Resurrection
Paul Golder
It was twenty five years ago today …! Back in 1999 Phoenix FM wasn’t on the internet and it didn’t have a full time licence, but we used to broadcast on FM for 28 days once or twice a year under a Restricted Service Licence. Any station not on air full time can get one of these licences every six months. We broadcast on 12 of them before we went full time in 2007.
One such broadcast was in November 1999 and yes, I was there and on air once a week. I called my show the Tuesday Night Indiecator, because it was on Tuesday nights and it played indie music (or what we called indie music back in 1999, in any case).
This was just before the station got involved with “playout” software – computer programs for DJs which play mp3s. Back then we were still on CDs. For my radio show I would burn all the tracks I wanted to 2 CDs, and then press play on each player in turn. Much easier than finding all the tracks in a big box of CDs, which is what we had to do before CD burners.
Here’s my first show for that broadcast, which went out on air on 23 November 1999. You can hear the show again – on this particular show I was working through the decade, so the songs are all from 1991 and 1992. And there’s some real bangers there.
This wasn’t the first show I did for Phoenix FM but it’s probably the earliest one I can get my hands on, until I work out how to rip the big box of cassettes I have in my garage.
You can hear the show again. Sorry for the dodgy levels in the second half!
Playlist:
Charlatans – Then
James – Come Home
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Blue Aeroplanes – … And Stones (Lovers All Around Mix)
Wonder Stuff – Circlesquare
Thousand Yard Stare – 0-0 aet
Carter USM – The Taking Of Peckham 123
Cud – Through The Roof
Levellers – One Way
Kingmaker – Really Scrape The Sky
Mega City 4 – Words That Say
Senseless Things – Best Friend
They Might Be Giants – Ana Ng
Nirvana – Lithium
Carter USM – Bloodsport For All
A House – Endless Art
Billy Bragg – Accident Waiting To Happen
Sugarcubes – Walkabout
Shamen – LSI
Pop Will Eat Itself – Get The Girl! Kill The Baddies!
KLF – America: What Time Is Love?
Manic Street Preachers – Nat West Barclays Midlands Lloyds
Radiohead – Lurgee
Sultans of Ping FC – Give Him A Ball (And A Yard Of Grass)
Pale – Shut Up Venus
Power of Dreams – See You
Frank and Walters – This Is Not A Song
Kitchens Of Distinction – Breathing Fear
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Intact
