Nearly Friday :-)
Hey again, hope you had a nice Bank Holiday (in Ireland anyway) if you are an online listener I hope Monday wasn’t too nasty! Had a great weekend and a good owl rest so I was rearing to go on the show today. Anyway enough waffle here is today’s shownotes. Take a Break Tuesday, today we discussed an extra hour in bed makes you smarter, Doctors who are banned from wearing novelty socks and Halloween!
By the way one listener wasn’t impressed with our Monster Mash choice (which by the way won our text vote beating thriller into 2nd place so it wasn’t my fault!!) “31/10/2006″ “12:10:01″,”Hey alan i dnt care wat yar computr sez,dat song sucks,play michaek jakson thriller its d nly hpe u av of redeemin urslf!” Very nice…
Musicwise we played the following Artist/Song: Robbie Williams-Lovelight, Dr & The Medics-Spirit In The Sky, The Frank and the Walters-Miles and Miles, John Legend-Save Room, Paul Brady-Crazy Dreams, Charles & Eddie-Would I Lie To You, Huey Lewis & The News-Stuck With You, Cher-All or Nothing, Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett and the Crypt Kickers-Monster Mash, Queen-One Vision, Take That-Patience, 4 of Us-Blue, Shakira-Whenever Wherever, Lily Allen-LDN, George Michael-Waiting For That Day, Barbara Streisand/Barry Gibb-Gulity, Gilbert O’Sullivan-Get Down CLASSIC NO1 @ QUARTER TO ONE – John Lennon-Just Like Starting Over.
Thats all for now, email away at takeabreak@kclr96fm.com – Alan
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Stop the lights….
I wasn’t planning on blogging again this weekend but I’ve just found out online that the Jim’ll Fix It tv show is making a comeback. Stop the lights….. According to ITV.com, ’Jim’ll Fix It: Now and Then’ will be broadcast on UKTV Gold and will feature people who wrote in years ago but never had their letter read out. So you will have people in their 30/40’s getting their wish granted!! Not great though if you wanted to meet some 80’s star way back when who has now hit on hard times in the 00’s!! Then again this show could be relaunching some careers… Jim’ll Fix It is back!!! that news, sadly made my weekend :-)
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Greek Google
Just looking at Google Zeitgeist: Search patterns, trends, and surprises, this is where you can check out what everyone is searching for through the Google search engine. In Ireland it was the following during the month of August. At no 3. Aer Lingus, No. 2 Big Brother and No. 1 Ryanair. Other popular searches included Love island, myspace, Wikipedia, Car Zone, Dublin airport, Bus Eireann, Budget Travel, Paddy Power and Electric Picnic. Full list is here. All fairly sensible sites, well bar Love Island and Big Brother… anyway…. the gas thing is it lists various other countries and judging by the list from Google Greece it looks like its only Men who use the net there! : All searches for football clubs and women (except for Johnny Depp who made the top 15) !!! the list included Shakira, Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson and clubs Olympiakos and Panathinaikos, I could go on…. I was surprised though not to see You Tube or Bebo on the Irish search top 15……
Right, enough rambles about Google, here’s todays shownotes. Today we discussed the ‘Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2006′ published by the Central Statistics Office. If you are into Irish facts etc you will love this. Otherwise it was very much a music fest as Friday always is. Take a Breakers choice were you picked the music and for the bank holiday weekend a Swing Music Weekend for a change mixed in with some nice easy listening classics. As the Fast Show would say… “Nice”..
Music today included: Pet Shop Boys-It’s a Sin, Take That-Patience, Blondie-Maria, Dean Martin-Thats Amore, Perry Como-Papa Loves Mambo, Luan Parle-Corporate Culture, Andy Williams-Music To Watch The Girls Go By, Elvis Presley-Fever, Elton JOhn-Nikita, Frank Sinatra-Theme From NY NY, Ken Dodd-Happiness, Phil Lynott-Kings Call, Sheryl Crow-All I Wanna Do, Prefab Sprout-The King Of Rock and Roll, Rubyhorse-Sparkle, Michael Bouble-Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
Anyway, have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend, We’ll be here Monday with an extended show from 11am-2pm. Yes, we’re working Monday, bitter???? Never :-) AS takeabreak@kclr96fm.com
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Bank Holiday Nearly Here…
Hello again, busy little blogger today. Here are Thursday’s shownotes to the items we covered. Talkwise we mentioned the statistics from a Loadzajobs-dot-ie survey that revealed we all suffer from the Monday morning blues, RSA winter road safety campaign and an official survey that reveals women are more grumpy than men in the morning. Elsewhere the answer to the teaser was ‘Dice’, one of the only words in the world that is pluralised with the addition of the letter C, a singular Die becomes Dice when pluralised. You learn something new everyday…..
Music wise on the show here is todays list, ARTIST/SONG: Robbie Williams-The Road To Mandalay, Razorlight-America, Majella Murphy-Dreamin, The 4 Of Us-Whats To Come, The Supremes-Baby Love, Garth Brooks-Standing Outside The Fire, Lighthouse Family-Lifted, Billy Joel-Its Still Rock and Roll To Me, Sting-Always On Your Side, Van Morrison-Precious Time, The Bangles-Walk Like An Egyptian, The Boo Radleys-Wake Up Boo, Take That-It Only Takes A Minute Girl and CLASSIC NO1 @ QUARTER TO ONE: Gary Puckett from 1968 with ‘Young Girl’, Samantha Mumba-Baby Come On Over. Finally Jim G was in fine form with all the gardening questions. Thanks as always for all your emails, texts and calls, they really do make the show. Have a good Thursday, more tomorrow. AS
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Goodbye Mouse….
I so want one of these….. Another fantastic lecture from TED. Enjoy AS
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We all want to be George…
Shownotes from yesterday, Roger Gillen chatted about his new DVD, we talked about George Clooney who was voted No1 in a suvey for the most admired man’s man and How to spend 3 weeks in bed and get paid for it! The teaser answer was ‘Legend’ and we gave away another weekend break from Quality Hotels, Wexford. Well done to Rita from Leighlinbridge who won the break. Music wise we played, Artist/Song: Bryan Adams-Run To You, Madonna-Jump, Barenaked Ladies-Easy, Roger Gillen-Jubilee, Elton John-Philadelphia Freedom, Jerry Fish-True Friends, Diana Ross-Chain Reaction, Take That-Patience, Faith Hill-The Way You Love Me, Kelly Clarkson-Breakaway, Paul Brady-Smile, CLASSIC NO1 – The Beatles-She Love You, Steve Miller Band-Rock’n Me. More later today at www.kclr96fm.com LIVE 11am GMT. AS
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Pics as promised…
Hello, will post shownotes from today later but I did promise a few pics from the PPI Radio awards and one or two from KCLR 96fm. So here we go… (Below in the studio)
Below: At the PPI’s, just after winning for 20 Grand Window…
Below: 20 Grand Window… Ouch…. Photo Credit: Tony Maher
Will post a few more later in the week. AS
Blogs as Gaeilge….
Above is a link to a TG4 feature about a fantastic syndicated Irish language radio show called ‘An Líonra Sóisialta’ that we broadcast on KCLR 96fm. All about the Internet and its various contents, the show features blogs, podcasts and everything in between. What I love about the show is that the Irish used is very easy to understand and at the same time not dumbed down. The content is also very interesting. A really great show that deserves a wide audience. Don’t fret though if you cannot tune in locally, you can also download the show as a podcast. Download away at www.anlionra.com.Well done Conn, clár iontach a bhfuil ann!
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Long Weekend…
Hi, no shownotes yesterday due to the hectic goings on at the PPI Radio Awards on Friday (will post photos later, cant get into Flickr for some reason right now) so it was home early for the Take a Break show yesterday :-) Talking about the PPI’s, it was fantastic to be shortlisted out of all the entries for best music show and congrats to Joe in East Coast who won the overall award in the best music show catagory. We did however bring home the bacon for Best Radio Promotion for the 20 Grand Window, it was great to catch up with some old mates and a fantastic night was had by all!! Hence no shownotes yesterday……. ahem…..
Monday’s Take a Break included Luan Parle who was on the show live from DAP studios in Dublin and it was great to finally hear her brand new album ‘Free’. Luan is one of the most hard working and talented singers in Ireland right now and she deserves all the success she gets. For those of you who missed the show yesterday or want more info about Luan, check out her site here. It contains music samples of all her tracks, tour dates, My Space link etc. Best of luck Luan.
Meanwhile on the show today we talked about: Eating your greens, House Prices, 6 weeks to change your tastebuds and MS Readathon. The teaser answer was 6 and we gave away another weekend break from Quality Hotels, Wexford. Another weekend break to giveaway tomorrow. Music wise we played: Artist/Song: Queen-Another One Bites The Dust, MPeople-One Night In Heaven, REO Speedwagon-Can’t Fight This Feeling, The Cardigans-Lovefool, Dido-Life for Rent, Roy Orbison-You Got It, Paul Brady-Don’t Try To Please Me, Rod Stewart-Have You Ever Seen The Rain, ELO-Surrender, Haddaway-What Is Love, Bellfire-Spin The Wheel, Steve Winwood-Valarie, David Dundas-Jeans On, Texas-Inner Smile, Gerry Rafferty-Baker Street, CLASSIC NO1 Adam Faith-What Do You Want, Juice Newton-Angel Of The Morning.
Thats it for now, more from the show tomorrow. Alan
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Something to inspire you…
I meant to post this video a few weeks back, but as they say ‘better late than never’. Its taken from TED, which is short for Technology, Entertainment, Design conference (an annual event where leading thinkers and doers gather for inspiration, more at TED.com) In this talk, the brilliant Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for developing an education system that “nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it” I have never enjoyed a lecture as much in a long time. Find out more from the TED blog direct. Alan
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