the Grove radio show on Near 90.3 fm

Last word for the night (from me anyway!):

I forgot to say, bout the show last night: I told Joey I was going to try get a dance off the ladies during the show! Well, one of the lady presenters agreed to a little bop, and we duly had one! I suspect it wasn't captured on the feed though ... I cannot say which lady, and I certainly cannot say what song we danced to (except it definitely wasn't a Blur song, which was a matter of some anxiety!!!).

That is all! G'night until tomorrow

Lol, thanks Brian. Bit of craic. The anguished face of my dance partner was worth the whole thing .

I love the improvisation on the show,none of knows what the other is going to say next,sometimes it gets a debate going,but mostly we just end up having a laugh...great aul fun altogether

agreed Pat,having to drop songs is the tough part,especially when you don't want to...my playlists are usually 30 songs,but we never have enough time to play 30,so we have to decide as we go which ones we drop... the thrill of doing live shows,ha ha

Isn't it amazing how the two hours fly by between playing the songs and having the banter and the ad breaks.

Remember at the start when Pete was putting together the first show we were wondering how might we fill two hours.😉😀😀

Missed all this. For what it's worth I had fantastic fun to myself listening to music, scouring You Tube for anything newish and Groveable (Masters of Reality fit the bill for me, also Violent Femmes, wasn't sure had either been played in the Grove). I'd say, without exaggeration, I considered/listened about 150 songs, in various combinations, before coming up with my 25. And we got 24 of them played, not bad I guess! I had a fantastic few weeks doing all that "work".

Well the way I used YouTube Sean, I tend to listen to most of my music on YouTube, and it seems to "remember" what stuff you listen to. So I scanned extensively through YouTube to catch all I had been listening to in recent times, then in some cases looked for a "lesser-played-but equally-good" track from the same band. I am always listening to Zeppelin for example, but stuck in "The Ocean" and "Bring it in home" as tracks equally worthy of playing but don't seem to hear them so much. That kind of idea. Also I have some stuff on Spotify so double-checked that as well. The only song in the final list that was completely new to me was the Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun". I heard that by chance on the radio (Nova I guess) while driving and pulled in to listen to it. I just thought it was spectacular stuff. The rest of the songs were already "mine" ,

it's amazing what pops out of the head when you least expect it

Rahenyrhythm wrote: Also scanned my own head, but there's that many holes in my brain at this stage I didn't find that much in there

the Grove radio show returns tonight at 9:30 pm on Near 90.3 fm...Cecil will be joining us tonight...hope a few of ye can tune in.