Last week’s show, this week’s show!
By Milo | April 27, 2008
Thanks to everyone who listened to the show last Tuesday - it wasn’t ideal going up against the Champions League Semi-final, but some loyal listeners turned the sound down and listened to the show anyway, although the eclectic tracklisting was probably quite a strange accompaniment. Things kicked off with some 80′s period Leonard Cohen, just to prove i wasn’t bitter about not getting tickets to his Edinburgh gig – and then I played Jazz Police, probably his worst ever track, just to prove I was bitter about not getting tickets to his Edinburgh gig. (Mind you it didn’t stop Swivel Chair ripping the song off for the Manarak video.)
I asked listeners for their opinions on various TV shows, including Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Mad Men, and The Wire. Steve from Ohio emailed the studio to say that he thought the Chronicles show was good but it was hard to care about the characters. I agreed with his assessment that it was enjoyable but flawed but then confessed on air that I had a crush on the female terminator, played by Summer Glau, who is also highly watchable in Joss Whedon’s film Serenity. Then by good fortune I realised I had the original Terminator theme tune with me, so of course I gave it a spin. Anyway, all of the above is basically an excuse to post this cool poster for the show on my website. What about the music, I hear you ask!
Well, having just been at an excellent gig on Sunday night by The Wave Pictures at Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire, followed by a rare Tracer Trails gig across the road at the City Cafe by Stanley Brinks, aka Andre Herman Dune, and his partner Clemence Freschard which was bloody incredible, I had to play a song by all of them. The comedy song of the night was Jilted John, by Jilted John (more commonly known as John Shuttleworth). And the rest you can see in the tracklisting!
The next show is same time, same place – 7pm UK time, www.freshair.org.uk. Digital Plamf’s back with a quality unsung heroes choice, and for the next three weeks we’ll be previewing Tigerfest 2008, taking place throughout May in Fife, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
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