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MONDAY


As well as a plain bridie, Saint Andrew asks (in the Dundee dialect) for one with the added flavour of the genus Allium. (15)

1 Across. You Might want to get a move on backwards if you want a big hit from this David Jones song. (3,3,5)

#2 oops (3,3,5,5)

Have we had a theme of muisical sequals?

Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue Got Married

Bruce Springsteen - Wild Billy's Circus Story
Bruce Springsteen - The Last Carnival


etcetera

'A Christmas Song' - Jethro Tull

'Another Christmas Song' - Jethro Tull

That's the (Christmas) spirit SG!

MONDAY


A song aboot a Bam withoot a Scooby...

MONDAY


One for our beloved presenter...

"Cycling can be difficult in Gweedore, County Donegal. Especially when it's uphill and

------- --- ----." (7, 3, 4)

Briefly it's Frankie's saving Grace (6)

#8 never mind gweedore, cycling on the southside is difficult. I bet poor Bryan has got over that pot hole icident.

#8

...but made more pleasant if behind ladies of a desirable girth. Royally!


#4
Im On Fire
Fire Brigade

Sir Tom recovers from alliterative amnesia - 5,8,9,8

More hirsute than butch, these lads can't help you with the answer - 1,4,4

A speedy getaway for the band who set the mall alight - 4,3,3,7

Well, I guess the thing to to do is forget the less obvious and anything obscure- it's hard enough to get those tracks played when they are spelt out, let alone when couched in cryptic clues.

The bias of the show is moving, I think. I don't really have a problem with that, but facebook, text and twitter serves to put the considered contributions of the blog on the outside looking in, I guess.

I suppose as the drift goes from inter-active to instant -active,which must be exciting for Bryan and the evening producer - more like converntional DJ'ing than presenting - then perhaps our considered shouts and seemingly obscure campaigns become less relevant or appealing in an atmosphere of urgent reaction.

An atmosphere of urgent reaction has it's own satisfactions,I'm sure,as it it is in any emergency service - the sticking plaster is on, the rush of fire fighting to extinguish the desire of the multitude to hear the populist and obvious must be overwhelming.

I must say though, running a request show on a democratic basis has always struck me as slightly odd, if understandable enough on the night - it puts a weight or value on one request over another which strikes me as inapproriate or politically incorrect, somehow. Almost everyone agrees that the highlight of the programme is the track you don't know that just blows everyone away.It's happeneing less and less, inevitably.

So we can expect more mainstream drivetime - it'll get the audience up too, which is tremendously important to the show, obviously.

I was much interested in The Meek Family's revelatory contribution to the blog:"it's daunting being new kids on the blog".

That might suggest we're seen as eletist and increasingly heading towards the eccentric fringe of the show.In these circumstances, maybe running a blog to satisfy us lot will seem a disproportionate investment in tough times. Intrestingly, the blog entry for Edith Bowman's album show hasn't been updated in a year.

That said, the Meeks think the regular bloggers considered contributions part of the
show - " hearing bloggers names regularly on 'Get It On' is a bit like knowing the characters in a favourite book".

So there is a role for us, somewhere, a role for us....

regardez youse

henri

Henri here is a wee fair treat for you since you missed out on Blackpool this year:

#13 give us a clue henri. How many letters?

I would have thought this was the dream theme for all the anagramatists on the blog

Woody's son takes the train - 4,2,3,7

David and Jackson can see right through you - 2,4-1

I see everyone else has a life on a Saturday evening. I'm off to watch a DVD and kid on I do too.

MONDAY


Extol icy babe (9, 3) Anagram

#16

Paolo,

I bet only Glen Miller works out #18. What are the odds?

The difficulty is in making the clues easy. Maybe we should leave links to all of the clues. (See #7)

>8-D

#19
i'll bet you a pot roast he's not the only one

French monarch screws up bigtime (3,4,3,5,3,3,4,5)

BTW it is worth pointing out that the blog "updates instantly".

#20

Paolo,

I meant to say Glen is the only one who ever asks for it.

(Who can afford a pot roast in Edinburgh during the Festival?)



#21

Paolo,

That's what I'm talking about!

>8-D



#22

Norrie,

If a blog updates instantly and no-one can be bothered to read it, are contributors to the "mighty blog" regarded as eccentric and/or elitist?

And if they are, is this a good or a bad thing?

Discus!

>8-D

MONDAY


Eau de Toilette? Sounds like it! i.e. Bard plays (and sings) of the smallest room. (3, 2, 6)

#22 Is that like that tree question?

#25

Norrie,

A wee bit. Maybe more like "If a man talks in the forest and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?"

;-)

#26. Why do have to keep asking that...you never listen do you?

#23

throwing it open then?


with no moss gathered they're looking for a home - 5,7

God is sad that flairs have gone out of fashion - 4-6, 5

...is lovely and they say it before dinner - 5

#23 who can afford anythibg at the fedtival.


Why dont we just stay over says imelda
Cos my names not weir and i dont come from largs says I

Stop hacking into my phone norrie

Song about a two timing harlot (4, 7, 3 , 6)

Checking it through, Get It On is the only show that still has it's own blog.

But then, Get It On is the jewel in the crown of Radio Scotland's music progamming.

Nothing else comes close, the show is entitled to it's blog and we contribute 'something'. Still, we should run a campaign for more folks from the dark side to become bloggers, thus securing our ongoing 'mightiness' and firm up our role as 'backbone' of the show in case the high heidyins get any funny ideas.

I heard John Beattie advertisng Get It On last week. I went to school with his Mrs,out here in The Suburbs. He was praising the "lunch" show."All You Need Is Lunch" he said. I requested that, but they didn't play it.They should get the bloggers to advertise the show.

Glen could say a few words,that would get the listening figures up.

regardez youse

henri

#27

Yes, Julie.

You're right, Julie.































































You're always right, Julie...

#31

All he wanted was a cut and blow dry.......

#33

Oops! Forgot the

>8-D

#32 Henri I've been listening to the show for quite some time now and love what it brings to my life. I text, facebook, blog and just set up on twitter not all at the same time and depending on where I'm listening from, please don't underestimate yours and other bloggers contributions some of the music I've picked up on your recommendation is wonderful, some not to taste some of the patter makes me laugh out loud, initially I felt a wee bit intimidated by the superiour musical knowledge of some of you guys but music can touch your soul at any level and can unite pupil and master, west and East, billy or tim and anything else that devides our great nation and the blog is a huge part of Get it on and although I've never met Bryan or any of the team I think they appreciate it, Bryan takes time to involve the listener and respects that people give bits of themself which personally makes me feel connected to other Scots all over the globe and I trust that he will keep that format and tweets although instant wont be too big a part of the show so to Henri, Paolo, Git and everyone who have become characters keep up the good work and keep teaching xx

The end of July is the 4th anniversary of the blog and my tuppence worth on the debate...

A fixed, usually boring routine - 2, 1, 3

A contemptuous or profaneÌýutterance,Ìýconcerning a sacred entity apparently! - 11, 6

Ones Defiant stance - 1, 5, 3, 2, 5

Relax an' keep the faith!

forgot to c and p. the blog isn't always happy to accept all comers.
brief recap, to save the easily bored on the blog. Leaving out all tedious explanations, to boot:
"aiming to incorporate the elderly with disasterous consequences" (7)
Some sort of on-topic reference there, somewhere....
And that would be the Bee Gees original, not Steps.

Otherwise, it would be nice to hear from
"Glen's saintly sister, the first woman, proscribed. Sim sala bim" (11)

Back to the day job, methinks.

#36

thanks, that's kind of you to say so.

#38 Howdi M-D, that's a helluva clue.

regardez youse

henri

The difference between the blog and facebook seems to be; people use facebook to talk to the show, and the blog to talk about it.

#40 - Rorys_dad_ polmont - One of us is drunk.

The clever people who compile crosswords try to make it as hard as possible. Our mission, if we choose to accept it, is to make it so easy that a ´óÏó´«Ã½ producer can figure it out. Which might be easier said than done! LOL!


Elderly canines bow wow to the inevitable. (5,5,3)

:o)


Did you see what I did there?

;o)

tis in my lack of clarity - (5)

hope illuminates the passing of a frontal system - (8,5,3,4)

gad about and be pinned on - (5)

discus thrower makes impression at the beach - (5,2,3,4)

team dies alternatively - (4)


Paul from Ayr

This must be the first thread in living memory where the blog has tried to ensure it gets nothing played. Or is it just me thats thick.

Compared to
Blondie go nuclear (6)
Proclsimers check out the local weather (8 2 5)
Quern want to carry on (4 4 2 3)
we've got no chance





And em these are not, stress not, requests from yours truly. No niet nada nae way dont even think about it.

Quern? Queen

Proclsimers???

no, I'm definitely thick too Paolo, but I look forward to your namecheck on such popular choices.

perusing the sum (anag) : 8 - 3,4

or while she gets off (anag) : 6 - 3,8

huge sensation for capital of Massachusetts 4,4,1,7

lethal frontman gets caught in it 9

petulant Dan doesn't agree with the Edwyn Hawkins singers 3,3

#40 Hard to disagree.

Gallic armada by Edinburgh tourist attraction (6,4)

One for Miss Babs to solve:

What a performance! This girl was made muddled from these humble origins (3,4,4,5,3)

Julian tries to silence the earth (5,4,4,5)

Liverpudlians who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like (1,4,2)

The sound of a triangle, twice,mistaken designations(5,2,2,4)

Visitors to the former Soviet Union accompanied by farmer's daughters (4,2,3,4)


regardez youse

henri

Saem lod carp (4, 3, 4) Anagram

'doubly distant' as sung about by a band sharing their name with the location of Norman Stanley Fletcher's incarceration (3,3,4)

Naval officer in empty field flicks a kick (8)

#52 Nah too tricky ☺

The King draws our attention to the sad vicious circle of life in a dangerous area of the Windy City (1,3 6)

#55 should be (2,3,6)

Asphyxiators' aristocrat (10, 7)

I'd love to hear the Sutherland Brothers'

Pee hit (3,3)

#51

sorry,

the sound of a triangle, twice, mistaken designations - s/b - 5,3,2,4

regardez youse

henri

Everything is fleeting for a mythological mountain nymph and the leporine males...ales...ales...ales... (7,5,7)

#58 me too

More grey matter than I normally care to disturb of a Monday.... but here goes...

Unique acquaintance – does not have the skills claimed (3, 4, 3, 1, 4 – 3, 9)
Four Tops singer wept – boasted William (4, 5, 5 – 5, 5)
A male body of water –steals a male duck (5, 3 – 4, 5)
Constantly wet weather? – asks main character from Paris, Texas (3, 4, 2, 6, 4, 2, 2 – 6)

Presumably all contributing bloggers are posting the 'solutions' tomorrow? (not a clue-by-the-way!)

Lost Victorian? (2, 3, 5)

Unemployed sing whilst drinking Buckfast

#65 You've been to Alloa then?

The candle will be finished twice as quick (Roxy Music song) 4,4,7

J.O'B.

Band Clue:
Cinema soundtrack 4,5
The song:
Miss World; 6, 5

Letter 6 of the band name and letter 4 of the song name are the same.

J.O'B.

Clue..........this big red london bus took a very british road trip through europe...but was only a shadow of a cliffhanger....(6,7)


aw c'moan it's no that difficult.

cheers frae the dale.

#55 @ ya julie frae the boro

gottit dead easy...................it now ornivr.....................no bad a song.

cheers frae the dale

This was a helluva theme to pick for fair Monday, it's enough to get you down whilst you chisel away at the clues - 5,4,3,7

#36

Jim?

#38

Ah no, its your good self MD. We were wondering where you'd gone.

#37
Are ye feeling better Mac?

#72 not Jim no wrong gender x

#72 see #73 pt 1....???

Whit's fair Monday?

#73
Misdiagnosed for something else, future prognosis unclear.
Travel Insurance premium through the roof!


What will replace Twitter? ;-)

#78

I still dont know why nobody in Scotland has started Slabber.com

#38 you comin out to play on the 6th mary doll. You promised you'd make this one and we're a bit short of wimmin once the jiggin starts

#72, 73 & 75 - you must really miss JfE, the way he's forever being mentioned here, even if it is to slag him off. It's quite amusing to be mistaken for him. However, although we may have shared a few opinions, we are not one and the same person.

#79 I'm not sure if you're selling this one to me very well paolo!! Sounds like I'd be making up the numbers. If other bloggers are to be believed, that would make another 2 appearing at the gathering. Or 3. ;o)
You may also remember that I said I'd like to come along so long as I hadn't offended any more bloggers in the run up to the next meet. I have a feeling that ..... actually, I may just show up so the alter ego thing can be put to rest. And also to meet the rest of the crew, naturally!!

More than welcome MD. We all offend each other regularly anyway and it's much more fun with a libation in hand :-)