This show is named after my grandmother, Rosemary Alice Appleyard.
1. The Futureheads – Le Garage
2. Gorillaz Feat. Del La Soul – Momentz
3. The Hives – Tick Tick Boom
4. Green Day – Warning
5. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
6. Foo Fighters – The Feast and The Famine
7. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Holy Mountain
8. Hard-Fi – Tied Up Too Tight
9. The Fratellis – baby Fratelli
10. General Fiasco – Dancing With Girls
11. Foals – Balloons
12. Friendly Fires – Pull Me Back To Earth
13. Caitlin King – When I Wake Uo
14. Cats In The Kitchen – I Never Thought
15. Roisin O’Hagan – Ain’t Got Nothin’ For You
16. Florence + The Machine – Drumming Song
17. Foster The People – I Would Do Anything For You
18. Haim – Forever
19. First Aid Kit – Heaven Knows
20. Frank Turner – Redemption
21. The Gaslight Anthem – Bring It On
22. Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly – Call Me Ishmael
23. Ren Stedman – Love Wins
24. Owen Williams – The Man Who Ate A Hurricane
25. Disorder Kid – Everybody Knows The High Chick
26. Different People – Best Before/Used By
27. The Sad Song Co – Last Dance of The Evening
28. Savages – Surrender
29. Future Islands – Fall From Grace
30. Grouplove – Love Will Save Your Soul
This week on 50 Shades of Chay, teenager singer-songwriter duo/soon-to-be-band, BaVard.
With a combined age of 28 (yours truly is only 50 weeks away of reaching this milestone on his own), Ben and Toby have already done things which people of the age of 28 would love to be doing with their time. We talked, EPs, festivals, award nominations, raising lots of money for charities, music videos, gigs, the lot. All to be heard on the full show below.
With a new EP launched just a week before their debut live radio performance, there more to come from the brother who were stress to me that they were certainly more like the Gallagher brothers than Chuckle brothers (A presenter has to ask such things).
Here is a list of all songs played on the show including the songs which BaVard played live in bold…
1. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
2. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Do The Damage
3. Ordinary Boys – Boys Will Be Boys
4. Kasabian – Empire
5. Royal Blood – Ten Tonne Skeleton
6. Them Crooked Vultures – Dead End Friends Those Days
7. Interpol – Evil
8. Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
9. Kings Of Leon – Mollys Chamber Just For Me
10. Miles Kane – Don’t Forget Who You Are
11. Young Knives – Light Switch
12. Nothing But Thieves – Itch
13. Paramore – Hard Times
14. The Jam – It’s Too Bad
15. The Domino Collective – Not Worth It Make A Difference
16. John Paul Elliot – Seen Better Days
17. Emily Frith – I Think We Should
18. Leo C – If You’re Not Beggin’
19. Wolf Alice – Giant Peach
Here is the full show…
The BaVard boys also participated in 50 Grades Smarter, my weekly quiz for my guests. The boys were very brave and went for a pot luck quiz. With the help from their parents (only gave them half a point for a correct answer when helped out) they scored 14 points. 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
Dave Shalloe – 14
Bavard – 14
Different People – 13.25
Dan Crook- 13
Collette Meury – 12.5
Lee Sergeant – 12
Emily Frith – 12
Anna-Marie Childs – 12
Roison O’Hagan – 11.5
Bridge The Dark – 11.5
Adam Duffill – 11
Leo C – 10.5
Nicola Collis – 10
Drew Sutton – 10
Remedy – 9.5
The Kingdom – 9.5
This week’s show is named after the Elbow track, “All Disco”. Here is the songs played on the show.
1. Editors – An End Has A Start
2. Elastica – Annie
3. Everything Everything – Can’t Do
4. Ellie Goulding – On My Mind
5. Eagles Of Death Metal – Stuck In The Metal
6. Fidlar – West Coast
7. Elbow – All Disco
8. Eagles – New Kid In Town
9. Fightstar – Mercury Summer
10. The Big Moon – Pull The Other One
11. Don Broco – Technology
12. Wild Beast – Eat Your Heart Out Adonis
13. Art Block – Angel
14. Emily Frith – Figure You Out
15. Davey Hal – Fingertips
16. Leo C – Forget You
17. Nicola Collis – Same You, Same Me
18. The National – Cold Girl Fever
19. The Strokes – Take It Or Leave It
20. The Subways – Rock & Roll Queen
21. Nothing But Thieves -Itch
22. Klaxons – Gravity’s Rainbow
23. General Fiasco – The Age You Start Losing Friends
24. Gorillaz – Punk
25. Franz Ferdinand – Right Action
26. Arctic Monkeys – That’s Where You’re Wrong
27. Asylums – Joy In A Small Wage
28. Blink 182 – Easy Target
29. Blink 182 feat. Robert Smith – All of This
30. The Black Keys – Money Maker
31. The Enemy – Get Up And Dance
Adam Duffill, singer-songwriter from Southend-On-Sea came into the studio on my show, for the second time this year.
Adam has been busy recording, playing gigs and plotting an EP/Album release for the near future. Forever a busy bee, Adam found time to come into our studio again to display his great brand of acoustic pop rock.
You can hear the full show below, also with live videos of Adam’s performance. Here is the full list of songs played on the show with the live performances in bold…
1. Daft Punk – One More Time
2. Don Broco – Superlove
3. Crystal Casltes – Not In Love
4. Danananananakroyd – Think and Feel
5. The Boxer Rebellion – The New Heavy Magic
6. The Cure – Lovecots
7. David Bowie – Let’s Dance
8. The Big Moon – Pull The Other One
9. Adam Duffill – So In Love With You
10. The Theme – You Don’t Talk To Me Never Did Need You
11. Adam Duffill – I’ll Be Waiting
12. Emily Frith – I Think We Should
13. Duran Duran – Notorious Time After Time (Cindi Lauper cover)
14. Dizzee Rascal feat. Florence And The Machine – You Got The Dirtee Love
Adam also participated in his second quiz of the year. Adam was bottom of the table at the start of the night but decided to do an easy quiz on pop music and he was able to move himself off the bottom and collect 11 points. He may avoid relegation this year. 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
Dave Shalloe – 14
Different People – 13.25
Dan Crook- 13
Collette Meury – 12.5
Lee Sergeant – 12
Emily Frith – 12
Anna-Marie Childs – 12
Roison O’Hagan – 11.5
Bridge The Dark – 11.5
Adam Duffill – 11
Leo C – 10.5
Nicola Collis – 10
Drew Sutton – 10
Remedy – 9.5
The Kingdom – 9.5
As I am having two weeks off from my regular slot soon, I’ve decided to do some covering. I’ve named the show after The Chemical Brothers number one single, Setting Sun. Here is a set songs perfect for a Tuesday evening…
1. The Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun
2. Courtney Barnett – Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party
3. The 1975 – She’s American
4. Pvris – My House
5. Nothing But Thieves – Itch
6. Circa Waves – Different Creatures
7. Create To Inspire – ADJust
8. New Order Feat. Elly Jackson – Tutti Frutti
9. Clean Bandit Feat. Rae Morris – Up Again
Chvrches – Bury It
10. Foster The People – Call it What You Want
11. Kasabian – L.S.F
12. The Jam – It’s Too Bad
13. The Clash – White Riot
14. Don Broco – Actors
15. Florence + The Machine – Ship To Wreck
16. La Roux – Bulletproof
17. Gorillaz Feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul – Superfast Jellyfish
18. Franz Ferdinand – Right Action
19. The Kooks – Bad Habit
20. Noah And The Whale – 2 Atoms In A Molecule
21. Madness – Mr Apples
22. Haim – The Wire
23. Mark Ronson & The Business Intl – The Bike Song
24. The National – Cold Girl Fever
25. Nicola Collis – Burning The Candle At Both Ends (150th Show Sessions)
26. The Futureheads – Hounds Of Love
27. Courteeners – Not Nineteen Forever
28. Coldplay – Don’t Let It Break Your Heart
29. The Cribs – Arena Rock Encore With Full Cast
30. Twin Atlantic – Missing Link
For my 151st show is named after the Blossoms track “Blown Rose”.
No guest this week, just you, me, and the music. So here are the songs I played on my three hour special kick off another half century of shows…
1. Blur – Song 2
2. BoyKillBoy – Suzie
3. Blossoms – Blown Rose
4. Catfish and The Bottlemen – Pacifier
5. Blondie – Sunday Girl
6. The Boxer Rebellion – Spitting Fires
7. Bombay Bicycle Club – What If
8. Chapel Club – Surfacing
9. Bring Me The Horizon – Throne
10. Fortify – Emergency Exit
11. Twin Atlantic – Missing Link
12. Wolf Alice – Fluffy
13. The Subways – Rock And Roll Queen
14. Buddy Holly – Everyday
15. John Paul Elliot – Dance The Day You Die
16. Queens Of the Stone Age – Fluffy
17. Nothing But Thieves – Itch
18. Supergrass – Moving
19. Paul Weller Wake Up The Nation
20. Slaves – Lies
21. Paramore – Hard Times
22. Caitlin King – When I Wake Up
23. Paul Ziepe – Ease My Mind
24. Adam Duffill – I’ll Be Waiting
25. Mumford & Sons Feat. Baaba Maal – There Will Be Time
26. Interpol – Evil
27. The Last Shadow Puppets – Standing Next To Me
28. The Kooks – Bad Habit
29. Lucy Rose – Our eyes
30. M83 – Lazer Gun
31. The Big Moon – Pull The Other One
32. Disorder Kid – Everybody Knows The High Chick
33. Spring King – Rectifier
34. Arctic Monkeys – You Probably Couldn’t See For The Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me
35. Sum41 – Never Wake Up
36. Horse Heads – Coffee
37. Dananananakroyd – Pink Sabbath
38. The Extons – Grown Ups
39. Matt Cross – Inner City Blues
40. Art Block – Breaking Point
41. Leo C – Is That You?
42. Lillith Vlkova – Past Just Nice
43. Dolly Mavies – The Weight of You
44. Busted – Meet You There
45. Asylums – Missing Persons
46. The Cribs – Mirror Kisses
47. Foo Fighters – I Should’ve Known
48. General Fiasco – The Age You Start Losing Friends
49. Kasabian – Empire
50. Klaxons – Golden Skans
Well here it is, My 150th show. It must mean I do a semi-decent show if I have lasted this long. So lets celebrate, with my pal, Dave Shalloe.
Dave runs Creative Studios which is located on the A128, he has been a main figure in my music endeavours in the last decade, from recording my first band’s EPs, to Finding Miranda EPs and practice room and recently my solo album.
So where better to choose my 150th show sessions than Dave’s studio? I brought along local heroes in Nicola Collis, Davey Hal, Owen Williams, Debora Domokos and my Finding Miranda bandmate, Lee Tallon. Yours truly also recorded a few songs also.
Here is The show in full.
Here is all the songs played on the show…
1. Nicola Collis – Burning The Candle At Both Ends
2. Debora and Lee – Ex Factor (Lauryn Hill cover)
3. Owen Williams – The Man Who Ate A Hurricane
4. Davey Hal – Mary Lee
5. Chay – I’m Your Man (Wham! cover)
6. Nicola Collis – Finally Friday
7. Owen Williams – God Be Guessing
8. Debora and Lee – A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke cover)
9. Chay – Hey Ya (OutKast cover)
10. Nicola Collis – Welcome Back To The Eighties
11. Debora and Lee – I’d Rather Go Blind (Etta James cover)
12. Davey Hal – My Senses
13. Davey Hal – White Walls
14. Owen Williams – Else The Devil Try
15. Finding Miranda – Coax
16. Debora and Lee – For You
17. Owen Williams – Oil and Water
18. Davey Hal – Fingertips
19. Finding Miranda – One Last Time (Ariana Grande cover)
Dave Shalloe also too on the “Famous Daves” quiz on the show (naturally). And scored an impressive 14 points. Not the easiest of quiz. Here is the leaderboard.
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
Dave Shalloe – 14
Different People – 13.25
Dan Crook- 13
Collette Meury – 12.5
Lee Sergeant – 12
Emily Frith – 12
Anna-Marie Childs – 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
I have know the 17 year old songwriter for a few years now and she keeps learning her craft and getting better and better. He songs tonight proved it.
Anna played four original compositions, two of which you can hear below on the videos. You can also hear the majority of the show.
Here are the songs played live on the show, which live performances in bold…
1. Beach Boys – Barbara Anna
2. The Beatles – Drive My Car
3. Black Keys – Tighten Up
4. Blondie – Sunday Girl
5. The Big Moon – Pull The Other One
6. Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
7. Bloc Party – Banquet Ordinary Girl
8. Biffy Clyro – Woo Woo
9. Blink 182 – Easy Target
10. Blink 182 – All Of This Tear The Night Down
11. Bat For Lashes – I Do
12. Ren Stedman – Love Wins
13. Debora and Lee – Ex Factor (For The 150th Sessions)
14. Finding Miranda – One Last Time (For The 150th Sessions)
15. Florence And The Machine – Dog Days Are Over
16. Leo C – If You’re Not Beggin’ Frostbite
Number By Number
17. Lucy Rose – Our Eyes
Anna also participated in the quiz, although struggled in places – she did scored a mid-lower table score of 12 points. Avoiding relegation this year. Here is the scoreboard as he hit the end of August.
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
Emily Frith – 12
Anna-Marie Childs – 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
Hello all. show 148! Not a bad innings. We had Emily Frith on the show this week, and it’s fair to say it was an education.
From a young man who grew up listening to his grandmother’s country music cassette tapes, I have lost touch through the years. Still like it mind you, but I’m not an expert. Emily Frith, however, is and I nearly had to change the name of the show from ’50 Shades of Chay’ to ‘Emily Firth’s Country Takeover’.
I met Emily as a facilitator, she was one of the young-songwriters at the SoSlam week in April. She has an EP coming up along with a launch party on the 11th September. Keep your eyes peeled – bound to be awesome. All before she sets off to go to university.
Below you can hear the full show, as well as two live recordings with my shoddy camera work. Here are the songs played live on the show, along with the live performances in bold…
1. Angels & Airwaves – Valkyrie Missle
2. Band Of Horses – Feud
3. Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running
4. Taylor Swift – Treacherous
5. Dolly Parton – Better Get To Livin’ You And I
6. Art Brut – Nag Nag Nag Nag
7. Arctic Monkeys – You Probably Couldn’t See For The Lights But You Were Staring Right At Me One Day
8. Thomas Rhett – Star Of The Show
9. Zac Brown Band – Homegrown Figure You Out
10. Caitlin King – When I Wake Up
11. Bavard – Those Days
12. Nicola Collis – Burning The Candle At Both Ends (150th Show Sessions)
13. Owen Williams – Oil & Water (150th Show Sessions)
14. Jake Bugg – Country Song I Think We Should
15. Asylums – Joy In A Small Wage
16. Bastille – Power The Blue
17. Alt-J – Every Other Freckle
Emily joined me for 50 Grades Smarter, my weekly quiz show. The aim was to beat Davey Hal: denied! However, she scored a respectable 12 points on a pot luck quiz which give her mid-to-lower table finish. If she was into football (she isn’t, we established) she’d escape relegation. 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
Emily Frith – 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
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
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
