Tuesday = Snow
Hello,
Slept it out today but managed to catch the train. Used travel time to catch up on reading and podcasts. God dammit, back listening to Coldplays new album, thought I’d bet the addiction. Also fitting in The Feeling and Razorlight.
So on todays show we featured young Donal from Dublin who won Junior Mastermind on the BBC. So we ran a small quiz featuring some of the questions that 11 year old Donal was asked in the final. The challenge was set to see if an 11 year old was more clever then you. 80% of you who texted in got it right. That leaves 20% who should still be now hanging their heads in shame. SHAME ON YOU! Elsewhere on the show – I had a great chat with Liz Fraser author of “The Yummy Mummy’s Survival Guide”. She was a pleasure to talk to and I learned that I know nothing about babies or child birth. Something for down the road I think! Going to post some behind the scenes photos of the station on Friday so you can figure out how little or how much work we do here. Also today I’m going to start posting my show playlist of what I’ve played during the programme.
So here goes,
Music from todays show – Tuesday 28th Feb 06
The Pretenders – Don’t get me wrong, The Cars – My best friends girl, Juliet Turner – Take the money and run, Elton John – Blue Eyes, Girls Aloud – Whole lotta history, Tyler James – Why do I do, Snow Patrol – How to be dead, Corinne Bailey Rae – Put your records on Michael Buble – Moondance, Zucchero – Senza Una Donna, Paul Simon – Me and Julio down by the school yard, Luan Parle – Failed Romances, Brian Kennedy – Every song is a cry for love, Cher – Just like Jesse James, Lee Ryan – Army of lovers. Sophie Ellis Bextor – Take me home / CLASSIC NUMBER ONE @ QUARTER TO ONE Musical Youth – Pass the dutchie and finally Christopher Cross – Never be the same.
Monday, Monday, Podcasts and Eye Tests
Well, what a day! I think for the first time in the past few weeks, I actually completed a list of tasks that I set myself at the start of the day and got them finished! So between booking eye tests and listening to music I got lots of work done.
Now my show today was fairly strange, easygoing but at the same time busy! We discussed in no particular order some Irish dude trying to break some endurance record, how cravings are worse for smokers in the morning and gave some James Blunt DVD’s away. Got to play some nice new tunes today too. The pick of the bunch was Liverpool band ’The Feeling’ with Sewn check this link out from MTV Online, We also mentioned my favourite food in the world ever Pancakes
So all in all a fairly productive Monday. Elsewhere, just heard the news that Ricky Gervais is going to now charge for his podcast rumoured to cost punters around 4 Pounds sterling! Will be interesting to see if many take him up on his offer. If alot do, it opens up so many doors for the whole medium. Still love checking out Adam Curry’s p-cast, www.curry.com and also the wonderful Fighting Talk on BBC 5 Live.
Tommorow is Book Club Tuesday on my show where I’ll be chatting to Liz Fraser. According to publisher Harper Collins “Becoming a mother, however Yummy, is still as challenging as it ever was. RELAX: help is at hand, with this no-holds-barred guide to surviving the biggest transition of your life. Liz Fraser is a (mostly) stylish mother of three young children, and offers a much-needed, fresh look at what happens to us, our relationships and our wardrobes when we take the plunge and fill our tidy homes with Lego. Hilarious, honest and poignant, Liz uses her experiences of motherhood to help you through pregnancy and the first year with your baby, making the whole event seem manageable – even desirable. Along with stylish, practical advice and searingly frank entries from Liz’s diaries other new mums have their say, including well-known Yummy Mummies such as Jemima French and Tamara Mellon. This indispensable guide is the stylist, personal trainer, box of anti-depressants, bar of chocolate and best friend which every woman can carry around in her handbag. Because becoming a mother doesn’t mean you stop wanting to look and feel fabulous – it just becomes a little trickier”. The book is available from all good book stores.
We will also be following up a story from the Guardian newspaper about the thousands of different awareness days out there. We will be putting you to the test, which ones are real which ones are fake…..
For now I’m off to watch some Six Feet Under and load some podcasts on to my Zen, plus I’ll try and get through the never ending tower of cd’s on my desk. (yeah I know its a hard life!!)
Cya, Alan
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And so it begins…..
Well hello and welcome to my new blog – My name is Alan and I’m a broadcaster/writer person from Ireland. I used to have an old radio show blog which I think is still available to view at takeabreakers.blogspot.com but for some reason I really wanted to start a new blog afresh and thought wordpress was well impressive, so here we are! BTW the layout of word press is very clean and just a pleasure to use, so big thanks wordspress! I like very much!
With this blog I just want to jot down any ‘owl ramblings, films I’ve seen, some books I’ve checked out, music and podcasts that please the ear and so on plus I’ll hopefully keep in touch with lots of friends near and far. So drop me an email if you’ve just popped by its takeabreak@kclr96fm.com.
Actually I have loads of new music stuff I want to share with you over the next few days and I’ll endevour to get started tommorow. The again…. maybe saturday or maybe….. long weekend….Monday! Old blog habits die hard
Cya Alan
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