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previously on the blog - thanks, SG - will do.

'Ring' Of Fire ~ Wall Of Voodoo

TUESDAY


Q. What do these people have in common?

Scotch Git, Gretchen Wilson, The Daughter of Julie from Edinburgh.


A. They all celebrate their respective birthdays on the same day!


Tonight, please play;

'The Earrings Song' - Gretchen Wilson

and please dedicate it to Julie's little ray of Sunshine in Leith






























crawlin' git

TUESDAY

The Rock - Frankie Miller
Crystals - Sparrow and the Workshop
Silver Rider - Low Robert plant does a fantastic version of this, but takes it over 6.00 so I don't suppose there's any chance..it is really good, mind
Diamonds on the Inside - Ben Harper

John Stewart - Gold

The Pearlfishers - Womack and Womack

Platinum Blonde / Prelude
Diamonds and rust / Joan Baez
You want it you got it /Detroit Emeralds
I'd Rather go Blind / Ruby turner






so who's gonna be the first to ask for lonely boy.
it's BBs favourite after all

See who Tom Petty has on his latest Buried Treasure

and see who was in concert with last night.

Aye.

TUESDAY

Precious Stone - Pete Yorn
Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley

David Bowie - Velvet Goldmine
Stone Roses - Fool's Gold

Go on - try this one for size. All about buying a ring for one's beloved. It's from Arg** - Elizabeth D***. A very adolescent take on luuurve songs. There is a clean version. I like them. No accounting for taste.
Goldie Lookin' Chain - You Knows I Love you

Graham Parker and The Rumour - 'Fools Gold'

Oh! And thanks SG...that'll be The Daughter's 18th birthday...just a couple of years behind you eh? Should've seen her all dressed-up for 'Prom' on Friday...my baby's all growed-up...sob!

Why didn't you say it was a repeat of Gems & Precious Metals... there wuz me thinkin' it wuz "items" of jewellery!

#11 Oops! So it is...scrub #9 then.

Henri verdict awaited....I did however pass by the 大象传媒 Scotland posse and could not spot Henri in close attendance. Just as well because Ricky Ross was with them....

braw............a degree in comics frae the 'dee
michty me..........discuss.

its enuff tae want ye to tune into............

'silver machine'......................hawkwind

cheers frae the dale

I reckon we should all listen out for the dude who swears a lot & BB still plays the shout...


18 Carat Love Affair ~ T. Associates (fae Dundee)

Jewellery spiered for so jewellery it is

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

or especially...

The Diamond Ring - Rab Noakes (from 'The River Sessions')



Did Bryan play Two Little Boys tonight then? The playlist isn't up yet; I'll be SO disappointed if he didn't......

This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & The Playboys

#13 I'd have paid to see that. Henri explaining the fine art of songwriting to Ricky Ross. Did Bryan buy you a keg?

Chains / The Beatles
Tracy / The Cufflinks


Tracy was the love of my life. For a whole weekend in pontins in 1972.

Time for an airing of infectious delight from everyone's favourite 80's fashionistas ...

'Word Up' ~~ Cameo

Previously on the blog:

Glen I think there is as much chance of Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen becoming Tom & Jerry as there is them becoming a Simon & Garfunkel rival.

'Freight Train Blues' - Roy A-Cuff (it's a big bangle Bryan (look it up in one of Babs's back issues of Vogue...other vastly overpriced magazines full of adverts for things I can't afford are available)

#11

Well said Mac. Lets keep to theme.
Let others shift goalposts.

Mary Chapin Carpenter - I Put My Ring Back On

Elvis - Wear My Ring Around Your Neck

Van Morrison - Big Blue Diamond (on her fingers)

Mott The Hoople - Mommas Little Jewel

I`m surprised Hoppo isnt firing in with a

Pearl Necklace - ZZ Top.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SCOTCH GIT!
Looking forward to your annual shout tonight

I take the point about moving goal-posts, so

Silver Locket - Louise Taylor would go down OK, I think

or if you want a little bit weird but bang on theme

First Watch - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins from Diamond Mine


and happy to second shout for Rab Noakes

Jackson Browne: In The Shape Of A Heart
It was a ruby that she wore
On a chain around her neck
In the shape of a heart

or if you are feeling a bit daring (and I think if Kirstin is producing, she may very well endorse)...
Kris Drever: Beads and Feathers

Roxy Music 'Mother Of Pearl'

Boomtown Rats 'Diamond Smiles'

J.O'B.

Previously on the Blog....

Willie Bartke The Genius - Govanhill - Battlefield - Croftfoot - If I live as long as Glen I might get as far south as Thorntonhall! LOL! You'll like this one!


The King Has Lost His Crown - Abba ~ Royal Jewellery

You can never have too much Abba!


#3 - #25 - Do we get our selections played on our birthday? Mine is Thursday the 16th of June. I've got a theme and everything!

We've had Falling In Love and we've had Falling Out Of Love but we've never had Reconciliation

Norries choice of I Put My Ring Back On - Mary Chapin Carpenter would work.

So would Austin - Blake Shelton

I'll be over 21 again so cheer me up!

;o)

Letsby Avenue - The Police ~ Bracelets

;o)


And a happy birthday to Scotch Git and a happy birthday to Julie's daughter! XXX

:o)

Hi Bryan,

how about my old favourite My diamond necklace Andy fairweatherlow it will always be that to me ...

My suggestions for tonight are Diamonds are a girls best friend
since youve been gone all thats left is a "Band of Gold"
Eagles peaceful easy feeling because it mentions sparkling earrings
Goldie looking chain
Chain gang
baubles bangles and beads
something by the bangles
Beyonce should have put a ring on it single ladies
Get your rocks off
Just hang on to what youve got for the little chip of diamond on your hand aint a fortune babe.

if I had choose tonight though it would be single ladies because my girls and I all dance about the kitchen doing a "Beyonce" always make me laugh

here SG did you, Julie Daughter and Gretchen all decide to change birthdays independently of each other or is it some sort of pact?

Theme suggestion

how about we play tunes that reflect mental state i.e happy (On top of the world) sad, tired, angry, delighted, disappointed etc we could play a down one followed by a relevant pick me up one so we would have someone feeling low and then we would give them a shoulder or a wee kick up the bum and help them get up again youve got a friend sort of stuff from the GIO family

Here jinkk miss out happy and delighted and you have cracked the Glen Miller Code. Thats the recurring order of his blog posts, a bit like a Fibonnaci sequence....

Got to be the night for
* The Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops' Drops

No? Ok, let's try
* David McWilliams - The Days of Pearly Spencer
* Dick Gaughan - Ruby Tuesday as a change from the Stones
* Bowie - Golden Years (did you know - there's ?)

and speaking of stones...
* Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me
* Dylan - Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 35

Would this count as bodily adornment:
* Bragg - The Man in the Iron Mask

And finally from the 'never getting past the Miss B filter' department:
* Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7)

#34 you can get an app and do your own remixes

#35

Yep, it's called . Buying the equivalent of the would have set you back about 拢250k in the 80s/90s.

So you can indeed at a perfectly acceptable quality.

Golden Earring have already been mentioned, - I saw them at the Glasgow Apollo donkey's years ago, - I think as the support band for Focus. Their drummer had a party-piece of jumping over the drum kit at a certain point, but at the Glasgow gig, he must have misjudged it - and fell off the stage, - which, at the Apollo was about 3 or 4 metres high. There followed a short delay while they carried him back onto the stage. Anybody else remember that gig?

So since Golden Earring have already been suggested, I'l go for The Electric Light Orchestra, - Four Little Diamonds.

Ian

Neil Young - Heart of Gold
anyone?

There's also a .

#36 That's great but I meant this:

#31
So its no his birthday!!
Sheesh, the man is getting desperate.

#37
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The programme was shown around the world and you would have been happy in the knowledge that at least half a dozen people would have picked up on it.

#39

Woah that *is* interesting! (although if you can't export the originals outwith the app, the remixing you can do will be limited)

#41

The radio's playin some forgotten man
Adam in Rio's comin on strong......




I think we could do somethin wi this...........

#13 Like many folks, I've owned a copy of 'Ing茅nue' since about 92 (I think) and there must have been lots of occasions when I could have gone to see k d lang but never did.

Years later, I was chomping a Penne Arrabiatta in a Restaurant on Gt Western Road and her version of 'Helpless' came on the stereo. That was it.

This time, I couldn't miss out. .From the moment k d sang the opening lines of 'I Confess' I was mesmerised.

It's the song on the new album I like least but seen in context live it's easy to relate to: a bit of music hall, knock about fun, an excuse to play with her voice. And she's very good at playing with her voice - great microphone technique, moving it back and forward as though playing a trombone, rising and falling, close up and far away. It's a stunning voice, perhaps the best I've ever heard. One of the few whose live performance outstrips the recorded version.

For example, I've never much liked the song 'Hallelujah', it's too clever by half and that it's anthemic quality is picked up and blindly rehashed by zillions of folks who must be as clueless as me and don't really 'get it' has always irritated me. I didn't particularly like the k d lang recorded version either - but I have to say, last night's rendition really moved me - one of several spine tingling moments - more than I have felt at any other concert.

She does have a really beautiful, powerful voice. And if that was her only quality, which would be more than adequate, that would be that - but there's more.

Sometimes with performers there is playing up to the stereotype but being honest I warmed to her persona as someone completely relaxed and comfortable in their own skin: alternately dancing about the stage like a teenage girl bopping about in her bedroom with a hairbrush for a mic or kind of like Ricky Gervais impersonating Elvis when she's belting it out. You realise, that's the point of a kd lang concert: the stereotype has left the building -far from categorising herself at all, she's breaking down barricades and crossing boundaries the whole way through - and not just musically.

The band, of course, were simply terrific. Nashville, nuff said: though I thought the hyped up version of Constant Craving didn't work and maybe some of her older fans were disappointed by that - the audience didn't seem to be able to get going, which 'unnerved' k d. Maybe it was new arrangements, maybe it was the venue which can be a little too comfortable (I think) or maybe, like me, they were simply mesmerised by her

Rather than Radar Love (again!) tonight, you could go for

Twilight Zone - Golden Earring

Another of theirs is "When the Lady Smiles" but maybe a bit long.
If anyone has 6 mins to spare though, they might want to have a look at the rather interesting video they made for it:

#45
I should have said weird rather than interesting.

How about hold your head up, by Rod Argent

"Argent" is French for "silver"

#47
Jewellery - items of.

Is what we're aiming for HoT - though I suppose some people might wear silver rods.
Through their noses, perhaps.

#13 norrie..

From the moment k d sang the opening lines of 'I Confess' I was mesmerised.

It's the song on the new album I like least but seen in context live it's easy to relate to: a bit of music hall, knock about fun, an excuse to play with her voice. And she's very good at playing with her voice - great microphone technique, moving it back and forward as though playing a trombone, rising and falling, close up and far away. It's a stunning voice, perhaps the best I've ever heard. One of the few whose live performance outstrips the recorded version.

For example, I've never much liked the song 'Hallelujah', it's too clever by half and that it's anthemic quality is picked up and blindly rehashed by zillions of folks who must be as clueless as me and don't really 'get it' has always irritated me. I didn't particularly like the k d lang recorded version either - but I have to say, last night's rendition really moved me - one of several spine tingling moments - more than I have felt at any other concert.

She does have a really beautiful, powerful voice. And if that was her only quality, which would be more than adequate, that would be that - but there's more.

Sometimes with performers there is playing up to the stereotype but being honest I warmed to her persona as someone completely relaxed and comfortable in their own skin: alternately dancing about the stage like a teenage girl bopping about in her bedroom with a hairbrush for a mic or, if you can imagine such a thing, kind of like Ricky Gervais impersonating Elvis when she's belting it out. You realise that's the point of a kd lang concert: the stereotype has left the building -far from categorising herself at all, she's breaking down barricades and crossing boundaries the whole way through - and not just musically.

The band, of course, were simply terrific. Nashville, nuff said: though I thought the hyped up version of Constant Craving didn't work and maybe some of her older fans were disappointed by that - the audience didn't seem to be able to get going, which 'unnerved' k d. Maybe it was new arrangements, maybe it was the venue which can a little too comfortable (I think) or maybe, like me, they were simply mesmerised by her voice to the point of being stunned.

And when you sit there stunned, you realise that whatever the lyrics say and whatever the demons are or were, when you hear an artist or this form, this comfortable, this happy, this warm 鈥� it feels like coming home: a very great pleasure to be part of.

The highlight, for me, was 'Perfect Word' and my only disappointment that she didn't sing 'Helpless' - mind you, maybe players as far south as Nashville haven't forgiven Neil Young as yet.

The verdict: sublime, luminous.

#18 No one has anything to tell Rikki about song writing, Paulo, I've never hidden my admiration for the tunes - I just kinda wish some of the lyrics weren't so corny. I can do un-corny lyrics, I should do a set for 'Dignity'.

I apologise for such a long post, but Norrie asked.

For tonight: Numb - Marina and the Diamonds more to follow

- although I will happily give any potential shout I have tonight in favour of Mr Git, - cause it's his birthday.

regardez youse

henri

It's not his birthday? Well thank you, SG for making me look a right eejit. I think they should make you wait till next year for a shout just for that.

Tenessee Stud - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Tiffanys - Prefab Sprout

#32 #33

It all started when we moved house and left my sledge behind.

#41

You were too good for them.

#50

oh well then, if it's not his birthday I'll happily have my shout back ...

here's a few others:

Scarlett O'Hara - Jet harris & Tony Meechan

Ruby Baby - Donald Fagan

Band Of Gold - Freda Payne

After the Gold Rush - k d lang - let's celebrate last night's gig.

You Got The Silver - The Rolling Stones

regardez youse

henri

Almost forgot:

They - Jem

stunning record. swingle singers meet hip hop copy & paste.

#41 Brilliant Adam!



Gary Lineker has a script writer? Who'd have thunk it!

#44 I've yet to have that Penne arrabiatta moment.
There's never been anything I've heard of kd Lang that I've particularly wanted to hear again. As a result it seems I missed a great gig by all accounts.

how odd at #44 it wouldn't post, so i chopped a bit off and it went at #49 instead - as well - and then it turned up as #44.

Anyway, you did indeed miss a great gig.

Oh poor SG...he didn't even imply it was his birthday today...just that he shares it with The Daugjhter and Ms W. However, I do believe this is his theme tonight so perhaps he'll have The Earrings Song played...he did after all dedicate it to my girl (who doesn't fight btw). Plus, someone over on FB has asked for it too so maybe...we'll see!

#29, #31, #40, #50

Senga, Norrie, Adam, Gaie,

I didn't even imply it was my birthday today; just that I share it with The Daughter and Gretchen Wilson.

>8-D

Bring hither the fatted calf.

{:-{)}

#59

Jesus,

After 17 weeks of exile, that sounds like the business! Stick it in a piece.





















Naw, man. No' the ootsiders!

Henri,being the only "Willie"at the show meant I would have stood out so to speak !No need to wear a carnation pink or otherwise.Would have been good to have met you and Norrie.Well observed blog on kd, thanks.I've seen Aretha live when she still had it and think kd lang is up there along with her as one of the greatest live acts ever.The fact that most of the show was given over to her new album may have left some of the audience a bit unsure but with such strong material it didnt matter and the band were superb,Cheers Willie Bartke