Tuesday, 9 April 2013

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


Friday, 29 March 2013

BAIBS Friday 29/03/13

Good Friday. Two things have always puzzled me about this day. What is so good about it? A lot of firms don't even treat it as a bank holiday anymore. That's not good. And the guy who got nailed to a couple of planks of wood this day over 2000 years ago can't have found it in the least bit good. And how come it moves? I've mentioned this before. Surely the day Jesus died is a specific date. Not just a Friday sometime in March or April. While we're talking Easter, as a child my birthday once fell on Easter Sunday and a kindly aunt got me an Easter egg for my birthday. That is surely a major cop out. Not even a flash one. Bog standard Smarties. She had wrapped it though which was nice.

It's the weekend again. Quiet one for me though. What with dodgy finances and the start of the Even Bigger Show on Monday I'm hopefully having a relaxing one. Gutted though cos Bang Bang Romeo are at The Priory tonight. No Tom Harking either. Easter is traditionally the time when the football season all falls into place. Rovers away at Coventry today and home to 2nd place Swindon on Monday. By the time Rovers kick off on Monday (12.15) we'll have done 0.053125 of our 80 hour broadcast. Rob will have to Tom Hark on his own. And have my piece of Yorkshire pie. Still very tight at the top of League One, 8 points separate the top 7 teams and Rovers have 7 games left. Realistically I'd say it's a 4 horse race for the top 2 promotion spots (Rovers, Swindon, Sheff Utd and Brentford) but it's definitely what they call squeaky bum time. But ,theoretically, given the lack of blogs next week Rovers could be promoted the next time I blog!

I'm presuming my next blog will be sometime next weekend.  Won't have chance while the big show's on and can't see me being compos mentis next Friday. So maybe next Saturday but don't hold your breath.

Had a cracking chat with Hail To The Eskimo on this morning's show. They're a band I've heard about for years and never had chance to properly hear til today. Only got one live tune out of them cos Sally had caught a cold just in time for the long weekend but she still sounded amazing. Cant wait to hear her firing on all cylinders.

Gotta go. Need to sort my clothes out for next week. Just what to pack for an 80 hour radio show? As per I'm clueless.

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 29/03/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas
Banana Republic - The Boomtown Rats
Kings For The Weekend - Missing Andy
Flashlight - The Pilots
Days Are Forgotten - Kasabian
Radioactive - Kings Of Leon
Hold Me - Tom Odell
This Is Real - The Enemy
It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream
Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club
My Very Favourite Stalker - The Adulescents UK
45 - The Gaslight Anthem
Sparky's Dream - Teenage Fanclub
Diamonds Are Forever - Arctic Monkeys
Waterfall - The Stone Roses
The Dancing Song - Little Comets
At Least Those Kids Are Getting Fed - China Rats
Truth - Bloc Party
Love And Affection - Joan Armatrading
Follow Baby - Peace
Antarctica - Sound Of Guns
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance - Black Kids
The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - David Bowie
Chemicals - Bang Bang Romeo
Hunger - Frankie And The Heartstrings
Cold Outside - You Addiction
Ripple - The Coopers
Love In Outer Space - Hail To The Eskimo
Tears (Live) - Hail To The Eskimo
You And Your Ego - Hail To The Eskimo
It Starts And Ends With You - Suede
Slide Away - Oasis
Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
Transmission - Joy Division
No More Heroes - The Stranglers
Everything - The Darlingtons
Midnight Wave - Two Wounded Birds
Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers


Thursday, 28 March 2013

BAIBS Thursday 28/03/13

Well the Central American following is coming on nicely. Hello Belize.

So, at risk of sounding all facebookish. this snow is rubbish. I don't mean in a please go away now way, although I wish it would. Telling the weather to go away is a bit King Cnutish. (Stop it)!!! I mean it's rubbish snow. It's not settling cos it's so light the wind is just blowing it around in little flurries. I think it's possible it was the briefest of snow showers and the wind's just keeping it blowing about. It's a bit like meteorological keepy uppy.

The cooking bacon went down well yesterday. It went in a dish I'm gonna call Colin. Seems as good a name as any. The recipe will be available on some website. Possibly.

It won't.

Short blog today. I'm squeezing in blogging between final biggest show ever arrangements. All witnesses in place. As well as (hopefully) claiming the official Guinness world record we're also raising money for charity, namely Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice. Donations can be made via paypal at http://www.sinefm.com/even_bigger_biggest_show_ever or we'll have a collection bucket in the studio. Call in, say hi, drop some money in the bucket and we'll play you a tune. I promise to drop my usual request rules i.e. if it's crap it won't get played. I will slag it off if it's deserving but we'll still play it.

I'm currently asking all the witnesses their favourite song and their guilty pleasure tune to play while they're in with us. It's a weird the whole guilty pleasure thing. It's nothing to do with guilt at all. If you felt really guilty about it you'd take that secret to the grave. It's more 'Hey look at me. I'm so diverse I just don't care'. So with that in mind my diverse musical pleasure for which I feel no guilt is Buck's Fizz's Land Of Make Believe. Someone recently claimed it to be an anti-war prog rock classic. I'm struggling to get my head round that. I just like the tune. Oh and Jay Aston in the video.

I'm going now before the recriminations start.

Laters

SS

Playlist Thursday 28/03/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas
Keep The Car Running - Arcade Fire
Nobody's Diary - Yazoo
Not Too Young - The Tricks
Never Fade Away - Spector
I Can See Clearly Now - Jimmy Cliff
Ceremony - New Order
Elysium - Section 60
Special Brew - Bad Manners
Midnight Game - The Bedroom Hour
Time For Action - Secret Affair
The Eton Rifles - The Jam
All Together Now - The Farm
Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones
Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys
I Will Wait - Mumford And Sons
Anything Can Happen Tonight - Hail To The Eskimo
It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream
Local Boy In The Photograph - Stereophonics
Hit The North - The Fall
Poker Face - You Me At Six
What A Waste - Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Spinning Plates - Middleman
Diane Young - Vampire Weekend
Echo Beach - Martha And The Muffins
Shakespeare's Sister - The Smiths
Razor Blade Alley - Madness
Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Silver - Echo And The Bunnymen
Ideal World - The Christians
Here It Goes Again - OK Go
I Saw You Blink - Stornoway
Here Comes Your Man - Pixies
Boys Don't  Cry - The Cure
No One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age
Silence Is Easy - Starsailor
Animal - The Pigeon Detectives
If I Had A Million Dollars - Barenaked Ladies
Mansize Rooster - Supergrass
Retreat - Mynas
Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers



Wednesday, 27 March 2013

BAIBS Wednesday 27/03/13

Let's start off with some audience participation.

Ask me how giving blood went yesterday. Go on, ask me.

I dare you.

*waits*

IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!! I stupidly believed myself when I said yesterday it definitely would. A combination of a phlebotomist shortage and people reeling after donating their pint meant they were snowed under and we'd have to try again next time.Tried booking me in for next Thursday at 6pm. This will be 2 hours after the end of the Even Bigger Show. I'm tempted to do it as some kind of scientific experiment. Plus after 80 hours on air I'll be ready for a biscuit.

I've neglected the gym recently. That's not true. The gym's fine with or without me in it. But you know what I mean. The reasons I haven't been is 87% laziness, 9% biggest show planning, 7% sundry activities and 3% bad maths. Went today and killed both myself and a rowing machine. (So tempted for a 'we had a row' pun but I wont).

Shopped after the gym. We all know both my views and tactics on shopping. I got confused by bacon. I needed bacon. There's so much variety though. In the end I went for the cheap cooking bacon. As oppose to the non cooking bacon kind? Told you I was confused. Decided to get the bus home. Managed to bang my head going up the stairs. It still staggers me that I've known about my height for many years and yet still forget to duck. And you can't really pretend you meant to do it. Neither is there an acting option. You know like when you run for a bus and it pulls off just as you get to the stop so you keep running as if that was what you were doing anyway. Or when you wave at someone across the street then realize it's not who you thought so you pretend it's an elaborate head scratching technique you've developed. No, when it comes to banging your head you just have to stand there like a tall idiot who forgot to duck. I want that on my gravestone: 'He forgot to duck.'

Both carrier bags (shopping and gym stuff) I had decided to break so when I disembarked I had sweaty socks and cooking bacon trying to escape as I tried to keep hold of everything and nurse my bumped head. To make matters worse my laces were undone. I've mentioned before the inability of my laces to stay tied but how can they come undone just sat on a bus? I'm not sure I should be allowed out really.

Anyway, I'm home now with my high ceilings and my slippers on.

Laters

SS

Playlist Wednesday 27/03/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas
Walls Come Tumbling Down - The Style Council
It Can't Be Me - The 48ks
National Express - The Divine Comedy
This Is Not A Game - Skunk Anansie
Never Knew Your Name - Madness
Millionaires - Famous Villains
Ripples - The Coopers
Jack And Diane - John Mellencamp
New York - Paloma Faith
Dead Wrong - Hanni El Khatib
Beast Of Burden - The Rolling Stones
Molly Gray - The DN Allstars
Song 2 - Blur
Let's Dance - David Bowie
It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream
Seven Seas - Echo And The Bunnymen
Recover - Dexters
Song For Lovers - Richard Ashcroft
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
Just Like A Woman - Black Spiders
Leaving On A Jet Plane - Me First And The Gimmes Gimmes
Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
Mama - Genesis
Men's Needs - The Cribs
The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys
Sometime - DIIV
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Party Fears Two - The Associates
William, It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths
Reputation - Section 60
By Your Hand - Los Campesinos
Freakin' Out - Graham Coxon
Recovery - Frank Turner
Roxette - Dr. Feelgood
Adore Me - Bang Bang Romeo
Sex And Drugs And Rock & Roll Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Wild, Wild Life - Talking Heads
To Be Like - China Rats
Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers





Tuesday, 26 March 2013

BAIBS Tuesday 26/03/13

Had some interesting feedback to a couple of last weeks' blogs and both can be linked. One was about what makes a great gig and the other was commenting on The Hallcross closing.

It was suggested to me that the venue is also a contributing factor in what makes a great gig. This is true but also something that can be overcome. The Dome is not a great venue. It's not the ideal size or shape for a gig and the acoustics can be atrocious. But Kasabian and the crowd overcame that last Tuesday. On the other side of that coin is somewhere like Nottingham Rock City. It's my favourite venue. I've never been to a bad gig there. Not everyone has been great but I'm pretty much assured a good gig, whovever's playing. And let's take it as read I'm not gonna go and see a band I hate!

There was an interesting piece in the Guardian last Friday about the small venue circuit and how it's struggling. Someone tweeted me last week that with The Hallcross closing it's yet another music venue gone. Ignoring acts that have come through the reality TV route EVERY band started in small venues. The Leopard alone can list Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Glasvegas, Travis, Snow Patrol, Coldplay and more as bands that played there on their way up. (And Babybird as one who played on their way down). Venues like Rock City, Glasgow's King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Southampton's Joiners, Islington's Garage and yes The Leopard are the lifeblood of live music.

As regards The Hallcross' final hurrah I remember little about it suffice to say someone really should have took that microphone off me. I woke up at 7am on the sofa with aching ribs, a cowboy hat and the biggest tear in the back of my jeans. Don't ask cos I've no idea.

Today I give blood. I know!!! I've blogged that at least five times before but I have the time and the place and Cherry Blossom's going too so finally, this time, at last, I should be giving my armful of A+. Or is it O? Either way it's long overdue.

Short blog today but it's only Tuesday and I'm already having a hectic week. Missed out on seeing and interviewing Stereophonics yesterday due to all this hectedness. Made up word but I'm sticking with it. Things are too hectic for grammar.

Laters

SS

Playlist Tuesday 23/03/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas
Tangled Up In Love - The Rifles
Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Chevy Thunder - Spector
People Are Strange - The Doors
Feel Like This - Missing Andy
Spies - Famous Villains
The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - David Bowie
Marlene On The Wall - Suzanne Vega
It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream
Song Away - Hockey
Why You So Cold - Wet Nuns
Post Break Up Sex - The Vaccines
Roll To Me - Del Amitri
Everest - Public Service Broadcasting
My Hero -Foo Fighters
Kennedy - The Wedding Present
To My Knees - White Valentine
You Are My World - The Communards
Bones - Bang Bang Romeo
Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces
American Slang - The Gaslight Anthem
The Prayer - Bloc Party
54-46 Was My Number - Toots And Maytals
Antarctica - Sound Of Guns
At Least Those Kids Are Getting Fed - China Rats
Denis - Blondie
Rag Doll - Aerosmith
Like A Dancer - The Enemy
The End Of An Anchor - Dashboard Confessional
7 O'Clock - The Quireboys
Revolution - The Beatles
The Royal We - Silversun Pickups
You Love Us - Manic Street Preachers
Rocketman - Elton John
Temptation - New Order
Tender - Blur
Stop! In The Name Of Love - The Supremes
Dead And Gone - The Black Keys
Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The modern Lovers


Saturday, 23 March 2013

The 48ks - LIVE - The Leopard, Saturday 16/03/13

The 48ks have finally got round to launching their debut album. About time too. With the catchy title For Every Day A Memory (a lyric from Lead The Way) it's a gem. My first thoughts were it's a bit long at 15 tracks. I was wrong. Coming in at around 55 minutes and with maybe only one filler it's nigh on perfect. I was gonna do an album review but handily at The Leopard for the album launch the band played the album in full. Two birds with one stone for me then. Plus I firmly believe a band should primarily be judged on their live performance.

The 48ks epitomize substance over style. Their only gimmick is a rubber chicken hanging off Steve's mic. No rock star posing, just five lads who play great music. There's no egos in The 48ks. Those that know me will know I've been championing them for probably three years now purely based on the quality of tunes they throw out. My only complaint with the band has been a lack of professionalism but it would appear they've given themselves a kick up the arse and are taking it seriously. Quite right too cos as much as they've always been fun to watch live they're now showing a real belief in what they do.

In Ryan and Steve they have probably Doncaster's finest songwriting partnership and most prolific too. 15 songs on the album, 19 songs in the live set and I can probably name another 10 songs at least that have all fallen by the wayside over the last couple of years. Songs that other bands may have clung on to for dear life.

The album covers all stages of The 48ks from early tracks (Gotta Get Out, Back Home etc) right up to latest  tunes (Forget Never Met, Fortune Teller). The live set even includes songs written since the album sessions started (Trophy Wife etc).Told you they were prolific. I'd personally have dropped Pipe Dream for Marching Feet but what do I know.

Tonight the band are tight. Tightest I've seen them and I've seen them a lot! It's that new found professionalism and belief I was talking about. I love it. I've said before they could make a living out of selling hooks and catches to other bands. No-one does catchy like The 48ks. Steve is quiet possibly the best guitarist in Donny. He'll never accept that but his effortless solos are perfect and part of what defines The 48ks. Ryan has the perfect voice for Steve's guitar to dance round. Adam on bass is the most unlikely looking musician ever, side of the stage, unassuming, but giving his violin bass what for. With Chris on drums they make for an untouchable rhythm section. I've seen Chris start a fill before and wondered how the hell he's gonna get out of it but without dropping a beat he's back in full swing while I'm still working it out. And then there's Kato on rhythm guitar. With both his licks and perfect harmonies he makes The 48ks what they are. Indie pop/rock of the highest order but also inexplicably unique. The only non Dale/Lightfoot song on the album is Kato's Sitting On My Own. Tonight, and this is the first time I've seen them do this, Kato performs it on his own. Just THAT voice and an acoustic guitar, It's mesmerizing.  To quote myself The 48ks make music that makes you want to dance, sing and smile but they have another side too. Forget Never Met is as dark and deep a tune you could hope to hear and album closer Falling Down is a slow, acoustic, anthemic builder that gets the hairs on the back of my neck not only bristling but desperate to make a run for the door. It's a brilliant but scary tune. The 48ks are as diverse as they come and all the better for it.

They have everything and now just need that bit of luck that all successful bands get. They deserve it.

Buy the album. It's excellent and at £5 for 15 songs a bargain (33p a song)! More importantly catch them live. They're sublime.

Set List

Time And Again
Flick 'Em The Vs
Pipe Dream
Lead The Way
Forget Never Met
Back Home
Can't Be Me
Gotta Get Out
Feel About You
Take Me Back
Sitting On My Own
Valentine's Day
Fortune Teller
Something To Believe In
Falling Down
Lazy Boy

A Heart Beat Away
Trophy Wife
Marching Feet

Friday, 22 March 2013

BAIBS Friday 22/03/13

Friday, Friday, Friday. So a wet weekend beckons. Was gonna be a quiet one but that's already gone out the window. White Valentine are back from hiatus and playing The Hallcross tomorrow night. I was in two minds about going, finances and all that, but then The Hallcross announced yesterday it was to be a last hurrah and the pub would be closed as of Sunday.

So another one bites the dust. Times are seriously hard for pubs right now. As I'm sure you know I was manager there up until September last year. We had some absolutely brilliant nights: Opening night with White Valentine, Christmas gig with The 48ks, Vice Squad, The Sex Pistols Experience, Paper Aeroplanes, Beast, Bang Bang Romeo et al at MapFest, Famous Villains storming the Live Lounge night, the Drum Beat live shows, 'discovering' bands like Rita Payne, The Fiona Clayton Band, Goat Leaf, Ethereal Fire. The list goes on.

But the cold facts are money. Take MapFest, the most successful day we had. Record breaking takings but come the Monday morning still not enough in the bank to cover wages, rent, beer, business rates, council tax, utilities, PRS etc. This government pledged to help small businesses. Don't think it applied to pubs. People moan about how expensive pubs are but I KNOW most pubs sell a pint at the lowest price they possibly can but when a supermarket can offer a case of beer for the same price as 3 pints in a pub you know you're up against it. The tax pubs pay on beer is a disgrace. The pubco's that run most pubs these days don't care about people or communities. They have extortionate charges and offer no support.

I love pubs. Not just for the beer but the social side too. But if things don't change rapidly there will be no pubs left. I'm still in touch with many publicans in Donny and they're all pretty much operating day to day. You can't blame the drinkers. Times are hard. The authorities need to step in and help pubs out before it's too late.

So a sad night tomorrow. When I first started going out in the 80s The Hallcross was my pub. Always busy, Pete, Sheila and Terry behind the bar, welcoming but taking no crap from anyone. Martin mine sweeping as he collected glasses. Jim brewing out back and teaching us young uns how to drink. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, Don't Fear The Reaper or Black Dog permanently on the jukebox. A friendlier pub I've never known.

Hopefully see many of you there tomorrow and we can raise a glass.

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 22/03/13

Tom Hark - The Piranhas
Don't Let Me Down Gently - The Wonderstuff
Old Yellow Bricks - Arctic Monkeys
Kings For The Weekend - Missing Andy
(All I Wanted Was) Danger - The Milk
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
I'll Be Fine - White Valentine
Ma And Pa - Fishbone
Where Do I Hang My Heart - Sunside
Heroes - David Bowie
There Will Come A Time - Noah And The Whale
I Always Knew - The Vaccines
To Be Like - China Rats
The Killing Moon - Echo And The Bunnymen
Loser - Beck
Dreaming Of You - The Coral
Jackie Wilson Said - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Shadow - Gringo Star
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Saturn 5 - Inspiral Carpets
Adore Me Dear - Bang Bang Romeo
Please Please Me - The Beatles
Sit Down - James
She Will - Savages
Wide Open Space - Mansun
Poison Street - New Model Army
My World - Secret Affair
Made Of Stone - The Stone Roses
Mirror In The Bathroom - The Beat
Parklife - Blur
Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
Nancy Boy - Placebo
Grace - Supergrass
Heart As Big As Liverpool - The Mighty Wah!
Sinful - Pete Wylie
Summer's Child - The Coopers
Run Right Back - The Black Keys
Vicar In A Tutu - The Smiths
Ride - The Vines
Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers