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Welcome to the Future -


Keep it Country!

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Guid themes next week!


>8-D

A theme of flutes?


Since when did Mr Git get the producers job?

At last, the chance to request

Tomorrow Night - Atomic Rooster

more to follow...

regardez youse

henri

#3 once a sook, (etc)

Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Carol King

Yet another song celebtrating Neil 'the horse' Sedaka's voratious sexual appetite, in which Carol King speculates on the prospects for the future of the relationship during a post-coital reverie.


regardez youse

henri

#6

You've dropped an e


#5

Sook a flute? Izzat a euphonium?

me? I hope u.....

Often requested etc....

New Horizons - The Moody Blues


Hoping for exactly that this summer in my boat

A graayyyt way to start the show



DC

Bryan, a perfect opportunity to hear Tomorrow Never Comes - Dreadzone

and Beyond The Horizon - Bob Dylan

regadez youse

henri

Some good stuff from the gio virgins tonight

Well, that's Ben Gazzara away.Another outlived by Megrahi....the deaths go on..

#11

Agreed. I downloaded the Gotye track. Looking at ichoons, it's the only Goyte track ever downloaded, but it's a stoater.I suppose that's one of the dificulties of the way we listen now - no one can be bothered with the 'hard work' of actually listening to the collection of work known as an album.

I'll check the rest of it on Spotify.

regardez youse

henri

I.O.U. penguin

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Still Gonna Die - Old Dogs

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - Warren Zevon


;o)

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#15 inspired by #12



:o)

U K Subs – Tomorrow's Girls
Donald Fagen – Tomorrow's Girls

I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive - Hank Williams

inspired by #15

A Change Is Gona Come - Sam Cooke

Imagine - John Lennon

Bad Moon Rising - Creddence Clearwater Revival

I Shall Be Released - Bob Dylan

What about songs written about the future in the past? 1999 by Prince, 1984 by The Eurythmics, Disoc 2000 by Pulp?

Children of the Revolution - T Rex

We've Been Told ( Jesus Coming Soon) - Eric Clapton

How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths

Where Do We Go From Here - Bobby Womak

Fly Me away - Goldfrapp

It Won't Be Long - The Beatles (much better than 'When I'm 64' or 'Tomorrow Never Knows')

that'll do - it would be good to hear Bobby Womack on GIO, though it is 6:00.

regardez youse

henri

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A short excerpt from Eddie Mair's RADIO HEAD column in this week's Radio Times:


Etta's swansong

Full marks to the newspaper website that quickly rewrote this headline:

"At Last singer Etta James dies."

#13
Henri check out #54 on the bard thread last weekend...the link on the last word.

Agree the Gotye track is rather splendid

#12 what did Ben Gazzara sing?

For What Yon Dream Of - Bedrock

Tomorrow - T. Communards

#21

Utterly brilliant! thank you. Blogotariat and production team, if you haven't seen that video, have a look. I can't remember how do the links - paulo, can you repost that?

Ben Gazzara sang lots of great Italian love songs in the Mario Lanza style - he was also a great admirer of Neil 'the horse' Sedaka. That he has been outlived by Megrahi is a great shock to everyone who knew him.

regardez youse

henri

#13

Sting rip-off

- Foo Fighters

- Sandy Denny

Cindy, I'll Marry You Someday - Robert Plant & his Band of Joy

The Psychic - Crash Test Dummies 'she knows your future..'

Soon and Very Soon - Andrae Crouch and The Disciples

a song about the second coming of Elvis Prestly - did he ever go away?

regardez yuose

henri

#28 Nice bottle?

What's going on? I've just been reading that Janny on the tranny is to be forced out to make more room for sport on Radio Scotland. This can't be allowed to happen!! What can we do to stop this ridiculous decision?

Monday:

Talking Heads - The Book I Read

"I'm living in the future"

David Byrne - In The Future

The Headboys - The Shape Of Things To Come

Blur - For Tomorrow

#30

Where did you read that?

The Scotsman page 3

#34 Right enough..Anyone told Tom Morton yet?

#30 it is indeed a ridiculous decision. More football on the radio - who needs it?

#36

It's hard to justify even more footie, especially given the state of Scottish Football - the off field shennanigans of how the clubs survive in a declining market are more interesting than the SPL. Even 'Off The Ball' is begining to sound tired, predictable and just a little irritating. Today, I listened to Any Questions.

The removal of Janice will not help the station overall - true, more muppet pundits will increase the lowest common denominator, but the intelligent, natural listener's exodus won't be to Radio 2 or Radio 6 - but to Radio 4. The typical Radio Scotland listener is interested in intelligent speech Radio. Take Janice away - 'From Our Own Corrrespondent' becomes the obvious choice.

The loss of listeners to Radio 4 is a disaster for Radio Scotland, because it's trying to become a speeech station - but let's be honest, it's not Radio 4. Those who miss Janice and retune won't come back. Now you're completeing with Real Radio for football?

I don't understand why they don't ask me about these things.

reagrdez youse

henri

#37 on a Saturday morning, I'll just switch on the iPod an no bother with the wireless.

I like the fitbaw, don't get me wrong, but there is ( at least on this side o the country) more tae life than a focus on a wee bit leather getting kicked about for 90 minutes

DC

'Lies' by Manfred MANN's EARTH BAND (album: 'Chance')
'Built for the future' by FIXX
'The marriage of Heaven and Hell' by UTOPIA
'Surrender' by Jon ANDERSON
'Crystal ball' by KEANE
'I'll leave it in your hands' by SAGA
'This world over' by XTC
'One fine day' by Brian ENO and David BYRNE
'Cities' by TALKING HEADS (I'll find myself a city to live in)
'live for real' by K's CHOICE
'the last time' by Danny ELFMAN
'Tomorrow Wendy' by CONCRETE BLONDE

#30, #36, #37


I abandoned Janice in favour of Radio4 some time ago.

Re: Off The Ball;
The great thing about Tam & Stuart is you can enjoy their show whilst having no interest in fitba' whatsoever.



Since when did Iain Anderson play "pop" music?

#38

Aye? Whit aboot 80 minutes?


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I'm rarely around to listen to Janice's show all the way through so in a way it doesn't make too much odds to me, but if I am looking for listening on a Saturday morning, maybe driving somewhere, then I sure as hell don't want to be left with a choice between a Week in Westminster and football.

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Fortune Teller - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

I tend to drive about a lot on a saturday in my job and my listening routine starts with brian matthews before moving on to janice , off the ball and sportsound. Dont understand the decision myself but the interesting piece about the article in the scotsman is that GIO which is the most listened to music programme on the station isn't mentioned. Possibly because it would have made a mockery of the articles arguement unless it is also on the hitlist

#37

The head hunters are out looking for a new DG, Henri. Throw your hat in.

"Tomorrow People" - Ziggy Marley


Now, there was a series and half!! Always wanted one of those belts. Its where Bowie got the term "Homo Superior", Norrie.

#41 it's no just the leather that gets kicked around in the 80 minute game!

But if you listen to "Sport"sound, there seems to be only one sport and only two teams in that sport. It all gets a bit boring after a while...........

#45

Re: Tomorrow People

Did the euphonium "Coming out" also first appear on this show?


#46

Ah kain! None of us care about Manchester...

#45 that is a good wee fact AFR. I shall file it in my mind with the rst of my Bowie trivia!

Mrs. Boss - Come Tomorrow, another suprisingly good track.

Mr. Boss - Tomorrow Never Knows

#40

Sorry Scotch can't agree. Stuart an' Tam "Tam, who despite his protests on the recent Burns programme, claiming to have always spoken in that appalling dialect" reckon their tongue in cheek take on fit'ba is in some way witty and humorous are really just takin' the pee for two hours every Saturday afternoon. Plus, with the Scottish game being the worst it's ever been what else is there to say about it on a Saturday?

JZ! I repeat, please show those two balloons the Red Card!

#47

I think the term was "breaking out", SG.

#42

Well, you are aware, though, that 'The Week In Westminster' exists and is a choice that you have (and reject) which demonstrates the underlying point that scrapping Janice's show in favour of sport/footie re-directs the audience to their next most natural home - Radio 4 - a strategic disaster.

Exactly the same kind of strategic disaster as abandoning the large and eclectic Get It On audience to a series of elitist - afficiando, tiny audience programmes post 8:00pm.

If you're aiming to be a speech station you need the dial on Radio Scotland after 8:00pm - so we hear your news programme in the morning -which is more important than catering for elitist afficianados who are no longer reliant upon the supposed 'expertise' on offer. The internet changed everything, this is programming from the last century. Jarvis Cocker's main research tool is Wikipedia. There are people on this blog no less expert than those leading these programmes - and can work a computer too, but what we want is to be entertained.

The strategy the station seems to adopt is that it makes it's decisons about programming based on audience responses to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust - this is unsurprising but is strangely unbalanced. This is because most of Radio Scotland's audience, barring football, comes from the north - which, listening to the non - football music content isn't a great surprise. Music wise it's 'heedrum hoderum' or elitist, which is presented as a good thing, reflecting the vortex that has become ' culturally specific'. Now that Janice (and Tom, no doubt) is/are going, the elitism is reinforced.

Eliteism is a bad thing when you are trying to build audience. Radio Scotland's smallest audience % is in the west -embarrassing really, given it's headquartered in PQ - so the majority in the west listen to the football and then switch off. There is something they are not being offered, and strangely enough, they are not suffering from a lack of football.

Of course, if you ask the audience as it is they'll tell you 'even more cultural elitism'. Hence the danger of responses to the trust: give us more of the same.

Yet, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland's own market research is at odds with the Trust - it revealed no demand for more culturally specific music from the market research supplied for the Autumn commissioning round.

So what about the rest of the people, cultural philistines (obviously) who live and work at either end of and along the M8 corridor and in the central belt (that's the majority of the Scottish population) who don't listen to the station apart from the footie, because they feel it has nothing to offer them,but who fund it, at least equally, with those who live in the north?

As Henry Ford said "' If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said 'faster horses'"

Janice is being sacrificed for whatever new varient of ' faster horses' ties in with 'culturally significant' and the attempt to lift more of the west through footie, but that is already proved futile unless the non-footie offering is something the west wants to hear.

'faster horses' and the stupendous efforts made by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ in Scotland on behalf of the Gaelic speaking community is begining to seem unbalanced in relation to what is really ' culturally significant' to the overwhelming majority - that is music we can unite around as a shared value: popular music of various kinds - not exclusive 'high art'.

The GIO Blog and F***book pages are not littered with requests for 'culturally specific' music.

If anything, they verify that 'Pop music' (anything that doesn't have a chanter or a fiddle) is of greater cultural significance in Scotland than any of the other minority interests posing as ' culturally specific' as defined: The Jazz House? Dress Circle? Classics Unwrapped? Global Gathering?

These are more 'Culturally Significant' than Janice Forsyth? Can't be found elsewhere on the ´óÏó´«Ã½? Can't be found in a nano-second on the net, You Tube, Spotify?

Really?

And another thing - like most people, I work during the week in the conventional Monday - Friday pattern. What on earth makes the programmers at Radio Scotland
imagine that I want to listen to a turgid rehash of the week's business news at 10:00am on a Sunday morning? It beats me. I automatically move the dial.

How long before they realise that the audience is there to be entertained, rather than musically edified by 'expert led' programming designed for a minority of afficianados?

Anyone else noticed that, apart from a tired 'Off The Ball', Radio Scotland is a completely humour free zone? Bryan and Babs are as close as it gets.

Well, PQ, if you're going to compete with Radio 4, you'll need to get a lot more balance and lighten up a bit. If we're a 'nation station' are we modern and outward looking or stuck in the introspection of our history and its associated 'culture' endlessly? Personally, and I'm biased of course,I'd give henri hannah a shot at it.

#44

Flattered, Adam, but I doubt they'd be interested.I researched all this stuff to pitch in the commissioning round, but thus far my belief in a music programme based around a comedic surreal narrative that seeks to entertain as well as offer a distinctive music proposition hasn't managed to make the breakthrough - which is a a pity, because it is, I'm told, an entertaining listen. But we live in hope.


regardez youse

henri

#51


Oh. Between Homo superior and Homo erectus it's easy to get confused.

#52

A humour-free zone? Puh-lease!

Granted, there's no' much on the schedule the noo, apart from Friday night into Saturday morning, but I've wet masel' (that's a euphonium) laughing at Laverloch Findo Speaks, Desperate Fishwives, Swots & PTA (Parent Teacher Association).

Part of the problem is the propensity of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio4 to commission Scottish comedy shows they think will appeal to an English audience, e.g. anything written by Sanjeev Kohli & Donald McLeary!

(Their spoof arts review, Shredded Week, was one of the funniest radio shows ever)!

'This Month Day 10' ~~ CSS

... seeing at it's only day 5 (or day 6 if tomorrow)

'Waiting for that day' ~~ George Michael

I think they should give Janice a new show 6pm to 8pm weekdays.

Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

No future...

David Bowie - Five Years

Noah and The Whale - Five Years Time

Doris Day - Que Sera Sera

Neil Diamond with "Headed to the Future" please.

Ta!

If Paradise Is Half As Nice-Amen Corner
Tomorrow May Never Come-Cosmic Rough Riders
Better Love Next Time-Dr Hook
See You Later Alligator-Bill Haley and The Comets
Someday-M People
A Hundred Years From Now-Elvis
Get It Right Next Time-Gerry Rafferty
Year 3000-Busted

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Bryan, this is a wee gem. Check it out!

Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future) -


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#52 so you're offering to do a radio show Henri? Sounds good. Best of luck!

DC

"Things are gonna be great...at 28"...a bit late for me but so says Lorene Scafaria.

'28' - Lorene Scafaria

Would be good to hear 'No Tomorrow' by Orson again

When you are old - Gretchen Peters
Won't get fooled again - the Who
When I am through with you - the VLA
I believe - Stevie Wonder
You can bring me flowers - Ray LaMontagne
When I'm dead and gone - McGuinness Flint
I'm gonna make you love Me - Diana Ross & the Supremes

Joe
Linlithgow

The Daughter suggests:

'Live Those Days Tonight' - Friendly Fires

Forget About Tommorrow - Feeder

Sometime Around Midnight - The Airborne Toxic Event

What better really as Midnight is that special time when today becomes tommorrow :).

Future Primitive - Papercuts
This Is The Future - Owl City

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The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray


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Let's hear it for the Henri Hannah radio show!

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Seconds for Sometime Around Midnight, that's a great shout.

Come Tomorrow, Come Today - Edwyn Collins

#50
Who's JZ Mac?

#70
Agree Gaie. Get Henri on the wireless.

Go for it Henri

Think you should distribute your demo around the bloggers. We might even come up with some interesting features.......

Monday

When he said repent repent repent
I wondered what he meant

The Future / Leonard Cohen

Also
Call you tomorrow / Ezio
Get ready for the future / The Winners (outstanding funk)
Someday Soon / Journeybox
Let it happen / Box Scaggs
I'll meet you at midnight / Smokie

#52

Fair shout Henri - ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland getting behind the shortbread tin, bagpipes and fat Ecks vision of how Scotland should think. Commission a poll but pay no attention to what the population wants, sounds about right.

Good Luck with the pitch for a new radio show - sounds like a winner. Can't see Radio Scotland picking it up though specially not if it's popular with the masses.

Tomorrow Belongs to Me - Sensational Alex Harvey Band

#30

Billy, there is a facebook petition going on to save the Janice Forsyth Show.I am convinced there is something about the Trust's research that is skewed and that the improvement in the station is likely to be undone by it becoming a hybrid between Radio 4 and 5 Live with intermittent lashings of heed-rum - hoderum.

I'm grateful to my peers for their support.We didn't make it through this commissioning round which wasn't a great surprise since we were offering something rather different than the commissioning brief actually sought - though our rationale for the show was thought 'persuasive' - but I'm kinda hoping they might find us a graveyard shift when something else is on holiday and it can be given a trial/pilot.

regardez youse

henri

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Five Minutes - Lorrie Morgan


Keep it Country!

#73

Great Smokie shout PP!

Here. Where's Glen Eric these days??

How can we go wrong:

Morrissey - In The Future When All Is Well

Shape of Things to Come - Love & Money
Talk of the Town - The Pretenders

Tick Tock - The Vaughan Brothers
Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer


Seagull - Joe Bonamassa

..and token country track,

It Wont Be Like This for Long - Darius Rucker

Al.

The Undertones:

'It's Going To Happen'
'Wednesday Week'

#various

Ole ola, Ole ola
We're gonna bring that World Cup back from over there


fits tonight's theme and may win over some listeners from the MW.

some of these blogs are like war and peace..by time i read i usually forget what i have come on to do and end up not posting any thing...lol...keepthem coming

today i rememeber...how about Telstar...can hum and use your teeth and lips ...get a lip rattle tune to this one

I forgot about;

Futures - Zero 7 lovely.. Zero 7 are the band that Sia (she of the No1 hit single with David Guetta) normally works with and a bit of a family favourite. Would be good to hear.

regardez - youse

henri

#79 Seagull would be fantastic

#1
SG - If Bryan's not playing this I reckon that ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland can't

Think sometimes his hands are tied.

In the meantime have you seen this are am I just being daft?



Al.

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Thanks for that, Al! Isn't Michelle lovely?

Great to hear Clouds Across the Moon again!

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