Thursday night is alright here on PhoenixFM. We hosted Mr Alex John Adlington on the show this evening.

Alex is well known as the lead singer of Walk In Coma, but on this night he showed his softer side with his acoustic project which he is forming a band with shortly. He was joined by backing singer Den, who sang along with most of his live performances in the evening.

You can hear the full show below plus two of the live performances on the YouTube videos below. Here are the songs played live on the show, plus live performances by Alex in bold…

1. Yuck – Get Away
2. Young Knives – Light Switch
3. White Lies – To Lose My Life
4. The 1975 – Chocolate
5. The XX – Crystalise
6. Owen Williams – The Man Who Ate The Hurricane
Still Asleep
7. Wolf Alice – Fluffy
8. Fortify – Emergency Exit
Faded Heart
9. Noah Fox – Where You Used To Stay
10. Emily Frith – You And I
Falling Away
11. Davey Hal – Mary Lee (150th sessions at Creative Studios)
12. Nicola Collis – Finally Friday (150th sessions at Creative Studios)
13. Roisin O’Hagan – Ghost
14. Darrah – Can’t Tax The Sun
15. Fyresky – Red Velvet Rope
Her Bullet For My Brain
16. Luke Sanders – Mary
17. Amy Sergeant – Bite The Bullet

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Alex along with Den participated in 50 Grades Smarter my weekly quiz show for my guests, impressively they scored 18 points on song opening lines which puts them in the top three. Here is the scoreboard…

The Dom Clark Trio – 18.75
John Paul Elliott – 18
Alex John Adlington – 18
The Facilitators – 16.5
Gavin Bell – 16.5
Young Songwriters – 16
S J Denney – 16
The Velvet Tree – 15.5
Paul Ziepe – 15.5
The Lightscopes – 15.25
Chris Robson – 15
Paul Finch – 15
Davey Hal – 14.5
Hemmingway – 14.5
Darren Jones – 14
Poetry To Succeed – 14
Steve Hooker – 14
Different People – 13.25
Dan Crook- 13
Collette Meury – 12.5
Lee Sergeant – 12
Roison O’Hagan – 11.5
Bridge The Dark – 11.5
Leo C – 10.5
Nicola Collis – 10
Drew Sutton – 10
Remedy – 9.5
The Kingdom – 9.5
Adam Duffill – 8.5