Sunday August 9 2009

Its a first.....I'm sat at Cork Airport....writing the showpage .....on the same day as it was broadcast......
calm down....it was perhaps sharper than a piece of patented barbed wire.....or was that last week....anyway..
Hot and Sunny it was and the playlist looked like this....

The Duckworth Lewis Method - Meeting Mr Miandad
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Pet Shop Boys - Did You See Me Coming
Aha - The Foot Of THe Mountain
Passion Pit - The Reeling
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie

7.30 saw the next instalment of Around the World in 80 Tunes.....we'd been stuck in Germany for the last two weeks
honest!....Today Though Austria and more specifically Vienna.....(but no waltz!)

Carouge - How Could I Know

Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me
Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer
The Pretenders - Love's A Mystery
The Beach Boys - All Summer Long

Between 8 and 9 a complete compliment today of Local paper Headlines!

White Lies - Death
Leonard Cohen - Waitin For The Miracle
Paloma Faith - Stone Cold Sober
Camera Obscura - French Navy
The Saw Doctors - She Loves Me. ......This would be single of the week if we did it!

We don't hear enough at 8.30 today ....featured Jazz and...

Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy

Paulo Nutini - Coming Up Easy
James Morrison -  Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Pitbull - I Know You want Me (Calle Ocho)
Metro Station - Shake  It

Just After 9 it was time for On This Day

This weeks tunes were

Busted - Thunderbirds are Go
Snap - The Power
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run

and Random Events

1996 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as president of Russia for the second time.
1984 - Daley Thompson, of Britain, won is second successive Olympic decathlon
1945 - American forces dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such
 attack on Japan in three days.

And Birthdays

Gillian Anderson 1968
Whitney Houston 1963
Benjamin Orr (The Cars) 1955
Melanie Griffith 1957
Sam Elliott 1944

JLS - Beat Again
Ting Tings - Be The One

At 9.30 I counted down the Brazilian Top Ten and played the number one which is

Victor & Leo - Deus E Eu No Sertao

Noisettes - Never Forget You
Booty Luv - Say It
La Roux - In For The Kill
Jet - She's A Genius
Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours

and that is it for another  week....really....have a good one and I
will see yo nest Sunday 7-10 am here at Phoenixfm

bye now

James