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Playlist – Friday 17th May 2013
XTC – Ten Feet Tall Queens of the Stone Age – The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret Beachbuggy – Kickin’ Back Boxer Rebellion – Flashing Red Light Means Go Kula Shaker – Grateful
Read More »Playlist – Sunday 24th February 2013
Audioslave – Cochise Eels – God Damn Right It’s A Beautiful Day Hope of the States – The Red The White The Black The Blue Alice Cooper – Caught In A Dream Eagles of
Read More »Playlist – Friday 8th February 2013
Well it’s been a long time since I’ve sat in this chair, and that make the return so much sweeter. I really enjoyed myself playing the pick of Muse’s second album Origin of Symmetry, and
Read More »Playlist – Friday 1st June 2012
It’s my first time back on air for months! Bit rusty, but thankfully I had a whole load of excellent tunes to get me by. Elbow – The Birds Dukes of Stratospear – Shiny
Read More »Playlist – Saturday 14th January 2012
A one-off Unnatural Selection, tonight with a slightly laid-back feel, and a healthy dose of The Dandy Warhols – six songs from their album Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia. They’re from Portland, Oregon. I
Read More »Playlist – Saturday 10th December 2011
Tonight, I was sitting in for Luke Cousins and his Saturday Night Rock, so I thought it only right to dust off the heavier end of my musical library and my ear drums a
Read More »The Very Last Unnatural Selection – Thursday 20th October 2011
Tonight’s show was the last Unnatural Selection ever! So I took the opportunity to look back over the last 15 months and pick my favourite tracks from the run of 62 shows. Many thanks
Read More »Unnatural Selection’s Insects Of The Week
The regular feature ‘Insect Of The Week’ on the Unnatural Selection show started on the 26th August 2010, and we had 52 species over the course of the show. In the list is a
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 13th October 2011
This week’s Unnatural Selection went almost exactly like this: Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al Bloc Party – Banquet The Dandy Warhols – Sleep The Stairs – Mr. Window Pane Red Hot
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 6th October 2011
Tonight’s Unnatural Selection went something like this: Eddie Izzard – For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite Arctic Monkeys – Fake Tales Of San Francisco Kula Shaker – Govinda Beck – Where It’s At Chas
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 29th September 2011
Playlist for tonight’s Unnatural Selection was as follows: Herida – Burnin’ Tree Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running Sam and Dave – Soul Man Iggy Pop
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 22nd September 2011
This week’s Unnatural Selection followed a two week hiatus to spend some time in Wales, not sure if it helped my DJing skills or not… Tracklisting for the show was as follows: REM –
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 1st September 2011
On Unnatural Selection this week we played the following: Stevie Ray Vaughan – Lenny The Magic Numbers – Love Me Like You KT Tunstall – Suddenly I See Aerosmith – Love In An Elevator
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 25th August 2011
This week’s Unnatural Selection had a vague Reading Festival theme, as well as a few suggestions from listeners – make your suggestions at facebook.com/dans.unnatural.selection Tracklisting for tonight was: Blur – Song 2 Massive Attack
Read More »First Anniversary Show – Thursday 18th August 2011
This week’s Unnatural Selection celebrated 1 year of random music on a Thursday night from 10pm to midnight! So I picked tracks from shows over the last year, and threw in a few themed
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 11th August 2011
Tonight’s Unnatural Selection featured a new track from Boots Electric (who you can see at XOYO on 19th September if you fancy it), and lots of other tunes, in this order: Empire Of The
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 4th August 2011
This week’s Unnatural Selection was a poignant one, as I played the ‘Sweeney on Breakfast’ jingle for the very last time, make sure you listen from 7am to hear Emma’s last breakfast show. Anyway,
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 28th July 2011
This Week’s Unnatural Selection went something like this: Danny & The Fat Boys – Funhouse Martha and the Muffins – Echo Beach Ash – Girl From Mars Simon and Garfunkel – Mrs Robinson Screamin
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 21st July 2011
This weeks Unnatural Selection was brought to you in association with a nasty cough and a cold, but I battled on valiantly and brought you a whole selection of songs for your delectation. They
Read More »My Birthday Show – Thursday 14th July 2011
On Unnatural Selection this week I was celebrating my birthday by having dedicated Phoenix FM follower Vanda Kopanyi (Vanda the Vampire from the chatroom) joining me in the studio, all the way from Hungary.
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 7th July 2011
Tonight’s Unnatural Selection paid homage to Eddie’s guests ‘Something Beginning With L’ by playing songs, bands and songs from albums all beginning with ‘L’. See, it’s not just a random load of songs I
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 30th June 2011
Tonight’s Unnatural Selection! Kings Of Leon – Radioactive Kasabian – Empire Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Boots Electric – Boots Electric Theme Pulp – Common People
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 23rd June 2011
On Unnatural Selection last night, I could have taken the easy way out and just played a load of tracks from Glastonbury artists, but I’d forgotten all about it until hearing Bryan covering Brentwood’s
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 16th June 2011
This week’s Unnatural Selection featured some requests from the following: Lucy, Mary, Mel and James. And I strung out Nick Field’s birthday to over a week by finally playing his birthday song by Minus
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 9th June 2011
Tonight on Unnatural Selection, we played: Screaming Jay Hawkins – You Made Me love You Dandy Warhols – Get Off Faith No More – Midnight Cowboy Space – Money The Pogues – Fiesta Dukes
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 2nd June 2011
Tonight’s Unnatural Selection consisted of the following: Seasick Steve – Back In The Doghouse Aqualung – Strange and Beautiful Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne KT Tunstall – Through The Dark Isobel Campbell and Mark
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 26th May 2011
On Unnatural Selection tonight, we played: Carter USM – Sheriff Fatman Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil Radiohead – Karma Police Raconteurs – Steady As She Goes XTC – Ten Feet Tall Eels
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 19th May 2011
I returned to Unnatural Selection after a few days in Norfolk last week – I do apologise for my absence… This week’s show featured ‘Reptile of the Week’ as a change to the scheduled
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 5th May 2011
This week’s Unnatural Selection steered away from Ivor Cutler and his bizarre stories, and instead featured the vocal loveliness of Professor Stanley Unwin, and his collaboration with The Small Faces. Deep Joy. Tonight’s tracklisting
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 28th April 2011
The Unnatural Selection playlist for tonight was as follows: Dandy Warhols – Every Day Should Be A Holiday Joan Armatrading – Drop The Pilot Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion Blur – Bank Holiday
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 21st April 2011
This week’s Unnatural Selection was nowhere near as weird as last week’s, but thoroughly enjoyable none-the-less. Several requests from listeners and some choice tunes from me helped the 2 hours pass in a flash.
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 14th April 2011
Tonight’s Unnatural Selection was generally thought of as one of the most unnatural, with songs and readings from Ivor Cutler, various songs from Bagpuss, A song called ‘These Are Not My Pants’, a band
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 7th April 2011
On Unnatural Selection tonight we played the following: Elbow – Red Beach Boys – God Only Knows Maximo Park – Wraithlike Screamin Jay Hawkins – I Don’t Know Richard Hawley – Open Up Your
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 31st March 2011
On tonight’s Unnatural Selection, we played some odd songs, which happened to be good, and some good songs, that happened to be odd, and some good songs that weren’t really odd at all. Tracklisting
Read More »Playlist – Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Tonight on Unnatural Selection I played out 3 tracks by Herida who took part in the Creative Sessions back in February. They joined us for the 1am slot, on Sunday 13th and jolly good they were
Read More »Unnatural Selection tonight – Creative Session tracks by Herida
Tonight’s Unnatural Selection features the Creative Session tracks by Herida, which will be broadcast between 10pm and 11pm. The Creative Sessions took place at the Essex Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre at Bedfords Park, when
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 17th March 2011
On Unnatural Selection tonight, we had the usual mix of genres, from Reggae to Rock, Indie to Jazz. A couple of Creative Sessions appeared, as well as 2 Elbow tracks, make sure you vote
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 10th March 2011
Beck – Lost cause Kula Shaker – Govinder Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Fun lovin’ criminal Them Crooked Vultures – Gunman The Beatles – Day Tripper Daft Punk – Da funk Electric Six – Danger
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 3rd March 2011
Stranglers – Waltz in Black Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky Elbow – Neat little rows Spacehog – Skylark Slim Dusty – The hangover song Syd Barrett – Effervescing Elephant Mock Turtles –
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 24th February 2011
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (with Kylie Minogue) – Where the wild roses grow Mystery Jets -Two doors down Dukes of Stratosphear – Little lighthouse Foo Fighters – Everlong Spacehog – Starside The
Read More »The Grammy Show – Thursday 17th February 2011
This week I thought I’d play a few songs from Grammy winners, so we had Muse, Arcade Fire and The Black Keys. Of course, there’s the Elbow track in there too… Hope of the
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 10th February 2011
This week I started playing an Elbow track a week, because I’m presenting an Elbow Top 20 show on Friday 27th May. OMD – Enola Gay ZZ Top- Sharp dressed man Pixies – Monkey
Read More »The Boxer Rebellion and Creative Sessions Preview – Thursday 3rd February 2011
Tonight’s show included songs from The Boxer Rebellion’s new album ‘The Cold Still’, and some songs from previous Creative Sessions (shown as ‘CR’ below). Electric Six – Gay Bar Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust Dandy
Read More »Guess the Theme – Thursday 20th January 2011
There was a theme to tonight’s show, if you missed it, see if you can figure it out from the playlist below: Morrissey – Pregnant for the last time Nirvana – Breed Prodigy –
Read More »Lots of Women (comparatively) – Thursday 13th January 2011
Tonight’s show featured three, yes three, Token Females, as well as suggestions from James, Wendy, Mel and Andy (via his Spotify playlists). Tracklisting was as follows: Dreadzone – American Dread Lemon Jelly – Nice
Read More »It’s 2011! – Thursday 6th January 2011
The first show of 2011, so I treated myself to some new Elbow, treated new listener James to 12 minutes of Deep Purple, and treated you all to the songs below. Insect of the
Read More »Basslines Special – Thursday 30th December 2010
To round off the year, tonight’s show was the Basslines Special, where we celebrated songs in which the bass plays a massive role. Some were my choice, most were suggestions from listeners, and a
Read More »It’s (nearly) Christmas! – Thursday 23rd December 2010
The last show before Christmas, so I had to slip in a couple of festive tunes, but also played out the choices of several presenters for single of the year 2009, in readiness for
Read More »Thursday 16th December 2010
Poor Eddie Curry wasn’t feeling too good tonight, so I got to play for longer, starting at 8pm, staying in the studio until 11pm, and sorting songs for the run up to midnight. Tracklisting
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 9th December 2010
Tracklisting for tonight’s show was: Death In Vegas – Dirge The Coral – Dreaming Of You Kasabian – Club Foot The Clash – Rock The Casbah Maximo Park – Velocity Editors – Munich Crystal
Read More »Playlist – Thursday 2nd December 2010
Tracklisting for this week’s show is below! Small Faces – Happiness Stan Reef – Place Your Hands Captain Sensible – Happy Talk Kings Of Leon – Velvet Snow Garbage – Stupid Girl Spacehog –
Read More »Replay and Requests – Thursday 25th November 2010
This week’s show was a ‘replay and request’ one, revisiting many of the tunes we played in the first few weeks, and taking requests too. Tracklisting was: The Hives – Hate To Say I
Read More »The Wurzel Show – Thursday 18th November 2010
Tonight was unofficially Wurzels Night, as I’d come across their album ‘A Load More Bullocks’, which tickled my fancy no end. I can’t guarantee I won’t be playing them again in the future… The
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 11th November 2010
Week 13, and yes, we’re already a quarter of a year into this thing… A slightly jazzy air wafted through the studio tonight, with Cy Payne’s rendition of The Magic Roundabout, Gillespie and Parker’s
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 4th November 2010
Week 12, and back to the usual ‘normal’ stuff I play. Four ‘Expand My Mind’ suggestions this week, from Debra, Freddy (don’t call me KayKayKayKay),Andy and Mel respectively. Georgia Strand was the Token Female
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 28th October 2010
Show number 11, and it was the Spooky Special, so all songs had at least a very loose connection to halloween. Probably, if you use your imagination… Thanks to The Wife for suggesting many
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 21st October 2010
I’m into double figures! Yes, it’s week 10, and I’m still here, so it can’t all be bad. Both ‘Expand My Mind’ suggestions came from Mel in Brentwood. The show consisted of the following:
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 14th October 2010
My, my, my! What a great show this week! Why, why, why? Because of my lovely listeners and their great taste in music! Tom Jones, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Happy Mondays, Eagles Of Death
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 7th October 2010
Week 8, and it was ‘Double Shot’ week, with two songs from most artists tonight. We had ‘Expand My Mind’ suggestions from Lauren, Chris and Mel respectively, and a bit of musical comedy too.
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 30th September 2010
Week 7 – lucky for some! There was a Double Shot from Arcade Fire, but I chickened out of another by Gong, just treating the ears of Brentwood and Billericay to 7 minutes 42
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 23rd September 2010
Week 6! There was a late start, due to me gigging beforehand, but we soon cracked on with a couple of tunes for the girls that came to see the band. The show was
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 16th September 2010
Week 5! More of the same, meaning a random mix of stuff that I like, as well as some ‘Expand My Mind’ suggestions from Mel/Michelle, Andy and Coach Mahaffey respectively. We also had a
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 9th September 2010
Week 4, and this show’s music ranges in date from 1856 to 2010, with a hefty helping of late 1960s and 70s. No worries, that’s what Unnatural Selection’s about. We had Blondie as the
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 2nd September 2010
Week three of Unnatural Selection, and I’ve got the ‘Expand My Mind’ feature underway (just need to sort a jingle for it), with lots of suggestions of songs or artists that might expand my
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 26th August 2010
The second Unnatural Selection introduced the new feature ‘Insect of the Week’, which in case you missed it, was the Seven Spot Ladybird. We also heard two Token Females, and some songs from Reading
Read More »Unnatural Selection – Thursday 19th August 2010
Well, that was the first Unnatural Selection and I think it went pretty well – nothing disastrous happened, and I didn’t end up a gibbering wreck. It was a V Festival special, and songs
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