Sounds of Silence
Well I don't know if life is a rollercoaster, but it certainly has it's ups and downs.
On the downside:
We had huge technical problems tonight as almost all the faders on my mixing desk were out of action. It meant that I was doing the show on just one fader instead of the three or four I would normally need. I only discovered this at five past six as we went on air.
What you heard was something like:
"...and now, here's Bryan..."
...Silence...
...bit more silence...
.... sound of two songs playing at the same time...
And finally, the sound of the cd that happened to be in the machine which was thankfully Martha Reeves and not the Moira Anderson album that Robbie Shepherd's team had left in there that afternoon.
On the upside:
What a great response to 'fairgrounds'. What I enjoyed the most was not the fairground themed songs, but the tunes that you remembered hearing being blasted out as the waltzers whirled you round. Songs like Ballroom Blitz, I Love Rock n Roll, The Only Way Is Up and The Rah Band doing The Crunch, which Mags from Orkney remembered from her childhood holidays at The Red Lion Caravan Site in Arbroath.
I grew up in Aberdeen, so the Codonas 'carnies' were never more than a ten minute bus ride away. Pun of the night went to Ronnie, also from Aberdeen who texted to suggest that The Knack and My Codona might be appropriate to play!
Bryan @ 19:30
