It was an exciting night on Friday's Get It On as I had thought it would be great idea to get you to come up with next week's themes and submit them during the show. I thought that perhaps we might get five or six really strong ideas and get them down to the final four. Wrong! We were inundated with good and really creative ideas for future themes. Myself and the team will be going through them all properly this week and you can hear some of them on air in the coming months.
In the meantime here's the four we have gone with for this week.
Monday
Ross from Larkhall's idea is one happy song followed by a sad song. " An emotional roller-coaster of a show" said Ross. I don't want to ask for ideas in advance as I think it would be better to do it 'live' on Monday night when you have had the chance to hear the preceding song. We will of course be checking the blog/Facebook etc throughout the show. Feel free to suggest one to get us started though...
Tuesday
First time ever I saw this theme I knew it was going to be a nice one. First attraction is the theme which has been suggested by Paul Handley. Looking forward to seeing the romantic side of our bloggers...
Wednesday
Get It On goes on safari tonight because, Kira who is 10 has suggested 'animals' as a theme.
Thursday
Anne in Plean chooses the final theme of the week. 'Which ringtone would you assign to your loved ones and why?" Maybe best if your partners/bosses/mother in laws are not listening!
Is there a cover of a country song that's set on a boat and is all about saying goodbye? If there is then we can play it every night next week as it would take in all of our themes. If anyone can come up with that song it's our bloggers!
Monday
As Fred MacAulay and Dougie Vipond tackle their gruelling three day long kayak trip along the Caledonian Canal we're going to do 'boats' as a theme. It's one that's been asked for several times so I suspect it will be a busy night. From Sea Cruise to Dignity, it's all aboard at ten past six...
Tuesday
Although we have no plans to go anywhere, Tuesday's theme is 'songs about goodbyes'. Will you go for She's Leaving Home, The Last Farewell or maybe 'Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio!'
Wednesday
Last week Julie from Edinburgh suggested we do unexpectedly brilliant covers as a theme and you seemed to love that idea so let's have a crack at it tonight....
Thursday
Get It On goes country tonight. We'll be celebrating the fiddle and steel guitar so get in touch with your suggestions of the best country songs of all time. I'd also like to include bands like The Proclaimers and The Stones who have dabbled in country over the years. As always I'm looking forward to getting your suggestions on email, on Facebook and right here on the blog.
Is there a cover of a country song that's set on a boat and is all about saying goodbye? If there is then we can play it every night next week as it would take in all of our themes. If anyone can come up with that song it's our bloggers!
Monday
As Fred MacAulay and Dougie Vipond tackle their gruelling three day long kayak trip along the Caledonian Canal we're going to do 'boats' as a theme. It's one that's been asked for several times so I suspect it will be a busy night. From Sea Cruise to Dignity, it's all aboard at ten past six...
Tuesday
Although we have no plans to go anywhere, Tuesday's theme is 'songs about goodbyes'. Will you go for She's Leaving Home, The Last Farewell or maybe 'Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio!'
Wednesday
Last week Julie from Edinburgh suggested we do unexpectedly brilliant covers as a theme and you seemed to love that idea so let's have a crack at it tonight....
Thursday
Get It On goes country tonight. We'll be celebrating the fiddle and steel guitar so get in touch with your suggestions of the best country songs of all time. I'd also like to include bands like The Proclaimers and The Stones who have dabbled in country over the years.
As always I'm looking forward to getting your suggestions on email, on Facebook and right here on the blog.
So a 'mixed' reaction to last night's theme from the blog. I have to say that your criticisms were pretty similar to my own. It was a theme that never really took off. We tried to do too many things in the one show and none of them seem to particularly engage with folk listening at the time. It's clear that the themes that work best are the simple concepts that run over two hours.
Paolo Pablo is right when he says that we've had a run of very good themes lately but for one reason or another this week's themes haven't gelled. However the good thing about a nightly show is that you can come into work and start all over again the next day. I used to find it frustrating doing a weekly show like Brand new Country. If you had a disappointing programme then you had to wait a whole week to have another go. I need to make sure that next week's themes are unbeatable.
It's onwards with tonight's theme which gives us all the chance to play fantasy record companies. I think it could be a fun theme although there have been one or two grumbles on the blog about it.
Criticism is fine and we all like a good grump now and then. However, fantasizing about hiring an assassin to murder a well known Manchester born singer is taking grumpiness to a whole new level. I mean, there are certain flute based bands that I find a bit tiresome but I am not going to hire the jackal to have them taken out!
Forget about whose records you wouldn't release, what are the ones that you would? I'm looking forward to reading what our regular bloggers can contribute for tonight. As we found out last night, it's not the same when you don't....
We've just come off from one of the busiest weeks yet on the show and thanks to everyone on the blog who has contributed to the past week of themes - 460 comments last time I looked!
Monday
We're all heading out on Monday night for a theme that's been suggested by Jo in Lewis. It's 'eating out' and we could pay a visit to Tom's Diner, Alice's Restaurant or Billy Joel's favourite Italian. Grab the menu and place your orders for Monday night...
Tuesday
The Brits are on Tuesday so why not get in the mood for the show by nominating your favourite acts for the Get It On alternative awards. Categories might include best belter, the reinvention award, the strop of the year and the lifetime achievement award for services to the Scottish nation. The full list of categories and the winners will be revealed on Tuesday night...
Wednesday
Fifty years ago the Everly Brothers signed to Warner brothers for a million dollars. If you had a million who would you sign and what would you release - that's Wednesday's theme...
Thursday
DC on the blog suggests songs about teenagers, so that could include Teenage kicks, Teenager In Love and the entire recorded output of Busted. Plus what are the songs that sum up the teenagers in your life?
As always you can leave your suggestions on the blog or drop me an email at the usual address...
Last week all the themes were chosen by our beloved bloggers and thanks again for a good response - particularly the Thursday theme of 'songs you rediscovered on Get It On'.
This week it's the turn of our Facebook friends to pick the themes for the week and I know I can rely on our regular blog readers to politely and enthusiastically post their submissions. Can't I????
Feel free to mail me theme ideas any time you like. They are all considered for the show and are much appreciated by the production team.
Monday
Julie Edwards has suggested we pick songs about our hobbies. Yoga fans might plump for the lotus eaters, you might pick something from Chess and if archery's your thing then there's always ABC's Poison Arrow. Whatever your interest or hobby there's a song for you.
Tuesday
Er - Close To You is one song we wont be playing on Tuesday night as Nick Ray suggests 'long distance' for our theme. From 500 Miles to Far Far Away there should be plenty to choose from. Long distance love has been tackled by many songwriters over the years so there should be some interesting suggestions from the blog I hope.
Wednesday
Jacqueline Ferguson has come up with 'full names in the song title' as a theme. We have done names before but never full names. I'm thinking things like Jennifer Eccles and Eleanor Rigby but we'll also welcome things like Mr Jones.
Thursday
Muir Smith gets the final theme of the week and it's 'sweet'. Absolutely Sweet Marie and Sweet Dreams both fit but what about things like A Taste of Honey or Sugar Sugar? Let's hope we don't get any dentist's listening!
Thanks to the Facebookers for the themes and if you are on Facebook I'd love you to join our page. Just search for 'Get It On with Bryan Burnett'.
If I get an email in 2011 asking if I'd like to be part of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland's motivation season I'm going to politely decline. Or perhaps I might just motivate myself to eat more chocolate, try some new wines or finally watch The Sopranos.
One thing I won't do is foolishly sign up to something that's causing me more grief and stress than anything I've ever had to do at work. Over the years I've had to stand up in front of 14 thousand women and talk, I've interviewed some of the world's grumpiest pop stars, got stranded on a boat up the Mekong Delta and I've fronted a hogmanay show in Edinburgh that was such a disaster that The Sun called it 'Nightmare in Princes Street'.
However none of those experiences have been as much of an ordeal as learning to dance as part of A New Year, A New You. It's honestly one of the most difficult and challenging things I've attempted.
Streetdance is my chosen art form and it's (according to my dance teacher Jackie) all about being loose around the hips. This has proved to be a struggle for me. I'm from the North East of Scotland. Being loose around the hips is not something that comes naturally to folk like us.
Last week's lesson was almost enough to finish me off and if it wasn't for the fact that I'd promised the 'head of motivation' I'd do this then I would have given up.
However, today I realised that if you keep banging away at something then there's a good chance that eventually you're going to get good at it. Today's lesson was proof that all those evenings spent watching Glee have not been wasted. I finally found my dance mojo. Ok I'm not moving like Michael Jackson but I have been able to throw a few convincing moves to music, and perhaps more impressively I used the word 'flava' in a sentence. It's a massive step.
I still have an awful long way to go though and my initial target of learning to dance by the end of January has had to be revised. End of February perhaps? Watch this space.
If you want a bit of encouragement to keep going with your own resolution then don't forget to check out our motivation season homepage.
