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Oh well....I for one shall miss it

Frank

I think that there will be a lot of folk who will be sad at the passing of this blog. Not only has it allowed for great discussion, it has also introduced a lot of friends to each other. It's a pity that 'progress' will prevent more friendships developing in future

I for one think that closing this down is a mistake. The blog is a success for the bloggers. What a pity the team don't see it that way

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Poor Adam. All those hours drafting a Blog Code of Conduct.


On the plus side, now I'll have time to read books again!



>8-D

I can't tweet & refuse to have a Facebook account. I can't see me contributing to the show




What a great pity this is happening

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I wonder if this decision was made in London? Closing down ´óÏó´«Ã½ blogs has become a growth industry.

I suspect they got fed up of the complaining.

Pity.


Bye bye wee blog.....

Time for you all to admit your aliases....

#4

Yeah. They can keep their Dark Side and their Social Meeja thingmies.

The "Backbone of the Show" is being sacrificed on the altar of "Progress".

Our Prophet of Doom saw this coming, but we listened not.

Woe is we.......

Ìý


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#7 - I refuse to confirm or deny anything.


{:-{)}

well, well, my wee world suddenly feels a lonelier place.

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#6

Complaining?!? That was feedback!!!


Ye never hear me complaining!



































affronted git

Not to worry Gaie - the eagle has landed!

Have we still access to the LastFM site? Can any of you technophiles set one up?

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I go to LastFM to access stuff I can't find on YouYaTube. I don't see a problem.

Who'd have thought Henri's favourite Libyan would have outlived the blog!

This is a sad sad day.

re 7

aka Rex Titter, aka Mean Dartin, aka KK. Bing (i.e. 'The Reversibles')

... this will be the first piece of negativity uttered by myself on this forum during the last 4 years ...

"disgusted enough to call it a day"

Sorry Brian, but that half-baked blurb of hokum at the top of this page sounds nothing more that a prepared propaganda statement. Can you please explain to me how communicating by e-mail or twitter is in any way more acceptable than this format? Those of us who twitter not cannot possibly obtain the same interactive enjoyment in any other way.

Could say loads more, however the more this sinks in, the angrier I'm becoming.

Before my demise, sincere thanks and all best wishes to my fellow bloggers, whose banter I have enjoyed (and loathed at times :) immensely. Thanks to you all, my musical appreciation is now more balanced, worldly and infinitely more knowledgable.

(in no particular order)

Farewell MadMac/Mars Bonfire, Julie, Gaie, Mary-Doll, MazzyStar, Scotch, AFR, DC, Norrie, ThingFish, Kevin (ft Dale), Garden party Paul, Roxy John, Alfaeraferry, Paulo, FrankinDenny, joe-k-brown, Glen Miller, Cristophe, joethejamman, henri,

For all the banter, the discussions, the laughs, the moans, the complaints, the cameraderie, the fallouts, the get togethers......

but mostly for all the great music I have added to my collection over the last 3 or 4 years as a result of participating in this blog, There's not many bloggers who haven't indirectly added to my ayechoons.

The show has been the catalyst, no matter how much we moan about the themes they still throw up great selections on the blog even if they haven't all been played.

So from Dancing the night away by the Motors to Still Ray by Raphael Siddique, I tip my hat to my fellow bloggers.

Bryan, team thanks for the blog. Pity you could never have made a night oot. You'd have enjoyed the company!

oh well, such an epic fail!..............pretty damning words. para 2 sentence 1.

there will be new ways to communicate with me elsewhere on an olympian scale via another website late may..........watch that space.

wits mondays theme.................wateva

'let it be'....................the beatles

cheers frae the dale

and not forgetting the Captain, Patrick McC, BillyinAlloa, mikeshropshire, spacetruckin,

and any other good soul whom my anger has excluded ....

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES ... IT WAS A GAS WHILE IT LASTED ...

Well thanks a bunch blog-plug-pullers...I was going to get myself moderated this July as a 50th birthday present to myself...I was learning new swearie words and everything...how am I gonna manage that now? Have a last harrumph!...sigh! ;o)

This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

Have enjoyed the banter and musical input of fellow bloggers over the past few years.
Good to have met a lot of you - it was a genuine pleasure. ;o)

The Wake's in The Counting House George Square Glasgow
Saturday 26th May bank holiday weekend.

All welcome

it's all been said. The blog's been an important part of my life, I've met great new friends both virtual and in the pub and my own listening's benefited hugely thanks to all the recommendations on the blog. There have been some fantastic posts and a load of drivel - it's all been entertaining, well most of it, and to be cast aside without as much as a warning or an acknowledgment is, I think, pretty callous.

Pity, when the show's been such a catalyst.

Whatever, I'm now off to #21 and see you all again soon xxx

Note for miss babs & Bryan

I have a genuine tear in my eye reading the above. Perhaps it's not your decision, however,

In the words of somebody.....




Please forgive them for they know not what they have done

I truly can't think of any reason for this other than the need for the production team to actually carry out some research on the excellent suggestions put forward. Canny really say I didn't see it coming.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Music? What?

Can only echo the disappointment of my fellow bloggers and truly wish all of you like minded spirits all the best in the future.

Kick off on the 26th Paolo?

Will our Bryan and Miss B have the courage to turn up I wonder?

Thanks for the nice memories folks and just live those songs



Keep on truckin'
Al.

#21 let's hope this works Norrie. The music discussion (and the suggestions for new music from my fellow bloggers) will be much missed otherwise.

Suggestion to the ´óÏó´«Ã½: what about a show where the audience suggest songs, perhaps some of which are not hugely well known. Maybe the show could be constructed about a theme? Something suggested by the audience? Listeners could converse about such suggestions and the production team could pick some for the actual show?

Naw, it will never work......

This is disappointing news. First Janice Forsyth's Sat Show, now the GIO blog. I would have thought an great interactive radio show would benefit from a blog ( I wonder if the Simon Mayo Radio 2 blog will go or if there will be a Radio Scotland Olympic blog?) but oh well, never mind, the show must go on...hopefully! Thanks to those bloggers who have been complimentary about my meagre contributions to this blog during my brief time here i.e. my nerdy long list of suggestions. Typical of my luck, getting in to a party just as it is ending......

Bye all

Joe
Linlithgow

How's about we go out with a 'bang' and suggest a song which perhaps hasn't made it to OUR show, and maybe sums up our feelings?

For the good times - Kris Kristofferson (who actually wrote this song; it was my first cassette; I bought the album on vinyl and since on aye choons (TM) etc

The first verse applies caws I have no desire to lay my head on your pillows



How come this isnae a theme for next week? The bloggers' best?



DC

or,


Hey, that's no way to say goodbye - Leonard Cohen

Got on to #21

See you aw there







Wot a shame. Hope the ´óÏó´«Ã½ see sense!

Cheers






DC

#26 half seven for eight.

sinn agad tha,




cheers frae the dale

Whit's the big deal? My man on the inside attempted to share this with us all, see... 22. At 07:10 3rd May 2012! Plus the Team never could master how to up-date "tracks played!"
Looks like I'm double booked for the 26th but I'll attempt to join at some point.

Kind regards to you all,
Mac, Booji Boy, Bry Nylon & Mars

So, here we sit, still obliged to pay for a standard of customer care which would raise eyebrows in North Korea.

Goodnight Vienna

A sad day indeed and I think we warranted more than this as a send off.

I shall miss the blog and the bloggers. It was more often than not my first click when I went to the computer. As DC says, Ive been away a long time and it was a wee touchstone to Scotland for me.
In the end I think it was more about the Blog than the show - which perhaps has been perceived and has been our downfall.

I'm happy to have met many of you and sorry not to have met Glen and Norrie, MadMetro, Kene (Rex), Billy, Jesus, Mazzy, Joe, Al and yes even you Patrick!:)

Last night I had a nip or twa as I torched the Code of Conduct in the shade of the Sugar Loaf.

Tchau,
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Adam from Rio

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This blog is now closed - follow us Twitter and Facebook Ìý[sic]

If the people closing down ´óÏó´«Ã½ blogs cannot construct a sentence, what chance do the kids have?

We're better off out of it.

#37

Forgot the Fish...

Good afternoon Bryan, Blogotariat and friends....
Bryan, I very much agree with what DC, Paolopablo, Kene, and many other have already written and I very much share their grief. I too feel truly bereft and I hate the thought of terminating the life of the blog. It is not euthanasia.... it is MURDER!!!

A sad day indeed that the blog is being closed down. Like all of the other regulars I've enjoyed the trip and picked up loads of great music on the way.

Although I've not been contributing much these days under the new alias, it was great fun before under the original.

A real blast.

Don't think I'll bother with Twatter or Faceache.

Like the eskimo said to his wife at tea time "Whale meat again" - just don't know where or when.

The wake has been changed already to the following week. Now sat 2nd june same place Counting House

Nice one!

Onc.pop lease tender my apologies


(that's what people do when they cant meet expectations by the way.......)


:-)

DC

Eh?

Start again

Re #42

Please tender my apologies





DC out


...

Sorry I can't make the get together in June.I'll be in sunny Greece but if any of you are passing the farmers market in Queens Park on the south side of Glasgow, stop and have a chat.(1st and 3rd Sat of the month.)
Have a great night.

Last word!

Ìý


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Jeezo.......

In an extremely childish manner

I got the last post

na na na na na na


quick Bryan close the comments now.

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Ìý

I meant last comments

did somebody say something?

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Of course you did, dear boy!

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Haud the bus! You're a quine!

Ohhhhhhh!!!!! you're furrit, Mr Git. We're not all into cross-dressing.

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UNDIES DON'T COUNT!!!

You hum it...

Snr Producer will attempt to search for it...

Bryan will play it, only if it's a Twitter, Facebook, Texted, e-mailed supported shout!








Whit's on Radio 2?

Playing the 2nd of June by ear at the mo' - sounds like a goer, just depends on wean no.2 having housespace for his old dear.

BTW - not got to 21 yet, but will do soon! Good for you norrie! ;o)

Was never a prolific blogger myself but I for one even though I do indeed have facebook I find the blog a much better place to communicate discuss and indeed gain new musical sugestions (The Airborne Toxic Event are an example of a band I would never have heard off were it not for the blog). Seems a shame that ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland have taken the desicion to shut the blog down and I will miss the discourse that took place here.

In the words of Douglass Adam's "So long and thanks for all the fish!"

Wonder who will get the...

last..

post?

Me



I've given up on fake book, I had loads of folk, most I don't know, asking to be my friend. I have enough friends on this blog and the conversation is good here.

I also have no chance of twitting or faking from work.

Any chance Bryan or Babs could say something to the "backbone of the show" before the plug is pulled?


DC

i'm quite competitive................so it's me.

this blog is now officially closed doon.

so nobody else should even try and make comment or your name will go doon in the jotter.

it is now closed.

ok?

cheers frae the dale

The thing with the blog was the great banter... that's what I'll miss most.

Good luck to you all and big thanks for all the music you introduced me to...

Only fitting me thinks that I leave my last word to a great song writer... Paul Weller (That (was) Entertainment)...

"Lights going out.... and a kick in the b***s"

Ah, finally accessed it - what can I say?

It's been a huge part of the last three years... I shall miss it...

....I suppose everyone's left now... wait a minute... I'm here.... is there anybody out there? Is there anybody in here? Am I inside the digital vault?

regardez - youse

henri

Tuesday
Objects in the rear view mirror always appear closer than they are / meatloaf



Just testing:-)

Henri
Todays thread and suggestions is on norries blog if you want to keep up

#68 Worth a try ☺

For something that's been closed down







#68 Worth a try ☺

#69 The blog is dead, long live the blog!!

How did that happen??

# @ everybody

welcome to the underground blog resistance.

cells have already been formed.

p_p is the first general secretariat

the aim tonight is to get 2 songs played. our main mole (BB) is going to introduce the songs with.........i found these on a coded facebook posting. when you hear him say that you'll know that cell A and cell B are fully operational.

await further instructions form the great honorable p_p. in the meantime keep a low profile

'can't get enough of your love, baby'...............barry white.

cheers from (as if i'm gonnae say)

#65 Is that the same jotter that all the themes were noted down in?

You ain't seen me, right?

Good Lord -I'm not alone in cyberspace after all - there really are ghosts in the machine....

Unsure what I was doing, i stuck a couple on the darkside... but I'll head for the link on 22... as well...

this is good fun, I like this clandestine blogging...

regardez youse

henri

Do you think we can say what we like because no-one will bother checking?


Hmmmmm..... come to think about it, that's how it's been since last October


Mike in Shropshire, get over to





Does anyone foresee a goal before the final whistle blows?


DC

I haven't been able to register for the new blog because I'm on my office computer ( I think)... but we could just continue to use this page?

Now that it's off the front screen no one will be bothering about it?

Yep, Megrahi outlived the blog... the one that I just didn't see coming.

regardez - youse

henri

hi henri,
If you remember the Easter weekend they stopped just short of actually saying the words but it was obvious they just couldny be bothered so we got bumped on the Friday / Monday.
Canny think why the blog is more more cumbersome than other media but I would have thought they had enough resource to cover, maybe that would interfere with them having their soup during the show right enough.

Wonder how long they'd last in a real job?

Al.

I think it's extremely unlikely it's too cumbersome - too time consuming with a lack of resource, perhaps, and not 'instant - active' which is how they want to work - it's really cheap Radio, the audience write the script and let's face it, budgets are tight and folks are getting their jotters - so i'm certain it's not what is presented.

The upshot is that we've gone from 'the backbone of the show' to simply irrelevant in 10 seconds. The corollary of this is that such background knowledge the bloggers bring to the show in the form of eclecticism will be lost - not instantly, but lost nonetheless. The show will drift into the drive time 'golden oldie' stakes and find itself competing with Real Radio etc, but it can't win that audience and will slowly lose the one it's got.

All the anecdotal evidence says the existing audience would not be interchangeable with a Real Radio audience.

I have to say however, that the team fought to keep the blog open when others were closing and for that they have my unending gratitude, but things change and you don't know what you've got till you lose it.

Although everyone would deny it, the period when we were awarding points, the shows got much more eclectic, something of value has been lost, but it was ever thus - those in charge obviously know price of everything and the value of nothing.

We'll see.

regardez youse

henri

regardez youse

henri

I applaud Norrie's blog :-)

Reading Henri's post has given me an idea...

Hunt the archive!

The themes are now regularly repeated as we know... object of the game is to search for a previous thread that's the same or similar to that days theme. First to find a thread opens it back-up and we continue where it previously left off.

"They" haven't blocked our access or closed the archive!

Four words or more? So cant buy me love is a long song title?


PP still trying to get the last post

#79

Do we get to wear balaclavas?

Glad you've popped on AfR... the idea was specifically with you in mind and so as not to lose contact.

By the way I've been moderated in past 24 hours on their beloved Farcebook... not a big enough sycophant!

Ach, who cares.

Well Well

Ok Jim you're back.....Coming to the night oot?

@ h_h

your analysis is probably dead right.
which is very sad indeed.
something is going to be forever lost in the frantic bid for immediacy....more and more people fiddling with gadgets.....soup boiling over in the kitchens....wraps unwrapping disgustingly onto the kitchen floor, stews over-stewing etc etc....wit a borach.
it's a stupid decision to close this blog and they will rue the day. mark my words.
i know of people from around the world who used this and strange but true, i also know of those who found the blog entertaining.....which is the whole point...isn't it?

cheers frae the dale

#82 great idea MMFC.

OK, have we had songs about power before?

Dont know about ghosts in the machine, but it certainly seems to be haunted by bloggers past!

#87
Sparky's Dream, top of the list below - is close.

Tostao

to brito

to clodoaldo

to pele

to gerson

back to clodoaldo

skips past one, two , three , four

out to Rivelino

lovely pass to Jairzinho

into pele

pauses, looks up

Carlos Albertoooooooooo oh what a goal....sensational!