding Present

Diane Young - Vampire Weekend

Into The Valley - The Skids

In A Big Country - Big Country

On The Pull - Straight Razor Angels

Temptation - New Order

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Wednesday 10/04/13

Have we had Brazil before or is that a new one? I think it is. Welcome. Boa-tarde.

A personal game of two halves last night with my two first loves. I've been in love with Doncaster Rovers since Saturday 1st September 1979. (3-0 defeat by Bradford City). It's been an up and down relationship ever since and if I'm honest more giving on my part than theirs. Last night was a prime example. A pretty woeful performance. Like date night actually being a trip to the chippy followed by a warm pint and a pickled egg. No Tom Harking for me last night. They left me hurt but at the end pecked me on the cheek with the league table and told me it'll all be OK. And, as always, I believe them. They know I'll never leave them. I've never looked at another and never will. I think sometimes they take advantage of this.

So feeling slightly used I head to The Leopard for my other first love, music. (Sod grammar). Music is different. It's acceptable, encouraged even, to sample as much as you can. You should never stick to one lover. When one lets you down (notably The Waterboys and their Room To Roam album) another will step up and make everything wonderful again. King Charles was live at The Leopard last night and it's possible that the man is a genius. Guitar playing that's pure delta blues one minute and classic Prince the next. The Prince comparisons are hard to ignore with his look as well. There's also a hint of Morrison presence with Jimi having his say too. And tunes! Oh man does he have some tunes.

I met him on yesterday's breakfast show when he'd been dragged from his tour bus for a half awake interview. After the show last night he was wide awake though and we talked at length about Fred MacPherson's mind (Spector) and Iggy Pop's penis. He's a truly likable guy who shares my third first love, alcohol. Hence another late show this morning.

So if Rovers was the first half and King Charles the second then for me it ended in a 2-1 win.

I've avoided the whole Thatcher thing til now. There's been a lot said and posted. Facebook has become a microcosm of her reign. divisive as ever. What has appalled me is the 'show some respect' comments that spring up as soon as she is criticized  If you can praise her then I can damn her, dead or otherwise. She doesn't become faultless through death and she had many, many faults. Her dismantling of the manufacturing industry, her decimation of whole communities, her whole uncaring nature to the plight of so many under her cosh. It cannot and should not be dismissed because she's dead. So what of the good she did? Most people seem to point to to The Falklands War and the buy your council house policy. Yes back in 82 as a 14 year old I got jingoistic when the Union Flag flew in Port Stanley again but let us not kid ourselves. She didn't fall in the mud at Goose Green but she did go from becoming the most unpopular PM in history to a landslide general election victory on the back the war. A war that had far more to do with her own political survival than the repatriation of The Falklands. And yes she gave people the chance to own their own homes who previously never had that option but left nothing in place for those that still needed cheap housing. There are now 2 million families waiting for a council house. It's a direct link.

What has been equally sickening are the spineless eulogies from those you expect to stand up for the working man. I'm looking at you Ed. God I miss Socialism!

So in my lifetime 3 former Prime Ministers have died. Wilson, Heath and now Thatcher. 2 private funerals and 1 £10 million ceremonial funeral with military honours? Why? That is what I find most galling of all. That and the phone hacker Piers Morgan saying, you guessed it, 'She's dead. Show some respect.'

Rant over.

Laters

SS

Playlist Wednesday 10/04/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Lady Percy - King Charles

Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys

Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

To Be Like - China Rats

Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox

Diane Young - Vampire Weekend

Just Like The Rain - Richard Hawley

Get Back - The Beatles

Let My People Go-Go - The Rainmakers

Forget Never Met - The 48ks

Panic - The Smiths

Pictures Of You - The Cure

Love In Outer Space - Hail To The Eskimo

Mansize Rooster - Supergrass

The Day The World Turned Day Glo - X Ray Spex

Heavyweight Champion Of The World - Reverend And The Makers

(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream

The Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Colour Scene

The Trooper - Iron Maiden

The Female Of The Species - Space

Hunger - Frankie And The Heartstrings

Roll To Me - Del Amitri

Wasteland - The Mission

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Walking On The Sun - Smash Mouth

Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Flick Of The Finger - Beady Eye

Midnight Wave - Two Wounded Birds

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers

BAIBS Tuesday 09/04/13

Well it's been a while since we did this. 11 days it would seem. I would have been on air and blogged yesterday but the 80 hour show really took it's toll. 18 hours sleep Thursday night, another 10 on Friday and still slept through both my alarms yesterday. And woke up this morning with a sod of a migraine which I'm blaming the big show for as well, hence the show starting an hour late.

In September 2011 myself and Mark Kelly completed a 72 hour radio show and both vowed never again. But with time dulling the memories of how hard it was and 2 radio stations just pipping the record foolish pride stepped up to the plate and told us to do it again. I can in all honesty say if someone beats the record again, even if just by a minute, I am NEVER doing that again. There's a reason sleep deprivation is used as a torture method. My body clock and appetite are still all over the place. Admittedly I didn't help myself by going out Saturday night but, hey, Famous Villains were in town. Can't miss that. Sadly after 3 pints I was very worse for wear and ended up invading the stage for a drunken singalong during 8 O'Clock Blues. Sorry chaps.

I thought my first blog back would be a highlights package of the Even Bigger Show but I can barely remember it. Someone at the weekend mentioned they loved the tunes we were playing Wednesday afternoon but neither me nor Mark can remember what we played or who was manning the desk. My lowest point started at about 4am on the Wednesday morning, 44 hours in, and I stayed in that trough for a good 6 hours. It is very hard to describe but I know every part of me was willing me to walk out and go to bed. The whole thing was peaks and troughs. Adrenaline gets you so far then it's all down to sheer bloody mindedness. Thankfully both me and Mark are stubborn buggers. I know speaking to Mark he remembers virtually nothing about the last 8 hours. He claims I kept him going. I don't remember. Mark certainly got me through my Wednesday morning dip but to do a record like this it has to be done with someone you trust, admire and most importantly get on well with. 80 hours cooped up with no sleep with the same person is a huge leap of faith, trust me, and for that I thank Mark with every aching sinew.

There are so many people to thank that I'm not even going to try and list them for fear of missing someone out. Just to everyone who supported us we could not, and would not, have done it without you. Simple as. I would like to make a special mention though to Sarah Gibson who stepped in as a last minute witness at midnight on the Tuesday when someone let us down. If she hadn't then it would all have been over then. And also to Darrin Snider from Fishers, Indiana. I have no idea how he stumbled upon us but he really got on board with what we were doing. He's involved with the internet radio station Indy In Tune and we ended up swapping local band tunes and much hands across the water banter. He also took us out to his local bar for open mic night, via his tablet. It really did keep us going through the long dark soul searching graveyard shifts.

King Charles nipped in for the briefest of chats on today's show prior to his gig at The Leopard tonight. Enigmatic is the word that springs to mind. And talented. I shall be nipping down after my Tom Hark duties down at The Keepmoat. Rovers home to Carlisle and hopefully another step closer to promotion.

Well I think I've gushed enough. We'll talk politics tomorrow!

Laters

SS

Playlist Tuesday 09/04/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas

Underdog - Kasabian

The Way We're Made (Made In England) - Missing Andy

Blue - Fine Young Cannibals

The 8 O' Clock Blues - Famous Villains

It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream

Ripple - The Coopers

Where Is My Mind? - Pixies

Hush - Kula Shaker

Some Might Say - Oasis

Pure Morning - Placebo

When The Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys

Smooth - New Killer Shoes

Spinning Plates - Missing Andy

Johnny Too Bad - UB40

Seven Seas - Echo And The Bunnymen

Diane Young - Vampire Weekend

Elysium - Section 60

Incommunicado - Marillion

Take Her Back - The Pigeon Detectives

She Said - The Longpigs

Storm - Django Django

It Starts And Ends With You - Suede

Love Lust - King Charles

Lady Percy - King Charles

Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers