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Gary Davies sits in with Texas performing live

Gary Davies sits in for Zoe and has Texas performing live from the 大象传媒 Maida Vale studios. Comedian and actor Omid Djalil calls in to talk to about his new upcoming tour.

Gary Davies sits in for Zoe Ball on a fun packed Friday show. Texas perform live from the legendary 大象传媒 Maida Vale studios and chat to Gary about their new album called, Hi. It's the band's 10th album, and they say it's a result of looking back with eyes fixed firmly on the future. Three of the songs were written in lockdown, in Scotland, Wales, LA and Sweden. Collaborations include 鈥楧ark Fire鈥�, written with Richard Hawley, a lovely tune that recalls the spirit of a slow dance at a high school prom while 鈥楲ook What You鈥檝e Done鈥�, is an intoxicating, classic duet where lead singer Sharleen Spiteri trades verses with Clare Grogan from Altered Images.

Omid Djalili phones in with details about his upcoming tour. It's called 'The Good Times Tour' and promises to deliver great stories to make you laugh. Omid will be travelling around the UK from July 2021 right through to November 2022.

Along with Adam Porter on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, he and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought with Reverend Richard Coles and listeners on the line, as Gary entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 28 May 2021 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Cher

    Love & Understanding

    • (CD Single).
    • Geffen.

  • The Kid LAROI & Miley Cyrus

    WITHOUT YOU (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Maneater

    • Looking Back - The Best Of Hall & Oat.
    • BMG.

  • Bruno Mars

    Marry You

    • Doo-Wops & Hooligans.
    • Elektra.
    • 6.

  • Blondie

    Hanging On The Telephone

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes

    Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Take Your Love Back)

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Philadelphia International.

  • Laura Branigan

    Gloria

    • Disco Queens: The '80s (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Will Young

    Daniel

    • Crying On The Bathroom Floor.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Quincy Jones

    Ai No Corrida (feat. Dune)

    • Hits Of 1981 & 1982 (Various Artists.
    • Polydor.

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Staxx

    Joy

    • (CD Single).
    • Champion.

  • Culture Beat

    Mr Vain

    • Best Of Dance 93 (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • 搁耻苍鈥怐.惭.颁. & Aerosmith

    Walk This Way

    • Now 8 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Lonnie Gordon

    Happenin' All Over Again

    • Now 1990 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Celeste

    Tonight Tonight

    • Not Your Muse.
    • Polydor.

  • JP Cooper

    Holy Water

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Queen

    A Kind Of Magic

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • Madonna

    Beautiful Stranger

    • Madonna - Greatest Hits Volume 2.
    • Maverick.
    • 13.

  • Coldplay

    Higher Power

    • Music Of The Spheres.
    • Parlophone.

  • Snap!

    Rhythm Is A Dancer

    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Texas

    Mr Haze (Radio 2 Session, 28 May 2021)

  • Texas

    Young Americans (Radio 2 Session, 28 May 2021)

  • Rina Sawayama

    Chosen Family (feat. Elton John)

    • (CD Single).
    • Dirty Hit.

  • Wham!

    Young Guns (Go For It)

    • Wham - The Best Of Wham!.
    • Epic.

  • Boney M.

    Rasputin

    • The Magic Of Boney M.
    • Sony BMG.
    • 13.

  • The Waterboys

    The Whole of the Moon

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Ava Max

    My Head & My Heart

    • Heaven & Hell.
    • Atlantic.

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy (Radio 2 Session, 28 Mya 2021)

Pause For Thought

I have just come back from Scotland. A week in beautiful empty Galloway, in an old farmhouse, surrounded by hundreds of heifers.听

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The cattle were lowing, which made me awake - I am an early riser, but even earlier was the cowman who arrived about six to expertly separate the herd. I watched over the wall as he funnelled the chosen animals through a sort of rat run and slapped a white sticker, like a nicotine patch, on their bottoms. Why?听

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We fell into conversation. He鈥檚 called David, and has worked all his life with dairy cattle, and what he doesn鈥檛 know about cows ain鈥檛 worth knowing. The nicotine patch is actually a heat sensitive pad that changes colour when the heifer is ready to embark on her reproductive career. This is facilitated by Andy, who like the Archangel Gabriel arrived with tidings of great joy, except in a van. 鈥淚鈥檓 in the sex trade,鈥� he explained, actually the inseminator, with doses modified so there鈥檚 a ninety per cent chance of conceiving a female.

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I made my excuses, and left.听

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Another morning I talked to David and he suddenly said, 鈥淥ch, I鈥檝e forgotten my tablet!鈥� 鈥淎re you OK鈥�, I said, 鈥渄o you want a paracetamol?鈥� Not that sort of tablet, the digital sort, which tells him in which fields to graze the herd, based on the length and quality of the grass, and weather conditions, and the match statistics for Hamilton Academicals, for all I know. And the switch he used to tap their hind quarters to get them going where he wanted was also a wand to read the data stored on their dangly earrings.听

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David was doing something humans have done for more than ten thousand years - herd cattle - and also doing something humans have done since around 1994 - download data.

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I know what that鈥檚 like, as the custodian of an ancient story who鈥檚 also connected, disseminated digitally, talking to you right now. It鈥檚 a balancing act for me, and for David the cowman, and actually for all of us, surfing the restless dynamics of the web, to tiktok no make-up make-up (life changing), but also听sustaining the stories that tell us who we are, where we鈥檝e come from - for without them, no matter how powerful our technology, we won鈥檛 know where we鈥檙e going.

Broadcast

  • Fri 28 May 2021 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2